A/N: Chapter 21! Please R&R and have fun d^v^b

Disclaimer: See previous chapter!

Chapter 21 – Separated

There was no time for rest – they knew that. And so, with this in mind, they continued to run non-stop following Six to the mountain in which they believed held Number Nine and another number. They ran for another two miles before reaching to a halt, their destination finally in view, out of breath. Panting heavily, Sam collapsed. He had wanted to do so after running the first three miles.

"You good Sam?" Four asked, worried for his best friend.

"Whoooo. I don't know how you could still stand up John. Heck, I don't even know how I managed to run all of this!" Sam flailed his hands in the open air madly.

Adelaide and Seven flinched for they knew how he had managed to run the whole way - he is a Garde now and was starting to show signs of it that whether or not fortunately, noticeable only for them.

"Suck it up," replied Six uncaringly yet a hint of worry can be seen in her eyes, which Sam had noticed as soon as he looked up at her.

Sam smiled. "Alright, alright. I'm good. Helped me up please?" he asked Six.

Without answering, Six helped Sam stand up. A few hundred metres ahead of them was the opening of the Mog's cave, barely visible.

"We're here," announced Six. "Sam and Adelaide, you stay here and wait for us. If we don't return in exactly an hour from now, then leave and find the others left." She bit her lip. "The cave for some reason is poisonous to animals so Bernie has to stay here as well."

"Wait, I want you to promise me that you're going to come back first Six," blurted Sam in a worried tone.

Six stared at him, wondering what she should tell him. She knew that she couldn't promise him that for there would always be a possibility of not surviving. No matter how much she wanted to assure Sam that she will survive, one can never tell. Still, "I can't promise you that Sam. You know that. But I'll promise you that I won't go down without a fight," she said.

Clenching his fist, Sam looked straight at Six and nodded. "...Fine."

"Wait," Four interrupted. "Before we leave, I'd like to umm, open, umm…" instead of finishing his sentence, he motioned for his chest. "I thought about it. There might be something in here that could help us. I'll leave it to your hands before we leave Sam."

Again, Sam nodded, understandingly at Four.

"Here goes," whispered Four before opening his chest. Lifting the lid, a yellow glow lit up his face and he looked at it with the rest following, all in awe. The first thing that caught his eyes was a letter, by Henri, and felt a pang of pain in his chest. He picked it up, carefully opened it and read it while Six caught herself holding and staring at a red stone. Sam stared at other contents of the chest, the healing stone, and another yellow stone which Six later identified as the Xitharis.

"Maybe I could take one more person," exclaimed Six.

"Really!" Sam's head immediately shot up in her direction.

Six continued to explain further while holding the Xitharis, "This stone enables us to transfer a legacy at another for at least an hour. If I do this…"Six held the stone against her forehead and closed her eyes. "I am not sure though whether it works on humans but –"

She was then cut off by Sam grabbing the stone from her and putting it against his forehead. Once he had done it, his hair blew upward but one can just mistake it for the breeze, for nothing happened. Sam creased his eyebrows. "Does it work?" he asked.

Six let out a disappointed sigh, "Guess it doesn't."

"I'm sure I felt something. Electricity ran through me when I held it! I swear!" exclaimed Sam.

Adelaide bit her lip. She believed the boy for she was the only one, other than Seven, who knew what he truly was, at least, what he had recently become. The reason why nothing happened was because he did not know how to trigger a legacy yet, since he had never done it before.

"We have to go, now," said Six.

"Wait," said Four. He then handed Sam the letter, Henri's letter, for him to read. The letter contained Henri's belief about Sam's dad, Malcolm Goode's, whereabouts. Henri believed that he was right about his theory – that Malcolm Goode had been indeed abducted by the Mogadorians – and that he could only hope that he was still alive. Sam tried to hold back the tears that were now occurring but failed.

He clenched his fist, "Just, just come back safe," he choked out and said no more, giving up to hold back the tears.

"We will," assured Six, and pulled him to plant a longing kiss on his lips. She wanted to know what was in the letter, but not now. It wasn't the right time for it. So she turned around and opened her palm up for Seven and Four to take. She to a deep breath and said, "Let's go."

