And here is chapter 23. Time to see more of Anti-Xana. Anybody else wanna see pics of Luna?
JASON POV:
I came to with a throbbing pain in my head. Standing over was the man who had saved me. He had a worried look on his face.
"Are you all right?" the man asked. I groaned and turned to look at him.
"Who are you?" I asked him in a weak voice.
"I am Anti-Xana. I have dedicated my life to defying Xana. You're lucky I showed up, or you would have been in a little pain," he answered.
"That's the understatement of the century," I commented wryly, sitting up. "So you're the one that saved us?"
"Yeah, that was me," Anti-Xana admitted.
Next to me, Aelita and Luna were waking. We went through introductions again, and then I had an idea.
"Wait a second!" I said abruptly. "If you're here, then you must know a way back to the other world?"
"No," Anti-Xana grumbled. "I'm as stuck as you are in this evil place."
"It's not that bad!" I objected. The girls laughed at my reaction.
"Oops. Sorry. I forgot you were from here," Anti-Xana chuckled. "Well, you'd better go home now. I smiled.
"Thanks Anti-Xana, see you!" I said, walking off with Aelita and Luna. (A/N you should really see the pictures of her, they rock! Or so the two others that have seen them have said)
"Yes, Jason, I will be seeing you soon. Very soon," Anti-Xana said grimly.
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ULRICH POV:
"Where could Xana be!?" I shouted exasperatedly, acting like I was going to pull out my hair.
"Maybe he fell off a cliff somewhere," Jeremy suggested hopefully.
"No such luck," I scoffed. "I wish he would accidentally blow himself up!"
"Hey, let's check the factory," Jeremy suggested. I shrugged. We walked toward that familiar manhole in that familiar forest. Jeremy lifted the manhole cover and shoved it into my chest.
"Hold that," Jeremy ordered.
"Just like the old days," I muttered wryly. "You always shoved me in the chest with the manhole cover,"
"Come on already!" Jeremy said impatiently, already half down the ladder into the sewers.
As I set my foot on the first rung, it snapped. I fell through two more rungs before I stopped.
"Ah! Ow!" I cried. "How come you didn't fall?" Jeremy smiled.
"Well, you just fail," he told me smugly. I grinned at him.
"You just wait!" I said in mock anger. "I'm going to knock you out!" I started after him playfully.
"Help me!" Jeremy cried in mock terror. At the bottom of the ladder, Jeremy sprinted toward his scooter that was up against the wall.
"You can't catch me!" Jeremy taunted. I smiled inwardly.
"Oh yes I can!" I yelled, grabbing my skateboard and racing after him. We were acting like little kids, but we didn't care. It was enough being together again.
While racing after Jeremy, I thought about Rebecca and wondered how her search for the others was going.
A bump in the road brought me back to reality. There was a gap in the sewer walk ahead. A split second before I reached the gap, I grabbed the front end of my skateboard and vaulted the gap. Jeremy saw me coming, and accelerated. I laughed as I easily gained on him. But the end of the tunnel approached. Jeremy saw it. He leaped off of his scooter and grabbed the exit ladder. I yelled as I braked. I stopped almost a centimeter from the wall. Hopping off my skateboard, I spotted Jeremy up the ladder leading to the bridge.
When Jeremy poked his head out of the manhole, he froze. He looked at me.
"Truce?" he asked me, holding out his hand. I shook it.
"Truce," I agreed. "Okay, what is it?" A look of horror spread across his face.
"It's Xana," he said quietly.
Cliffhanger, yeah! Anyway, why is no one interested with seeing the Luna pics? Come on, they're great!