Author's Note: Hey guys! This will probably be my last update this week since my quarterly exams are up soon and I need to get high scores! So anyway, thank you so much for all the support and I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Nine
I'm pacing around in my room, anxious. It's weird for me to be nervous like this, but whatever.
I decide to go and ask John for help. He is sort of an expert on these things.
I get out of my room and knock into his.
He was sitting in one corner of his bed, scurrying the news from his laptop.
"Why are you still doing that? We've found Five already, bro." I say.
"I know. I'm not looking for Lorics. I'm looking for Mogadorians to know if they're close." He replies, still not looking away from his laptop screen.
I sit down beside him. "Can we talk?"
"Sure."
"It's about Five."
"What about her?"
"Dude, you know what happened."
He shrugs. "Yeah. And what's wrong with what you did?"
"Well, it was kind of unexpected."
"And what's wrong with that? Everything you do is unexpected."
I sigh. "You're no help. I'll go talk to Eight."
As a reply, he just nods.
I sigh again and walk out of the room.
I was about to knock on Eight's door when I see him with Marina heading for the door, their fingers entangled in each other. I make gagging noises but am actually secretly jealous.
I decided to just wing it and go over to Five's room.
I knock. "Come in."
She turned her head when I stepped in.
She was sitting on her bed, hunched over her Chest, rummaging through the items. There was a bowl of cherries beside them. Guess she got hungry but was too engrossed in her little research to get some real food.
"Hey." I say lamely.
"Hey" she greets.
I plop myself down next to her awkwardly. She still hasn't looked away from her Chest.
She picks a little circular flat object and begins to examine it.
"What do you want?" she asks but she doesn't sound angry. Phew.
"I just wanted to apologize." I reply sheepishly.
"It's fine, really. I shouldn't have slapped you." She says, popping a cherry into her mouth.
"No, no, it's my fault. Sorry. I got…carried away."
She laughs. "Well."
She resumes in examining the object.
After a while, she says, "Oh my God."
"What-what is it?" I ask frantically, thinking she just saw a Mog or something.
"I just realized," she says, holding out the object in front of me.
"This is the Loric symbol for the number five."
I study it closely. It does look Loric.
She fidgets around with it more until it suddenly opens. It's a little small; like a compact mirror.
A piece of paper drops from the inside and Five opens it carefully.
Inside the paper was some sort of list:
Telekinesis
Fight
Elemental Manipulation
Invisibility
Hydro-locomotion
Skill Swap
Time Manipulation
"Wha-what is this?"She asks.
"I think it's a list of your Legacies."
Her eyes widen and suddenly, she's out the door. I easily follow her with super speed.
She dashes to my room and picks my Chest from the corner.
"Open it." She orders.
"Why?"
"Just open it!"
"Shouldn't it be my choice?"I ask, smirking.
"Just open it, Nine."
"Fine."
I press my hand over the lock until I hear a familiar clicking sound.
It opens.
She grabs it from my hand and begins to look for something.
"What are you doing?"
She grunts as a response.
"Aha!" She raises a small circular object that looks like the one she had in her Chest.
"Open it."
I fidget around with it until it opens and a piece of paper falls out.
Telekinesis
Super speed
Super hearing
Anti-Gravity
Legacy Transferee
Animal Telepathy
Shape-Shifting
Seismic Manipulation
"Awesome!" I exclaim.
"Wow, you get to shape-shift like Eight!"
"Yeah. But I'm gonna' be better."
She laughs. "It was nice of the Elders to tell us our Legacies."
Before I can reply, she's out the door again and knocking (more like banging) on Marina and Eight's door.
"What's up?" Marina asks sweetly.
"I need you guys to open your Chests."
"Why?"
"Please just do it. You'll find out if you do."
I follow them inside just to find out that Eight is sleeping.
I pull off his blanket. "Dude, wake up!"
"Wha-what?"
"Wake up. Big stuff happening."
Marina is already pressing her hands to the lock by the time Eight gets up.
