Alive

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Everyone-Sorry about my horrible typo's/spelling/grammar mistakes in the last chapter! I'm really really sorry about that! I feel like such an idiot, because I'm not a bad speller, but I don't type the way I'm supposed to, so I always make typo's and it's really annoying! But I'm using spell check this time!

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"Alex, we've been walking in a circle for the past hour..." Kyle mumbled, adjusting the pack on his back. "I think, we're lost."
"We're not lost." Alex said, looking around. "I just don't know where we're going." He took a few more paces ahead, stopping to look around. He furrowed his eyebrows spotting something. "Hey ... there's another path here!" Alex said estactically, running over to a dark gap in the trees, barely visible in the now just rising sun.
"No, duh." Kyle muttered, following him. "I've seen that everytime we came around the circle."
"Why didn't you saying anything!?" Alex asked frantically, turning around.
"Uh... I was following you." Kyle shrugged.
"Er..." Alex bit his bottom lip. "Right." He continued walking and swatting aside the different plants and tree branches that stuck out in their path. "What exactly are we looking for anyway? I mean, besides your big hill in the middle of nowhere."
"It's a big grassy hill, surrounded by millions of trees. The moon hovers right over it, and-"
"And when you sing into the wind the little nymphs come out and seduce you." Kyle finished sarcastically. Alex shot him a glance and continued to walk forward.
"Oops I did it again..." Kyle hummed softly as they walked through the path. Alex shot him a death glare.
"Kyle, this isn't funny! We have to find Tess!"
"Chill, lover-boy." Kyle raised his hands defensively and followed silently. They walked for almost 45 minutes through their new path, which had yet to provide a twist or turn, when the faint shouts hit them-

"Alex!"
"Kyle!"

"Should we answer?" Kyle asked Alex. Alex shook his head quickly.
"No. They'd stop us, and if Liz is smart enough, she'll know where we went. Come on." They continued down the path, as the sun rose into the sky, clearly lighting their way. They finally reached a fork in the road. There was a path, a cobblestone path set to their left, leading deep into an even thicker muster of trees. To their right the dirt path continued and the foliage was thin enough to let the sun shine through as it had been doing on their previous route.
"Right is right." Kyle said from behind Alex. "Dad taught me that."
"Interesting." Alex gave a short smile and led the way to the right. They walked along this path for only 5 minutes when it started branching out into different paths. Alex stood there, stunned. There must've been about 13 different exits-but which one to go through? He blinked and looked around again-and there was only one path making another right, farther down their path that he could see. He furrowed his brow, deeply perplexed and looked at Kyle. "Are you seeing what I am?"
"I see...1,2,3..." He began to count the different paths. "13 different paths."
"No ... look again... I keep seeing 13... and then I see 1..." Alex closed his eyes and opened then again, looking around. Kyle did the same and became just as confused as Alex, probably even more. "What do you think it is? This must be some mirage, I mean how long has it been since we ate?" Kyle asked, throwing off his backpack and taking out a candybar.
"No ... it's no mirage, but close." Alex said affirmatively. "It's... It's a mindwarp. It's two mindwarps." Alex took a step forward towards one of the open paths, and stood right infront of it. He cleared his mind and glanced straight at it again, and there was no path there, just a barrier of trees.
"Minewarphs?" Kyle asked, his mouth full of chocolate.
"Khivar must've set up a mindwarp, because he knew that'd we'd be getting close ... or something... God, there must've been tons of mindwarps, we could've fallen into. We might be in one now... but, that wouldn't happen because someone is trying show us the real path!" Alex exclaimed, running over to the one path. "She's trying, and if Tess could reach us out here, we must be getting closer." Alex said relieved.
"Damn. You're smart." Kyle picked up his backpack, slinging it over his shoulder and walked over to the one open path with Alex. "So you think the fork in the road ... maybe there was no fork in the road? Maybe Khivar set up the cobblestone path, to lead us off the dirt path, but Tess was able to get the dirt path, back into our vision?"
"That's a very good guess, I'd have to agree." Alex said, turning to their right and walking once again through the wooded path. After an hour of walking, on a not exactly straight, but what seemed to be diagonal path, with no surprises, they stopped to take a break. Alex slid down against a tree and closed his eyes, clearing his mind and concentrating only on Tess. The memories slid by him quickly, but slow enough for him to savor.

