The Infinite Chronicles

Act 3: Rebirth

Double digit chapter already?

And i'm going to make the paragraphs way shorter now

The last chapter was too "Chunky" for my liking

Chapter 10

"Welcome weary travellers, come inside!" a voice said through the howling sandstorms. We hurried to the origin of the sound and saw an old and beaten looking warehouse and walked into the door. "Aunty Amica!" Steve jumped into the hands of an old woman with dark skin and aviator clothes. "My dear, Steve, are you a driver now?" she laughed as she cradled him. "Yes Aunty, this is Grace!" he said while pointing at her. "Ah it seems you have company, what can do for you all" she said putting him down. "We're looking for someone who can build a vessel for us and Steve here said you would be perfect" Jess smiled at her nicely. "I see, and I assume you have the blueprints for the ship?" she asked. Steve handed her a blueprint and she looked at it "My my, for a vessel this size, it will take about a week to finish, I assume you will all stay here?" "Yes we will ma'am" Avalon bowed. It was strange to see Avalon bowing at all to anyone at all. We spent the next five days helping Aunty Amica, who was in fact, not related to Steve at all.

During our spare time, I would challenge either Jess or Steve sparring. "You're getting better!" I said parrying Steve's great axe "Heavy Slam!" he uttered, slamming the ground and creating shockwaves that knocked me on my back. "Friend ok?" he asked, rushing to my side. "Yeah yeah I'm fine" I brushed him off "you did well though!" "Really? Really! You hear that Grace'' Grace just rolled her eyes but he didn't seem to care or notice. Occasionally, Aunty Amica would ask us to get huge bars of metal in the warehouse next to the one she was working in. "These bars are gonna be hard to lift, Steve, you take the other side" I ordered "On three, one," I readied my hand on the bar "two and three!" we lifted the bar with ease and carried it back to the other warehouse OR that's how I imagined it, in reality we both were struggling to lift the bar while our blades were trying not to laugh. "You can do better?" I shot at both of them. Grace just walked over and lifted the bar with one hand "It appears I can'' she said smugly. Now Avalon walked over to a pile of the bars and encased his fists with white energy, like did back at the ship, and lifted about fifteen of them and walked out. I could feel all of our collective faces drop their jaws at the sight of him doing that.

Jess on the other hand, was helping Aunty Amica by melting them into more manageable pieces using Zero's fire and cutting them up. At the end of the day, we would all sit around a table inside the warehouse to eat dinner. Aunt Amica also turned out to be a great cook and taught Jess some recipes. The vessel eventually took shape and Aunty Amica predicted that it would be finished in about four more days. We were then tasked to find wood for the interior, which seemed like a joke in the middle of a desert, but as it turned out there were such things as desert forests. I learned to combine the two blades together and used the much bigger sword to cut down the trees which Avalon carried back. On the final day, we finally finished the vessel, it was of moderate size and black with some purple stripes and gold highlights. "Pretty vessel, seems like a shame to destroy it" a voice said behind.

We all turned back to see a man in blue armour and a black mask. Seriously, what is it with people and masks, Avalon wears his most of the time and now this guy? My instincts took over and I drew my sword. "Occisor" Jess hissed "I suppose Silverius sent you?" he laughed an empty hollow laugh "Why'd you leave us Jess? Now all we eat is takeout food" "You,Corvin and Silverius's morals were always questionable" she retorted. "I see the Aegis has a new driver and form" he looked at our direction "Well you know how it goes" he pulled out a long katana from his back and pointed it at us "but how bout we fight outside huh?" he lunged at us and said "Blowdown Gale" a huge gust of wind knocked all of us outside through the walls of the warehouse and into the howling desert. I got up groaning only to see him above me about to pierce before he got tackled by Avalon who somehow had our sword in his hands and pressed it against Occisor's throat. "So you're an ice type blade huh," Occisor said, "typically that would be a counter to a wind type user like me. But that won't matter." He threw Avalon off him and lunged at him only to be parried. The two engaged in a ferocious sword fight "But you forget" Occisor said "I didn't travel alone" a scream rang out from the top of the warehouse, I turned around to see a bird-looking blade holding Aunty Amica by the shirt and dangling her over the top. I cursed "Jess go help her" she nodded and ran off "Steve, with me" we both rushed him only to be blown away again by another gust of wind.

"My, my I thought an Aegis would have been a challenge" he slashed at Avalon who blocked it and tossed the sword to me and I countered another blow from him "So far you have been pretty disappointing" I tried to hit him with a Piercing Uppercut but he just jumped back and dodged it. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Jess engaging the other blade and knocking him off the roof and Zero caught a falling Aunt Amica in time. The blade who fell off the roof flew back and joined Occisor in battle. "Meet Kyklonas" and his blade bowed before blasting us with a storm of sharp feathers, we all raised our shields but that gave Occisor time to knock us down. Before he could do anything, Steve slammed him off of us and tossed the axe to Grace who uttered "Gaia Earthquake!" and the ground shook and earth spikes sprouted towards Occisor who cried "Blowdown Gale" which knocked himself upwards, dodging the spikes, and blasted us to the floor again. "Really starting to hate that move," Avalon grumbled "Time to finish this" I nodded and we both grabbed the sword, raised it and we uttered "Winter Night!" the area around us started to become really cold. Occisor didn't seem too bothered by this move, but he definitely was moving slower. Out of nowhere, Kyklonas threw a knife and it landed straight in Steve's chest, he looked at it and fell down. I roared in anger and my vision turned red. "Seems like my job is done, Kyklonas, let's move" and he turned around and ran. "Jess you look after Steve, I'll go get him" she yelled at me to stop but I didn't care. I ran after him but I didn't see Avalon following me. "So you're alone huh" he turned around to face me "Much easier to kill" and kicked my legs out and brought down his katana. "NO!" was all I heard before everything went to hell. A black blast of energy knocked Occisor off me and I heard a cruel laugh, my sword started to glow and then it was replaced with a bigger purple and gold sword with a ball of blue energy in the middle. "Avalon what is this?" "I am not Avalon," a deeper voice behind me said, "I am Infinite, the true Aegis."

I looked back and saw that in Avalon's place, another man in black and purple armour with gold parts and ANOTHER hood and mask. But being near him, I could feel the power radiating from him, he picked up my sword and rushed at Occisor with a speed faster than what Silverius moved at. Occisor got knocked back so far I couldn't see him through the sand storms. From Avalon's, no Infinite's back mechanical clicking sounded and two small blades that acted as wings, I guessed, hovered near his back and he chased after Occisor with such speed he knocked me back. I got up and ran after both of them.

After some time wandering the dunes, I heard some sword fighting, I hurried up another dune and saw both of them clashing at lightning-fast speed. Finally, Infinite knocked the sword out of Occisor's hand. As he was about to strike him down, he got punched by Silverius in the face. How'd he got here I don't know but he looked me dead in the eyes "Nice job kid" and grabbed Occisor by the neck and they both disappeared

"What the hell is wrong with you!?" Infinite yelled at me "You charged in alone to foe and acted on pure emotion, do you realize how stupid that was!" "Look I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it" I apologized "Whatever" and he grabbed me and we appeared back in the warehouse. Infinite turned back into Avalon and passed out. "Will Steve be okay?' I asked Jess. "My healing has already fully recovered him but he still needs to rest" she replied. I didn't realize how tired I was until Jess poked me "Oh no you don't, I'm not going to carry two unconscious people onboard the ship, move your ass" I got up and we both hauled Avalon to one of the vessel's rooms and I immediately passed out on my bed.

So far this has taken the longest time to write, and Infinite's sword is the sword on the book cover