Me: ok, thank you to those who offered some bad guys I could use. Actually, I decided that three badies could come, all working together because they want the same thing (don't know what it is yet). And you'll see who they are….
Mushra: why not just tell them who they are?
Me: because that would be a spoiler to this chapter, stupid!
Mushra: oh, really?! (gets a happy smile on his face) then the three bad guys are-
Me: Covers his mouth) I do not own shinzo or its characters, just mine. Enjoy!!^^
"Jaden?" I heard his voice say softly and felt him shake my shoulder. "Jaden, wake up."
I sat up, my back hurting because I had been uncomfortable when I woke up, I realized I'd fallen asleep on the window seal. I'd been watching the stars again….
"….You ok?" he asked, worried but also wary.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." I said stretching and then going to get ready. I came out and headed down to the lobby, where everyone was waiting.
"This'll be fun! Like ya'lls adventures and stuff in the show!!!" Carly said, so happy.
"Yeah, so fun!" Mushra mimicked her voice and she glared at him, punched him in the shoulder and then heather elbowed him in the side. "OW! What is this, hurt Mushra day?!"
"Well," Yakumo said. "everyone's here now. Are we ready to go?"
"Yep!" everyone said, and then we were off, following only a dusty trail…well, we were heading that way. We had to make it out of the city first.
Once we were out there, it felt so cool, because it felt like an adventure. Like how everyone used to travel around on the show.
First, it was kind of like a mini desert and then there were trees, a big forest. It felt kind of weak to follow the trail, but still. It was just so cool, and you saw plenty of different creatures crawling around. Some like the ones on earth, but also, some different, cooler. Everyone was just having fun. Mushra was saying we should play hide and seek (he wanted to try and scare everyone by splitting us up), but we said no.
"But why not?! It'd be so fun!!" he complained.
"No." we all said calmly.
"Please, please, please?!!! Heather!" he said, running to her. "Heather, come on, don't you want to? Help me out!"
She just shook her head. Mushra dropped his head sadly and walked ahead as everyone laughed.
"…Um, excuse me?" we all of a sudden heard and turned to who ever it was. It was that enterran guy from before; the one who winter thought was cute. "…May I join you people? …I have no where to go…." His face was guarded, but there was an angry look there….what was wrong with this guy?
"I don't know…" Mushra said, staring at him.
"Please, I have no where to go and…if you run in to anyone bad, I could help you. Please." He kept saying. He seemed to really want to join us.
"Of course you can come with, sir." Yakumo said happily to him, making everyone else tense. "What is your name?"
"….Zen…." he said as he walked forward a few steps.
"Well, nice to meet you Zen. Welcome." She had a nice welcoming smile on her face, completely unaware of how weird this guy was acting.
Winter walked over to me and said, "Do ya think this guys bad news?"
"No, I'm just standing here, glaring at him for no reason."
She made a face at my heavy sarcasm.
"Yeah, he seems a little bad news-ish, so we may need to watch our backs…" I told her.
"Bad news-ish? Is that a new word?" she asked.
I glared at her as she laughed and walked off. The guy, Zen, saw her as she walked away and they both glanced at each other for a few seconds, then winter kept walking.
"It seems like we're getting a bit crowded…" sago said to me as he passed me, walking over to Yakumo, who was talking with the Zen guy….only natural for him to feel the need to protect her…..
"Yeah, crowded…" I said and headed over to heather, winter and Carly, who were all crowded together, watching the guy with wary eyes.
The guys stayed close to Yakumo, Binka was a little farther ahead, right behind Zen, and we were in the front, following the trail. Since everyone was so tense, it was quiet. Annoying. This wasn't working out well. And, what was creepy, was that every time I looked back at the Zen dude, he seemed to be staring ahead intently at nothing, focusing hard on nothing….it was weird and creepy.
After a while, it started to get dark and we started heading back, not really wanting to leave, but having to.
"What are ya'll doing?!" Zen asked as we turned around and started walking back again.
"Uh, heading back." I said. "What does it look like?"
"What?! Why?! Why walked this much if your just going to turn back around?!" he seemed like he really wanted us to stay.
"Why do you care so much?" sago asked warily.
Zen seemed to think over his next words. "….Well, you all seemed to be going on an adventure."
