So Chapter 4 is finally here, I mean it hasn't been long since I uploaded chapter 3 but I still hope you enjoy anyways, so please read and review.
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Ch.4 – Forever Together
Corona was lying in her bed trying to get to sleep after she had just finished reading a book, she sat up in bed as she heard someone knock on her door, she stood up and quickly got dressed, and when she opened the door she saw Aqune, Magma, and Igneous standing outside, "What's wrong."
Aqune looked at who they had been waiting for, "There's an intruder in the streets; and the person attacked some soldier's."
Corona was concerned, "Are they hurt?"
Aqune shook her head, "No, they were hit in a spot that would knock them out and leave the least pain."
Corona looked surprised, "Do we know who it was?"
Igneous cut in, "We don't, that why we came to get you before heading to the infirmary to see the 2 soldiers that were brought in."
With that they headed to the Infirmary to talk to the 2 soldier that had been knocked out. When they arrived they saw the nurse giving Lumen another needle, and then she took some pills over to the soldiers who now had bad headaches. Corona and Aqune sat in the chairs beside the Soldiers as Igneous and Magma leaned against the wall. Aqune looked at the soldier who had just taken some pills beside her, "What do you remember?"
The soldier looked at her, "All I remember seeing is green eyes, everything happened to fast to know what was happening, I was scared at first when I saw how fast the person moved after whispering to himself but when he hit me in the back of the neck he did it in a way that didn't really hurt."
The other soldier looked from his bed, "Yeah and I remember the pain that was showing in the persons eyes, I saw physical and mental pain."
The first soldier spoke up again "I don't think the person who attacked us really wanted to hurt us."
With that the riders let the soldiers go to sleep as they went to where Lumen was and began to discuss what they had heard, Sparkle looked at them all with a sad face, "So the person who hurt them didn't want to."
Prince Lumen looked down beside himself at Sparkle, "I don't think the person really hurt them he just knocked them out in a painless way."
Sparkle nodded to show that she understood what he meant, "So then it's not a bad person."
Aqune looked at Sparkle with a smile, "I don't think it's a bad person either, but still be careful because we don't know who it was or for what reason they are here."
Sparkle nodded and then they a continued their talk about what they were going to do, it took them a while before they remembered that one of them was missing, since they had left him to sleep after what happened earlier, thinking he probably needed the sleep anyways. After they had noticed Corona was going to go get him to come to the Infirmary but Lumen said that he would walk to the room since he was feeling great and needed a little walk anyways. So with Igneous helping Lumen they all began their walk to Hunters room, when they got their Aqune knocked, "Hunter."
There was no response so Aqune knocked again, "Hunter we need to talk to you."
Magma walked past Aqune and tried to open the door to find that it was lock, he looked at the other's completely confused, "Since when do the palace doors have locks?"
Prince Lumen looked at it, "Since he asked for one."
Corona looked at him, "Why would he need to lock his door."
Prince Lumen looked at her, "Since he said people wouldn't leave him alone on his days off when he wanted to sleep, how didn't you guys notice that his door had a lock, I mean it's been there for like 2 years now."
Corona looked back at the door knob, "I guess it's probably because he never keeps his door locked or when he does and we do come to get him we always knock on the door first which gives him time to unlock it before we notice."
Lumen yawned as he went to a plant that was across from Hunters room to find the extra key he had been told about, he took it throwing it to Magma, "Here, unlock it already."
Magma put the key in and turned it hearing the click, he opened the door to nothing but darkness, and to everyone's surprise Hunter wasn't there, Magma looked at the others, "Where is he?"
Hunter was lying down on shadows back as he looked up at the sky seeing the inner worlds sun in its night form, he yawn from still being tired, as he heard shadow speak from beneath him, "If you're tired then take a nap I'll wake you up if something happens."
Hunter yawned, "I'm fine we have to get farther from the kingdom before I can rest."
Shadow sighed, "Okay then where do you want to go."
Hunter thought for a little while before he decided, "How about the forest where you found me that's a ways away and it has nice scenery."
Shadow started speeding up, "Yeah that sounds like a good place there might be somewhere we can find to stay near there."
Hunter laughed as he continued to look up at the sky, "Shadow if they take control of me like the invectids did Aqune what will you do? I mean unlike Portia you won't be being controlled."
Shadow stopped running, "That's a stupid question, I'll stay with you, I am your spider and you're my rider we will be together forever, even if it means that I have to fight against the others I will stay with you. Because we are partners and I won't abandon you."
Hunter smiled, "Thanks Shadow that was what I needed to hear, and I'm sorry if you have to fight the others."
Shadow just started running again, the silence continued until they were far away from the kingdom, Hunter jumped from Shadow when they had stopped for the night in a patch of tree's that was hidden by large rocks surrounding it. Hunter pulled a blanket from his bag and went to lie down against a tree as Shadow was beside him on look out for the night. Hunter was out instantly as Shadow watched as his partner shook and shivered for the night, he heard Hunter tell the voices in his head to stop and was worried as his partner talked in his sleep, even when asleep trying to rest Hunter was fighting for control of his body which made Shadow nervous about whether his strong partner could overcome it or not.
