One Step at a Time

by 24 Lines

We were reckless. We came so close to dying, thinking we were so prepared. We weren't. Now we must train until we really are ready to take on Sterakus, and also find Five. One step at a time. Almost all of us have come together, and we will win this war, just you wait Ra. Picking up where The Rise of Nine ended. Rated T for swearing, violence, etc. . DISCLAIMER: I don't own LL

1. Chapter 1

Author's note: Hi guys I decided to do a new fanfic! So In my other story ( HSL ) I apologized to the Nix fans and said I would maybe do a one-shot. Well I don't know what this is going to be but it is going to have Nix ( sorry, Jix fans ).

I honestly do not know where this is going. I decided to do this story starting from after The Rise of Nine. You guys might not like it that much because I am thick-headed and I don't forgive easily.

In other words I think like Nine, but I DO NOT think about girls ( I AM A GIRL AND A STRAIGHT! ) or boys.

So I view revenge as a good idea, and I do not think so much about humans... ( forgive me! ).

SO I might make the characters a little OOC. I am rambling AGAIN. * sigh *

Five will be a girl and not a traitor ( I can't bear the thought of that happening!)

Please review I want to know how I did. I am not that good at writing action soo I don't know how this is going to turn out.

Well I guess its on with the story...

oh and DISCLAIMER: I do not own LL Pittacus does

Chapter 1

John's pov

Nine and Six are okay and I'm relieved. I can't bear the thought of another one of us dying. We are almost all together, except for Five. Once we find them, we will be strong enough to beat Ra.

Eight calls out,

" Everyone ready to get out of here? We have to go back the way we came in, I can't teleport us all out of here."

We all nod grimly. Those of us that have chests, pick them up. I remember something. I turn to Sarah and say,

" Hey Sarah what did you do with Walker?"

" Oh... I tied her up outside this room."

" Then we need to go get her and make her tell us where Sam is. We aren't leaving without him!"

Six pipes up,

" Yeah we have to find Sam first!"

Nine gives us a pointed look and says,

" No way Johnny! We have to get out of here, not hang around and look for another one of your human friends."

Eight says,

" I don't mean to sound heartless or anything, but Nine's right we have to get out of here."

Six yells,

" No way we have to get to Sam! He would have gone back for us!"

Seven, Sarah, and Ella aren't saying anything. Nine says,

" We aren't risking it. We can't get captured, or else we are no help to anyone! You can go back for him if you want, but I'm not. And I think you don't want to get separated, after years of being apart. We have all found each other, and we are much stronger together."

Six and I aren't happy with this, but we know he's right. Seven says,

" Well we have to go now, no sense in standing here arguing. Six, John, I know you want to go back for Sam, but I also know that we have to get out of here. I for one, agree with Nine."

I nod grimly. I know that if we die or get captured, then we won't be able to help anyone. Six says,

" Then lets get going. I still think we should bring Walker though, she could have valuable information about us. And I think that we can use her to bring false information to Setrakus Ra. Seven nods thoughtfully and says,

" We can buy ourselves some time that way. Lets go get her then we will get out of here. Lets pretend to discuss going to somewhere like... how about England or China. Then when they are headed there we can go to somewhere else like Mexico or something. I don't think we need to interrogate her, we'll just use her to buy ourselves some time.

Nine says,

" We should go my safehouse in Chicago. We can train and relax for some time, and we can also find try to find Five there.

We all nod. We stand right in front of the door and speak in loud voices,

" Well let's get out of here."

" Where should we go?"

" Oh, how about Germany?"

" okay let's get out of here then we can find a way to the airport."

We all burst out, and pretend not to notice Walker in the dark corner of the hallway. I actually can't believe that she would be stupid enough to not know we are smarter than we seem.

Seven leads the way out. When we come across a group of about 40 mogs, It takes little time before they all explode into ash. I take a moment to admire the fact that we are almost all together, and we are almost strong enough to beat Setrakus Ra.

I remember the human fireball tactic and I light myself on fire again. I take the lead.

When we reach a path that splits into five different tunnels I ask,

" which one?"

They all look uncertain. Then Seven says,

" I think when we came in, it seemed like the tunnel was on the left, so maybe it's the tunnel on the right."

We all nod and run down that path. The hallway is full of cages with krauls and pikens locked inside. We reach another large room with a giant creature in the middle.

It is large, green, and its skin is covered in scales. It has two giant claws that look capable of both shredding and squashing me. It starts making a loud screeching noise.

I hear Sarah gasp. Seven whispers,

" What is that thing?"

I turn to her with a grim expression on my face,.

" I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it will kill us without hesitation."

Nine whoops and says,

" My kill!"

We roll our eyes, but we get in fighting stances. But then I hear Eight gasp. I turn to him and I am about to tell him to get ready to fight this thing when I notice what he is looking at.

"Is that a chest?"

Six says,

"Could it be mine?"

I say,

" Well either way, its a chest and we should get it."

We all nod. I say,

" Six, Eight, Nine and I will distract and try to kill the creature. Seven-"

" Please call me Marina."

" Okay well Marina and Ella will get the chest. Sarah, you go wait for us somewhere safe."

We all nod. I make my fire stronger and the others get ready. Nine and Six charge at the thing while Marina runs to the side with Ella and Sarah. She waits for a chance to get the chest.

I toss a few fireballs at it while Six is making a indoor thunder storm and striking it with lightning. Nine is stabbing and slashing at it with his pipe staff while running around it with super speed. He takes out one of it's eyes. I catch a glimpse of Marina running towards the chest while we are dealing hell to the creature. All of a sudden I hear a lot of noise.

As I turn to the noise I get knocked off my feet. Sarah screams my name. I realize I just barely missed getting shredded to pieces by one of the creatures giant claws.

