DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Lorien Legacies
**Hey, guys!
For the guest who asked: Kal is "Number 12", but not actually, she just calls herself that. She and James, her brother, helped Marina, Six, and Nine in the first chapter of this fanfic. Since then, she has been helping the Garde in their struggles.
Shout-out to . . .Five for giving me tips and helping me along this whole process, you're an awesome person :)
The Time for Ten - Chapter 11
The six of us teleport away and into the Himalayas. It is a lot cooler here than in Mississippi, I should've brought a sweatshirt. We start to walk up the mountain trail. Eight has his arm around my waist for bonus warmth, and I gladly cuddle up to him. We are in the back of the group. Nine and Five are trying to show each other off by pretending to be not cold and standing up straight, while Two and Gregor are standing shoulder to shoulder shivering between the four of us. After about ten minutes, a slight buzz enters the back of my mind. I try to shake it off, but it becomes stronger until I start to hear John's voice and realize he's trying very hard to use telepathy.
John? I ask.
Mar! Gregor has bugs on him, get them off, quick! The Mogs have been expecting us and you too. Also, they are going after Ella. John explains.
Oh god. Keep me updated. I respond, and then shut him out of my mind. I need to focus on our task in case of an ambush.
As if the Mogs read my mind, five of them come rushing around the corner. Nine and Five quickly lift them off of their feet and over the edge of the path. They roll down the mountain and eventually burst to ash. Our group continues on with more worry now that there are Mogs. A blast comes from our upper right, and I stop it in midair then send it back using telekinesis.
"There are two flat areas along this path before we get to the cave." Eight tells us. "Expect for there to be Mog armies waiting there."
We approach the first flat with caution. The second any part of Nine was visible over the rim, shooting starts up. Two turns the temperature around the Mogs to below zero using her thermokinesis, and this stops them long enough for us to hop the edge.
In about one-second, I take in the situation. There are about three hundred Mogs in rows waiting. The front ones have blasters, the next rows swords, and behind them there are Mogs with bows and arrows, but the arrows glow different colors. That's new, I think to myself. The temperature slowly increases again, and the Mogs begin to fire.
"Fight!" Eight yells.
Nine enthusiastically charges the front row with his staff, and demolishes multiple Mogs in one swing, a pile of ash already around his feet. There is snow all around the edges of the area. I try to use it, since I can control ice. The snow eventually starts to rise up, and I'm able to put it into a tornado fashion. Then I launch it at the oncoming Mogs. Because of the cold, I am able to create ice walls. I put one right in front of a running Mog, and he explodes into ash. I decide to use this as my tactic, and I take a large dagger from my back pocket. Together, Two and I charge the horde. She and I use the daggers to stab multiple in the head, while I put ice walls in front of the moving Mogs. Nine and Five are on the other side of the area working hand-in-hand with each others legacies. I notice a group of Mogs sneaking up from behind them.
"Nine!" I yell and point to their direction, and I then create an ice wall behind Nine.
Luckily, he gets the gist and runs up the wall. He jumps off, does a backflip, and lands behind the Mogs with two feet and one hand on the ground. He easily rips through the crowd and rejoins Five, who is almost through the crowd of Mogs.
Eight and Gregor, or more like a gigantic beast and Gregor, are fighting the Mogs in the middle. Eight teleports around in a beast form and chomps tons of Mogs to ash. Gregor snags the leftovers with his two-sided blade. They are also almost through, and I realize Two and I are finished with our Mogs. We finished first, I think to myself. After all the Mogs are gone, we regroup and continue up the path.
Two has created a bubble of heat around our group, so we don't freeze to death. We begin to approach the second flat. This time, we plan out our attack. While we talk, Two messes with the sound waves so only we can hear each other.
"I think we should have Two and me, Gregor and Five, and Marina and Eight." Nine says.
"Sounds good to me." I say with enthusiasm. I get to fight alongside Eight!
"Then lets do this." Nine says and charges up and over the edge.
Immediately, gunfire starts up. Those aren't Mog weapons. A loud roar echoes through the mountain tops. I race around the edge with Eight on my heals to see around one-hundred humans with their guns aimed at us, and a piken. We freeze in our tracks.
"Put your hands in the air." The lead human says.
"In your dreams!" Nine shouts back as Two sends a sound shockwave to the humans.
They all cover their ears, some of them screaming and even dropping their guns. Eight and I run to the piken while the others take care of the humans. Of course, we don't want them killed, so Two, Nine, and Five combine telekinesis to put them at the bottom of the mountain. Meanwhile, as Eight and I are fighting the piken, a faint buzzing sounds in my head again. With as much concentration as I can, I answer John's call.
