Chap 10
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"This just gets better and better" Nyx mumbled, looking up from the letter.
They got off the train. It was extremely cold outside, so everyone stayed close, and tried to keep from freezing. As soon as they got off the train left and another, scarlet train pulled into the station, unloading even more students. Nyx got separated from Audrey and Riley; they weren't very "close together", now were they?
"Ri! Audrey! Skye! Lei!" she yelled. She felt she was going in the wrong direction, well actually she was, all these students going the opposite way, but you know what I mean.
"You're going the wrong way" someone said.
Nyx ignored whoever it was and continued through the immense fog. The crowd thinned and she was able to walk freely.
"Oh" she said softly, since she didn't have time to yell, as she fell to the ground, because she tripped on an unleveled cement piece. She plucked herself off the ground for the second time. Trying to still make sense of where she was going, she jumped into the tracks.
"Meow"
"Toby?" She murmured, opening her pocket to see a pair of green eyes meet her.
"Oh Crap"
A light appeared in front of her.
"What's that?"
The light got closer. It was making Nyx anxious.
Appearing a few feet from her she realized it was the train.
"OH SHIT!" she yelled, running from the train. She was too short to jump back up onto the cement.
"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap" she breathed as she ran.
"Meow" a terror-filled kitten cried.
She turned around; it didn't take a genius to figure out that Nyx had dropped Toby. Running towards the train she slid and grabbed Toby [Ok for all those readers who tell themselves in their mind "she'll make it cause she's the main character"-you suck], getting a few splinters, barely making it under the train. She banged her head on a chain and she had a bump which was bleeding a little. The train passed.
"Ouch!" she said tying her raven hair, tears in her eyes, from the pain.
Toby was in her pocket again, put this time he fully intended to claw the inside of her robes if she took off at a run.
"Nyx?" Riley said from the top of the platform.
"Ri! Where have you guys been?"
"Looking for you" as she jumped down. "What's wrong with your-" she touched her head "Oh-God you're bleeding!" she was scared out of her wits. "Come on- we can still catch the boats-we could get you to the hospital"
"No, I can't board the boats remember"
"Ugh" Riley saw the grated, metal door, and ran to open it.
"There you are!" Skye shouted for everyone.
"I found the door" as she opened it. Everyone else lowered themselves into the tracks and went into the even colder air in the dark void.
Lelani droned the "Twilight Zone" theme song.
"Dorkess" Skye teased.
It was a musky scent as they traveled further into the darkness. They came up to the fresh air again, but they weren't on land. They were in a middle of a fleet of small boats.
"Wow" Audrey cooed, looking at the lake underneath her. Nyx looked too, and screamed for the I-don't-keep-count-for-this-is-too-many times. It was a monster. Giant eyes the size of Hometown Buffet Dinner Plates. Well, actually that's the only thing they saw, but it would've freaked you out too-ok?
Riley elbowed her; there were people in those boats. For some odd reason, the nudge didn't mean anything, because none of the students in the ferries heard her. They walked along the invisible paths, next to the boats, until they came to a veil of vines. The path changed, and they know it changed, because they couldn't walk anywhere else, it wouldn't let them. They were in a docking area. The path ended off to the sides so they could "ease" their way into the crowds as they unloaded form the boats. They managed to weasel into the crowds, but as soon as they were in, Angelica hauled them out, and they were heading into a big rock with black slug-things with shells sucking it. It freaked the girls out a bit, like the blob in the old movie. Skye shuddered as she glanced at a spider the size of her hand.
"Where are we going?" Nyx asked.
Angelica shushed her and whispered "Remember You will Die"
Everyone but the "weirdo" gawked at each other, amid a few raised eyebrows.
Riley peered over Angelica's shoulder hinting "Do you remember what happened to the little girl who tried too much-right?"
"No, what?"
"She Died"
Nyx bit her knuckle to keep back the laughter; unfortunately Lelani didn't, letting out a laugh that howled through the cave.
"An hour in the Querma, for both of you"
"Me?" Lelani asked
"No, the worm"
Nyx was fuming, she flooded back with "Well if I am a worm." she was at a lost of words "uh-that makes you a corndog!" [I'll get her back, somehow] she wasn't too happy with her comeback, but then again, it was at the spur of the moment.
Riley wanted to come back with, "Ooooh a room-maybe next week we can get it on with a chair, that'd be really special!" but she knew how far it'd take to break this bass, and Riley wanted to fry this fish slowly.
But what they hadn't noticed was that the rock had opened up.
