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CHAPTER 12
Night of malicity
Sean retired to his bed three hours earlier, after having a talk with his family about what had happened in his past that allowed him to be with them.
"Sean....." Sarah said to him. "What is it?" he asked.
"Where are you? I can't see you." She said, looking straight past him. He was in her houses kitchen. He looked at himself, he had decided to reveil his secret to her before he had gone to bed. He stepped into the light, from the hallway, and she saw him, and screamed, but not at him, for she had only felt him there, and heard him in her mind, but he was not there, but something was. A shadowy form came into the room, from behind him, and the last thing he heard from her was her, calling his name, with horror in her voice.
"SEAN!!!"
He bolted upright, suddenly quite awake, and filled with dread.
He got up and felt his hands get tangled in the sheets, as well as his legs, and saw that he had his claws hooked into the sheets.
He tried to untagle himself and finally took the sheet mass around his wrists in his jaws and pulled his hands free, then pulling himself quickly out of bed.
He only had one thing on his mind, getting to Sarah. He opened his bedroom window and kicked the screen out of it. then lept out. he landed like a cat, and began to run silently across the street. He saw the kitchen window of her house was open, "Odd, normally Her father keeps tyhe house under total lockdown at night...." Sean thought, he sensed that his dream had more basis in reality than he would have liked.
He scrabbled up the wall with his claws and shot through the open window. He could see Sarah backing slwoly into the kitchen, holding her Saber before her as if to ward off an enemy he could not yet see. He saw something behind her, and he made his move, gouging into it with his clawed hands. It did not seem to like this and it spun around to face its attacker, not realizing that he hadalready climbed onto its shoulders and had a heavy pot in his hands. He brought the pot down on its head and the loud sound of metal hiting bone caused Sarah to spin toward the sound.
She caught a glimps of green and saw something flash by her, already ripping the something that had backed her into the kitchen apart.
She could somehow...fel..Sean, as if her were next to her...but she could not see him, she had felt him, and heard his voice, just before the shadowy forms came, she had given the somethings a good chase around the house, but she had finally run out of places to run. Her father was out on a mission right now, so she had the house to herself.
She finally saw what had shot past her, somekind of wild beast, looking slightly like Squall, but with greenish hair, and slightly lighter in skintone. She felt Sean again.......
He looked at her. "Behind you!" he said. She looked surprized for a second, then realized the import of his words, she spun around and stabbed her Saber into the head of a shadowy form. It desolved.
He felt other presanses close by, not hostile, at least toward them, but ready to pretty much mop the floor with these ghostly fiends.
Sarah saw another one of the nasty things, and beheaded it, well, as much as something that seemd to have no physical form yet could be hurt by physical attacks. Sean ran toward another and rammed it with his shoulder, shoving it out of the room and out the front door. David suddenly arrived, waiving a staff around and letting loose bolts of Gizonde, frying several of the ghost with it. He looked at the animalish creature with surpirze, and even more surprize came to him when he saw it carve into the ghostly form of another hostile thing.
Sean moved with speed toward another ghost and light it up with a casting of Grants that blew it away.
David saw the uber-Grants and knew who the alien fighting along side them was.
He just....knew....and so did Sarah....neither knew how, or why....but they knew.
The three of them fought on, joined around five AM by ZERO.
By the time the battle was over, all of the ghosts that had survived had fled. David was asleep on Sarahs couch. ZERO was sitting guard on the roof, with a beam rifle to keep away any more ghosts that might show up.
Sarah sat next to Sean, on a bench on her houses front porch, watching the sun rise over the city.
She looked at him, looking him over.
"Is it really....you?" She began to ask.
"Yes." He said.
He looked at her, his eyes looking with hers.
David came out about ten minutes later, finding them still looking at eachother.
"Wierd....." He said, leaning against the wall. A grin came to his face, before he did a doubletake.
He dropped the cup of coffee he had made. He saw for the first time that Sean was not Human.
"WHA-!?"
Both of them turned to see him standing, sputtering. "Yes.....your eyes do not lie to you, it IS me." Sean told him.
"What happened to you? There is obviously something going on here that I did not know about." David said.
Sean sighed, then told them both the whole story of everything he had been told from the previous day.
They sat on the bench, Sean had gotten up from it to let David sit, and so Sean could pace around for a bit.
"Thats pretty much all I know, so far......I was planning on breaking this to you both a bit slower than this, but now that the situation has clearly changed, I felt I should just get it done now." Sean said. ZERO had overheard the conversation. She dropped down from the roof and looked at him. "Now.....what is our next move?" Sarah asked.
Sean looked toward the planet.....
"We're going down there.....there has been no contact from Sqaull since he want to the planet, right ZERO?" Sean asked her.
"Correct." ZERO told them.
