Me: ok, next chappie!^^ and I think I got this one up quicker then last time^^ ….maybe not, but still. And we have two more new charries in this chapter, but that's all I'm saying. Hope you enjoy!^^
Mushra: wait, more people?! Are you kidding me?! Hwo the heck can you-Wait, don't cut off, I'm still-
"Arrrgg!!!!!" the lizard growled as us girls attacked them. The boys attacked the bugs, since there was more of them.
I swung at two lizards, the lavender power covering my sword, and they were carded instantly. Winter shot four arrows at two guys, two for each. They fell to their knees, in pain, and then Carly and heather stabbed them, finishing them off. Cards replaced them. They rest of the lizards advanced on us, but we held our own.
The boys were doing fine, too. Mushra was fighting off, like,, ten bugs, sago had just carded three and three more were coming, Kutaal had just killed five, Zen covering his back as four came behind him.
Like before, in the woods, the ground began to be covered with cards. And once again, I was glad it was only cards, not bodies.
All of a sudden, as I watched the guys (I had beaten of, like, five or six lizards and was waiting now, bored), I heard a terrible bird-like screech and turned to it. Underneath a proud and smug looking lizard was a pterodactyl. It was flying in one spot, in the middle of the main hall, but it screeched again and then started flying towards us. I got my sword ready, waiting for the lizard to jump off or make the pre-historic bird attack, but instead, the bird made an immediate stop, almost knocking of its master, and before I could run, it grabbed me with its talons, carrying me off as it flew away.
"Ugh!!! Let go, you stupid bird!!!" I screamed, really angry and annoyed now (and a little freaked out, but don't tell anyone that). I tried to cut at its toes with my sword, but my arms were stuck at my sides and I couldn't move it well. I tried harder to move my hand in a position where I could use my sword, but then it fell out of my hand. "Dang it!!!"
"Jaden!!!" I heard heather, winter, Carly and, more then the others, sago call my name in panic.
"Don't worry!!! I'll be fine!!" I yelled back, struggling against the pterodactyls grip. I tried to at least get one of my hands free so I could use my power. I was slowing getting my right hand out, but not fast enough, and I was getting really uncomfortable, my back hurting as the bird held me like a limp doll.
All of a sudden, I heard a howl, whooshing, and then the pterodactyl screeched again, in pain this time. I looked to see Ookami in his hyper form, shooting lavender balls of light out of his mouth at the bird and the lizard. The pterodactyl let go a little bit so I got my hands free and put both of them on the birds face, an attack I'd never used coming to me all of a sudden.
"Light of confusion!!!" I yelled and my hands glowed purple. I watched what was happening, not knowing what I had just done (I was almost scared of what I'd just did). The birds eyes became fuzzy, and we started dropping, its wings no longer moving.
"What did you do, you weak human?!!!" the lizard asked me in anger as he grabbed me by the hair and pulled me to his face. We were falling faster now.
I tried to get free, swinging at him in anger. "Let go!!!" I yelled and kicked him in the stomach and we fell of the bird before it hit a tree outside the ruins.
We fell to the ground and he had let go of my hair, but he grabbed me throat before I could get up. He picked me up and pushed me against the tree. "Lord Ryuma will be pleased to have you back with him. He'd rather have the three of you, but still misses the one who gave him the most trouble…" he smiled evilly, slimy drooling coming from his mouth.
A shiver ran down my back as I thought of him. After I suppressed gagging, I said to the lizard, "There is no way I would ever go to that wimpy little brat!!!" and kicked at the lizard again. God, I wish I had my sword. He let go of my neck, but quickly smacked me to the ground.
Ok, that was it. I stood then, angry as heck! He smiled smugly at me, waiting. I ran at him then and he ran at me, roaring. Right as we were about to clash with each other, I dropped to the ground, sliding under him and, once I was behind him, I shot a lavender ball at him back.
He yelled in pain and fell to the ground, light covering him as he started to become a card. But before he did, he raised his hand at the others and a blue light shot at their throats. And then all that was left of him was a card.
Before running to the others, I wondered what that blue light was and worried what it had done to the guys…
"Jaden! Oh, my god, that was so cool!!!" Carly said as she, heather and winter came up to me. The boys were right behind them.
I laughed. "Thanks, but it isn't like we haven't seen the guys do better." And they laughed, thinking of the old days when we only watched them fight in a living-room.
"You ok, Jaden?" winter asked, but as she looked me over, she became less worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine…but I think I might throw up." I said, remembering what that creep had said about his creepy leader, Ryuma.
"Why?" heather asked.
"That lizard guy had said Ryuma wanted us again, and me more so because I caused the most trouble or something like that…" I shivered again and heather and winter did too.
