Through your eyes
Chapter One
Hey, this is a Skyland fanfic I made.
Description: When a guardian who could be the most powerful seijin in Skyland falls from a patroller and lands in Puerto Angel, Mahad begins to notice strange behavior from Dahlia and Cortes. The girl, Evora, claims that the pirates ruthlessly murdered her parents. A darker side of the pirate rebellion is revealed, Dahlia's past is discussed, and the line between good and evil is blurred. WARNING: This is kind of dark. Kind of says bad things about Marcus Farrell, for those of you who like him a lot. Don't want to make anyone mad. I'm not implying that I hate the pirates or anything. I was just tossing ideas around. This takes place somewhere in the middle of season two about a month after Alice. Here it is. Chapter One of, Through Your Eyes.
I long to see whatever truth lies beyond the door. But I know now that it is something I could not endure... Anonymous-Truth and Lies
"I got you!" Cheng cried with excitement. Lena laughed and flopped down on the grass.Cheng came and sat next to her moments later. He tried to make conversation, but Lenawas distracted, staring up at the beautiful azure summer sky and the puffy white clouds that drifted overhead. She loved to just relax and stare off into nothingness, forget everything she'd endured, and just clear her mind of all unpleasant thoughts. Eleven year-old girls shouldn't have to deal with so much, she thought. But, fate had chosen her as itsvictim, and there was nothing she could do but follow along and fight the Sphere.
A dark shape in the sky startled her out of her trance. At first she thought it was a faraway ship, but as it came closer, she realized that it was the body of a girl.
"Cheng, look!" she said, jabbing him in the side with her elbow. He stopped talking and looked in the direction that Lena was pointing. "Someone's falling! We have to get Cortes or Mahad!" Cheng said. "No," Lena said. "We have to stay here and make sure she lands safely."
When the girl came into view, Lena focused on the energy from the sun. Concentrating, she managed to pull the girl down gently until she touched the ground. She had long blonde hair and was dressed in all black. She didn't seem older than Dahlia. And, weirdly enough, she looked like Dahlia too. Her eyes were closed, so she was obviously unconscious.
"Cheng, stay here and keep an eye on her. I'll go get help," Lena ordered. Cheng sighed and sat down next to the girl.
Lena ran as fast as she could, searching forMahad. She spotted him on a small ledge of stone. Dahlia was with him. "Mahad!" she called, running over to him. He stood up immediately, catching the tone of seriousness and urgency in Lena's voice.
"Yeah?" he said. "Mahad, a girl just fell from the sky!" she gasped, trying to catch her breath. Dahlia stood up, her eyes wide. "From the sky?" She wondered aloud. Lena nodded quickly, running off. Mahad and Dahlia followed behind her, as confused as she was.
They found the girl, standing up and muttering to herself. Her breaths were ragged and sharp, as if she were having difficulty breathing. Lena noticed something behind her and almost screamed. Cheng lay in the grass behind her, sprawled out and unconscious.
"Cheng!" Lena cried sadly. She started to run over. The girl turned to face her and held up a hand. Blue light shot from her hand and hit Lena, causing her to fall over. "Guardian! Don't let her get away!" Dahlia yelled. She thoughtthat this girl was familiar...
Lena rushed over to Cheng and knelt beside him while Mahad and Dahlia charged the girl. Surprisingly, she didn't fight back. She simply collapsed, allowing Mahad and Dahlia to pin her arms to the ground.
"All right, guardian. How did you get here?" Mahad hissed furiously. The girl's body jerked and twitched a few times. "I—I… Let—me go!" She demanded. Mahad half-laughed, "No way are we letting you
go."
Cheng was fine, only slightly bruised and disoriented when he came to. The guardian on the other hand, was very badly injured, almost dead.
"Where do you think she came from?" Dahlia asked Mahad later that day. "I don't know. Maybe if she's important enough, we can trade her for my mother," he replied. "Mahad, it didn't work with Oslo, and it won't work with her either. Besides, it's doubtful that Oslo, let alone, any Sphere member would trade a guardian for one of the most dangerous rebels in Skyland."
Mahad sighed. "I guess your right. But, anyway, I have to go check on her. Cortes said she's
breathing normally and she might wake up soon."
He left the room without another word and went to the room that they decided to keep the guardian in. It was similar to the room they held Alice in, but more secure and with a bed. At first they didn't deem the bed necessary, but, after all, she was dying.
He entered the room with caution, holding the door in case he needed to slam it shut. The girl was just coming to, rubbing her eyes and rolling over. She suddenly jerked up and faced Mahad. The first features he noticed were her perfectly round deep blue eyes. They were beautiful, but somehow cold and filled with hatred. He could almost see past her eyes to the disturbing and twisted thoughts zooming back and forth in her head.
"Let me go, filth!" she bellowed. Her voice was deep and hoarse, despite her age. "I am not letting you go, especially after what you did to Cheng," he said firmly. "That's nothing compared to what you did to my family!"
Mahad rolled his eyes. "Here we go again. Did Oslo by any chance tell you that we did
something horrible to your family?" he said cockily. The girl snorted. "You pirates killed
my parents in front of me! And when you tried to kill me, I ran! That idiot Oslo has
nothing to do with this!"
Although Mahad agreed about Oslo's idiocy, he didn't believe
that any of the pirates would ever do such a thing. Mahad shook his head and slammed
the door shut.
