(A/N) Hello, world of fanfiction! I am SOOOO sorry for not updating for a month (or two), I was busy. Anyways... I recently went scrolling through the stories on the Keeper fandom and saw all of the letters and stories dedicated to Project Moonlark. I probably should've written this sooner, but I hope you get better Moony! You were one of my favorite authors before I made an account, and I hope you still make stories. (This A/N is from a while ago, I just never got around to posting it, so… yeah. That's why it seems like I'm really late.)
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Ellie (guest): Thank you for being the only reviewer in the past, what month? I know right, there's so much testing! Also, thanks for forgiving me. (^_^) (Again, this is from some time ago. The new school year's already started!)
Alright, here we go!
Chapter Nine
Sophie woke to a loud clunk! Her eyes fluttered open and she found herself in the middle of a beautiful, well-furnished room. At first she thought she was still at Havenfield, but then she remembered the past night's events.
"Oh, no." Sophie stood up shakily. She reached through her scrambled thoughts and found the password. She just realized that she forgot that she had photographic memory last night! "Four seven zero eight six three seven one four four."
Sophie ran through the path of light that had appeared in front of her. She stumbled into the lobby of Auroracrest.
"You're up early," the receptionist said. "In a rush?"
Sophie nodded. "Have to… get… back…" She panted, not because she was tired, but because she was worried. What was going to happen? She hoped the note that Opticalium had sent her was wrong.
"Can you get me… to Everglen?" She asked the receptionist. Sophie really needed to get there.
"Of course." The lady replied. She opened a drawer in her desk and grabbed a clear crystal. "This'll get you outside of their gates."
Sophie accepted the crystal. The wondered if the Vengeance had a crystal to every place in the Lost Cities. Couldn't they just use a Leapmaster like every other elf?
She held the clear crystal up to the light. A beam of light formed in front on Sophie. She stepped into the light, and the fancy lobby of Auroracrest faded out of view. The glowing gates of Everglen shimmered into the place of Auroracrest.
"Alden! Della!" Sophie shouted. She pounded on the glimmering fences. "Please, someone let me in!" Alden came rushing to the gates to let her in.
"Sophie!" Alden said as he opened the gate. Then he noticed Sophie's panicked face. "What's wrong?"
"No time… to talk… must get to… Fitz and Biana…" Sophie said. She rushed past Alden and swung the grand doors of Everglen open. She sprinted up the stairs and into the hall. Sophie bursted into Fitz's room. Fitz jumped up from his bed, startled.
"What? Huh?" Fitz said. "Oh, it's just you. What's wrong?" Sophie sighed. That's exactly what his dad had said.
"We need to find Biana." Sophie said. "Have you seen her?"
Fitz thought about it for a second. Then he said, "Come to think of it, no. All of yesterday she was supposedly shopping with my mom." Then his eyes widened. "But my mom was home all of yesterday! Where did she
go?" He ran out into the hall with Sophie right behind him. They sprinted into Biana's room, and…
She wasn't there! Sophie and Fitz searched her entire room until Biana's bed covers were hanging off of those the bed, all of the drawers were open, and Biana's makeup supplies were on the floor.
"Where do we go now?" Fitz asked, panic seeping into his features.
"You kids are not going anywhere." A familiar voice said behind them. Both Sophie and Fitz whirled around to see Mr. Forkle and the whole Collective with their disguises behind them.
"Whoa, why's everyone here?" Sophie asked. She feared this was about Biana.
"We're here to rescue Biana." Mr. Forkle said, confirming Sophie's fear.
"How are we gonna get her back?" Fitz asked. Sophie noticed the tremble in his voice. "We don't even know if she's in trouble. And if she is, we don't know where she is."
"Well, we do." Mr. Forkle said. "We got a little help though." He stepped to the side of the doorway to let someone in.
"Well, hello, Sophie. Didn't think we'd meet so soon." Kalendi said. She was followed in by another woman and a man. They were wearing wearing Vengeance cloaks with melders in their hands, unlike Kalendi, who carried a Dualabrys. "Sadly, this isn't the best time to chat. We're preparing for war."
(A/N) Okay, guys. I think it's impossible to end a chapter without a cliffhanger. I honestly think the previous chapter wasn't a cliffhanger, but I could be wrong. So... I think I might stop updating On the Run, but then make another story with one shots and short stories using the characters from this one. I don't know! But thanks to those who reviewed, and... yeah. Again, sorry for going a month without updating!
