Chapter 4 – Wandering And Flying
Eva saw Jordan and Aikka come up to her. They had been searching for at least an hour, maybe more. They seemed happy to see her.
'Hi,' Eva smiled.
'We have been looking everywhere for you!' Jordan yelled.
Eva secretly smiled. She had known Jordan and Aikka had been searching for her and that was why she had hidden from them. Molly had gone to help fix the guns with Stan and Koji. She had been sitting alone.
'Really? I never knew. I was here all the time,' Eva smiled innocently.
It was a big lie. Eva had only come there in the last ten or so minutes. She had gotten fed up of hiding and decided she wanted to be found.
'Can we ask you something?' Aikka asked.
'Sure, what is it?' Eva shrugged.
'What did you mean by duties?' Aikka asked.
'Hey! I want to ask something to! What did you mean by stuff?' Jordan then demanded.
Eva thought for a moment.
'I'm only going to answer one question. You can decide which one gets the knowledge. Maybe if you are nicer to me later, I could tell you the other one,' Eva smiled sweetly.
'She did say stuff. It probably wasn't important what you were doing,' Aikka said.
'Fine! Get your stupid knowledge!' Jordan crossed his arms angrily.
Eva pretended to be surprised. She had already guessed they would go for Aikka. She had hoped they would go for Aikka anyway. What Jordan did was a bit more personal to him.
'Well you have duties because on Nurasia you are important,' Eva started.
'We would have never guessed that,' Jordan said sarcastically.
'Shut up! I want to know who I am in her universe! Just because you didn't get one does not mean you can ruin my own one!' Aikka hissed at Jordan.
You could tell Jordan was mad, but he stayed quiet.
'Now, where was I? Yeah, you have duties because you are important. You are a lot more important person there than you are here. If you happened to go there, people would seek your advice,' Eva went on.
'Seek his advice? What is he, some kind of helper? In that case, he is not any more important…' Jordan started.
Eva had lost her temper. She grabbed Jordan by the shoulders and shook him.
'Think for once! He is the damn Prince of Nurasia!' Eva muttered.
She then walked off, so angry at how Jordan could be so stupid at times.
'I'm a what?' Aikka yelled after her.
'He rules Nurasia where you come from? Please tell me you are kidding!' Jordan shouted.
Eva turned around.
'Take my information or leave it. He is the Prince of Nurasia and you can either accept it or refuse it!' Eva muttered angrily.
She turned around again and walked back.
Jordan and Aikka didn't yell after her that time. They were too shocked to say anything at all. To them, Aikka being a Prince was impossible. Yet Eva had told them it was true…
They ran off to find Molly to tell her.
Eva looked outside. She was sitting in another spot now. She looked around at each Avatar ship. She remembered them from when she had done the great race of Oban.
That felt like a lifetime ago compared to what had happened to her recently. It had only been a few weeks before when she had been with her dad…she sighed. Now she may never see him again.
'Why is life so unfair?' she asked herself.
'I don't know. If I knew, my dad wouldn't be gone,' Molly sat down next to her.
'I think Jordan and Aikka will be looking for you. I told them who Aikka is in my universe,' Eva smiled.
'Who is he?' Molly asked.
'The Prince of Nurasia,' Eva stared back out into the sky.
Molly burst into laughter. She couldn't stop.
'That is the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life!' Molly grinned.
'It's true,' Eva raised her eyebrow.
Molly stopped laughing after a minute. There was silence for a few minutes.
'So I guess you are hoping Prince Charming and gunner boy are coming after you, huh?' Molly looked at Eva's faraway look.
Eva sighed and nodded sadly. A tear ran down her cheek.
'It went too fast. I didn't even get to say goodbye. That monster stopped me from me doing that…' Eva's hands turned into fists.
'What happened there? No wait, I saw that picture. I wouldn't fancy doing that myself. I guess that was what the Avatar saw. He was horrified. You could tell by the way he was after he had read your mind,' Molly sighed.
Eva stood up. She took a last look at the outside emptiness.
Molly got up as well. She held Eva's hand and squeezed it tight. She looked at Eva sadly.
'You will get back. I will make sure of it,' Molly smiled weakly.
Eva nodded. They went back to the Earth team Avatar ship. Eva sat on her bed and took out her sketch pad. She started showing Molly some of the pictures she had drawn during her journey.
Molly finished looking through them after a while.
'These are good. I guess you like drawing,' Molly grinned.
Eva smiled.
'It sort of is nice. It keeps me busy anyway,' Eva shrugged.
Maya burst in.
'Molly! Ruby! Get to work! Stan and Koji need your help!' she yelled at both of them.
It was strange for Eva. Maya had never really yelled before she had died back on Eva's universe. It was a bit weird to see the long pink haired woman yell instead of her white and black haired dad.
Eva did a salute anyway and went down with Molly.
Stan and Koji smiled at them as they arrived. They pointed to the Arrow.
'Jordan hasn't turned up and from what I've guessed, seeing as you were so shocked to hear Jordan was a pilot…' Koji started.
'We guessed you were the pilot for the Earth team,' Stan finished.
Eva nodded. She went up.
'But I don't use the pilot seat…I use…' Eva tried to explain.
'When Molly used the Arrow, she needed a rocket seat. We knew Jordan probably would be late, so we wanted to see what you were made of. We changed the seats for you already,' Koji smiled.
Jordan came running down.
'God, you guys aren't going to try the Ruby is a pilot theory? You must be really crazy!' Jordan yelled.
Eva stuck out her tongue and got into the Arrow. She sat on the rocket seat. It felt so much like before…she hoped she could still race like she did before…
Molly quickly got into the Arrow's turret. Jordan stood outside, half confused, half angry.
'You better get out of there!' he yelled.
'Why?' Eva asked.
'Because the Avatar wants you and I am the pilot!' Jordan shouted back.
Eva slapped her forehead. She was supposed to be learning what Canaletto had found out from her Jordan! Ah well, a bit late now…
The Avatar symbol on the main Avatar ship lit up. Jordan groaned.
Molly appeared on the communications screen.
'I think if Jordan is ever going to forgive us, you will need to do well in this race, that's for sure,' Molly sighed.
'Don't worry I intend to,' Eva sighed.
They headed into a great black circular never-ending pit of black. Eva remembered what this place was.
'What is going on?' Stan asked.
'We should check on our scanners, but I think it is too deep to tell,' Koji sighed and ran off with Stan.
Jordan was alone. He hated the dark. He hesitated but then left as well to the control room where he could at least have some light.
'Are you ready?' Eva asked Molly.
'Yeah,' Molly nodded.
Eva flashed the communications link off. She sighed and waited.
The floor below her lit up. Eva quickly got ready. She was ready when the floor opened. She flew downwards. She turned on the torch but like before, nothing could be seen at all.
'Where are we?' Molly asked.
'We can't tell. It's too deep for our scanners,' Koji sighed.
Eva looked around. It was pitch black everywhere.
'Wait, Ruby, I see something,' Molly said.
They were coming close to an opening.
Eva got ready and got the Arrow close to the ground. Everyone landed as well. Only Eva and Sul were not amazed.
'Where are we?' Molly asked in wonder.
Eva smiled and remembered the race. She then remembered what had happened and scowled.
She sighed.
'This Molly is the Womb of Oban. We are in the core of Oban,' Eva told her.
And then the race truly began.