Chapter Twenty-Three
Nine
"I don't think that they are here anymore," Nine commented once they got to the place. "It looks like it is in utter ruins."
"Well Grant did give me something that can see heat signatures before we left," Two remarked. She took them out of her pocket and placed them on her head. "I see two heat sigs in the basement. One seems around our size and the other one a little smaller."
"The one around your size is probably Newt, which means the other one is Hebzahba," Hugo commented. "We should be very careful, I can sense something extremely dangerous around."
"I can sense it too," Nine agreed. "We should go in to talk to them." Nine tried to jiggle the handle of the door, but it wouldn't move. He then kicked it in.
"Who is that?" one of the Wight children called up from the cellar.
"We come in peace," Two yelled back.
"That is what the people who killed our parents said," the other Wight child yelled.
"If we wanted to harm you, you would already be harmed," Hugo said.
"Fine, come to the the top of the basement stairs, and we will see if we can trust you," the first Wight child said. Hugo, Two, and Nine went to the top of the stairs. "You three look normal," the older Wight child, Newt, commented. "I guess we can trust you. Come on down." Hugo, Two, and Nine followed Newt and Hebzahba further into the basement.
"So what brings you three here?" Hebzahba asked.
"We have been trying to find the families of the rest of us," Nine responded.
"There are more of you?" Newt remarked in shock.
"We are only two of ten," Two answered. "Hugo here is just to make it less suspicious that two kids are going around on their own. I am Two, and this is Nine." Nine waved.
"Numbers as names," Hebzahba chuckled. "That is extremely funny."
"Heb, be quiet," Newt scolded her. "Let them finish their story. Please continue."
"So as Two was saying," Hugo picked up, "have you wondered where Eithet has been these past three months?"
"Yeah," Newt and Hebzahba both responded.
"Well he has been helping save the world," Nine stated. The two girls started to smirk so Nine continued, "It is true if you want a demonstration of our powers, Two can give you a show of her powers." Two closed her eyes, concentrating. Soon roots began to sprout around them. The two Wight girls gained a look of awe. "See. Here, drink this to go see Eithet." Nine offered the girls a potion each.
"I don't know," Newt commented. "We just met, and for all we know you could be tricking us." Before the others could give more evidence that they were trustworthy, a cackle rang through the basement.
"About time," the cackler remarked. "You have no idea how long we have been waiting for. Right Blizzarina?"
"Exactly, Cham," Blizzarina agreed.
A blast of frigid air leaked down into the basement. The ground right behind the Wight sisters split open, and out crawled a regular xenomorph. Seeing this Nine yelled at them, "Get in a corner and try to keep each other safe! Eight will try to kill us if one of you two got hurt! Two, Hugo do all you can to help! I am going to go after Cham!" With that Nine ran up the stairs at a blinding speed.