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Chapter 3
I was just about to be on my way home with Jett. Thats when the explosion happened and right in front of us. Off in the distance I could see the debris flying through the air from the explosion move closer and closer to us. At the last moment before it hit us Jett reached out and I transformed into my weapon form. With this he took my handle and stabbed the tip of my blade in the ground and he crouched behind it. This move is only in defense it not only protects Jett but it also keeps me from having major injuries. I still get slightly harmed but only a bit like a few cuts and bruises but not as bad as it would have been if I wasn't in my weapon form. Everything by now is covered in dust. Everywhere around us is in covered in nothing but gray. The whole atmosphere is just dust and Jett starts to cough.
The coughing begins to get worse and he lets go of my handle. I transform back to normal and try to help him up above the dust. From there a figure appears from the cloud of dust and towards us. It slowly came to us. As it approached the figure slowly became clear, and I could tell that there were two people. I couldn't make out faces until they stood right in front of us. I looked up and one of them reached out they hand to me. I took their hand and they helped me up. I looked back to where I just was to help Jett but he wasn't there. I looked back to see who helped me up and in front of me stood Jett. I gasped and took a step back from the shock. The only thing running through my mind was just how? How did he... when did he get up? I looked around. In fact where did everyone go? I look back in front of me. Where is Jett? He was just here.
No this can't be happening to me right now. It just can't. The dust seems to have thickened its like I'm in a box now. I don't have a clue as to what has happened and I'm not sure where I need to go from here. No Ivory don't think like this don't let it get to you. Just don't let it. I need to find Jett. In fear I start to panic and looks around all around me. Nothing. No. I need to find him, he was just standing in front of me! I start to run, not even sure what direction I'm going. The further I run the darker it seems to get. I get to door, no way around it. There's light coming from the other side. I reach out hesitantly. Just what is it beyond this door? I grab the doorknob and slowly turn it. As I open it a flash of light covers everything.
I find myself to be surrounded by what feels like water. I open my eyes to find myself covered in wires. I'm being held in the water by these wires. In front of me its seems to be a chair and a small end table by it. I reach my hand out and I can feels glass. What is going on? Am I in a tank? I feel all round I'm surrounded by glass. I can't move from this spot all I can do is move my arms. I hear footsteps. Their coming slowly towards me. Then it all stops. I need to get out of here. I start to bang my hands against the glass in front of me. I scream and all breath is lost into the water.
I wake up screaming. I look around and I'm in my bed. Was it all just a dream? I look around. It all seems to be real. I take a deep breath in and sigh in relief. I'm so glad everything is back to normal what day is it? Shit! I have to get going, I need to check on Jett. I jump out of bed and rush to get ready. I make it to the door about to leave. Hold on how do I know this is really happening? How did I even get back home?
"Ivory?" I hear come from behind me. I know its Evans.
"Yeah?" I turn around and see no one. I look all around the house and I can't find him. Maybe it wasn't a dream. What is going on? I panic and rush out the door and make my way to town. I continue to run and soon trip sending myself falling face first into the ground and I close my eyes. I didn't feel pain, I didn't feel anything. I open my eyes and I'm in someones arms leaning into their chest. Who is it? I look up and I see Titan's shining smile look down at me. I could feel my cheeks burning.
"You should be careful." He looks down to me and his smile just brightness up everything. He then stops smiling and looks straight ahead of him. "Say what are you doing out here?"
"Oh um..." I totally forgot why I was out here for. How did I get here to begin with? I couldn't answer him. He let me go and looked shocked and a bit worried.
"Oh. Well.. I guess I should get going." He starts to walk off. I reach my hand out to his to stop him, but as soon as I grab his hand he's gone. Just like that. No not this again. It can't be true. I fall to my knees. I need to figure this out. Is this only happening to me? Is this really happening to me? Is this just another dream? Is this my real life? I close my eyes and cover my face with my hands.
Shortly after this all happens everything is clear and Im back in Titan's arms. Am I just making that all up. Was it all just in my head? I look up to Titan.
"Hey, you should be careful Ivory." He smiles down at me. I can feel my cheeks burning and I give a small smile back but I take a step back out to get myself off his chest. In doing so he looks at me worried. "Ivory? Is everything alright? Did something happen?"
"Huh?" I don't get what hes asking.
"You were running. Did something happen?" He looks even more worried now.
"No it was nothing." What did happen? I do remember running, but what for? Was I running from something? Thats when it happened again this time everything went black to start off with and I took a step forward but something had ahold of my arm pulling me back. I look back and see Dominic. He pulls me in close and I close my eyes in fear. Then I open them I'm wrapped up in his arms, but when I look up its Jett. His eyes are closed and he looks so peaceful. I lean my head onto his chest and close my eyes. Nothing is wrong.
