Chp.10
Fenix awoke with a jolt. Her whole body ached, and her ankle felt like it had swollen to the size of a basketball. Her shoulder, however, hurt even more. She cringed in pain as she pulled her right hand from her side to put it on her shoulder. She was surprised to feel that there were bandages covering her shoulder, and the shaft seemed to be gone. Trying to clear her head, Fenix looked around, but she saw nothing familiar.
The ceiling was covered in drawings by young children of houses and stick people with the labels of mom and dad, brother and sister, and "dog". For some reason, this made Fenix comfortable, to know a young child had once stayed in this room, but she didn't know why. The bed she was laying on was soft and plushy, and smelled of green pine. To her right, she could see a dresser with old dusty photos in older, dustier frames. The photos were of a young family of four, a boy, a girl, and the parents, a young man with strikingly good features and dark hair, standing beside him, a young woman with frizzy red hair and green eyes. The family looked to be very happy.
Fenix smiled to herself and looked back at the ceiling, but all she saw was a big, silver shout, leading to red eyes. Fenix yelled, and scrambled to a sitting position, pushing the thing away. With a cry of surprise, the 'thing' jumped back, too, except the 'thing' turned out to be an organoid. Actually, the organoid known as Zeek. This was the organoid that had followed Fenix out of Wind Colony and through Almay. When Fenix saw this, she calmed down, and the organoid came back to look her in the eyes.
"You gave me a scare. What are you doing here?" Fenix asked just as the young man from the old picture came into the room, closely followed by two young children of first grade age. Fenix smiled sweetly, and waved to the children. "Hello there!"
The children didn't answer, they just hid behind the man, who looked much older than he really was.
"Ah see yer doin better," the man said.
"Yeah, thanks to you, I guess. What's your name, stranger?"
"Mah name's be Jegan. Ah've lived here most mah life, and Ah ain't never seen no'ne the likes of you," Jegan said.
"Oh? Nice to meet you, Jegan the Northerner. My name is Fenix, thought that's not my real name, that's what everyone calls me," Fenix said, holding out her hand. But Jegan didn't shake it. In all, Fenix thought, He's really mean, almost like Raven.
"Wit inj'ries of the like you 'ad, Ah'm surprised you ev'n made it," Jegan said.
"They were that bad?" Fenix asked, wide-eyed with wonder.
"Ah'm 'fraid so, missie," Jegan said. "Ther w's that shaft, nasty ol' ting, that, an' yer ankle, twist an' broke, ah think, an' there was the loss o' blood, an' a lot o' other tings," he siad, counting them off on his fingers.
"What day is it?" Fenix asked.
"Och, noo, Day? Ah don' know. Ah know t'was six days 'go tha' yon came here."
"Six days," Fenix repeted. She had really been out of it. She never slept that long, injuries or not. Had that mantas really put one on her? Was Khan-Tang pulling her with it? She looked out the window, wondering, waiting, for Raven to find her. But would he? Maybe after seeing the Dragon Bone(she didn't want to think about what had happened to her precious Zoid), he had left her as dead. Or, she thought, laughing, This has all been a bad dream, and I just need to wake up. She laughed, first to herself, then out loud. Jegan and his children were looking at her as if she were crazy. Let them, she thought.
"I won'er what yon has ter laugh about."
"Its just good to be alive," Fenix said through her laughing fit.
MEANWHILE:
Raven looked at the spots of blood as they became darker and more often spotted along the road. It was his sixth day of looking, but each time, the blood spots disappeared in the same place. Maybe he was missing something. He wondered whether he would find Fenix dead or alive, then wondered why he would even care. Then, he walked back out of the old ramshackle town and to the Dragon Bone. The marks upon the Dragon looked as if they were caused by a huge scythe, but the only Zoid with a scythe large enough to cause damage to the Dragon was the Death Stinger. The other Zoids didn't even compare to the sheer size of the Dragon.
"What happened here?" Raven asked the wretched Zoid. "I need to know what happened here. I don't know why, but I do."
As usual, no one answered him, and he was left to wonder. He turned around to walk back to his GenoBreaker, and ran smack dab into a black Zoid.
"What the-"
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Fenix stroked the organoid's head and listened as Jegan talked about his family. It turned out, Fenix learned, the pretty woman in the picture frame was actually Jegan's eldest daughter, from his "sweet sixteen" as he called it. Jegan's wife had died after giving birth to Moonay(not a spelling error!), the youngest, also a daughter. Yashi was the middle aged child, the only boy. Fenix also learned that the organoid had only appeared after she had, and had stayed in her room for the whole time she was asleep. She also learned that two other organoids had been hanging around the town, slowly destroying from the outside in. One was the Red Organoid, and the other had not been seen, but it had been heard.
