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This chapter takes place a few days after the last one.
Chapter 19: A Very Cold and Cruel World
"T.J., what's that sound", Sovia asked.
"Death", T.J. answered.
"Death, what do you mean...a-a-are...you saying we're...", Sovia said, very frightened, almost in tears.
"Dead, we may as well be", T.J. said, not straying his vision away from the path ahead.
"We're dead...T.J. we can't be dead, everyone is counting on us, we can't help them if we're dead", Sovia said now crying, the tears freezing to her cheeks.
"Sovia, we're not dead...yet", T.J. said. All of his cheeriness and reassurance was gone, he wasn't his normal "always happy" self, he was more grave and solemn*. Sovia was scared of his sudden change of personality.
"How can you be sure", Sovia asked, still trailing behind him. He stopped, and half way turned his head.
"Because I died once*", T.J. replied. Sovia's heart stopped. Did he just say that, she thought. She was now terrified of her lover, to an extent she didn't think was possible.
They continued on in silence. Sovia was holding her chest in pain, it was so cold, her entire body stung. T.J. was reflecting past events.
Flashback until just after the last chapter.
T.J. and the others had just got back to the Smash Carrier from being on Kirby's world. Samus dephazed her helmet and grabbed Bowser.
"You, big, fire-breathing, son of a Metroid-", she snarled.
"Samus, enough, it wasn't him", T.J. sternly said.
"What, have you lost your mind, those were Primids", Samus exclaimed.
"And that was Tabuu, he partnered up with Eggman, you barely know anything about him", T.J. finished for her. Samus then let go of Bowser.
"Tabuu's back", nearly every Smash Brother gasped.
"Yeah, and he and Eggman are under the payroll of someone even more powerful, which is strange, because both of them like to be the boss", T.J. explained.
End flashback.
"How do you think Timmy and Tootie are doing", Sovia asked, interrupting T.J.'s thoughts.
"Hopefully better than us", T.J. replied.
Meanwhile...
"Timmy, can we stop and make camp", Tootie asked, exhausted.
"We have to find shelter, the gear we brought won't stand up to this wind", Timmy called over the howl of the wind. It was definitely more violent than where T.J. and Sovia were.
"Wait, is that a cave", Krystal asked.
"Yeah, everyone in", Timmy ordered. He waited at the mouth while Tootie, Krystal, Mario, and Sonic filed in. After they were all in Tootie started to make a fire.
"Come on, yes", Tootie said as the flint ignited the wood they had found in the cave. The fire was under a hole so all of the smoke floated out of there and thinned out before it reached the air, so no one would see it.
"How much longer until we reach the extraction point", Krystal asked.
Timmy pulled out a small round device. It emitted a holographic grid display of a mountainous region. At one end was a green arrow pointed down, at the other was a pink arrow.
"Maybe another fourteen hours. We had better get some rest, it's a long hike", Timmy said.
"How do you think T.J. and Sovia are doing", Sonic asked.
"Better than us, I'm sure", Tootie said.
"Let me try to talk to him", Krystal said. She closed her eyes and thought, T.J. can you here me? A few minutes later she stopped.
"Something's interfering with my thoughts", Krystal said.
"Let me try", Tootie suggested. She had brought a communications pack with her. Everyone watched as she set the device up.
"I can't get through either, the blizzard is too strong", Tootie said, removing an earpiece.
"Tell me again why you can't use your C.O.M.S.", Sonic said.
"This world is made up of some kind of ancient material, it will stop anything to do with our animal spirits", Timmy said, repeating what T.J. had told him.
"By the way, what, are your animal spirits", Krystal asked, while Mario started supper.
"Well, T.J. said we were blessed with very rare animal spirits, I am a red-tailed hawk and Timmy is a golden eagle", Tootie explained.
"What about T.J. and Sovia's", Krystal asked.
"T.J. told us he is a Siberian Timber Wolf* and that Sovia is a white fox*", Timmy said.
The next few minutes were silent and they sat and smelled the aroma of some kind of chili.
"Hey, Mario, is dinner almost done", Sonic asked.
"Oh, yeah", he said quickly, using one of his few words. He and Tootie filled bowls and passed them out. Their mouths would have been on fire if it wouldn't have been for the fact that they were still freezing. In fact Mario's chili was exactly what they needed. After they had finished washing the dishes with canteens of water, they all laid down to sleep.
