Chapter 3 – A New Found Talent
Eva had her bag with her luckily. She had been wearing it from when she left Nurasia to when she arrived on the strange Oban.
She was drawing in her sketch pad. She hadn't really been paying attention to it though and it was probably going to look like a mess. She didn't care. She was too busy watching Molly and Jordan fight.
'It's your fault we didn't win the race again! You are the pilot!' Molly shouted at him.
'Yeah well if you had been a proper gunner, I wouldn't have had to dodge all those lasers! We didn't win because of you!' Jordan yelled back.
Eva stepped in between them. She pushed Jordan and Molly away from each other.
'Stop it! You guys are acting like it's the end of the world if you don't win the great race! The prize isn't that great! I should know. Someone has suffered the fate I should have had…' Eva sighed.
She went back to her bed and sat down. They had laid out another bed for her. It was quite nice but Eva preferred her bed on her Earth.
Jordan and Molly stared in silence at her. Their mouths were wide open with shock and surprise. They went up to her. Eva groaned and left the room and went outside. They followed her.
'You know what the Ultimate Prize is?' they both yelled.
The words echoed all over. Everyone could hear them. Eva gritted her teeth. She had forgotten they wouldn't know the true nature of the prize.
'Yes, thanks for telling everyone,' Eva muttered sarcastically.
She glared at them. They just stared in wonder.
'What is it?' Molly asked.
'I'm not saying anything. I learnt the hard way, so you can too. If you don't learn that way, then things could go wrong,' Eva said angrily.
'We were just wondering what we are racing for,' Jordan put his hands on his hips.
Eva sighed and went back inside. She looked at her picture. It was probably a mess but it was sometimes worth it.
She saw a picture of her separating Jordan and Molly. She blinked. That can't be right; I drew that a few minutes ago she thought.
Eva looked around in her bag. There was the picture…
Molly came in and sat on the bed.
'Hey. I'm sorry but we want to know…' Molly sighed.
'You really don't,' Eva looked at her.
Eva then sighed.
'I want to tell my mother so much. She is dead where I come from. Dead. I have my dad but…' Eva started.
'Don't! My secret identity depends on you keeping your mouth shut! If you say then we will be both be in trouble…' Molly sighed.
'I'm sorry. It's just I haven't seen her since…' Eva turned away.
She put the picture on her bed.
Molly picked up the picture. Eva had rolled it up into a small ball and had kept meaning to get rid of it. Molly unrolled the ball and held the picture in her hands and looked at it.
'Wow, this is freaky and really good,' she said.
Eva looked at the picture and gasped.
'What's wrong?' Molly asked.
'I drew that picture ages ago. I accidentally put it up on day in a Molly shrine. It's a long story but I took it down because I didn't think they would like it but now…' Eva trembled.
'What's wrong with this picture? Apart from the fact that the Avatar is evil, Jordan and Aikka are there with two other people and that you seem to be getting really hurt of course,' Molly smiled weakly.
'That picture was done maybe a year ago,' Eva said.
'Yes, go on,' Molly gestured.
'Well, that came true. It was how I ended up here. It has happened before but I never took notice of it. It has even happened today!' Eva showed Molly her other picture.
'That happened only a few minutes ago!' Molly looked at the picture.
She looked from each picture again and again. She then looked up at Molly, her mouth wide open.
'You can draw…' Molly closed her mouth.
'It doesn't happen with everything I draw. It is just those special ones…but I never realise it until it is too late. I can draw my future…we have got to find another picture like this and stop something else bad happening!' Eva tipped her bag's contents onto her bed.
Eva and Molly started looking through sketch pads and loose bit of paper on the bed, hoping to find something to help them. After a few minutes of searching, Eva found something.
She picked it up. Molly looked at it too. They gasped.
It was of two Jordans, two Aikkas, Rue, Danny, two Stans, two Kojis, Sul, Canaletto, Don and Maya. There was only one Eva. They were all arguing.
'But that means…' Molly whispered.
'We're going to all come together soon…but one of us isn't going to be there…' Eva stared at the picture.
She gasped.
'It will be you! I draw my future…so it will be you that isn't there!' Eva pointed to Molly.
'We have to stop it…' Molly whispered.
They both agreed on something.
They ran through the portal and into the centre of the main Avatar ship. They stood at the pond and waited.
Canaletto appeared.
'What is the matter?' he asked.
'We need to protect Molly! We both have a bad feeling something is going to happen to her! Could you please protect her?' Eva asked.
Canaletto understood.
'Yes. I will give her this jewel. As long as she wears it, nothing bad can happen to her,' Canaletto said.
In Molly's hand appeared a glittering purple jewel hanging on a necklace. She quickly put it on and breathed a sigh of relief. Eva felt a deep worry lift as well. Molly would be safe now.
'Thanks!' they both said.
By this time though, Canaletto had disappeared. Eva and Molly sighed and made their way back to the Earth team Avatar ship. Something watched them though…and their plan had not been spoiled.
They were almost at the portal when Jordan and Aikka could be heard.
'I honestly bet you can't find out what the Ultimate Prize is from Ruby!' Aikka taunted Jordan.
'So? I bet you can't either. Ruby is secretive. But then again so is Molly. And when did she use Ruby as a name anyway? She said it was a long story but I sort of want to hear it…' Jordan sighed.
Eva and Molly watched them from behind a tree.
'What do you think the other me is like?' Jordan asked.
'Why are you wondering? I'm wondering what she meant by duties,' Aikka thought for a moment.
'I guess I want to know what sort of stuff the other me does too,' Jordan sighed.
Molly pulled Eva back for a moment.
'What do they do?' she asked.
'Ah. Aikka is sort of well, still in the palace but a bit higher than a servant. Jordan however, is sort of powerful,' Eva shrugged.
'They weren't great clues to be honest,' Molly scowled.
They went back to listening to Aikka and Jordan.
'You know, we should ask Ruby again. Maybe then she will tell us,' Aikka said thoughtfully.
'No, we should beg her. Where is she?' Jordan asked.
Aikka shrugged.
'I don't know. Let's search in the Earth Avatar ship. She could be there,' Aikka then went off with Jordan.
Molly sighed.
'You know, they should know. I mean, you do know them in the other universe, just pretend it is them right?' she said.
There was a silence. Molly still watched them go.
'If you're going to ignore me, then ok. I am just saying, if you tell them, they might like you more. You could end up being here for a long time,' Molly then said.
There was still no answer from Eva. Molly was getting very annoyed now at her. She kept looking at Jordan and Aikka.
'They are your friends back there, maybe even more! You can't just dump them!' she then turned around.
Eva wasn't there.
She was standing at the pool.
Canaletto was talking to her.
'I can only do this link between me and the other Avatar if you have a very strong link with him. Do you?' Canaletto asked.
'I do. I know the Avatar well,' Eva said sadly.
'I will try to get contact with him then. I will tell you later, before the sixth race, and I will tell you what I have found out,' Canaletto said.
He then disappeared.
Eva turned around. There was Molly. She was angry.
'Don't ever do that again! I was talking to you back there and when I turned around I saw you were over there! What were you doing?' Molly asked.
Eva looked at her feet and shuffled from foot to foot.
'Well?' Molly asked.
'The Avatar asked if I had a bond with my Avatar. If it is strong enough, the Avatar will be able to contact my Avatar. If it works out, they can make a trans-dimensional portal that will lead back to my universe. Or so as the theory goes,' Eva shrugged.
Molly blinked.
'Could you say that a bit less complicated?' she asked.
Eva sighed and rolled her eyes.
'It means me and possibly Sul, could be heading back to our own universe in only a few days time…'