Welcome – Ch.24 A Psychic's New Friend

I watched the wolves searching for the rest of the fighters, along with a girl that had a black magician hat on her long, dark blue hair and a pair of purple menacing eyes and all she wore was a magician's suit and she held a magic wand in her hand. She looked very familiar. Have the two of us met before? I wondered. I shook my head and walked away as I gripped the sword in my right hand tighter. I'm wasting my own time. I have to find the fighters. But who?

Somewhere in a deserted place where the skies go dull, the plants on the dry ground were dying, with all was left was old, rusty, broken objects all over the place. Some were hanging on the dead trees, old houses, or lying on the ground with no life in them. Not even a living thing was there except, Ruby was there, kicking some of the dirt off the ground.

"Where am I?" she thought to herself as she resumed walking on the dead ground. "I hope none of those wolves come and try to sneak attack me. If they do, I should use my wind powers to fight back instead of water, since I don't think there is water in this air."

Ruby was interrupted by her thoughts when she heard someone shouting, "Please! Don't hurt me!" The young female fighter followed to the voice and to her surprise, it was Lucas, surrounded by a bunch of the wolves and the boy with the bandages all over his body in front of him. She quickly hid behind a dead tree and watched what would happen next.

"What's wrong, pipsqueak? Afraid of big bad wolves?" the boy sneered at Lucas.

Fear and horror began to strike inside of Ruby. She's not sure what's the evil teenager boy going to do to Lucas since she remembered the time she was nearly killed by his swords and knives back at the mansion. "I've got to help him." she thought to herself.

The evil boy took out a big long knife behind his back and held it in front of Lucas. "You're such a pathetic coward. No wonder everyone abandoned you." the boy sneered at the psychic boy again.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE, YOU FREAK!" Ruby yelled as she attacked a few of the wolves in front of her and charged at the evil boy, until he saw her and threw his big knife at her.

Ruby's eyes began to widen and she quickly used her wind powers as a shield and blocked it away.

"Not bad, little girl. I love it how you play hard to get." the boy smirked at her.

"Thanks. But I'm not going to let you hurt him." she said back as she pointed to Lucas.

"Too bad." the evil boy replied and then, a bunch of swords and knives begin to grow out of his back and his teeth began to grow long and sharp. He roved the bandages from his eyes and they both started to glow all blood-red and his pupils became all slanted like a cat's pupils. "ATTACK!" he commanded the wolves and pointed to both Ruby and Lucas.

Ruby gasped and used her wind powers at the ground which helped her jumped over the wolves and gracefully landed next to Lucas. She then made her wind shield again to protect both her and Lucas away from the wolves.

Even though the shield blocked the wolves' attacks the boy suddenly unleashed all of his swords and knives at them. Ruby eyes began to widen with horror when they all broke her shield. She covered her arms over her heads and closes her eyes tight shut waiting for the weapons to stab her already, but nothing happened. She opened her eyes and to her surprise, Lucas used PSI Magnet which absorbed all the swords and knives.

"WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE!" the evil boy hollered and more knives and swords began to grow out of his back again and ready to launch them again.

The two fighters were in shock and don't know what to do now, until Ruby had an idea and used her wind powers and blew at the dirt on the ground which created a sandstorm and the boy and the wolves covered their eyes, trying not to get some of the dirt in them.

"Quick! Now!" Ruby shouted at Lucas and the two of them ran away from them.

Once the sandstorm began to fade, the evil boy's eyes were shocked to see the fighters have escaped. "YOU IDIOTS!" he shouted at the wolves. "WHY DIDN'T YOU STOPPED THEM?" He was so angry at the wolves; he unleashed his swords and knives at them as punishment. "JUST GREAT! NOW HOW ARE GOING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO OUR MASTER?"

"Did we lose them?" Lucas asked Ruby as the two of them are still running.

"I think so." she answered.

Since the two fighters were still running, Ruby wasn't looking where she was going until she tripped on a rock and fell on the ground which also made Lucas trip over her and fell on top of her. The two of them looked at each other eyes and both of their faces turned all red.

"G-Get off kid!" Ruby shouted at him and pushed him off of her as her face is still red.

"Kid? I happen to be thirteen years old!" Lucas shouted at her.

Her eyes widened. "Really?" she exclaimed and looked at Lucas' height. "Aren't you a little…short to be a 13-year-old?"

He blushed furiously. "I'm all the way up to your shoulders!" he shouted at her.

Ruby glared her ruby colored eyes at his light blue colored eyes. (A/N: Both Lucas and Ness are in their anime forms in this story.)

The young psychic boy sweat dropped until the young female fighter ruffled his blond hair as she laughed. "Try not to cause too much trouble okay kid?" she said to him.

"H-Huh?" he exclaimed. Was she just trying to scare him?

Ruby began to get up and extended her hand to him. "Come on. If we don't move, who knows when those guys will find us here." she said to him.

Lucas nodded and accepted the offered hand and got up as well. "My name is happen to be Lucas." he mentioned.

"Well, nice to meet you, Lucas." Ruby replied. "My name is Ruby"

"I already know your name." Lucas replied.

"Doesn't matter. Let's get out of here." Ruby said her last sentence and began walking with the psychic boy, Lucas.

"I think I just made a new friend." Lucas thought joyfully. "But why is my heart beating so fast?"

Ruby joined the team.

Lucas joined the team.