Author's Note: Sadly, this will be my last post for a while. Something came up and I am unable to post, so for that I truly am sorry. The next four chapters will only contain one POV. In the order of James, Carlos, Logan and Kendall. Anyway, enough of that and onto the chapter!
Chapter 10: James' Muse
James POV
Walking around the inside of the Raypoint with Marivel caused me to think. Now normally I wouldn't spend a lot of time thinking as it took away time from fixing my hair or using my Cuda products. Except being here, surrounded by water, made me realize that I hadn't cared about my hair or my looks for quite a while.
"Are you okay James?" Marivel snapped me out of my train of thought with her question. She looked concerned and gave me a worried expression as we made our way through the damp hall.
"I'm fine, I think." She gave me another look, so I explained it a little better. "On one hand I miss my old home, my old life, but on the other I wouldn't trade the experiences that I had in this world for anything." What I really missed was having Kendall smile or laugh. Ever since we arrived on this planet I rarely heard him truly laugh, or give an honest smile. When Marivel stopped suddenly I did too, not noticing the barricaded door.
"How are we supposed to get through that? It's bolted, barred, and practically barricaded shut!" I groaned, hopping that she would have an idea.
"It's easy. We have to set off the switches while one of us operates the controls and manages the door." Good plan except for there are only two of us, but leave it to Marivel to have the gadget to save the day.
"James meet Hob and Nob! They are my creation and have many useful functions, like activating switches." She smiled and I felt better, almost as if I could really get home, even with all of these problems getting in the way. Two circular floating machines, one red and the other blue, just flew out of her bag, making me wonder what else she had in there.
Marivel would operate the controls while I would tell her what happened to the door and then Hob and Nob would hit the appropriate switch. She released the first lock on the computer system and two things happened, a set of locks turned and opened but another set closed. Then Hob and Nob would hit a switch and the closed set would unlock. This process repeated until we had the last set open and the door swung open wide with a huge groan.
"We did it James!" She cheered and jumped up and down. We then entered the newly opened room and I almost took a swim. The door led to nothing, just a room full of water with a wooden platform floating in the middle.
"Ah, I nearly forgot about this room. We have to get into that room." She said pointing to the door across the waterlogged room. I nodded and jumped onto the floating floor and then jumped across to the other door.
"I got it open! Come on jump across!" I motioned for her to follow me, she didn't jump. Instead she grabbed both Hob and Nob who carried her across.
"Why didn't you let me do that?" Marivel gave me a cheeky grin before entering the room. I followed her and grumbled about doing needless tasks.
Instead of finding a room when I entered the door, all that I found was a hallway, which ended six feet in front of me. At the end there was a pipe and a valve. Marivel turned the valve shut and I heard water draining. I turned my attention to the room we just left, only to find that the water level sank!
"Only two more to go. This time you can use Nob. He will carry you to the lower level and to the door."
After two more valves were shut, Marivel and I found ourselves on the ground floor, standing in front of a huge set of metal doors. She walked forward and kicked the doors open, causing them to groan in the process.
A beautiful hallway covered in sapphire gems, bricks and water that flowed through the room, led to a huge sapphire. It floated there in the middle, just doing nothing, but upon closer inspection it glowed a beautiful blue light.
'Prove your worth and then I will decide if you are worthy of activating the Raypoint' A voice called out from the room behind us. In the middle of the room stood a huge serpent, standing taller than the both of us combined!
"James! We have to fight the snake! It's the only way!" With that she ran toward the monster, Hob and Nob changing from their circular shape into a bigger machine. Combined they made a golem, one of the lost technologies. I followed Marivel, grabbing a few bombs from my bag and activating them.
I threw them at the beast causing multiple effects, a flash of light to blind him, a paralyzing shock, an exploding time bomb and finally a mini missile one, all gifts from Marivel. Her golem grabbed the snake and tried to wrangle it, but the flexible snake proved to be a tough opponent. I pulled out the gun that I found in the junk yard and began firing, hoping to cause some damage to the beast.
"James! We gotta work together! Let's go!" She yelled from the top of her golem. I nodded and climbed on top, to talk out a plan. I would set up some bombs around the snake; while her golem held the snake in place she would then use her skills to deliver the finishing blow.
"Ready!" I said after placing all the bombs around the snake. Eight in total would be enough to kill it. She hopped off the golem and landed behind her mechanical fighter.
"Blast!" The bombs I laid all detonated, this time with a force that I didn't expects. After the smoke cleared the snake was gone, just leaving two floating orbs.
"Let's go back. Maybe we activated the Raypoint now." She said walking back to the hall with the gems, and the huge sapphire. I followed her, making sure not to drop any of the bombs I had left.
'Good. One more thing.' What else? I wanted to complain but Marivel shut me up by shoving Hob or was it Nob into me.
'James tell me, why are you so vain? What purpose could you possibly have spending hours getting ready every day?'
"Because…the one person I want to notice me never does. He goes about his business like every other day. Kendall Knight is the reason I spend hours every day, hoping that today will be the day that he calls me beautiful!" Yelling at the crystal, wondering if that made any sense to anyone except myself.
The crystal activated the Raypoint while water began pouring from it, like magic. The room began filling so Marivel and I ran back to the wood raft. The water rose quickly, and I noticed a huge hole in the ceiling, where sunlight poured through. That's our exit, I thought as the water pushed us through the exit. Once we reached the top the water stopped, and we hopped off. Now all we had to do was wait for the others to finish.
A/N: Another chapter for all my lovely readers! I hope you enjoy it and have a nice day! ~RAY~