Author's note : Been a while since I have updated this fanfiction. Hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 17 - A secret between friends
Ellie POV
I sat outside with the others, Chelsee was next to Ben. Dennis was pacing back and forth, muttering under his breath.
"Dennis, you're making me nervous doing that." Hayley told him, shivering slightly.
"Why would she do that? She must know what will happen!" Dennis demanded
"Maybe she has a plan for that too." I suggested
"How can you plan for something that is to come...She's going to get herself killed, and it will be her own fault, if the Crawler doesn't kill her, Theresa sure will." Dennis sat down, his arms folded across his chest.
"Well, we can only hope she has a plan." Chelsee said, she was leaning against Ben and was holding his hand.
"Kalin." Walter rose from where he sat, they all turned and saw Kalin at the enterence to the Temple.
"She's waking up, but still, we don't think she is well enough. The priestess wants to continue what she is doing, but you can go and see her." Kalin smiled, she stepped aside as we all rushed inside. Jade was sitting on the edge of a stone bed, her head in her hands. The prietess was rubbing her back.
"Jade?" Hayley asked, she looked up and smiled weakily, before hiding her face again.
"We're not mad." I said, the others looked at me "Okay, we are really royally pissed off. Why didn't you tell us the plan?"
"Would you have let me follow it through if I told you?" Jade asked, we remained quiet. She was right, we wouldn't have let her go though with it. "I just want to sleep, I have a lot on my mind..." Jade rubbed her head.
"We'll be doing things around the City if you want anything." I smiled, Jade nodded and lay back down. We left the room.
"So?" Dennis asked
"We are totally nicking her notes when we get back to Albion, I want to l know what else she has planned ahead for." Chelsee said "First things first, now Jade's not on the brink of the void, can we get some food, I'm hungry." I started laughing, which cracked everyone else up and we went on a hunt for food.
Hayley POV
"Yum, this is good!" I smiled
"Kalin says it is mad out of herbs from the desert. I never thought Desert planets tasted so good!" Chelsee told me
"It's better then the rations we got at the fort, that's for sure." Ben said, he was happily digging in to the herbal soup.
"Stop eating so fast, you'll..." Chels stopped as Ben hiccuped, she giggled "get hiccup's." Ben glared as everyone burst out laughing.
"Not ~Hic~ funny!" Ben glared at them, he continued hiccuping which made everyone else laugh even more.
"You're so cute sometimes." Chelsee smiled up at him
"Aw, you two are so cute together!" I stated. Chels and Ben blushed and turned away from each other, which set Hayley and Ellie off again.
"So, what are we going to do after this meal? There are no quests here, well, not until Albion and Aurora join together." Dennis asked
"We could go on an adventure? You know, outside the city." Ellie suggested
"Yeah, we can face more of those metal crearures and sandfuries and...I thinks that all." dennis stopped "Okay, it's not as dangerous as I thought, who wants to go outside the city?" Everyone raised their hand.
"So, I'm guessing you'll be the one leading the way?" I looked at him.
"Guess so, I know there's a hermit living out there, we can go and find him." Dennis smiled
"This should be fun!" Chelse got up smiled, Ben stood to and took her hand, they blushed furiously as we all awed them again. I bet it was a surprise to everyone if they saw
Dennis POV
"How much further?" Chels asked, her arm covered her face as a sandstormed brewed around us.
"Not much I think." I said, looking around
"You think? this is not the time to be doubting yourself Dennis!" Hayley yelled.
"Sorry...this place is a lot bigger then I remember it..." I replied, frowning. No matter where I turned it all looked the smae
"so, we're lost?" Ellie groaned
"Let's head back." I said, I turned and looked the way we came, it didn't look much better then going a head.
"I can just about see the statue of Auruoa. If we can head in that direction and keep it straight ahead, we should get back safely." Chelsee said
"Are you sure?" Hayley asked
"If we all hold hands, there will be less chance of us being parted." Ellie added
"Fine, Chelsee, do you want to lead the way?" I looked at her.
"I'll try." Chelsee nodded, everyone held hands and Chelsee began to lead us through the desert.
An hour later, Chelsee stopped, looked around.
"Did anyone else hear that?" She asked
"Hear what?" Ellie questioned
"Not sure...maybe it was just me. We are nearly there anyway." Chelsee shook her head and began to walk again. We all cheered as we reached the city gates. But, the joy was short lived as we entered the city...
Chelsee POV
"Duck!" I yelled, we all dodged a black arrow.
"Those things from the cave..." Ellie muttered
"They must have followed us here..." I agreed.
"Well, lets fight them, they are rediculaously easy to beat!" Dennis grinned, we all drew our weapons. We fought our way easily through the shadows. The last of the Auroran's watched in fearful amazament as we fought them off, driving them back.
"Good hit Chels!" Dennis grinned.
"Thanks! But, what are they doing here?" I growled, killing another.
"What I want to know what they are?" Hayley said, taking a few down using her shock spell. "I know they are shadows...but they aren't normal shadows."
"Yeah, normal shadows don't tend to try and kill you." Ellie said, we soon took care of the shadows. Kalin approached us.
"Thank you. I was looking for you before they attacked. Some more of your friends have come here, they are with Jade at the moment."
"that would mean..." Dennis grimence.
"Jade and Page!" I gasped, we raced up to the temple, Kalin followed confused. We found Jade sitting with her hand over her ears as Page talked.
"Seriously Page, can you shut up for a second?" Jade growled
"Well whilst you've been napping..." Page began, Jade was on her feet.
"You think coming here has been a lovely trip?"Jade snarled. "Yeah, nice sunshine and all, but the thing here is the main reason Theresa brought us here!"
"Jade, calm down..." I rushed over
"Urgh." Jade turned "I'm going outside for some air!" We all watched her go.
"She has a point, this place is horrid. With the crawler being so close, this place is a nightmare...that and she was taken prisoner by it." Hayley nodded.
Jade POV
I sat staring out to sea, the silence was only broken by the waves.
"Want some company?" I looked up to see Swift.
"love some." I smiled, he sat next to me.
"I wish I had gone with you, I may have been able to help..." He said
"No." I looked at him. "See...what I did...was take Walter's place in the story. The crawler was meant to take Walter...but I decided that..."
"You wanted Walter to live...like me." Swift sighed "you don't have to put yourself in ahrms way to protect us Jade."
"But, I want to protect you. I care about you a whole lot, I couldn't bare lossing any of you..." I muttered starring at the sea once more. I felt Swift take my hand.
"But, you will be our Queen, and it will be our duty to protect you, not the other way round." He kissed the back of my hand, I blushed. "Kalin wants to speak to everyone, and I think we'll be heading back to Albion soon too."
"Okay." I nodded, he helped my to my feet I stumbled a bit. "um, I have to admit something...but, I only want you to know, for now."
"Oh, okay. What is it?" He asked
"Whilst they were trying to get the darkness out of me...I was in a dream of some sort of dream, there I met Scythe." I told him
"Scythe, as in the old hero from history?" Swift looked surprised.
"Yes, I can't really remember what he said, but It was something about the darkness." I said.
"I wouldn't worry about it, but, Scythe only shows himself to potenail powerful heroes. You must be one of those few." Swift smiled.
"Doubt it. Anyway, lets go and see the others, I bet Chels is making up some rosey rumors about us taking so long." I began walking, I looked back to see Swift blushing slightly as he followed behind me . I blushed and smiled, at least he was alive.
