Hey guys, so I'm back with another chapter. So this chapter is coming out later than I said it would, but I kinda expected that (I really gotta stop setting myself unrealistic goals :D).

But this chapter is an extra long chapter to make up for that and I'll hopefully be making pretty much all of my chapters around this long or longer.

Anyways, enjoy the chapter!

Corvan

"We have to go back!" I tell Eight, completely distraught. Anything could've happened to Lucas, what if he was killed?

"You can't, there's no way we can fight them off in this state" Eight reasons but I pay him no attention. I try to stand up, but as if proving his point, I fall back over, completely drained of all energy.

"Please, we need to save him" I beg, my voice turning into a whisper at the end but Eight shakes his head, "I don't even know if I can get back to there in time" he replies.

"At least try" I say desperately, "Please" I add, the desperation clearly evident in my voice.

After a moment of thinking, Eight sighs and says, "Fine, but I don't know if I'll be able to make more than one trip, I'm not used to this kind of teleportation with other people".

I nod and Eight takes my hand, getting ready to leave. We teleport out and there's a moment of darkness before we're dropped off at our next location. To my dismay, we're back in India. Eight's passed out next to me and a double over, the effects of the hit to my head starting to kick in. I lie down and quickly fall asleep in the Loric cave, my tiredness taking over everything.

"Sleeping beauty awake" Eight remarks as I open up my eyes. Its dark out and we're at Eight's hut, he's lit a small fire and has even cooked some kind of stew. Good thing too because I'm absolutely starving.

"How long have I been out for?" I ask Eight and he shrugs, "Almost two days" he replies and my heart sinks, any chance we had of rescuing Lucas is definitely gone now.

"Really? Two days?" I ask and he nods, offering some stew to me. I take it and gratefully chow down on it, too hungry to savour the taste of the stew.

"He's really gone isn't he" I say sadly after a moment of silence and Eight looks down sadly and nods, "I checked the desert after you passed out" he replies and we fall back into silence.

"I had a dream" Eight says after a few minutes, "Well, more like a vision" he continues and I perk up a little, wanting to hear where he's going with this, "It was about some of the other Loric, they're coming here" he finishes.

"When is this?" I ask, thankful to have something to distract me from Lucas, "They should be here in about a few weeks" he replies and I start to grin.

"I guess we better train harder, don't want you to be the weakest out of all of us now do we" I mock and Eight grins back, "Not right now though, right now, I'm gonna sleep" he calls over his shoulder, going into his hut.

As soon as he leaves, loneliness starts to set in. By now, anything could've happened to Lucas, what if he was captured and they're torturing him for information. I go into the hut and grab my chest, being careful not to wake up Eight, he somehow always manages to get to sleep within seconds and tonight's no exception.

I place my chest on the ground and put my hand on the lock, praying that it won't open. It doesn't. I breathe a sigh of relief but almost immediately, the fear of him being tortured starts to set back in. I shake it off and practice start to get some more practice with my telekinesis. I don't really need the practice, but it's a nice distraction from all the other thoughts racing through my mind.

I lift the logs around the hut and hold them in the air with my telekinesis. After a while, I let the logs drop to the ground, not because of tiredness, but because of boredom.

"Are you still up?" Eight says, slightly startling me and I nod, "Yep, not really all that tired" I explain and he rolls his eyes but nods, heading back into the hut.

To be honest, I am tired. Extremely tired. But even if I wanted to get to sleep, I don't think I could, there's too much going on in my head right now, about Lucas, about the other Loric, about the war to come. The worst thing about it is that right now, there's nothing I can do about any of it. Right now, I'm in no state to find Lucas, the other Loric will be here in a few weeks, and I we can't win the war without the other Loric.

After I while of silent reflection, I go into the hut and lay on the floor, taking off both my greatsword and sheath and my dagger. I lie motionless on the ground, looking at the mud ceiling and all of its small imperfections. I close my eyes and surprisingly, I'm able to get to sleep almost immediately.

/

I'm in some kind of massive arena, its dimly lit with a high black ceiling but I can still somewhat see a figure at the other side of the arena. The figure is quite tall with long hair and a very muscular build. Surprisingly, his build pretty much matches me almost perfectly, but think I might be slightly taller than him.

Suddenly, another figure appears next to him. The other person is shorter and less muscular than him and has shorter hair. They walk over to me, mumbling to each other as they do and I grip my greatsword and my dagger, ready for an attack. To my surprise, they aren't hostile and the taller one holds out his hand.

"I'm Nine, this and this is Four, he prefers John though" Nine says and I nod, shaking his hand. He has a firm grip and I roll my eyes, he's clearly trying to see if he's stronger than me and I tighten my grip before letting go, he's as strong as he looks.

"I'm Corvan, before you ask, I don't have any number, I was here before the attack" I reply and John's face lights up.

"Are there more Loric like you?" he asks but I just shrug my shoulders, "I've got no idea, it was just me and my Cepan living together until recently" I explain and he nods, the hopeful look slightly fading off of his face.

"Anyone know why we're here?" Eight asks from behind me, startling me with his sudden appearance and Nine shakes his head, a confused look on his face, "Oh, I'm Eight by the way" he says, easing Nine's confusion.

"Did Lorien put us here?" I hear a girl ask from behind us. She's got medium length blonde hair and deep blue eyes, an average build with a slight tan and has a confident look on her face.

