Chapter 2 - Opposites
Eva felt nothing again. Oh, great not this again, she thought. But she soon mumbled and started to blink her eyes open. She could feel again.
She saw some vague shapes.
'Go away,' she mumbled.
She turned over. Someone shook her.
Eva groaned.
'I said go away. I'm tired and I just have had one hectic time. The last two days have been emotional, and stressful,' she muttered.
Someone shook her again, this time harder.
'Leave me alone,' Eva groaned.
The same person shook her once more. Eva was really annoyed now.
'Fine, if it will stop you shaking me,' she mumbled.
She turned back over and sat up. She started rubbing her eyes, trying to get the sleep out of her eyes.
'Who are you?' she asked sleepily.
There was a short silence.
'Are you a clone? You sort of look like it,' someone said.
'Yeah, you do no offence,' someone else said.
'Thanks,' Eva muttered sarcastically.
She stretched her arms and opened her eyes fully. It was too bright and she closed them again. She didn't see who was there though.
'I can't be bothered with this. I have already faced enough,' she muttered angrily to herself.
'Well, try and say what's wrong. We are going to call you a clone until you say what is going on,' someone said.
'Well I know this; I am not a damn clone. I have no idea where I am. I have just faced a sudden parting, the meeting of a guy who treated me badly the last time I saw him and I just saw the guy who sent me here as Avatar,' Eva muttered.
There was a short silence.
'All in the space of about one day,' Eva lay back on the bed she had been lying on.
'Why didn't you go with Sul?' one of them asked.
'He is the guy who when I last saw him, he was mean. So I would sort of prefer to be back where I was two days ago at the moment. Nurasia in my own universe is a lot better than here,' Eva muttered.
'Nurasia?' all of them asked.
Eva nodded and turned back over. Someone pulled her off the bed.
'Hey! That hurt!' Eva yelled.
She slowly opened her eyes, shielding them from the light. After a minute of two she was fine. She stood up.
'Ok, you were on Nurasia? Did you know ask you?' someone asked.
'Nope, I wasn't asked by anyone. Especially not the Prince,' Eva muttered angrily at them.
'You know the Prince of Nurasia?' they all asked.
Eva turned around. She saw herself, Jordan and Aikka. Were they all thick or something? It looked like it.
'Uh yeah. Don't you?' she asked.
'I do,' Aikka said.
Jordan and her other self shook their heads.
'Ok, could you tell me a bit about yourselves? I think you need to. You're sort of erm, different from where I come from,' Eva looked at them all.
Her other self took control.
'You can call me Molly. Well that is probably your name too but we could call you…do you have any other names we could use apart from…' Molly mouthed Eva.
'I guess. I was using the term Ruby not too long ago, so I guess you could call me that if you want…' Eva started to say.
'Great!' Molly grinned.
Eva smiled and sat back on the bed.
Molly took control again.
'This is Jordan. I don't know if there is a Jordan on your…'
'There is.'
'And an Aikka?'
'Yeah.'
'So why do you need me to explain?'
'You said you didn't know the Prince of Nurasia. So things must be different, or else I wouldn't be asking would I?'
'But who is the…'
'I'll say later.'
Molly sighed. Eva folded her arms and waited for their explanation. After minute or two Molly pointed to Jordan.
'Well he is human. On the Earth team, he is the pilot,' Molly couldn't say anymore.
Eva was laughing her head off. Everyone was staring at her.
'Ha! Don't kid me! The Jordan I know is a gunner. He couldn't fly even if his ife depended on it. No offence,' she smiled.
'None taken,' Jordan pretended to be really offended.
'But he is…' Molly muttered.
'What? Well just to say, when he tried to fly the Arrow II, we were lucky to have it back in one piece,' Eva smiled.
Molly sighed and then pointed to Aikka.
'He is a servant at the palace. Just a plain old servant,' Molly said.
Aikka was quite offended at this. Eva was shocked.
'Huh? He is a servant? That can't be right, where I come from he is the…' Eva didn't finish.
'I am not a plain servant! I am the giant beetle rider and tutor. I also am the sword master of the palace,' Aikka muttered.
'Still counts as servant though,' Molly shrugged.
They all then stared at Eva.
'Well, Ruby, what are these two like back on your universe?' Molly asked.
Eva looked at them al and took a deep breath.
'Uh, Jordan has sort of got this stuff now. He is busy a lot of the time,' Eva couldn't say the word Avatar, they didn't know yet.
They probably didn't know the true nature of the ultimate prize yet…
'Aikka is also busy with his erm, duties on Nurasia,' Eva then said.
They all stared at her confused.
'Duties?' Aikka was puzzled.
'Stuff?' Jordan asked.
Eva quickly darted out of the door before she would have to answer any more questions. She went outside.
She sat down and gazed into the emptiness. It was quite dark outside. The wind blew through her hair nicely. She saw Canaletto from the central Avatar ship. She shivered not from cold, but fear.
A familiar looking Stan and Koji duo came out.
'The Avatar wants to speak to you,' Koji said.
'It sounded quite urgent,' Stan then said.
Eva shrugged and went off through the portal. She eventually made her way to the centre of the Avatar ship. There was Canaletto, waiting for her.
She felt like running back but it was too late. He had already seen her.
'Come here,' he said.
Eva nervously came closer by a few steps. Canaletto gestured her more forward. She did so until she was quite close to him.
'What do you want?' she asked.
'I would like to tell you that by tomorrow, I will have enough power to connect to your universe. Do you or do you not have a strong connection with the current Avatar?' he asked.
'Yes,' Eva simply replied.
Jordan's Avatar powers finally have a use for her!
Canaletto nodded.
'Then you may go,' he said.
He was then gone. Eva went back.
'What happened?' Molly asked.
'Nothing,' Eva shrugged.
'Ok but can we talk outside anyway?' she asked.
Eva nodded and went outside with Molly.
'So you are me right? So your dad is the same too? And your mum?' she asked.
Eva sadly sighed and nodded.
'Thank god! I mean you know that he is…' Molly sighed.
'A jerk here?' Eva finished.
'No, that he is dead.' Molly raised her eyebrow.
'Dead? No, what sort of a mixed up place do you live in?' Eva asked Molly.
Eva shook her head. She then looked back at the emptiness.
'Never mind. I don't want to know,' Eva said.
Eva thought for a few minutes. She then realised something. She turned back round to Molly.
'Wait a minute, if he isn't the head of the Earth team, who is?' she asked Molly.
Molly was about to answer. The head of the Earth team came outside at that precise moment.
Eva's mouth dropped open. She put her hand over it and pretended to be coughing instead.
'Molly! You have work to do! Get to work now!' the person yelled.
Molly nodded and did a quick salute.
'Yes Sir! No, not Sir, I mean yes Madam! Madam Maya!' Molly said.
It was then Eva realised that things were not going to be like the last race at all. It would be a lot different than before…