Icy Blaze
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Chapter 10 - Battle for Trust
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Felix walked towards the resting place where Sheba and Jenna sat. He had managed to quell his anger, no rage, and wanted to talk to Sheba, hopeful that his friend had some words of comfort. Was she a friend, though, or something more? They had never gone beyond talking and walks, excluding the time they were in the bar at Alhafra and they saw Alex get drunk...
He noticed the look of dread in Sheba's eyes, and a simmilar look in his sister's face. What-
He saw the body fly past him, crashing into the trees just behind Jenna and Sheba. Upon seeing that it was Alex, Felix whirled around to see the horrid creature bear down on their camp. Horrid was probably not the right word; disgusting, twisted, warped, damned, these and more could describe the abomination before them.
And judging from Sheba's scream, she had to have seen it.
Channeling his psynergy into his fists, Felix shot a shard of diamonds at the creature, hoping to pierce it's twisted flesh. To his horror, the thing absorbed the attack, drawing it into it's crystal back. Suprised but unhindered, Felix shot several more volleys at the demonic figure, with the same results.
".Y.you.. ca.n't beat it.. .that way..."
Keeping his gaze on the creature, Felix shot a reply to the fallen Mercurian, "Then how do you suggest we kill it?"
"A..pparently no.. not with psynergy... Those are pure psyn...psynergetic crystals... JENNA DON"T!"
Whirling around, Felix barely had time to see Jenna walking towards Alex. The Mercurian had blood staining his blue robes, his right arm cradled by his left, obviously broken. Jenna was holding the arm, using psynergy to heal it-
It hit him: "JENNA STOP!"
Before the words even left his throat, the creature dived at her, moving at speeds that could rival Garet sliding down Mt. Aleph at winter. It would be on top of Jenna before she could move...
Felix tried to send another wave of diamond rocks at the creature, hoping to distract it, but found that it was too late...
He heard the scream, but the yell that followed was not that of Jenna, but that of Alex. Trying to see through the cloud of dust, Felix saw the creature holding Alex by the waist, apparently getting in the creature's way. And with no way out.
Drawing his blade, Felix slung it at the crystiline back of the creature, hoping that a crack would weaken it. The blade hit, but only a small shard fell, as did the blood from his face.
But to his surprise, the creature dropped Alex, screaching in pain. Whatever had done the damage, Felix didn't care. He rushed towards Alex and his sister, noticing then that Sheba had hidden behind a log. Getting near, he saw Alex's nearly lifeless form.
And as soon as he got within four feet of Alex, he felt his body grow light as a feather, realizing all too slowly that Alex was teleporting them...
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Darkness was replaced by light as Alex came around. Having been drained by the teleport spell and injuries, he hadn't thought that he would survive. Then again, he did manage to save her life...
Opening his eyes, he saw a figure hovering over him, and soon felt dread as he saw Felix stare at him with his blank stare. Figures that this would happen.
"Well, nice to see that you're awake. Care to explain what you did?"
Not really, he mused. "We needed to get away from that thing. It would have killed... us."
"Since when do we matter to you?"
Was it just him, or was Felix suddenly madder than hell? "Since I choose to aid you."
The same stare met that comment. "Don't you mean, Jenna?"
Sitting up, Alex soon realized that more than his arm had been injured. "AAH! My chest!"
Suddenly, he was shoved back down, Felix again standing above his form. "I will only heal you when you tell me why you did it."
Wincing as the pain swarmed through his being, he tried to form a response. "I did it for you, Sheba, and Jenna. We need to... Save the world..."
Felix eyes doubled in size at that comment. "How did you know...? I thought only Kraden knew that..."
Alex thought about that, wondering how the old mage knew of the secret... Of course, it was hard to ask when the old coot was still in Alhafra, given that Felix and crew were supposed to only go out for a stroll... "I found out with some old scrolls in a cave north of Imil. And the only way we can do it is if you and I work together."
Felix gave him a look of pure disgust. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"You need to light the lighthouses, but I need to attan the power ontop of Aleph."
He proceded to tell the story of the Stone of Sages, and how he needed to be there to prevent it from being used for ill will.
"And why should I let you? You'd just use it against us!"
"I have no will to do so. I only want peace between us... For Jenna's sake."
That hit home.
"So, you do have feelings for her."
"Just like you do for Sheba."
