Series Title: The Saviors Series
Author: Riley Masters
Rated: T
Category: Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall, Code Lyoko, Digimon Frontier
Genre: Adventure/Romance
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I do not, nor will I ever, own the rights to the above mentioned series.
A/N: The final battle... kinda. You'll understand in a few chapters. Yeah, that's not giving everything away.
Hope you enjoy today's update!
Welcome to my world. It's time to log in.
- Riley Masters (03/16/12)
A Battle Hidden in Darkness
Dakota got the text message we'd all been waiting for during lunch. It was crunch time, we only had an hour left before D-Day.
Everyone brought their laptops to school, so they were ready at a moment's notice. Dakota led Zane and I to the library to log on. It was the safest place to vanish from.
Zane gave me one last hug before logging in. Suddenly it was just Dakota and I.
"Back at the beginning," I whispered.
Dakota smirked. "Just like our first time we played."
"Let's do this." She nodded.
"I'll watch your back."
We hugged and logged in, leaving our world, and our safety, behind.
Dakota got an email when we appeared.
"Gaia, looks like this is going down where it all started. Sector V, the Treehouse."
I nodded. "Where every new player starts, and where I lost my chance to see this world."
Zane had joined us by then. "Then let's go. I've sent the other groups on ahead."
We grouped up and ran headlong, back to where this game had began.
Noon.
An army of Players stood on top of the Treehouse, Zane described to me. Everyone was high in level, and they held the strongest weapons they could. I myself clenched my melee gun. Dakota told me she was holding two swords, while Zane was using God knows what.
Soon, my blind vision filled with a bright, deep haze of green. It was time.
"Get ready," I said to the Players. I heard a murmur of agreement. Not even they knew that I was blind, which was fine in my book.
An explosion. The Treehouse shook. I heard Zane curse next to me.
"We gotta drop in firing," he shouted over the noise. "We're sitting ducks up here! It's a damned army! Gotta be at least ten thousand!"
Everyone started shouting, and them they jumped. My heart stopped as my feet left the ground and wind whipped through my hair. I could already hear the screams of people as they got knocked out. I prayed they were alright.
My finger found the trigger. I landed firing.
Around me, explosions rocked the ground. I could hear bodies and shrapnel flying, and small pieces cutting my face.
I lost contact with everyone in my group. I dared not use a buddy warp; I would be vulnerable for a few seconds, just enough to get killed.
Parts of my vision would black out before filling with green again. Wave after wave of fusion monsters pounded into me.
I could feel myself growing exhausted, but still I pressed on. I had no idea how long I was going for. I just knew that I was alone in a sea of green.
"Gaia!" Dakota's voice screamed from my left. "Gaia! Where are you?"
"To your right Bella!" I shouted back, taking another hit before whipping out yet another group of monsters.
The hand on my shoulder wasn't my sister's, but my boyfriend's. "Blake," I gasped.
"Only a bit left. You ready?"
I growled at him. "What do you think? Let's end this insanity!"
I ran straight for the nearest green blur, Zane and Dakota right by my side.
More explosions. More gunshots. More screams.
Then silence.
My vision faded, and I knew it was over.
That is, until color filled it again.
I gasped. I could see the smoke. The people. The light blue sky. The charred black grass.
"Blake!"
A boy with blue hair turned to me, as well as a girl with gray-white hair.
"Gaia? What's up?" Zane walked up to me. I felt tears well up in my digital eyes. I just looked at him, watching him walk and smile. Then I saw his gun.
"Could you get a more pathetic gun?"
He glanced down at the weapon, before looking at me again, this time in shock.
"Gaia?" You… can… see…?" Dakota's voice shook.
"Finally!" I said, grinning. Zane hugged me tightly.
After the clean-up, Zane and Dakota took me on a whirlwind tour of every area of the game. I saw the mountains, the oceans, and everything in between.
Finally, we took a break at a fountain in Orchid Bay. I sat next to Zane, telling him about how I could never begin to thank him, when I froze.
"Gaia?"
I couldn't speak. Darkness was on the edge of my vision, and the color was rapidly fading.
"Blake, it wasn't permanent! I'm going blind again!"
My last sight was his face, sadness and fear covering every inch of it.
Once again, we were on the Treehouse, getting reading to log out. And, once again I was blind.
Dakota was thanking our friends while Zane had ran off somewhere. I didn't have a clue.
I tensed up when what felt like cloth covered my eyes.
"Here, Gaia."
"Blake?"
"Trust me. I've got an idea. You'll see later."
We logged out.
That night, Zane and I shared our first dance at the Sophomore-Only Mini-Prom. I couldn't believe how beautiful it was that night, and how fitting it was.
"You good?"
I smiled at Zane. We had just sat down to take a break.
"Yeah. I'm happy."
He pulled a stray hair from my eyes.
"Good."
