I'm not dead! I just have a lot to do, and unfortunatly this gets left behind. But the story is progressing nicely, though a bit slow, and I'm surprised that I actually bursted that writers block. This was supposed to be the last chapter, but I think I have to do two more...I'm sorry.
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His enemies had no time to react.
Felix' glowing sword was everywhere, dealing out tremendous amounts of damage, and even the earth beneath the fighters rumbled and turned against its master's foes. Felix vaguely felt the warm, sticky blood from his opponents splatter up on his arms, soaking the fabric, as he cut through flesh.
In the chaos, the big brute thought surprisingly fast despite his dumb appearance. He grabbed the fallen Lemurians arm and hauled him up in front of him, using the body as a human shield. His other arm, coated with blood, wrapped itself around Piers neck.
"Throw away your weapon if you don't want him to die!"
Felix stopped dead in his tracks, panting slightly, and the red fury that glazed his chocolate eyes faded away. It took a minute for the picture of Piers, his Piers, hanging like a rag-doll from the huge arms, to sink into his dazed mind.
The skinny man took his chance of respite to, as quick as he could, limp behind the big man. His lip was busted, the blood dripped down his chin, and nasty deep cuts littered his lanky frame. His leg was pretty messed up too. Felix enjoyed the sight tremendously.
"Let him go!" The Venus Adept growled dangerously.
"I don't think so, Vale scum! I'll snap his neck like a twig if you don't drop your weapon!"
Felix cursed silently. He had no choice but to obey, and he slowly lowered his sword to the ground. At least he still had his psyenergy. "Now let Piers go! I did what you told me, so put him down!"
The big man slimed humourlessly at him and pressed his face into the crook of Piers neck. "I don't think I will actually...I like his smell and I wonder...does he taste as good too?" His red tongue darted out and licked Piers throat and cheek. "You know what? He did."
Felix screamed in anger and took a step forward. "How dare you?!"
The grip around the Mercury Adepts neck tightened visibly. "Oh, no you don't! Come one step closer and he'll be dead." Said neck began to look very breakable at this point.
Felix took a deep breath. He had to focus. Panicking and getting angry would just get him and Piers in more trouble. What was he supposed to do now... he swallowed hard. The situation definitely didn't look good.
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His head hurt...a lot...and he couldn't breathe properly. What in Weyard was going on?
Voices...someone yelled...he wished that they would stop. The voices just made his head ache more. The thing around his neck that stifled his breaths was warm...slimy and solid, and it kept his head from moving. Ugh...his cheek felt all wet.
Opening his eyes would probably be a good idea...if they didn't feel like led. But he'd never been a quitter, had he? So he slowly pried his eyes open, only to squeeze them shut again as light blinded him, the rays of sunshine cutting like knives through his brain. His back was up against something warm and firm too...and it felt like it was rumbling slightly, and that voice that was obnoxiously near his ear was talking again.
"-he'll be dead." The grip tightened further. Not appreciated at all.
He couldn't actually think of anything else to do than opening his eyes again. Golden eyes cracked open a bit and this time, the light wasn't as stinging as before. He absentmindedly noticed that the sun was about to set.
"Piers!" A very familiar voice yelled his name. Oh, the headache...
With blurry eyes he searched for the person to whom the voice belonged. He spotted a brown and green being in front of him, seemingly the one that called his name.
The pressure on his airways made his eyes tear up and he gasped for air.
"Looks who's come back from dreamland."
The dark, rough voice was right by his ear and the speaker blew hot, disgusting breaths in his face. Piers tried to turn away from the foul stench, but his head and neck was stuck somehow. He realised that the thing around his neck was actually a very muscular and bloody arm. And it didn't let go of him.
"Wh-what's...going on?" He mumbled, lips not moving the way he wanted them to.
"Piers...please...don't move." Felix voice again, with just a tint of...was that panic?
The thing his back was against (Piers assumed that it was a very broad chest, possibly connected to the arm...yes that made sense.) rumbled as the man spoke to him again. "Do as he says and I won't hurt you...much."
"You won't hurt him at all, bastard!" Felix shouted.
By now, Piers started to feel slightly worried by this situation. What'd happened? He remembered collecting firewood...and fighting thieves and...oh. This wasn't good. Not good at all.
