Control Revamped
Chapter 3
Obligations
I finally came to about three hours after the fight. Everything was a blur at first, but I knew who it was leaning over me and tending to my wounds. "N-Nicky?"
"Stay down Drew. After a fight like that, you shouldn't be on your feet for at least a week." Like I said before, at the time, I really didn't care about myself. I sat up anyway, ignoring any pain, though after so many years, I cant remember how much it hurt. She tried to hold me down, but she didn't want to put too much pressure on me, so it wasn't hard to fight it. "Drew really, you need to-"
"I'm fine."
"Well at least explain to me what's going on." She said it quite sternly, and when she sounds serious at all, I know it's really serious. Over the next ten minutes, I explained the situation and she just had a look of disbelief on her face the whole time. I couldn't blame her, if I hadn't seen it myself, I never would have believed it. And I bet that if she hadn't seen me as Scion, and hadn't seen Chaos, she wouldn't either. Once I was done, it was silent for a few moments. "So I guess you're gonna try and put the team together?.."
"I have no choice. Otherwise, everyone's doomed. I'll be responsible for the death of every being in existence..."She slowly looked down.
"I cant go with you Drew, I can't abandon school, and my mom would freak..." She appeared to be forgetting the fact that her house was totaled. But, I couldn't argue with her. After having been with her for a total of a year and four months, I knew I'd lose no matter what I said. I sighed slightly, knowing that there was only one option then if I was to keep her safe.
"I'm gonna need your Chaos Emerald then..."
"Just take it. I wont need it." I gave a slight nod, then slowly reached out and held up her hand, slowly drawing the chaos energy out of her. Within a few seconds, a blue light spread down her arm and emerged form her hand as the blue Chaos Emerald. I slowly took it and absorbed it's power. Strangely I couldn't feel it's energy. But I didn't care. I just cared that now she was safe from harms way.
"Alright. I should get going." I slowly got to my feet and started to walk off, not knowing what to say to her. I had so much to say, but I knew all of it would either hurt me, or hurt her. I knew it was best to just keep my mouth shut.
"Wait." I stopped for a moment and looked back. "You're going to get Dani next, right?..." I nodded, still just trying to keep my mouth shut. "Well, can I come with? Just for tonight, so I can see her?" Nicky and Dani were very close friends. They had never met in person, but through the chatrooms, they were thick as blood. I thought about it for a moment, wondering if I could handle having her around. I knew it would hurt dearly to be so close to her finally, after a year and four months of a loving long distance relationship, and yet still be single and alone. But I just wanted her to be happy.
"...Alright. You can come. And I'll bring you right back home when we're done there. Ok?" She nodded happily, but clearly there was still a lot of tensions between us on both ends.
"Thanks Drew..." She slowly got up and stepped over to me, very carefully taking my hand. "Ok, I guess I'm ready." I nodded slightly, not even sure if I was ready to use Chaos Control. But when I felt the power of both Chaos Emeralds welling up inside me, I got the courage to try.
"Chaos Control." Suddenly, it felt as if the entire world was rushing around us, our bodies feeling compressed and weightless, as if we had become light. After just a few seconds of this rush, we came to a crashing halt, flat on the pavement of a town that I cant remember the name of. All I remember, is it was in Kansas. I very slowly got to my feet, Nicky helping herself up, we looked around and stumbled a bit as we tried to catch out balance. Clearly, it would take a while for us to get use to Chaos Control. After a minute or two, we got out balance and looked around, I began to sense where the next Chaos Emerald was. I quickly turned around and pointed to a house. "There."
"Aright, let's go." We slowly walked up to the front door and knocked, then waited a minute or two for an answer. Apparently, nobody was home. Then we heard someone behind us.
"Who are you two?" We slowly turned around to see who it was. I wont lie. She was a large girl. But she was very slightly tanned, with very dark brown hair. I just gave a very faint smile at the sight of her.
"Take a guess, sis." Although we weren't blood relatives, through the chatrooms, we had formed practically a makeshift family, always there to help each other when our real families couldn't. I knew that the 'sis' hint was all I needed to say.
"Drew? Nicky?.. How the hell did you get here?" I paused for a moment, knowing that there was really only one way to break it to her.
".. Well, remember my fan fiction Control?" For the next few minutes, we both explained the situation to her, and I proved our point by becoming Scion in front of her. Dani was silent for a few moments when I finished explaining, and then she slowly looked back up to me, pursing her lips, clearly having bad news.
"I'm sorry Drew, but I can't either. I cant leave school, and my family's gonna flip when they find out, you're gonna have to do this on your own. Besides, if anyone can do it themselves, you can..." I sighed slightly. I knew what she was thinking. When I wrote Control, I made myself the star. I made myself the leader, the most powerful, and the one to end everything. It was almost as if the others weren't there. And I understood why she wasn't willing to do it. She still had a life. I didn't.
"Alright, then I'm gonna need-"
"Her Chaos Emerald?" We all turned out heads to someone who had appeared from practically nowhere, someone we never would have expected to show. It was the infamous red echidna. Knuckles. "I'll be taking them if you don't mind."
