Caged Wings

Chapter Twelve: Golems of War

Evan opens his eyes. Everything was blurry at first, but sees clearly after a couple of seconds. He then pops into a sit up and looks around. He sees he was in a bedroom full of anime posters and figurines. Shelves and shelves of manga and anime dvds could be seen as well. He guessed it was Zero's room. He found himself sweating. He wipes his forehead as he began to breathe heavily, wondering what had happened.

He finally noticed Raven was sleeping in a corner, in a chair. His eyes widened a little. Raven opens one eye and then both as soon as she saw Evan was awake. She jumps up and goes beside the bed, "How're you feeling?"

Evan looks around, "W-what happened?"

Raven looks down, "You.....you attacked Sith and Zero."

Evan's eyes widened, "I attacked them?! A-are they alright?"

Raven nods, "Yeah, they're okay."

Evan sighs in relief, "That's good."

He then looks at Raven, "I.....I didn't hurt you did I?"

Raven's eyes widened a little. She shoke her head. Evan raises an eyebrow, "I didn't hurt you?"

Raven shakes her head, "N-no. Not even a little."

Evan then says, "........I'm glad."

Evan then looks at Raven, "I-I'm sorry."

Raven chuckles, "Don't worry about it. You couldn't help it."

Evan then says, "I....I should've told someone...."

Raven then puts her hand on his, "I don't blame you for keeping a secret that big."

Evan looks at Raven and then at their hands. He then switches his hand over her hand, now holding it. He then says, "H-how could you be so understanding? I almost killed your friend.....I almost killed your brother. I--"

He was cut off when Raven puts a finger on his lips, "Shh......I said don't worry about it, and I meant it. You couldn't help it, therefore it's not your fault."

She finally removes her finger from Evan's lips, "All we have to worry about is the moon. It's no problem."

Evan then fell silent for a moment. He finally says, "H-how long was I passed out?"

Raven then says, "Until morning."

Evan looks at Raven once again, "H-how did you get me back to normal? If I may ask?"

Raven smiles, "I made the clouds cover the moon. It rained all last night."

Evan's eyes widened a little, "Y-you can make it rain?"

Raven nods, "With the help of the spirits of course."

Evan smiles at her, "Thank you...."

Raven smiles, "Anytime."

Evan then realized he was still holding Raven's hand. He finally lets go, "Sorry..."

Raven giggles, "Don't sweat it."

Evan then says, "I think I know why I didn't attack you."

Raven then looks at Evan with a serious expression, "Why?"

As Evan went to say what he wanted to say, there was a knock. They both look to see it was Zero at the door. He smiles, "How's it going?"

Raven smiles, "He's alright."

Zero then says, "That's good. I'm glad."

Zero then looks to Evan, "I hope you feel better."

Evan nods, "Thanks."

Zero then says, "Pheonix is gonna be here in an hour to take us to our new house."

Raven smiles, "Thanks."

With that, Zero leaves the room. Raven then turns back to Evan. She smiles softly, "That's something. We get our new house today. We finally have enough for all of us to live together."

Evan smiles, "Yeah. That is something."

An hour later, Pheonix came to Zero's door. His eyes widened when he saw there was no door left. He knocks on a wall, "Hello?"

Zero comes to the door, "Hey. Come in. I'm just finishing some packing.....well....most of it. I still need to pack my stuff in my room."

Pheonix nods, "That's cool. What happened to the door? Did one of you guys party too hard last night?"

Zero shakes his head, "No. One of us decided to turn into a giant wolf and try to eat people."

Pheonix's eyes widened, "What? Are you serious?"

Zero then said, "If my broken door could talk, it'd tell you and would manage to be serious."

Pheonix chuckles at Zero's comment, "Okay, okay. I'll believe you. Who was it?"

Zero sighs, "Evan. Turns out he's a werewolf."

Pheonix's eyes widened, "Woah! That sucks. Is everyone okay?"

Zero nods, "Oh yeah. Thanks to Raven."

Pheonix raises an eyebrow, "Thanks to Raven?"

