Okay, so I only got 1 review…oh well! I'm tired of sitting on my hands and waiting for more, so I'll just type this one so I can finish the fic and type the murder mystery, okay?
Chapter 6
Isabel
I've heard the expression, "It's raining cats and dogs", but never have I heard of hippos falling from the sky. As soon as the hippo lands, it changes back into Ophelia, who's unconscious from the fall. I wake her up.
"W-what?" she mumbles groggily as she gets up. Then she takes a look around and realizes what's going on before standing up once again. She tries to go join the fight, but I hold her back.
"Whoa, hang on," I say. "You're not going anywhere."
She stops. "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that you're not going to be fighting."
"What?!"
"So you can just go back to the house right now, and-" just then, Rochelle comes over to me.
"Hang on," she says, "why aren't you letting Ophelia fight?"
"Because it's too dangerous and she's too young," I reply.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, Isabel, but wasn't it Ophelia who saved both yours and Neriah's-" she looks at Ophelia before continuing- "butts when she was only a month old?"
I realize that Rochelle has a point. Ophelia is staring at us both with an expression of shock on her face. "I-I did?" she asks incredulously.
I can't help but notice that we're still in the middle of a battle here. "Yes, and I'll tell you the story later, but right now we have to fight."
My daughter's face lights up. "You mean…?"
I look at her and smile. "Yes, you can fight too."
She runs up to me and gives me a big hug. "Thank you, Mommy!"
"Don't forget to thank Rochelle too for reminding me that you're not too young."
Ophelia grins and does so before running over to Arkarian who's trying to fight off 3 Order soldiers at the same time. She changes into a rhino, crashing into one of them. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Arkarian grin.
The smell of burning hair brings me back to Earth. I wheel around in time to see Blaze throw yet another burst of flame at an Order soldier.
I start to fight, then stop again. "Wait a minute," I say to Rochelle, who's fighting beside me. "This doesn't seem right."
She nods in agreement. "I know what you mean. Usually the bad guys give a nice, long speech about what's going on before the fighting happens. And as far as I know, there's been no evil villain speech yet."
"That's because I just got here," says an all-too familiar voice. I groan and turn around to see…dun dun dun… Chloe! Again! Big whoop…
Once Chloe arrives, all the Order soldiers jump behind her. All 11 of us group together, awaiting the evil villainy speech. And we get it.
"So, do you all want to hear my 5 times rehearsed evil villain speech?" Chloe asks, as if she didn't already know the answer.
"Well it's about time," Ethan replies. "We were beginning to think that you weren't going to show!"
We all murmur an agreement. Chloe grins and looks pointedly at Matt, Neriah, Rochelle, Ethan, Arkarian, and me. "It seems that some of you have gotten busy since the last time we met," she states.
Dillon rolls his eyes. "And it took you 5 years to notice?"
She glares at him, and I'm forcefully reminded of their past relationship. "Anyway, as you people can obviously see, I don't have any kids. But that doesn't stop me from wanting one." She grins at Ophelia, Blaze, and Ambrosine. "Or three."
Immediately, I grab Ophelia and pull her close to me. On either side of me, Neriah and Rochelle do the same with their kids. "If you so much as lay a hand on my daughter," Neriah says with fierceness in her voice that I've never heard before, "I'll slaughter you."
"You're not taking our kids anywhere," Rochelle adds.
Chloe's eyes narrow. "Just watch me." She snaps her fingers and a bunch of Order soldiers step forward. Just then, I have an idea, and broadcast it to the others. Arkarian smiles at me, and the 8 of us adults form a circle around the 3 kids with us facing outwards.
"You know," Arkarian whispers, "this is exactly what the triceratops dinosaurs would do."
I grin. "That's where I got the idea from."
And my idea works…for all of 2 seconds. It turns out that the Order has a few shape shifters on their side too. One of them changes into something tiny and walks right between our legs before going back to normal once he's inside the circle. Neriah turns around to try and stop him from taking the kids, but something tells me she shouldn't have done that…
"Neriah, no!" I scream, but too late. The soldier goes to stick his knife through her heart. At the last moment, Ambrosine jumps in front of her mother, and the soldier stabs her instead. She falls to the ground closely followed by Neriah as the soldier finishes the job.
All I can hear are my screams and the screams of the others as mother and daughter fall together.
I know, I know. I'm evil. But that shouldn't stop you from wanting to know what happens next, am I right? Cuz I'm going to start typing the next chapter right away. And then the next. And then the next. And so on…who knows? Maybe I'll finish typing this fic today!
