Caged Wings

Chapter Nineteen: Escape With Hova

Evan's sight goes back to normal. He then shakes his head to snap out of it. He then sees Coslotus and Sith. He raises an eyebrow, "Where'd you guys come from?"

Sith then puts his sythe over his shoulder and points with his thumb behind him, "From the wall over there to save your ass."

Sythe then comes up to Sith and purrs. He pets his head, "Hey, boy. Good job."

Pheonix asks, "On what?"

Sith answers, "Guiding you guys towards us."

Pheonix raises an eyebrow, "Oh."

Sith then asks, "Are you guys alright?"

Pheonix nods, "I'm alright."

Sith looks to Evan, "And you?"

Evan shakes his head and sighs, "I'll be fine."

Pheonix then he looks to Evan, "I'm curious as to why you didn't kill the Haiden when it came after you."

Evan then looks at Pheonix and then everyone else. They were looking at him, waiting for his answer. He sighs, "My sight went blurry for a second. I didn't know why."

Sith then goes right up to Evan. He looks to Sith with a raised eyebrow, "W-what?"

Sith then looks at his eyes. He begins to examine them, adjusting Evan's eyelids with one of his hands. Evan backs up, "Woah, kid! What're you doing?"

Sith then says darkly, "It's gonna be a full moon this week. I suggest you be careful."

With that, Sith turns and walks away. He then says to everyone, "Time to move on. Let's find the others."

Evan sighs out of frustration. Coslotus stares at him as he walks passed him.

Serenity and Hikari keep walking. Serenity asks, "How much further do you think it is?"

Hikari replies, "Not far. Sith and Coslotus found Evan and Pheonix."

Serenity smiles, "That's good."

Serenity then frowns, "But.......what about Raven and Zero?"

Hikari then says, "Their the furthest away right now. They're not even close to us. But they're alright though."

Serenity sighs, "That's good to hear."

Hikari stops, "Quiet. I hear something."

Serenity stops in her tracks. She then whispers, "What is it?"

The girls both jumped out of surprise when they heard voices from around the corner. They slowly walk towards it as the voices got louder. Suddenly, something snapped around the corner and was about to to hit them.

The girls jumps, "Gah!"

Hikari and Serenity look to see it was Sith with his sythe at the ready. Coslotus, Evan, and Pheonix come behind Sith. Hikari laughs, "Oh, it's only you guys."

She looks to Serenity, "Told you they were close."

Serenity smiles, "Good call."

She then sees Coslotus, "Coslotus! Are you guys okay?"

Coslotus nods, "Yeah. We're fine."

He then sees it was just the two of them. Coslotus asks, "Where's Raven and Zero?"

Serenity frowns, "We.....we haven't found them."

Sith sighs, "Then let's get looking."

With that, he walks passed the two girls into the way they came from.

Raven and Zero keep walking. Zero asks, "Are you sure you know where we're going?"

Raven nods, "Yeah.....I do."

Zero looks around, "How? You never been in this place before. Have you?"

Raven shakes her head, "No. I already told you. I'm linked to Sith, Sythe, and Evan. From what I feel, they found one another. So that's three birds with one stone."

Zero's eyes widened, "Oh yeah. You're psychic."

Raven chuckles, "Yeah."

They walk into a large hallway made from stone. Raven and Zero look around. Zero then asks, "Do you know if we're getting any closer?"

Raven nods, "We're getting close.......just not close enough."

Zero sighs, "That sucks."

Raven agrees, "Indeed it does."

Raven then looks to the floor, thinking of Dimus. Her eyes then deepen with concern. Zero looks to her, "Are you okay?"

Raven nods and smiles at Zero, "I'll be fine."

Zero nods, "Okay. Are you sure?"

Raven just nods and says no word. They both stop when they hear a loud crack. Raven whispers, "Did you hear that?"

Zero nods, "Yeah."

Raven then gets out her katana as Zero got out his Naginata at the ready. Raven and Zero slowly begin to step forward, not making a sound with their footsteps. The loud cracking was heard again. They both stop to see a big open door. The sounds had came from there. Raven and Zero quietly walked to the doorway. They both stop to see a huge room with a throne. Their eyes widened.