There was enough room in the cave for an even amount of space between them, but Tootie wanted to sleep as close to Timmy as she could. She looked at him for a final time. He was laying in a green sleeping bag with a pink pillow. She had always wondered what it was with him and those colors, but never asked. She wouldn't want him any other way.
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"T.J. do you think we should stop for today, the sun is setting", Sovia called to T.J.
"Not just yet, a little farther", T.J. called back.
They continued to walk Sovia had been feeling strange for the past hour. It was just now when she realized what it was. T.J. was concentrating on his thoughts and didn't notice that Sovia had dropped to her knees, holding her sides.
"T.J.", she said in the most terrified voice she had ever used, "I can't shiver anymore."
T.J. froze on the spot. He knew that wasn't at all in anyway good. Her muscles couldn't generate their own heat anymore and she was slipping into hypothermia. He turned around, to see Sovia fall over in the snow she was kneeling in. He rushed over and picked her up. She was unconscious. T.J. looked around for anything that could be used as a shelter. He saw a giant, hollowed out log and ran to it. He set Sovia down inside and quickly cut parts of the log. He organized the wood he cut into a pile and set it a flame with a snap of his fingers. He turned to Sovia and put two of his fingers against Sovia's neck. Her pulse was faint and was worsening. As quickly as he could, T.J. unzipped Sovia's jacket*, and instead of holding an open flame over her, warmed his hands up* and placed one on her chest and the other on her neck. The heat of his hands was transferred to Sovia's body. He felt her pulse beat with more life now. He sighed, she would make it. Did I really just push her that far, I'm such an idiot, what was I thinking. She could have died, then where would I be, I won't let her die before me, I swear as long as I'm alive, I won't let her end up like Sonia, he thought.
END
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Sovia's dream.
She and T.J. were back home on the beach, before they started dating. She and Tootie were sunbathing. T.J. and Timmy were enjoying the giant waves out in the bay*. They were surfing to the fullest extent...well T.J. was trying to teach Timmy how to surf, without magic.
Sovia looked up to see T.J. do a double backflip and land on top of the wave he was riding. Her jaw dropped.
"Tootie, who is that boy surfing with Timmy", she asked her best friend*.
"Oh, that's T.J. he's living with me in a corner of my room, he's really amazing, even Vicky's being kept under control by him", Tootie said.
Sovia stood up in her two piece white bathing suit*. She grabbed her surf board. She paddled toward the boys and caught a wave. She hadn't surfed in a couple of years and was pretty rusty. She struggled to keep her balance, but still fell off.
Yikes, what a wipe out, T.J. thought. He watched as the girl came back to the surface of the water, only to have a gigantic wave crash down upon her.
"Uh, oh", T.J. said. Without thinking, he jumped off of his board and ran across the surface of the water. When he reached the place where the girl had fallen in, he dived beneath the water's surface.
He saw the white haired girl and used his hydrokinesis power to jet toward her. Before she knew what was happening, something had grabbed her and they were now rushing toward the surface. T.J. emerged with such a force that they flew some 50 feet into the air. They landed on the beach. T.J. set the girl down and knelt down beside her.
"Are, you okay", he asked. Sovia was speechless and was blushing hard.
"Sovia are you alright", Tootie asked.
"T.J. you didn't tell me you had super powers", Timmy said.
"Oh, yeah, well I guess my secret is out now*", T.J. said, smiling, while scratching the back of his head.
He couldn't say anything more because his lips were pressed against the girl's that he had just saved.
End dream.
END
Sovia sighed. T.J. sighed with her, he had shared the dream through telepathy. Sovia slowly opened her eyes and sat up. She was in a giant log. T.J. was sitting in front of a fire with his back to her. Their jackets were hanging up on two survival knives that T.J. had brung. She crawled over to him.
"You're awake, I though you enjoyed your sleep", he teased. Sovia relaxed, her old T.J. was back.
"I'm glad you're back, T.J.", she said. She leaned into him, with her blanket still wrapped around her.
"And I'm sorry, Sovia, I shouldn't have pushed you that far", T.J. apologized. He put his arm around her.
"No, I should have forced you to stop and make a camp", Sovia said. T.J. decided to change the subject.
