(GASP!)
"(Gasp) Where am (Cough) I?"
I woke up, with my face to the wet grits of sand on a cold beach and lungs which heaved for air as though they'd never breathed before. My body trembled as I picked myself up. Waves shattered in the background, as I looked for my friends. The thought of how I was alive didn't bother me; it was I was alive. I figured that if I somehow survived, then Whiplash must've also. A feeling of Terror shrieked through my body, sending nervous pulses through my veins.
"Chase! River!" I said softly as water shot from my mouth, blocking the effect of the yell I intended.
I turned around and found them lying on the wet sand of a beach. I pulled myself together and moved my aching body across the sand with my worn out, tired legs. Barely able to walk, I made my way to Chase. I turned him over off of his face. No breathe. No heartbeat. A small tear trickled down my face.
"River", I yelled!
There she laid face up, with the water vomit on her face with which she had apparently choked on. Tear's wanted to flow in abundance from my terror filled eyes, but I fought them back because that's what Terra would've down.
With no idea, no plan, and no clue what to do, I ran towards the road. Then I realized that the earth wasn't broken up anymore; but how do you just piece an entire planet back together? I had questions and I wanted answers, but now wasn't the time for them.
SCREEEEEECH!
The loud sound, of the car which nearly hit me, penetrated through the cold night.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING KID!" the freaked out driver screamed!
"Please! My friends they need help! We have to get them to a hospital, QUICK!" I yelled as tears drenched my face.
"HOLY CRAP! WHAT HAPPENED!"
"I don't know. Let's just get them help!" I demanded.
The courteous driver helped me load Chase and River into the car. We would've done CPR on them…if we knew how to. The driver told me that there was a hospital about 2 hours if we speed a little. I was hoping he was sarcastic about "speed a little" and the time.
"Hey, I hope your parents don't mind if I take you a high speed, because 50 mph here we come", he said as I read the speed limit sign reading "45 mph."
"HEY!" was the last thing I heard the driver say as he rolled on the sand from the hard kick I gave him.
I sped off at full speed and added a little extra air boost also. Traveling at about 120 with the air boost on the car that I'd given it I figured we'd make it there in about 20 minutes or less, at least I hoped. Well I wanted to get there instantly but it's not like I could just teleport or something. Just then I heard a slight movement I the back seat. Nothing. I refocused on driving as the car conveniently ran out of gas.
"NOOO!" I yelled in anger and sadness. Then suddenly I looked up and we were the city without the car.
I managed to get the attention of a few people when I told them of the two dead kids, which I now drug in my arms. We made it to the hospital and got Chase in River in the as quick as possible. Then I …. I…. (Black out). I fainted.
I woke up handcuffed in a cold dry jail cell; apparently I was being accused of killing my two best friends. Anger swept over me, as I sawed through the cuffs and through my jail cell.
"Hey John can you get me a- HEY! GET BACK HERE! WE have a Code Blue! Escaping convict on corridor 936!" a fat lazy jail cell guard said as shoved one last donut into his mouth and waddled after me. I'm not normally the type to run if I get in trouble but this time I didn't do anything wrong; and when I refer to trouble I mean getting sent to the principal's office not going to jail.
Finally I was cornered.
"Get your hands behind your head and lay on the ground", they ordered me.
"Please I don't want any trouble. There is a problem beyond your ability of understanding. You don't know what you're doing", I said to them not realizing I'd just practically called them stupid unintentionally.
(Gasp!)
"Garret! Chase!" River yelled in the middle of a doctors CPR procedure on her.
"Hey you can't LEAVE little girl!" the doctor yelled back at her.
"Where's are my friends Chase and Garret?" River asked nicely.
"Little girl, you really need to lie back down", the doctor said in a childish tone, as he grabbed River's arm. He soon realized not to mess with River when she's on a mission. River threw him across the room
"Chase! There you are. Where's Garr….et?" she stuttered.
"Chase?" was the only word she could choke out of herself.
Chase lay there lifelessly, oh so we thought. Then I happened.
"(HUGE Yawn!) Well that's was a good nap. What'd I miss?" Chase said.
"Chase! You're alive!" River exclaimed as she ran and hugged him, squeezing the life nearly back out of him.
"Wow, you're sure excited to see me. Where's Garr….et. Ok that was creepy", Chase said as he and River suddenly appeared In the middle of my situation.
"Chase? River?" I said excitedly as I held two large air blades in my hands.
"Ummm? What are you doing, Garret", River asked?
"Oh, nothing, but now would definitely be a good time get us out of here somehow", I said smirking as the small swarm of guards pointed the guns and tazers at me.
