A/N: I should probably be doing something productive right now, like cleaning my closet, or reorganizing my desk/dresser but I was feeling lazy and so I decided I needed to just sit down and write some more. So guess what guys you get another update :D, there was a bit of a toss up in my mind about whether I'd go with Shattered Masks, Masking Humanity or Doom and Docorrus but I felt like going with D&D.
So onto the next chapter!
Chapter 11
Jet's good mood about the upcoming journey did not last unfortunately. At first she'd been thrilled to escape the Doom Dimension and pointed in a direction, but in all the excitement she had forgotten several important things.
Firstly, she hadn't had much to eat or drink in a while and her mouth was beginning to feel dry. She didn't seem to note that in spite of it having been at least two days since she'd been banished to the Doom Dimension, only now was she beginning to feel any sort of discomfort. Second of all, she was still wearing just her shorts and t-shirt from when she'd been banished and that was not ample protection. But what was she supposed to do? She was in the middle of freaking nowhere.
So her mouth was dry as a desert and she was shivering and had wrapped her arms around herself to try and warm herself up. The thought of running to help warm her up came to mind, but then she'd make her dehydration worse. Thus she reluctantly trudged on trying to push forwards despite these troubles, and not let Reaper and Skylord pick up on her distress.
She failed miserably as Reaper glanced back at her and seemed to immediately take note of his Lady's troubles."Are you all right Lady Jet?" Reaper inquired.
Jet sighed as she looked up at the mountain, rubbing her hands along her bare arms. "I'm thirsty and cold." She said looking around. "And I don't know if I want to take my chances with some of the tiny streams around here." She nodded towards one that was trickling alongside the path.
Reaper followed her gaze to one of the streams and narrowed his eyes. "We may not have many options… The area seems uninhabitable as it is." He looked ahead. "Perhaps I should fly ahead and look for a place with fresh water you can drink." He offered spreading his wings.
Skylord huffed, as she circled in the air, back in battle form after she'd recovered from being struck down by lightning. "There isn't anything out here, and I don't think there will be anything." She said folding her arms across her chest her gem gleaming in the light. "I mean, maybe there is fresh water somewhere, but what about food, or clothing?" She said nodding to Jet who tried not to shiver. "I don't think those clothes are warm enough for travel up the mountains."
"Well, why didn't you mention that an hour ago!" Jet snapped lifting her hands to her face to blow on them and rub them together in an effort to warm them up.
"You seemed fine! I don't know! I didn't want to say anything else you guys might think I was weak or something." Skylord said with a huff.
Reaper groaned. "Skylord." He said slowly. "There is a difference between strength and stupidity. That, was pure stupidity."
Skylord growled. "Well I don't see you offering any better suggestions!" She shot back hotly red eyes flashing with anger.
Jet frowned looking between her two bakugan wondering how to get them to quiet down when she heard a loud snap from somewhere in the dark forest nearby. Her blue eyes darted to the side taking in the sight of the thick foliage that surrounded them on either side of the path they were on. Jet's heart stopped when she thought she saw something move in the foliage and the leaves rustled ominously.
"Guys?" Jet said in a quiet voice turning her head slightly towards her bakugan unwilling to take her gaze off the area where she'd last seen movement. But the two Darkus bakugan ignored her.
Reaper snarled. "I was too busy wondering how you two could be so dense!"
"Are you calling me fat?!" Skylord shouted eyes wide in shock before she let out a snarl, "Oh that is it! You're in for it now bones." She snarled and leapt at the grim reaper. Reaper snarled and brandished his scythe ready to respond, when there was a loud crack.
"What was that?" Reaper demanded twisting to the sound of the noise just as Skylord slammed into him bowling him over.
"Me about to kick your butt!" Skylord snarled pinning him to the ground barring her teeth. "I can't believe you actually let yourself get so distracted!" She said with a laugh.
Reaper didn't say anything his gaze locked on something to the side. He was tense his grip tightening on his scythe.
"What?" Skylord said sounding annoyed that she was being ignored, "What's so interesting that you-you-" Skylord's words died as she looked as well.
A creature that could be considered nothing but a monster leered at them from the path ahead. It was humanoid, but it looked much more skeletal. The thing had waxy gray skin that was stretched over bony limbs and a bony chest. But in spite of its skeletal appearance, its big red eyes, vicious claws and teeth were what really made it frightening.
The creature opened its mouth wide revealing a row of sharp jagged teeth. Then it rushed forwards its eyes locked on Jet.
Jet's blue eyes widened in fear at the approaching monstrosity, and she stood frozen in its bloodred gaze. The beast drew back its clawed hand as the distance between it and Jet got smaller and smaller.
"It's going after Jet!" Reaper shouted, throwing Skylord off him. There wasn't enough time for him to get between it and Jet so he grabbed his scythe. "Lady Jet duck!" He ordered before he flung the scythe.
His words seemed to snap Jet out of it as she dropped to the ground without hesitation. The brunette cringed slightly as the bladed weapon flew over her head making her hair whip around with the rush of wind.