"Ivory!" I hear it off in the distance. I look over and see Sapphire. She has long blonde wavy hair. We used to be close friends. Now I'm just not sure what to believe in her. She always looks so innocent but she really isn't. I never see her around the academy.
I wake in my bed. It must have all been in my head. I look around and at the foot of my bed to see Jett. I move the covers down and realize that this is not my bed. Where am I?
"Good morning. You feeling better?" I look over to Jett and he is covered in small cuts. Thats right the last thing I remember is that major explosion. Luckily Jett only has those small cuts. But what about me? Whats wrong with me? I sit up and a sharp pain shoots through my back. I don't let that get to me I need to sit up.
"What day is it?" If I'm correct the explosion was on Thursday coming back from the academy that day.
"Today is Saturday. You were out for a few days." He looked a bit scared or upset as he talked.
"Jett? Where am I?"
"Oh, you're at my place. About two minutes after the explosion you transformed back to normal out of your own free will and you fell on top of me. You didn't look so good so I carried you here. I didn't think it would be the best idea to take you home to Evans. Not after what happened last time. I don't think he's ever gonna forgive me."
"Don't worry about him." I can see that me saying that made him calm down a bit. "Jett?"
"Yeah?"
"Did you ever go to school while I was out to get us a mission?" I give off a small smile.
"Yeah I did." He gave off a weak laugh.
"Well then I think we should get started on that now don't you?"
"Yeah we should." He gets up and holds out his hand. "Shall we go?"
I reach out my hand to his and I give off the biggest smile ever and my cheeks are burning but it doesn't bother me any more. In a way I want him to see it. I don't like hiding anymore and so for now on. To remind myself that this can happen in reality I will not hide anything I won't hold back anymore. I take his hand and stand up in front of him. He looks down to me and smiles back. It was almost like I gave him a signal when we made eye contact because he held tight to my hand and rushed out the door. I was shocked and tried my best to keep up with him. Before I knew it we ran out the front door.
"Jett! Where are we going?" I get the words out with a bit of giggling as well because of how excited he seemed to be to get out of his house.
"You'll see when we get there! Now come on!" He gave of a bit of laughter to as he talked I guess he noticed his own excitement. We continued to run through town.
It all seemed to be a great day. I woke up with Jett right there and now I'm on a mission again. then we reached our destination and thats when he let go of my hand and all the brightness we both had to begin the day vanished. Just the look of the place tells me that we will be dealing with something bigger than anything we've dealt with before. I'm not really sure what our mission here is.
"Jett?" I look at him and hes super focused. This doesn't look good. "Jett how many soul wavelengths can you sense?"
"Three of them, and each one is incredibly huge. I wont be surprised if they multiply once we walk in. This isn't going to be an easy battle today Ivory."
"Yeah I kinda figured."
"Lets go."
"Right." This was my cue to transform into my weapon. Jett grips onto my handle tightly. We began our descent into the depths of the torn down complex. It doesn't feel right but I guess thats appropriate for the time being. That and the idea that we're dealing with three enemies. But there is something about the place that makes me feel as though theres another reason as to why we're here.
Jett walks slowly through. I'm not entirely sure he knows what we're up against. I think he may have to let me walk through the place as Lyria for a bit. If we keep it up like this who knows what could happen, it's our best shot at being even the least bit prepared.
"Jett! Jett, hold on." He stops walking. He looks a bit worried and a bit confused. "Let me be Lyria and walk around the place. I might be able to get an idea as to who or what we're up against. Most people don't go after animals, its not normal for someone to be one. I should be fine. Just let me go, it's our best shot at winning this fight. What do you say?"
"I don't think I can let you do that Ivory." He's so strict now. This doesn't sound like Jett.
"What do you mean? Jett, what is going on?" I nee to know the answers. The more I think about this whole operation it doesn't fit. This isnt a mission Jett would normally choose for us. In fact I'm not really sure it is a mission.
"Ivory, just let me handle this. I know what I'm doing."
"Do you really? Do you really know what you're up against? Jett!? Jett what the hell is going on in your head right now? This isn't you!"
"IVORY THIS IS ME! THIS IS WHO I AM NOW! THIS IS WHO I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN!"
I was left speechless. What is happening? I remembered the first time I meet him, the day he became my partner. I couldn't believe that he's changed so much from then. When I meet him he was just another kid from the streets making money off the misfortune of others, but when we became partners he opened up. He was kind and sweet. I guess I never thought that he'd changed. Now I know what path he's really on and in fact he hasn't changed at all. He's still that kid the same kid from the streets. The same one going around and tormenting people to feel sanity. But not to me. To me he's more than that. He hasn't changed who he is, but the person hes acting like now is not him.