Zero nods again, "Yup."

Raven then comes in the room, "Zero? What are you telling Pheonix?"

Zero then says, "He asked what happened last night."

Raven nods, "Okay. But please don't talk about this around Evan. He feels bad enough about it as it is."

Zero nods, "Okay. No problem."

Pheonix smiles, "Don't worry. I won't bring up anything."

Raven smiles, "Thank you."

Sith then comes in the room, "Ready to go?"

Raven nods, "Yeah. I think we are."

Evan then comes out in a new set of clothes. He wore light, brown skater shorts, with a white t-shirt and over it, a red hawaiian style shirt that was unbottoned. He sighs, "Are we going now?"

Raven nods, "Yeah. Let's go."

Raven, Zero, and Pheonix go out the door first. Sith and Evan leave last. As everyone else was ahead, Sith goes in front of Evan, stopping him. He then says, "You're lucky I didn't kill you last night. I was about to. I would've lost it if you attacked my sister. But you didn't.....and I know why. You love my sister don't you. You had a thing for her since day one."

Evan's eyes widened a little. He then looks to the ground and then at Sith. He then says, "Look....I'm sorry, okay? I feel bad for what I've done."

Evan takes a deep breath and says, "And yes.....I do love Raven. She's the reason why I'm here."

Sith looks back to the others and then at Evan, "I'm not mad about what you did, I'm only warning you. Me and her have been hunting for a long time. We both know the traits of a werewolf and what their tendencies are. To give you heads up, don't be surprised if Raven knows about your feelings towards her. She too knows that a werewolf would never attack one they truely love."

With that, he walked away. Evan looks at Sith as he leaves. He then sighs out of frustration and catches up to the group. They all go into Pheonix's jeep.

After Pheonix picks everyone up, he starts to drive to the house, which was now theirs. Hikari bounces in her seat, "This is SO exciting!!"

Serenity smiles, "I know. This is pretty cool."

Zero smiles, "This is epic! We're actually doing this!!"

Pheonix smiles, "I told you we could do this together!"

Raven chuckles, "Well, no one said you were wrong."

Pheonix smiles at Raven, "I know. High five!!"

Raven smiles and high fives Pheonix. They both smile at one another. Pheonix finally parks in their new driveway. Everyone gets out. Raven smiles, "My God! It's awesome!"

Coslotus then jumps off from the roof of the jeep and looks as well. He finally says, "Not bad......for a wreck....."

Everyone looks at one another. Raven shouts, "Choose your room time!!"

Everyone, except Coslotus, run inside to claim their rooms. As soon as everyone got inside, it was empty with cobwebs. Some stuff was wrecked, but could be rebuilt easily.

Raven finds the biggest room, "Mine!!"

Sith runs beside her, "No! Mine!"

Raven shoves Sith, "Go away! I found it first!"

Sith shoves Raven back, "I want this room!"

Raven growls, "You always want everything I want! Go find another room!"

Sith growls, "No!"

Raven then shoves Sith up against the wall. Sith growls and shoves Raven up against the wall back. They then started to push one another. They both fall into the room at the same time, landing on their faces. They both say in unison, "Ow...."

Raven gets up and drags Sith out the door. She slams it, "Bye, bye!"

Raven sits up against the door. Sith bangs on it, "HEY!! THAT'S NOT FAIR!!"

Raven shouts, "DEAL WITH IT!!"

Sith growls and goes off to find another room.

Zero looks around and finds a room, "I guess I'll claim this room."

The room had a nice big window. Big enough to sit on. Zero smiles as he looks into the closest, "Epic!"

He then thinks on where his anime stuff would go.

Hikari finds a room in the basement, "PERFECT!!!"

Hikari then thinks of all of her witchcraft equipment and where they were gonna go.

Evan then finds a room that was beside Raven's room. He shrugs, "Good enough."

Pheonix looks around for a room, "Aw.....most of the good ones are taken!"

He then goes to the room that was the furthest from everyone else's, "I guess......I guess I'll take this one."

Coslotus then walks by Pheonix, "I'll be in here."

