Hey guys, so I know I said that I would update sooner, but I had some more tests this week, so I had to do some study for that, but as far as I'm aware, I have nothing going on next week, so I should be able to get another few updates out next week.
Anyways, I know that this chapter is a bit shorter than the others, but I really didn't want to delay it even more, so I just had to make it a shorter chapter. However, to make up for this, I'll hopefully be updating again tomorrow, and it won't be a shorter chapter...
But enough of that, let's get on with the chapter!
Corvan
"Come on, we're so close!" Eight exclaims excited to us. He says whatever he's going to show us is important but to be honest, I have no idea where we're going right now.
"So close to what?" Lucas asks, voicing my thoughts, "So close to anywhere really" he replies cryptically, I'm more confused than ever now.
We've been walking for almost an hour now and Eight hasn't cleared up pretty much any of our questions about this place. I don't really mind the walk though, this place looks absolutely incredible. To the right of us is a drop off, which allows us to see over the entire valley. Despite the snow, this place still retains its incredible hues of green.
We've been in the Himalayas for almost a month now and I see why Eight decided to stay here for so long. I have unlimited use of my legacies and my strength. Speaking of legacies, I've finally gotten telekinesis and it is amazing. I have the same strength with my telekinesis as I do with my super strength, which is really awesome.
Apart from this however, nothing much has really happened, Eight has been having some visions of meeting some other Garde up here in the Himalayas and Lucas thinks they're visions. Personally I think they're just dreams, but hey, who am I to crush their hopes.
"We're here" Eight says proudly, breaking me out of my thoughts. I still don't really know what 'here' is though, it's just a set of stairs carved into the side of the mountain leading to a dead end.
"Wow, that was definitely worth an hours walk" I mutter sarcastically but Eight just rolls his eyes and walks up the stairs. I quickly follow him up the stairs, Lucas behind me and what I thought was a dead end, starts to look more and more like a door.
In the middle of the large stone door is a circular carving, made from what looks to be Loralite. Before I can ask Eight about any of what's in front of us, he steps up to the door and places the pendant around his neck into the blue slot. The door makes a loud groaning sound before it opens inwards, Eight's pendant dropping to its usual spot at his chest.
"You should see your faces right now" Eight says with a grin, I laugh slightly but continue looking inside the area.
The room is huge, with a large Loralite stone at the center of it and walls lined with intricate paintings. The entire room has a network of Loralite embedded in the otherwise dull rock that forms the walls, ceiling and the floor.
"You can come in you know" Eight laughs over his shoulder and I step inside the room, a calming presence filling me as I do so.
"When did you have time to find this place?" Lucas questions and Eight just shrugs, "I found it in a vision actually" he says proudly and walks around the area.
"What are these over here" I ask Eight, gesturing to the paintings on the wall.
"To be honest, I don't really know" Eight replies, his face closing off slightly as he looks at them, "But I think they might be of our past, present and future" he finishes and I take a closer look at them.
The paintings are eerily realistic, with most of them depicting battles but some of them depicting very cryptic scenes. I stop at one of someone being stabbed, the face has been chipped off though. The person is slumped over the sword that's in their sternum and a shiver goes through my body. What if that's me?
"Eight" I call to him, beaconing him over to me, "Who was on this painting" I interrogate, terrified that this could be me getting stabbed.
"Does it really matter?" he asks, looking down to avoid my gaze, "Yes, yes it does" I exclaim, starting to get slightly frustrated at him.
"It's…" he starts, backing away from the painting, a pained look on his face, "It's me" he whispers and I shudder, maybe that's why he's so carefree. It must be hard knowing about a fate like this.
"These paintings… Maybe they're just predictions, maybe you can avoid this somehow" I offer, but something inside me tells me that these aren't just predictions.
"Hey Corvan, isn't this you?" Lucas calls over to us, thankfully changing the subject. I'm slightly fearing what I could see on the painting but Lucas didn't sound shaken at all so I walk over to him.
The painting is of several people, I'm in front of them with my familiar greatsword and dagger and a large blue pendant hanging around my neck. My clothes are covered in blood and ash and the same goes for the people standing behind me. I'm holding my weapons out in front of me aggressively at something, but what it is, I'll have to find out later.
