botgal- You're rant was adorable. lol
Shyma- I never heard that song before, so I looked it up & listened to it... I almost cried. Almost. That was some powerful stuff. Good song.
Total Weirdo- Awesome, thanks! Hopefully, Six won't completely snap, but if he does, it will be hilarious. XD
doodle- Germaphode will be back soon.
Solora- I actually kinda thought I sucked at fight scenes, cuz I move so fast with them. It gets the point across without repeating stuff, so I guess it works. Thanks for the compliment lol
Elidy- The Pack wasn't around b/c they didn't think she'd regain her memory so fast (if at all). And, during the whole fight and staying with the Pack, she was slowly getting her memories back. The fight just jump started it all, cuz of Six... I'm easy to read! Yay!
1wingedangelX- You are officially awesome.
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Rex's Smack Hand connected with the space that Van Kleiss once occupied.
"Stay still!," he screamed.
"You first," Kleiss replied, shooting the vines back at the teen.
He quickly changed to the B.F.S. and started hacking away the vines, getting closer to his target. Once in range, he revved up the buzzsaw and sliced Kleiss in half. Without waiting another second, he switched to the Boogie Pack and tried to make his way out of the castle. Suddenly, a vine shot out in front of him and effectively wraped around his neck. It threw him against a wall and destroyed the Boogie Pack.
"Like I said before," Kleiss said, walking up to him, "You're important to me, Rex, but you are starting to get on my nerves."
Rex tried to continue breathing as the vines wrapped around him.
Van Kleiss stabbed his mechanical hand into his stomach and started absorbing his nanites.
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Circe's sonic scream managed to knock out Skalamander.
She had finally made it back inside the castle and when she ran into the Evo. Without thinking, she had knocked him out.
Breathing heavy, she put her hands on her knees and rested a second.
Probably shouldn't have done that.
There was no real reason. She just had a bad feeling about all of this. Well, a horrible feeling about it.
She still hadn't been able to find Em.
The sound she heard next shocked her back to life. Screaming.
Is that... No.
"Rex!," she screamed, worried
Circe made her legs move and started running to his screams.
Biowulf and Breach watched her run from the shadows.
She was about to teleport the girl again, when the larger Evo stopped her.
"Let her go," he said, "She needs to be dealt with anyway. She's been nothing, but trouble. Now, that we have Rex, she is no longer valuable."
He stalked away.
Breach watched him leave, when she heard a small beeping. Looking down, she noticed it was a small beeper. It was meant to go off when that woman was done with the agent.
She should be dealt with as well, before she remembers anything.
Kleiss refused to give her up so easily, though. She was a great asset to their cause.
Moving her arm, she opened the portal for Em and waited.
Something's not-
Flourishing steel shone in front of her eyes, before she was knocked out.
Six looked around for anyone else, but the place was empty except for Skalamander, already unconcious.
Holiday flew in behind him.
"Where to?," he asked her.
Quickly, she covered her ears and looked around wildly. It took him a second, but then he heard it, too.
"Circe?," Holiday said, looking around. Once finding where the sound was coming from, she flew to the source, Six right behind her.
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Circe was cut-off when she was thrown against the wall, the vines wrapping around her, too.
Rex, next to her, was still strangling and on the brink of conciousness.
She had barely managed to knock Van Kleiss away from him, but it was a lost cause, now.
He looked at her. "You are no longer useful to me, girl," he said, raising sharp vines behind him.
She panicked and the vines flew at her.
Just then, a piece of wall beside them, suddenly, hit Kleiss and slammed him against the other wall. The vines fell apart.
They both fell to the ground. Rex was breathing in any air he could get.
Circe put an arm on his shoulder. "Rex?," she asked.
"I'm... alright..., need... a second," he said, between breaths.
She looked to the hole in the wall, when Holiday landed in the room.
"Em!," she screamed and ran to the woman, wrapping her arms around her.
"It's ok," Holiday said, patting the top of the girls head, "I'm here, now. I'm sorry, Circe."
The girl looked up at her with a smile.
Rex managed to get his breathing under control and looked up at the new comer.
