Hero of the Day
Chapter 5: Holding Onto Emptiness
"There's writing on this paper." I took the note off the mirror, it read:
Isaac, and moron with spiked hair,
Go away.
Jenna
"…" I blinked, confused. "That's not very descriptive…" Such simple words hit me hard. I blinked again, trying to hold back tears. What did I do?
"What's wrong?" Garet stared at my confused. He walked over and gently pulled the paper out of my hand. "Err… that sucks, guess you aren't quite THAT lucky."
"Shut up…" I cleared my throat and wiped my eyes. "Maybe it wasn't really her or maybe it's a joke…" although the joke seemed pretty cruel.
Garet examined the little slip of paper and something caught his eye, "Sorry man, but this seems to be pretty genuine."
"Why do you say that?" I looked at the piece of paper where he was pointing. There was a spot slightly colored black… "So? What's your point?"
"I remember in school I used to leave small burn marks on paper made of weak material, if I held it long enough…" Garet explained, "…that was probably 'cause I'm a Mars adept… as was that girl."
That kind of made sense unfortunately, I guess. "Her name is Jenna and for all I know you could've been the one who wrote this note, you ARE a Mars adept…"
"Don't be like that…" Garet looked over the note again, "And who's she calling a moron? Spiked hair? My hair is like a mop from the stupid rain and that stupid hat…"
"Say Garet…" something about that caught my attention.
"What-"
"When did it start raining yesterday?" I asked.
He thought for a minute, "About five minutes before I got to the inn, why? I put on this hat right about then to try and keep my hair at least a little dry…"
"Ha! Yes!" I realized that Jenna never saw Garet with spiked hair or even without that hat. "Someone was stalking you, kidnapped Jenna, and must also be a fire adept!"
Garet looked confused, "And… that's a good thing?"
"…" I frowned. "Oh yeah… good point."
"…" Garet patted his hair. "That doesn't make sense anyway, there's no one that would stalk me or want to capture her."
"Well… that's not totally true. Jenna left out a lot of details from her past, and I'm sure there's plenty of …people that would want to 'capture' her." My own words made me get moving, I ran to my stuff that was in between the two beds and threw it all in there and grabbed the small sword from under my bed. I checked Jenna's bed to see if hers was still there but no, it was gone… someone did a very thorough job. "…but Sol knows why anyone would want to stalk you."
"Uhh… yeah but," Garet scratched his head, "she was a Mars adept, so I don't see how any normal person could just take her somewhere against her will…"
"Was!" I frowned. "Where do you think she is by now?"
"First of all, calm down…. I mean you barely know her." Garet shook his head
That was just the thing I needed to get even madder. "What is that supposed to mean!" I shouted at him. He jumped back, surprised. My voice went soft, "She was taken away against her will. And besides… every time that I looked into her eyes, something seemed so familiar, so right…"
I grabbed my jacket and ran towards the door.
"Where you going now?" Garet put his arm out as I ran off. He sighed and followed. I ran down the hallway and to the stairs. When I came to the main floor I headed over to front desk. I could hear Garet's footsteps barely in the background.
"Excuse me Miss," I paused, out of breath. "Did you notice anyone leaving the inn yet?" It was still early, about 7 AM.
She looked up from her book. "Just one group of people… I counted about six or seven, a few with the strangest hair you'll ever see, blue! They had one of suites, they handed back their key and checked out about five minutes ago…" She looked over to the shelf where keys were kept and frowned. "Looks like they only returned one key, suites for that many people come with two keys… Maybe there's still someone in the room."
Blue hair… it couldn't be. But the guy Jenna had described did have blue hair… and how many people would have blue hair? I saw where she was looking on the shelf. The small tag read A101, the first room in the suite hall. I ran out of the lobby and ran past Garet on the way without saying a word.
"Wait-" he moaned as I ran past. He turned around and jogged after me.
I stopped in front of a double door room. The gold plate above it read A101. I pulled on the handle; it was locked. "Damn it, come on…" I banged on the door.
Garet caught up to me and caught his breath. "Jenna is in this room? What? Stop running…" he complained.
"Can you hear me Jenna?" I shouted into the door. No response was heard but she could be- I had to get in. "You freaks are dead! I swear I'll kill you this time." I took the bench that was up against the wall and picked it up. I can't believe I could lift something so solid but I raised it and smashed it through the double doors. It ripped the hinges off the door, the noise was sure to attract a crowd within minutes.
"…" Garet's mouth hung open, "Are you joking? What the hell did you just- who are you talking about?"
I immediately climbed over the doors and came into the middle of the room. There was nothing there. I checked in the bathroom, the other bedroom, and the closet. There was not one thing. "This isn't good…" I noticed on the table near the bed was a set of keys.
"Well Garet, we can't afford to buy a new door, especially you. We better find the exit at the other end of the hall and leave town…" I pushed him out the door and towards the hall.
Garet stumbled then started running towards it, "Me? I didn't do anything! You crazy-"
"Just shut up and run." I ran right behind him.
We headed out the back door and into town. Thankfully the sun had barely risen and only a few people were on the streets. We didn't stop until we got a few hundred feet east of town. I stopped and looked around then moved my hands around the sides of my belt. "Oh no… I don't have my sword…"
"We can't go back," Garet bent over out of breath, "Neither of us have anything now… we should go back to Vale…"
I didn't want to do that. Not now and not until Jenna could too. I wanted to yell at Garet but there was nothing to say, I didn't have a plan or a lead. I sighed and looked around, I saw something… there seemed to be a patch of shadow moving towards the horizon.
"Garet, I see something! Let's go." I ran hopelessly after the shadows.
"Again?" Garet sighed and followed me. I guess he didn't want to be left behind…
After running for a few minutes, which felt like hours, I stopped and went down on one knee and put out my left arm to hold me up. I could make out the slow walking pack. There seemed to at least two figures walking… I could make out their outline but couldn't tell if it was anyone I knew.
"You!" Shouting sucked most of my remaining energy from me. "Stop…" I whispered.
Both people stopped and turned straight towards me. They exhausted an eerie aura.
There done! Wow hardly anything happened this chapter : hope you like it anyway. Please review and I don't own GS
Mia: I'll be replacing Jenna while she's gone
What? You aren't even in the story!
Mia: Yet.
So how does that make you more qualified than Jenna to be my muse-
Mia: -glare-
Rev-On: Thanks : ) sorry this update did take kinda long but I had to think of how to make it at least work a little bit… hope you like
Midnight Moon: really? Thanks, and that's a good question but it takes place in Weyard so like, time isn't really relevant to modern day earth, I guess not exactly blue jeans but similar… didn't really mean to like use a modern day brand name or anything. Anyway, thanks for the review, hope you like the update
Mene: lol. Once again, thanks a lot for reading and reviewing, hope you like the update… and nope, Jenna isn't just around town :p maybe she didn't leave on her own will after all, but don't worry I put rescuing you above the other goal of saving the world from alchemy! errr wait I mean Isaac and Jenna -runs-
Xanda: Yeah : and yeah Garet would look pretty funny with a hat like that lol, thanks for reading and review, enjoy the update! I'm getting there with your story, it's cool… why am I reviewing it from my story? Lol well I guess I'll post a review on your story when I'm totally done
Thanks to silent readers as well.