Ch. 7 An Old Rival

When Alex heard what he said she felt as though her heart had stopped. For a moment she couldn't breathe and felt like she was going to pass out. But before she did she looked up at the ceiling and suddenly woke up. She had a look on her face of curiosity and disgust. It looked like a bat like creature, with a long tail and glowing green eyes. Her shock caught Zak's attention.

"Alex, hey Alex. What's wrong?" Zak asked

To shocked to speak she just pointed to it. Zak looked up and when he saw that creature he called out to his parents. They saw him pointing in the same direction as Alex. They looked up and got into a position to defend their selves when they saw the creature.

"That's one of Argost's neural parasites." Drew said quietly.

"A neural parasite? What is that exactly?" Alex asked

"That is." Zak said while pulling her towards him.

Francis explained what the parasite could do.

"Listen that thing is capable of taking over your body or stealing information from your mind. If it gets on the back of your neck it will feed on impulses from the nervous system. Then everything that person it controls sees and hears will be transmitted to anyone that can tune into it."

"In other words Argost." Zak said.

Suddenly it flew down from the ceiling and went for Epsollion, but it missed when he jumped out of the way. They got in a group and pulled out their weapons.

"Listen up Epsollion, I don't know how, but I think Argost knows about you knowing what or who the creature is. Whatever you do, don't let it get near you." Drew said

They were ready for anything the parasite could throw at them. That's when the battle between everyone had begun. It was a very horrific battle as the parasite kept jumping from person to person, but not much damage was taken to anyone. They did try their best, but eventually it got onto Epsollion. That's when it stole the information about the creature. The really strange thing is that when it was done with him, it jumped onto Alex! She screamed in pain as it fought to take over her mind. It was like she was fighting herself and she gained scratches and bruises all over her. She also obtained two deep cuts, one in of her arms and another in her leg. Zak couldn't take it anymore and tried to help her. But, by accident, Alex swatted him in the face and sent him flying backwards. The parasite took all it could take and finally got off of Alex and short-circuited. Alex stood there dizzy and woozy, her clothes turning red as she was bleeding very badly. She fell to the floor and blacked out. The last thing she saw was Francis running towards her. Then everything went black. Two hours had passed after she was knocked out, but after a while she began to feel better. Her eyes began to open slowly and she finally woke up. She turned her head to the left to see where she was. It looked just like the room she stayed in on the air ship. As she tried to sit up she felt a piercing pain in her arm and her leg. She saw she had a bandage tied around her arm tight, to stop the bleeding, her leg was tied the same way. She looked around, the room was silent, and then she heard the sound of the door opening, when she saw who it was that came in she couldn't believe her eyes.