"Ryuma? The reptile prince dude?" Carly asked and we nodded. She thought for a second, probably wondering why he wanted us, but then a look of realization covered her face as she remember the stories we told her. "Yeah, I don't blame you…."
The guys made it to us, but confused and worried looks were on their faces, which confused us. They were waving their hands at their throats, trying to get something across to us.
"What is it?!" heather asked after a minute of watching them look stupid. They just kept waving at their throats.
What the heck was going on?! "Say something, my gosh!" I said.
The four of them threw their hands in the air in frustration and they went and sat in different places, annoyed that we weren't getting it…then I thought of what that lizard did again. "Guys," the girls looked at me (wow, that's kinda funny…). "Before that lizard became a card, he shot some blue light at the boys throats…"
They clapped their hands, apparently glad I was getting somewhere.
"What did it do? Make them stupid?" heather said and Mushra got up, flicked her in the head, and then sat back down. "Ow!" he stuck his tongue out.
"I…" winter began. "I think they lost their voices…"
They boys clapped harder that time and Mushra came up to winter, got on his knees and stared worshiping her. Wow, he doesn't have a voice and he can still be an idiot.
"Well….what're we gonna do now?" heather asked as we started to get worried. "How'd he do that? I mean, this ain't the wizarding world of harry potter! How do we get their voices back?"
"I don't know…man, this sucks! We don't know enough about enterra and what we do not don't help! And the only people who can help us are part of the problem!!!" I let my head drop back and sighed. Everything was so crazy and was getting crazier. We've never heard of the attack that person used, the one who used it is evil and dead, along with their master, so we cant really walk up to anyone and asked for a counter attack. Like I said, the only enterrans with us cant speak at all!! Oh, and something I hadn't said. People were most likely still after us, angry as ever and we'd have to fight soon, no time for freaking sleep….so, we had to keep ourselves awake and try our best to keep track of our now voiceless boyfriends and friend (kutaal).
And then I thought of something. We were missing someone. "Ookami?" I said, searching for him.
As the girls realized the absence and started searching while calling his name.
"Ookami, where are you?!" heather almost yelled, getting really scared for our little friend? Had they taken him away? He had attacked the lizard and pterodactyl, so maybe they saw him as a threat and took him away.
I started to feel guilty. He may have been captured, just because he was trying to help me out. A few tears came to my eyes as I thought of the little guy being hurt by the three men who want us so badly for some unknown reason. "Ookami!!!"
"Yeah?" we heard is small voice call and we hurried to it. As I got closer, I realized there was a rushing sound ahead, like water. Maybe it was that river that had led the gang for a while.
Once we made it to him, I saw I was right. And that he was dog paddling in the river, totally fine. The four of us sighed with relief.
Heather rushed to the water and picked him up. "Next time, tell us where you are and what you're doing! You scared us!" she said, looking him in the eye.
"Ok, mommy." He said with a smile, making me wonder if he called her that sarcastically or just because his reasons from before. Either way, heather scowled at him for a little longer, then stood with him in her palm as we walked back to the boys.
After a few long minutes of us all sitting and thinking, and few minutes of watching Mushra say he was hungry (it was so funny, it was like charades!), we decided to leave again, heading to Ryuma cursed castle. We all shivered as we remembered the last time we were in there….(you know, the one and only good thing that came out of that was seeing the boys as chibi's. they were so cute, I wish we had gotten a picture!!! Though, they probably would have found them and burned them).
Also, after an hour of traveling, we finally figure out how to communicate with the boys. With our phones. If they had something to say, they'd right it in a text, then show us. Heather and me made fun of Mushra and Sago when they took too long.
"If you have something to say, Mushra, just say it." Heather kept taunting him.
I don't know what he was going to say before, but he deleted what he had been typing and then began again. Once he was done, he showed her. "Ah, 'bite me'. Clever one."
I did the same with sago, and he just glared at me, as if saying, "really?". Winter just sat there watching Zen as he typed whatever he had to say. Man, I was so glad me and heather had the guys now, because seeing her like that brought back the memories of watching her and Xavier while we felt worse around the boys.
"So, what are we going to do once we find out where they're hiding?" Carly asked all of a sudden.
We felt that, since the bugs and lizards found us again, we might as well talk in the open. They had found out where we were going before, they'd do it again now and guess our idea's, like last time.
"Well, if they're not right outside and there's some easy way to know that's where they're staying, we could sneak in, figure out where our parents are, get them to safety, and then, maybe beat those guys butts. But since the world isn't that nice, we may have to just make it up as we go along." I said.
"We need to at least have a plan before just busting in there, Jaden." Heather said.
