Odd eyes slowly opened, seeing Kiwi look at him, and then gave his face a lick to fully wake him up. The boy got up, clutching his head as he spun, still a little dizzy from what happened. But, what exactly did happen?
Before he could recollect what happened, his friends came in. "Glad to see you're okay," said Yumi.
"Yeah, good thing Jim found you, or you'd be there forever," said Ulrich.
"From what Jim told us, he said you blacked out," Jeremy said. "Does it happen?"
Odd nodded. "More than you can imagine."
"More importantly," Sissy said. "Why did you attack Jeremy yesterday?"
Odd froze, and then looked back at his hands. "What did I do?" he asked himself.
"Don't play dumb, Odd," Yumi said to him. "You can still see his bruises on him."
That's when Odd heard a laugh. "Not bad, for a boy," said his voice.
The blonde boy jerked his head up and saw him…Blackmore. The only person who can see him is Odd, no one else. You can saw he's like an imaginary friend, but without the "R".
"Yeah, I know, he's your friend," Blackmore said. "But are they all really your friends, or are they just fake? Can't even tell who your friends are, can you, player?"
Odd kept staring at Blackmore, while his friends looked at the doorway of his room, seeing nothing but thin air.
"I am a player," Odd said to him.
Blackmore laughed. "Keh, don't make me laugh. If you're a player to the game, you should played by my rules. But you never played along, even after everything I offered. But you chose her."
"So what if I did, she's the only thing that matters to me," said Odd, "that and my friends, too."
The man grinned. "And what if you chose to play by my rules?"
He heard enough, Odd clutched his head in pain, shutting his eyes tightly; then he reopened them, seeing Blackmore was gone.
Odd got up from the bed and went to the door. Ever since he was in Kadic at Baltimore, Odd was always known for his mental health, but seems like nothing could conquer his own demons…Nothing yet.
But he had to conquer his own demons in order to find him and put Blackmore out his life permanently. Meanwhile, back in his room, the others were looking at Odd as he opened the door and walked outside.
"Who was he talking to?" asked Sissy.
"I turned to see, but saw nobody," said Aelita.
"I vote we watch him closely," said Jeremy.
"Agreed," said Ulrich.
"Agreed," said Aelita.
"Agreed," said Sissy.
Meanwhile, with Odd, he walked through the street, everything extremely calm. He was trying to know what he had done wrong. What had he done? What made his friends upset at him the other day?
"Why were they upset?" Odd asked himself.
"Maybe it's because what you did," said Blackmore. "You really know how to handle it, when you want to," he said.
The boy clenched his fist. "Yes, that's it. I know there's hate in there," said Blackmore, continuing to taunt him.
Odd's anger was slowly rising, as Blackmore continued to throw taunts at him back and forth. That's when Odd couldn't take it no more, he reared his fist back and thrusted it forward, hoping to hit Blackmore, but instead, he got Ulrich in the face, for the second time.
The brown-haired boy fell onto the street; the others came up and helped him. "Odd, there's definitely something wrong with you," said Sissy. But he walked off, leaving them alone.
But then he heard Aelita scream. "What is that?"
Odd turned his head and saw a ripple in the street, going towards him like a missile. He looked and saw a large, worm-like creature spring out from the ground and rear its body back, and then forward, whipping its sharp, steel chains at him, making Odd fall to the ground.
Then, the creature resurfaced back into the ground and dug away to wherever it was going. Odd got back up and dusted himself off.
"Burrower," Odd said to himself.
Everything was coming back…but here in Baltimore. Yes, now Odd must conquer his own demons, to heal his scars. Odd felt his body being spun around, seeing Yumi look at him the eye.
"All right, talk, what is going on here?" she asked.
He looked at the Japanese-girl, and then calmed himself. "Alright, I'll tell you everything you'll ever need to hear."
And so, he told him the story of Carnate Island, having to escape, finding out about his angry child, and the creatures. Every single piece of detail was given to the others, and they could believe it.
When Odd finished, Ulrich said. "You sure you're not making this up?"
"Yeah, this is probably a lie," said Sissy.
The others nodded, but Aelita shook her head and said. "I believe you."
They all looked at her, while a smile crept along Odd's face. Then, he heard some voices that belonged to familiar people.
"Any trace of him?" asked Relena.
"Nothing, it's clear," said a soldier.
"Area's clean," said another.
"Unbelievable," Relena said. "Now if I were a mentally imbalanced, homicidal, prison escapee, where would I go?" She went to the truck. "Mount up, we're done here."
Odd couldn't believe this; they were still on his ass. Would they ever give up? Maybe not, not until they find him and bring him back.
"Back to Kadic," he said. "The nightmare is about to start."
First off, I would like to say I've switched Darcmon with Relena Peacecraft from the Gundam Wing series to take the role of Jordon from the game And I would like to say that the one who inspired me to write Odd/Aelita fanfics was the author ODDFAN.
He's a great author, and his stories are excellent! Hope he gets a chance to read this one. And if he keeps writing, then I'll do the same.
In the next chapter, the hellish adventure begins!
And...what my English teacher told me, "It's your story, you can make it as weird as you want to, as romantic as you want to, whatever you want." And he's right.
Other than that...Read and Review!
