Here we go, I'm writing this chapter at…what time is it? 1:24…Yep, I have no life. You all are my life, stories are my life. Anyways, let's get into this chapter since I have no news.
Chapter 9: Wow, we were lucky.
I was expecting to be falling three hundred feet out of the air, turns out, we weren't falling out of air. Needless to say, I still didn't know where we ended up.
"Where are we?" Whirlpool asked.
"I don't know, it looks like some country side" I responded.
"Which direction should we go in?" Veronica asked.
"Um, let's see here, how about…south" I replied, walking south.
"How do you know that that's the direction to go?" Veronica asked.
"Simple, the famous phrase, things are going south" I replied.
"Doesn't that mean that things are going bad?" Whirlpool asked while we walked.
"Yes" I replied.
"So why are we going this direction then?!" Veronica yelled.
"The only way to win is to continue on through the darkness, and come back out" I replied, looking up at the night sky. "Come on, we have a lot of ground to cover" I said, walking along the dirt road.
It didn't take all that long to get to a small town, and when I say small town, I mean it. It had two restaurants, a grocery store, a gas station, and maybe, 15 houses. We walked along the row of houses, not really paying attention to them, until, my eyes caught sight of something on someone's lawn. I stopped and looked at the lawn, on the lawn were several small animals, fake ones of course. There was a fox, chicken, bear, bunny, white fox, and a golden bear. Those last two caught my attention the most. I walked up to the front door, knocked on it, and waited while the other two just simply watched.
"Hello?" A voice said.
"Hey, just thought I'd check on my brother after what? Somewhere around 15 years?" I said, grinning when the door flung open. "Yo, what's up?" I asked sarcastically.
"Destin? Veronica? Unknown animatronic I've never seen?" The man asked confused. This put me somewhat on edge, something wasn't right. "Come on in" He said.
We were sitting at a table while Michael was talking about what happened after the accident. I just sat silently, glaring at my "brother".
"Why are you so quiet brother?" Michael asked.
"There's a grammatical error in that sentence" I simply said.
"What?"
"It'd be true that I'm your brother, if I was your brother" I stood up.
"How'd you find out" The man growled, standing up and pushing his chair to the ground.
"First, the fact that we just happened to end up in this town. Two, you forgot to put Spring on the lawn. Finally, you automatically knew who we were, without asking questions, your acting isn't quite on point" I told him, pulling out the bow from behind my back.
"Think fast" He simply said, about to jump, however, before he could even make a move, an energy arrow pierced him. He fell down to the ground, lifeless.
"I did" I said.
"How'd you react so quickly?" Veronica asked.
"Something I found out in the hidden message on the bow. It seems that each chosen hero from each world has a special power, mine being, step ahead. Step ahead allows quick reactions, and amazing aim" I replied, walking towards the door.
"So, what now?" Whirlpool asked. I opened the door to find an empty space, nothing but the house was in this space that was visible.
"We get out of here" I responded.
"How do we do that?" Veronica asked.
"Simple, we face our fears"
"How do you know that?" Whirlpool asked.
"Because there's a giant spider behind Veronica" I answered. Veronica turned around, screamed, and reacted by punching it in the face. It then disappeared upon contact.
"See?" I asked, jumping down into the empty space.
As I was falling, I started to think about if it was wise or not to have done that, I decided that they needed to face those fears alone. I mean, I won't always be there to protect them, right? I just hoped that I had made the right decision.
I started to see some sort of ground and prepared my thrusters, however, they didn't turn on. I decided to stay calm and maneuvered myself so that I wasn't above the island of land anymore. I fell under the island, pulled out my bow, and hoped that it could shoot some sort of rope. I shot an arrow and a light blue colored rope came from behind the arrow. I swung under the island, leaned my legs forward, tucked in, and flipped and landed on the island. I had to catch my balance, but, didn't fall over.
"That was…odd" I simply told myself and decided to check out the island. All I found on the island was some sort of map, pinpointing two locations. I looked at it, realized what the locations were of, and tried to grab it. However, the map burst into flames, and was destroyed.
"Eh, oh well, I don't need some magic map to find them" I waved the occurrence off and walked off of the island. "Someday, I am going to get sick of falling" I said, falling further into the depts. I plunged into the darkness, not really caring that the map had burned up, and that I nearly died. It wasn't that much of a problem, after all, this was all just an illusion. I found myself suddenly teleported onto some sort of land mass, I didn't think much of it until I heard the whistling of metal in the air. I jumped, flipped, and shot an arrow. The arrow hit the ground beside whatever just tried to cut my head off.
"You missed" I saw heard myself say.
"Did I?" I smirked. The arrow then blew up, and sent the copy of me falling. "Your no me, I'm too good to be fooled by a simple trick" I told the copy.
"Yeah, well, you didn't see this coming" The copy smirked, he then plunged the blade into my heart chamber.
"Actually, I did" I smirked. "And you of anything in this world should know, you can only escape this place by facing fears, including death. Everything, is, an, illusion" I was then transported back to the real world.
"So, you all made it out not traumatized?" I asked them after waiting a few minutes. Whirlpool shivered and said: "I never want to want to go into a mysterious alley again" She said, obviously not liking whatever happened.
"And I never want to face a colossal spider again" Veronica responded.
"Well, I don't really want to die, that is, not until I'm like, an old man" I said, grinning at my small joke.
"Lovely, so I'm going to be stuck with you for a long time" Veronica said, rolling her eyes.
"I'm not that bad" I told her, walking into the rundown building in front of us.
"Why do you always walk into strange buildings?" Whirlpool asked.
"Because, I'm always one step ahead" I said opening the door, and immediately shooting something to the ground. "Huh, undead dinosaurs, that's new" I said looking at the rotting dino.
"That's no normal undead dino, that one had metal parts, metal teeth, claws, and bones" Whirlpool observed.
"Well, maybe I'm always one step ahead" I said, staring into the darkness.
So, what'd you think? The reason why this was so short is because I'm currently with family, and had to get some sort of content out. So, yeah, that's why.