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Chapter VIII: Training… And All That Sand
Rose's P.O.V.
" Rose, please stop with the pacing and banging." Kate is currently trying to stop me. I've paced until I'm sure it would have a grove in the floor. And every time that I came near a wall, I'd crash my head against it and continue pacing. Bad habit huh? I'm really full of energy and nothing to do.
" Please Rose? You're making me dizzy just watching you!" And Melody is more weak in the stomach than I would have thought. I don't think that I'll be beside her if we ride on a roller coaster!
" Stop!" Trila pounced on me to knock me down. " You need to be calm Rose."
" Comes from the dog who keeps pressing her nose on the window and act crazy if she sees something move…" I mumbled as I sat up. I could have sworn that a tint of red was shown on her cheeks.
" I had to act like a regular dog!"
I smirked. " But then normal dogs don't act like Beethoven the dog." More blushing from Trila. Laughing very slightly, but sadly, I pushed the over-sized dog off of me and stood up. Instead of starting pacing again for someone else to knock me down, I sat on a chair at the table in my room, grabbing a bottle of water along the way. Egypt is as hot as I expected it to be. But it seems… normal for me. Like heat is natural. Then again, I lived in Texas and Alabama, both hot states. So it must have something to do with this weird feeling.
Something poked me in my leg. Looking down, I see that my companions gathered around me. " What?"
" We need to go outside for a few hours Rose." They put things mildly, don't they?
" Why, pry I ask?"
" You need to start training, that's why!" Melody said. I sort of cocked my heading, thinking for a moment. Then it hit me! Of course! Now that I have wings, and all that, I would want to control them and my powers! Duh!
" Okay… let's get going, I guess…" I drained the rest of my water, stood up, and followed them out of the room.
Being led through the maze-like halls, we finally reached outside. And I was instantly blinded by the glare of the sands! On and on, all you could see was sand. And little trees and grass, sort of a savanna. I now have this strange feeling of… home. Seriously, I feel like I'm home. This is getting weirder and weirder…
" Come on Rose! This way!"
' This way, that way… it's all the same here… all there is sand all around! Why go to a specific place when everywhere is the same is beyond me.'
" Your first lesson is to learn to fly Rose."
" Really?" I asked, feeling a bit excited. I'll admit that this would excite me. I have always dreamed of flying out of the classroom and get away from it all. You must have gotten that feeling, I know it.
" Yep. Now, what you need to do…"
5 hours later…
" Ow… note to self : DON'T land on rocks in case of landing."
" No duh Rose," Melody replied. I swear, I will strangle her! Ever since she decided to talk in front of me, she can't keep her comments to herself! She's even more annoying than Jackie!
" You know what Melody? You're pretty annoying."
" Hey!"
" Knock it off Melody. Most of us has sand in our mouths and ears, so we're in NO mood for your back-talking."
" But-" They again continued bickering. I just tuned them out, though it is a bit hard to do that with my improved ears. This must have what demons, or youkai, have trouble with in Inu Yasha. Trying to tune out people that are screaming at you if you said something that you shouldn't. ( That is definitely Inu Yasha!)
" Are they always like this Trila?" I asked as Melody and Kate continued to yell at each other.
" Yep."
" Do they ever shut-up?"
" Most of the time, no."
" Figures." We continued walking to the pyramid.
While my training, I discovered some of my powers, like a attack I'm calling Element Tornado. Nobody has that sort of attack. This attack contains the elements of Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Thunder, Ice, Gravity, Shadow, and Light. And by what the name indicates, the form is of a tornado. I named an attack I have and have alone. Yippie hooray. Excuse me, but I'm tired from training, so yeah.
" ROSE LOOK OUT FOR THAT SNAKE!" I stopped as the rattler began rising! Did I ever mention that I hate snakes?
" Sssstay awwway!"
' Did I finally gone over the edge of sanity, or did the snake just talked?'
" Alright… let's back away and go around each other, or can we pass without harm?" The snake stopped rattling its rattle.
" You aren't going tooo tttthreaten meee? If you just walk by and not ssssstop by me, I will not sssstrike you."
' I must have the ability to understand animals when I received my powers… or was it by Voldermort, like it did to Harry?' " Okay, then thank you for letting us pass without harm." I walked by the snake, but not in a jerky way that would probably make the snake strike anyway. When I was far enough to not worry for the snake to feel threatened, I stop and turned my head. " Thanks again. Bye."
" Good-bye Chosen One."
' What the hell! How did he know!' But before I could voice this out, I heard someone shouting in a distance. It sounds like Robert calling for us to get our butts there… NOW! 'As much as I don't care, I think something is going to happen soon from the way his voice sounds.' " Let's go guys! I think Robert is serious about something!"