"Sounds like Ambient. The other could be an undiscovered Organoid, or it could be Specula or Shadow, seeing as Zeek is here. But if Zeek is here," Fenix mused, "then Van must be close by, right?"
Jegan was looking at her with a look of insanity, as were his children. "What on earth are yon talkin' about?"
"Oh," Fenix laughed, her hand behind her head, "sorry, forgot you didn't know about me. Well, as you know my name is Fenix. I pilot a Zoid known as the Dragon bone, along with a GenoBreaker that is really Raven's, but-"
"Raven? does yon mean the Raven tha' 'ad the Saber Tiger? Don't yon speak tha' Devil's name un'er mah roof!" Jegan snapped, totaly startling Fenix.
"I- I'm sorry. I didn't know... What did.... *he* do to you?"
"Does yon know why this town is destroyed? 'Tis not 'cause o' the Organoids. 'Tis because o' 'im. 'E destroyed this town, an' Ah'll ne'er fo'give 'him fer killin mah eldest daughter," Jegan snarled.
"Are you sure it was him? Are you sure he did it? I mean, he's not that way anymore-" Fenix said quickly, not wanting to believe that Raven could do something like that.
"But he was then. And that is who he still is in my opinion."
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Raven looked the black Zoid in the eyes and his eyes went wide. "What the-"
THUD
Raven was knocked down by the black Zoid's tail as it spun around. Raven held his head and looked up to see the Zoid as it was.
"Sh- Shadow? Wha- How did you get here? Why did you hit me like that?" Raven asked, looking up at the organoid.
Shadow growled and stomped his foot next to Raven's head. Raven slowly sat up and watched the black organoid. Shadow walked over to the Dragon Bone and circled it, all the while growling with interest.
"Shadow, what are you doing?"
Shadow walked over to Raven, grabbed his old master by the shirt collar, and took off, much to the displeasure of Raven, who was dangling by his shirt collar about thirty feet in the air. Where Shadow was taking him was a mystery.
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What do you think so far? I think its nice, for me, at least.
Fenix awoke with a jolt. Her whole body ached, and her ankle felt like it had swollen to the size of a basketball. Her shoulder, however, hurt even more. She cringed in pain as she pulled her right hand from her side to put it on her shoulder. She was surprised to feel that there were bandages covering her shoulder, and the shaft seemed to be gone. Trying to clear her head, Fenix looked around, but she saw nothing familiar.
The ceiling was covered in drawings by young children of houses and stick people with the labels of mom and dad, brother and sister, and "dog". For some reason, this made Fenix comfortable, to know a young child had once stayed in this room, but she didn't know why. The bed she was laying on was soft and plushy, and smelled of green pine. To her right, she could see a dresser with old dusty photos in older, dustier frames. The photos were of a young family of four, a boy, a girl, and the parents, a young man with strikingly good features and dark hair, standing beside him, a young woman with frizzy red hair and green eyes. The family looked to be very happy.
Fenix smiled to herself and looked back at the ceiling, but all she saw was a big, silver shout, leading to red eyes. Fenix yelled, and scrambled to a sitting position, pushing the thing away. With a cry of surprise, the 'thing' jumped back, too, except the 'thing' turned out to be an organoid. Actually, the organoid known as Zeek. This was the organoid that had followed Fenix out of Wind Colony and through Almay. When Fenix saw this, she calmed down, and the organoid came back to look her in the eyes.
"You gave me a scare. What are you doing here?" Fenix asked just as the young man from the old picture came into the room, closely followed by two young children of first grade age. Fenix smiled sweetly, and waved to the children. "Hello there!"
The children didn't answer, they just hid behind the man, who looked much older than he really was.
"Ah see yer doin better," the man said.
"Yeah, thanks to you, I guess. What's your name, stranger?"
"Mah name's be Jegan. Ah've lived here most mah life, and Ah ain't never seen no'ne the likes of you," Jegan said.
"Oh? Nice to meet you, Jegan the Northerner. My name is Fenix, thought that's not my real name, that's what everyone calls me," Fenix said, holding out her hand. But Jegan didn't shake it. In all, Fenix thought, He's really mean, almost like Raven.
"Wit inj'ries of the like you 'ad, Ah'm surprised you ev'n made it," Jegan said.
