"Hey Rythian?" Zoey asks from her position sprawled out across the whole of one of the sofas. "Y'know what we haven't done for a while?"
"What's that, Zoey?" Rythian glances over to her from behind the book which he is reading, while sat on the floor and leaning against the wall. He would much rather be sat on one of the sofas, of course, but one of them was occupied by Zoey, the other by Nilesy, who was also lazily stretched out over the whole thing. Rythian hadn't bothered to question this or argue with the two, so had just settled for the floor. Well, he guessed it was as good a place as any, even if it wasn't as soft. He had gotten used to this sort of thing from Zoey a long time ago, and in the short week that Nilesy had also lived at Blackrock, he had learned to expect it from him, too.
"We haven't been to see Lalna for a while... And I've only met his apprentice once! Apparently he's got some new exciting stuff, too!"
Rythian visibly tenses at the mention of the scientist. A while after the nuke, Zoey had started to forgive Lalna for everything, they became friends and Zoey would sometimes visit him to see what new and 'exciting' things he had come up with. Occasionally, she would drag an unwilling Rythian along with her.
Rythian, on the other hand, still hated him as much as he ever had. Friends with Zoey he may now be, there was nothing that could ever change the deep feeling of hatred that had always been there. There was also nothing that could get rid of that insatiable desire for revenge on Lalna, though that was something that came along with the curse. He wouldn't act on this, however. They had a truce of non-violence which he intended to stick to. He also didn't want to upset Zoey.
"Well, I'm not complaining about that." Rythian responds after a few seconds, going back to his book. "I can definitely handle going the rest of my life without that pathetic excuse for a man..."
Zoey pouts up at the ceiling. "Aw come on Rythian! I wanna go see what he's been up to! And Kim is really nice!"
"I'm not stopping you going Zoey..." He lazily turns the page of his book, keeping his eyes on the words. "But I'm certainly not."
She sighs and rolls onto her side to face him. "But... What if... What if they show up...?" She has a genuine look of worry on her face. Rythian looks up from his book again. It was true that over the past few days, the Endermen had been threatening to 'pay them a visit'. Zoey may be as brave as they come, one to run into every situation, no matter how dangerous, and run out the other side screaming about how fun it was, but she was still worried about them. She had every right to, they were capable of doing much worse than they had already, however unlikely that may seem. Rythian also didn't particularly want her travelling to Lalnas with their recent threats. He lets out a sigh and closes his book, standing up and placing it on the table.
"Alright Zoey. But only because I want to make sure you're safe..."
"Thanks Rythian." She smiles up at him, a slight look of relief on her face. She really was worried about them showing up, huh?
Rythian gives her a little nod and a smile before turning to Nilesy. "You coming, Poolboy?"
"Nah, man..." He grins lazily up at Rythian as Zoey stands and hops to his side. "Me and Tee are gonna have a lazy day by the pool..."
"That sounds fun!" Zoey hops slightly on the spot. "I'll join you there when we get back!" She turns to Rythian, taking hold of his hand. "Come on Rythian! Let's go! Gotta grab some stuff, just in case!"
Before he has a chance to respond, she has already started dragging him upstairs towards their bedroom to grab some equipment. They wouldn't really need much, but with the recent threat, they thought it would be a good idea to always have at least a way to defend themselves.
Zoey dashes around the bedroom to gather any equipment they would need. She takes her sword from where it is propped against the table beside her bed, strapping it over her back as Rythian grabs his Red Katar from its mount on the wall.
She thinks for a moment, realising that considering what the threat is, the best weapon they could take with them is probably Enderbane. That would definitely be the best was to handle an Enderman.
She heads across the room to where the sword is leaning against the wall and goes to grab it. The second her hand closes around its handle, she lets out a yelp of pain and drops it to the floor.
"Zoey? Zoey what happened?" Rythian hears her yell and whips around, hurrying towards her to see what was wrong. But spotting the sword lying on the ground, he thinks he can probably guess...
"It... The sword hurt me... It burned..." She looks down at her hand, a red burn mark visible over her palm and fingers. Rythian sighs and picks the sword up from the floor, wincing slightly himself.
"Yeah... It'll do that. Don't worry, that should heal up fairly quick, just don't cut yourself on it. We won't take this with us. I'm sure we can handle ourselves with these weapons instead of that." He props it back against the wall and turns back to Zoey. "Alright, you ready to go?"
"Ready! Let's go see what he's been up to!" She grins and heads out of the room. Rythian groans and follows her. He would rather be doing anything else other than visiting Lalna...
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AN- Ok so this is the first Authors Note I've done, I didn't plan on adding one of these at any point but hey, please read, this is important.
Right, first of all I would like to apologise for one, this being a short chapter, and two, for taking so long to update! Part of this is because I have had problems with my internet, but that should be fixed now.
The other reason is because I have suffered with terrible writers block and an awful lack of motivation to write this. The lack of motivation is probably due to the fact that the interest in this story seems to have dropped.
Please please please let me know if you would like me to continue writing this, either by commenting, reviewing, favouriting, voting, bookmarking (depending on whether you are reading this on , Wattpad or AO3) and I will do my best to keep writing!
~Ulixes
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