Hey! I'm back! Thanks to everyone who read and special thanks to everyone who reviewed on the SAMB or FanFiction. Wow, you guys rock! 8 Reviews! This chapter will be from Meilin's POV Now on with chapter 1! -IADS
CHAPTER 1:
The first thing she saw was the blood, and then the fletches of a single arrow protruding from his chest. She ran over to him, ignoring the searing pain in her leg. Meilin dropped to his side. His skin was a deathly, pale color; his head was slumped to one side.
"If you went and died on me, I'm going to kill you." She whispered as she examined the arrow. It had gone into the ground and the fletches were touching his chest where the arrow had gone through.
He lifted his head a little, but didn't open his eyes. A few seconds later, he muttered, "I don't think you can do that." Even though he was most likely dying, he still managed to smile, and even to make her smile in this seemingly impossible situation.
In that moment, it could have been fine; it could have been alright, even. Until he blacked out.
"Rollan!" She yelled at him, slapping his face. He had to stay awake. He couldn't fall asleep. "Rollan! Don't you dare die on me!"
Jhi came first, lumbering over as quickly as she could, Essix screeching at Jhi from her shoulder. Deciding the panda wasn't fast enough, she took flight, flying over to land on Rollan's chest. Jhi finally made it over, plopping down next to Meilin. She looked at Meilin and bent down to lick the wound around the arrow.
Then Abeke came. She dropped down in one swift movement to crouch down beside Rollan. She examined the wound and looked across his lifeless body to meet Meilin's eyes.
Conor ran over, panting. He dropped to the ground beside Meilin and said something to her. But she didn't hear him. She only heard her heart, beating in her ears. A sudden wave of calmness washed over her. She stopped slapping and yelling at Rollan and put a hand on Jhi and the other on Rollan. And suddenly, she could hear a heartbeat. The single drum of life, beating on, piercing the silence that filled his chest.
The single drum. The symbol of life. He was alive!
Her emotions ran wild, and relief flooded through her, along with some feeling that flooded her heart and mind. She wasn't familiar to that one.
"He's alive!" she whispered to herself in realization.
"What?" Conor stopped in mid sentence, "What did you say?"
"He's alive!" she yelled, springing to her feet. The others didn't have time to fully register what just happened when she started sprinting.
"Tarik!" she called out for him. "Lishay! Maya!" She ran, calling out their names. She rounded a corner.
"Lishay!" She waved to get her attention. "It's Rollan, he's been shot!"
Lishay's eyes widened, "Lead me to him. What condition is he in?"
"He passed out a few minutes ago, but he spoke to me."
"Were his words slurred in anyway? What did he say?"
"His words weren't slurred," she hesitated, "He was acting as normal as Rollan ever does."
A smile flickered on Lishay's face, but quickly disappeared, she muttered something that sounded like, "I swear, between Rollan and Tarik…" and "Getting themselves killed…" Then she spoke up. "So not very."
They ran until they got back to Rollan. The sight of him lying motionless on the ground with an arrow through his chest sent chills down her spine all over again.
And here she was, standing in the middle of a vacant battlefield, unable to do anything to help him. Just wait. It was like being stabbed with a knife.
Lishay checked his pulse. Then she took out a small handkerchief and rolled it into a long tube. And then, she broke the arrow.
Hey guys! I promised the chapter would be longer, so here ya go! I'll try to post more often. Leave a review or PM me for any requests for this or other SA fics, I'll try my best to make whatever you want happen. Read & Review, -I'madivergentshadowhunter.
P.S. I've received this question more than once, So, on the SAMB I post under my brother's account, cobraadragon1626 or mine, werewolfpursuit1. I Leave messages at the beginning or end of my posts saying I'm CD's Sis or Cobradragon's sis, or IADS. So that's who I am on the SAMB.
