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Chapter 3 Urgent Message

Alder let loose his arrow. He smiled slightly when hearing Nevva yell as the sharp arrow struck her deep in the chest. She growled in anger and pulled it out with the hand not holding her gun. By this time Alder was already running into the woods. Nevva took off after him while shooting randomly around her. Trees bent and broke as the invisible force smashed into them.

The knight skidded to a stop behind a wider tree. He gasped for air as he took off his glove to show his Traveler ring. He always kept slips of paper in his boot with the knife just incase he got into trouble like this one. But it was now that he realized he didn't have any ink to write with. He cursed his shallow thinking.

Suddenly an idea hit him. He grabbed a twig and rammed it into the muddy ground a few times. He used the mud and dirt as his ink as he wrote a short message in almost illegible handwriting on the parchment paper. He took off his ring and gasped when the tree next to him fell over and landed only inches away. Nevva was getting close.

"Third Earth," he whispered to his ring before placing it on the ground. It grew in size and the usual musical notes softly drifted to his ears. Without hesitation, Alder threw the note into the black hole the ring had created. Once the thing was normal size, Alder shoved it back onto his finger and put his glove back on quickly.

"There you are," Nevva seethed as she finally spotted him. Before she could fire, Alder had already notched an arrow and had it flying towards her. He had practiced a lot with his bow while hanging out on his Territory. He was like the Robin Hood of Denduron now.

Alder didn't stick around to see if he had missed or not. With a panicked look in his eyes, he cumbersomely stumbled away from the girl and started the long sprint to the cave on top of the hill. He ducked as he heard Nevva fire at him again. Debris flew into him from behind, but he had been out of range thankfully.

As he ran, Alder notched another arrow and aimed at Nevva as he kept sprinting up the hill. This time he wasn't fast enough with his aim and she shot at him before he could. He gave a sharp cry as the invisible wave crashed into him and he flew high into the air. He landed roughly close to the cave and winced as the wrist he had landed on shot needles of pain up his arm.

Nevva stood over Alder with a frown on her face. She set her dado gun to stun as Alder desperately tried to get to his feet. She chuckled bitterly at him while saying, "I guess this was the way it was meant to be, knight." He frowned up at her silently.

"Guess again!" Kat yelled as she threw her last pocket knife at Nevva with a battle yell. Just like the time with Saint Dane, her aim proved true as the knife punctured the girl's hand with the gun. Nevva gave a yell of surprise as her weapon flew from her hand from the impact and tumbled effortlessly down the hill.

"I guess it wasn't, Nevva," Alder said with a smile. Kat helped him to his feet and they both ran into the cave. Nevva frowned as her defeat bruised her high pride. Alder and Kat stood in the mouth of the flume and the boy yelled up, "Third Earth!"

Nevva watched with a scowl as the bright light took them. She retrieved her weapon and walked back to the flume. Her hand the knife had gone through was healed, but for some reason it still stung every time she moved it. She growled with annoyance.

But Nevva wasn't going to underestimate the two again. They had gone to Third Earth for help from other Travelers there. She would just have to make a quick detour before she flumed off to Third Earth. Her usual evil smirk crawled back onto her lips as she looked up into the flume.

"Quillan!" she shouted.

-Third Earth-

"Keep moving!" Alder snapped at Kat as he pulled her along with his good hand. He had only been to this Territory a few times, but he knew two Travelers here would help them big time at the moment. Kat kept looking around with wide eyes of wonderment. This seemed to be her future planet.

"What year is this!" she asked him as they got out of the tracks and into the subway station. The few people there that late night was giving the pair questionable looks. Alder knew they didn't have time to change clothes in the flume. Nevva would be coming after them once she got her gun back. So now they were sticking out like a sore thumb.

"Never mind that," Alder said. "We need to keep moving, Kat. My friends are going to meet us on the surface." She gave him a confused look, but followed right behind him while still looking around. They quickly made it to the surface by a few escalators. A full moon and sky full of twinkling stars welcomed the two as they made it to the top.

"Whoa! This can't be New York!" Kat said with a laugh. "This is awesome! What happened to the whole flipping city that used to be here?" she asked Alder. But the boy wasn't paying attention to her. He walked up and down the empty paved street with a frantic look on his face.

"Here they come!" he yelled with relief in his voice. Kat saw the headlights of a small car quickly driving up to them on the street. She looked around to see only darkened grassy hills. No one was up there with them. Suddenly Kat felt vulnerable. If that lady with the gun caught them up here they would have no where to go. She shivered as a cold breeze swept over them.

"Are you okay?" Alder asked her, noticing her shiver. "Were you hurt?"

"No," Kat said quietly while shaking her head. "I just want to go back down."

"They will be here soon," Alder reassured her. She only nodded silently. For some reason she just had this urge to go back underground. She tried to shake off her feeling as the car pulled up. Two people were already in it. One was older than her, maybe in his late 20's. The other was around her age and was smiling wide at both of them.

"Hobey-ho, mates!" the younger one said with a wave. "We could barely understand that message of yours, Alder. We decided it was urgent."

"It was," Alder said. He motioned for Kat to get in before him. She hopped into the back seat as he said to the one driving, "And it still is. Nevva is after us." The two in the front exchanged worried glances before the driver took off down the street. The urge to go underground quickly left Kat as she looked around, pushing the hair out of her face as the convertible blew air around her head.

"So who is this?" the driver asked Alder, giving the teen a stern look. "She doesn't look like she is from Denduron. Is she the one we are looking for?"

"Sadly, no," Alder said. He sighed in frustration before telling the two Pendragon and his secrete about her. He explained everything with Nevva and also his confusion as to why the girl would want Kat. The others were just as confused.

"We just got ourselves in another tum tigger," the young one who they called Spader said with a sigh. "We need to find this person the Creators told us to find. What is the girl we need doing anyways, hiding from us?" Kat bit her lower lip and tried not to squirm in her seat when she heard this. Good thing the others weren't paying much attention to her. What they didn't know wouldn't hurt them.

"Hey, Alder, you okay?" the one called Patrick asked Alder, noticing the boy holding his wrist. "I have a medical pack in my glove compartment if you need it."

"Thanks," Alder muttered. He smiled slightly to Spader as he handed the pack to him. "What is this stuff?" he finally asked in his utter confusion. Kat looked into the box and smiled at his perplexed expression.

"Let me help you," she told him. He let her take the medical kit. She mulled through it, finally taking out some tape. "It seems like it is only a sprain," she told Alder. "You just need to wrap it up and avoid using it too much." She handed him the tape and he nodded with a silent thanks. She just smiled sweetly back at him.

"Um, mates, we have trouble," Spader said as he looked into the review mirror on his side. At once everyone looked behind the car and frowned at the sight. A surface transportation truck was quickly gaining ground on them. They could make out Nevva standing on the roof of the truck with three other people (these are really dados) with her. All were holding the same kind of gun she had in her hand.

Patrick sped up, but the truck was still faster than them. The four waited with dread as the truck started to pull up beside their little convertible car. At this speed, the air blasted against their bodies. Spader stood up on his seat along with Alder. Kat realized they were going to jump onto the truck. She wished she had a knife, but she stood up with them anyways.

"Give me the girl!" Nevva yelled down at them over the wind.

"Not a chance, Nevva!" Spader yelled back up. For once he wasn't smiling.

"What do you want with her?" Alder asked.

Nevva ignored his question as she aimed her gun at them. "This time, knight, you won't get so lucky," she finally said. She smiled at them and pulled the trigger.

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