AN: Okay I know it has been forever since my last update.. and i apologize profusely!! but i hhad trouble writing this chapter out and it still didnt come out the way i wanted it to.. but it also wrote itself out... oh adn theres the fact that my muse ran away for a while there.. but i got it back!! ha ha!! and there it goes running away again... damn!!.. anyway.. i need help with this fic!! reviews would help me alot!!.. i would appreciate reviews!!... il give the first three reviewers of this chapter a dozen cookies!!... i dont when the next update is going to be.. but ill try to make it before thanksgiving... i hope... anyways thanks to the reviewers of this fic that ive already had... hopefully youre still reading it... and on with the story!!... later!!
Blade
I was staring at my hands, not believing at the fire that had come out of them. We at the hospital in the waiting room, each of us lost in our own thoughts. At the same time, we were all worried about Jerryd. He hadn't woken up yet. It's been a few hours since we had tried to gain our powers, "tried" being the operative word. I glanced up at Faye, it sounded like she was muttering about how she didn't mean to do it. Riana was cowering in the corner every time the waiting room was empty, she had her hands to head and begging for the whispers to stop, and Jamie wasn't with us at that point. He said it was because he couldn't risk being exposed by the Yeerks, but that he would check in with us as soon as he could. I stood up and walked over to Faye, keeping my hands closed.
"Faye?" I whispered. She looked at me; I was shocked because there were tears in her eyes.
"I didn't mean to, I was just trying to get him away from Jamie,"
"I know, Faye, but listen he'll be okay, he'll wake up and take one look at you and tell you how hellish you look right now," she chuckled at that. I smiled, it seemed like the right thing to say. I wasn't for sure. I didn't know what to do at this point. I was worried that I might burn someone if I opened my hands. I didn't want to get closer to Riana in case I burned her. I almost did, when that car almost hit her.
"Blade, you're shaking, what happened?" Arrow said as he ran into the waiting room. I tried to move away from him, but Arrow grabbed and hugged him. "When I heard that all of you were in the hospital I came over as soon as I could," he then turned and hugged Faye who cringed. Faye looked at me, silently asking me what we tell him. After all, we couldn't tell him the truth. I shrugged confused as to what we should tell him myself.
"We were getting out to the car, when Jerryd fell and rolled into the street, I ran out to check on him when this car almost ran me over, if the tire hadn't done whatever it did I would've been hit," Riana whispered calmly, keeping her head down as she tried to control her tears a little more. She had her hands to the floor; she looked a little bit calmer now. Arrow nodded at the story believing it completely.
"Faye are you all right?" he asked sincerely. Arrow and Faye didn't really get along, but they had their own understanding.
"I'll be fine" she turned to look at me, "We'll need to work on that project later, and find out what went wrong with it," I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. Jerryd's mom had come in at that exact moment.
"What happened? Is everyone okay?" she asked frantically. Riana told her the same story she told Arrow. She looked at Riana suspiciously before nodding her head. "Has the doctor told you anything yet?" We shook our heads; the doctor had only told s that he could tell only family about his condition. She nodded and headed out the door intent on finding a doctor at any cost.
Jerryd
"God, could this be anymore cliché?" I asked no one in particular as I woke up in a white room. I stood up slowly taking everything in, also getting annoyed because there wasn't anybody else in the room. I walked around a bit waiting for what seemed like forever before he came. Some strange old guy, that didn't seem quite human. He actually kind of reminded me of Gandalf or maybe Dumbledore, I snickered at the thought. Honestly, I didn't feel threatened by him but I wasn't going to take any chances.
"Well, I must honestly say that this is unexpected," he said in a kind voice.
"What?" I asked merely for the sake of asking. I had a feeling he was about to tell me something either extremely profound or incredibly annoying and vague. I hoped it was the former.
"Well, you and your friends being chosen for this war," he began almost sadly but at the same time almost happy. "You and your friends almost didn't register as people who would even try to save the world," He paused waiting to see my reaction. I gestured for him to go on before I started with the yelling. He nodded before he started again, "I was surprised to see a completely different ending opening up simply because you four were chosen by an android!" he chuckled a bit.
"What do you mean when you didn't choose us?" I asked during his small pause. He looked at me surprised that I had spoken.
"Usually the first question anyone asks me is 'who am I?" he said simply as he looked at me. I noticed that he didn't answer my question; I sat there not responding waiting for him to answer my question. I was curious as to his identity, but I figured he would tell me eventually, unless he's like Rumpelstiltskin, which I hoped he wasn't. "In case you were wondering, people call me Ellimist," I raised an eyebrow thinking, Kind of an odd name but who am I to say anything about it?
