Ch.11
Emmit's POV:
All the rangers except for Keigean were in the training room, when we heard a thump and a bunch of loud noises coming from the direction Keigean's bedroom was. We all looked at each other and ran toward the noise. We stopped at the door and since Davon was the first to get there, he knocked on the door.
"Keigean! Are you alright? We heard some noises coming from your room and came to check it out." He said expressing what we all feel.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just hold on a minute…" She didn't sound fine. We heard some more noises as she was trying to get something. Suddenly the door opens and Keigean is standing in the doorway with sunglasses on.
"Are you sure? I get the feeling that there's something you're not telling us." Nicole asks.
"Yeah." The reflection in her sunglasses showing us looking concerned.
"You know that you can tell us, love. We're all here for you…" King trails off.
"I SAID I'M FINE!"
Keigean's sunglasses fall off from her sudden movement revealing her eyes. They were like before. Her eyes were burning pools of fire. In the seconds that her sunglasses fell off silence fell between all of us. Keigean disappears in a blur of movement which can only be described as vampiric speed. I realize that maybe it's close to the time of her fight that the "other" her talked about.
"Guys, I think that she went to the library…" Davon said using his nose to investigate the air.
"Let's go!" I lead the team toward the library.
Keigean's POV:
No, no,no, no! I can't let them see me like this. I don't know what'll happen if the blackouts start. I don't want to hurt them. I reach the library and frantically look for that book. The book that will tell me all the history of "other" me. She showed me the book in my memories as a hint. I look through all the books and finally find it on the last shelf I look on. That's when I hear footsteps getting louder and louder. The rangers come bustling into the room and stop a few feet away. I look at them.
"Listen to me, okay I can't give a whole explanation, but you need to lock me up in one of the cells. Like now." I become antsy because I can feel that the blackouts are going to start. I rush towards Emmit and hand him the book.
"Lock me up now, I'm ordering you as your leader. I know you don't want to do this; it has to be this way. I'll be in and out of consciousness starting tonight. Whatever I say and do can't be trusted. Read that book to me when I'm myself and we'll try to figure out "other" me together." I try to give them a smile, but end up wincing in pain. I press a button in one of the book shelves and go into one of the holding cells on the other side. I motion them to lock it and they do so.
Emmit's POV:
We all stand outside the cell watching her writhe in pain, helpless to do something about it. Suddenly, she stands up, but it's not her eyes that are there. Her sword in her hand she screeches and slashes at the holding cell. Her face contorted into something unrecognizable. It's hard for all of us to watch. Keigean gasps and her eyes are back to normal.
"I'm sorry. I only have three days until I go into a coma and have to fight "her"." It was barely more than a whisper, but we all heard. She goes and sits in the corner of the cell, sword still in her hand. She hangs her head in her lap.
"Wait, so what does this book have to do with anything?" I ask.
"It's the key to figuring out who she is."
"How?" Skylar asks for all of us.
"Since my memories are all jumbled up, she took the liberty to give me a hint. She showed me holding the book and saying that it describes who and what she is." She starts wincing in pain again.
"Please, make sure I don't get out. I will hurt someone in this state…" She trails off and looks at us pleadingly before her eyes turn back into pools of fire.
"It's going to be a long three days…" Sterzyn thinks out loud.