"What did you mean about this place being 'anywhere'" Lucas asks Eight and his face lights up, his familiar smile plastering itself back on his face.
"I thought you'd never ask" he starts, "You know how you can only teleport within a certain distance?" Eight asks me and I nod.
"Wait, this place allows you to travel anywhere in the world that you want?" I ask astounded but he shakes his head, "Not everywhere, there's a few far-off places that you can go to" he says, I'm slightly disappointed, but I kind of knew that there would be some kind of catch.
"Should we try it out?" he says with a grin and I nod eager to see where we can get to. I take Eight and Lucas' hands and I close my eyes in concentration, ready to teleport us out.
I open my eyes slightly and Lucas nods to me, signaling that he's ready to do this. I close my eyes again and teleport us away, everything turning black.
The first thing I notice when I wake up is the pain. Everything hurts. The sand isn't really doing anything to help ease the pain either. I groan audibly as I sit up and look around. There's not really much to see, just sand, sand and more sand.
"Where are we?" I ask Eight, pain shooting up my back as I sit up further. Lucas sees the state I'm in frowns slightly.
"From what I can tell, we're in New Mexico" he says, "I've been here before, there's a road a few miles east of here" he explains and I nod, this gives us really easy access to America.
Before I can speak again I hear the sound of helicopter blades overhead, "Get down!" Lucas calls to us, obviously not wanting to be seen by the helicopter. Before I can get down however, a blinding light cuts its way through the fading dusk light and points directly at us. Shit.
"Stay on the ground with your hands on your heads!" someone commands from the helicopter and abide, I'm not in the state to get into a fight with them right now. Before I know it, armed men descend from a ladder sent down from the helicopter and come to examine us.
"What are you doing here and how did you get here!" one of them yells at us, clearly not in any mood for playing around.
"We just got lost that's all" Eight says innocently but some of the men laugh at him and his excuse, one of them pushing his face into the sand with his boot. He really isn't the best at making up lies.
The men continue laughing at us and taunting us until one of them gets a glimpse at the greatsword in its sheath on my back. I guess the gig's up.
Pointing his gun at the back of my head, shouting something at me but I pay no notice to him, more focused on my next move. Quickly, I teleport behind them and I hear some of them yell out in confused terror. Unfortunately, one of them notices where I am and they start shooting at me. I orders are to shoot first and ask questions later.
I teleport out of the line of fire and the bullets slam into the sand that was behind me. Immediately, Lucas and Eight are up and are fighting the soldiers. One of the soldiers shoots at me but I'm able to deflect the bullets with my telekinesis and I slam my fist directly into the center of his face and he's sent flying off into the desert.
I move to the next soldier and throw him into the desert with my telekinesis, heavily draining what was left of my energy. One of the soldiers throws himself and I go down with him, wrestling him on the ground. He manages to land a hit on me and I wince as the pain from before returns, worse than ever. I just manage to push him off of me and I teleport on top of him and knock him out.
Just before I can stand back up, something blunt and hard slams into the back of my head and my vision starts to go blurry. I collapse onto the ground but before they can hit me again, he's thrown off of me by Lucas, who helps me up off the ground.
"We have to get out of here, they brought reinforcements" Lucas says, eyes slightly widened and I nod, knowing that I'm not in any state to fight right now.
"Eight, we've gotta go!" I call out to him, he's tearing it up right now, he managed to get one of their batons and is teleporting around, taking out the soldiers like they're nothing.
Eight teleports to us and grabs our hands, ready to teleport out. I'm just managing to deflect the bullets coming our way while Eight prepares to leave. Just before we go, I hear Lucas cry out in pain as a bullet sinks itself in his arm. Then everything goes black.
The first thing I register this time is the soaking rain. We teleported to some kind of stone formation and shake Eight awake. He gets up slowly and shakes the water out of his long hair. I'm about to ask Lucas what our next move should be when I notice it. He's not here.
"Eight" I say, shaking him again, dreading what could've happened to Lucas, "Eight" I repeat, the desperation clear in my voice and this time he groans in response, "Where's Lucas?" I ask, panic starting to rise in me.
"It can't be" he says, his voice trailing off, "He let go".
Dun dun duuun! What happened to Lucas, did he die? Did he get away? I guess you guys will have to find that out later on :D
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