"And then there's the fact that you didn't just get morphing abilities but some others as well! I simply could not believe it!" He laughed at that. I was losing patience with the fact that he wasn't answering my question, but I wasn't going to allow myself to repeat myself unless he tried to run off course and completely forget about my question. "All because one Chee had fallen in love with one human, that is why this path opened up. I'm curious to see where you will take this new team of human resitance against the Yeerks."
"Again, I ask 'What do you mean when you said you didn't choose us?" I said with a bit of venom in my voice. He looked at me for a little while almost as if he was studying me. He chucked a bit before he started walking away. "Hey! You don't get to walk away like that just yet!" I yelled as I started chasing him before I realized that he could poof on out of here if he wanted.
"I'm not leaving yet, I just felt like walking for a bit, you humans take this simple action for granted," he said simply, again not answering my question. I wanted to smack him upside the head and tell him to answer my damn question. But I had this feeling that wouldn't be the right way to continue this conversation.
"All right, so what-" I began as he interrupted me.
"You and your friends won't be able to figure out your other abilities without some help, so here is my advice: Meditate and focus on exactly what you want, and everything else should figure itself out." He said simply yet again. He turned away and started to fade away.
"Wait! You still haven't answered my question!" I yelled at him before he was completely gone.
"I know, and I can't give you an answer yet, there some people you have to meet first before I can give anything that resembles an answer to that question," he replied before he was gone. I looked at the spot where he used to be shocked and annoyed that he didn't really give me much of anything to work with. I turned around and sat down on the ground and grumbled for a bit while I tried to recap the strange conversation I just had.
"Okay so he didn't answer my question, however he did answer some questions that I might have whenever I get back home, which actually brings the question of: Where the hell am I?"
"Jerryd, honey, wake up soon because I can't stand to see you like this," I looked up when I heard my mother's voice come from above me.
"Well, will you look at that my Mom really is God. Oh damn there's going to be no shutting her up now," I said as I relished in the feeling of being loved. That was when I remembered what he said before he left. "Okay, I just need to meditate and focus on what I want and everything else should work out from there. I hope." I crossed my legs and started taking deep breaths like I had seen on those TV shows where they showed someone meditating. I wasn't sure if I was doing it right but I had to try something. I visualized where I wanted to be: with my friends and family, and hoped with everything that I was that I would be there soon.
Riana
I sat in Jerryd's room, trying to block out the whispers that were invading my mind much more heavily now. Blade was the first that came in after Jerryd's mother, we had been trading time with him and his mother. His mother was whispering small little things to him, encouraging him to wake up. I didn't hear her voice these things, I heard them right before she said them. I shook my head, begging the Higher Powers to block these thoughts out of my head. I heard the door open, I looked up at the nurse who walked in.
"How is he doing?" she said as she smoothed down the sheets. That was when I noticed that there were two mind in this woman's head. I stared at her very intently trying to see if I could focus my 'radar' on her, but I couldn't.
"No change, do we know when he's going to wake up?" Jerryd's mom asked worriedly. The nurse shook her head sympathetically as she walked out of the room. I realized what I had just felt, a mind of a Controller! It was the only that made sense, unless the nurse was suffering from split-personality disorder. I wondered briefly if it was still split-personality disorder if there was actually another being in your head controlling everything you said and did.
"Riana, are you okay?" Mommy Dearest asked me. I nodded mutely, trying to figure out how come I couldn't pinpoint on the nurse's thoughts, but yet when I'm not trying to focus on somebody in particular I get everyone and their dog's thoughts running through my head, causing a major migraine that makes me want to curl up and die from the amount of thoughts.
That was when I noticed that while I was focused on the Nurse Controller's thoughts all other thoughts faded away to dull roar. I figured I just had to focus on certain person's thoughts for a while and the explosion of thoughts would a become a small roar, I hoped it worked because I thought I was going to go insane from the pain.
"I'm going back to the waiting room and let someone else in here for a while," I tell her as she nods slightly, making me wonder if she actually heard me. I walk toward the waiting room focusing on the people I passed by. It was hard because every time I didn't find someone to focus on fast enough, the minds of everyone would crash into me making me almost scream from the pain.
"Hey Ri," Blade said as I walked in. I nodded to him noticing that my parents had arrived during the time I was with Jerryd and his mother.
"Hey Mom, Dad" I say with as much strength I could manage. They hugged me as they told they came to bring me home. I nodded and left with them, trying to focus on Dad's thoughts while we left. I hoped tomorrow would bring better news as we headed home.
