I hope you liked the last one-shot. Sorry for the lack of stories, my teachers have convinced me I'm going to fail my end of grade tests. Anyway, this is the continuation to the chapter six one-shot "Lost in a New World." Hope you like it.
Zoey looked up at the sky. It was different, there were no stars. However, there was a crescent moon that was waxing toward a full moon. She looked back over to Rythian, who was surveying his surroundings as well.
"Is this the New New World? Maybe Sjin, Lalna, and yo- they blew up the world again?" She said hopefully. Could they start again?
"Zoey, the New World was completely blank. Look at all these buildings. Obviously we are somewhere." Suddenly, they heard a familiar voice.
"Ugh! It stinks here! Where are all the trees?! Where-" The voice was coming from a shaded section of the gray covering, beside a building. Then, another voice sounded.
"Who's that?" Zoey knew the voice, even though she had only heard it twice.
"It's too dark. Should we call them? Can they hear us?"
"I don't think so." Out of the shadows emerged two figures. Martyn and Toby were here. Zoey tensed up. They were on their side, right? Or were they peaceful? She didn't think they were against them. Yet.
Rythian decided to call out to them. "Martyn? Toby?" The voices that had been talking halted. The boy that he had assumed was Toby called out,
"Who's that?! Who's there?!" There was panic and fear in the edge of his voice. Zoey decided to answer since Rythian paused.
"It's us! Rythian and Zoey!" Rythian just looked at her. What did she do? She continued, "Teep's not here right now, though." Why was he looking at her like that? The voices in the shadows walked into the strange lights that hung in three different colors over their head. One green, one orange-yellow, the final one red. It was Martyn and Toby. Toby looked scared, while Martyn looked steaming angry. He looked directly at Rythian's masked face.
"YOU! You're the reason we're stuck in this mess!" He pulled out his emerald sword, which by the way, it's name's Greta. He charged, but Rythian deflected the blow easily with his katar. He didn't put it back again.
"We aren't the ones responsible. It's Lalna." Rythian spit his name out like venom. "Always destroying everything we know. Sjin is the same." Toby countered while Zoey looked on.
"Well, last time I checked, you were in the sky fighting to the death against them before we were taken...here." Zoey hurriedly answered this one.
"But we didn't cause it! We don't want to blow up everyone! Rythian was fighting for revenge, not control of the world!" Rythian was taken by surprise at her defense of him. He had expected her to say something that would only make the situation worse.
Martyn and Toby thought for a second. They didn't know the Mage's goal or intentions, however, and surprisingly, Zoey had a point. Toby didn't notice the color had drained out of Martyn's face.
"Then explain this." Toby finally said.
"We don't know where we are either. It's not a new world, but it's not familiar in any way..." Rythian said, trailing off at the end. Then, another machine was headed toward them, but farther off. Toby and Martyn looked at it with a mixture of confusion and interest. However, they followed Rythian and Zoey's example of walking off the black and yellow lined path under their feet. The machine made a horrible noise, rattling away, and for the first time Zoey noticed a person inside the machine, sitting down. Were they controlling it?
She also didn't like the way the person stared at them on the gray pathway. It was only for a second, yet disturbing.
"What the heck was that?" Martyn said, anger drained out of his voice. In fact, his voice sounded empty and hollow. As if something was taking his strength away.
"It looks like some thing Lalna would build. Noisy and pointless." Rythian said, anger showing through his voice. If his desire for revenge was a flame before, it now was an inferno of blazing heat and anger.
"We need a plan." Zoey said, taking Rythian's mind off of revenge. "So what do we do?" As if on cue, Toby's stomach growled. Zoey, Martyn, and Toby laughed, though it was a little forced. It was hard to laugh when fear ran through you.
"Where are we supposed to find food? There's no animals, if any of you have noticed. And what's with the "we" Zoey?" Rythian said, uncertainly.
"Oh, come on Rythian! Are we just supposed to split up? We might be the only ones here in Zoeyland!"
"There could be other- wait, Zoeyland?"
"Yeah! Awesome name, right? I found the place, so I'm naming it!" Her real personality shining through the distress with a beacon. It almost made Rythian smile.
"I think it already has another name. Not to argue with the name you gave it, of course."
"Well, they should re-name it!"
Suddenly, weakness and fatigue overtook Martyn. He collapsed on the ground in pure exhaustion, scraping his knees against the hard floor that was so different to the forest floor he was used to. Nothing was alive. Everything seemed cold and dead here. Martyn practically lived off of plants. Without them, it felt like the world just stopped.
"Martyn?" Toby asked anxiously, kneeling down to his collapsed friend. When no response came, he asked again, more anxiously, "MARTYN?!"
No response came from the wood spirit. Toby knew Martyn relied on the woods, but not how much.
Everything looked dark and grim at this point, but little did they know someone was outside, watching them with interest.
Cliffhanger! Try to guess what will happen next! Hope you liked this! It's not over yet!