Once again, I began to have a bit of a running start. This is how I will get in the air until I am more confident of the lift off. I wouldn't even need to run to get in the air if I keep this pace up. I lifted my wings into the air and caught enough air to lift myself. After a few struggles of flapping, I'm now soaring over the sand! I love this new vision of freedom! Concertrating on the flows of the wind, I couldn't think of anything else. Of my life, my future ahead, my family's death…
I began starting to descend to the ground, reaching the pyramid in record time. A whole lot faster than walking, believe it! I landed in front of Robert, who really looks scared.
" Head in now! Gather your stuff! Grab anything you want! How could the thing become so fast… I mean, come on! It was predicted to come in two more days!"
' Someone lost their marbles…' " What are you talking about Robert? What's too fast?"
" There is no time to explain! We only got about an hour to get out of here! Hurry Rose and get your things and whatever else you want!"
" Going!" I zipped by him and headed to my room first. I quickly grabbed my back pack that I picked up. I also stuffed my things plus my new clothes I found in a little room. The back pack and clothes are made of some sort of rare materials that protects it from elements and it acts sort of like armor, for even though it looks like any other clothes, it can deflect elements. And if you tear them, they will repair once you remove the source of the tear! Amazing that I was lucky earlier today to find these…
Flash back…
" What's in here?" I've decided to check out the place after dawn came. Everyone is still asleep at this moment and I was tired of sitting in my room, since I could even sleep or shed another tear because I ran out of tears. I had wondered around the pyramid, and I found a door that leads away from the pyramid underground. I followed the passage and discovered another door.
I stood there, wandering if I should open the door. " You know what? I'm going in." I said to no one. I turned the door handle and found that the door is unlocked. I opened it and inside was dark. " I should have brought a flashlight…" When I stepped in, my eyes automatically adjusted to the dark and I could see the inside as though sunlight has poured through! I could see in the dark like some predatory cats could!
' Whoa! This is quite useful.' I thought as I wondered farther in. The room has crates full of stuff. I searched through them and found quite a few items I am willing to drag around! Potions, medicines, some equipment that strangely looks like its from Final Fantasy 9, repels, books of things that I thought only exist in FF games like 'I Want To Be Your Canary', more Duel Monster cards, ect. I turned and spotted something in a corner. 'What is that?' I walked to the box that is alone. I opened it up and I found purple clothes and a back pack! The clothes are sort of skin tight from what is looks like, and the ends of the arm lengths are floppy unlike the rest of the arms. The front of the shirt has a zipper that runs through bottom to top. The back also has zippers, but it looks like it stops about half a foot, with the zippers hooking at the top instead of the bottom. Underneath the zippers are slits big enough for my wings! Although there is another pair of slits and zippers underneath the first, but the zippers hooks at the bottom this time and the slits are above it. Weird…
The pants of this outfit are semi-tight on the legs, where most jeans are loose around the legs. On the back is another zipper and slit… for a tail! Actually, the slit is a bit bigger, seemingly for more than one tail. But it's not so major that you have to worry about it showing anything. The whole thing is lavender purple, around the wrist areas are two blood red stripes with gold dots in the middle of them, going around them thing. The waist of the pants holds a black belt with a symbol of a light blue moon that is a waning crescent moon with a star in the middle, and a sun beneath the moon. The whole thing is also lavender purple.
The back pack has three sections to the thing, and at least five big pockets! One in the front and two on each side. Finding that it was empty, I decided to keep it and the outfit. Starting to stand up, a piece of paper fell out the box. Picking it up, I read,
Experiment Outfit 1
Name: Light
Purpose: To protect wearer
Anti-Elemental.
Elements not able to penetrate: Fire, Earth, Wind, Gravity, Light, Acid
Elements able to penetrate: Shadow, Metal
Cuts elements in half: Electricity, Water, Ice.
Special ability: When cut, the cloth will mend immediately when object of tear is removed.
