Day 9 ½: Forcefields and Destiny Cards
Sorisu's POV
Picture this. Say you're hands and feet are tied up so tightly with vines that you begin to notice them turning purple. Imagine being hoisted over who you thought was your best friend's shoulder with another friend being carried on the other shoulder. Now imagine a two foot long cut on your right arm that's dripping with blood, and you got, oh say, two minutes or so before you black out from blood loss. Not very fun is it? Too bad that's the exact situation I am in now. I gave up squirming about five minutes back. One, because I was getting insanely tired, and two, because every time I moved, the Riku imposter would either hit my head into a tree, or scratch me with his knife. To make the situation worse, Ashlynn was knocked out cold and her forehead was dripping with blood. It doesn't end there, oh no, not even close! There seemed to be some kind of forcefield blocking my connection to contact Prussia and possibly the others. It was only a matter of time before I blacked out, and this stranger would be able to do anything to us without a fight. I thought of everybody at the beach at the exact same time. I pictured there faces, their emotions, auras, everything, and still nothing was to be heard. I felt no better.
"Prussia….Sora…Axel….Thorn….anybody! Please, someone answer me!" I thought frantically inside my mind.
That was my last attempt, and it completely drained me of my remaining energy.
"Riku…" I blurted out in barley a whisper.
"What do you want, slave?" he asked, still walking through the jungle, pushing braches out of the way.
"I know your in there Riku, whatever is controlling you, promise me you'll do your best to fight it. You have to save yourself if the others don't make it before this imposter kills all of us. Just promise me Riku, please." I replied, almost out of breath.
He didn't talk, he just kept walking. I knew Riku was in there, he just had to keep fighting. Suddenly, I felt a quick rush of warmth, and heard a clear, comforting voice inside my head.
"I will," it said, "I'll do more then my best, and I know the others will find us. The person who is controlling me, his name is Ansem. I've….I can't keep connection….he's pushing me back….Sorisu….good luck."
Then, the voice was suddenly gone, and I felt extremely light headed. Please let the others get here in time, please. My eyes closed on their own, and everything went dark.
With the Boys
Sora's POV
"We can't just go running in there," Prussia reasoned, "we don't know we're up against!"
"But when we finally decide to go charging in, what if we get there too late?" I asked, nervous and scared, mostly because of Sorisu. I bet Prussia was the same way, but tried not to show it.
"What if we….use one of the gifts Celeste gave us?" Thorn suggested, "….m-maybe….it'll work!" He chuckled, still a bit loony after getting out of the darkness.
"That sounds like a good idea," Axel agreed, "what should we use?"
"How about my cards?" I said, "…Celeste told me they would show the future."
"It wasn't those exact words." Prussia told me.
"But she did say that's what they were for, but with a more wise choice of words." I replied, smiling a smug grin.
"Whatever we're doing, I suggest we hurry. Something doesn't feel right." Axel muttered, crossing his arms and looking at the ground.
"Okay," I shrugged, taking the stack of ten cards out of my backpack, "Let's see what the future holds."
Each card had the same design. It was completely black, seven silver stars decorating the rest. I placed them out facedown onto the sand, a couple centimeters apart from each other. This was going to have to be quick, who knows what Riku was doing to my friends? Once we get there, he was so going down! I turned over the first card, a bit confused by what I saw. The background was green, leaves and vines making up the picture. I saw three human figures, one was walking, the other two were being carried. The one walking had silver hair, and the other two had plum colored and dark brown hair.
"That's Sorisu!" I called out almost immediately, pointing at the card.
"Yeah, and that's Riku, and that's Ashlynn. He's carrying them thorough the forest." Axel said, with a tone that made me think he thought I was stupid.
"Well, at least we know what he's doing. Wait a second, is that blood?" Prussia asked, pointing to Sorisu's right arm.
Thorn looked down, his eyes widening as he spotted Ash's head.
"Oh my God, that monster! He injured them!" Thorn realized, mouth wide open.
Suddenly, a high pitched, very loud, blood curling scream filled the air, making everybody, including me, flinch.
"That was Ashlynn!" Axel yelled, shock crossing his face.
"Come on, gather up your cards, Sora! We don't have time for this!" Prussia called, running off into the forest before anybody could stop him.
"Okay!" I said immediately, picking up the cards as quickly as I could and stuffed them back into my backpack.
As soon as I did that, Thorn pulled me up, pushing me ahead and I began to ran. The leaves and braches scratched up my arms and face, but I didn't care. All I knew is that I wanted Sorisu back.
Back with the Girls
Ashlynn's POV
I woke up uncomfortably to a loud, high-pitched scream that rang through my eardrums so fast I thought I would go deaf. My head rose from the ground, still pounding with pain. My hand absentmindedly reached up, feeling that the bleeding had dried up and stopped for now. I turned a quarter to the left, seeing that Riku, or whoever he was, had cut open Sorisu's other arm while she was still defenseless. I didn't know why she just didn't will her Blade to turn up. It has to have something to do with the fact that a strange, black aura seemed to be emitting off of Riku. What was going on, and why was he doing this? I bet it's Ansem again, he's taking over Riku like he did last time. Why can't this guy just give up? I just wish I could help her, but I couldn't feel my legs, or anything for that matter. Please, please help us someone.
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