The beast slowed down and came to a halt the scythe reaching it and hitting the skin on its chest. But to the groups collective horror the blade merely bounced off it. The monster lifted its head and let out what could be considered a laugh although it sounded like two rocks grating against each other. Then it reached down and grabbed Reaper's scythe and flung it back at him.
Reaper ducked the scythe wincing as the blade nicked his left wing. "Damn it." He hissed in pain pulling his wings in close. "How the hell did my scythe just bounce off it?!"
"I don't know but it's still coming!" Jet cried eyes wide as she took a step back the beast moving once more towards the trio.
"Let's see it take my attacks!" Skylord snarled taking up a stance between the beast and Jet. "Here eat my Chaos Dragon!" She roared charging her signature energy attack in her maw before she fired it at the beast scoring a direct hit.
The beast grunted as it was consumed in the explosion from Skylord's attack. Dust and dirt was thrown up from the impact of the attack and the group held their breaths. Well Jet and Sky did while Reaper hastily retrieved his scythe and took up a stance near Jet.
"Did that do it?" Jet asked taking a tentative step forwards.
A loud unearthly screech was the answer, making Skylord cringe and Jet cover her ears. The smoke and dust cleared away revealing the beast alive and even worse unharmed.
"How the heck did it live a direct Chaos Dragon?!" Skylord cried taking a step back red eyes wide.
The monster crouched low and roared before it charged forwards. The group tensing in preparation for its next move, and the beast crouched low and then it sprang.
And boy could the thing jump. The thing was bakugan size sure, and skin and bones so it had to be light, but the thing reached at least like 400 feet in the air before it flipped and then dove at the group, its claws extended towards them opening its mouth to screech at them.
Reaper didn't hesitate. He immediately grabbed Jet around the waist ignoring the girls squawk of surprise and with a flap of his wings darted to the side and into the air hopefully out of the beasts range. Skylord on the other hand wasn't so lucky.
With a shout of alarm the dragoness was knocked to the ground by the monster. The collision sent the two sprawling onto the ground. The monster landed in a crouch its claws scraping deep rents into the ground that the group had once been standing. Skylord on the other hand landed on her left side and partially on one of her wings.
"Agh! My wing!" Skylord cried out, jerking her head towards the injured appendage. But before the dragoness could do anything the beast was upon her. It grabbed Skylord's head in one of its claws and slammed the dragoness's skull into the ground with a sharp crack.
"Skylord!" Jet cried in horror squirming in Reapers grasp the darkus bakugan cursing looking around wildly for something he could use against the beast.
Skylord grunted from the hit, dazed by the attack. The monster roared in her face before it slashed its claws across her chest right across the gem in the middle of it. Skylord shrieked in pain as four deep slices formed in the gems surface and the gem flickered slightly.
"Reaper you have to let me throw out Hydra! We have to help Skylord!" Jet cried her hands flailing around her fingers trembling as she tried to get out another bakugan to help her partner before the monster killed her! "Come on come on!" she said her hands shaking like crazy as she fumbled around behind her trying to find her other bakugan. It didn't help that Reaper's hand covered Jet's shorts pockets. Reaper just looked on feeling just as helpless and horrified as Jet did.
Skylord thrashed about flailing at the beast with her wings and claws her tail scraping against the ground like mad as the dragoness fought to get the thing off her. But her claws only bounced off the beasts armor like skin, and her wings could only slap uselessly at it. The beast slashed her again this time just below the gem in Skylord's chest. Skylord jerked her head upwards as she shrieked in agony four deep cuts were sliced into her belly, a sort of blood oozing out. Skylord's gem flickered wildly the dragonesses eyes wide in shock and pain, then the dragoness just dropped back down the gem growing duller and duller as Skylord's struggles got weaker and weaker.
"Skylord no!" Jet wailed throwing out her hand towards her partner, like she could grab her and take her away from this horrible situation. "Skylord!"
The beast reared back its head opening its mouth wide to expose its vicious teeth. Jet's heart jumped to her throat, while Reaper stiffened.
"No," Jet whispered eyes wide tears gathering at the edges.
But before the beast could finish Skylord off, a low rumbling noise sounded from above. Reaper's head jerked back towards the source and his eyes widened.
"Jet hold on!" He said flapping his wings like crazy, Jet opened her mouth as he backwinged away from Skylord and the monster. But the words died on her mouth as a silver space craft passed by them, it was so close that Jet could feel the heat radiating off the craft from its entry into Docorrus's atmosphere.
Although Jet and Reaper had managed to avoid the craft, the beast had been to preoccupied to see it coming and the craft smashed right into its head throwing the thing forwards and off Skylord. The beast went down and the craft continued on crashing into the trees breaking through them like a couple of sticks.
Jet and Reaper watched wide eyed as the crashing vehicle dug a long trench through the forested area, bending trees, sending rocks flying, and tearing up the ground until it eventually came to a stop when it crashed into the side of a mountain about 10 or 20 miles from them. Smoke curled up from where the craft had crashed and for a moment Jet just gaped at it.
"Did that-" Jet said at last blinking as she looked at where the craft had stopped and then she looked down at the downed beast and Skylord. "Did that really just happen?"