"I'm Five by the way" the girl says and John and Eight both laughs slightly at something, "How many more of us are gonna show up?" John jests and Five laughs but shrugs at his comment.

"At least one more" another girl says from behind Nine and John and John turns around quickly, "Six!" he says excitedly and hugs her. I guess they know each other.

"Hey" I hear a girl call timidly from behind me and we all turn around to see her, "I'm Number Seven, or Marina if you'd prefer" she says softly and I nod.

"Well, I guess that's everyone, but seriously, does anyone know why we're here" Nine speaks up and Eight shrugs, I guess no-one knows why we're all here or even how we got here.

"Well then, allow me to explain" A voice booms from the side of the arena. The voice comes from a massive guy. He's far taller than all of us and looks truly grotesque. He has a deep blue scar wrapped around his neck and is heavily muscled.

"Setrakus" Nine growls under his breath and charges him, some kind of pipe-staff in his hand. Setrakus simply raises his hand in response and Nine stops in his tracks and a frustrated look forms on Nine's face.

"Now now, I didn't bring you all here to fight" he says with a devious look on his face, "I'm here to make a deal" he continues but Nine just shakes his head, his resolve clear.

"If you help me kill the humans, then I'll spare you" he starts but I draw my sword slightly, "Did you really think we would take your offer?" I say defiantly.

"If you want to live, you will take the offer" he replies but I smirk slightly and draw my greatsword. Seeing this, the others also draw their weapons, and Nine breaks free of Setrakus' telekinetic bond and grips his pipe-staff tightly, ready for a fight.

"Your fate is sealed then" he says ominously and suddenly, an army of Mogadorians appear behind him and he grins confidently, "Do you really think you can beat this?" he taunts and one by one, we're pulled out of the vision.

/

"Well, that happened" I say lightly to Eight, who also woke up as soon as he was taken out of the vision. Eight laughs and nods but he also swallows nervously, knowing the war that's yet to come.

"I guess we should get to training" I states and I nod. Seeing that the sun's out we pick up where we left off, we've only got a few more weeks before the others get here and we need to be in the best shape as possible.

"So you're ready to lose again?" I mock and he laughs, "Oh come on, it's hardly fair with your super strength" he complains, putting on a fake sad face and I just roll my eyes at him.

We head off to the open space in front of the lake and get ready for the fight. As soon as it starts, Eight teleports behind me and throws a punch at me but I manage to block it and grab one of his arms. From here, I easily pick him up and toss him into the lake. Eight stands on the lake and I tackle him into it, we both go tumbling into water.

He transforms into his half-turtle half-man form and swims at me at full speed but I position myself and dodge it, throwing him away from me in the process. Clearly seeing that he has the upper hand in the water, I teleport out and Eight follows me, transforming back into his regular form in the process.

I prepare myself for the next strike and Eight takes a swing at me. I sidestep the punch and hit him in the stomach in return. The attack is hard and fast and it staggers him but I feel the pain in my stomach because of the charm. Not caring about the pain, I take advantage of his recovery time and I teleport behind him and put him in a headlock.

At this point, he knows I've won and doesn't even bother to struggle against my iron grip. After a few seconds, I let him go and grin. I've won most of the battles because of my super strength, but that's not because Eight is a bad fighter, he's incredibly agile and I'm not entirely confident that I would beat him in an actual fight. Good thing he's on my side.

"Well that was fun" Eight says lightly and I laugh, heading over to the lake to take a swim.

/

Five

I'm slightly out of breath and shaking from the recent vision with Setrakus but I'm also surprisingly contempt, now I know what the other Loric are like. Most of them look ready to fight all of them should be good of them in the fight against the Mogs.

Although we look like we're ready for the coming fight, I know that it's gonna be a lot harder than that. Setrakus had the power to summon all of us into a dream. How can we fight against someone with that much power?

None the less, my first move should be finding rest of the Loric. I have some kind of hunch that they're somewhere in America. I don't know what it is about America, but it just seems like where most of them would be. If not, then I can always use the globe from my chest to locate them.

Ever since Laura died, I've been so much more confident. Especially in fights. Since I have nothing to lose and the Mogs can't kill me and I don't have to worry about them hurting Laura or even me hurting her accidentally with my legacies, I can truly let loose on the Mogs.

We started off in Brazil, it's where the envelope told us to go. We didn't exactly look like the rest of the Brazilian's on account of our lighter skin, but we weren't attracting any attention from the Mogs. That is until about a year ago. I had been an idiot and lifted a concrete slab off of someone.

The Mogs tracked us down almost immediately but we were already gone before they could properly get to us. We had moved to Australia briefly, but Laura hated the hot, dry climate and we moved pretty soon. To be honest, I didn't really like the climate either and we ended up moving to Russia of all places.

We were here for a while before they found us again. I don't know how they found us, but they did. Laura had went out to the shops and I had just been chilling out at our safehouse. She never returned, but I could open my Chest on my own the next day and there were reports of a shootout at the local supermarket, so I can only guess that she didn't go out without a fight.

They took her away from me.

They've taken everything away from me.

I am Number Five, and I'm coming for my revenge.

So, that was the chapter. There's some big stuff that's gonna go down soon and I really hope you enjoyed the dream.

And yes, that is my own version of Five, but I really don't like the cannon Five, so I decided to change him (to a her :D).

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy, please feel free to give me your honest responses on the chapter as I'd love to hear what you guys think about the story right now!

Until next time, bye!