Chapter 3
A/N: Thanks for the reviews!
Viper676: yes, I know that, just keep reading.
Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine; they all belong to Diane Duane.
When they arrived at Grand Central, Nita and Kit checked their invisibility spell and strode purposefully towards the worldgate that would take them to Rirhath-B.
Any ideas about what we're going to do? Kit thought to Nita.
Of course notr, but that's how we do everything isn't it?
When, at last, they finally reached the gate, they ditched the invisibility spell, glanced at each other, and stepped through, careful to avoid the sharp edges. After they emerged on the other side, they both stopped and stared.
"Um, did we take the wrong gate?" Nita asked worriedly as she stared around at a landscape she remembered all too well. The dark, empty streets, the skeletal skyscrapers, and the leaden gray sky; it was the same universe she and Kit had traveled to for their Ordeal!
"I dunno," said Kit incredulously, "I checked the manual; that was the right gate. Maybe..." he broke off, blanching. "RUN!"
"What?" said Nita, turning around. A terrifying sight met her eyes. No less than a dozen slavering perytons were running down the cracked blacktop towards them! In a panicked frenzy, they both tore down Main Street gasping the words of a shield spell up around them. The perytons surrounded them, their all- too human eyes staring hungrily at them.
"This way!" Nita screamed to Kit, ducking into the doorway of a dilapidated coffee shop. When they were both inside, they piled whatever they could find in the dark against the heavy door.
"Um, Kit?" Nita's voice sounded out from the darkness.
"Yeah?"
"I just thought of something; why would the manual call only Seniors for this assignment? If there's no Seniors on the any of their home planets..." Nita broke off as a malicious voice behind them said,
"Clever of you to figure that out, I was wondering when that would occur to you." A tall red haired figure of man stepped out of the shadows.
"You!" Kit whispered, stepping back readying a spell.
"Yes, me." the Lone One said as he continued slowly and deliberately walking over to them. "I really wondered if you'd catch me on my little trick before you got here, but apparently, I'm in luck."
"What are you going to do?" Nita asked nervously, moving closer to Kit.
"I've come to know you both as intelligent people, think about it for a minute." He said smiling satisfiedly.
Kit! Remember what Tom said, a long time ago? "Would you get out of a car you're driving?" He lured all the Seniors here, or to some other universe, and without the Seniors around to keep things in line..." she shuddered. Kit, we've got to do something!
A/N: Well there you go, the big twist (I've always wanted to do that heehee!) Hope you like it so far! Keep R&Ring!