Note: [ ] indicates thoughts ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________
"This just gets better and better" Nyx mumbled, looking up from the letter.
They got off the train. It was extremely cold outside, so everyone stayed close, and tried to keep from freezing. As soon as they got off the train left and another, scarlet train pulled into the station, unloading even more students. Nyx got separated from Audrey and Riley; they weren't very "close together", now were they?
"Ri! Audrey! Skye! Lei!" she yelled. She felt she was going in the wrong direction, well actually she was, all these students going the opposite way, but you know what I mean.
"You're going the wrong way" someone said.
Nyx ignored whoever it was and continued through the immense fog. The crowd thinned and she was able to walk freely.
"Oh" she said softly, since she didn't have time to yell, as she fell to the ground, because she tripped on an unleveled cement piece. She plucked herself off the ground for the second time. Trying to still make sense of where she was going, she jumped into the tracks.
"Meow"
"Toby?" She murmured, opening her pocket to see a pair of green eyes meet her.
"Oh Crap"
A light appeared in front of her.
"What's that?"
The light got closer. It was making Nyx anxious.
Appearing a few feet from her she realized it was the train.
"OH SHIT!" she yelled, running from the train. She was too short to jump back up onto the cement.
"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap" she breathed as she ran.
"Meow" a terror-filled kitten cried.
She turned around; it didn't take a genius to figure out that Nyx had dropped Toby. Running towards the train she slid and grabbed Toby [Ok for all those readers who tell themselves in their mind "she'll make it cause she's the main character"-you suck], getting a few splinters, barely making it under the train. She banged her head on a chain and she had a bump which was bleeding a little. The train passed.
"Ouch!" she said tying her raven hair, tears in her eyes, from the pain.
Toby was in her pocket again, put this time he fully intended to claw the inside of her robes if she took off at a run.
"Nyx?" Riley said from the top of the platform.
"Ri! Where have you guys been?"
"Looking for you" as she jumped down. "What's wrong with your-" she touched her head "Oh-God you're bleeding!" she was scared out of her wits. "Come on- we can still catch the boats-we could get you to the hospital"
"No, I can't board the boats remember"
"Ugh" Riley saw the grated, metal door, and ran to open it.
"There you are!" Skye shouted for everyone.
"I found the door" as she opened it. Everyone else lowered themselves into the tracks and went into the even colder air in the dark void.
Lelani droned the "Twilight Zone" theme song.
"Dorkess" Skye teased.
It was a musky scent as they traveled further into the darkness. They came up to the fresh air again, but they weren't on land. They were in a middle of a fleet of small boats.
"Wow" Audrey cooed, looking at the lake underneath her. Nyx looked too, and screamed for the I-don't-keep-count-for-this-is-too-many times. It was a monster. Giant eyes the size of Hometown Buffet Dinner Plates. Well, actually that's the only thing they saw, but it would've freaked you out too-ok?
Riley elbowed her; there were people in those boats. For some odd reason, the nudge didn't mean anything, because none of the students in the ferries heard her. They walked along the invisible paths, next to the boats, until they came to a veil of vines. The path changed, and they know it changed, because they couldn't walk anywhere else, it wouldn't let them. They were in a docking area. The path ended off to the sides so they could "ease" their way into the crowds as they unloaded form the boats. They managed to weasel into the crowds, but as soon as they were in, Angelica hauled them out, and they were heading into a big rock with black slug-things with shells sucking it. It freaked the girls out a bit, like the blob in the old movie. Skye shuddered as she glanced at a spider the size of her hand.
"Where are we going?" Nyx asked.
Angelica shushed her and whispered "Remember You will Die"
Everyone but the "weirdo" gawked at each other, amid a few raised eyebrows.
Riley peered over Angelica's shoulder hinting "Do you remember what happened to the little girl who tried too much-right?"
"No, what?"
"She Died"
Nyx bit her knuckle to keep back the laughter; unfortunately Lelani didn't, letting out a laugh that howled through the cave.
"An hour in the Querma, for both of you"
"Me?" Lelani asked
"No, the worm"
Nyx was fuming, she flooded back with "Well if I am a worm." she was at a lost of words "uh-that makes you a corndog!" [I'll get her back, somehow] she wasn't too happy with her comeback, but then again, it was at the spur of the moment.
Riley wanted to come back with, "Ooooh a room-maybe next week we can get it on with a chair, that'd be really special!" but she knew how far it'd take to break this bass, and Riley wanted to fry this fish slowly.
But what they hadn't noticed was that the rock had opened up.
