I Am Destruction

Ally's POV

"Ally wake up you have a visitor!" my dad yelled from downstairs. I groaned and flipped over the covers getting out of bed. I went to the bathroom and took a nice hot shower as it relaxed my muscles. After 5 minutes of relaxation I stepped out drying off quickly. I brushed my hair leaving it naturally straight. I pulled on some dark skinny jeans with a t-shirt and some beat up converses. My normal style.

I brushed my teeth before running down stairs to see Lucas standing at the door.

"Hey." I said coming up to him. My dad standing awkwardly in the doorway. "Now no more mischief. I got my eye on you two." he said with amusement. Rolling my eyes I kissed my dad goodbye and closed the door on the way out.

"So what are we doing today?" I asked as he tossed me his bag. I slung it over my shoulder kicking a small pebble to the side. "It's not what I'm going to do it's what you're going to do today."

"Excuse me what?" I asked. He smiled taking a bite of his apple. He tossed me one but I was too busy pondering on what he meant to be eating an apple.

"Trust me darling. I know what I'm doing."

"Last night really proved that." I sneered at him as he gave me a glare. I laughed a little taking a bite of the apple, "Anyways, since you didn't have much of an adventure last night I was thinking that you would maybe want to go into evergreen forest..."

I stopped in my tracks dropping as the apple slid out of my hands. "Evergreen forest!?" Lucas cupped my mouth. "Do you want the whole world to know?!" he asked in annoyance. I moved his hand from my mouth. "You're crazy. Flat out crazy!" I said walking away from him. He jogged up to me taking my wrist and spinning me around to face him.

"Come on Ally. Aren't you the least bit curious to why Fates doesn't want us lurking in evergreen forest?"

"Uh.. yeah because it's forbidden! Remember Cody?" I asked.

"Cody who?"

"Ha you don't know his name because when Fates found out he went into evergreen forest he disappeared! Never to be seen again!" I said frantically whipping my arms around.

"You're being dramatic about this Ally I really think we could be legends!" He chimed.

"You said that last time and we ended up under a shop awning with no free food." I said as we continued to walk down the dirt path. Friendly shoppers smiled at Lucas and I as we went into our favorite antique shop.

"Hey that was before you got attacked and ruined the whole plan. Without me you would have caught on fire before you could process a scream." he opened the door for me as the bell chimed. "Hey guys." Max the antique owner said with delight. Max has been like a second father to me. He was nicest gentleman in all of Corinth's...well other than my dad of course.

"Hey Max I got a question." Lucas said hopping on the counter top his long legs dangling against the wooden material.

"Hit me."

"Don't you think Ally should go into evergreen forest?" Suddenly Max's eyes went wide. He rushed to the door flipping the open sign to closed. He pulled down the curtains and locked the door. "How do you know about evergreen forest?" he asked coming back behind the counter.

Lucas looked at him with a devious smirk, "Depends Max, what do you know about evergreen forest?" Lucas said eyeing him carefully.

"Don't be playing tricks with me boy." Max said hitting Lucas in the shoulder with a rolled up newspaper. Lucas pulled a golden ring out from his back pocket putting it on the table.

"I'm not playing tricks, I'm just playing my cards." He said sliding the ring closer to Max docilely.

"I'm not taking this from a kid."

"You're taking it, and I'm 16." he added. "Plus," he continued, "I snagged it off a rich man while I was working at Midori anyways. That restaurant is too easy." he said amusingly.

Max observed the ring carefully making sure it wasn't one of those fake ones kids tried to sell on the street.

"Lucas you can't bribe the man." I said putting a hand on my hip firmly. He whispered to me, "I know what I'm doing."

I sighed and sat back in a soft rocking chair watching the scene unfold before my eyes, "Look Lucas if you're conning me..."

"Max you're my buddy, my amigo, my-"

"You can cut the buddy talk. I'll take it." Max said quickly snatching the ring. He might have been our friend but had an eye for merchandise and good fortune. "Ok Max I played my cards time for you to spill the truth." Lucas said hopping down from the counter. He leaned against the counter intertwining his fingers. "Legend says-"

"See I told you this stuff could make us legends Ally!" Lucas interrupted. Max gave him a look and Lucas immediately went back into serious mode.

"As I was saying..." Max continued, "Legend says that long long ago, Fates brought one of his own fire warriors in the evergreen forest. Trapping him inside a cage that he would only have the key too. The fire warrior was more powerful than any other fire warrior in all of Labyrinth...but Fates with all this power wanting and junk didn't want him to over rule him."

