Chapter 11

RAIN

Leaving Lea to help Richard, was not a good choice. After I heard her scream I instantly thought, to help her. But i was kind of in the middle of a fight, and if I turn my back, I might be the one who needs help.

All I was doing was using a random shield from the ground to block the poison coming out from the lion, who should be dead, from me or Parker who was back to back with me, blocking the shots coming from the other lion who was previously fighting Teal. Teal was running up the balcony quietly trying to aim his bow at the lion.

So, we were pretty busy.

I couldn't get close enough to whack the lion. Because 1. he was shooting poison at me and 2. i did not have a sword, or anything else pointy. Also I was pretty busy finding new shields because they got holes from the green ooze.

"Rain!" Teal yelled from behind me, I thought to look back but thinking it was a bad idea I didn't and I just yelled back a very sincere "WHAT?"

"DUCK!" he said overlapping my 'what'. The very fierce lion threw a punch over our heads as we advisedly avoided it.

I saw from the corner of our eye that, the green ooze from the lion's tail past over us and missed the other one by a centimeter. The other lion seemed not to notice. A shield whipped pass our heads. This the lion did notice. Only because it hit him on the head like a Frisbee

"RAWR!" The lion growled fiercely

"COME ON TEAL, shoot the arrow!"

"Wait, I am lighting the arrow on fire."

"Well light faster!"

"Okay, Okay!" He said fumbling with the match, while I used the new shield, because the other one disintegrated in my hands.

"Light, light. COME ON YOU STUPID MATCH! WHERE IS LEA WHEN YOU NEED HER, COME- oh wait I got it"

The sound of the arrow being hurled down right next to us was not pleasant , the FAYOOM of the fire next to us and the blast of wind it caused was scary to me this stuff was new to me. I took a look at the lion behind me, as he deflected the sword with his paw. It looked like he pushed it off with his lion-hand and it flew but his skin actually made it bounce off, why does plain arrow work but not the fire—

"OOF!" I said falling to the ground, sliding a bit, only to be side by side with the other enemy lion. I looked at my shield wondering what the heck hit it and made me fly back, and I saw, an arrow sticking out of it but without the handle part. Since when do these lions shoot metal, dagger points?

Looking up I caught a glimpse of the enemy number two before he flicked his paw and sent me flying, again. What was I, a human pool ball?

"RAIN!" Somebody yelled

"I'm okay." I mumbled, groaning over my stomach. It ached, it was thirsty, and hungry. I was so confused, we drove here, I had a crazy long dream, and now were here half of us missing, and were are fighting some demented magic lions. Maybe this is another dream, and I am not actually sitting in the corner of the walls of this haunted place, I'm in the car. Just before I closed my eyes to open them back up again, I hit my head against the wall, by accident of course.

"ow!... wait a minute… ow?" I said in my head. I wasn't supposed to get hurt, not this kind of hurt. Dreams usually have pain in them once in a while, but this was more… real.

I pinched myself, yep. It's official.

I looked up and saw Parker, who was grunting, because he was getting tired of ducking, charging and ducking again. The lion wedged in the door, was doing something with his tail, he was moving it up and down, trying to aim for Parker!

I gathered up my voice, all rusty from getting the wind blown out of me and nothing came, absolutely nothing. I looked at Teal, who started going back down the stairs, to help with the fight. He didn't look up, I couldn't signal him to tell Parker. I started to panic, it's the same feeling I get when an instrument is not playing the right note and you can't tune with it so you have to not play it for a while. I couldn't let that happen, my brother was in danger and my chords weren't working properly so I played a different note.

I puckered my lips and whistled, just a random tune that came to mind and Parker looked at me and bent over onto the floor, just as the lion shot a double the dagger tips, with some extra poison added on, that missed Parker and landed on the lion that was attacking him. The lion looked shocked as he went poof into dust.

Parker, getting up not caring about the murderer lion behind him, ran over to me whispering

"I knew I should have just let you stay home!" I whistled in return and examined my ripped shirt, he replied

"It could have been just me and Teal, we could have handled it, we wouldn't have made that much noise and the other Martichora wouldn't have come." I whistled in confusion he looked at me and smiled

"Don't worry we are done with them now, the chariots are done and we will be on our way." Then Teal reached us and Parker had him help me up while Parker rushed ahead to where everyone else had disappeared, the door behind the desk.