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Chapter 22 John
"You think you've won don't you?" I hear Setrakus Ra's voice say from the darkness. I try to shine my Lumen but it doesn't work.
"We have! The Garde are together!" I shout. An evil laugh comes from the darkness reminding me of someone, I just can't remember who.
"No." his voice says next to my ear. I turn around and try to grab him but like the wind he's gone and starts laughing. I run towards the laughter and the darkness gradually becomes light. I see the figure of Setrakus Ra and jump towards him ready to attack. Time slows and I feel myself slammed to the ground. The laughing continues over his shadowed face.
"Come closer where I can see you!" I shout angrily. His head comes closer and the laughter continues. I get ready to strike his face but am frozen in shock. He has the face of Sam with Setrakus Ra's purple scar around his neck and Sam's red eye and jagged scar down his cheek. His laughter continues as I feel his giant hands close around my throat.
I wake up clutching my throat. I look around my tent and see Eight is sleeping peacefully holding onto something Marina gave him at Five's bunker. Nine's gone. I choose not to worry because chances are he's with Five and she's the last person he'll want to piss off after Six. I get out of the tent and take in the night air; it's cool and reminds me of autumn in Paradise. Suddenly I feel something in my hand and see its Sarah. She looks up at the stars, ignoring me.
"Bad dreams?" she asks.
"Yeah." The silence is broken by my curiosity and questions about the dream I just had.
"When we were in the Mog base fighting Sam, Were you aiming to kill him?" I ask. Sarah doesn't answer and I immediately feel horrible for asking her this. She turns to me with tears in her eyes and buries her head into my shoulder and starts to cry.
"Yes. I couldn't let him kill you." I hear her whisper between breaths. I hug her back and we are left like that until she pulls away.
"Look John" she says and points towards the sky. All I see are a triangle of geese, but then I hear their voices in my head. Where's Five? I hear, I assume its Lars and he suddenly flies out of the V formation and dives into the darkness. Burnie Kosar lands nimbly onto the ground and the rest of Chimera follow suit.
You left without us you jerk. He says. I laugh and rub him along his back. Sarah plays with the rest of the chimera tickling a larger ones chin.
Without notice I see Lars running towards us with Five and Nine running behind him. Five jumps the cliff and I see Lars transform himself into a large winged creature catching her. Nine watches in disbelief for a second and starts running down the cliff.
"Why is your face so red?" I ask playfully wondering what her and Nine have been up to.
"Mogs! They've found us! We need to go now." She says urgently. How do they keep finding us? I think. Five runs inside of the tents waking everybody up by clapping. TK hobbles out on the walking stick Five bought him. Lola has her curved knife out and her jet black hair ruffled up.
"Five, you know I hate mornings." She says rubbing her eyes. Five mentions Mogadorians and I see her back go rigid. TK pats her on the shoulder and stands next to his laptop and stares at it.
"So?" Five asks.
"We have a half a mile radius to the stone." TK says calmly. Sometimes he reminds me of Henri and the way he can keep calm in dangerous situations. I can only hope he doesn't have the same fate. Nine runs to my side looking puffed out.
"Why couldn't I get a ride on the chimera?"
"Lars says you're too heavy." Five replies. Nine looks narrows his eyes at Lars and I hear his thought. Something along the lines of No you weren't. I suddenly hear a shot ring out and look up. The Mogs are on top of the canyon and climbing down.
"Split up into groups! Stay together and find the rock." TK announces and then hobbles towards into the canyon with Eight. I go with Nine and the girls go together. As the girls go off together I briefly catch Five and Nine looking at each other. I jog forward and look around the area for the rock and Nine follows behind. He starts lifting some other rocks and throws them away enthusiastically. looking for the Loric stone TK described.
"Quieten it down, Mogs could be around every corner looking for us" I whisper.
"I can't help it. I'm happy." Nine says looking into a small dip in the earth.
"What do you think the girls saying about us now?" He asks suddenly.
"I don't know, how about 'I hope Nine's helping his good old friend John find the Loric stone so we can all get to our ships.'" I say sarcastically. Nine just keeps smiling which annoys me even more. Suddenly a scream rings out. Nine and I look at each other and run to the source.
I see Sarah with a knife to her throat. Lola and Five have gone missing, I instantly hate them for leaving her. The Mog sees us and smiles.
"One more step and the bitch gets cut!" He shouts. He keeps looking for backup but none seems to come. I want to use my telekinesis to yank the blade away but I can't risk it cutting Sarah.