"Ahhhhhhhh." Corona screamed when they noticed Hunter was gone.
They all entered the room and looked around trying to figure out what had happened, Corona looked at the wall's surrounding the castle, "It was him, that's why they weren't hurt, that's why his eyes were in pain when he attacked them, we have to go find him."
Aqune looked at Corona, "It's that bracelet; it did something to him that forced him to leave."
Magma looked at Aqune, "But what could be so bad that he would leave."
Corona looked as she thought and her and Aqune both shouted it out at the same time, "It must have been something that was going to hurt all of us too."
Aqune knew from experience what the bracelet was going to do, "I get it, he must have figured out that the bracelet could control him, and because he doesn't want to hurt any of us he ran, it was to save us from him."
Corona looked at her, "But Hunter would never."
Aqune frowned, "He's probably losing control of his body, but Hunter is strong that it's probably hard to take over him."
Corona just stared at Aqune, "So that's why he was in pain earlier, it's because someone was in his head trying to forcefully take control of his body."
Lumen sat on Hunter's bed and began to decide on what to do, when he had finished deciding he looked up, "Go find him we can't let him leave he's dangerous if he loses control, and he took the Oracle keys which makes it even worse."
Corona looked at Lumen, "You know he couldn't leave them behind because ever since what happened with Mantid they follow him even if we locked them in a box they would break it and then go back to him, it's like the Oracle claimed them as his property."
Lumen looked at her again, "I know but what else can we do, if they get him and control him what we can do to stop him he's too strong, I mean we would have a hard time beating him if he was in his normal form but with the Oracle keys he's un-defeat able. So we have to find him before he loses control and help him."
Corona looked at something set on his bedside table; she noticed that it was a small book, when she opened it she could see Hunter's writing filling the pages but it was in a language that she didn't understand, She threw it to the others who each took a look at it then handed it to the next person beside them, when it reached Lumen he was surprised, "He wrote me a mission report in this once by accident, he said it was an ancient language in his world that he memorized when he was younger well he was trying to find our world, I asked him why he would write it in that and he said that he had forgotten to write in the normal language our two worlds share. I think I've seen it in our ancient text books before but there's not enough there to decipher what he wrote."
Aqune looked at Lumen, "It's probably his diary so he wrote it in a language no one here could read, it's a good idea if you want what is written to stay a secret."
Lumen had gone back to scrolling through the book when he notice that there was a page with normal writing on it, he read it over to see what it said, he was surprised that it was about Hunter's past in the other world. Lumen looked at the others, "I found something read able."
Corona looked at him, "What does it say?"
Lumen looked at the page and began to read aloud, "It says…"
It's been a few years since I came to the inner world, the other day I thought about what my parents must have thought when I suddenly disappeared, but then right afterwards I realized that they probably wouldn't have noticed anything because I was never really noticed before. I was always alone even when I had an extremely large family, the only time I wasn't alone was when I was with Grandpa which wasn't as long as I wished it could have been. My Mother Liz cared for me when I was little, and my father Daniel always spoiled me when I was little but the second that they learned that I believe what my Grandfather told me they abandoned me, it was like I no longer had a family any more they; abandoned me.
I always thought that I didn't care about the way I was treated, In my family I had many sibling but none of them were like me, none of them cared like me for adventure. I was alone and I realized it very quickly, but I lived my life by the words of never give up, and I never did, I continued to live through the nightmare that I called life on the other side. I forgot all this when I came to this side, I let all of this go because I had found a new family, I had found people I would given my life for and I would give anything for them if I had too. I thank the Oracle for everything she gave to me, for everything that started when I met shadow and Corona in the forest.
P.S. to Self – You'll have to go to that forest when you have the chance again.
"That's all it say's." Lumen finished.
Corona knew instantly where she had to go to find Hunter after hearing Lumen, "I know where he is, we might still be able to catch up to him, if he's heading where I think."
Everyone looked at Corona, "Where?"
Corona looked out the window in to the direction of where they first met, "He's said it in the note, he's going to the forest where he entered this world, Its where he met both me and Shadow, It's a special place that he has always talked about returning to so I think that when confused and in his condition he would chose to go their first."
Lumen looked at her, "Are you 100% sure?"
Corona looked at him completely determined to bring Hunter back, "Yes, I am certain that is where he will go, I just know it."
Lumen said with a smile, "Than lets ride."
So I do hope everyone enjoyed, I hope this chapter was good it was more centered on what was going on with the other spider riders instead if just Hunter. It's the normal length I usually try to get them 2000 words or over. I do hope you enjoyed and please if you read review I really need reviews. Thanks for reading.