"Tess, I'm sorry about blowing up on you yesterday at the diner." Alex said. Tess looked up at him, surprised. "I mean, that was totally out of my character, that was something Michael would've said." He said almost with a laugh.
"Alex, you don't have to be sorry about anything." Tess said, looking over at him. Her eyes burned into his like hot coals and Alex was trying to force himself to pull away from her strangely sincere gaze. It made him feel uncomfortable.

"Hey look Tess! I'm in Arizona-but now I'm in Colorado!" Alex said, taking a diagonal step. Tess smiled. Maybe he was finally shedding the anger after all.
"Hold on." Tess said, she put on her sunglasses and walked over to the souvenir booth in the New Mexico quarter. "A disposable camera please." Tess said. The guy nodded and handed her one and Tess handed him back some cash. "Oh Alex..." Tess said, holding up the camera. Alex turned while in the middle of jumping from state to state as Tess took a picture.
"Hey!" Alex said, being blinded by the flash.
"Gotcha!" Tess laughed. Alex grinned.

"I didn't know if I could live, having you hate me any, longer." Tess whispered back. "It's just ... there's something about you. Everyday on this strange adventure, I hate myself even more and more for what I did to you. I killed you." Tess whispered.
"Maybe so, but for some reason...just being here, this close to you...is making me feel so...alive." Alex said. He bit his lip and felt his cheeks blush. Had he just said that outloud?

"I just...can't believe...this doesn't seem real. It seems to good for me." Tess whispered. Alex shook his head.
"No. It's real. It has to be real."