"Jett just stop this! Please. I know who you are. This is not you. This is not even someone you used to be. You have never been this way before. Please! Please just tell me what is going on." I try to keep from crying. Jett doesn't say a word. "Jett, please tell me. Something is going on and I need you to tell what it is. I can't let my meister suffer like this!"
In time he looks up and in his eyes in determination. His grip gets tighter.
"Ivory. I want you to become Lyria and search this place. I need you to find something out about our targets. I'll be looking around on my own as well. Can you handle that?" He finally got himself together.
"Hmm." I nod in agreement and transform to Lyria.
"Great! Lets go." He heads off.
I'm glad he figured himself out. I know what I have to do now. I dash off in the opposite direction Jett went. Hopefully he doesn't get hurt.
I make my way to the outside of a room where I can hear three voices. They must be our targets. Without thinking I walk in the room. One step into the doorway and I can see them, all three of them are witches. I take another step in and the floor creaks. They all look over to me. Shit! That was not the smartest thing to do. I start to panic and stare at the three witches. Where is Jett right now? These have to be our targets so were the fuck is he? Hold on. Why is our mission going after three witches? Its only the two of us and we only have 74 souls collected.
"NOW! SOUL RESONANCE!" Before I knew it I was in weapon form and Jett charges after the three witches with a technique that we knew would take them out in one strike. Jett charged forward to them. Determination took over him and he took the shot. With a jump into the air he swung the blade. A flash of light covered everything around us. When we landed on the ground after the blow Jett kept his head down. What did we just do? Everything was silent. The room now had a purple glow to it. Three souls remained of the witches. Jett let go of my handle and I transform to normal.
"Jett. Did we just?" I stay by his side not sure what to think. Did we just defeat three witches in one attack? I want to feel proud that we did it but it just doesn't feel right. It shouldn't have been that easy.
"Ivory?" He speaks weakly but he doesn't show any emotion.
"Yeah?" I'm scared to hear what he has to say. Is something wrong?
"Did we really get them?" He looks up at me. Hes more surprised than me. "Did we really get all three of them? Just like that?"
"Yeah." I couldn't help but laugh a bit out of shock. We really did get all three of them. "Yeah we did." With confidence I speak and I forget about thinking that it was to easy. We actually did it. I look at Jett and we make eye contact. We can see it in each others eyes how surprised we are that it happened. Neither of us could help not laughing at our own reaction. This is the best feeling ever.
I look around the room and in between the three souls on the ground laid something. I couldn't tell what it was, all I saw was the light reflect off of something. Jett must have saw it too because he got up and started to walk towards it. What was it? I get up myself. I need to collect the souls. When I get to Jett's side he crouches down and picks the object up. It looks like a key. Jett holds it in his hand and just stares at it. What is it for? Is that the reason we came here for was to get that key? Jett then puts it in his pocket and looks to me.
"Are you ready to head back?" He smiled at me and I felt my heart melt. In my hand was the last soul. I look at it for awhile then place it in my bag.
"Yeah I'm ready." I look to the ground for a bit. Jett goes ahead and starts to walk out the room. I just stand there wondering about what just happened. I want to feel happy but thinking about everything that happened gives me an uncomfortable feeling. Something is going on. I look up from the ground and gather myself. I rush over to Jett's side. Liking my arm in with his like I always do, but this time when I move my arm through his, he moves his hand and his fingers intertwine between mine. I look up at him. He doesn't look down at me but my cheeks still burn and I lean my head onto his shoulder.
That night when he dropped me off at home the two of us stood out on the porch. Not wanting to go inside just yet I sat down on the steps. I took Jett's hand and pulled him down to sit next to me.
"Don't worry Evans doesn't even know I'm home." I look at the door. "In fact I don't even think he's home himself."
"Okay. I'm not worried about him though." He looks to the ground when he talks with a slight laughter mixed in his voice.
"Then what is it? Is something bothering you?"
"Just what happened back there."
"What about it? The fact that we defeated three witches?"
"No. the way I acted back there." I gasped at what he said. He still didn't look at me. My eyes began to fill with tears once again. "I don't know what I was thinking. Ivory, I'm so sorry. I let myself break in front of you like that. I left you vulnerable. I wont do it again I promise." He looks up at me and he looks straight into my eyes. I tried to keep the tears from falling but my vision began to blur, thats when I let them fall. He took his hand and wiped away my falling tears. He placed his hand on my cheek. I looked up in shock I couldn't say anything or do anything. Before I knew it my eyes were closed and I could feel Jett's lips against mine. When he pulled away I still. He looked into my eyes. "Its because of you Ivory that I know who I am, and I know who I want to be."
Sorry for the long chapters I typed all of them up on a word document first and I didn't realize that they will be this long. But I just love this story and hopefully you all do to. I will post two chapters ever so often I'm not sure how long this will actually end up being but I do have 11 chapters so far.
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