After they were out of sight, Sam turned to Adelaide.

"I need to go in there," he declared.

"I know," Adelaide replied.

"My dad might be in there….Can you help me?" he asked.

"You're dad?"

"He was abducted," explained Sam.

"I'm sorry," said Adelaide.

"I'll save him," he just said and asked again, "Can you help me?"

Adelaide hesitated at first, but Sam's expression made her nod in understanding. "The stone, Xitharis – do you still have it?" she asked him.

Sam opened his palm, revealing the yellow stone, and said, "But Six said it doesn't work. It didn't work."

"Are you sure?"

"I, I, I know I felt something!"

"I believe you," she stated.

"How do I do it?"

"You need to have the will to do it Sam, the will to enable and control it. I cannot tell you how, for I am a Cepan. I do not hold Legacies Sam. My mission is to teach, to train. You're smart Sam, I know you can do it."

"What do you mean? I'm human."

"You'll find the answer to that soon Sam. Now hurry, you're wasting time," she demanded.

With this, Sam closed his eyes, and when he opened them, he's – gone! Well, he could still feel himself, just not see it, so that meant that he must be: invisible!

"I can't believe this! Six said – but – how?" he asked, in disbelief.

"You cannot waste anymore time. Hurry. Give me Four's chest. I'll guard it with my life, I swear."

Sam handed Adelaide Four's chest trustingly but before running off to catch the others, he whispered, "Thank you Adelaide."

"You're welcome." Adelaide kept her eyes on him until he too, disappeared entering the cave's entrance. In an hour, they'll be back in an hour. And Sam, he'll find out soon enough. Everything will work out; everyone will be safe. Her faith in them won't be shaken that easily.

Four's POV

Six was right when she said that this cave was poisonous to animals. Once we got in, there they were, piled up everywhere on the floor. I covered my mouth with my free hand, trying hard not to vomit. To simply put it, the smell of rotting animals was horrible! I glanced at Six and Seven and their facial expressions told me just as much.

"No matter what happens, don't let go. They have cameras everywhere, capable of detecting almost everything. I guess being invisible is the exception." Six smirked.

We continued to pass several scouts, undetected. Six continued to talk to us in a hush tone.

"We'll find the girl first, since she's the only one who's physical appearance we know of," explained Six implying Seven as the only one who knows.

"Wait, what happens when we find her? You won't be able to turn her invisible," I pointed out.

"That, Johnny boy, is when we fight," she replied.

I heard Seven let out a deep breath and we didn't talk for awhile after that. We ran swiftly till we reached what it seemed like the heart of the cave. We walked from there, following Six, until she halted in front of a bridge.

"We cross, and hopefully, the scene will be familiar to you Seven so that you can tell me where they kept her," she said to Seven who nodded in return.

We were probably halfway to the other side when a Mog came running towards us. "What do we do?," I asked in a panicked tone. There was no other way, other than to fall off the bridge, to go to.

"To hell with this," answered Six before letting go of our hands.

The Mog didn't see what was coming for him. Six's dagger was already deep in his chest the moment the alarm turned off. More came running to us and we fought them madly. Seven using her telekinesis and her own dagger, Six being invisible and visible every two seconds, and me using my Lumen, I got to admit, we were pretty powerful when we're together. We seemed to eliminate hundreds of Mogadorians until it wasn't only them coming for us - their little beasts had joined them as well.

For some reason, even with all the fighting, I heard what sounded like doors, cell doors opening, and it wasn't until when Six shouted for Seven to go and get the others that I realized that all of them, were in fact, open! I continued to fight with Six, while Seven's figure became smaller and smaller until I couldn't see her anymore.

Seven's POV

I tried to remember my vision, replaying it over and over again in my head. I knew I was getting nearer to the girl in it, for I can somewhat sense it. I can feel it, she's near, and there she was! Fighting several Mogs at the same time, but she wasn't the only one. Beside her was a tall muscular boy, perhaps, Number Nine? But he wasn't the one who really caught my attention. It was Sam! Sam was here, fighting like….like Six! One second he was there, and then before I knew it, he was gone!

