Welcome – Ch.25 A Bomb?

As I stopped to see the clown girl walking by searching the fighters along with the wolves, she stopped and stabbed something to the ground. It looked like some kind of flower, a mechanical one that is, and it started to bloom and a purple orb formed inside it. Once she had left, I walked carefully to it, trying not to get caught. To my surprise, it's a bomb! I can tell because of the timer next to it is counting down. It says I have 5 minutes before it explodes. I quickly ran away from it and hope I could make it out of this forest before the timer goes to 0.

Somewhere in the blue skies, Pit was flying through the clouds searching for any of the fighters. He then landed on the ground to rest his wings and saw the clown girl stabbing the ground with a mechanical flower and the timer began to count down.

"Is that…a bomb?" Pit thought and then he fired two of his arrows at both the girl and the bomb.

The girl looked at the arrow that stabbed her arm and watched blood coming out of it. "You idiot! You know boys aren't supposed to hurt girls!" she shouted at him and threw a couple of bowling pins at the angel.

To his surprise, the bowling pins exploded right in front of him and send him flying, but he stopped and landed gracefully on the ground.

"ATTACK!" the girl commanded to the wolves and they all charged at the angel.

Pit began to split Palutena's bow into his dual blades and cut most of the wolves into pieces and headed to the clown girl, until the bird with the horn send its' screech at him.

"AARRRGH!" the angel yelled as he dropped his weapons and covered his ears.

The girl took out several knives, which most circus people used for juggling, and threw them at the angel. Four of the knives pinned Pit's toga to the ground and the rest stabbed his lower abdomen and arms. The young angel let out a yell from the pain and looked up to see the girl holding another knife aiming at his.

"You're finished." she said, but before she even has the chance to throw the last knife at him, she heard her twin sister's voice calling her from her speaker and shouted, "Sis! What are you doing? You only have ONE more minute before the bomb explodes the forest with you on it!"

Both the girl and Pit's eyes widen. She turned at the timer and her sister was right. She does have one more minute until the bomb explodes! "We'll finish this later, unless you'll die here anyways until the bomb explodes." she sneered at the angel and the bird carried her away from the forest.

"What? Oh no! I had to get out of here!" Pit shouted as he struggled to free himself from the knives, but it was no use, the knives that stabbed his lower abdomen and arms are making him weak and making him bleed to death. He stopped and just gave up. "I'm sorry, Lady Palutena . I've failed you and couldn't pass your task to save her." he thought to the heavens.

I don't know why I've stopped running. I know I heard the magician girl shouting through the speaker to her sister that there is one more minute until the bomb explodes, but I just stopped, as if someone I know…

…needs my help.

Pit looked at the timer and he has 45 seconds left until the bomb explodes. He bowed his head down as tears began to flow down his cheeks. "I'm sorry, Lily." he whispered. "I'm sorry I wasn't able to find you."

I ran back through the forest, hoping if I could find the person that needs my help. Then, I saw an angel that has his toga stabbed on the ground as he was bleeding to death.

When Pit heard someone in front of him, he looked up to see a teenager wearing a white hooded cloak covering the person's white shirt and blue pants. It was very hard to tell if that person was a boy or a girl since he/she covered his/her face with the hood and his/her yellow bangs covered his/her eyes.

"Who…Who are you?" the angel asked me. I didn't have time to answer his question since the timer is still ticking and I started to pull the knives from his toga, but not his arms and body because if I do, they might gush out more of his blood. "No time! We have to get out of here!" I reminded him.

Since he lost some blood, it might impossible for him to run in this situation so instead, I told him I have to give him a piggy back ride. It looks like he didn't have no other choice when he noticed the timer is still ticking. He got up on my back and I picked up his legs as he wrapped his arms around my neck and shoulders and I started to run. Well, at least he's not that heavy to carry, but I have be careful not to put too much force on the knives that are still in his wounds.

