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The Fourth Time

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I'm going to end up in the Overworld this time, I just know it. It wouldn't make any sense if I didn't. Why go to three of the four tribes of Perim and then just stop?

I open my eyes, and I immediately feel a cool breeze and see a blue sunset. I knew it. The Overworld. Judging by the pattern of the other three times, most likely in Kiru City. I stare at the sky as I smile. I'm going to make this time work.

I hear a scream. Well, the chaos begins. I look in the direction of the scream.

A woman is clinging to the side of a cliff, her hands shaking with the effort of keeping her up. I stare in shock, and the woman screams again as she slips further down. My body finally stops freezing up, and I lunge for the woman.

I'm not fast enough. The woman slips off the edge and falls. I'm on my hands and knees, looking over the cliff, watching her fall. The woman's figure suddenly stops getting smaller as she hits the ground several hundred feet away.

My mind is blank. I just watched someone die, right in front of me. I was moments away from catching her, but she'd slipped through my fingers.

I'm not technically in Kiru City. More like on top of it. I raise my head and numbly look around. Practically every building has a human on its rooftop like I am.

I scramble away from the edge and curl in a ball. Forget being run through with a sword. Forget smothering. Forget being set on freaking fire. I have a deep, debilitating, completely irrational fear of heights. I've never actually fallen more than a couple feet before, but heights are my enemy and they always will be.

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Time passes. The sky is completely dark now, except for the stars and moon. I hear chatter from the streets and the rooftops. I don't understand any words being said, but I can safely assume the Overworlders have long since discovered us. They're probably trying to reach those of us stranded on rooftops.

I feel the wind change slightly, and then there's the sound of claws touching down on stone. I hear a screechy voice say, "Found another one, top of the palace."

I turn my head so I can see the speaker. I can't tell by star and moonlight alone, but the creature looks like a some kind of bird. In his hand is some kind of crystal.

A deep male voice sounds from the crystal, "Check for weapons, then bring him down."

The bird-creature slips the crystal into some kind of belt at his waist and steps closer. He crouches over me and says, "If you make any sudden moves, I have to assume you're attacking me."

I croak out, "I understand." The creature is close enough for me to recognize now. It's the green-clad bird-man Frafdo.

Frafdo pats me down. It's uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable. After a while I half expect him to try to feel me up, but thankfully he does nothing of the sort. "Unarmed," Frafdo says into the crystal before lifting me in his arms.

Frafdo floats off the ground, completely disregarding gravity, just like in the show. It's absolutely terrifying. I wrap my arms around Frafdo's chest and clench my eyes shut.

"Ow," I hear Frafdo say in a pained voice.

I understand Frafdo's pain, my arms are probably like an anaconda right now. Frafdo's flight isn't hampered, though, and I feel the world turn in all sorts of impossible directions before it stops.

Nothing happens for a couple seconds. Then I hear Frafdo mutter, "You can let go now." I can hear him struggle for breath.

I open my eyes. I'm safely on the ground. I let go of Frafdo and collapse to the ground.

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I probably wasn't out very long, but I certainly missed something in that time. All I know is that when I open my eyes and stand up, there's a human pointing a pyroblaster at a group of creatures, and they're pointing weapons back at him.

The human looks terrified. "I don't want to hurt anybody! I just want to go home!"

"Let me speak with the creature," a deep voice says, the same voice that voice came from Frafdo's crystal. The soldiers part, and a tall green humanoid wearing red clothing steps into view.

Yeah, as if I'd go to Kiru City and somehow not run into Maxxor. I'm surprised I didn't appear in his freaking throne room.

Maxxor talks firmly to the man, "Lower the weapon. We don't mean to harm you."

"Bulls***," the man mutters. "You aliens probably want to stick probes into all sorts of places that thing don't belong. Just point me in the direction of the teleport pod to Earth, or something."

Maxxor clearly thinks the man has lost his marbles. "I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. Simply set the weapon down."

The man points the pyroblaster at Maxxor. "Let me go or I use the phaser on you."

I rush to the man and try to pull him back. "Just do what he-!"

Wrong move.

The man's hand grips the trigger in reflex when I yank him back, and the pyroblaster launches a fireball into the face of the ruler of the Overworld.

I see the collision in slow motion. My heart stops. I just indirectly shot Maxxor in the face.

I don't see the retaliatory burst of weapon fire from the Overworld soldiers, neither do I feel it when the attacks hit. One moment I'm staring at Maxxor fall backwards, and the next moment, darkness...

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Up next: The Water and the Whip

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