**Hey, guys! I'm back with another chapter. I don't have too much to say so lets get right into it...
The Time for Ten - Chapter 5
As soon as the forcefield comes down, so do the Mogs. I put the forcefield around us Garde and allow Marina and Ella to take over the fight, I have too much on my plate already. Around us I hear blasters going off and Mogs turning to ash. We reach the stairs and start to climb up when a loud bang echoes through the corridor below us. A huge burst of flame shoots past the stairway entrance, destroying all the Mogs in its path. I sigh, but then quickly suck it back in when the flames jump up toward us. We speed up the stairs and onto the seventeenth floor to find about twenty Mogs with loaded cannons pointing at us. Marina holds out her hand and, one by one, each blaster turns to ice. Ella shortly after stabs each Mog in the heart with their own dagger using telekinesis. They make a good team, I think to myself as we flee towards the exit. When we are around forty feet from the stairs leading to sunlight, a piken leaps out from a ceiling overhang and smashes my forcefield bubble, sending the three of us sprawling across the floor. As I get up, I see the flames slowly making their way toward us.
"Mar, freeze its legs, I'm going for the eyes! Ella, grab a chest and get out of here!" I yell over the chaos.
Marina does so and I run in with a recently found dagger on the ground. I turn invisible about five feet away and it swings its ugly head around, then I land on its face. I jab the dagger into the left eye, then the right, and watch its eyeballs roll down the hall toward the oncoming flames. The piken has already accepted defeat. It is lying on the ground, bleeding out. I stab the dagger into its heart and leave it there. Marina and I pick up our dropped belongings and race to the exit.
We hear a loud thunk from outside, and then a body hits the ground.
"No!" Kal screams, and then a gunshot goes off, followed by another dull thud as someone hits the ground.
"Don't move." Says a voice, the same voice belonging to the woman who had captured us earlier, and Nine and Four months ago.
Mar and I race outside to see Agent Walker pointing a gun at Kal's head, and Nine and James on the ground. James is bleeding out, and Mar rushes to heal him. Walker takes out another gun and shoots Mar in the leg, sending her screaming in agony as she crumples to the ground. She then points this gun at my head. Ella is nowhere to be seen. I drop the bodies and chests I was carrying.
"Hello again, Six. I see you tried to skip your interrogation, but things didn't work out too well, did they?" Agent Walker says to me with a feeling of power in her voice.
"Why are you against us? What did we ever do to you before all of this?" I ask. Kal gives multiple glances at James, tears running down her face and whimpering.
"The Mogadorians wanted to trade weapons, and to pay for theirs they asked us to hunt down specific kids, just like you and Mr. Sass over there." She points at Nine.
"I thought we left you for dead in Dulce." I say with a questioning tone.
"Setråkus came and found me. They nursed me back to health, and sent me out again. I've been guarding West Virginia for a while now, but it looks like I've done my duty. Ra has been even more mad now that his top general is dead, killed by his own traitorous son." She explains.
"Wait... Do you mean Adam?" I ask with instant regret.
"Yes, how do you know his name? You have Malcolm and Sam Goode with you, don't you? He figured this would happen. Five has been our master plan for a long time, and even he proved fruitless, cause now you're here retrieving what you've only just lost!" Walker starts to say, more anger growing in her voice.
"You do know the Mogs eventual plan is, right?" I ask slowly.
"Yeah, to kill off you guys so no harm is done to Earth." She answers.
"Wrong. They are trying to kill us off like they did our kind, our whole planet. We are the only Loriens left. We are the Lorien Legacies, and we were sent here to train against the Mogs. They only want to take all of Earth's resources for their own, and then they will dump this place and look for a new planet to destroy. The Ten of prophecy are resurrections of the elders, and we are destined to finish off the Mogs, as they did to us. You need to help us, Walker, the Mogs are the evil ones, not us." I explain everything to her.
"Why should I listen to you?" Agent Walker asks cautiously, her guard letting down a bit.
"You shouldn't." I answer strongly and whip her gun out of her hands with telekinesis. It goes flying back toward the entrance to the cave.
I dive for her knees, and we tussle on the ground. She pins me down long enough to shoot at Kal, who is still in shock, and she falls to the ground with a bullet in her thigh. I flip Walker over and pin her down, and with my enhanced strength she can't do too much.
