Chapter 13 – Alive
In the darkness, the Arrow lay broken. It wasn't too bad, but the people lying outside it seemed in a lot worse shape.
Jordan slowly blinked his eyes open.
He smiled weakly. Satis can't get rid of the Avatar that easily. He sat up. He saw everyone else.
'Hmm, I will change that,' he whispered.
He concentrated for a minute. He saw everyone start breathing heavily. He smiled and knew they would wake up soon. He looked at the wreck of the Arrow. He scowled and looked up.
All he saw was the sky in the distance. He couldn't see the Avatar ships.
'You will pay Satis so much for all of this!' Jordan kicked a stone in anger.
The stone rolled off into the distance. It hit Molly and she woke up. She groaned as she sat up.
'I don't think I want to do that again,' she muttered.
She stood up and saw Jordan.
'Why did you not put that thing?' she yelled.
'We crashed! Remember?' Jordan shouted back at her.
Molly turned her head away knowing it was no use. She lightly shook everyone else until they all woke up. They all stood up and stared at the Arrow.
'Well that is a bit bad,' Prince Aikka sighed.
'Yeah and to think we thought we were going to be fine. Couldn't be wrong about that,' pilot Jordan muttered.
Some of them started putting up some shelter.
Molly ran over to the Arrow. She dug around for a minute. She pulled out the communicator. She fiddled with it. She grinned when she heard a voice.
'Hello? This is the Earth team,' Koji's voice came through.
'This is Molly! We are all alive and we are trying to get out of here!' Molly yelled at the communicator.
'Who is it?' Koji asked.
Molly realized he couldn't hear her. Then the communicator broke. She scowled and threw it down.
Koji sighed.
'I honestly thought it was them. But I didn't hear anything,' Koji looked sadly at the other mechanics.
'Well I guess you were wrong. I guess we were all wrong,' one of the Stans sighed.
Eva watched them. She looked at Satis. She was still crying. She took a deep breath and knew what she had to do.
'I want to block out every single link from here,' she whispered angrily.
'Are you so sure? I will make a promise not to let anything in if you want me to but you will never be able to see anyone outside here again while you are stuck here with me,' Satis told her.
Canaletto heard them.
'Ruby, do not do it. You must have hope. You will be able to get out of there sooner or later,' Canaletto told Eva.
'What choice do I have? Even if I got out it wouldn't be the same. It is just because you don't understand. The others would. I just don't want to hurt anymore. Can you blame me for that?' Eva yelled.
Canaletto was silent for a moment.
'I think you are making a…' he started.
'Too late,' Satis laughed.
The link was cut off. Canaletto tried getting another one but it was no use. Satis had done what Eva had wanted. She was completely cut off from the world outside the bird cage. Canaletto couldn't believe she had given up.
'I thought she really did believe,' he sighed.
The words echoed all around Oban.
They reached everyone at the bottom of the trench. They gasped.
'Please don't let that be who I think it is. Please don't,' Rue whispered.
'It is. We crashed. Are you meant to expect a happy day for some people?' Danny asked angrily.
'No, but I was sort of hoping we didn't have to hear something like that. I think everyone was hoping. Jordan, can you get a link with there?' Prince Aikka asked curiously.
Jordan concentrated really hard. He found there was a thick shield blocking his way and he couldn't get past.
'I can't,' he muttered.
'Why not?' everyone asked.
'There is a thing stopping me. I bet you that Satis made it,' Jordan said angrily.
The other Jordan looked at the shelter; he and Molly's Aikka had set up. Everyone else raised their eyebrow.
'It looks like we will be here a while, so we might as well set up camp,' Jordan smiled.
A horrible image of what life would be like later flashed through Molly, Prince Aikka, Rue, Danny and Jordan's minds. They shivered.
'Yeah, I'd rather face my chances against Satis,' Molly muttered.
Eva's Jordan looked around and saw a staircase. He pointed it out.
'We should go that way if we ever stand a chance of getting out of here. Unless you want to die here of course,' he gestured to the shelter.
Molly's Aikka and Jordan groaned but agreed.
After a while, they started going up the staircase. Molly raised her eyebrow at her Aikka and Jordan.
'You didn't need to bring the whole Arrow,' she smirked.
'You will thank us for the food and other things later,' Jordan muttered.
'Anyway, why aren't you helping us?' Aikka asked.
Everyone kept walking. Danny and Rue turned around.
'If you guys were not carrying that stuff, we would be up the stairs by now! You are so slow with it,' Danny stuck his tongue out.
Aikka and Jordan both grumbled and went faster. After a while, they eventually reached light and an archway.
Avatar Jordan looked through first.
'Be careful crossing this,' he muttered.
Everyone was a few steps behind him. They all raised their eyebrows. Jordan went through the archway.
Prince Aikka looked through. Jordan had simply teleported to the other side.
'You want us to cross that?' he yelled.
Jordan nodded slowly.
Everyone else looked across. There was only a long thin platform connecting them to the other side. The fall looked deadly for them.
'Can't you just teleport us across?' Molly asked.
'Hey! I might need that power for something else! I've only been Avatar for a few years! My power is kind of limited,' Jordan muttered angrily.
'Not enough to just teleport you across,' the other Jordan pointed out.
Avatar Jordan thought for a moment. Everyone blinked and then Rue and Danny were on the other side next to him.
'That's the best I can do,' Jordan sighed.
'Are you sure?' Molly asked.
Everyone blinked again. Prince Aikka was across again. Jordan was breathing heavily. That hadn't been easy for him.
'I guess we have no choice,' Molly shrugged.
She started walking across. Then a great wind blew. She wobbled and lost her balance. Her Jordan and Aikka ran across and pushed them all to the ground. Their bags flew off into the darkness.
The wind stopped blowing. Molly sat up.
'Thanks,' she smiled.
She got up and walked the rest of the way. Her Aikka and Jordan blushed but got up as well and walked the rest of the way.
They all walked the rest of the way up. Everyone was tired except Jordan.
'I wish we had some food,' Molly sighed.
'If we did, then you would be sort of gone,' Rue sighed.
Molly smiled and looked at her Aikka and Jordan. She blushed and turned her head as if she was shy.
After a few minutes, they reached another archway. They saw light and they all ran through the archway. They were in the Arena of the Heart after hours of walking up the steps.
'We just to reach that temple over there,' Avatar Jordan pointed out the faint building in the distance.
They all nodded and started walking towards the temple. They were all tired and Jordan was the only one who walked without looking like he would faint any second. It was close to sunset. They needed to get there before dark.
Everyone blinked. The people around them had disappeared. They all looked around desperately for a second until they saw her.
With some of them, she came with someone else but everyone saw the same person.
'Hey!' she yelled.
They all couldn't believe it. They so wanted to believe it.
'It's you!' they all shouted.
They all ran towards her and gave her a hug. They couldn't see the others but if they did, they would have seen multiple copies of her.
Canaletto sensed it. He moved the Avatar ships to the Arena. Everyone above could see them all.
Satis sensed their presence as well. He looked at the sleeping Eva.
'Nothing you will ever need to worry about,' he smiled evilly.
'I have to tell her!' Canaletto said.
He tried getting a link with her but it was still tight.
'They are down there and they are…' Canaletto froze.
Satis made a link with Canaletto. He just made sure Eva wouldn't be able to hear from inside the cage.
'I did this of course. Is it clever? They have obviously forgotten about little me,' Satis laughed.
'You have created copies of Ruby!'