"Hey Alex ... don't fall asleep." Kyle said, kicking him in the leg. Alex winced and grabbed his leg.
"Ow. Dammit, Kyle! I wasn't falling asleep, I was thinking!"
"Oh. Sorry." Kyle extended his hand, helping his friend up. "Where to now, Columbus?" Kyle asked, glancing down the path.
"Well, we seem to only have one way to go... We'll just keep following the path, their. There seems to be a turn to the right, once again, a little bit farther down."
"Okay, then." Kyle took a deep breath and picked up his backpack, and handed Alex his. "We're off to see the alien, the wonderful alien of Oz." He smirked. Alex glanced back at him, irritated, and then they set off down the path. They were walking for thirty minutes down the diagonal dirt path, when the reached the corner of the turn. They looked at each other reassuringly and then Alex took a step forward into the turn, which was engulfed in darkness by the thick tree leaves ahead. The second he stepped into the seemingly eternal backness, he stepped back out, a shocked look on his face. Kyle looked at him quizzically.
"Isabel..." Alex mumbled, backing into a tree trunk. Isabel emerged from the darkness... but it wasn't Isabel.
"Not Isabel... Vilandra." She said, her voice echoing through the woods and causing the birds to flap from their nests in the trees. Her eyes were glossy and black and seemed to be focused on everything going on around them.
"Vilandra..." Alex repeated. "Nice running into you, mind moving aside?" He asked weakly. Vilandra shook her head.
"I can't let you go forward." She spoke in quick monotone.
"Well, you have to."
"No." She waved her hand sending Alex smacking back into the tree behind him, as well as knocking over the trees around him. Kyle quickly ran to the rescue, and dragged Alex out of the way of the tumbling trees.
"Shit! What's wrong with her?" Kyle asked, gasping for breath.
"I don't know." Alex panted, looking up at Vilandra who loomed over them like a dark princess. Like Persephone, the fair wife of Hades. "Isabel! Stop it!" He yelled out.
"Not Isabel!" Vilandra screamed, raising her hand at him. Alex felt a sharp pain in his chest and screamed out. She was using his powers and crushing his heart, little by little, but extremely painful. Kyle looked around in confusion and idiotically ran forward and thrust himself at Isabel, knocking them both down. Alex clutched his chest taking quick deep breaths and watching in terror as Kyle was thrown some 20 feet in the air and then fell back down.
"Shit!" Kyle grabbed his right leg tightly the pain inching up in the veins.
"Kyle!" Alex yelled, running forward to his side. "Hold on, stop squirming!" Alex said, trying to position his hand over Kyle's leg.
"It's sort of hard!" Kyle winced. Alex's eyes glowed and widened as the soft white light emmitted from it and began to fixed the fracutres in Kyle's leg bones. He could feel that he was almost fully in and connected, when an arm seixed him around the neck and dragged him away. Alex was pushed up against a tree and met Isabel, er, Vilandra's infuriated face. Her hand clutched his throat.
"You were a fun human to play with." Vilandra smirked. "You treated me like the true queen I was, and deserved to be. How sweet. You might've made a satisfactory king. Much better than by pathetic brother and his wimpy wife would've been. However, I always knew you had a weakness, particularly for blonde aliens?" She smirked and tilted her heads.
"No Isabel, this isn't you." Alex squeaked out, his vocal cords being cut off by Vilandra's hand.
"You were also pretty fun, Kyle." Vilandra said, glancing back at the man on the ground. "You don't know how times I've dreamwalked you. Very amusing. It's too bad it had to end this way, I would've liked to try some of those dreams, you know?" She smirked and arched an eyebrow, keeping her firm grip on Alex's neck.
"Bytch." Kyle muttered. Vilandra's smirk faded and her lips parted slightly.
"Excuse me?"
"I said, Bytch!" Kyle yelled from the ground. "As in, you!"
"No, Kyle, this isn't Isabel!" Alex protested, struggling to get free.
"My ass. Vilandra and Isabel, Zan and Max, one in the same. History always repeats itself." Kyle said, scooting himself up into a sitting position and then rasing his hand at Vilandra in an attempt ot freeze her. Nothing happened and Vilandra let out a haughty chuckle and supremity.
"Pathetic human. You fool! My powers are thousands of times greater than yours will ever be, you're only second rate. The thought of your powers surpassing mine, is foolish. Let me demonstrate..." She pulled her hand away from Alex who dropped to the ground and raised at Kyle who levitated slowly off the ground. Alex could sense the fear growing inside of him, it was written in his eyes. As was the pain when there was a loud 'crack!' and Isabel snapped his leg.
