Hi! As first, I am SO sorry for the delay! This wasn't meant to be a cliffhanger and I am really really sorry :( My computer died and my dad couldn't fix it, so we had to send it to another country, because the repairmen in our country couldn't fix it either. The whole process took about a month and a half ... Sorry :( :(
I also want to apologize for the fact that I don't think I'm going to be able to post a new chapter every single week from now on, since school has already started and I need to do homework and stuff :(
Anyway, this one's for mumu, mad kid, pirateships45, Dark Nagami sama, KR99, tulip flower, tavita loves unicorns (yay, I love unicorns too :D) & Tardis10rox. Thank you so much for all the reviews and the patience! Enjoy!
Talon's POV
I hear a frightening loud noise. I open my eyes and look around, noticing Penny's gone. Then the noise appears again. It sounds like a dog growling, but boy, that must be one big, furious dog. The growl is followed shortly by a scream. Hey, that kinda sounds like ... Penny!
I jump up and start running. Suddenly, I find myself in the middle of a street ... I guess I found a way out of that strange science dungeon? I surely have no idea how I did that, but- The snarling sound cuts into the peaceful environment again, interrupting my thoughts, and I immediately start running after it. I don't even know where I'm going, it's like my legs are running by themselves. I stop right in the middle of the ... Uhmmm, well, the place that used to be a park, but now appears as a giant lake, full of lava, with an island in the centre and ...
Before I manage to recognize the strange building in front of me, something else raises my attention - two bodybuilder-ish looking guards, trying to push a blond girl into the lava. She has two lovely little pigtails and her clothes are similar to an HQ unifo- Oh my God, that's Penny! She is struggling as hard as she can to prevent those guards from leaving her to burn in the lava lake! Or whatever this thing is, where did all this lava come from, really ... FOCUS! There are more important stuff going on right now than the existence of red-hot seas.
Oh no, this can't be good! One of the guys suddenly lifts Penny above his head and starts carrying her towards the edge.
"PENNY!" I scream across the boiling lava. She turns her head towards my direction. She heard me!
"Ta- AAAA!" She shouts as the doofus throws her into the flames of death. I swear my heart skipped a beat. But right a millisecond before her feet touch the lava's surface, something rises from the lake and catches Penny on its back. It looks like a giant steel worm - weird. It keeps on rising and rising, it seems like it's a thousand feet above the ground. Just then, it opens its mechanical mouth and lets out a growling sound, loud enough to make you go deaf. That's it! That's the freaky dog snarl I heard back at the underground laboratory! But instead of an angry dog, it's coming out of a gigantic worm-robot, that seems to be pretty evil. I don't think Penny's in much safer hands now than she was before.
I realize my rocket boots are broken so there's no way I can save her, but I still have to try. I press a button on my bracelet ... And BAM! Boots working! I quickly fly to Penny and grab her just in time before the robotic insect sinks below the surface, leaving her no ground to stand on but boiling hot, sizzling lava.
And there she is. Penny, my arch nemesis, the niece of my uncle's worst nightmare, my ... crush. Safe, and most importantly, alive. And pretty. And sweet. And unbelievably beautiful. She has the cutest look on her face. Her face, inches away from mine. I close my eyes. It feels like in a few moments, we're going to k-
... ... ... ... ...
I slowly open my eyes and snap back into reality. Oh man! It was a dream!? A very crazy one, if I must say.
But, wait. If this was just a dream, why exactly do I still see Penny's face right in front of me, when I open my eyes. And why exactly is my arm still ... What? Why is my arm wrapped around Penny's waist? What the hell is going on!? If she wakes up, she's going to freak - although personally, I'd love to see her reaction to this, haha! Can you imagine the look on her face whe- Uugggh! Get it together, Talon! Damn, she looks so adorable when she's asleep. I have to stay calm and still, so I don't wake her up.