"Yeah, and now we done, because we gotta be getting back. Got a problem with that?" Mushra asked as we all started walking again.
"….Wait!" he said, holding up one hand. Something changed in his eye, he was focusing on something. "Look out!!!" he said, now pointing at something.
We all turned to see a huge purple and black portal coming straight for us. And it was coming so fast that we didn't even have time to run from it. It sucked us in.
I don't know about anyone else, but when I blacked out once I was sucked in by that thing, whatever it was and as I looked at everyone else, they seemed to be waking up, too. I looked around at our surroundings, which were dark. The floors and walls were connected, making it like a big, circle hall. The walls and floors were a dark purple, the only light was a lighter purple flame hanging above us.
"Where on enterra are we?!" Yakumo said worriedly.
"We're in a trap. Someone must have set this up." Sago said, touching the walls to see what they felt like. It felt like some sort of stone.
"Someone? You mean Zen." I said flatly, annoyed. It had to have been him.
"What?" Yakumo said, gasping. I sighed. She just didn't know anything.
"What are you talking about?!" we heard a voice say and we all were surprised to see Zen here, too. He walked up to me, angry. ""Why are you blaming me?!"
"Because, you just all of a sudden came up to us, really wanting to join us, and get mad when we start to leave. And you acting weird the whole time! And then as we were leaving, a portal appears?" I said, looking pointedly at him.
He got really close in my face. "That. Was not. Me." He said in a threatening voice.
I just stood my ground, glaring.
"Get away from her." Sago ordered all of sudden, coming up beside me.
Zen just turned his angry look at sago.
"Leave them alone!" winter said all of a sudden and Zen face softened barely as he turned to her.
He gave me and sago one more hard glare and headed to the farthest end of this long hall.
"What was that?" sago whispered to me as I wondered the same thing. Why did he leave us alone when winter spoke up?
We all started to sit down and get comfortable, knowing it may be a while before we find a way out of here.
"What if I shoot the end of this wall with fire?" Mushra offered, getting irritated.
"…It will most likely bounce back…" Zen said.
"Mostly likely?" really?" I asked him questioningly and he glared. "And how do you know this?"
"…Its none of your business, human." He said and that made me a little annoyed.
"Hey!" winter spoke up again. "I think that we all need to stay calm. We need to work together to get out of here and fighting won't help." She eyed me and Zen. "Now, I'm not so sure of you either, Zen." She started to say to him and I resisted the urge to stick my tongue out, and just gave him a smug look. "But, if you know anything about what we're in, you could be of some help." Zen gave me a smug look back after that.
"She's right, everyone, we need to stick together." Yakumo said, hopping out of Hakuba, who she had been riding in this whole time. "Or we'll never get out." She started to get everyone to gather together.
"Yakumo…" I said, still sitting. "She didn't mean it literally."
"Oh…" she said, then sat down.
And for the next four hours, we kept offering idea's to the now all knowing Zen, but he said none of it would work. Of course not!
The only calm I found here was in the fact that sago was sitting very close with me, holding my hand tightly as he watch Zen.
Yakumo just sat with Binka and Carly, Mushra and heather sat with kutaal and winter was close to them and they made a line down the right side of the hall, me and sago on the left wall. Zen still sat at the end of the hall, far from everyone. What really get on my nerves and kept me on edge was the fact that he kept glancing at winter, a soft look crossing his face every time his eye landed on her face.
We were almost asleep, me and sago, and I think everyone else, when all of a sudden, there was a big rumbling and everything started shaking. We all stood up, fully awake now, yet still a bit sleepy.
"Its coming apart! Its weakening!!" Zen told us over the loud crunching sounds and then, all of a sudden, it was as if the lights froze. Then the whole place blasted away, leaving us to fall into blackness, screaming.
But, a few seconds after we had started falling, we landed on the ground (hard) and saw that we were back in enterra, at the entrance to the forest. We looked around for any remnants of the prison we were just in, but there was nothing…except my mom….
"Mom, what are doing here?!" winter asked before I did and we all stood.
And evil smile crossed her face. "Oh, she was your mother, was she?" she asked us, weirdly….evily…
"M…mom?" winter said again, questioningly. She started walking forward, worried.
"Winter!" I said, just as Zen yelled, "Stop! She's not your mother!"
"What?" she turned to him.
