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Chapter 24 Nine
I run past Eight, ignoring the fact that Lola might be a traitor. I see her slumped against the wall and a small doll on the floor that fell out of Five's pocket. I lift her chin up and see she's dazed, probably concussed.
"Five! Five! Can you hear me?" I ask half shouting, she seems to recognise her name and briefly looks at me and mumbles something. I move closer and try to hear.
"You're a jerk, Sparky." She says in her usual condescending tone. I'm overcome with the urge to kiss her again but before I can TK starts to talk. John runs over to Sarah and lifts her up, she isn't as badly bruised up as I thought, in fact she seems more awake than ever.
"Lola." TK says shocked. She looks at him hurt. Eight walks up to her and puts his knife to her throat. She breathes rapidly and tries to move but his telekinesis stops her.
"I'm not a spy, please you have to believe Me." she says tears in her eyes. Five looks up to her with hate.
"How could you?" she stands up and I help her to her feet, she stumbles over to Lola and leans on Eight. Jealousy rises up in my chest. TK looks at Lola sadly; I can't believe she would do this to us. She's always seemed good for a bad guy if that makes sense.
"Let her go Eight, I'll handle her." Five says eyes not moving from her. Lola drops from Eights telekinesis. She stands scared. I notice Sarah is looking at her hands suspiciously while John hugs her. The rock that flew them back has now gone transparent and I'm tempted to see what it felt like when it blasted them back.
"Get on the ground, hands to head. Now." Five says. Lola does nothing but tremble, Five starts to look scared.
"Get on the ground." She says again. Lola does nothing again.
"TK you have to believe me, They put a tracker in-" She is cut off by Five. BK starts to growl and I feel my chimera in my pocket shuffle. She was nice to me I hear her say. I always thought I'd have a boy chimera but as it turns out Storm can be quite vicious at least more than the other chimera.
"Get on the ground!" she shouts. Five looks scared and I wonder why her persuasion won't work.
"They put a tracker in me when I was captured, if you don't believe me, cut it out wherever it is." Lola cries. Tears start to fall down her face and onto the floor, I see Eight's expression has gotten softer but it still has a hard edge to it.
Suddenly a scream rings out; I whip my head round and look for the source. We all gawk at the sight; Sarah's hand has gone through Johns shoulder although he doesn't look pained just scared. She yanks the hand out and stares at it.
"No." Five whispers. She storms up to Sarah and grabs her hand and looks at it. She tries to hold it but her hand goes through. TK follows her cane in hand and inspects the hand. I'm surprised he's gotten so good at walking so quickly, soon he won't need the cane at all.
"Oh no." he says quietly.
"What?" Lola asks keeping her distance.
"That rock is called a Detar." He pronounces the word like Day-tar and continues to look at Sarah's hand.
"So?" Five asks impatiently.
"It was designed as a detention device by the Loric, it kind of takes your legacies away for an hour or two and somebody else takes it, a bit like a semi-permanent Xitharus." He says looking at Five, he tries to put a hand on her shoulder but she pulls away.
"So I have Five's legacies for a couple of hours." Sarah asks scared.
"Some of them, she might have one left if she's lucky. Listen you're going to have to take it easy. Your body isn't designed to take that power, when Five's legacies return; you're going to burn out…probably." TK replies looking at her with caution.
"So if I said 'sit down' it would-"she is cut out by Five slumping towards the floor. She looks at Sarah with hate.
"So this is what normal feels like." She shivers after she says 'Normal' like it's a disease. I pick up the doll that fell out her pocket and shove it in my hoodie and try to help her up.
"Stop! Stop! Stop! If you try to force me up it's only going to end badly, trust me." I take my hands off her.
"Blondie, you don't know how to control this legacy, so be very careful about what you say. If you say the wrong thing, it could hurt me a lot. I know. I've seen Mogadorians try to break my legacy, it usually ends with them going insane or worse." She says calmly. I'd never thought saying the wrong thing could be dangerous but I guess Five is living proof. Five whispers something into Sarah's ear. She takes a deep breath and says,
"Stand up slowly." Sarah croaks out. Five does as she's told and brushes herself down.