I ran to their sides and fought too. When Sam saw me, he rushed over to me and said in a strained voice, "I destroyed their control panel. I also found and gave back Number Nine their cases as well as the girl. I have to go and look for my dad Maria. He might be here. They've been torturing human beings!"

Before I could even ask him how he was here, he was gone. "Damn it!"

"Maria!" I heard someone call me and found out that it was Four. He was motioning for us to go, to follow Six. I motioned for the others as well, Number Nine and the anonymous girl. We ran and fought the Mogs as well their beasts. We didn't stop. Every part of the cave behind us collapsed right after we passed it. We didn't look back, just ran and fought, and it wasn't until we finally got outside that I remembered Sam. Sam! He was still in there, looking for his father!

"Stop!" I yelled.

"No," yelled Nine back. "We still have time to escape. He'll be here soon."

I couldn't think straight anymore. I have to go back. Sam, I have to save Sam.

"Who?" asked Four.

"Setrakus Ra, their leader," answered Nine panting heavily.

"I don't care," I told him. "Six!" I hissed. She looked at me like I had gone mad.

"It's Sam!" I told her which had gotten her to stop including Four. This time, it was Nine and the other number who looked at us like we had gone mad.

"What about him?" asked Six in a worried tone.

"He's inside," I said and her strong facade faltered completely with my words.

"You mean the nerd?" asked Nine. "I thought you guys knew!"

"But Sam couldn't have been – he couldn't have been there!" exclaimed Four.

"Shit," swore Six before turning around back to the direction of the cave. Four followed her quickly. I turned to do the same but was stopped by Nine.

"You can't," he told me and pointed to a figure walking towards the cave. I ran anyway and I squinted to see that this figure he pointed at was a Mogadorian, 20 feet tall, wearing three pendants like us, and I realized that they were Numbers One, Two and Three's. Nine caught up with me. "Setrakus Ra. Their leader," he whispered.

I can see Six and Four running towards the giant Mog, but they were too late. Setrakus Ra entered the cave and a blue force field wrapped the entrance. I heard Nine shout for them to stop, but they kept going. Once they collided with the force field, they were sent flying back immediately.

"Catch Six and I'll catch Four," ordered Nine.

Six's POV

He didn't find what he was looking for. I saw him become highly disappointed.

"Sam, everything's gonna be okay," I told him but he didn't hear me.

Suddenly, all around us, everything began collapsing. I kept screaming his name, but I couldn't find him, couldn't see him anymore. When everything finally settled down, I tried to look for him, digging the spot I last saw him, covered with rocks. I dug till my hands bled and after digging for fifteen minutes or so, I finally hit something….flesh. Gently, I lift the last few rocks covering it, and then I saw him. Sam, my Sam, covered in blood, his face distorted, crushed by the rocks. He was: dead. Slowly, I lifted him and I, I cried.

Please, let this be a dream, this is just a dream. "Just…a…dream…. Sam..."

"Six, Six!"

"Sam!"

I woke up and noticed that I had been crying. I looked at the person who was calling me, Adelaide. "Where's Sam?" I choked out.

I didn't need an answer for her expression told me everything. I struggled to get up from where I was lying on. Where we were, I didn't care. All I wanted to do now was to go back to the cave, find and rescue Sam.

I got out of the room and saw Four arguing with Nine, Seven looking out the window, and the girl who's number I still didn't know watching the news. All their attention was on me now when I closed the door.

Four walked towards me and put a hand on my shoulder but I shrugged him off. Nine scratched the back of his head, probably searching for the right words to tell me. I ignored him.

"Look," he started, "this whole thing right now isn't just coincidence. It's destiny. And if Sam's destiny is to be in this battle with us, to be with you, then he'll be there."

I looked at him, wanting to believe his words. "He better be," I said, closing my eyes to suppress my tears. "Or, or else."

A/N: Pretty long chapter huh, how was it? Please leave a review and tell me what you think will happen next! Here's a spoiler for you: "They injected my brain with some sort of green liquid and for some reason, I've lost most of my senses. It was like I was pushed aside in my own body by someone who took complete control over it. I tried to scream, but nothing came out of my own mouth. I was trapped and my thoughts were filled with nothing but an order: kill the rest of the Gardes."