Experiment Outfit 2
Name: Shadow
Purpose: To protect wearer
Anti-Elemental
Elements not able to penetrate: Fire, Earth, Wind, Gravity, Metal, Shadow
Elements able to penetrate: Light, Acid
Cuts elements in half: Electricity, Water, Ice
Report I
Two suits were made. One is able to ward off the Fire, Earth, Wind, Gravity, Acid, and Light, as well as cut the Electricity, Water, And Ice attacks in half, but it is vulnerable to Shadow and Metal. The second outfit is like the first, but instead of being vulnerable to Shadow and Metal, it's vulnerable to Light and Acid, as mentioned on the beginning of the page. They both have advantages, and disadvantages. They are like the ying-yang- One blocks one another except those four elements. One that is protected by Light and Acid, the name given Light, shall be given to Rose L. M. the first. But we don't know who to give the other, Shadow, to…
Report II
The second suit has been stolen. The scientists are baffled of how this had happened. But we have a hunch that it was Malshano who has stolen it. But we will most likely not know, for the outfits changes to the wearer's personality, as Light has to Rose L. M. the first. The scientists are researching on the ability of the outfits, for it has never happened before, and that they did nothing special to them. But now that Shadow has been stolen, there will be nothing we could do about it. Rose will be vulnerable to Shadow and Metal, as Malshano is vulnerable to Light and Acid. Two sides, both vulnerable to the opposite of what they are. Rose is the Light, or Life, as they call it, as Malshano is Shadow, or Death. Light against Shadow. This will be tougher now they opposite sides are more protected…
Report III
The scientists have created a back pack for Rose. This bag is completely ANTI-elemental. This also means that it is anti-gravity, so it could have been 5000 Ibs, but it will feel as light as a feather. The scientists cannot transfer these ability into clothes, for some reason. Rose is stuck being vulnerable to Shadow and Metal. I believe that this was to be played like this. It must have been what Life, or Fate as we call it, has planned…
' So, these were given to my grandmother, huh? Then these are technically mine, since I'm Rose L.M. V.' I thought. 'This is perfect for traveling!' I opened the bag up and walked over to the other boxes. Putting the potions, medicines, books, and anything else I wanted. Then I put the bag on and walked out of the room
End Flashback…
" So where else do I want to… Of course! The library!" I headed there and picked out all the books off the shelves. " Melody, can you shrink all of them?"
" Yeah!" She then used her powers to shrink them and she puts them all in the front pocket of the bag.
" I think we better go, it has been almost an hour!"
We headed back out, but when we reached outside, Robert has already entered the jet.
" Come on Rose! The storm is coming!"
" What stor-" Then I heard the whipping of a sand storm… 'That isn't good…' " Head for that jet!" We ran as fast as we could, but we were now caught in the middle of the storm! The jet has already taken off, despite Robert's yelling of " Stop this jet!"
" Rose, we got to fly!"
" Let's go then!" We began to fly off the ground, despite the fact that the storm kept pushing me down! The sand has began to tear at my clothes!
" We're almost to the top of the storm Rose! Keep going!"
" I'm trying Melody!" We kept going up. " We made it!" We have finally got above the storm! And not a moment too late! My clothes were now almost rags! As I watched the pyramid, I found out why we needed to get out of there. In one minute, half of the pyramid has been buried. On two minutes, you couldn't even see the tip of the pyramid! I looked at the others, who aren't fazed by the disappearance of the pyramid. And then I looked at the jet, then back.
" Now that we are at the top, what do we do now?"
" Well we must get to the jet! Duh!"
We flew to the jet, barely catching up. The jet was very fast! I still cannot believe we caught up!
" Now that we're here, what now!" The door opened up when we approached. " Never mind…"
They went into the plane, and I did lastly. I headed to the bathroom before I face anyone. My clothes are not clothes anymore, that's for sure! I changed into the outfit I found say, it fits really well.
' This is a whole lot better! But my hair…' My hair was in large knots.
10 minutes later...
After that torture of untangling my hair, I finally exited the bathroom. I walked into one of the sections of seats and everyone looked my way.
" You made it here safe!"
" Amazing that you were able to fly through that!"
" You are such an idiot…" That remark came from Robert. Now I'm pissed!
" Excuse me for not knowing why I had to hurry! You weren't telling me the reason! I'm sorry I exist!" I stormed out of the now silent section.
I went to the end of the plane. I was fuming, let me tell you. I went into one of the rooms. ' How dare he be like that! I nearly been buried and tells me how much I am an idiot!' I walked over to a wall and sat down, suddenly tired from the escapade from the storm. And I was nearly asleep too, but someone knocked on the door!
" What is it already?"
" Rose?" Oh man. The one person I do not want to see-Robert
" Came to insult me some more? Or how I shouldn't exist?" Robert popped his head in.
" No Rose. I came to apologize. I'm sorry for my behavior earlier. It was just that," he opened the door all the way, " I was really worried about you. And , well, I'm sorry." He hung his head down in shame.
In all my life, no one have ever apologized to me like that before. If someone said sorry to me, they'd only pretend to look like they were sorry, but when I turn around, I would hear giggling and whispering of how I was such a geek, of how easily I forgive them. But Robert was really sorry. Now I began to feel bad of how I reacted.
" It's okay Robert. I knew that you were worried, but remarks like that would be heard first and I would fly off the handle like earlier. I accept your apology if you would forgive me for the outburst." Robert looks at me in surprise. I'll take it that no one had ever apologized for something that they were obligated to do if they wanted to.
" Thank you for forgiving me and I accept your apology." He came over to me and held out his hand. " Friends?"
I looked at him and gave a smile. I took his hand and shook. " Friends." He smiled at me again and left. I'm now feeling a whole lot better, which is surprising. I settled against the wall again and fell asleep.