Five picks out the same circular object, but with a different symbol, of course.
Marina opens it and yet another piece of paper falls out.
I lean over their shoulders to take a peek.
Telekinesis
Super speed
Aquatic Respiration
Night Vision
Healing
Sound Manipulation
Energy Manipulation
"What's 'Energy Manipulation'?" Marina asks.
"Guess we'll just have to wait and see. What about you, Eight?"
He hands Five a piece of paper.
"I'm not Pittacus." He says, a hint of sadness in his voice.
Marina hugs him. "So? That doesn't mean you aren't a strong fighter. You may not be Pittacus' successor, but, you are still one of the strongest in the Garde."
"Aww," Five says then shakes her head. "Sorry, ruined the moment."
Eight laughs and kisses Marina on the cheek affectionately. Marina blushes and smiles, resting her head on Eight's shoulder.
"Cut the Love Fest, guys." I say mockingly. Both of them blush and look away.
I peer over Five's shoulder to take a peek.
Telekinesis
Teleportation
Shape-Shifting
Hydro-locomotion
Precognition
Pyrokinesis
Wave Manipulation
He's right. Pittacus has all the Legacies.
"Y'know, Sandor used to date this chick, Devektra, I think, and she had that Legacy." I say, pointing to Wave Manipulation.
"It's a rare one. Marina's is kinda' like that but she can only control sound. You can control both sound and light."
"Whoa." Eight says.
"Right, so, we're kinda' busy telling other people about their Legacies so, uh, bye!" Five says then dashes again. I follow her.
Once again, she bangs on her room's door. She's sharing it with Six, I think.
Six opens.
"Hey, what's up?" she asks nonchalantly.
"Listen, I need you to open your Chest. Nine and I just found out about a small circular object and inside it is a list of all your Legacies." Five explains.
"I don't have my Chest with me." Six replies sadly.
"What?"
"I buried it somewhere in West Virginia when the Mogs captured me."
Five pulls her into a hug and I am left there standing awkwardly.
"We'll get it back." Five says.
Six only nods. She looks so weak it's surreal.
"Now. We're going to West Virginia now." Five continues.
"What?"
"That Chest is important to you, Six. And we're going to get it."
"Well let's call the others then!" Six says, running down the hall with Five in tow.
"You know, you guys need to think this through more!" I yell, running after them.
"YOLO!" Five yells back.
I shake my head, laughing.
…
Six
We race to inform the other, excitement flowing through my veins.
"Marina! Eight! Ella! Get over here!"Five yells.
"Adam! Sam! Malcolm! John!"
All of them rush outside, most of them carrying knives or guns, preparing to fight.
"What?! Where are the Mogs?!"
I laugh. "There aren't any. We need to get to West Virginia. I need to get my Chest."
"Look, Six, I know how much this is important to you. But we can't just rush there all of a sudden. Mogs would be waiting for us for sure." John says, shaking me by the shoulders.
"But it's my Chest! My inheritance! And besides, aren't you guys just itching to destroy a base?" I ask, smiling.
John thinks about it for a moment and finally nods.
"Fine. You win. Let's go."
We grab about a dozen guns and half a dozen packs of ammo and put it in the back of a minivan we stole some days ago. Just to be sure.
Nine jumps in the driver's seat while Five and Ella ride shotgun.
John, Sarah, Marina, and I in the back seats and Sam, Malcolm, Adam, Eight are in the very back.
The Chimæras are also with us but have transformed into flies or butterflies for the sake of space.
The Chests are also with us because we may need to use the Xitharis and some healing stones. Plus Nine's trusty pipe-staff.
I'm so excited to finally get my Chest that I can't stop bouncing at the back while Nine gets the engine started.
Marina smiles at me. "We'll get it back, Six. I promise."
I nod and smile back at her.
"'Kay, so, it'll take us two days max to get to West Virginia. We'll stay the night at some sort of motel, train, and then head to the base to kick some Mogadorian ass." Nine announces, pulling the car out of the little space and driving away.
We all nod in anticipation.