What is it? I'm in the middle of a fight, and it's hard to concentrate while fighting. I ask a little more forcefully than I wanted.
The stone on your chest. I need it to fully power the talisman, and the talisman is another key, besides Ella, to defeating Setråkus. John tells me.
Well, that'll have to wait till I grab this crystal and then yours. I tell him, the connection getting more difficult to hold.
Okay. Good luck. He says.
You too. I respond and quickly throw him out of my mind.
I turn my attention back to piken. Eight teleports behind it and I freeze its feet to the ground. He jumps on top of it and changes into an elephant. As strange as it sounds, that led us to killing the piken. The piken is crushed under his weight and I grow ice spikes through his stomach, and he explodes into ash. Five covers the eye I took out only a week before.
I look up at the others with a determined look on my face.
"Lets do this." I say confidently.
The six of us storm up the mountain, quite literally because of the storm Two's temperature changes caused. At the entrance to the collapsed cave we see five Mogs, four of them surrounding the other. The Mog in the middle is oddly larger than the normal size. He is wearing iron armor almost everywhere, and he is holding Ella.
"Ella!" I yell.
Luckily, Two is fast reacting and cuts off her sound wave. Unluckily, Ella isn't knocked out and begins to wiggle around when she sees us. This causes the Mogs to notice us. The bigger one turns around and gives us a wicked smile, his teeth yellow and rotting.
"We've been expecting you." He says.
Ella spits off the tape over her mouth, its clearly been worked on, and gives us a wide eyed glare. "Marina... You, John, and me-" That's all she manages to say before the Mog waves his free hand and the two disappear in a cloud of black dust.
"No!" I scream and charge the spot they were just standing.
I feel telekinesis dragging me back and hear Eight yell, "Stop!".
It happens fast. A searing pain goes through my side. I look down to see a large hole on my hip. I put my hands to it to heal the wound, but I am weakened too much. My vision goes black and I feel myself fall down and over the path's edge.
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Marina is hit by a Mog cannon. She lost me for a while, and now I understand what she was feeling. Instantly my anger flares up and I tear the Mog apart, and I do the same for his companions. Now it's just us Garde and Gregor. I turn around to see that someone has caught and lifted Marina back to the trail. Two is pulling something out of her back pocket; it is a small pale yellow stone.
"You brought a Xitharis?" Nine asks with his eyebrows raised.
"I always carry a miniature Xitharis with me, but it only lasts for five minutes." Two answers.
She holds the stone to Marina's hand. "Marina, if you can hear me, try to put your healing power to this stone." Two says.
Slowly, the stone becomes a solid yellow, and then Two puts it in my hand.
"Heal her." She says.
When the stone touches my skin, an icy feeling washes through me. I walk over to Marina and place my hands on her wound. My fingertips become cold, and so does her skin. The wound starts to close though, and soon Marina is sitting up. She hugs me, and then stands up.
"So we still need the stone, right?" Marina asks.
I nod. "But we need to go back in time." I explain.
We all look at Two.
"So how does this time-thing work?" Nine asks.
"I think of the time we want to go to, and then a portal-thingy appears. We jump through that and then we are there!" Two tells us. "Although I can only take two people with me."
"Well, Marina has to go, and I've always wanted to time travel, so lets do it. You, Marina and me." Nine says.
Marina looks at me with a question of approval.
"Go ahead, us three will watch the are while you are gone." I say and wave my hand toward Gregor and Five.
"All right. Grab my hands." Two tells Marina and Nine.
They do so, and Two turns to me.
"How long ago was the cave crumbling?" She asks.
"Umm... About two weeks." I respond.
She turns back and closes her eyes, and within the next ten-seconds a portal appears.
"Good luck!" I say to them.
Marina gives me a smile, and then the three jump into the portal. We watch them get sucked away into the past.
"So... Now what?" Five asks.
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We jump into the portal and the breath is sucked out of me. We are sitting in a black void for about ten-seconds, and we can't breath. Nine and I start to squirm around but Two tells us to hush up. Suddenly, a black and white image of where we were standing before appears, and we are thrust forward and into it. We are then standing on the same path, but everything is paler than before. The cave is also back intact, just like it was that first day we met Eight.
"Welcome to four weeks ago!" Two says cheerfully to us.
Nine looks down at his arms and down his back. "I'm still the same... I thought we would, like, change form or something!" He says, annoyed.
I shake my head and smirk. Of course Nine would think that.