Pit looked at the person who was carrying him. "Why does this person looked so familiar?" he wondered.

5…! My eyes shot wide open and started to run faster.

4…! I'm beginning to sweat all over and my heart feels like it's going to burst!

3…! I felt the angel's arms holding me tighter.

2…! "We're not going to make it!" I shouted.

1…! Suddenly, I felt someone carrying me and the angel at a high speed away from the forest.

0…!

Somewhere away from the other side of the forest, Richard, Samus, Zelda, and Michael watched the explosion of the bomb creating some kind of black hole which is sucking up everything near it.

"I'm glad we've all made it in time." said Richard.

"Yeah, but we can't stop now, we have to find the rest of the fighters." Michael told him.

The others agreed and continue on their journey.

At the place where Ruby and Lucas are at, they both heard a loud explosion and turned their heads to see the forest creating some kind of black hole which is sucking up everything near it.

"Was that an explosion?" Lucas asked Ruby.

"I think so. I'm glad we're not in the forest by that time." she said and continue her journey with the psychic boy.

At first, I thought the angel and I are going to die, but somebody saved us. I quickly got up from the ground and glanced at the angel; he isn't moving or even blinking. My eyes began to shot wide open. Is he dead? No, he can't be! I thought to myself. It's probably because he lost so much blood from his wounds. I felt guilty and horrified that I…wait a minute. Am I crying? I touched one of my cheeks and looked at the tears dripping on my fingers. Why am I crying for someone I don't know?

"He's not dead." I heard a voice.

I turned at the voice and I saw a person wearing a hooded cloak like mines, but it was black. It was the same person I met after I woke up.

"He's not dead. Time just stopped." he explain to me.

Time just stopped? How's that even possible? I thought.

The person in the cloak went to the angel and pulled the knives out of his wounds.

"No! Wait-!" I shouted at him, but he cutted me off as his hands began to glow all white and placed them over the angel's wounds began to heal. He got up and said to me, "Take care." and he vanished into the air.

The next thing I knew, time began to unfreeze and the angel sat up on the ground and rubbed his head. "Ow…my head." he said and looked at me. "Were you crying?" he asked me.

"N-No! I wasn't." I lied to him and quickly rubbed the last of my tears with my sleeves. Why on earth would I cry for him if I don't even know him?

"Yes you were. Don't lie to me." he said to me back.

"Okay! I was crying because I twisted my ankle when I have to carry you here!" I lied to him again, hopefully he will buy it. "It's your fault that you still had knives stabbing into you!"

"My fault? You told me to get on your back to carry me because I can't run in while those knives are still killing me! And for information, I can fly you know! I'm an angel!"

"The knives also stabbed your arms too! Even if you can fly, how on earth will you able to carry me in that condition?"

"Just forget about that! At least we're safe now!"

"Whatever, Fremont!" I started to gasp. Did I just call him Fremont? Who is that person's name anyways?

"What did you call me?" the angel asked me, in a calm voice now.

"N-Nothing." I lied to him.

"No, you didn't. You just called me Fremont. Is that person someone you know?" he said to me.

I didn't say anything to him. Why did I called him Fremont? Is that a person someone I know, or did I just made up that name? And why was I crying for this angel? I don't even know him, do I?

"Who are you anyways?" he asked me as he got up and walked towards me.

I didn't know what to do. Should I run or…? My thoughts were cutted off as he pulled down my hood. I gasped from his motion and his eyes started to widen.

"Earla?" he shouted at me surprised.

My eyes started to widen as well. How does he know my name? And why do I have the feeling that I met him before? What's wrong with me?

Somewhere very far away from the forest, there was a shadow figure watching the explosion in the forest and saw the both Pit and Earla.

"Looks like they both made it out alive." he said to himself. "But not for long, as my master will finish them off, along with the rest of the fighters."

He began to turn around and walked away from the scene, but the only appearance appeared on the shadow figure is that he had a pair of black wings.