"AGH!" Kyle moaned in pain, trying to hold onto his leg while cursing and muttering words about Buddha preserving him. Alex took a few steps tentatively behind Vilandra slowly, his eyes meeting Kyle's. Of course, Kyle had been disverting Vilandra to draw her attention away from Alex. Crack! It was followed by another painful scream from Kyle. Shit, he had to work fast. Alex looked around and found a log half burrowed in the leaves nearby. He raisedhis hands slowly lifting the log up from the ground. It wasn't like Vilandra would hear over Kyle's agonizing moans.
"Ha!" Vilandra laughed again, moving onto Kyle's other leg. Crack!
"I'm sorry about this Isabel, I really am!" Alex cried before moving his hand swiftly and sending the log bonking hard into Vilandra's head. There were three thuds, one as Kyle fell, one as Vilandra fell, and one for the log. Kyle grimaced and sat there silently for awhile, but as Alex approached he saw the tear stained cheeks and bent out of shape legs. He turned hearing Vilandra move about. Surely he had rendered her unconcious with that blow? It was something he didn't want to do.
"Alex?" She asked in a whispered, frowning and shaking her head. Alex looked at Kyle and then back to Vilandra, or Isabel, or whatever, and approached cautiously and slowly.
"Isabel?"
"Yea." Isabel mumbled. "Alex... did you, did you hit me with a log?"
"Yea." Alex breathed out with a sigh of relief, bending down towards her. "I'm sorry about that Iz, there was no other way."
"I... I became her, didn't I? I became Vilandra?"
"Yea." Alex nodded.
"Oh my gosh!" Isabel sat up quickly, holding her throbbing and bleeding head and glancd over at Kyle, tears welling up in her eyes. "Kyle!"
"Don't bother, I'm fine." Kyle muttered, trying to sit up but failing.
"I can't beleive I did this to you!" Isabel said, tears flowing down her cheeks as Alex helped her crawl over to him. She turned to Alex quickly. "Did I hurt you, Alex!?"
"Not too much." Alex said, rubbing his neck.
"I don't know how it happened... it was like Khivar awakened something in me..." Isabel shivered, taking Kyle's hand. "I remember, I woke before the others and realized you two were gone. I left and walked around aimlessly for awhile, until I was able to sense you and I followed you... that's all I remember, because after that... Khivar must've some how seized hold off me and used me to try to stop you." Isabel cried, tears falling freely. "I'm so sorry."
"Iz. It's not you. It's not you." Alex said, placnig a hand comfortingly on her shoulder and pulling her into a hug. Isabel burried her face in his shoulder and cried softly for a few moments.
"Guys... my leg... is in alot of pain." Kyle muttered, starring at the suddenly clear blue sky that shone through the canopy of tall trees above.
"Right!" Alex said, pulling away and shifting into position, placing a hand above Kyle's legs. Once again, the soft white shine emitted and Alex was connected and in. He could feel Kyle's bones healing and piecing themselves back together as if he were healing himself. Just a few more fractures and-
"Alex!" Isabel said urgently, looking up at the sky. Alex shifted his attention upwards as the once clear blue sky was now darkened and filling with dark grey clouds. "Khivar..." Isabel muttered as lightning suddenly struck and rain began to fall.
"He can control the weather!?" Kyle whined, sitting up. "We're in deep shit."
"We have to go!"
"I'm not done healing Kyle!" Alex protested. Kyle pushed Alex's hands away and helped himself up but his legs were still weak and in slight pain but nothing compare to before.
"I'm fine, we need to go and find somewhere else, Khivar obviously knows where we are!" Kyle suggested. Alex nodded and grabbed both the backpacks, slinging them over his shoulder. Kyle draped an arm across Isabel's shoulder and she helped him limp quickly as they exitted to a thicker brush of canopy trees to shield against the rain that was already dampening them. "You know... they say you shouldn't be near trees in a thunderstorm..." Kyle murmured, looking up at the almost complete blackness with specs of grey around the leaves. As if some godly (or in Kyle's case, buddhaly) force had heard them, there was a loud whip crack of thunder that electrified the tree to their right.
"Great timing Kyle!" Isabel muttered sarcastically, dragging him forward. Alex panted and turned around just as the tree began to shake and the earth rumbled beneath him.
"Crap!" Alex muttered, grabbing Isabel's hand and hurrying her and Kyle both out of the way.
"Alex!" Isabel screamed. Alex turned around seeing the tree beside the one that had just now fallen beside him with a loud thud, was now shaking and making it's way down as well.
