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~the next morning~
I woke up to Kida licking my face and whining.
"Are you hungry? Why didn't you just go use your cuteness to get scraps?" Then I remembered last night. "Oh, were you keeping watch for me?" He huffed and walked out of the tent to go find food. I laughed. I pulled my breakfast out of the bag that Allen had brought me yesterday. No matter how hungry Kida was, he never stole any food from me. He usually wouldn't even take some if I told him to.
Once I was done eating I left my tent to see what time it was. Judging by the sun, it was almost noon. I began to worry all over again. He would be here soon to pick me up. I sat and waited for Kida, hoping he would get back before Allen. While I waited I drew up a few transmutation circles and labeled what they would do. I did this just in case, and made some for all sorts of events. I had just finished when Kida came back looking satisfied. He sat next to me and we started looking out for our third party to arrive. We weren't looking long before he got there.
"So. Ready to go?" Allen stood and looked at us regretfully.
"Yup!" I showed him my stack of paper and stash of chalk. "I got us covered." He smiled and gestured for me to follow him. The walk was short, but it felt like it took forever. We didn't speak on the way there. We were both too scared of what was to come. When we reached the estate neither of us were willing to knock. It didn't matter though because the door swung open after a moment of waiting. Tucker didn't seem surprised that it was me standing there.
"Come in. I've been waiting for you." He turned around and lead us into his home and down a hallway I hadn't been in before. "Please keep your voices down, Nina is taking a nap." He lead us to a door in the back of the house. He stopped and looked at Kida and Allen. "Boy, what's your name? Can you help me along with these two?" I had an absolutely horrible feeling about this...
"Uh, sure. Yeah." I could tell he was scared but just wanted to protect me.
"Alright, then. Follow me." Tucker opened the door. Behind it was a staircase leading down into a basement. We slowly went down and through a passageway leading to a room lined with cages. Each had some combination of two or more animals. They all started screeching when they saw Tucker. No wonder, he seems crazy to me. In the center of the room, inside a circle I didn't recognize, sat Alexander the dog. I realized what he wanted.
" No way. Is... Is this how you made your speaking chimera? You used a human?" Allen had a look of hatred on his face as he looked upon Tucker. My comment just made Tucker laugh.
"Yes. I suppose that you can know. My wife. She made a wonderful subject. It's too bad she didn't have the will to live very long." Tucker looked pointedly at Allen for some reason.
"You sick, evil bastard. She was my older sister!" Allen leapt at Tucker. Alexander panicked and fled the basement, not liking violence. Allen pushed Tucker up against a few cages. He punched Tucker in the stomach. Tucker lurched and spit flew from his mouth. He shoved Allen forward. I ran to the circle and erased parts to render it unusable. While I was doing this Tucker released one of his chimeras. It was a mix of a monkey and a cat. It jumped at Allen's throat as Tucker fled the basement. Kida stood in front of me to protect me.
"Allen!" I ran to help but it was too late. He fell to the ground, with blood seeping between the hands that clutched his throat. The only sound was a gargling watery squelch and he stopped moving.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Allen!" I dropped to my knees in front of his motionless body.
The chimera began circling me. "Fuck off!" I grabbed a spare lock that was laying by me and threw it. It missed and the chimera went for me. Kida caught it mid-air and I heard a crack that came from its spine or neck, I couldn't tell. It made little mewling noises, though, it wasn't dead, just paralyzed. Kida dropped it, knowing the threat was gone.
I had to save him. He couldn't die. Not this way. I would succeed where dad failed. I moved to the circle and took out the picture of the transmutation circle I'd need. I did what I could to fix the circle and I put Allen in the center.
"Kida, move over to the stairs. Stay there." I placed the chimera near the circle and pulled one more cage with a small chimera down next to it. The creature in the cage looked like a mix between a parrot and a chipmunk. It began chattering endlessly as it saw the circle.
"Alright, C'mon Allen. You have to come back to me." I checked to make sure that Kida was a safe distance away. I clapped my hands together and touched the circle. A bright white light emerged from the lines of the circle. The chimeras surrounding the circle went crazy. I didn't think it was going to work, I was losing hope, and then I saw it. The gate. It was huge. Somehow I was in a different place. It was all white. The only thing in the whole place, other than me and the chimeras, was the gate. It was black and had two greek like pillars on each side. Carved in the center of the two doors was an eye. The doors slowly opened and I saw eyes staring at me. So many sets of eyes. Almost a hundred black arms reached out and grabbed the two chimeras. I thought it would be satisfied but then it went for me. It grabbed my left arm, halfway below my elbow. It tore my hand off and left me with half an arm and disappeared. I was back in Tucker's basement. I looked hopefully at Allen. He was moving. I ran to him, my arm bleeding and Kida whining.
"Allen! Oh Allen, you're alive!" I was staring at his face. His eyes were open wide and staring at nothing.
"Why? Why? What did you do? Lyraaaa!" He was panicked and seemed in despair. "Why did you do this me, why?" He became still.
No. It couldn't be. I gave to equivalent exchange. The Gate took from me. It couldn't take him back. He's the only family I have left! No. I can't accept this! I was about to try again, I went to clap but felt nothing. I looked down. That's right. I don't have a hand. My vision began to fade and the last thing I remember was Kida slipping underneath me as I fell.
I hope you liked it! let me know if I made any mistakes or just if you want me to keep going. I've got a few more chapters written but i'm not sure if i should continue it or not... any way, thanks for reading!