Beet red, Felix placed his hand on Alex's chest, pumping curative waves of psynergy into him. "Alright, I'll agree to this. But how do we kill that beast?"
Seeing Jenna and Sheba enter the room, he shook his head. "I don't know..."
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Walking into the room, Jenna tried to figure out where they had ended up. The "room" was nothing more than a cabin from an old ship hulk, and they were in some icy land that she didn't recognize. But then, she didn't expect to know where Alex would take them.
And she didn't expect Alex to be alive after that yelp mere moments before. She had her doubts of letting Alex be treated by her brother, but that seemed to not be the case, since he was obviously better...
"I don't know..."
He looked at her with a strange look, one of dread or something. What had Felix done now?
"It seemed hurt by the sword I threw at it."
Alex shook his head, clearly carrying on a conversation that had started before she and Sheba arrived. "I got a good look at it's skin. That thing is solid crystal or something. I don't see how we can beat it, especially if it can absorb attacks..."
"What," piped Sheba, "if we were to use psynergy other than Earth?"
"I tried that. And that's why it dove at Jenna and I; it sensed conscentrated psynergy. That thing loves it."
His face one with disgust, Felix turned towards her, "Did you find where we were?"
"Figured that I wouldn't tell you?"
Felix shot a glare at Alex, and Jenna began to worry that the yelp earlier was not as simple as she thought...
"Let's just say that I still don't trust you."
"Well, since I'm the only one that knows where we are... Oh, and we're about three or so hours from Imil."
"Imil?" Jenna didn't believe it; how had he the power to take them this far?
"This is a place I used to go to meditate and learn psynergy. It was also where I learned of the scrolls." He turned to Felix, apparently another hint that eluded her.
"So what you're saying is that we're near a place that you guys have been to, know where it is, and we're not leaving, because...?"
Jenna turned to Sheba, figuring that she had only an inkling. "Sheba, we're on the other side of the world, where people are looking... for Felix."
That got her.
"Besides," spoke Alex, "You couldn't get to Imil if you wanted to. The winter here is starting to set in, and the mountains are the worst areas to be. That's how I got my trainig - trying to control the storms."
"Did it work," asked Felix.
"Not really. But I did learn about living in adverse conditions..."
Felix waved his arms, apparently stressed beyond his tolerance. "We're all the way up here, away from our mission of saving our parents, leaving an accident-waiting-to-happen in Alhafra, and a monstrocity of some kind running around there, and you're telling us of how you trained?"
Jenna knew that Felix was known to have a short fuse when his stress built up, but this was rediculous.
"I did learn something else, though. This wreck was used by some old race..."
"This better be good..."
Ignoring Felix, Alex continued, "that had apparently been trying to use psynergy to control time. They ended up wrecking their ship and causing the surrounding areas to be unaffected by the affects of time."
Jenna stared, stunned at this bit of information. "And how do you know this?"
He paused before answering. "I found some doccuments that held the crew's log books. There was also info on psynergetic mutations, something that one of the crew was researching. It might have something."
Felix stared at him for a minute, then gestured for Sehba to follow him. Once he left, she turned to Alex.
"That was a load."
He shrugged, apparently knowing that she knew. "Well, either that or we loose him. Elements! I thought he was going to die from the strain he put on himself!"
"Well, normally these things don't get to him..."
"But his sister's boyfriends do?"
She gave him a smirk, then helped him to his feet. "Well, if he sees us together willingly, it might make things better. Let's go give them a hand."
Silently, they left the hulk of a ship, intent on finding the doccuments on mutations...
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Well, that was an extension of what I originally wrote, but then... You don't read this for that, do you?
I intended to do this, but I still have no idea as to how the monster will die... OK, that's a lie. I just needed to get away from the deep thougts of Alex, Jenna, Sheba, Isaac, Ivan, Garet, and Mia and focus on the other person who is key to this story: Felix.
Tell me what you think in your review, and here is this chapter's commentary:
Kyarorain - Yup. Used to be human. What do you think of these turn of events?
Gay Witch - Thanks! And I am trying to put more focus into Alex and Jenna's "nemesis:" Felix. What do you think of this?
Smurf Cat - Lemons come later... Thanks!
Darkcomet - I intend to. Thanks for the review!!
Selena - Thanks for the review! How does this chapter stack up?
REVIEW!! I LOVE OPINIONS!!