"Oh ya. Like I can just magically tele…port us. Ok, HOW THE HELL DOES THAT KEEP HAPPENING?", Chase said with that look he'd get when he had to decide whether or not to light the hairspray on fire just to have a flamethrower was a good idea. He had a look of excitement, puzzlement, fright, and whole bunch of other expressions that seemed very strange at the moment considering our situation. We were suddenly out in front of our school.
"Wait a second. How come we never teleport when Chase isn't around", I asked?
"Before we discuss that question, what happened and why isn't the earth all split up", River asked?
"Well I woke up on a beach. You guys were dead. I managed to get you to a hospital. I was arrested and accused of killing you two. I escaped jail. You guys appeared there and then we teleported here. OH ya we also teleported to the city", I said like it was nothing.
"Well know that we're caught up to date, how have we been traveling", River said?
"I might have an idea", Chase said softly.
"Well. Go on", river said.
"Well, remember when I when into that room", he said?
"No, Terra was probably with you on that one", I said.
"Well ever since those whirling lights went into and all that, my powers have changed from power over earth molecules to dematerialization and maybe to teleportation", Chase theorized.
"Wait. So that means you were probably the only reason any of us are alive", I concluded.
"Well that still doesn't answer how the earth got back up together", River said trying to shift the conversation and steal the spotlight from Chase.
"I'll be right back", Chase said as he woke some random person up by pounding on their door in the middle of the night.
"You guys the earth never split, it was only an illusion", Chase said shakily, "Has it all been an illusion?"
"AWWWW!" THUD! THUMP! THUD! Was all that was heard as River threw him across the school yard.
"Now did that feel real?" River asked Chase as he made his way back holding his head.
"Well I've hear of stories where human minds can play tricks on you all by themselves", Chase said.
"AWWW", was all Chase got to say before River threw him across the school yard again.
"You really like to do that, don't you?" I chuckled to her.
"Now, how about that time, did it feel real?" River laughed out with a smirk.
Chase grinned.
"Well where do we go from here?" I asked.
"Ya, what do we do now?" River agreed, "Maybe it's safe to live a normal life now."
"Ya", Chase said with a smile.
"Ya, I guess that does sound like a good idea", I said in agree with them.
"A fresh start."
So we all went home that night, surprised our families, reunited, and slept that good night sleep that we hadn't had in a while. It turned out that River went to my school before and when she was kidnapped Terra took her place. Chase and I lost our powers, while River got to keep hers.
1 year later
"So, watcha guys doing today", Chase asked?
"Well River and I were planning on going to the lake, you can come if ya want", I said
"Really? Sweet!" Chase said excitedly.
"Hey Chase, do you ever wish you could still have your powers", I asked?
"Huh. Every day", Chase sighed, "Every day."
(At the lake)
"Whooo, Go Chase!" River encouraged Chase as he wake boarded.
SWOOOSH! BOOOMMM! (Giant Splash)
Chase fell off and out of the wake board onto what he'd expect to be water but was really a thick layer of ice. Where the giant splash of ice had come from now had a huge energy ball there, which radiated heat, coolness, and light.
"Chase! Are you alright!" River and I asked in unison.
"I think I'll make it", he responded.
"Ok good, now let's go check out whatever the hell that was", River said in concern.
As we approached it, a wall of air formed blocking out River and trapped Chase and I in.
"River!" I yelled.
"I'm alright. You're the one who's trapped in", she chuckled.
"Oh yeah, right", I smirked back with a sarcastic smile.
"Umm? Garret, you might want to turn around"
"Huh?" (turns around) "AWW, what's going on?" I asked.
"This is it", Chase said with a grin.
"What's what?" I asked.
"These are the energy sources which morphed my powers."
"And what exactly are you getting to?" I asked.
"I'm not quite sure. Just try putting these two together: Us and Powers", Chase said as his grin grew bigger.
Radiant streams of light flowed rapidly into our bodies suddenly. The magnanimous light overwhelmed our bodies with petrifying energy which almost seemed to pierce fear into our souls. It happened in the blink of an eye.
Chase and I woke up on a cold ice floor moments later with River shaking us frantically back and forth even though we'd only been unconscious for a few minutes.
"Ughh. What happened?"
"You're a…a Light Wielder or Light Yielder. Meaning you wield light or control light, natural light that is", River said to us in amazement, "You make weapons with light."
The sky was dim, the sun shew on one half of the sky while the moon shew on the other. With that Chase and I threw our arms out forming
Swords of light.
"You guys, Nate's not dead"