She heard a loud crash and looked to her left. Great… her step brother was high as a freaking kite and taking the rest of the house up with him. "Chris!" she heard her mother shout in the room across from the living room. By now, most of the family had left, and it was just them left. Her adoptive parents had gone a while ago and left her to try and live out the rest of the party.
Well, the party had died out a long time ago, and now she was just bored and tired.
She slid her iPhone into her pocket and got up. She made her way through stacks of newspapers and into the kitchen, passing her mother's massive collection of unicorn statues.
"I'm heading home mom…" she said quietly and got a wide eyed look from the blonde haired 40 year old.
"You sure?" she asked in a soothing voice, as if trying to sway her to stay the night.
"No, it's alright… I have to go to… umm… the counselor tomorrow" she lied and smiled, hoping her mother would buy it, and thankfully she did.
"Well, okay… if you want I can drive you to the hotel".
"No, its okay, I'll just, get a cab" she was 18, right? She could defend herself! And if not, she always had her iPhone and a small switchblade she had to keep on her. Hey, it was the big city! She had to keep something on her just in case she were to get mugged.
A few minutes later, she was let out and stood outside for her cab. It was about midnight, and it was still rather cold, it had snowed earlier but mainly melted away in the afternoon. She was in a small residential area, in the main part of a small cul de sac. Lots of weird things happened here… but people all claim to have seen things, but, no one could really recall what they had seen exactly.
A pair of lights appeared at the mouth of the cul de sac and she raised her hand, calling the cab over.
It made its way over and slowed to a stop by the house. She pulled open the car back door and slid into the back seat.
"to Cullen motel please" she said quietly, and yanked the door closed. She looked up to the cab driver and smiled, a rather old and withered face peered back at her through the rear view mirror.
"Right a'way" he smiled to himself and put the vehicle back into gear and turned around In the middle of the road and headed out of the large cul de sac.
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"so.. he groaned, trying to fidget against the restraints. "so… where am I supposed to be going!" his commander glanced down to him and tugged tight an upper restraint. "you're going topside for tonight," he grumbled quietly and took a step back.
"yes! But where!" Felix gagged slightly under the pressure of the chest straps.
"To a little place in northern Canada!"
Felix could've sworn he heard his old friend with actual joy in his voice… scary how that turned
out.
"N-northern Canada? Do... we even have people posted there?"
"Actually… yes!"
Felix rubbed his forehead in a slight anxiety and sighed "Daniel… are you just doing this to get rid of me?" he asked and reached a hand out to hold onto the larger elfs hand. "you.. know I'll still love you, right?" he asked, and smiled weakly. The large hand was pulled away from his small grasp.
"you leave in five minutes" Daniel said rather sternly and walked out, closing the hatch behind him, a loud pneumatic hiss filled the room. It felt like the hiss had sucked out his heart as well.
He swallowed slightly, a small throb in his chest made his pointed ears tingle in fear and slight anticipation of what was to come. Was it going to be a full moon tonight? He could really use another jab at some magic he was, after all, exhausted from training and exams, but at least this was a good excuse to get out of the house and away from chores!
He felt the heat coming from outside, or… maybe it was just him… his nerves were and easy thing to rattle, especially lately. "Daniel?" he asked quietly and heard a reply from the inner ships intercom.
"yeah? Felix?"
"I'm sorry" he said simply and looked out the small windows as flames tore up the shaft and rapidly engulfed the small craft the fire lapping up the sides of the ship, and thrusting him vertical. By now, the sheer velocity, throwing him skyward was enough to make his head swirl and eventually, he breathed out in an odd cough and his head flopped to the side.
Through the intercom Daniel laughed. "little runt.." he said quietly and pressed a few switches, the large ship piloted itself upward, thanks to Daniels expert remote controlling talents, though if it wasn't for him, Felix would have crashed into the sides and possibly imploded into oblivion.
"some days I wonder what you would do without me" he chuckled and guided him away from a sharp wall. Once the ship tore from the surface, Daniel shouted into the microphone and Felix jolted awake.
"buh?!" he stared at the large windows and blinked, the world around him changed from and ugly dank dirt world to a new outlay of green grass and trees, far off, there was a small city, no… it looked like a village. He took control and switched back to manual, he teetered the large pod downward slowly and took shelter behind a large tree line on the downward slope of a large hill. He slid out of the pod, and clipped on a pair of motorized wings.
"Felix, Wheeler here…" he paused, waiting for an answer "what is my... location?" he asked quietly, near whispers. No reply.