"Hey Craig." The smaller man raised his voice. "He's a Lemurian...the exotic ones always pay extra. With him and the tablet we'll have enough money for a lifetime."
Piers widened his eyes. They were going to...sell him?! He knew far to well that the ones that bought humans weren't exactly the type who gave you a cookie, patted your head and said: 'You can go home now'. No, no...he was to expect far worse than his current treatment.
He started to struggle against the firm hold, but his body was still in recovery. The chest pressed up against his back rumbled with sadistic laughter.
"Did you get nervous now brat?" The voice hissed in his ear, then it turned away. "Put the other guy to sleep and get this over with."
"But I don't have enough psyenergy left." The smaller man whined.
Piers choked as the larger man flung around to face his companion. "What?! Take a psy-star or something then! This has taken long enough already, so hurry up!"
By now, small black dots danced in intricate patterns before Piers eyes. "I...can't...br-breathe..." He squeezed his eyes shut to get the hallucinations go away.
The pressure let up slightly, and his lungs sucked in what air they could get hold of.
"This is a dead end. Just let Piers go and you can take the tablet and do whatever you want with it. We won't hunt you, as long as you give back Piers to me in one piece." Felix knew how desperate that sounded but he was running out of options by now.
"The hell we will! If my stupid companion could just recharge his psyenergy and get you under a sleep-spell, we'll have two captives and some extra cash!"
Despite his head screaming in protest, Piers eyes flew open at the statement. They were going to take Felix too?!
No...no he couldn't let that happen....he didn't care what they did to him, as long as they left Felix out of it and unharmed.
His fingertips tingled with newly recovered psyenergy that just itched to be set free, preferably like a big icicle, mashing the two thugs into infinity. He wiggled his toes slightly to wake his body up thoroughly.
In the meantime, the small man was rummaging around in the big cloth pieces that once (before Felix entered the picture with his sword and angry demeanour) had been a tent, looking for a psy-star. With a triumphant snort and a wince, he crawled out, clutching the small, shining gem in his hand. "Here! I got it!"
Piers knew that it would take a minor miracle to get them both out of this. He couldn't even summon a djin without his captor noticing it, so how could he help?
He closed his eyes briefly, despite the situation he was in, and tried to think. More and more psyenergy flowed through his veins, and suddenly a new force, shocking his senses. Flowing, whispering and chaotic, this new nature-based power soothed him and gave him strength that he didn't even know he possessed.
Realization hit him. It was the river.
"Use it already! Don't give this shit time to use his psycho powers!" Craig's raw voice commanded.
"Yes...just wait a second..."
Piers yellow eyes searched for Felix brown ones, and caught a glimpse of worry. Even when Felix was trying so hard to suppress it, Piers could see the flicker of fear. He couldn't stand to see his lover so distressed.
He forced himself to look away and focus on the new source of psyenergy instead.
"You know you can't get away with this. I'm at least as strong as Piers so you won't be able to take me down with one weak sleep-spell. You'll loose the fight anyway." Felix tried again.
The light of a psy-star flashed to the right of Piers and he felt the energy of the Wind Adept getting recharged slowly. Panic rose in his chest and he strained his senses to extract as much psyenergy out of his surroundings as possible, from the natural energy of the trees, ground and of course the river. The mass of water danced and whispered, flowing much quicker than before.
"I'm done!" The triumphant shout startled Piers, and he felt rather than saw the smirk form on his captor's lips. The shorter man laughed manically. "Sleep!"
Piers watched in horror as Felix slowly sunk to the ground, defenseless and desperate. He couldn't take much more of this…
"Fuck…these two are some stubborn shit." That cackling laugh again.
Craig's arm had cut of his air-supply for too long, and Piers had begun to see white stars flashing before his eyes. Thus he saw very little of what happened to Felix, but he definitely heard the muffled scream and the thud from the Earth Adepts body when it hit the ground.
That did it. Something inside of him snapped.
A flood of ice-blue psyenergy burst from his body in, and his oxygen-deprived mind was gratefully lost in a blinding white light. This was too much. This had to stop now.
The river was eerily calm.
Whoa...it got pretty short now when I looked at it. And I still got a waaaay to go! Or...mybe not that far but with the work and school, I'll try to write as fast as I can. Hope you won't kill me for that XD Buh bye for now! Love you!