Mother5: Black Oblivion

Book Two: The Flat Zone

Chapter Fourteen: Desert Crossing

One person wondered the desert, a young woman, only in her mid twenties, clothed in a white robe trimmed gold, strapped to her back was a big rectangular purple bag. If anyone could see her all they would see was her blond hair to her shoulders, bangs covered her right eye, some were held back with two blue hair clips and purple rectangular glasses over her blue eyes. For a moment she idly stood still to look at a doorknob in her hand.

"Thank you…" she murmured. "Thank you so very much…" looking left then right she pocketed the doorknob. Moving once more she stopped a mile away from a building made of steel, laying flat on her stomach she pulled out a pair of binoculars. Adjusting the lenses, she got a closer look , index finger pressed a button and was given an visual via body heat. She grinned,

"Found you Toto…" she frowned, "Damn, that masked faker is there, crap load of Axis Fangs… him too… shit." the woman 'Demetri, leader of the Axis Fang… geh, this is getting increasingly bad…' she watched him wave his arm, soldiers saluted and started to march out of the base. The blond woman bounced away, to ensure she wasn't seen.

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Silvia grunted and kicked the jeep, Matt flinched

"I'm trying to repair it, so please don't kick the jeep…"

"It broke down and I'm pissed!"

"Well, complaining isn't going to fix it." Maria frowned. Silvia awkwardly looked at the girl.

"F…fine, look just finish up it's hot."

"No, it's cooler than usual…"

"Cooler?!" Silvia looked at the thermometer on the dashboard of the jeep. "It's freakin' 105 degrees!"

"Normally it's higher," Matt stared out to the desert "Something bad will happen, soon…"

"How can you tell?" Harmony pondered

"It always happened and bad things followed, nearly 1500 years ago when Jinjiru was invaded, or 500 years ago when the queen battled Keiski… other than that the Desert of Lies have never gotten cold…"

"Your probably over reacting…" Silvia sighed, Matt made a face but returned to repairing the jeep, by removing the sand from the engine.

"Sensitive thing…" Matt grumbled, "Karen give it some gas." the mermaid nodded, lightly pressed her foot against the gas, the jeep reved to life.

"Alright everyone get in!!" Karen climbed back into the back seat, Matt slammed the hood down and bounded into the front seat. Maria and Harmony climbed into the back seat, everyone safely buckled Silvia hit the gas once more and drove off.

"Silvia, let's stop at Dry Town, it's not far from here." Matt suggested

"Fine, I am tired."

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"Ugh, dear god, it's so cramped in here…" the blond of the desert grunted, she got rid of her white robe to have instead a short sleeved white dress shirt, blue tie, black vest, a jean shirt. The woman paused to adjust the light blue and yellow striped scarf. Lightly did the blue bracelets jingle, but it wasn't enough to attract the attention of the human guard.

"Where's that damn computer room?" moving around once more she went into the depths of the ventilation system.

"How are our new chimera in Dry Town?" a voice asked, it stopped the woman. Her blue eyes peered into the room from the vent.

"They are under control, and by they, I mean the villagers…" the Masked Man snorted "The Deserai fear it…"

"Good…" the werewolf man grinned, simple as it was he wore a military like uniform, a silver and black color like his fur. "But Toto," the man glared at the blond girl "You failed your assignment…"

"That's not my fault, there was a Soule involved."

"A Soule?" the werewolf growled "That wasn't mentioned in the report!"

"Duh, if I said anything about the troops would of lost it…" Toto hissed attending to her wrist.

"Those damned Soules they'll ruin everything…"

"…How?" The Masked Man asked

"Daren Soule can play a tune on his violin that can lead the way to the White Sanctuary, inside that sanctuary is the mirror, the Twilight Mirror it can reverse the effects of our objective… and Khrystie Soule has connections with the queen, she has been working behind the scenes ruining us."

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Matt blinked, Dry Town seemed empty…

"Huh, that's weird…" Silvia blinked, turning to the white haired boy.

"What?"

"Normally the Deserai are roaming around buying things or shopping…"

"Can I take a bath?" Maria wined

"Yeah, it's deathly hot out here…" Karen sighed, she scratched at her arm, pieces of skin flaked and fell. "Ew, I'm flaking, my skin is incredibly dry…"

"Alright, alright, let's find the hotel…"

"Yay!" the party waved their arm about with glee, sighing Silvia put the car into park. Everyone jumped out and rushed into the hotel, unaware of glinting eyes in the shadows.

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Matt snored, stomach exposed, blankets pooling at his waste.

"No more… mooooom, your gonna make me fat…"

Matt sat at a table, he sat beside his father and many other children, smiling his mother fixed plates of dinner, in pairs of two or threes did she call names. The called children ran over, as Matt's name was called, one child ignored the fact his name was called.

"Claus, get up and get your dinner."

"Bring it to me," the boy snorted as if he was some king, Khrystie rolled her eyes.

"Please, you live in my house, my rules…" she pinched the freckled cheeks of the orange haired boy. "So, get your ass up and get your damn food." he boy glared and stood up with such speed the chair toppled over. Although he didn't eat his meal, he slapped it away, the plate shattered against the wall, two robotic woman came from the room over to investigate.

"Rem, Lil' Miss. Marshmallow don't bother with it." Khrystie grabbed the boy by the collar of his black leather jacket and pressed his face against the wall. "Now, clean this mess with your face and maybe I'll get you another plate, I don't tolerate destruction in my house kiddo."