"Now about Lola." Eight says.
"She's innocent." TK says firmly. Lola looks relieved and puts her hand over her mouth.
"But you're staying with me closely until we can be sure. We need to look around this ship; we're looking for anything we left behind. Split into groups" He concludes. We do as we're told. TK, Lola and Eight are together, so are John and Sarah. That leaves me with Five which I smile at. We start moving looking in different areas of the ship and Five and I get stuck in the basement.
I look around the dark room, it's small and dome shaped littered with food rations and instructions on how to communicate on earth. I put my hand in my pocket and feel the small doll and take it out my pocket. It's got small button eyes and brown hair. I look closer and see a scribbled out name used to be on it. I look closer and try to decipher it but before I can it's snatched from my fingers.
"That's mine." Five looks at the doll sadly.
"It might have your name on. Don't you want to know?" I ask curious why she wouldn't want to know her Loric name.
"I remember my old name, yours too." She says matter of factly. I'm blown out of the water with this new information.
"What was my name?" I ask. She shakes her head from side to side. I start to get angry; she has no right to not tell me my name.
"Why won't you tell me my name? It's my name I deserve-"my anger is cut off by a kiss. It's a desperate kiss and we hold each other as close as possible, I put my hand on her cheek and she pulls me closer. She then suddenly moves away but continues to hold my hand.
"Your name was Elec on Lorien." She says slowly.
"Elec?" I say shocked at the name and the kiss. She lets go of my hand and now looks at the walls behind us.
"Yeah. I think it means defender of something." She says now knocking on the walls. I ignore the knocking and ask more.
"So what's your name?" she stops knocking against the walls.
"That doesn't matter now."
"Why not?"
"Because I am number Five. I can't get attached to names, its better I stay Five for now." She stares at the wall for a moment and then punches it. I hear a hollow thunk before Five starts cursing.
"Fuck! That hurt like a bitch! I hate being human!" she shouts. I see the wall she tried to punch and stare at it. I try Five's tactic and punch through the weak metal. I laugh at how easy it is for me to break through.
"Still haven't got your powers back then?" I ask smiling.
"What do you think Sparky?" she says sarcastically. I'm hit by a wave of warm air and I sneeze at the dust coming from the room.
"We could sure do with a flashlight." I say looking at Five.
"I hope this works." She puts her hand out and the light beams from it.
"What do you know; I have Loriens most useless legacy left." I start to laugh at her situation.
"You're the human flashlight." I say between laughs. She turns her lumen towards me and starts flashing it in my eyes.
"Ladies first." She says with mock politeness. I step into the small room and she lights it up. Everything is covered in dust but right in the centre is a small green stone no bigger than a iPod. I put my hand out to grab it but am stopped by Five's hand.
"Let's not have a repeat of what happened to me, hmm." I nod at her and want to kiss her again badly but am stopped by her speaking.
"I'll go tell TK about this, you wait here. See if there's anything more around here that we can use." She starts to leave and I regret not kissing her again but before it becomes too much she turns around and kisses me on the cheek.
"Try not to get yourself killed, Sparky." She says smiling. I know she's patronising me but I can't stop a smile forming on my lips. I listen for her leaving but suddenly I hear her footsteps stop.
"What the- No!" she screams and is cut off by something. I leave the small green stone and make a mental note to come back for it. I run as fast as I can through the ship looking for Five. Storm jumps out of my pocket and searches in an opposite direction. I hear a struggle and run in that direction, I turn a corner and see the rest of the Garde surrounded staring at Five.
She's got a metal scratched casing around her mouth and is struggling against one of the biggest Mogadorians I've ever seen. He produces a very large knife which is glowing orange and puts it to her throat.
"Now here's how it's all going to go down…"
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