Their eyes didn't widened at the look of the room, but what stood inside the room.

Standing in the room was fair sized skeletons. Each with armour and weapons. An army of darkness. The army then saw Raven and Zero. They all roar demonically and all run at the two. Raven and Zero both gasped, "Gah!!"

They both jumped out of the way as at least five of the army smashed into a wall. The wall bursted open as soon as the skeletons fell into it. Raven gasps, "This.....isn't good."

Zero looks to Raven and says sarcastically, "No. Do you think?"

Raven then glares at Zero.

Sith and the others keep walking. Serenity asks, "How much further?"

Sith says, "Not far. Just need to get through these walls."

Serenity asks, "What do you mean?"

Sith stops and turns to everyone. He slaps on the wall to his left, "Through here.....we can get to Raven faster."

Coslotus cracks his knuckles, "Move out of the way."

Everyone does so. Coslotus then punches the wall at full force. An explosion of rubble came out of the other side. Coslotus then steps into the wall. On the other side, it was a huge room with three doors and a giant balcony above. At two of the corners of the room were big pools of water.

Coslotus smirks, "There we go."

He then turns to the others. They all step through and look around. Hikari smiles, "Cool."

Evan stops as he smells the air. He looks around, "We're not alone."

Everyone looks, "Huh?"

Everyone then started to look around. Pheonix finally says, "There's no one here."

Just then, loud cracking sounds were heard. They all turn to see tons and tons of skeleton soldiers coming out from the three doors. They all stand in a line and point all of their weapons at them. Pheonix's eyes widened, "Oh God."

Hikari smiles, "This is gonna be fun!"

Serenity sighs and says sarcastically, "Oh great."

Coslotus smirks and cracks his knuckles again. Sith smirks and cracks his neck. Sythe steps forward and lets out a huge roar. Evan's big sword appears in his hands. He then goes into a fighting stance.

Zero and Raven fend off the army that tried to get them. Raven uses her sword to slice them up. Zero uses his Naginata. He then kicks one and makes it go flying into all of the others, causing them to all fly back. Raven and Zero then both run into the throne room. They both turn and see the army chase them again. Raven and Zero look at one another. They both nod and begin to fight them off together.

Raven jumps back, "Gah!"

As one was about to hit Raven, Zero stands in front and hits it with his weapon. The skeleton then flies into pieces. Raven smiles at Zero. He then smiles back at her.

Raven's eyes widened when she sees another skeleton came at Zero with a sword. She then grabs Zero's arm and pulls him towards her. They both spin around and Raven chops the skeleton in two. Raven gasps, "That was close."

Zero chuckles nervously, "Y-yeah."

They both turn to see more of them running at them with their weapons at the ready.

Sith runs along the sides of the walls and hits them with his sythe. He then lands on his feet and glares at the soldiers surrounding him.

Sythe then attacks a few and shoots lightning at them. He roars and claws the nearest enemy in half.

Serenity shoots fire all around her, preventing the skeletons from even touching her. She then runs away from a few. She turns and sees more. She then shoots her fire at them. They burn up and go flying back, landing in one of the pools of water.

Hikari makes her broomstick appear. She then flies around the room. She then says a few things under her breath and starts to shoot out bright, sparkling lights. They almost looked like fireworks. The attack then hit every skeleton in it's path. Hikari smirks and laughs, "Ha ha!!"

She then lands onto the balcony. She gasps when she sees that she was surrounded.

Coslotus then bashes two skeletons together. He then punches a load at a time, hitting everyone that came at him. He then cracks his neck and starts to bash more skeletons. He breaks one's skull and makes it go flying into another pile of enemies.

Pheonix makes ice in his hands and shoots it at the skeletons. He then makes a big force of wind and blows most of them away. He then makes a small tornado in one corner of the room. He jumps into it and allows himself to spin. He then grabs two skeletons and spins with them. The tornado stops and he throws them across the room, hitting more and more.