He then slams the door. Pheonix's eyes widened, "Wha?! Huh? B-but....I was gonna take this room! How come you get it?!!"

Coslotus then replies from behind the door, "Because it's the furthest away from everyone."

Pheonix sighs, "Fine. I'll go elsewhere."

He then walks the halls. He opens a door, "Hm....maybe this one."

He then sees Serenity in it. His eyes widened a little. Serenity then sees him, "Uh.....umm.....sorry. This one I kinda claimed...heh heh...."

Pheonix then closes the door, "Aw......this sucks!"

He then shouts, "CONSIDERING I DRIVE ALL OF YOU!!!"

Sith then finds a nice room closest to Coslotus. He looks inside. He smirks, "Punked!"

Sith found that this was the second biggest room in the house. He chuckles to himself, "What idiot was dumb enough to not find this room?"

He shrugs, "Oh well. Finders keepers."

Pheonix finally finds a room. He's eyes widened with delight. The room had a nice window with a couch-like shelf built into the wall underneth. Pheonix smiles, "This is soo my room!"

He then looks around in it. He smiles, "I guess the room arrangements worked out for the best."

Half an hour later, everyone meets up in the center room, which was assumed would be the livingroom. Raven asks, "Everyone find a room to their liking?"

Everyone nods. Pheonix says, "Yup. Took a while, but I got my room okay."

Sith laughs, "I managed to get the second biggest room in the house!"

Zero then says, "Just to let people know, I call dibs on decorating the living room."

Raven nods, "That's fine."

Serenity then says, "Aw....I wanted to decorate the livingroom. Fine, I call the kitchen."

Raven sighs, "Okay. You can decorate the kitchen, just don't make it too girlie."

Serenity chuckles, "Don't worry, I won't."

Pheonix then says, "As for the extra rooms, I'm making one of them into a library!"

Raven's eyes widened, "That'd be great!"

Pheonix smiles, "I know right?!"

Raven then says, "We're gonna have a weapons room slash training room as the basement."

Zero nods, "That sounds epic."

Hikari then says, "Stop saying that word!"

Zero chuckles, "Epic."

Hikari then punches Zero and says, "Shut up!"

Raven changes the subject, "Now all we need to do is rebuild some of this dump and bring our stuff here and buy new stuff."

Serenity then says, "How are we gonna do that? We have jobs, so the new stuff is fine. The rest we spent on this house. So...how are we gonna rebuild it? Do we save up again?"

Raven thinks for a moment, "Hm....good question. It seems like that's our only option."

Hikari jumps up and down, "Oh, oh, oh!!! I knew this would happen! I got a solution!"

Zero sighs, "This can't be good if HIkari has a solution."

Hikari's eyes narrow, "Shut up! I'm serious! I got something that'll solve all of our problems!"

Raven looks to Hikari, "What do you have in mind?"

Hikari jumps up and down with excitement, "I found the perfect thing for us!!"

She then stops jumping and pulls out a flier and hands it to Raven. Everyone then gathers around her as she went to read it. The flier had a picture of Rock Golems on it at some unknown site. Raven reads, "Golems have taken over the Western Area of Grimstone. If vanquished, the one(s) responsible will get a large reward for their services. Signed, Mayor Gradlock."

Raven's eyes widened as she looks to Hikari, "You expect us to face Rock Golems.......for money?"

Hikari nods, "Yeah."

Raven thinks about it for a moment. She then smiles at Hikari, "Okay.....I'll do it."

Hikari jumps and claps her hands, "YAY!!"

Zero smiles, "Alright. I'm in."

Sith smirks, "I could use some fun."

Pheonix smiles, "I'm in too."

Serenity sighs, "I guess....I guess I'm in too."

Coslotus smirks, "I could use the exercise."

Raven and everyone else then looks to Evan. He nods, "I'll go too."

Hikari nods, "YAAY!!! This is gonna be awesome!!!"

Raven smiles, "Team?"

Everyone then says in unison, "Team."

Raven smirks, "Let's go get ready."