"Run! Go!" Alex yelled. Isabel dragged Kyle along with her away from the falling trees and hopefully out of harm's way. Alex raised his hand in frustration at the tree, which was beginning to tip over and came closer and closer like a heavy hammer towards him. Suddenly, it stopped in mid-air about 35 feet above him. Alex strained and squinted his eyes against the falling rain and used his powers to raise it up further. After moving it another 20 feet back up, Alex quickly ran forward, and a few seconds later he heard the tree fall back down with a thud. Looking to his side, the next tree began to repeat the pattern. He began to run forward but the dirt was turning into slick mud and the two back packs on his back were weighing him down. "Dammit!" Alex said, nearly escaping the tree behind him and throwing both backpacks off his shoulder as quickly as possible. he began to sprint forward on the dirt path, the trees falling down behind him and threatening to quicken their falling pace, faster and faster. he felt a sharp pain in his side, lurching him into the mud on the ground. He quickly picked himself up, not bothering tro wipe his face free off the mud and running through the wet puddles, occasionally beginning to slip every now and then. He fell again, and it took him longer to get up this time, and he splashed around in the mud for a few moments before being able to get onto his knees and pull himself up. As he got up he saw the dark shadow looming before him, darkening the already night shade ground. The bark wasn't that many feet away from him and he could feel it, as he pushed himself to run as fast as he could, to no avail. Think of Tess, Think of Tess! Alex screamed in his mind, concentrating on the soft sound off his feet splashing on the mud as he ran and nothing else but Tess. He opened his eyes seeing a clearing through the gaps of the thick trees. If he could just get there- "Oomph!" Alex's face met the mud a third time. He panted hard and flipped onto his back as the tree loomed closer. He closed his eyes in fear, hearing the loud 'swoosh' as the tree penetrated the surrounding air and bore down onto- just a few inches from his face. Alex's eyes lit up in wonder as the tree was pushed back up and into place, quicker than it had come down. "Tess." He breathed out in relief. Taking a moment or two, to catch his breath, Alex pushed himself up and began to wipe off the sticky mud from his sweater. It wasn't working very well and he simply pulled it off, revealing a clean (well, not necessarily clean since it hadn't been washed in forever) white shirt and letting the bitter cold air sting him. But if felt good. Alex could feel he was closer and it was if the sun was shining again, except it was not. The gray skies had lightened, and Alex could still see the clearing from a gap within the trees ahead. Cautiously, he made his way through, watching the canopy for any signs off more avalanching trees. Using his powers to easily brush aside a small bushes he found Isabel and Kyle, sitting down on the damp ground, apparently in some type of natural ditch. There was a sloping wall off grass before them. Alex looked up. It wasn't just a clearing. It was the hill.
"Is this it?" Kyle asked, looking up at him while stripping out of his jean jacket.
"Yea." Alex nodded, his gaze not leaving the peak of the hill.
"Do you think, he's here?" Isabel asked, fear tracing in her voice.
"I don't know." Alex sighed. "But she is." He took slowly took giant steps up the hill, leaving Isabel and Kyle in the ditch as he made his way up there. Halfway up, he paused, the grass blew in the wing against his legs, but he wasn't paying attention. His eyes, mouth, and particularly ears were focusing on the wind. Because he had heard something. The wind had carried a voice to him.
"Alex!" The shout came again, distinctly from the other side of the hill. Alex spun on his feet, running up the slope with difficulty and almost falling down when he reached the flat top. He steadied himself and slowly walked towards the edge of the flat top, on the other side where the voices seemed to come from. He looked forward seeing just the grassy hills, and nothing but them rolling in the breeze.
"Alex." There was a footstep and a series of panting breaths from behind him. He turned around and saw her there, breathless and weak. She was just the same as in his dream. Scratched across the face, her clothing ripped and torn. But the sight of her was so breath taking, and she was beautiful just standing there, very real, before his own sight.
"Tess." Alex said, taking quick strides over to her and pulling her into his arms.
"You came for me." She whispered into his shoulder.
"Yea. I had to find you." Alex murmured, running his hand through her hair. He looked down at her, seeing the tear stained face with new fresh tears falling. "Because... because I love you, Tess. I love you." He choked out, pulling her to him and kissing her passionately. He heard Tess cry into his mouth as she wrapped her arms around his shoulder and he supported her as she almost fell down.
"I love you too." She whispered, pulling back for a chance to get an intake of air and then re-closing the distance between them.

"Isn't that sweet?" A deep male voice said from behind them... and it wasn't Kyle.

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Geez, I wonder how long it took me to the finally finish this one chapter. The scene with Isabel as Vilandra was really hard to write for me because I kept getting writer's block.

Anyways, only one more chapter to go! *tears of sadness, tears of joy.*

I may do a re-write on some chapters though. Just telling you ahead of time!

-Sibby