"Hmm, a smart boy. I guess I didn't hide it well…" she smiled even more evily….who was this? This couldn't be my mother.
And it wasn't. she changed, morphed, and became Katai, that one transforming bug enterran that worked for Daku. What the heck was he doing here…and how did he transform into my mom? He'd have to see her first, wouldn't he?
Wait… "Where's my mom and dad?!" I ordered, walking up to him and ignoring sago as he tried to stop me.
"You mean those two weak humans in that small old house?" he smiled even more evily. "I haven't idea of who your talking about…"
"You little!!!" I ran up to him and punched him, knocking him down, winter coming up beside me. I grabbed part his shirt, bringing his ugly face close to mine. "Where are they and what did you do to them?!! Tell me now or I kill you!!!"
"Jaden…" Yakumo said, surprised. God, just shut up!
"Nothing has happened to them…" he said and smiled even more, if that was possible. "Yet…"
I've never been too much of a violent person, but the thought of anyone hurting someone I loved…well, that was my breaking point. "Well, you tell your master that if he lays one hand on my parents. No, if he even steps one foot near my house, he will die!!! And you stay away from my parents!!" I punched him again then and stood as he wiped a little blood from his face.
He laughed. "Go tell him yourself…" he said tauntingly and I realized what he meant.
"No!" winter and me yelled and started running for the hill as fast as we possibly could, not caring if anyone was following. We had to hurry home before that Daku laid a hand on them. For a moment, I wondered how these people kept coming back after being defeated, but I ignored it, not worrying about that at the moment.
We were in the city now, already breathing heavily and wishing we were like twilight vampires, able to run fast. It was agonizing, knowing someone was probably at our house, in our realm of earth, trying, for some reason, to capture my parents and we can't do anything until we get there.
Once we gotten to the hill, everyone had caught up to us, running or riding beside us. Once we made it to the campsite, mine and winters eyes locked on the portal as we hurried for it, but then Zen was in our.
"Ok, I've been trying hard not to hurt you since we met, but right now, I'd be happy to send you to a hospital if you don't MOVE!!!" I yelled at him.
"Wait! For one second, ok?!" he said, pushing me and heather back as we tried to get past him.
"Get out of our way!!!" winter yelled at him this time and a look of guilt crossed Zen's face, but he didn't move.
"Listen. This may be a trap, like prison. Someone might want ya'll to leave enterra so they can attack! This could be what this Daku wants, ok? So lets just think for a second…."
"He's got a point, girls." Yakumo agreed.
":Yakumo, I don't care if he has a point!! My parents could be in danger right now!!!" I yelled at her, not caring about trying to stay nice.
"Hey!" Mushra and Binka yelled at me.
"Look, how about half of us stay behind and half go check on your parents, ok?" Zen said.
"I don't care, just get out of my way!!!" I said and pushed him down, running into the portal, winter right behind me.
I landed flat on my face, but wiped the dirt off my face and kept running. I heard winter groan a little in pain, then heard her foot steps and other behind me, not caring to look who'd came.
I made it out of the forest to see thousands of bugs flying above my house, almost making a tornado above it. And then we heard screams coming from the house….a man and a woman.
"Mom! Dad!!!" we both screamed and were running again.
We hurried but we stopped by bugs coming to attack and/or stop us. I was nearing a bad breaking point. We started fighting them, hitting them in the side or gut and if they had weapons, we took them and used them. There were plenty of cards across the ground. There was some weird sound, a razor or something spinning, then I saw sago's boomerang double-sword card two bugs. I turned to him as he stopped by us and I also saw heather and….Zen….coming.
"Whats he doing here?!" I asked, angry.
"Mushra and kutaal said it my be best if they stay behind and he offered to come so we'd have more fire power…so to speak."
And then there was another scream from our parents inside, then the roof was blasted off. We saw fire on top and behind it as a big guy with silver armor jumped on…god, how many evil guys could come back right now?!!
"Grandora!" the gay voice said. "Go, take his lord Daku and the prisoners away from here!" and then the three headed blue dragon flew off….we saw them, tied together and laying behind daku.
"NNNOOOOO!!!" me and winter scream, running after the dragon the we couldn't catch it. All of there was a bright light in front of Grandora and then the dragon disappeared. Me and winter turned to glare at Ryuma as he emerged from the house that continued burning. He had an evil and smug look on his face.