A few hours later, Pheonix drives everyone towards the Western Area. Hikari is seen mixing some stuff in a bottle. It began to smoke and bubble. Zero then looks, "What are you making?"

Hikari smiles, "Just a little concoction to help us in battle."

Zero shakes his head, "Oh boy."

Pheonix then says, "We're almost there."

Raven grips her katana as they get closer. She looks out the window as she sees the site in view. The Rock Golems were crawling the areas in huge numbers. Raven whispers, "Oh my God."

Pheonix parks the jeep where it couldn't been seen. Everyone then gets out of the jeeps as Coslotus jumps down from the roof. Pheonix then opens his trunk to get everyone's equipment. Sith grabs his sythe and makes sure it's extra sharp. Zero grabs his Naginata and does the same. Hikari grabs a few small things and attaches them to her belt on her dress. She smiles, "I'm ready!"

Sith flips his sythe, "So am I."

Zero then said, "I guess I'm ready."

Raven then equips her katana to her side, "I'm ready."

Raven looks at everyone else, "Are the rest of you ready?"

Evan, Serenity, Pheonix, and Coslotus nod. Raven smirks, "Let's go kick some ass."

They all walk side by side one another. Facing what was up ahead. They formed a line side by side one another as they got closer and closer to the Golems.

One Golem stood up when it noticed the group. The Golem stood at least fifteen feet tall and was huge in width. Made from complete stone and nothing more. It was withered with a dark brown colour. It had a face that was crunched and hideous. Sith was the first to run out onto the area. He jumps as he swings his sythe at the Golem. As the Golem went to swing at Sith, it was too late. Sith's sythe had already went through it. The Golem then falls into two on the ground. Sith lands to his feet, smirking.

The rest of the Golems hear the ruckus. They all stand and look to the group. Sith smirks, "Now the war begins!"

The Golems then ran at the group in rage. Raven then runs in as fast as she could. She gets out her katana as it started to glow purple. She roars, "SOUL SURGE!!"

She then swings her katana at two Golems that charged at her. A big wave of purple came from her sword as she swung it at them. She jumps and does multiple slashes with aura surging through her sword. She lands down in a crouching position on the ground. It seemed as if the attack didn't take effect. The Golems turned around and went to go after Raven, but froze. Raven stands up and smirks. The two Golems then fall into dozens of pieces to the ground.

Zero runs as fast as he could as a few Golems chase him. He turns and spins his Naginata. One Golem swings his arm at him. Zero then blocks it with his Naginata. He mutters a spell and shoves him back with brute force. The Golem then goes flying back and hits at least five other Golems.

Zero runs as more Golems charge at him. Caught in the middle, he crouches down and puts his hand behind his back, along with his Naginata. He then jumps and spins high in the air, doing a non-stop roundhouse kick "Dragon Spiral!"

A big force of wind came from Zero as he spun around, causing the Golems to forcefully fly backwards like nothing. Zero lands on his feet and dives forward into a spinning motion, swinging his Naginata. More Golems go flying. Zero lands on his feet once again and looks around for anymore Golems.

Serenity sees a Golem begin to chase her. She shrieks and starts to run. She turns and shouts, "GAH!!"

She shoots fire at the Golem, burning it. The Golem steps back, but it had no effect. Serenity's eyes widened, "Oh no!"

As the Golem went to grab her, Coslotus ran and punched it. It then smashed into dozens of pieces. Coslotus smirks, "Hm. Fire seems to make it weaker, but doesn't kill it."

Coslotus then pats Serenity's shoulder and walks away. He then runs at another Golem. He grabs it's arm and starts to spin it round and round. He throws it against a cliff and it smashes into it with a big explosion of rubble.

Evan runs as his big sword appears in his hands. A Golem goes to punch him as he swings his sword. The Golem's fist then bounces off the blade and onto it's own head. It falls back from the impact and Evan jumps on it's chest and stabs his sword into it. It falls back completely, hitting the ground. Evan then throws his sword at another Golem. It lands into it's back and it falls foreward on it's face.