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Chapter 10 - Battle for Trust
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Felix walked towards the resting place where Sheba and Jenna sat. He had managed to quell his anger, no rage, and wanted to talk to Sheba, hopeful that his friend had some words of comfort. Was she a friend, though, or something more? They had never gone beyond talking and walks, excluding the time they were in the bar at Alhafra and they saw Alex get drunk...
He noticed the look of dread in Sheba's eyes, and a simmilar look in his sister's face. What-
He saw the body fly past him, crashing into the trees just behind Jenna and Sheba. Upon seeing that it was Alex, Felix whirled around to see the horrid creature bear down on their camp. Horrid was probably not the right word; disgusting, twisted, warped, damned, these and more could describe the abomination before them.
And judging from Sheba's scream, she had to have seen it.
Channeling his psynergy into his fists, Felix shot a shard of diamonds at the creature, hoping to pierce it's twisted flesh. To his horror, the thing absorbed the attack, drawing it into it's crystal back. Suprised but unhindered, Felix shot several more volleys at the demonic figure, with the same results.
".Y.you.. ca.n't beat it.. .that way..."
Keeping his gaze on the creature, Felix shot a reply to the fallen Mercurian, "Then how do you suggest we kill it?"
"A..pparently no.. not with psynergy... Those are pure psyn...psynergetic crystals... JENNA DON"T!"
Whirling around, Felix barely had time to see Jenna walking towards Alex. The Mercurian had blood staining his blue robes, his right arm cradled by his left, obviously broken. Jenna was holding the arm, using psynergy to heal it-
It hit him: "JENNA STOP!"
Before the words even left his throat, the creature dived at her, moving at speeds that could rival Garet sliding down Mt. Aleph at winter. It would be on top of Jenna before she could move...
Felix tried to send another wave of diamond rocks at the creature, hoping to distract it, but found that it was too late...
He heard the scream, but the yell that followed was not that of Jenna, but that of Alex. Trying to see through the cloud of dust, Felix saw the creature holding Alex by the waist, apparently getting in the creature's way. And with no way out.
Drawing his blade, Felix slung it at the crystiline back of the creature, hoping that a crack would weaken it. The blade hit, but only a small shard fell, as did the blood from his face.
But to his surprise, the creature dropped Alex, screaching in pain. Whatever had done the damage, Felix didn't care. He rushed towards Alex and his sister, noticing then that Sheba had hidden behind a log. Getting near, he saw Alex's nearly lifeless form.
And as soon as he got within four feet of Alex, he felt his body grow light as a feather, realizing all too slowly that Alex was teleporting them...
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Darkness was replaced by light as Alex came around. Having been drained by the teleport spell and injuries, he hadn't thought that he would survive. Then again, he did manage to save her life...
Opening his eyes, he saw a figure hovering over him, and soon felt dread as he saw Felix stare at him with his blank stare. Figures that this would happen.
"Well, nice to see that you're awake. Care to explain what you did?"
Not really, he mused. "We needed to get away from that thing. It would have killed... us."
"Since when do we matter to you?"
Was it just him, or was Felix suddenly madder than hell? "Since I choose to aid you."
The same stare met that comment. "Don't you mean, Jenna?"
Sitting up, Alex soon realized that more than his arm had been injured. "AAH! My chest!"
Suddenly, he was shoved back down, Felix again standing above his form. "I will only heal you when you tell me why you did it."
Wincing as the pain swarmed through his being, he tried to form a response. "I did it for you, Sheba, and Jenna. We need to... Save the world..."
Felix eyes doubled in size at that comment. "How did you know...? I thought only Kraden knew that..."
Alex thought about that, wondering how the old mage knew of the secret... Of course, it was hard to ask when the old coot was still in Alhafra, given that Felix and crew were supposed to only go out for a stroll... "I found out with some old scrolls in a cave north of Imil. And the only way we can do it is if you and I work together."
Felix gave him a look of pure disgust. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"You need to light the lighthouses, but I need to attan the power ontop of Aleph."
He proceded to tell the story of the Stone of Sages, and how he needed to be there to prevent it from being used for ill will.
"And why should I let you? You'd just use it against us!"
"I have no will to do so. I only want peace between us... For Jenna's sake."
That hit home.
"So, you do have feelings for her."
"Just like you do for Sheba."