The Mog starts backing away. "Come with me or she's dead." He then makes a cut throat gesture. I consider blinding him quickly with my Lumen but before I get the chance a shadow jumps to the ground. I instantly think it's Five but I see a familiar curved knife.
The figure stabs the Mog in the ankle and Sarah elbows him to the solar plexus. The shadowed figure grabs the Mogs head back and stabs it viciously in the throat repeatedly. I shine my lumen over the figure and see its Lola. The Mog turns to dust in her hands.
"Guess you'd never expect the day when a Mog saves a human." She says quietly. I nod a thank you and instantly feel Sarah's weight in my arms. I rub her hair gently and look for Five. Eight teleports next to me with TK holding his cane.
"What just happened?" He asks.
"Five and Lola left Sarah alone and a Mog got her." I say ready to punch five.
"Guys I found the stone!" I hear Fives voice yell. I look up and see her hanging onto a ledge with a glowing blue stone in one hand. I use my telekinesis to drag her down onto the floor.
"What's your problem?" She asks struggling to stand up.
"You. You left Sarah alone to fend for herself in a canyon full of Mogs. You selfish-"I'm cut off and feel my feet swept from beneath me. I push Sarah away and land awkwardly on the floor; I feel a hand pushing down on my face stopping me from getting up.
"We couldn't take a human up to the stone, in case you haven't noticed she isn't like us. She's not indestructible but you can be damn sure you're not either; I'll make sure of it. If you want to bring your girlfriend along next time teach her how to defend herself." Five says keeping pressure on my face. As much as I hate it, Five's right, Sarah isn't indestructible and needs to know how to fight for herself.
"That's enough you two." TK says pulling Five off me. Eight gives me a hand up. Burnie Kosar and the rest of the chimera latch onto me and the other Garde whilst TK instructs us to put our hands on the stone with Eight. He holds onto as many Chests as he can.
"Oh crap, not teleporting again." I hear Five say. I can't help but imagining her vomiting again and I smile at the image.
"Hopefully this should get us all to the Loric ship" Eight says.
"Hopefully?" Lola says before Eight teleports. I feel my whole body tugging in every imaginable direction and feel myself falling. The cold metal floor breaks my fall.
I look around the room and instantly I'm overcome with déjà vu. I see snowed up windows and toys littered around the place.
"Everybody okay?" I hear TK say. We all reply except for Five, I hear her scream.
"My foot! My foot!" she yells. We run over to her and see one of her feet is missing. Nine's immediately at her side, but just as he does she starts laughing manically.
"You should have seen your faces!" she laughs. She pulls her foot from the other side of the wall and I'm reminded that she can pass through solid objects. She's now rolling along the floor giggling.
"You had the best reaction by far, Sparky" she says. I wonder why she's no longer calling Nine Bambi. Nine just looks a mix between pissed off and relieved. Five stands up and brushes her leather jacket down looking happy with her prank.
"So, what is this place then TK?" Eight asks trying to change the subject. Five is now looking around at the toys on the floor whilst we circle TK.
"This is your Loric ship, just not the one I wanted. This is the one that took you here." I look around the room and suddenly everything seems familiar except for the small gem standing on a podium in the middle of the room. I see Five has picked up a small doll and put it in her pocket. I see her eyes briefly and see they have tears in them. I think about comforting her but she looks as if she wants to be left alone.
"What's that?" Sarah says pointing out the gem. Sarah walks over to it and looks curiously at it.
"This looks familiar." She says, moving her head to look at it at different angles.
TK answers. "You've probably seen it in one of my books, just don't-" Sarah puts her hand on the gem and it glows brightly and makes a slight humming.
"Touch it." TK sighs. Sarah tries to remove her hand but it seems stuck. She pulls with her hand with what looks like all her might. Eight suddenly doubles over and rubs his eyes; he nods at me to ignore him. I guess he's just getting used to his new legacy of X-ray vision.
"I'll help you." I say but before I get to her Five intervenes.
"I'll help her; you might want to see to Eight." She gestures to Eight rubbing his eyes looking in pain. I start to walk over to Eight but suddenly I hear a large zapping. I spin around and see a large ball of green light between Five and Sarah. I only have time to see their shocked faces before I see them slammed against opposite sides of the room and slide onto the ground.
Lola runs over to Sarah but suddenly she's stopped in her tracks, mid run. I see Eight using his telekinesis to stop her.
"What are you doing?!" I shout in anger. Eight looks angry at Lola with his knife out.
"She has a tracker inside her. That's how the Mogs have been finding us all this time."
I really do love cliffhangers :D So what do you think? Is Lola a traitor and are Sarah and Five alright? Tune in next time for another Chapter of The Power of Five!