Hikari runs to the other side as three Golems chase after her. With each step, the ground shakes and a loud vibration is heard. Hikari turns and gasps as she was cornered by the Golems. They run at her with a loud roar.

Hikari closes her eyes as she thinks quickly. She shouts, "Double, trouble, boiling bubble!! I turn you all into grubble...."

She then opens her eyes as she quickly adds with a smile, "....and jelly!!"

The Golems stop in their tracks and fall into pieces and pieces of grubble with jelly leaking from them. Hikari smiles more, "Ha ha!!"

She then runs away towards more Golems.

Pheonix runs at a Golem and then punches the ground. The ground cracks as he formed a giant earthquake. The Golem falls into it and is trapped beneath the ground.

More Golems come running at Pheonix. He stands up and and begins to mix cold winds and water in his hands. He then shoots it at all of the Golems, making them into ice. He then runs at them and punches them. Each shattering into ice pieces.

Sith runs as more Golems chase him. He puts two fingers in his mouth and whistles. Sythe comes flying at his call. As soon as Sythe came close enough, Sith jumped on him. Sythe flew Sith high and around the Golems. He then slaughters them one by one with his sythe.

Sythe roars and shoots lightning on the lot of them.

Hikari runs as more Golems begin to chase her. Hikari shouts, "KIKI!!!"

Her broomstick appears in her hands. She then flies on it and begins to circle some of them. She laughs as she made Golems bump into one another in attempt to catch her.

Raven backflips as she almost gets hit by a big fist. It smashes into the ground and leaves a dent in it. Raven then runs up it's arm, "WOLF!!"

A wolf's spirit overlaps her body in purple aura. She growls as she began to run extremely fast. She then slices Golems that got in the way of her path. Her sword glew brighter as she slices more and more on the way.

Zero was getting overlapped by at least ten Golems. Hikari sees and gasps. She lands and jumps off the broom as it disappears with a poof. She thinks for a moment, "Uh....umm..."

She then remembered her concoction she made earlier, "OH YEAH!!"

She then grabs the bottle from her belt and began to run in Zero's direction. She shouts, "Use this!!"

As she went to throw it, she almost trips. It then goes flying in Zero's direction. Zero turns and sees, "Woah!"

The bottle was inches away from hitting his face until he ducked. A Golem was right behind him. The bottle then smashed into the Golem's face. The Golem screams in pain as it's face was melting from the outside into the inside. Acid it seemed like.

Zero's eyes widened at what just happened. He was still ducked down. He slowly turns to Hikari's direction, "W-what did you just throw at me?!!"

Hikari walks up to him, smiling, "Acid with a hint of salt."

Zero's eyes widened even more, "Th-that could've hit me!!"

Hikari laughs, "So? At least I got him."

Zero looks back at the dead Golem, shaken, "Th-that could've been me!"

Coslotus then demolishes more Golems with his bare hands. He cracks his knuckles when he's finally finished, "Hmf!"

Serenity burns more Golems and runs the other way, almost getting hit. Coslotus then saves her and destroys them all.

Pheonix runs as he shoots more ice at the Golems. He feels his back against something. He turns to see it was Raven. He smirks, "Just like old times, eh Raven?"

Raven smirks, "You're telling me."

They then slaughter the remaining Golems. After a few more minutes, the Golems are all vanquished. The group reunites, panting from near exhaustion. Raven smiles, "Wow. That was great!"

Sith cracks his neck as he falls into a sit down on the ground, "Yeah. You said it."

Serenity then says, "We almost got killed."

Zero then says, "Yeah. Me!"

Hikari punches him, "Oh stop it. I saved you!"

Zero then says, "You call that saving?! I hate to see you when you do try to kill a person."

Hikari laughs.

Pheonix then says, "Now let's go get our money."

Raven nods, "Yes! And food!"

Everyone nods, "Yeah!"

Evan looks to the ground, saddened. No one notices, as they were too busy interacting with one another. Pheonix finally says, "Let's get out of here."

Raven nods, "Yeah. Let's do that."

The group then goes back to the jeep and starts to drive to City Hall.