"I suppose luck was on our side there." Reaper said as he slowly dropped to the ground. "Skylord best revert and then we should leave this place immediately." He nodded to the beast. "I think it's just dazed, so we'd best not be here when it decides to get back up."
Jet nodded as the grim reaper bakugan landed on the ground and placed his mistress on the ground. Jet quickly made her way over to Skylord shooting worried looks at the beast as she did.
"Skylord," Jet said urgently rushing over to stand by Skylord's side. "Skylord you have to revert! That should give you some time to heal (hopefully) and we need to get away from this thing as soon as possible."
Skylord weakly lifted her head and turned to Jet and blinked seeming to struggle to orient herself on her brawler. "Ungh, did anyone get the number on the truck that hit me?" Skylord groaned.
"The monster was hit by the space craft, not you. Now quick revert! We have to get out of here!"
Skylord winced and closed her eyes. "You don't have to tell me twice, everything hurts…." The dragoness moaned before she was enveloped in a purple light and shrunk down into her ball form that dropped to the ground.
Jet rushed over to where the bakugan ball had fallen and snatched it up. "All right," She said heading back to Reaper who picked her up once more and took to the air. Jet pocketed the injured Skylord so her partner could rest a little. Reaper spread his wings and turned to fly away from the mountain (he didn't want to suffer the same fate Skylord did after all).
"Hey, do you think we should check to see if they're okay?" Jet asked pointing at the downed craft.
Reaper turned his head and eyed it, "I don't know, we should be getting away from the monster, not exploring some alien craft."
Jet frowned and glanced down at the downed monster. It still hadn't moved but who knew how much longer it would be down. "But what if it goes after the people inside the craft? What if they don't have a bakugan that can fly them to safety? They saved Skylord! We can't ignore them!"
Reaper glanced down at the monster once more then he sighed and turned towards the downed craft. "Fine," He said and then took off towards the downed craft.
Jet gave a small smile in victory, which melted away as she glanced warily back at the beast. But the beast didn't seem to so much as twitch. Maybe Reaper was wrong and getting hit by the space craft had put it down for good? Oh well, once they got whoever was in the space craft out they'd leave the area and come up with a new plan to get to the Sky Cave.
However, unbeknownst to Jet or Reaper, she couldn't be more wrong, as a finger on the beast's right hand twitched.
A/N: Okay this Jet chapter was much better. There was actually going to be a lot more between Jet and her encounter with the space craft, and initially I was going to introduce another Docorrian to save Jet. Then I went 'nah that'll get way too convuleted and take too long' so I'm bringing this character in and I wonder if you can guess which character I have brought in.
I'll give you a hint they aren't in the 1st season of bakugan, but they are not a time traveler like Spectra. I look forwards to hearing who you guys think it could be!
Review Responses:
Daniellakuso: Yup
Tartarus: Haha so glad you liked Meredith and Oserian's interactions. Like I said that whole thing literally stemmed from me needing an actual chapter to announce that my laptop was kinda dead and me wanting to use that awesome ability that stemmed from me needing to fix the whole thing with Jet's mysterious disappearing injuries and her less than intelligent decisions XD.
And yeah Meredith and Oserian do have a very interesting shared past. And is Oserian to be trusted or not? Only time will tell :D and I look forwards to having my evil plots come to fruition.
I am working on how to reveal Jet's fear of the dark and I did actually come up with a good reason for why its happening, but I just need to come up with a good moment to reveal it. But hopefully when Jet's new ally joins Jet's group a new set of eyes can offer interpretation to the situation and allow for an opportunity to reveal Jet's troubles :D.
And I appreciate all your suggestions to the revamp. I didn't realize that getting knocked out could be so bad. Gotta stop spamming it in stories then X( (Do I use it often… hmm not sure… Prolly going to go back and read through my stories, make a drinking game out of it XD).
Also I do intend to go back and fix some of Jet's bitchiness and OPness that was in DD (its one of the reasons I can't read some parts of DD *headdesks*), so she's not going to win easily. But due to her only having like a specified amount of bakugan getting any sent to the doom dimension is real bad for Jetty hence why she had to win. Nevertheless I'll work on improving that for you :D
But yeah the revamping is taking a while because I'm actually taking a lot apart and putting better things in, as for when it'll be done. Uhhhh…. I'll get back to you on that one, because now that I've missed the fandom contest for inkitt I'm going to do it more at my leisure. Revamping 79 chapters is a bit of an undertaking :( but I'll get it done. Granted I don't think I'll have to fix much 50+ I'm pretty happy with what happened after Chapter 50. Everything before that is going to get a lot of changes. :D
I am always grateful for your long reviews, you provide so much wonderful insight :D
Antex: Glad you enjoyed, hope you like this chapter too :D
All right now that that's all done I've got one last thing before I go.
So apparently inkitt has a short story fanfiction contest so I want to enter one of my shorter finished fanfictions so I want you guys to vote on my profile and tell me which one you guys want me to submit. Or maybe if you want to see me to try and finish one (like Masking Humanity) to post, please put it in your review.
Thanks for reading everyone! Hope to see you again next chapter :D