"One thing you should've picked up on after John and Nine is to never mess with the Garde." I whisper to her face. I'm about to twist Walker's neck to finish her off when another gunshot rings, and blood starts to seep out of her head.
I look to my left and see Ella standing in the entryway. She has Two's chest at her feet and a gun held shakily in her hands. She suddenly drops the gun to the ground as if it turned into poison. Then she runs over to Marina.
I look over to see all the others passed out from a knock on the head or gunfire. I race to my chest, open it, and pull out my healing stone. I place it on Mar first, as she can also heal. Then we wake up Nine, and then Kal. That's when we realize something is wrong. James' chest isn't moving, and his face has gone pale. Marina puts her power into him, but there is no sign of life. She looks at Kal and tries to say something, but the words don't come out. Kal sits down next to James and starts to cry uncontrollably. We decide to let her be.
I walk back over to the chests and open mine again to see a familiar item. I pull out what looks like a roll of duct tape, but is actually a Loric mending fabric. I drag the still unconscious Five to his chest and place his hand on the lock. The chest clicks open, and the item on top is the two halves of Nine's rod. Nine quickly grabs them and looks somberly at them, until I wound the fabric around the two split ends and put them together. The fabric glows bright gold, and then disappears. What's left is Nine's fixed rod, which he excitedly thanks me for.
"Ella, can you communicate with Four?" I ask her. "We should meet up quickly."
Ella nods and closes her eyes. A few minutes later they pop back open and she appears excited. "They say to go to a town in Southern Missouri called Haltsville. Oh, and One is back alive! That's what the icy feeling was!"
"Back alive?" Nine says with emphasis.
"But... How?" Marina adds.
"One had a Lorien Life Crystal in her chest!" Ella says happily.
I look over to Kal, who we now have attention of.
"Wait... I can bring James back?" She asks with a sniffle.
"Yes! So lets go and save him!" Ella says and runs off toward Eight's body.
Five starts to stir and I stomp him in the head again. That should last a while, I think.
The five of us gather the dead and unconscious bodies and pile them together, and we make sure each person holds their chest. Then we all grab onto Kal's and the others hands.
"I'll probably pass out after carrying this many people." Kal points out with still red eyes.
"Just go!" I yell as the flames finally erupt through the entrance we exited from just mere minutes ago. The tall grass starts to catch fire too.
Then my vision spirals to blackness, and expands again to see a dilapidated farmhouse with a huge back-lawn. A blue Subaru convertible pulls into the driveway, and when the people jump out it's as if we are at a circus. First Sarah and John from the front, and then Malcolm and Sam from the back. Along with the Goode's, a Mog boy and a girl with long blond hair jump out of the back. Sam runs around to the trunk, and an onslaught of seven Chimaera come running or flying up to us. John walks up and gives Marina and I a hug.
"Glad you're okay." He whispers in my ear. Then he looks over at the pile of bodies and chests we have behind us. "It looks like you guys had one hell of a party." He says for everyone to hear.
I chuckle. "Well, four of them are dead and one unconscious, who by the way we should tie up or lock in the basement or something."
"Oh, I have just the trick!" The blond girl says excitedly as she crouches down to her chest. She pulls out two blue bracelets. "These expand once put on until they cover the whole body, and they won't come off unless the person agrees to be 100% on the Loric side, and of course it can read their mind, so they can't lie." She finishes with a smirk. "Oh, and I'm One by the way. It's great to be alive again." She says as she shakes my, Mar, and Nine's hands. She walks over and puts the bracelet on the now separated Five, and they expand just like she said. "Oh, but there is one downside to all of this." She says and points to the four dead bodies.
"That's right, I forgot to mention..." John starts. "The crystal can only heal three people for each pyramid, and we've already used it once."
"So you mean-" I start.
"Only two of these four can come back from the dead." John finishes my thought.
We all look around at each other simultaneously thinking, who are we going to save?
**I'm actually leaving that last part up to you guys. Who do you want back to life? The options are Eight, Two, Three, and James. There isn't necessarily only one Loric Life Crystal either... Anyway, thanks for reading and please review!