Chapter Seven
I continued running until I was stopped by a shock wave rolling through the ground.
"Where is she? Where is my daughter? Tell me now or you will suffer greatly." A voice said from the dust cloud billowing from the center of the shockwave.
"Huh? Daughter?" I asked.
"Yes. Hannah or Airy…. Whatever the hell you people call her now! Where is she?" Archangel charged at me, but it was not Archangel it was a lighter version.
Angel. The good side of the duo known as Angel/Archangel. I was scared of him more than Archangel.
"She is in the river. We sent Dragoon to save her. He can breathe underwater. She should be safe soon. She might even be on land right now. Please help us though. This Sentinel is too strong for the team. We need you. I promise Airy will be safe. Please." I begged.
"If she ever gets hurts I will personally cut your tongue out of your throat and feed it to you. Do you understand?" Angel barked as he took off for the Sentinel.
"Yes. Sir." I stuttered.
I thought about flight and my scythe. I took off into the air and towards the Sentinel's head. Once I got close I swung at its head and heard a crunching sound.
I looked at the weapon I was carrying and saw that it was the war hammer. Great a useless tool. I tried to think about my scythe again, but was interrupted.
"Oi! Boy, distract it while I attack from behind!" Angel ordered.
"Yes sir." I answered and flew around to the front and swung at the eye of the Sentinel.
I felt the slicing of a blade, but found that I was carrying a sword instead of a scythe. I was pissed. Why could I never get my scythe? Damn thing was being elusive.
I swung again and took out the second eye. Maybe it was blind now.
"Boy! Watch out!" Angel yelled as a laser beam grazed my cheek.
I dived and sliced at the neck and felt the sword embed itself in the metal about half way. Damn. Had to try again. I yanked on the sword trying to remove it from the Sentinel. No use. I kicked off of the chest and went gliding backwards to a safe distance.
The sword vanished from the neck and oil started pouring out. That was just what was needed: oil-covered partners. No one was going to be happy.
"Nightingale? What is going on up there? Can you see anything? There is oil pouring out of the Sentinel. Do you know why?" Cerebral asked.
"Huh? Yeah. I accidentally caused the oil spill. I sliced through half of its neck then the oil started pouring out. Sorry." I shrugged.
"Okay. Next time make sure that no one is under it. True Sight is covered in oil and cannot help us. Please be careful." She faded out.
I concentrated on my scythe again, and felt the tingling as a weapon appeared. I shot towards the Sentinel and slashed downwards with the weapon only for my hand to bounce off of it. I was holding a pistol.
I shot backwards and chucked the useless gun at the Sentinel's head, but halfway there the pistol vanished. I had not concentrated on keeping it solid. I tried again just to find that the only weapon I could make without fail was a sword. I had skipped out on some of my training.
"Oi! Head up!" Angel yelled as the Sentinel's head started falling towards me.
This guy and his damn jokes.
"Hey! Watch it! You could have crushed me!" I yelled at him.
"At least I took care of the damn thing, boy." Angel barked back.
"I did most of the work; you just kicked off its head." I retorted.
"Take care of my daughter or else. I must leave now." Angel said as he flew into the night.
I slowly glided back down to the ground and landed next to Cerebral. She was a very happy camper. We had actually defeated our first Sentinel. We were one step closer to our true strength as a team.
"So? We just need to get the data chip from this thing and we are home free?" I asked.
"Yes, we are home free once we find that stupid chip." Abra smiled.
True Sight walked up and started sifting through the wiring of the head. As he was doing that the Sentinel's body fell backward into the river and destroyed the bridge.
"Got it! Oh…. We should get going before we get blamed for that." True Sight smiled happily.
We all took off for the river hoping Dragoon had saved Airy so we could get on the ship and head back to the mansion. As we got close to the river we saw Airy clinging to Dragoon as he helped her towards the ship.
"Guys! How did the fight go? Did you get the chip? What about Archangel? Was he defeated? Are we free to go home? What was that crash I just heard a second ago?" Dragoon cheered as we ran towards him.
"We will explain on the way back to the mansion. Let me help you." I said as I put Airy's other arm over my shoulder and helped her to the ship.
Once on the ship we took off for the mansion, our home sweet home.