The three of us walk to the cave, me in the lead and Nine taking up the rear. As we enter the cave, an unfamiliar sense of safety washes over me. The blue Loralite stone is in the center of the room, and the cave paintings are still on the wall. Nine walks over to them.
He points to the one of the Garde being stabbed through the chest with a sword. "But... That actually happened. Twice. So that means..." He runs his hand farther across the carvings and his eyes go wide at the last three.
I walk over and look at them. The first of the three is three people, probably Garde, standing on top of a pillar, and a bunch of others floating around them. The second is of a giant worm-like creature with a human riding on it's head. It is towering over the three Garde, who appear to be trembling. The last carving on the wall is two Garde standing over the person riding the worm monster, and one of the Garde has a dagger in his hand and is ready to strike. The carvings after that have been scratched off, but that means it's not the end.
Nine screams and then rips a rock of the ground, and quickly scratches off the three carvings.
"What was that about?" I ask wildly.
"Those... Never mind." He responds while taking deep breaths.
I turn away while Two and nine study the other carvings more. The cave appeared as it did before, and there is no white crystal anywhere. I walk over to the Loralite stone. I place my hand on it and everything goes black. Color reappears and I am standing in a meadow with tall grass. Ahead of me is a man standing under an oak tree. He turns around.
"Pittacus?" I ask with confusion. "I thought you were dead..."
"I am, but I felt a Garde touching a strong Loric resemblance, so I called you in. You are seeking the Life Crystal in that cave, yes?" Pittacus asks.
"Um.. Yes." I stammer.
"Well, only your pendant can open the secret compartment in which it is placed. You know the carvings? Well, that should be enough to explain it." He says.
"But... Why am I the only one able to get these stones?" I question.
Pittacus takes a step toward me. "Number Seven, you have a very important role in this war. You, along with Ten and Four, are the ones who can kill Setråkus Ra. Ella is able to stun him, and you and Four have a connection to the talisman. If you had not figured out yet, either you or Four is my descendant. You could be the one to kill Ra."
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I stumble to the ground in shock. I'm back in the cave in the past, and Pittacus is gone. But I have so many questions, I think to myself. I turn toward the carving wall, where Nine and Two haven't changed positions from when I blacked out.
"Did you find the crystal yet?" Nine asks.
I blow by him and grab my pendant. I saw this carving out of the corner of my eye, but I never did anything. To the left of it is a carving of the time portal, and to the left is a carving of three people fighting off a horde of Mogs. Between these two carvings is one of my symbol, the same size and shape as my pendant. I hold my pendant to it, and they both glow blue. The wall carving then disappears in a flash of white, and behind it is a white pyramid. I grab it and hold it in both hands in front of me.
"Marina, you did it!" Nine says excitedly.
Suddenly the cave begins to vibrate, and Pittacus's voice comes out of nowhere.
"Congratulations, Number Seven, you have found the second Life Crystal. With this, you receive a reward. For this specific crystal, you are granted the ability of duplicating yourself. It is a legacy known as Duplicatortion, and only three elders have been known to be able to do it. You will find the training tool in a number's chest. Now, I recommend getting out of this cave before it collapses on itself." Pittacus's voice finishes.
The three of us look at each other and then charge out of the cave. It then collapses. With combined effort, we rebuild the cave for future events. If what they say about time is true, that it's a loop, then that's why the cave wasn't very sturdy when we visited, because we screwed it up beforehand, I think to myself.
We each grab one of Two's hands, and she creates a portal, which we all jump into. When we are pulled out the other side, a massive battle is taking place. I decide to try out my new legacy, and it works. I wave my hand over my body front, and another one of me appears by my side. I tell it to go fight off the Mogs, and it does. I turn to fight my own Mogs when suddenly I am swept off of my feet and fall flat on my back. The fight around us has slowed to almost a stop, and standing above me is Five and the big Mog from earlier.
"Did you really think I was on your side again?" Five asks me. "I developed some new legacies, too. I can control time and I can persuade people to do anything I want them to do. I absolutely love it. In fact, your coming with us."
Something inside me tells me todo what he says, and I feel myself get up against my will.
"Perfect." Five says. He grabs one of the Mog's arms. "Meet Rex. He can teleport." Five tells me.
"You are a disgrace to our race, you fucking bastard." I spit in his face.
He stops the saliva in mid air. "Whatever you say, princess."
And with that, Rex waves his hand through the air, and the three of us teleport into darkness.
**Hey, guys! I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I had writers block for a bit, but then I came up with this plot twist and it turned out generally okay, I think. Please review and can't wait to read all of your stories!
-Chase