"Here, drink this", he said, handing her a cup of hot chocolate.
"Thanks", she replied. Sovia was still very cold and she felt instant relief at the first sip, her entire body warmed up.
"How much longer will it be until we can leave", Sovia asked.
"It's going to be a while", T.J. replied. Sovia was about to say something when they heard the roar of some large animal outside. T.J. quickly got to the edge of their shelter and glanced out. He saw a large bear, lion-like Shadow prowling outside. It had large spikes on its back.
"We've got a Hunter Shadow*", T.J. said in a hushed voice.
"Does it smell us", Sovia asked.
"Probably just our fire, but get ready", T.J. said. Sovia summoned her bow and T.J. had the Blade of Heroes. The Shadow turned its back on them and sniffed the air. T.J. took this opportunity to rush at it.
A roar of pain was heard for miles around as T.J. sliced its spikes off. The Shadow turned toward T.J. and fired a red beam of energy from its mouth. T.J. blocked it with his sword flew backwards. Sovia aimed an arrow at the Shadow's now exposed back, trying to aim at its weak point. She fired, the arrow sailed at the Shadow and just when it was about to hit the Shadow jerked from its position. The arrow hit a different spot and bounced off. The Shadow forgot about T.J. and turned to face Sovia. It started to charge another beam in its mouth. T.J. used the distraction as a chance to destroy it. He sped down from the air and drove his sword down into the Shadow's back and it burst into a black mist.
The next morning.
Two wolves were sitting at the top of a hill. They had been waiting for a while now. The others should have been there an hour ago. The white one started to whimper and whine, the black one ignored him.
Just then they saw movement. They changed back to their true forms.
"Is that them", James asked his twin.
"It smells like them", Tristan responded.
"I'll be glad to get off of this world", James said. He remembered how they got there.
Flashback to two days ago.
Timmy, Tootie, James and Tristan were on the flight deck. Timmy had head phones on listening for distress calls when he heard a strange noise.
"T.J., you might want to come up here, I'm getting a weird noise on the receptors", Timmy called on his C.O.M.S.
T.J. worked his way up to the flight deck.
"What is it", T.J. asked. Timmy handed him the head phones and T.J. put them on. A slight ping echoed in the head phones, it sounded like a submarine's sonar pulse. T.J. knew of only one person who would send that.
"Head for that planet, Timmy, you and Tootie go find Mario, Krystal, Sonic and Sovia, tell them to pack for very cold climate, and don't bring your C.O.M.S., I'll explain later", T.J. said.
End flashback.
"Hey, James, snap out of it", Tootie said. James blushed, he was very fond of Tootie.
"Where are T.J. and Sovia", Tristan asked.
"We were separated in an ambush", Timmy said.
"Looks, like we'll be waiting for them then", Krystal said.
All of a sudden the ground shook violently. A giant dragon shaped Shadow broke from underneath the surface.
"A Shadow Dragon", James gasped.
"It looks like we won't be waiting for them", Tristan said as the Shadow lunged toward them.
Many questions are in this chapter that need to be answered...but not now. PLEASE REVIEW, I NEED MOTIVATION FROM READERS TO KEEP WRITING, SOME OF YOU AREN'T REVIEWING. Thanks.
Facts: I've decided for such a long chapter to change the maximum number from six to eleven.
1. T.J. is acting like this because of the temperature, cold temperatures will change his tone to sadness.
2. T.J. is exaggerating he never died, he just came close...three times.
3. T.J.'s animal spirit chose him after a test of his courage.
4. Sovia's animal spirit's color shouldn't be surprising, everything that has to do with her is white.
5. Sovia's jacket has the same design as her sundress, completely white with a black stripe in the middle.
6. T.J. can heat his hands up to extreme temperatures without producing a flame.
7. Surfing is one of T.J. and Sovia's favorite things to do.
8. Sovia is Tootie's best friend mostly because Tootie needs someone to hang out with, and because Vicky doesn't scare her.
9. Again Sovia's favorite color is white.
10. Before this time, T.J. kept his powers and true home world a secret, to keep from attracting Shadows.
11. Hunter Shadow are blind and rely on sound and smell to find prey. The spikes on their backs are used to protect their weak spots and call other Shadow's. They use pure hate as an attack.