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Skybound Arc 0: Itinere [The Journey]
Chapter 2: Minerva
„GET AWAY FROM ME YOU... CREEPY... EYE-THING! AUGH!" The person, and the source of the scram, said, waving her pickaxe frantically at the eyeball. It didn't seem to doo her much good, though she managed to knock it away from her, it just kept coming back.
And if that wasn't bad, what was worse was she had also attracted the attention of nearby zombies as well. When she realized her mistake, she started to hyperventilate, holding her pickaxe close. „Shitshitshitshitshitshit!"
Before she could even try to run, a zombie had gotten a hold of her, and was about to tear her apart.
„BACK OFF, YOU BRAINDEAD CREEP!" Skye shouted, as she slashed the zombie's arms off the girl. The undead creature stumbled back, but still stood, obviously angry that it had it's arms cut off from it's prey.
Skye and Harley both surrounded the girl, and kept her close to them. „You alright?" Harley asked with concern.
Though she was visibly shaken, she slowly nodded, thankful to be alive.
„Stay close to us." Skye said, holding up her wooden sword in defense, ready to take down anything that comes her way. „We'll get you to safety, we can handle this."
Almost immediately the same eyeball that the girl encountered charged at Skye. Thankfully she caught it just in time from the corner of her eye, and knocked it back. „What the hell IS that thing? It's creeping me out..."
„A Demon Eye." Harley said, while in the middle of fending off some zombies. „They usually pop up every now and then, but most of the time you don't usually see them. Piss off, ugly!" He kicked a zombie away, it's brains spilling out as it fell over.
Harley just cringed. „Nasty..."
„Let's get out of here!" Skye said, seeing more and more zombies appear around them. „There's too many, we can't handle them all!"
Harley too saw that they were outnumbered. „Sounds like a plan to me!" With that he, Skye and the girl started running towards the house. The girl looked behind to see bits of the zombie hoard follow them, but the Demon Eye flew off in the opposite direction. She gulped, that can't be good...
Once they made it back to the house, Skye immediately closed the door. Though the zombies will come a-knocking, right now they won't do much harm, as long as they stay outside, and she and the others stay inside. „That was a close one..." She said, giving a sigh of relief.
„I'll say." Harley took a seat in a chair next to the table. „And now you know why I hate zombies, cause they SWARM."
„So." Skye turned her attention to the girl. „Who are you? And how did you manage to find yourself out here at night?"
„I'm Minerva." The girl said, as she brushed a locke of her light blonde hair out of her pink eyes. „Minerva Van Haart. I... had to escape from my home. You could say I'm a runaway, to put short."
„A runaway?" Harley sat up. This caught his attention. „Why? What made you run away from home?"
Minerva looked down. „Well... my family... has become involved in the occult."
Both Skye and Harley froze up, and a horrible chill went down their spines. „O-occult?" Skye spoke up.
„Yes." Minerva nodded slowly. „Looks like you heard of before..."
„I have." Harley said, looking ovar at Skye. „But I bet she hasn't."
Skye shook her head. „I haven't no. But... for some reason it... gives me a bad feeling. I don't know why, it just came out of nowhere."
„I see. Anyways." Minerva spoke up again. „My family has been part of the occult for a long time now, god knows why I haven't been affected by it's influence. I seen what they've all done before in their practices, it's HORRID." She shuddered. „Humans being sacrificed to the Corrupted Gods, their blood being spilled and feasted upon... GUH!" She clutched her head and shook violently. „I have nightmares every time I see it..."
Skye had a very worried look on her face. From how she's describing it, it must've been awful indeed. „Oh my god..."
„That's only half of it... my family and the others began to realize I was different from them. They knew I was opposing their ways... so they had chosen me as the next sacrifice in their ritual." She looked back up. „I knew when enough is enough, so I decided to sneak away before they could begin. But..."
„But...?" Harley raised an eyebrow.
„It doesn't look like they're intent on giving up. They're looking for me now. That Demon Eye... was just a servant to one of the Corrupted Gods. It was looking for me, and now they know I'm here. And they'll kill anyone that stands in their way, including you guys..."
Skye's eyes were wide with horror. An occult? Corrupted Gods? Her mind was taking in all of this, and it just overwhelmed her. She shook her head. „No."
Both Minerva and harley looked at her in confution. „Huh?"
„No. I'm not letting them kill ANYONE, not even you." Skye said. „If they have to get through me to get to you, so be it. But may they be warned, I am NOT gonna go down without a fight! Something's telling me their ways have gone on FAR TOO LONG now, and I want it to stop!"
„Skye-." Harley got up from the chair, and was about to object, but she interrupted him.
„No, Harley. I know what I'm saying. I'm not backing down now." She then looked at Minerva. „Minerva, you can count on me to stop this occult. And trust me, I will do everything I can untill they're no more. You are different, yes. But it's that difference that can be a key to bring them down. Whaddya say? You with me?"
She looked down, hesitant, yet at the same time, confident as well. She then looked up at Skye and smiled, nodding. „Of course!"
„Don't leave me out, too!" Harley spoke up. „We need materials and resources if we wanna stop them. Wooden swords aren't good enough against a whole occult, after all."
Skye nodded. „True. Right, tomorrow morning, we start mining! We need all the stuff we can to get ourselves prepared. And I'll be needing all the help I can get."
That last line is actually a very important set of arc words there.
So now we got ourselves the main plot of the entire arc is the occult. Ooooh~ what will happen next? Stay tuned to find out!
Also, no flashback, WAT?