"Then why didn't he just kill the guy?" I asked. Lucas shushed me putting a finger to my lip. I slapped his hand away.

"Anyways, the thing is. He couldn't kill him! It was impossible, he tried everything from poison tanks to pushing him off a cliff. He couldn't die, so he locked him up deep inside evergreen forest. But from the grape vine, the fire warrior had the most beautiful power. Someone even said his fire could make different colors. Colors that didn't make fire look so destructive. But the problem was he was destructive... if anyone ever unleashed him from that cage. Chaos would spiral all over the world. He's said to be dangerous... highly dangerous. So dangerous that himself alone could start his own war. So danger-"

"We get it!" Lucas and I said in unison.

He smiled weakly, "Anyways, I personally wouldn't mind stepping into evergreen to take a look at his powers. Gee, fire turning into a rainbow of colors...unbelievable." Max said grabbing a towel and wiping down the counter top.

"Ok then there's your answer Ally you're going into evergreen forest." Lucas said quickly. Max laughed.

I glared at the both of them, "I am not turning out like Cody!" I yelled.

Lucas and Max stared at me rolling their eyes, "Ok now you're just making stuff up." Lucas said nudging my shoulder. "It's true!" I retorted. Lucas stuck out his tongue mockingly. "Don't be such a baby Ally you're going into evergreen forest."

"Why can't you just do it instead?"

"Because I had my share of fun last night and I'm talking about kicking Jacob's ass. You're going to that forest even if I have to drag you there." he said. "Even though I love your adventurous mood Lucas, evergreen forest isn't the place you want to be in. Strange things go on in that forest, there is a reason Fates put camera's at the entrance of evergreen forest." Max said opening up the curtains once again along with flipping the sign back to open and unlocking the doors.

"Yeah listen to Max, Lucas." I said trying to reason with him.

"Ally please? Do this for me. I saved you from Jacob last night. This is the least you could do for me. Pretty please?" Lucas begged batting his eyes. "Lucas.."

"Aw thanks Ally I knew you would want to do this for me!" Lucas said hugging me tightly and kissing my cheek. "Thanks Max!" Lucas said dragging me out of the antique shop.

We climbed up a ladder to an abandoned building jumping over a ledge and up on the rooftop over looking all Corinth's.

"Ally you have to do this." Lucas said almost desperately.

"Why me? You're the one with powers. How am I supposed to protect myself?" I said sitting down on the concrete tile. "I believe that he can over throw Fates."

I laughed, "Over throw Fates? As if."

"You heard Max, the fire warrior can't die." Lucas said dropping his bag on the ground. "I bet 99% of Max's stories are a myth." I stated pulling out an apple from his bag. "Ally don't be so stubborn. I'm you're best friend trust me I know what I'm doing."

"Yeah you do. But I don't know what I'm doing!" I said biting my apple hard out of frustration.

"And if the legend is true we could get our freedom back! We could live in peace once again! No more poverty!" He proclaimed.

"And if the legend is fake?" I mumbled chewing on my apple. "We try again!"

I groaned, "You're so annoying."

He laughed and nudged my shoulder, "But you love me anyways." he said with a smile. I looked into his deep crystal blue eyes as he leaned in getting closer to me. His lips just inches away from mine...

"Hey you two go find a room!" a lady scolded at us. We pulled back our faces turning red with embarrassment.

"Sorry ma'am." Lucas said raking his fingers through his hair. Was there a giant hole there in the center of the roof before? "Get down from there!" she yelled. Lucas grabbed his bag and climbed down the ladder as I followed right behind him nor missing a single pace.

We ran over behind a building as we laughed. "Ok Ally it's time."

I rolled my eyes, "Fine."

We ran down the dirt path road taking a short cut to the back of the town. We moved past twigs and stumps as we finally reached the gates of evergreen forest. A sign saying "Stay Out" in big letters was right above the lock to the gates.

"We can't get caught." Lucas said as he went over to a camera. Grazing his hand of it ice slowly emerged from thin air covering the camera fully.

"You ready?" Lucas asked.

I nodded slowly but nervously, he got on all fours as I stepped onto his back and climbed over the gates.

I landed safely on the ground maintaining my balance. Lucas wrapped his hands around the gate bars looking me fiercely in the eyes. "You can do this." he said. I looked into his eyes with fear as he wiped away one of my tears. "We can do this. If you don't come out in an hour I'm coming after you I promise." he said holding out his pinkie. I hooked his with mine and smiled as I turned on my heels and walked down the path going into the forest.

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