Me: Hiya It's OddSakura here back for another chapter!
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Chapter 2: Mind Fights! Crabs! Am I Losing It?
I walked along the winding corridors. I had a small spark of hope now. If everyone else was as kind hearted as Mr Delmas, then maybe it wouldn't be so bad here after all. Even if it wasn't I would not succumb to grieving for my parents openly. I would be a cheeky ball of sunshine, like I always was.
Raye would be proud of me. I imagined how things would be if she hadn't been on her way from school to the dentist that day. She would have been here with me, charming all the boys, cheeking yet respecting the teachers, never leaving-
"AHHHHH!"
Startled, I turned towards the scream to find a girl of about ten years old running as fast as those little legs of hers could carry her past me and out of sight. Looking towards the direction she had come from, I immediately knew why.
Standing there before me was a creature I had never seen before. Nine feet tall, it towered above me with four long spindly blood red legs. It resembled a veryverylarge crab except for the fact that it had six pure white eyes that shot a laser after the girl, thankfully missing her. On top of its head was a symbol like marking. It looked like a circle, with two smaller circles inside of it and on top of it was a line sticking out, and below the circle, three smaller lines jutting out. It looked a bit like an eye. The monster also looked mechanical.
Only one thought bounced around in my head. For once Fred and Common Sense seemed to agree on something.
WHAT THE FRIGGIN' HECK!
It's eyes were fixed on me with a blank stare and I could tell in a way it was sizing me up. Clearing my head it wasn't hard to see that this thing wasn't here to show me to my room. As if the crab could read my mind it suddenly shot a laser were I would have been had it not been for a few fancy back flips.
I take back what I said about not needing gymnastics lessons Mum! I thought before hastily avoiding another laser. The crab had already destroyed half of the corridor and I would be buried alive if I didn't do something soon. Spotting a sharp pipe amidst the wreckage behind it, I dodged another laser before sliding under the legs of the monster and grabbing the pipe. I looked up and quickly rolled out of the way, the crab's legs only just missing my head.
Without any warning I suddenly felt a searing pain in my arm and turned to see another crab entering the fray and a kid with blond hair that stood up from his head with a purple splotch on it about my age chasing after it, a sharpened stick in his hand. He wore a purple jumper over a pink shirt and had purple jeans on. I also couldn't help but notice that he was painfully cute.
His eyes widened on seeing me fighting, but I was too preoccupied with dodging another laser to notice.
" Hit the eye!" he yelled desperately, while dodging the other monsters attacks. " The thing on it's head! That's where you've got to get it!"
He's Italian I thought. I can hear it in his voice. I then shook myself. What heck was I doing thinking about that at a time like this?
He turned back to his own battle and leapt up to try and hit the strange symbol, only to have to abandon his attempt to avoid another laser. He seemed to notice as well as I did that it would be useless to try and hit the eye while the monster was concentrating on him.
Think, girl, THINK! My mind begged me. I needed to keep the crab busy otherwise there would be no way I would ever reach that eye.
Unless… Fred spoke inside of me.
No WAY! Are you crazy! Wait, don't answer that. But still, its way too risky! Common Sense screamed.
Shut it you! Even as a figment of the mind I never found any appeal of the phrase 'Better safe than sorry'. But if she doesn't take the chance, she'll probably die anyway! Fred retorted.
No answer from Common Sense.
Exactly Fred said triumphantly. I really AM losing it. I thought.
I slid between the crab's legs and lay there with it towering over me. It lifted it's leg to smash it into my skull and gathered up it's strength. As it plunged it's leg down I rolled out of the way and onto my feet, facing the monster once again. The force of it's kick downwards had left it with its foot stuck into the ground. I smiled slyly.
Just as planned.
As it concentrated on getting it's foot free, I seized my chance. Leaping into the air from behind, I landed on top of the creature and forced my pipe down into the centre of the bull's-eye using all of my strength. The monster wobbled underneath my feet and I jumped off as it exploded behind me, landing steadily on my feet.
I turned to the other boy, who had just managed to trip the second crab, and was now plunging his stick/spear into it's head. Obviously proud of himself, he spun round to see me waiting there impatiently. His mouth fell open, clearly under the impression that he would have had to help me.
" Are you okay?" he asked worriedly. "I'm Odd."