Beet red, Felix placed his hand on Alex's chest, pumping curative waves of psynergy into him. "Alright, I'll agree to this. But how do we kill that beast?"
Seeing Jenna and Sheba enter the room, he shook his head. "I don't know..."
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Walking into the room, Jenna tried to figure out where they had ended up. The "room" was nothing more than a cabin from an old ship hulk, and they were in some icy land that she didn't recognize. But then, she didn't expect to know where Alex would take them.
And she didn't expect Alex to be alive after that yelp mere moments before. She had her doubts of letting Alex be treated by her brother, but that seemed to not be the case, since he was obviously better...
"I don't know..."
He looked at her with a strange look, one of dread or something. What had Felix done now?
"It seemed hurt by the sword I threw at it."
Alex shook his head, clearly carrying on a conversation that had started before she and Sheba arrived. "I got a good look at it's skin. That thing is solid crystal or something. I don't see how we can beat it, especially if it can absorb attacks..."
"What," piped Sheba, "if we were to use psynergy other than Earth?"
"I tried that. And that's why it dove at Jenna and I; it sensed conscentrated psynergy. That thing loves it."
His face one with disgust, Felix turned towards her, "Did you find where we were?"
"Figured that I wouldn't tell you?"
Felix shot a glare at Alex, and Jenna began to worry that the yelp earlier was not as simple as she thought...
"Let's just say that I still don't trust you."
"Well, since I'm the only one that knows where we are... Oh, and we're about three or so hours from Imil."
"Imil?" Jenna didn't believe it; how had he the power to take them this far?
"This is a place I used to go to meditate and learn psynergy. It was also where I learned of the scrolls." He turned to Felix, apparently another hint that eluded her.
"So what you're saying is that we're near a place that you guys have been to, know where it is, and we're not leaving, because...?"
Jenna turned to Sheba, figuring that she had only an inkling. "Sheba, we're on the other side of the world, where people are looking... for Felix."
That got her.
"Besides," spoke Alex, "You couldn't get to Imil if you wanted to. The winter here is starting to set in, and the mountains are the worst areas to be. That's how I got my trainig - trying to control the storms."
"Did it work," asked Felix.
"Not really. But I did learn about living in adverse conditions..."
Felix waved his arms, apparently stressed beyond his tolerance. "We're all the way up here, away from our mission of saving our parents, leaving an accident-waiting-to-happen in Alhafra, and a monstrocity of some kind running around there, and you're telling us of how you trained?"
Jenna knew that Felix was known to have a short fuse when his stress built up, but this was rediculous.
"I did learn something else, though. This wreck was used by some old race..."
"This better be good..."
Ignoring Felix, Alex continued, "that had apparently been trying to use psynergy to control time. They ended up wrecking their ship and causing the surrounding areas to be unaffected by the affects of time."
Jenna stared, stunned at this bit of information. "And how do you know this?"
He paused before answering. "I found some doccuments that held the crew's log books. There was also info on psynergetic mutations, something that one of the crew was researching. It might have something."
Felix stared at him for a minute, then gestured for Sehba to follow him. Once he left, she turned to Alex.
"That was a load."
He shrugged, apparently knowing that she knew. "Well, either that or we loose him. Elements! I thought he was going to die from the strain he put on himself!"
"Well, normally these things don't get to him..."
"But his sister's boyfriends do?"
She gave him a smirk, then helped him to his feet. "Well, if he sees us together willingly, it might make things better. Let's go give them a hand."
Silently, they left the hulk of a ship, intent on finding the doccuments on mutations...
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Well, that was an extension of what I originally wrote, but then... You don't read this for that, do you?
I intended to do this, but I still have no idea as to how the monster will die... OK, that's a lie. I just needed to get away from the deep thougts of Alex, Jenna, Sheba, Isaac, Ivan, Garet, and Mia and focus on the other person who is key to this story: Felix.
Tell me what you think in your review, and here is this chapter's commentary:
Kyarorain - Yup. Used to be human. What do you think of these turn of events?
Gay Witch - Thanks! And I am trying to put more focus into Alex and Jenna's "nemesis:" Felix. What do you think of this?
Smurf Cat - Lemons come later... Thanks!
Darkcomet - I intend to. Thanks for the review!!
Selena - Thanks for the review! How does this chapter stack up?
REVIEW!! I LOVE OPINIONS!!