Chapter Eight
Rythian was silent, only staring at his foe with rage and anger. "Hmmmm? Weeelllll?" Duncan looked at the endermage, taking a step forward. A ball of fire started to form in Rythian's hand, growing slowly as if to scare the scientist. Duncan rolled his eyes, moving his black goggles over his eyes – adjusting them slightly so they were comfortable.
He looked over at his robotic arm and grinned, aiming the palm of his mechanical hand at Rythian – while some sort of energy was charging inside. The scientist laughed, almost maniacal, as the energy inside his palm formed a giant ball.
And while he kept it aimed at Rythian, Duncan quickly glanced over at Zoey and shot at her instead of the endermage. As anticipated, the endermage quickly moved in front of Zoey as protetction – his Katar (A Red-Matter sword with a black hilt and a red blade with a yellow at the edge) blocking the scientist's attack.
The sound of something unlatching echoed from above, a cage trapping both Rythian and Zoey inside – another cage about to unlatch above Teep and Jarl. Teep, his senses coming to an advantage of a trap, quickly shoved Jarl back as another cage unlatched above them – Jarl tumbling back and falling on his bum with Teep's bow and an arrow.
The scientist laughed in delight as he heard the metal cage make contact with the floor – not noticing that he missed one from the group. "Have you not yet seen it, Rythian? It was ALL a trap! The snow falling like it was real – who would have thought it was so easy to manipulate weather?" The endermage growled loudly, trying everything to get out of this cage before speaking, "What about the tree.."
"You actually bought that?!" Duncan basically fell onto the floor in mass hysteria, standing back up to redeem himself. "YOU of all people, bought that little story?! Come ooonnnn! You must have had some little theory that something wasn't right about all of this, hm?" Rythian looked at Duncan, a glare that just screamed I Will Kill You.
"Or did my little trick throw you off? Making it look like you and Ruby had the same magic. Hah! She doesn't have one trace of magic in her, you know why?" He asked, walking up to the cage with an insane grin on his face. "Do you?"
Just as the mad scientist revealed a bottle of water from in his coat, an arrow flew right in-between the bars of the cage Rythian and Zoey were in, penetrating through Duncan's lab coat and into his skin. Duncan screamed in pain, stepping back a bit while his mechanical arm tried to pull the arrow out.
Zoey turned around, watching Jarl fist pump the air in victory before gladly taking another arrow that Teep handed him through the bars – but Rythian was focused on the broken water bottle, shattered glass on the floor with water flowing his direction.
"What was that Duncan? I couldn't understand what you were saying over your screaming!" Jarl exclaimed, walking closer to Duncan – bow drawn back with an arrow, ready to be fired. The scientist growled, cursing quietly as he finally pulls the arrow out of his arm completely.
"As I was saying," he started – completely ignoring Jarl, "My dearest Ruby is so different from you all… yet you never noticed until now. Because you see… .HER!" With that, he laughed maniacally, throwing his hands in the air as if he won already.
Everyone's eyes went wide in shock, but no one could feel the emotions Ruby was feeling as soon as he said that. A mixture of shock, fear, anger, guilt…just tons and tons of emotions going through her at once as her eyes started to well up in tears.
"T-That's not true! It can't be true!" Ruby screamed over her sobs, not wanting to believe what this mad man in front of her is saying. Duncan turned around and looked at Ruby defiantly, just enjoying everyone's reaction. "Is that so? What if I said…'Shoot Rythian'."
Suddenly, Ruby's mind went blank – everything in her vision turning some sort of shade of green. She stopped crying and stared with a blank face before pulling on the chains with such force that they basically snapped off the wall.
Zoey gasped, backing up until she reached the back bars of the cage – Jarl backing up a bit aswell. Rythian and Teep stood their ground, hiding their emotion about what is going on. Ruby walked over to Duncan's side, who took the iron bands off her wrists with delight. Instantly, Ruby looked straight at Rythian – her vision showing a red outline around him as the target.
She extended her arm in Rythian's direction, her hand balled into a fist. "Target sighted." Her hand turned a full 360, disappearing inside her arm. Seconds later a ball of purple energy shot out of her arm, flying straight for Rythian with incredible speed.
Rythian didn't have enough time to react, the ball of energy hitting him head on. The force of the ball alone knocked Rythian into the back bars, putting him into a daze as he could feel all the energy going through him – causing crazy amounts of pain to course through his body.
A grin widened on Duncan's face as he looked over at his creation, glad that commands are working properly. Ruby looked back to her master, her hand screwing itself back onto her arm. "Awaiting Orders."
The mad scientist opened his mouth to say something, but another voice interrupted his command. "Stand down," an American voice spoke behind Duncan, making him jump and turn around. Duncan's eyes went wide as he lifted his goggles to see the man.
It was the Administrator, Man of the Skies….Ridgedog – floating just inches above the ground as he faced Duncan with an everlasting smile. His black cloak wrapped around him snug, while the golden edges shined dimly.
The scientist was shaking, trembling with fear as he stared into the cold eyes of Ridge – scared for his life. "R-Ridge… w-what are you doing here….?" Duncan stuttered, backing up to hide his creation. "We had a deal, Duncan." The man said, going straight to the point. He looked over at the cadged people and waved a hand, the cages lifting into the air and flying into the wall – disappearing out of sight.
"Y-yea..I remember it! I didn't break the deal!" Duncan exclaimed, scratching the back of his head while the others tended to Rythian. Ridge rolled his eyes, having none of it as he shoved the scientist to the side and grabbed Ruby by the wrist tightly – knowing she will not feel anything.
"Then what is this?" The Man of the Skies hissed. "J-just uh…." Duncan couldn't find the words, so he just looked to the floor in defeat. You can't hide anything from Ridge.. It was just impossible. "That's what I thought…" the man whispered coldly before snapping his fingers – both Duncan and Ruby disappearing from his sight in a gold mist.
Ridge muttered something under his breath and turned towards the group. "You saw none of this…completely forget this entire thing happened," he hissed in anger of Duncan's deceivery. Jarl was the one to rebel against that idea, "How am I supposed to forget about my roommate!?" "It was never your roommate to begin with, just a toy used to trap you all." In saying this, those words went straight to Jarl's heart, hurting him emotionally.
Jarl was going to protest more, but Rythian just placed a hand on his shoulder and turned him around – guiding him out with the rest of them. "Just forget it Jarl… when the Man of the Skies gets involved you just need to do what he says," the endermage whispered into Jarl's ear – who nodded slowly.
Whenever the Man of the Skies gets involved in anything, just back down or face his consequences.
THE END
Hope you all enjoyed, yea made it a bit anti-climatic huh? Well atleast I think its like that. OH WHALE.
Time for my next story *grin* This will be fun
~Lack