"Thanks, but I'm fine." I replied, smiling. " I'm Katrina, but call me Kat. Now if it's not to much trouble, will you please tell me WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON BACK THERE!" I yelled.
But Odd wasn't listening. His eyes were wide with shock and he was staring transfixed at something over my shoulder. Before I could ask him what was wrong, I felt something like tentacles wrap around me and I was hovering in the grip of what looked like a giant squid. It had a purple body and what looked to be a giant bubble as a head with a green body part attaching them together. On this was the same strange symbol that the crabs held on their heads. It had several long tentacles, but before I could make any further observation, it had pressed three of these to my head and everything went black.
I was floating.
That was all I could really say. In a blank, white space of nothingness. But then I saw something moving up ahead. I willed myself to go towards the strange object and I just floated over there. Weird. I couldn't walk, or move my legs at all for that matter. I just moved with my mind.
As I got closer the object seemed to get bigger, and looking at it, it seemed to be a window, and inside there was a moving picture. I gazed at this illustration and I saw, myself?
Yes, it was me, and my parents and siblings at the park, two years ago on my birthday. As I leaned further toward this image to get a closer look, I tumbled inside and on to the grass as the window closed behind me.
"You can't catch me!" Raye laughed as the past me chased her around the jungle gym.
"Watch it!" my older bother, Toby, yelled as we ran towards him. A little too late; we had already bowled him over and all three of us had landed in a heap giggling uncontrollably.
"Don't forget about us!" The 11 year old twins, Coraline and Colin said simultaneously as they ran over and threw themselves on top of the pile of chuckling teenagers.
I smiled as I looked at the picture perfect scene. But then something very odd began to happen.
The giggles in the air seemed to multiply and everything began to split into two so that there was a double of the whole scene around me. The laughing echoed inside my head even as the one of each double began to skate away into the horizon.
The scene disappeared into nothingness abruptly, and I was once again floating the vast white space and there was another mysterious object up ahead.
As I neared the thing I saw a sphere of sorts, spinning slowly. It was glowing, and inside I saw… me?
But it wasn't like the same me I saw in the window.
A small version of myself was hovering in the middle of the shimmering orb, my/her eyes unblinking, arms splayed out to the side, not moving a muscle. I reached out to touch it.
Suddenly my surroundings changed and I and the ball containing miniature me were floating a vast blue area, with what looked like small, light blue touch screen panels everywhere I looked.
I gazed downward; the bottom of this space was nowhere in sight The sphere started to drift away to a hole at the end of the room. Startled, I willed myself to go after it, but it only increased its speed.
I couldn't understand why I was following it, but I couldn't shake the feeling that it was crucial to keep it with me. But no matter how hard I tried, I simply could not reach it. It was about to reach the hole when…
I was falling, down into the abyss below, and darkness consumed me once more.
I opened my eyes to find that I was indeed falling through the air, but when I landed it was on the hard ground. I lifted my head and saw the creature fading away into black smoke and Odd staring at the place it had once been with his spear in hand. The three tentacles that had been holding me were lying on the floor, before they flickered and faded away. I felt strangely dizzy and there was nothing but silence.
Silence.
It wasn't the normal kind of stillness either. It was the kind that pressed on your eardrums, threatening you with it's ability to drive you insane. And that's exactly what I would be doing if I didn't get some answers soon.
"Odd?" I began hesitantly. He turned to me, his face a mixture of worry and relief. " What was th-that thing."
"The Scyphozoa." He replied darkly.
" What happened back there?"
Odd stared at me for a moment, his eyes searching. He then sighed and shook his head, more to himself than to me, it seemed. His phone suddenly rang and he hastily answered it.
"Jeremy? We kinda took care of everything back here… Well if the tower is deactivated then XANA at least wont be able to send anymore. Jeremy, I'll have to tell you something important later. Really important…. The school is half destroyed. A return to the past might be useful, don't cha think?… Good."
He closed his phone and stared at me for a moment. Meanwhile I was still thinking about what he said. Scyphozoa? XANA? Towers? Return to the pasts? Am I really losing it? Was I having some terrible nightmare? But something told me that this was no dream.
"Odd." I spoke with such a terrified tone that he couldn't help but look at me. "Odd tell me, please, I'm scared."
"Don't worry," he reassured me " Everything's going to be ok now." He waved to me with a sad smile upon his face.
And before I could say a word, a bright light engulfed us all.
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