Now for chapter 4! I told you it was gonna be from Oscar's pov! For the next one we will be going back to Tracy.
Disclaimer: Blah blah blah i don't own loz just my characters and the storyline. if i did own loz i wouldn't be an american and my hair would be black.
4
Oscar
I yelled a few choice words then quickly clamped a hand over my mouth. I turned to see if the man at the counter had heard but he was gone. It had turned nighttime and all the lights everywhere were out. Everything was pitch black. I slowly felt my way to the electrical panel at the back of the store, when I examined it I didn't see a problem with it at all.
"I want a refund," I grumbled leaving the arcade. As soon as I stepped outside of the store I began coughing and I collapsed. My eyes stung and I was gasping for breath. Smoke. Lots of smoke. I took the red bandanna off of my wrist and tied it over my mouth and nose then I began to army-crawl along the ground. I then reached the source of the dense smoke. Fire. I tried to gasp in shock but inhaled a large amount of smoke and had a coughing fit instead. The huge electric thingamabobber that is the source of all the power in the city was on fire. I saw a lot of firefighters trying desperately to put it out but were failing miserably. I saw somebody coming towards me. My head throbbed and I heard a voice.
'Run.'
Forgetting all safety I stood up and ran blindly down the street.
"Hey, kid!" I heard a shout behind me. I didn't stop.
"Kid! Hey! Oscar!" I still didn't stop but my heart did. He knew my name? I looked behind me and I saw that the man was suddenly on a horse and was catching up to me fast.
"What the heck?!" I shouted but my voice came out hoarse and raspy. That's when I realized how much smoke I had been inhaling. I turned into an alley and kept weaving through the alleyways. Then I came to a dead end. That didn't stop me though. Making sure my bandanna was securely fastened I jumped onto a garbage bin and clambered up onto a roof. I heard banging and shouting below me. I didn't have any time to waste. I looked at the gap between the roof I was on and the next one.
"I must be crazy," I muttered running towards the edge of the roof.
"Hey! Kid, stop! You're not gonna make it!" the man behind me shouted.
"Says you!" I yelled. I leaped from the very edge of the roof. My feet missed the next one.
"CRAP!" I screeched, my fingers scrabbling for something to grab. Suddenly my left hand caught onto the edge of the roof. I laughed in triumph and pulled myself up. I turned my head to see what was happening. The man was behind me on the other roof and was throwing some large green orb at me. I yelped and ran. The orb crashed into the roof behind my heels and the whole roof was decreased into rubble. I fell into the building, arms and legs flailing. I screamed the whole way down. I hit the floor, hard. I groaned and rolled over onto my back. The man jumped into the building and landed in front of me. Shocked, I stood up but he kicked me in the chest and I went flying across the room. I slammed into the wall and slid down it into a sitting position, the wind knocked out of me. The man approached me and I flattened my back against the wall. The man glared down at me. Something about him seemed familiar…
"Show me the back of your hand!" he demanded. The back of my hand? I glanced down at my right hand and almost gasped in shock. An upside-down triforce symbol was suddenly on the back of my hand. The three triangles were black but the middle one bright white. The upper-right one had a strange glow radiating from it. I quickly looked back up at the man.
"W-why?" I asked stalling.
"Just show it to me and I won't hurt you!" the man said impatiently.
"No!" I answered defiantly.
The man took out a sword.
"Show me," he growled.
Okay. Maybe showing him wasn't such a bad idea after all. I slowly raised my hands. Suddenly the man was hit in the back of his head with a pot that shattered on contact. He collapsed. I saw a girl standing behind where he was. She had bright orange hair in two pigtails below her ears. Her eyes were sapphire blue and she had a smooth complexion with tanned skin. She looked up at me.
"Who are you?" I asked but she shook her head.
"No time to explain now follow me!"
I stared at her in disbelief.
"Why should I-?" but I noticed the man on the ground stir and I quickly changed my mind. "I'm following you!" I declared standing up. She reached out and grabbed my arm.
"Good. Now whatever you do, DON'T. LET. GO. Got that?" she asked seriously. I nodded.
"Don't let go. Got it," I answered with a nod grabbing her arm also. I didn't expect her to suddenly whistle. My jaw dropped as a huge bird flew down from the sky and the girl jumped onto it, pulling me with her. The bird took off and I screamed at the top of my lungs dangling from the bird and my only safety cable was this strange girl's arm. God, I hope this is a dream.