We clutched our weapons tightly and ran, screaming in anger, at him.
He sighed happily. "Still, so beautiful…" that sent a creeped out shiver down my spine, but I was only a foot from him now and I brought down my weapon at him, anger fueling my strength.
But then, some silver liquid appeared in front of Ryuma, blocking his smug face and I rammed into it as it became solid. I sat up, looking at what ever this was and slowly realizing WHO it was.
"Jaden, get away from them, now!! It's Eilis!!!" sago said, yelling as he ran to me.
I started to crawling away and then got up with winter and sago's help.
By then, Eilis was now in his normal form, Ryuma beside him and the both of them smiling evily. "So sorry about your parents, Jaden. Maybe you'll get them back once we're done with them…." He laughed then and that was my full breaking point.
"What are you doing to them?!" winter asked, near tears, but her question was interrupted by my scream of anger as sago held me back. I was trying to get loose.
"You better give them back to us, right now, you son of a bitch!!!!" I yelled, tears of anger flowing from my eyes. No one had ever heard me cuss before, but had very good reason too! "Give them back now before I kick your ass!!!"
Eilis laughed more at my cursing. "And what can a human like you do? You have no power…" he taunted.
I struggled more.
"Yes, they do…" Zen said flatly, walking up to winter and me, who were a few inches away from each other. He touched both our shoulders and shut his eyes, focusing. Then I felt a warmth in my shoulder that continue through the rest of my body the stones on mine and winters chest started to change colors. They went through all the colors, stopping on a flowing black with strings of purple light. Our outfits had changed by then, too. They were black and purple.
Eilis glared at Zen as he continued to give us some of his power. Once he was done with us, he went to heather and Carly, who had just caught up to us, and gave them power, too. By then, he was breathing heavily, weak.
But we were now filled with powers, weapons at our side as we held them our eyes were shut as we let the power flow fully through us. Once I opened my eyes, I felt stronger. I looked to see that winter now held a bow and arrows. Heather had a staff like Mushra's, though the metal was black. Carly had a sword, like me.
I turned my angered glare to Eilis. "Now do we have enough power, you bastard!" I said in a flat and almost evil sounding voice.
"You are lucky, human. But we'll be back later…"
"Who said you were going anywhere?!" winter yelled and shot and arrow, glowing lavender, at Eilis. It hit him in the shoulder and he screamed in pain. He couldn't pull it out as it still glowed.
He glared at winter, forming a spike with one hand, and then as fast as possible, he shot it towards winter.
"No!" I screamed and immediately turned to see Zen jump in front of my sister. The silver spike hit him in the stomach, but didn't go al the way in, so he was carded. But he was in pain.
"Hmm, stupid children, so blinded by love. You'll never survive if that's al you care about…." Eilis said and disappeared with Ryuma.
By then, I was crazy angry, but I, like everyone else surrounded Zen as he lay on the ground, breathing heavily.
"…Why?" winter asked, dumbfounded.
"….Couldn't…let you…get hurt…." He huffed and then passed out.
We all looked at each other, then sago said, "We have to get him back to enterra so the medic's there can help him."
And we carried him back and hurried to the hospital, trying hard not to hurt him more as we did.
We were all in the hospital, waiting. Winter was really worried for the man who had just saved her life for a reason no one knew. Heather was telling Mushra bout what he did, giving us power. The power had faded now, but was not gone. Mine and winters stone were still dark with power. We could get to the power again if we needed to.
Yakumo was so worried, about everything. God, she would have fainted if she was there to hear me swear. Binka was almost as worried and annoyed that she hadn't been able to help.
Carly sat by winter and also, by kutaal and the kittens. He was trying to keep them calm, because they were scared. She was quiet. Yeah, this had to be her worst visit….that wasn't even funny.
I eventually laid against sago, who had been there comforting me, holding me close, and let tears fall silently. I was so angry and scared for my parents, pissed at the men who took them and wanting to know badly, what they wanted from them.
Everything was so crazy right now and all I wanted was answers so I could get my parents back.
And I WAS going to find those answers. No matter what it took…..
Me: again, thank you to those who offered idea's for bad guys. And please, tell me truthfully, if you think I'm doing good with this!
Mushra: well, to tell the truth…(looks at me) o forget it, its not worth the pain.
Me: please review!^^