Chapter 7 – Two Worlds
Rue and Danny stared at the blank wall. Only a minute ago, they had seen their friend, who they thought they had lost. Maybe this time they really had lost her.
'You idiots!' Danny yelled.
They both ran out of the room. They bashed into Amber.
'Are you ok?' she asked.
Rue and Danny shook their heads and ran on. They went the tower and went all the way up. They sat there looking at Daul silently.
'We were this close to getting her back,' Rue muttered.
'I know,' Danny sighed.
'Why didn't they listen to us? We could have her back if they had,' Rue then said angrily.
Rue and Danny sadly looked out. Why had they all woken up? Why had Opal come at that moment? Why had the link broken?
The other side of the broken link was shocked as well.
'How did that happen?' Jordan asked.
'I lost control of it. I can open the trans-dimensional portal here in hope they will come. I will make everyone who is sucked in by one of those come here. But I can you this, I can not do another link like that,' Canaletto told them.
'What?' Molly yelled.
'If you made one before, surely you can do another!' Aikka shouted.
'I can not. Something is preventing me. I am sorry but I can only hope they come now. Your friend may never get back,' Canaletto said.
Everyone looked back at the pond. Aikka, Jordan and Molly walked off angrily. They were so mad they forgot about Eva.
She hadn't said anything. She looked at Canaletto.
'This is twisted. The whole universe so much more twisted than my own one. That is why I want to go back. You will next be saying Satis is evil…' Eva sighed sadly.
She looked back at the pond.
'Now that you mention his name I will tell you one thing. He is evil,' Canaletto simply said.
'What! Tell me more!' Eva yelled desperately.
She looked back. Canaletto had gone. Eva sadly looked around for him, but it was no use. He wasn't there.
'Do I deserve this?' Eva whispered.
She sadly walked back to the Earth Avatar ship. Everyone had gone back there, but the party was over. Eva looked tearfully at everyone and sighed.
She walked outside.
She sat down and let her legs dangle over the edge of the Avatar ship. Her eyes stung with tears that refused to flow.
Molly came along and sat next to her. She looked at Eva's faraway look in her eyes.
'I feel so hurt. It comes to me everyday I am away from them. I haven't felt it lately but…' Eva turned away.
'You're really missing them aren't you? That pain is known as heartbreak…you seem to be good friends with it,' Molly sighed.
'I guess I am. Why does it have to be me though?' Eva asked.
'We all suffer in the universes all around us. It when we are put under extreme pressure that we are tested to see if we really are strong enough,' Molly said.
Eva looked out. She then realised something.
'So I should forget about it if it doesn't happen?' Eva asked.
'Exactly,' Molly answered.
Eva stood up. She got Molly up as well.
'Well I suppose I can do that,' Eva shrugged.
They both went back inside. Eva raised her eyebrow at Aikka.
'How come you are still here?' she asked.
'Uh, just to check you were ok. But I guess you are so I will go back,' Aikka went through the portal.
'Right everyone! Get to sleep now! We have a race tomorrow!' Maya yelled very loudly.
Everyone quickly ran into their rooms. Eva sat on her bed and listened to Jordan and Molly talk. She found herself taking a picture out of her bag and then changing a few things. After a few minutes she looked at the picture.
'Weird…' she said.
She put it away and decided it wasn't important right then. She got changed and went off to sleep.
Her troubles could be left until tomorrow…
But tomorrow was a long way away from Danny and Rue. It was only morning. It was going to be one long day.
'I wonder what she is doing with the other people there,' Rue broke the silence.
'Who will ever know? I bet Jordan broke that link. I wouldn't be surprised if he had because he is a grump half of time,' Danny muttered.
'You're the one invading my room,' Jordan replied.
Rue and Danny turned around. Everyone was there behind them.
'Ok, why didn't you hear them?' Danny asked Rue.
'Would it matter?' Rue shrugged.
'We could have gotten out of here! No wait, we couldn't…' Danny looked around sadly.
'Why did you invade my room? Can't I have my own privacy?' Jordan asked.
'You seemed to be having a mourning party in there. We were not invited and besides why does it involve you?' Rue stuck his tongue out.
'Just because you used Jordan's Avatar powers without his permission. I bet the link broke because it wasn't a real link. He is going to question Canaletto about it right this second,' Aikka said.
Jordan was already concentrating.
After a minute, he got through to Canaletto.
'Come to yell?' Canaletto taunted him.
'No, I came to say stop sending us fake messages!' Jordan sent telepathically.
'So you came to complain about something I did not actually do?' Canaletto laughed at Jordan.
'You didn't send them? Those messages from the other universe?' Jordan was all confused.
'You are more foolish than I thought. I decided leaving you torn up was enough,' Canaletto smirked.
Jordan quickly got rid of the link.
'Uh, I owe an apology,' Jordan mumbled.
'You actually did it? Are you stupid?' Danny shouted.
Rue raised his eyebrow.
'Yeah, well, you should have thought about that when you destroyed that link. You destroyed the only thing we had!' Rue yelled.
'I didn't do anything to that thing you were doing!' Jordan replied.
Rue and Danny blinked. There was a long silence between everyone.
'So are we going after this voice?' Aikka guessed.
Jordan nodded. Everyone gasped.
'I guess Canaletto said…' Koji stopped.
Jordan nodded.
'He had nothing to do with it. I could tell by the way he was teasing me about it,' he sighed.
'So I guess we should pack,' Rick smiled weakly.
'Yeah, cause we are going after a little mouse!' Danny yelled.
Everyone went down the turret. They were all happy. They smiled and laughed and knew things were looking up.
They quickly packed and got ready.
Opal came running up to Rue and Danny.
'Why are they so happy?' she asked.
'Because Molly is alive! That link was real! We did actually talk to her! We are going to get her back!' Danny grinned.
'Wow, you are going to all kill yourselves by jumping into that transional portfall you were talking about,' Opal muttered.
'Trans-dimensional portal,' Rue corrected her.
'Whatever. I'm not going to let you die. You are a bit thick to be honest. You really believe she is alive?' Opal asked them.
There was an awkward silence.
'We do,' Danny said.
They both left Opal alone. She was annoyed. Eva wasn't really alive, or was she alive?
Everyone went into the empty ballroom. Jordan stood in the centre.
He concentrated for a minute and they were then on Oban. They were in the Arena of the Heart.
'I can't believe I am doing this. I must be mad,' Jordan muttered.
'Just do it already,' Stan said.
'The sooner we get to the little mouse, the sooner we can know she is ok. We need to go now,' Rick told them.
Jordan nodded. A trans-dimensional portal appeared. Everyone went in at the same time.
'Ah! It hurts!' Rue yelled.
'What were you meant to expect?' Aikka asked.
They all yelled.
'Jordan, stop it!' Danny muttered.
'Not until I know this works,' Jordan said.
'I guess we have no choice then,' Don shouted.
They all yelled with pain and they all eventually disappeared. The trans-dimensional portal stopped.
They were away from their universe now.
Canaletto stopped in his tracks. He checked once and twice and even more. He smiled when he realised he was right.
'They are arriving.'