I promised you guys an update and I now have. Here's chapter five! Thank You for all of your reviews!
Chapter 5: So Close, Yet So Far Away
Sara tried to keep her self busy for the hours before Zoë's arrival, mainly by reading her books and looking for information about the crystal on the internet. The strangest thing was a message from government officials about a missing artifact, the description creepily matching the crystal. The last thing Sara needed was the FBI on her doorstep.
She had placed the crystal back into the box for safe keeping and had the box setting on the coffee table. Fuzz still was uneasy around the crystal. If he got too close, he'd jump away with a growl or a hiss. That was another thing that got Sara nervous about the crystal; animals had a natural, instinctive, sense about weird things. What was it about this crystal that had Fuzz freaking out so much?
But it did good things for her all the time. It helped her with her tests, although it mainly cheated for her. It increased her speed and agility during soccer and even healed a wound. What was so bad about something that assisted its owner?
Sara even considered what it could do for incurable diseases; would it be able to heal them too? Would she be able to help others so that they would never have to go through the hardship that her family went through?
Then, there came a scary thought. Could it be used for evil deeds? Could someone us it to control minds, topple enemies, or even kill someone?
Sara shuddered. She would never do that. But what if someone had found the crystal and tried?
A horn honking outside of her apartment startled Sara but she smiled when she realized Zoë had come. Sara grabbed the box with the shard in it and raced out of her apartment.
Draka and his group were heading straight for where the Crystal Shard supposedly was. The tracking devise gave off its signal clearly and they were able to capture it with the computer on their wrist gauntlets. The sun of the planet began to fall when the signal began to move.
Draka cursed. A human was in possession of the shard most likely now. Draka told his group to run faster as they chased the signal.
"So, what's so important that you needed to tell me? Got a new boyfriend?" Zoë asked with a smile.
"I wish," Sara said pulling out the box.
"Is that the box you found the crystal in?" Zoë asked leaning forward for a better look.
"Yep," Sara pressed the release switch for the box and took out the crystal, "but it's no the box I'm worried about, but this." Sara held up the crystal.
"What about it?"
"I think this thing has powers or something." Zoë started to laugh. "I'm serious!" Sara growled. Zoë definitely wasn't taking this seriously enough.
"Ok, what kind of "powers"?" Zoë asked. Sara could tell Zoë was humoring her.
"Well, my math test for one."
"That was just a miracle."
"Soccer tryouts."
"You're getting better."
"I'm hearing voices in my head."
"Voices? What do they say?" Zoë asked, starting to get interested.
"Well, at the time, they were telling me the answers to my English test. And they sounded like the kids in my class." Zoë stared hard at Sara trying to figure out if this was a joke.
"And the cut on my leg is gone; it healed already." Sara showed Zoë both her legs to prove it. Now, it was Zoë who looked freaked out.
"Let me see," Zoë said holding her hand out for the stone. Sara gave Zoë the crystal. Zoë examined it more closely this time.
"Think of something. Something that has meaning to you," Zoë told Sara. Sara just thought of her father and how he was hurting her.
Zoë's eyes widened and she dropped the shard with a yelp. "Holy crap, you weren't joking! Were you thinking about your dad?" Sara nodded and Zoë gasped. After a few minutes Zoë calmed down enough to ask to see the box the crystal was once in.
After looking it over a few times Zoë glanced at Sara, "Well, I think I know who this might belong to."
"Who? What person?" Sara said in shock. Zoë was smart, but if she knew the person it belonged to, she was a stinking psychic.
"I don't think they're a person." Zoë pointed to the carving of the creature on the front of the box. "I think it might have belonged to one of these guys."
"I thought it was just some carving of a god to protect it or something," Sara replied.
"Or it could be that," Zoë agreed. Zoë glanced at the box again. "What is that blinking light?"
"I don't know. It's not a bomb or it would have gone off by now. I pressed one of the symbols and it came on."
"Uh-oh," Zoë said giving Sara a nervous look.
"Uh-oh?" Sara echoed, "What uh-oh?"
"That might be a location devise." Sara looked at Zoë in disbelief.
"How do you know that?"
"I watch a lot of movies," Zoë replied simply, "And most tracking devises have a blinking light just like that one.
"Oh great," Sara grumbled.
"It's ok. We should probably get rid of the box, if it is a tracking devise. Just to be safe." Sara nodded her consent and glanced out the window. It was almost dark.
"I'd better go," Sara stood and grabbed the crystal and reached for the box. Zoë however stopped her.
"I'll get rid of the box in the stream that runs through the woods. Remember it?"
Sara nodded; Zoë's backyard bordered on a small forest. There was a stream about fifty yards into the woods where Zoë could just toss the box and have the current carry the box away. They had often played there in the summer when it got hot.
"See ya," Sara said, turning to leave.
"Hey, we can give you a ride," Zoë offered.
"No thanks. My house is only a few blocks from here I can walk," Sara pulled out the crystal and waved it at Zoë. "Who knows; maybe I can fly!" Zoë laughed as Sara left the room and then the house, heading home.
"I wonder if I can fly," Sara thought.
Once Draka believed he had found the location of the crystal, he notified the two other groups through the communicators they had on their wrists.
"We must set up a perimeter. Jeggred," he referred to second blooded warrior, "Set up your group southeast of the signal and Sek'lett, set yours up northeast of the signal. If the human escapes I will alert you of its progress and you must capture it."
Sek'lett's hologram-like screen disappeared as Draka ended his message. Sek'lett turned to his group.
"Kre'shan, come with me. We are going further north. Illi'thus, Ven'tise, stay here and keep your guard. If all goes smoothly, we will not be needed. And stay here; I will come for you when the Crystal Shard is captured."
Sek'lett and Kre'shan leapt off the building they were currently on top of and ran north. Ven'tise sat down on a ledge.
"Naturally Leader Draka's group gets to see all of the action," Ven'tise remarked. Illi'thus nodded in agreement. They had both hoped to at least see a human, if not interact with one.
"We are to obey our orders," Illi'thus reminded Ven'tise so the Yautja would not go off and try to find a human.
Ven'tise sighed and dipped his head, disappointed.
"I'll be right back mom!" Zoë shouted, throwing on a jacket and heading outside. She decided to get rid of the box as soon as possible; she didn't like the creepy feeling the little blinking light on the box gave her.
Zoë entered the woods, her shoes making loud crunches on the dried leaves and sticks. There hadn't been a good rain for a while, leaving the ground parched. A bright moon lit up the forest, casting eerie shadows everywhere.
Zoë felt her heart speed up in nervousness, but she shook the feeling off. How many times had she wandered in this forest during the day, making sure she knew every tree and bush up to the stream?
With a relieved sigh, Zoë heard the rushing stream; a storm north of here must have replenished the waters.
Zoë stood by the stream looking at her reflection in its black waters. She was about to toss the box when she heard a noise.
A crisp snap of a twig.
Normally, Zoë wouldn't care; probably just some nocturnal animal, out hunting for dinner. But, normally there weren't four gigantic creatures racing their way towards her crossing the relatively wide stream.
Zoë immediately recognized them as the creatures carved on the box. Zoë chucked the box away and turned to run. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before the creatures captured her pulling her away without a sound.
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