I nodded barely. I really wasn't in a good mood, no one was. With sleep deprivation, people all around us hiding (maybe), just waiting to strike, my parents in danger and most of the males and the only enterrans not able to speak, it's really hard to stay happy. Well, except for making fun of the boys' slow texting.
"Well, if there is no sign of them on the out side, and there is on the in, then we just need to stay alert and ready." Heather said, thinking things through (yeah, stay alert and ready while your eyes start to close because you so tired). "If there is any sign of them on the outside, then good. We just find a way to sneak in there and get people out safely. Then we'll kick some butt." Sounds good to me. "But if they are right there waiting, then we may have to split up, though that may sound like the worst idea ever. But that's the only way to get you two's parents out and keep the bad guys distracted. If their attention is on us, we can also do what is needed to do." Man, heather was ruling Sago's place of logical thinking and plans. He even made a half impressed, half jealous look towards her.
"Sounds good." Carly said and we nodded. Heather smiled happily. "But, who'd go to get them? They'd need to be quick and quiet, but also strong enough to fight off whatever bugs or lizards find them. And how many of us would go? Like, three?"
We were all quiet, thinking. Well, I knew who one of them would be. Sago. And not just because I love him, but because I know he can be quick, swift and strong. Maybe sneaky. But who else. I know another should be me or winter. We have to be there with them, whether it be her or me, I didn't care.
"Well, I think sago should be one of the three." Winter said, as if she had just heard my thoughts. "And one of us should go." She motioned to me and herself.
"Which one?" heather asked, looking back and forth between us. Mushra began typing. We waited for him to finish as we rode through trees, close to the lake.
Finally, he finshed and showed heather, who rode with him. "He says whoever's stronger should go." She looked back at the phone. Apparently, that wasn't all. "…Physically and emotionally…who knows what we'll find…."
I looked at Mushra. He had a sorry but you never know look on his face. I nodded after a minute, then looked to my sister. Well, we both could have emotional breakdowns, and mostly when something's serious, like when I cussed out Eilis as my parents were taken away. And, between who's stronger physically, I wasn't sure either. We're both equally matched, kinda. She'd be better sometimes, and I'd be better others.
She looked up at me after thinking hard and I thought I saw something shining and wet on her face before she wiped it away and cleared her throat. "…I think you should go, Jaden….I'm not saying I don't want to but…I'm not sure how I'd be able to take it if I saw them….saw them…" she was trying hard not to cry, like I did to, but then she turned the other way, towards Zen and began crying a little uncontrollably as the dark thoughts in her head took over. She kept hurrying to wipe her face as Zen rubbed her back, trying to calm her.
I stopped them before they infected my brain, but I couldn't stop a few quick tears from falling. "Ok…" I took a deep breath, wiped my eyes, and then looked at everyone else. "Ok! Well, who else?"
"Me!" Ookami announced all of a sudden, on heathers shoulder.
"No!" heather said immediately, before we could. The thought of him being surrounded by a lot of lizards and bugs or even Eilis, Ryuma and Daku, scared the crap out of me. And it didn't help that, in his normal form, he was as small as a kitten.
Kutaal grabbed heathers phone from Mushra and began typing. Once he was done, he handed it to Carly, who was in his car with him. "If they at entrance why have Ookami there, he in more danger there. And even then, he can hyper form. He be fine, as long as people with him." Carly finished and looked at kutaal who was glaring at her. He took the phone back, typed things with his big fingers, then handed it to Carly again. "You could at least pronounce it b.t.r. then it typed. Oh! Sorry, kutaal…" she smiled shyly at him.
After a minute, we girls agreed with him. He'd be safer away from Eilis, Ryuma and Daku and either way, he's a tough little sucker. Then I remembered something. "Um, Ookami…Thank you, for helping me. I probably wouldn't have gotten away from that stupid bird if you didn't help."
"No problem!" he said with the cutest smile.
I felt a little better watching him, so innocent and sweet in this chaotic place. I felt, as I watched him, that we could do this. That we were going to do this. That there was no way we weren't going to.
"Oh, shut up, Irayna!" we heard an annoyed, male voice say all of a sudden. "Like you'd ever beat me!"
We all stopped and jumped off our vehicles, alert. We made a circle as we watched the trees and water around us and beside us. What confused me is that sounded more humanoid then bug or lizard…anoid….We waited her another sound.
"Oh, I'm sure I could, Shadow. You may be strong, but are you tough?" another humanoid voice said, this one female. Their footsteps came from across ahead, close by the lake.
