Well, here's another CH. Hope you like it. It's been, once again, spaced by xSojix. good man, that one. Anyway, I just want to say again that I am always looking for people to help me. Also, I NEED MORE REVIEWS! What happened to my flow of reviews? I'm getting lonely out here! >:(. Ah well.
Also, just want to say this now (I'm going to state this later too). This fanfic was started sometime during the martial arts tourny. Therefore, there will be continuety problems. I'll try my best to include them, but you can think of this as an almost alternate universe, if you'd like.
Chapter 10
It was Hell.
The explosions where everywhere,
craters littered the ground. Volcanic rock splashed magma on the few
running to face the threat. Pillars of magma erupted from the ground.
The
demons were everywhere, and out numbered the mages, 10 to 1. Futile,
they fought, but the demon onslaught swarmed the small force.
"Solaris! Get out of here now!"
He shoved the small boy out of the way, and quickly created the magic circle, placing Solaris in the middle. He muttered a spell, and the circle glowed.
He muttered another spell, and said "Go, do your best. All will be revealed in time."
Reality seemed to split, and Solaris could see the carnage that was the demon battlefield, and a calm field. "Goodbye," the man was saying, when Solaris saw the silhouette of the demon bringing up its arms, preparing to strike.
"No, look out! FATH-!" Everything went black, and the man's tortured screams echoed into the abyss.
"NO!"
The boy sat up suddenly, soaked with cold sweat. Eva had just watched Negi leave the hospital, and turned to face the boy.
"What is it?" Eva demanded, coldly. He sat there, panting. He sat, wondering.
"What was that dream? So real..." Eva went over to the boy, and shook him.
"What did you see?" Eva said, threateningly.
"My...my name...Solaris..." he managed, obviously distracted.
"Solaris..." Eva thought. "Why is that name so familiar to me?"
Solaris went through his dream, and erupted when he came to the end. "NO NO NO NO!LOOK OUT!" He yelled, startling even the vampire. "no... father..." he said softly.
"Come here, Solaris-san. Let me see what happenned inside your head." Eva ordered. Solaris was helpless as she put her head to his, and began flashing through his dream. This time around, however, more was revealed than what was during his sleep. After the blackness, another memory was revealed. There were flashes of memories, played at super speed.
"Hey, get up, Please get UP!"
Young Solaris awoke, and found himself face to face with a blond haired girl, around the age of 10, by the looks of it. She had blond hair, and her eyes seemed much older than any other part of herself. Almost as if she had seen more than most should ever see. The girl bore a striking resemblance to Eva, and even seemed to talk the same way, but with a kinder tone.
"You've been beat up pretty good. What were you doing?" the strange Eva-like girl asked. Solaris looked at his body, and was amazed by what he saw. Blood had hardened on his skin, and he had bled all over. He couldnt move his right arm, and couldn't feel his legs.
"Ah... I.. I can't feel my legs..." he started.
The girl said, "You're hurt pretty bad. I guess you can stay with me. Here, I'll make a camp" she said cheerfully. She set everything up, and was sitting next to the fire when she surveyed Solaris' body more carefully. "Your arm is broken in 2 places, your ankle is sprained, and your spinal cord has been snapped, causing paralysis from the waist down. That explains the lack of feeling in the legs. Hmm..." She thought it over, and decided. "Here, let me see your back."
Solaris rolled over, crying and moaning from the pain, and let the girl examine his back. "Here, medicor" There was a slight green glow, and Solaris could feel his legs again.
"Thank you," he managed. The sudden return of feeling to his legs broght newfound pain, and he was on the edge of falling unconcious.
"I can't do much for the bones, I never really had to do much for them" the girl replied.
"...It was you," Solaris said quietly. "You healed me, before. You let me live..."
"Eva-chan, come on. Its been forever, and we still haven't set up camp." An older Solaris than before was standing, complaining to Eva. She still looked the same.
"Why put off until tommorow what you can do today?" Eva said cheerfully. Solaris groaned. They had been hiking for hours, always searching for something.
"What are you looking for?" Solaris had asked once.
"Something that will help me live a normal life," Eva had replied solemnly, and said no more. "Solaris-kun! Look! Lets catch some of those fish!" Eva called, waving.
"Coming!" Solaris said, and headed to the nearby stream. Solaris was by the edge, when he slipped and fell into the knee deep water. Eva laughed, jumped in, and started splashing him. He put his arm up in an effort to block the splashes. They were both laughing and smiling having a good time. Eva helped him out, and they laid down on the springy grass, looking at the clouds.
"W-What? How can this be? I don't remember any of this... and wouldn't I have been stuck in the school at this time?" Eva thought, mesmerized.
Eva and Solaris were camping in a forest. It was night, and the stars were shining. "So...we're getting close to whatever your looking for, right? How much longer is it gonna take?" Solaris asked, bored.
"Ever since you started tagging along, you've been asking that question. I think we are, but i dont know how much longer it will be." Eva replied cheerfully, poking the fire. Solaris leaned back, and reminisced. Eva had started teaching him some magic, and she had been amazed at how much of a natural he was at it. "I'd better watch out, or you'll beat even me!" She had said, jokingly.
He clenched his fist, and listened. "Eva-chan, quiet. Listen to that. What is it?" Eva stopped moving, and listened. Something was shuffling in the forest. Birds flew off, and leaves swayed. Suddenly, the trees infront of them fell over. Demons had tracked them down, thinking that these travelers were normal people. They were wrong.
"Solaris-kun, run! There's no way you can survive a fight with them. I'll hold them off!" Eva said urgently.
"But-"
"NOW!" Eva started fighting, ferociously. Solaris ran behind some trees, and although he knew he should keep running, he stopped and watched. He felt helpless as the demons eventually drained Eva's strength, surrounded her, and carried her off. At her screams for help, tears welled up in Solaris' eyes, and he started running, blindly. He hit something, and the screams of his only friend haunted him as he laid there, alone.