Matt snorted as he sat up, he looked around for a moment

"Weird…" he rubbed his head 'That was the king… he was in my house… but I was like six… was that a dream or not?' after a moment of silence he sighed "I donno, it seemed pretty real…" with another heavy sigh, he pulled him self from the mattress and made it to the window, the sandstorm still raged. The Desert of Lies's sandstorms never rested, but being one of Jinjiru blood he was fully aware of that. His eyes skimmed over the city. He blinked, something was moving through the shadows, but what? That was too big to be Elizabeth…

Bad,

This was bad.

"Silvia!" she jerked up right at the call of her name, she immediately glared it him. "We have a problem!"

"Yeah, you waking me up…"

"No, no! Their's something out there!!" forcefully he tugged on her wrist and dragged her out of her bed to the window, he pointed at the glass window, his finger banged against the glass numerous times to get his point. Silvia squinted her eyes.

"Nothing, I'm going back to bed…" Silvia yawned

"Wha?!" Matt took a double take, the shadow was gone. "No, I swear their was something out there!"

"Go to bed…" Silvia grunted and crawled back into bed, Matt would not accept this if she wouldn't believe him. He would prove her wrong.

Quickly changing into his cloths he grabbed his lazer and ran out of the room, running at such speed he collided with Harmony who unfortunately turned the corner.

"Oww… my head…" the vampire wined rubbing her injured head.

"H-harmony! I'm sorry!"

"Matt…. Where are you going?" She inquired "It's late…"

"I… could ask you the same!" he suddenly blurted out

"I'm a vampire, I don't need much sleep…"

"Oh, right…"

"So…. Whatcha doing?"

"I saw something outside, but Silvia doesn't believe me…"

"Axis Fang?"

"Nen, it seemed to be to small to be a Axis Fang member but too big to be an animal…"

"…Alright, let's go together"

"Are you sure? It might be-"

"Don't you dare say what you were going to say, I made a promise to help and protect Silvia when ever given the opportunity."

"If you say so, lets go." the two quietly snuck past the front desk where one of the tan, pale brown haired Deserai slept. Out of the hotel, wow, Matt wasn't kidding when he said the desert was hot all the time…

"Wow! it's so hot!"

"Yup, all the time. Now let's go…" she smiled and nodded. The two slunk off in the shadows to a behind a building. Matt peered around the corner, no sight of anyone or anything. He turned back to Harmony.

"Alright let's ahhhhhhhhh…." she blinked, shakily he pointed behind her, there was a gigantic pumpkin like monster, it seemed to be three times taller than his father, but it had tiny bat wings as if it ripped the wings right off the bat and stuck it onto it's self. Extending from it's sides were gigantic octopus limbs oozing out thick black sludge, accompanied with huge hairy spider legs.

"What….?"

"B-b-behind you…" she looked over her shoulder, with a smile she turned around

"Oh, it's just a chimera!" she suddenly whipped around to look back at it, in seconds she and Matt were running.

"Matt do something!!"

"I cant!!"

"Why not?!"

"It's a bat-pumpkin-spider-tactical monster!! ITS ALL MY WORST FEARS COMBINED INTO ONE MONSTROSITY!!"

"YOUR AFRAID OF PUMPKINS?!"

"YES!"

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"…Silvia…?" the girl grunted, she was about to fall asleep, grumbling she stomped off to the door, the other side was Maria.

"What?"

"Can I sleep with you?"

"Why should I?"

"I saw a scary monster! It was big and ugly!!" Silvia sighed

"There are no monsters." the second she said that, the giant pumpkin beast happened to stroll past the window, it's tentacles waving around. Maria turned as stiff as a board, Silvia blinked and turned around, she couldn't see a thing. She shrugged it off.

"Go find Karen or something…"

"She's sleeping in the bathtub…" Silvia grunted,

"Fine, sleep in Matt's bed or something, his lost for not being here…." Muttering, Silvia went back to bed and Maria crawled into Matt's. She took a look out the window and covered her head with the bed sheets.

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"OH GOD WHA'D WE DO?!"

"MAN UP AND FIGHT IT!!"

"BUT IT'S A-!!!"

"SHUT UP AND SHOOT DARN IT!!" skidding to a halt Harmony tossed Mrs. Cat at the chimera, claws began to slash in a wild frenzy. Swallowing an over sized lump, Matt reached into his back and pulled out a bomb. Recklessly he tossed the bomb, it missed.

"Oh crap…" Harmony sighed, this boy had some irrational fears… "Now what?!"

"Get a gun and shoot it!" Matt shuffled around again as Mrs. Cat exploded, he pulled a sleek silver gun that blinked light blue lights.

"Freeze gun sucker!" Matt pulled the trigger and fell over , "Wow! This thing packs a punch!!" the ray shot the chimera, freezing it's tentacle rock solid, the ice slowly expanded.

"Wow, look at that!"

"Harmony, send Mrs. Cat back in!"

"Right!" pointing once more, Mrs. Cat leapt for the enemy and… took a disgustingly huge bite out of it's pumpkin body, Matt switched guns, to a flamethrower, with a pull of the trigger the boy started to laugh insanely.

"Burn! Wahahaha!!!" after the chimera was burned to a crisp, Harmony took the gun away, as she saw some odd glint in his amethyst eyes.

"Alright, enough of that." Harmony sighed "Now let's get rid of this slime, it's so gross."

"There is a fountain over there…" Matt pointed to the center of the city, Harmony made a face. "What? That's what it's for"

"I'M. NOT. USING. THAT."

"Fine, no reason to get touchy…"