Chapter 7:
Author's Note: I'M BACK PPL! Another chappie, AND A DISCLAIMER THAT I KEEP FORGETTING TO PUT IN THE OTHER CHAPTERS! I OWN NOTHING EXCEPT FLAME AND PLOT! ENJOY!
"You think she's going to be alright?" a male voice said.
"Well, I hope so!" another voice said, this one being a female.
Flame's vision slowly cleared as she was becoming more and more conscious. The source of the two voices were the two knights from her first encounter with Meta Knight. "Where am I?" she asked.
"You're safe, for now." said the feminine voice, belonging to the knight clad in pink and green armor. The "room" (if you could even call it a room) was fairly large, with a very tall ceiling. The material of the establishment looked like it was made of wood, but felt like stone. Almost everything in the room was the same color, brown, Flame could hear fire crackling outside, the source of the little light in the "room". There was no furniture, except for a large chrome…shelf? On this "shelf" was something golden of unrecognizable metal in the shape of a star. Flame's eyes suddenly snapped open when she noticed her strange surroundings. "Seriously," she said. "Where am I exactly?"
"A…special place." claimed the male voice, belonging to the knight in blue and silver armor.
"And what is this special place called?" was Flame's reply, becoming a bit annoyed.
"That's a question to be answered another time." answered the female knight.
"Why can't you tell me now?!" Flame replied once more, truly annoyed now. Weakness suddenly filled her bones. The two knights never replied to her, knowing that she'd become unconscious once more. She again started to fade out of consciousness, her eyes resting upon the golden star shaped object. It seemed to have an aura of pure power.
It seemed to be calling her.
Beckoning her…
…
Meta Knight walked calmly through Kabu Canyon, his metal shoes softly clicking on the rock ground. It was pitch black in the canyon, its walls being so high that almost no sunlight can reach, but since the river that used to run here millions of years ago never branched off into any other river, and since the ground of the canyon was completely smooth, no light was needed, since all the knight had to do is follow where the canyon took him. He had taken Flame to Kabu so her wounds would heal faster and so she wouldn't stay unconscious.
She was going to have to stay conscious if she's going to train with him and not get caught by the King.
If the king found out that his escaped "demon beast" was living with her, they would both surely be executed.
Or worse.
…
Golden-amber eyes stared into Flame's soul. She could sense them, even when unconscious. "You again." she muttered.
"Let me introduce you to my knaves." the knight said, obviously trying to change the subject. "This is Sword," he continued, motioning to the male knight in the blue and silver armor, "and this is Blade." he said, motioning to the female knight in pink and green armor.
"Hi," Flame said flatly, "so anyway, where exactly am I?"
"I'll explain once you're in a better condition." he said.
"Oh." was her only response. "Well, at least he'll explain what the heck is going on, on this crazy planet eventually." she thought. Her eyes drifted off to the golden colored star-shaped object. "What is it about this thing that draws me to it?!" she thought as she stared at the golden object, sparkling in the firelight. Flame's breath was slow and deep. It was quite obvious that this place was making her heal.
But, how?
That was a question to be answered another time. For the first time, she noticed that she was covered in bandages. She could still feel wet blood on her face from the wound by her right eye, gory, horrifying images from the past few weeks coming back to her.
The most horrifying of all, the one when Nightmare's sword pierced her wound.
All the while, she never took her eyes off the golden colored, star shaped object. She wanted so badly to get off the stone ground and walk towards it, maybe even put it in her palm. Her first attempt to get up abruptly ended when she felt pain from the wounds in her arms when she tried to use them to help herself up. "Those wounds must've not closed yet." she thought. In result, she flipped over to her front side, only experiencing minor pain from her arms and feet.
Her next attempt was in no condition "comfortable".
She could feel the blood oozing out of her arms in a slow trickle. And the pain? You better believe there was pain (just not so much as at Nightmare's base). The rush of pain she felt through her arms would make an average being wail or even faint, but her, being one of Nightmare's creations, could shake it off.
Besides, she had new limits of what pain was.
And they were much farther ahead from what she was feeling now.
After ten exhausting minutes, she finally got to her feet, dizziness overcoming her when she did. She took one step towards the object, seeming to pulse as she did. The dizziness almost caused her to collapse, but the wanting the wanting to be near this object kept her standing. Another step. Her "head" suddenly started to hurt severely, as well as her shoulders. A third step.
"Don't touch it." she heard the knight's voice say as she felt his gloved had pull her shoulder back, knocking her to the ground.
"I'm not a kid, you know!" she responded, trying to get to get back to her feet. Before she could, though, the knight's gloved hand was on her shoulder again (she noticed that the shoulder pads were on them again).
"I'm only doing this for your sanity." he said. Flame's eyes met his gaze again. "What did he mean by 'for my sanity'? Does that thing make people go crazy or something?" she thought.
"Does it make a person obey Nightmare?" She didn't want to think about that now. "Okay," she said. "sorry about that." she apologized, before becoming unconscious once more.
Author's note: Ok, good thing I got that finished, 'cuz I'm going on a trip tomorrow for a week! So, yeah, second or first longest chapter. REVIEW, FAV, AND ALL THAT! I'M OUT!11