Mushra took out his spear and mouthed, "Who goes there?!" and when he dropped his head in annoyance at the lack of volume in his voice, I could almost see the sweat drop falling on his head (sorry, but after years of watching anime's, especially shinzo, its hard not to think like that).
"Who's there?!" heather said for him, just as threateningly as he would. He half smiled at her in thanks.
"Your worst nightmare, who are you?" asked the male. Shadow, by what the female had said. And the shadow guy had called her Irayna.
"Yours!" Carly said, and then they came into view, coming from the lake onto our little trail.
The female looked to be a little older then us, maybe eighteen or twenty, maybe nineteen. She had bright blue hair, lighter then Sago's, to her waist…and, I may have imagined it, but I thought I saw blue cat/dog ears sticking from her hair….i don't know, I may be crazy. Her eyes were a green/blue color. Her skin was a little tan, making her eyes and hair even brighter and prettier. She wore a lighter then grass green shirt, with almost night blue armor over her chest and shoulders. She also had the same armor covering her thighs, underneath that she wore green, flowy pants with green boots. She wore a water blue jacket over all that that went to her ankles. She also had fingerless gloves, which were padded at her knuckles (wonder if that padding would hurt, with enough force). She looked at us, as if we were dumb as heck. "Who do you think your talkin' to?"
"Seriously!" the guy said. He seemed around our age. He had dark red hair to his shoulders and I saw the same ears there, too, except the same color as his hair. He had bright red eyes and the same tan skin as her, making only his bright eyes stick out more. His right had a scar on it, though, from the top of his eye to his jaw. He seemed to be glaring, too, annoyed. He wore a black shirt with long, flowy sleeves. He had two red shoulder pads fore armor. They were as red as Mushra's armor when he hyperformed. He had kinda baggy maroon red pants, with red shoes like Ookami and the kittens…except, you know, bigger. He had a jacket almost like Irayna's, except no sleeves. It feel to his ankles, also. He had no gloves.
And they both had a tattoo of a paw with extended claws on their knecks. Herds dark blue, his dark red.
Well, at least we could tell what element they controlled.
"We're talking to you two!" Carly said.
The guy, Shadow, glared at her. "I'd lower my voice if I were you, girl."
"Why?!" she said, annoyed. "Did your master tell you you could kill us or that we need to be alive?"
They both looked confused.
"What the heck are you talking about?!" shadow asked.
"Who ordered you after us?" heather asked this time. "Ryuma? Eilis?"
they seemed to not like those questions. "We do not serve vermin like them, thank you very much!" Irayna said.
We all calmed a little, but not totally.
"Then why are you still around here? Why haven't you guys evacuated or went into hiding?" I asked.
They laughed for a moment, buy then became serious. "Ryuma and his new friends that are feared so much KILLED our family. We were able to escape, but not without scars…" Irayna said and showed us a big scratch on her arm, and then I realized where that scar on shadows eye had come from. "Why are you guys here?"
"They've got my parents and I'm getting them back, no matter what. They want us, anyways. Haven't you seen the posters?" I asked them and realized we looked familiar.
"Hmph. You guys look better on paper…" he said.
"We've been awake fighting for a while, ok?! So shut up!" Carly barked. As I looked at everyone, I started to notice we looked pretty tired. But we couldn't go to sleep. Not yet.
Irayna seemed to be thinking about something and shadow just kept glaring at Carly, who glared back. Yeah, we weren't really comfortable around other people right now.
"Well, if your going on a revenge streak…." She looked at shadow, who looked at her, then back to us with a smile. "Then we'd love to join you."
"What?!" Carly and shadow said at the same time…hmm, they've taken a disliking to each other really quick.
We thought it over. I looked to the others. Winter shrugged, heather nodded, kutaal nodded, Ookami nodded (only because his mommy did), both Zen and Sago had unsure looks on their faces, but they nodded, and Mushra shook his head. He typed something on the phone, then gave it to heather, who, after reading it, told him, "Wah!"
She sent me the txt and it said, 'Too many people already! Don't need more!! Especially more females!!!'. I shook my head, then turned back to Irayna.
"Well?" she asked.
"…You can join us…but if you turn on us, for any reason, we will have to hurt you."
They laughed. "Yeah, ok, sure…" shadow said and kept laughing.
Maybe Mushra's right…we do have too many people….
Me: ok! Hope you enjoyed that, tell me what you think and, to Windflame, welcome to the story!!^^ if you cant tell, your Irayna!^^
Mushra: **glares at me without saying anything**
Me: what?
Mushra: you cut me off before…
Me: we had to get to the story!
Mushra: **jumps in the air at me** Aargg!!
Me: Aaahh!!! Get off me!!
Ookami: pees weview!!^^ ok, I don't talk like that, but still^^