"They were that bad?" Fenix asked, wide-eyed with wonder.
"Ah'm 'fraid so, missie," Jegan said. "Ther w's that shaft, nasty ol' ting, that, an' yer ankle, twist an' broke, ah think, an' there was the loss o' blood, an' a lot o' other tings," he siad, counting them off on his fingers.
"What day is it?" Fenix asked.
"Och, noo, Day? Ah don' know. Ah know t'was six days 'go tha' yon came here."
"Six days," Fenix repeted. She had really been out of it. She never slept that long, injuries or not. Had that mantas really put one on her? Was Khan-Tang pulling her with it? She looked out the window, wondering, waiting, for Raven to find her. But would he? Maybe after seeing the Dragon Bone(she didn't want to think about what had happened to her precious Zoid), he had left her as dead. Or, she thought, laughing, This has all been a bad dream, and I just need to wake up. She laughed, first to herself, then out loud. Jegan and his children were looking at her as if she were crazy. Let them, she thought.
"I won'er what yon has ter laugh about."
"Its just good to be alive," Fenix said through her laughing fit.
MEANWHILE:
Raven looked at the spots of blood as they became darker and more often spotted along the road. It was his sixth day of looking, but each time, the blood spots disappeared in the same place. Maybe he was missing something. He wondered whether he would find Fenix dead or alive, then wondered why he would even care. Then, he walked back out of the old ramshackle town and to the Dragon Bone. The marks upon the Dragon looked as if they were caused by a huge scythe, but the only Zoid with a scythe large enough to cause damage to the Dragon was the Death Stinger. The other Zoids didn't even compare to the sheer size of the Dragon.
"What happened here?" Raven asked the wretched Zoid. "I need to know what happened here. I don't know why, but I do."
As usual, no one answered him, and he was left to wonder. He turned around to walk back to his GenoBreaker, and ran smack dab into a black Zoid.
"What the-"
___
Fenix stroked the organoid's head and listened as Jegan talked about his family. It turned out, Fenix learned, the pretty woman in the picture frame was actually Jegan's eldest daughter, from his "sweet sixteen" as he called it. Jegan's wife had died after giving birth to Moonay(not a spelling error!), the youngest, also a daughter. Yashi was the middle aged child, the only boy. Fenix also learned that the organoid had only appeared after she had, and had stayed in her room for the whole time she was asleep. She also learned that two other organoids had been hanging around the town, slowly destroying from the outside in. One was the Red Organoid, and the other had not been seen, but it had been heard.
"Sounds like Ambient. The other could be an undiscovered Organoid, or it could be Specula or Shadow, seeing as Zeek is here. But if Zeek is here," Fenix mused, "then Van must be close by, right?"
Jegan was looking at her with a look of insanity, as were his children. "What on earth are yon talkin' about?"
"Oh," Fenix laughed, her hand behind her head, "sorry, forgot you didn't know about me. Well, as you know my name is Fenix. I pilot a Zoid known as the Dragon bone, along with a GenoBreaker that is really Raven's, but-"
"Raven? does yon mean the Raven tha' 'ad the Saber Tiger? Don't yon speak tha' Devil's name un'er mah roof!" Jegan snapped, totaly startling Fenix.
"I- I'm sorry. I didn't know... What did.... *he* do to you?"
"Does yon know why this town is destroyed? 'Tis not 'cause o' the Organoids. 'Tis because o' 'im. 'E destroyed this town, an' Ah'll ne'er fo'give 'him fer killin mah eldest daughter," Jegan snarled.
"Are you sure it was him? Are you sure he did it? I mean, he's not that way anymore-" Fenix said quickly, not wanting to believe that Raven could do something like that.
"But he was then. And that is who he still is in my opinion."
_____
Raven looked the black Zoid in the eyes and his eyes went wide. "What the-"
THUD
Raven was knocked down by the black Zoid's tail as it spun around. Raven held his head and looked up to see the Zoid as it was.
"Sh- Shadow? Wha- How did you get here? Why did you hit me like that?" Raven asked, looking up at the organoid.
Shadow growled and stomped his foot next to Raven's head. Raven slowly sat up and watched the black organoid. Shadow walked over to the Dragon Bone and circled it, all the while growling with interest.
"Shadow, what are you doing?"
Shadow walked over to Raven, grabbed his old master by the shirt collar, and took off, much to the displeasure of Raven, who was dangling by his shirt collar about thirty feet in the air. Where Shadow was taking him was a mystery.
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What do you think so far? I think its nice, for me, at least.