"You filthy creature! Come back here! I'm not finished!"
"Her name is Evora (ee-VORE-uh) She's the youngest guardian to graduate from theacademy in history. When she isn't off on a mission, she's training with Diwan or Oslo.She is an exceptionally powerful seijin, maybe even more powerful than Oslo himself," the Vector said.
He had taken her fingerprint and scanned it to find a match. It was an older method, but it worked just as well as anything else.
"Did it say anything about relatives?" Mahad asked curiously. "She is an orphan." Mahad shuddered. Maybe she was telling the truth about her parents being murdered. Or maybe it was all some sick lie she was making to try and escape. That's what it was. A lie. Mahad was just being gullible. Then again, he was usually the one defending strangers and trying to convince others that they weren't from the Sphere.
"We're holding one of the most powerful seijins?" Lena said in amazement. Vector nodded quickly. "We better find a tighter, more secure cell to keep her in. There's no telling what she could do," Lena said. "Good thinking, Lena," Cortes chimed in. "I'll see if we have any better cells."
Everyone left the room but Lena. A cold loneliness crept over her, giving her the urge to follow, but she had a bad feeling. The very idea of this girl made her shudder. She could sense her power and strength from the other end of the block. It was worse than Oslo's. She knew that this seijin was abnormally powerful—and dangerous.
Lena… The words suddenly came to mind. They weren't hers. Another seijin was making telepathic contact, and her voice was so familiar. It sounded like—her mother's. Lena's mood brightened as she tried to speak back to her mother.
The scene suddenly changed. She was back in Babylonia. Mila stood in front of her, smiling happily. She gathered Lena in her arms and began crying joyfully. At last, they were reunited. But Mila suddenly stopped and jerked back.
Lena could see something in her eyes that she'd never seen before. She tried to take in a deep breath but her lungs refused to expand. She felt as though she were being smothered. Soon enough, she was on the ground begging for mercy. And all the while, Mila was laughing at Lena, who was pathetically choking and crying.
Lena looked up pleadingly at her mother, but it wasn't her mother any more. It was a tall man, with shaggy black hair and brown eyes. Lena didn't know him but she automatically recognized him as her father.
"Dad!" she cried. He glared cruelly at her. She watched in horror as he reached towards her, trying to get her. She ran, sobbing and panting hysterically. Laughing madly, he chased behind her. Lena collapsed to the ground helplessly and looked up to see her father. He lifted her up off the ground and pulled a gun of some sort off of his hilt. "No!" Lena screamed. He aimed carefully. Lena looked into her father's eyes in horror, but they weren't his. They were cold blue and dark. A young-adult woman, Dahlia's age, stood in front of her. She flashed her an evil smile, then vanished into thin air.
Babylonia faded, slowly changing back to the room in the Vector's lighthouse.
"Lena!" Mahad said loudly. He shook her shoulder. "Mahad, I… I just had a vision. It was horrible," she mumbled. Mahad could see the tears welling in her eyes. "Mom and Dad were there. But they weren't themselves. They—they tried to kill me. I know they would never do anything like that, but it felt so real," she sobbed. Mahad glared hatefully.
"Vector," he said sternly. "Evora is using her powers to get into Lena's mind. Is there a way you can stop her?" Vector nodded his head. "We need to keep her isolated in a dark room with no sunlight at all whatsoever."
Lena shivered. The first part of her vision where she saw her mother seemed more like a dream. But seeing her father about to kill her was different. It was more like a memory, as if it had happened to her. Of course, it couldn't have. Her father loved her. And he would never murder someone, guardian or not. Lena left the room and decided to take a nap. She needed to get as far away from the girl as possible.
Evora began to focus again. She could use her powers without sunlight, but barely. After five long minutes of concentration, she decided that there was no sense in trying to escape. She was going to be trapped here until she was given the chance to attack.
The door swung open with a loud screech. She stood up and glared at Mahad, Cortes, Dahlia, and Wayan. They were all holding weapons.
"You're coming with us," Cortes said firmly. Evora laughed. "Typical pirates! Imprison the guardians and torture us until we're mad. Typical, typical, typical," she half-laughed.
Cortes froze. He tried to avoid Evora's cold blue eyes but couldn't help but stare into them. They both knew what had happened all those years ago. And Cortes realized that Evora had every right to be furious with him. He felt guilty. His actions had turned her into a monster. A deranged, unbelievably powerful monster. Of course, Marcus Farell had been responsible for most of it, but Cortes and the other pirates had helped. Evora gave Cortes a malevolent grin.
"What's the matter Cortes? Feeling—guilty?" she taunted. He forced himself to look at something else in the room. "Take her!" he ordered. They each grabbed a different part of her and dragged her from that room to the most secure and isolated room in Puerto Angel, located at the bottom of the block. They opened the thick steel door and shoved her in rudely.
"I'll have revenge, Cortes! I will!" she cried furiously. Dahlia turned away from her as quickly as possible. "Come back, sister! Don't you want to help me?" she called.
Mahad eyed Dahlia closely but she ignored him. Evora charged the door but Dahlia slammed it in her face. "Why do you think she called you sister?" Mahad asked. Dahlia shook her head. "I don't—don't really know," she stammered. She walked ahead of him. He could tell she was hiding something…