Eyes wide, he stood up and started to walk over to her.
Holiday turned her head, to see an incredibly shocked Rex beside her. He stared in her eyes for a second, then sniffed her arm. He started poking the same arm, then moved over to her back, then went up to her face.
While he was poking her cheek, she said, "I'll bite your finger if you don't stop."
He stopped and stared at her again.
Six walked up from behind him. "It's really her," he told the boy.
Rex looked from Six, to Holiday, to Circe, back to Holiday, and hugged her. "You're alright! I knew it! I knew you were ok!," he rambled with a big smile.
She wrapped her arms around Rex, with a smile. He pulled away & looked at her, then turned to Six.
"Wow," he said, "Did you get hit by a train?"
Holiday face palmed, knowing she had just gotten over beating him to death.
Six replied, "I'm fine, Rex."
Circe spoke up, "You know them?"
The woman looked over to her and smiled again, "Just from my dreams."
The ground started to crumble from the vines breaking through.
"Maybe," Rex said, looking around, "we should have been running this whole time."
The piece of wall that was thrown at Kleiss, crumbled while vines shot out to them. The boy was about to transform his arm, when the vines crashed into an invisible wall, the wind passing them.
"Well," Van Kleiss said, pulling himself out of the rubble, "looks like the good doctor is back."
Holiday ran for him and jumped in the air. She pulled her arm foreward and pushed him through to the other side of the wall and into the next room. Circe ran after her, leaving the boys behind. Rex was stunned.
"I'll explain later," Six told him, as he followed.
The boy shook it off and quickly followed behind them.
With an aggravated scream, Holiday slammed Kleiss against the ground, then picked him up threw him across the room.
He broke out of the fall and managed a flip, landing on his feet. Sliding to a halt, entire trees broke out of the ground and dived for her.
She flew away from them, letting Six chop them to pieces. Large chunks of the trees landed on the ground around him.
Kleiss smiled, "alright then!" He threw his arms up and the entire room, possibly the castle, started to crumble, as more trees and vines sprung from the ground.
Rex switched to the B.F.S. "Stay close," he told Circe, who stayed behind him.
Holiday looked at the crazed man. "Six," she said.
"No," he replied, already knowing what she was thinking.
"He has to be stopped," she argued.
"Then we'll find another way," he said, looking at her.
She looked down at him & smiled. "I won't go anywhere," she told him, "I promised, remember?"
That didn't sway his opinion. "I just got you back."
"I know," she replied, "and this time, you're keeping me. Whether you like it or not."
He didn't know what to tell her after that. While he hesitated, she jumped into action.
"Wait!," he screamed after her, before he had to cut away the vines that tried to attack him.
Creating a force field around her, stopping of the new vines and trees, she flew straight for Kleiss.
"My dear!," he said, with a smile, when she came into his view, "Have you come back to me?
Without even responding, she threw her arms up and a small glimmer of light shone in front of him.
"What is that!," he asked, worried. He threw a tree at her, but it was too late.
"A present," she simply said, before it blew.
The plants started to wither and a white light was thrown over them. Then, another horrible noise.
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The... ocean?
The sound of the waves woke Rex. When he opened his eyes, he seen Circe laying beside him. He leaned up & looked around.
Nothing. Everything was gone, save for the land. There were no more trees, mountains, castle... everything was flat. It was still obvious that it was Abysus, though. The red sky, the grey water, they were still in the same... country, at least. Except now, they were on the shore.
"Circe," he said, trying to shake her awake.
Her eyes cracked open and she leaned up. "What happened?," she asked, trying to clear her head.
"No idea," he said, standing up. "Wait," looking around, he asked, "Where's Six and Holiday?"
She shot up like a bullet, "Where's Em?"
They looked out over the expanse, with no one in sight.
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Yep. I was going to put that last bit in the next chap, but that whole thing deserved some explaining, so there ya go.
It was short again, I know. The whole concept of a 'long chapter' seems foreign now... I hate that. The next chap will (most likely) be short, too. The one after that will be nice and long though.
R&R