Evan then jumps high in the air and lands on a few enemies, swinging his sword. He then spins himself in a circle, swinging his sword. He then swings it again, only this time, a big wave of blue aura come out of it. He shouts, "Wolf's Cry!!"

The aura turns into a pack of wolves made out of blue aura. They howl and run at the soldiers. They all disappear and turn into a big wave, wiping half of them out. As the enemies were being wiped out, loud howling was still heard from it.

Raven looks and sees five more skeletons coming at her with swords. She then blocks them with her own sword. They then started to push her back with their brute force. She was then thrown back into the air. Raven yells, "Gah!!"

She then goes flying across the room. As Zero was fending off more enemies, he turns and gasps. Raven then lands right into him, causing them both to fall hard into the ground. Raven gasps when she had the wind knocked out of her.

She forcefully makes herself stand. Zero grunts in pain and stands. He then says, "Are you okay?"

Raven grunts, "Peachy. Yourself?"

Zero sighs, "The same I guess."

Raven sighs, "Geez. Everytime we slaughter some, more and more come back!"

Zero says, "Yeah. Why is that?"

Just then, the army began to run at them again. They all had their swords out, ready to slaughter them. Raven then pushes Zero, "Look out!!!!"

Zero then goes flying onto the ground as Raven takes the full force of the army. The army then makes Raven go flying. She then flies right into a wall, leaving a giant hole in it. Zero's eyes widened at the sight. He then holds out his arm, "RAVEN!!!!"

Raven lands right onto the hard floor on the other side of the wall. She then rolls over and coughs up blood. She then looks up and sees the rest of her friends fighting off more of the army. Her eyes widened. She then looks to see more come at her. A big wave of wind slaughtered them. Sith comes running to fight them off, "Bout time you showed up!!"

Raven slowly gets up, "Well....sorry. I had my own little problems!"

Sith smirks, "Glad to see you."

He then continues to fight. Raven then sees more come at her. She then blocks it with her sword with one hand. She then throws them back and runs. She then feels a pain to her side. She looks down and sees a stab wound from a sword. She grunts and turns to fight off more enemies.

Zero runs through the wall and sees everyone. He smiles, "Yeah!"

He then starts to fight off more enemies as well.

More and more came piling into the room. The group then backs up into one another. Hikari jumps from the balcony and joins them. She smiles, "Raven! You're back!"

Raven then says, "Save that for later!"

Serenity looks around, "There's too many of them!"

Sith smirks, "I'll fix them!"

His sythe then began to glow a bright red. He growls as massive wind starts to form on his sythe. As he went to swing it, gunshots were heard. Sith stops, "Huh?"

The group looks around. Pheonix mutters, "Wh-what the-?"

They all look around and hear gunshots again. Some of the skeletons then go flying. Everyone then looks up and sees a man jump down from the balcony, shooting double guns. He had spikish dirty blonde hair and wore a long red scarf on his neck. He also wore a white muscle shirt with a vest and baggy pants. He then lands on his feet and starts shooting away at the skeletons.

He then reloads his two handguns and spins them in his hands and smirks. Hikari looks, "Wow. Now that's hot!"

Zero looks over to Hikari, "You think a guy with a gun is hot?"

Hikari smiles, "Yup!"

Zero shakes his head, "You're evil!"

Hikari laughs, "Yay!"

The man with the guns then began to shoot away again. Raven then swings her sword, "Don't just stand there! Let's help him!!"

Everyone then does so. They began to fight off the army once again. Serenity then gets cut on her arm. She holds it, "Ow!"

She then shoots fire at the one that cut her. She then runs and begins to fight them off. One then came at her with two short dagger-like swords. Serenity sees and burns him away. She then grabs them, "I'll take those."

They both had black handles with a big red ruby in the center of each of them. Serenity smiles, "Cool. I'm soo keeping these!!"

She then sees more come at her. She then began to swing her new weapons at them, slicing their bones with each hit. She then rams one and stabs it's skull.

Coslotus began fighting and punches every skeleton that came his way. He then backs up and uses his wings to stab most of the skeletons that came after him. He then hits something as he backs up.