I wonder who saved me. No time to wonder about that now as 100 mogs just burst through the door. Ella says via telepathy

Guys we got the chest we should get out of here now.

We all run towards the door on the opposite side when I hear a shriek.

Sarah! I turn around and see a mog holding her up by her neck and smiling at me, face twisted in a cruel smirk. I yell her name,

" Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!"

I just found Sarah, and I already almost lost her. I'm not losing her again. I run towards her, ignoring everything around me.

Sarah's pov

I feel terrified. I am running towards the door when all of a sudden, something grabs me from behind. A mog. I let out a shriek of fear. I remember the torture they put me through last time I was their prisoner. John calls out my name as he starts running back towards me. And I know he is also running towards at least 100 mogs.

The other garde start fighting fighting the scaly creature again and killing the mogs. Nine whoops as he and Six give the creature a lot of wounds and they kill it by stabbing it in the heart after destroying the hard scales. John fights his way through the mogs to try to get to me. I feel honoured that he is trying so hard to save me.

I whimper slightly as I feel the mog's smelly breath on my neck. My arm starts to hurt a lot and I realize the mog is using is sword and opening cuts all along my arm.

I'm screaming really loudly. I know I'm giving a lot of people headaches, especially the garde because although they are farther away, they do have super hearing.

I try to not make so much noise, but I can't help it. With every cut comes more and more pain.

I know that the mog is doing it to taunt and provoke John. I get mad. I would definitely try to somehow kill the mog if my arm wasn't hurting like hell.

Nine's pov

Johnny is seriously stupid. We live and fight for Lorien. And only that. We don't risk our lives for humans. As Johnny runs towards his little human girlfriend, The rest of us start killing mogs and trying to kill the weird monster worm thing.

I whoop while I start running around it and opening cuts everywhere on its body and then I take out its other eye. Now its going to be running around like a blind man. No wait, like a blind worm.

Sweetheart is blasting it with lightning from her little indoor thunder storm.

I bury my pipe staff deep into its heart, and with one last screeching cry, it falls to the ground, dead.

I start killing the mogs, slashing, stabbing, cutting, and hacking away at them with my wonderful pipe staff, that now seems like a scythe of death. Hmm I guess that would be a suitable name for it. From now on, my dear pipe staff will be known as the scythe of death.

I notice that everyone isn't fighting as well. Probably because we just went through a fight with over two hundred mogs and one Setrakus Ra. Eight is teleporting everywhere, using a sword to kill, but I notice his strokes aren't as fast as before.

Brown-hair, Marina I think her name was, is using telekinesis and a mog blaster to kill. Shrimp, or was it Ella, is using a mob blaster and shooting away at the mob.

Johnny though, is fighting like a madman, using fire and telekinesis, to fight a way to his little human girlfriend.

I notice the mog holding her is giving her a lot of nasty cuts along her arm. Sarah is screaming so loudly, I'm pretty sure half the mogs were fighting with a massive headache. But at least they don't have super hearing.

Marina's pov

I'm fighting with TK and a mog blaster beside Ella. Sarah is screaming away like there is no tomorrow. And there might be no tomorrow, who knows, when you are constantly on the knife's sharp edge.

The mogs are pouring in nonstop. I wonder where Setrakus is.

Slowly the mogs stop coming in and the sounds of fighting, slowly die away.

Soon, the only mog left is the one holding Sarah, and we are all buried knee deep by ash.

John kills him, but not before he manages to make a long cut across her back, from her shoulder to mid waist. The mog bursts into ash and Sarah falls to the ground shedding silent tears and moaning in pain.

John heals the all her wounds except for the long one on her back. As I rush over, he turns to me and says,

" Well Marina can you heal her? I don't think I can do the big one."

I think that it would be better if John heals her so he can get used to it. I say,

" John it's not like I don't want to heal her, but I think it would be better for you to do it so you can get used to healing bigger wounds."

John looks discouraged for a moment but then he becomes determined. I turn to the others and tell them to watch for any incoming mogs. They nod and head to the doors.

John places his hands on Sarah's back after two minutes of nothing he just looks at me with a troubled expression on his face. I tell him too think that Sarah will die right now if he doesn't do anything.

John tries again. This time, the wound slowly closes up. Its takes three tense minutes, but the wound disappears. Sarah gives us a weak smile and passes out. John gives her a light kiss on her forehead then picks her up bridal style. Ella comes up to me and says,

" Is Sarah fine?"

" Yes."

" Thats good."

Ella says to everyone using telepathy

Okay guys Sarah is healed now. Lets go.

We all head to the door on the opposite side we came from. Eight and Six are going to teleport invisibly outside the door to make sure there aren't any mogs. We might not be ready for a third massed attack.

When I see Eight hold Six's hand a pang of jealousy shoots through me. People say I am always calm and I don't do anything impulsively. But ever since I met Eight, sometimes I act without thinking and I lose my cool. Is this what love can do to you? Is this even love? Whatever it is, its frustrating.

Six and Eight disappear and we wait. They reappear again after a minute or so and say there are no mogs.

We run out and soon we see the ladder and the hatch we went through. One by one we climb out.

When I am out, I instantly feel tired and very hot. What deserts can do to you.

When we are all out Eight says,

" Well now what? We have a unconscious human, no car, some heavy chests, and we are in the middle of a desert."

We all look around at our surroundings. Sand, sand, and more sand. Ella says,

" Well lets just pick a random direction and start walking."

And we start walking in this endless desert.

Author's note: So how was it? I don't know where this is going... I hope you can tell me how I did. Sorry for the long author's note. I also had to make my brother go away so I could write in peace, but he was such a dick.

Anyways hope you enjoyed and I will try and update soon!