The newcomer then reloads his guns once again. He then backs into something behind him. He quickly turns around and points his gun.

As soon as Coslotus felt something behind him, he quickly turns around and puts his claws at the ready.

The newcomer and Coslotus found themselves facing one another. The newcomer had his gun at Coslotus' head while Coslotus had a claw on his throat. Both of their eyes widened as soon as they saw one another. The newcomer smirks, "You!"

Coslotus growls, "You again!"

The newcomer laughs, "I didn't think I'd see you here. Who'd thought?"

Coslotus growls again, "Seeing you again was the last thing I needed."

The newcomer smirks, "Let's save the shit for later and deal with this one."

Coslotus nods, "Agreed."

They then both turn away from one another. The gun slinger smirks once again, "I just hope you can keep up."

Coslotus snorts, "Just stay out of my way!"

They both start to run opposite directions and fight. The gun slinger then looks to the door on the right. He then shouts, "This way!!"

He then runs to the door. Everyone shrugs and follows. Sith was the last one behind. He then turns and swings his sythe. A big red wave of energy came from it. He growls, "Reaper's Fury!!!"

The wave then wiped out more than half of the army. Sith then turns and catches up to the others. They all follow the newcomer that lead them. Raven runs up beside him, "Who the hell are you?"

The newcomer smirks at Raven, "Name's Hova. Please to meet cha."

Raven nods and greets, "Raven."

They both then look on ahead and keep running. Hova turns and looks to the others, "This way is the way out!"

They all see a tunnel of light. They all go through it. Finally......they were all once again outside. The group then turns and sees the skeleton army still chasing them. Hova then shoots above the doorway. He hits a switch of some sort and the door then caves in on the army, locking them inside.

Everyone then looks to Hova. He looks back, "Well.....that couldn't have gone better."

Serenity's eyes then widened, "L-Luke??"

Hova looks to Serenity. He smiles, "Janice? What's up? Never seen you in soo long!"

Serenity smiles, "Yeah. It has been a long time."

Hova then looks at everyone, "So? These your friends?"

Serenity nods, "Yup!"

Raven looks to Hova, "No way! That can't be Luke!"

Hova then looks to Raven, "You knew me too? I don't recall us ever meeting. Did we?"

Raven sighs and smirks, "You don't recognize me do you?"

Hova then looks at Raven closer. He then shakes his head. Serenity laughs, "Luke. That's Carrie!"

Hova's eyes widened, "OH!! That's Carrie?!! Are you serious?? That's Carrie??"

Raven laughs, "Well I AM standing here aren't I?"

Hova laughs, "I don't know. Are you?"

Everyone chuckles a little, except for Coslotus. All he did was stand there with his arms crossed. Hova then looks at everyone, "Okay, I know three of yas. Who are the rest of you?"

Sith steps forward, "I'm Sith. Raven's brother."

Hova's eyes widened, "That's you, Quinn?! Shit! You've grown big! And how old are you?"

Sith smirks, "Fifteen!"

Hova's eyes widened more, "Sick!"

Hikari goes right in front of Hova with a big smile on her face, "I'm Hikari."

Hova looks down with a raised eyebrow, "Yo?"

Everyone else then introduces themselves. Hova nods a hello to every one of them. Hikari smiles and puts her hands behind her back, "We sure could use a guy like you on our team!"

Hova looks around again, "Cool. Any of you the leader?"

Most of the group then point to Raven. Hova looks to Raven, "You're the leader?"

Raven shrugs, "Well.....I did start this group by going out to find everyone."

Hova nods, "Oh yeah? That's cool."

Raven nods, "Yeah. Wanna join? There's always room for friends."

Hova smirks, "Sure. I'll join."

A few days later, Hova moved into the extra room at The League of Retribution's house. Coslotus hated him for reasons unknown. They reported to the mayor on a mission successful. He awarded them with extra privileges of the city.

After resting from the group's most recent event, Raven kept on leaving the house for work. Serenity often wondered what she had been up to. Especially with the wound Raven had recieved back at the temple.