Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Destiny's Call ❯ Entry the Second ( Chapter 2 )

Entry the second

Original story by me, Leo-Half Banchou, characters by me. any copyrighted material referenced, well, belongs to the copyright holders, it's not mine.

 

We'd gone round and pick up everything we could find. 7 in the center carrying the extras, 6 of us(including myself, Tarius, and Slanetly) around them as guards. We sung back around to the front, where we had left a small cache for some guards. Reg had organized the students and teachers some more after I left, and they had been erecting barricades over the entrances. No one had touched the High Guardian's body. The otherswere heading inside when Slanetly sensed something.

 

“There are humans coming, from the west. And there are to Reptildra with them.”

 

“That's one heck of a sense of smell. Can I get three volunteers? Tar, please to stay here and cover our backs.”

 

“Alright, this time.”

 

(in a whispered conversation) “Hey, why does he keep calling you Tarius?”

“Codename. Alias. Cover. And it's his way of acknowledging the situation and my part in it. He knows the character of Tarius decently well, well enough to trust to it.”

“Um… ok.”

“Just keep your eyes and ears peeled and your finger near the trigger. But not on the trigger till you have a target.”

“oh, right.” Removes his finger from the trigger.

 

(jumping back to me) A small group moved out of the shadows of the neighborhood across the street, near Regis. I realized something about Regis then, but filed it away and prayed no one came out. “You said Reptildra are with them? This what you meant by lead them here?”

 

“Mostly.”

 

I nodded. “Let's go.” Stanetly, Eagle, AA, and one other, with me in the lead, moved forward rapidly till we were close to the small group. I estimated a score, plus two Reptildras. Which brought your total complement to three fully trained and dangerous warriors.

 

The survivors, it was the only word for them, looked relieved to see other humans. It seemed as though having to follow 8ft tall walking talking gun-toting reptiles didn't sit with them at all, except for one man who appeared to be in the lead.

 

The Reptildras quickly fell into talking. `Master Guardian, We are elated to see you living.' Was what I later learned they said, but they spoke it in a hissing language I didn't understand. I turned to the apparent human leader. He was dressed in the same military dress I saw on active soldiers all over the place. “Sergeant Hikeman, recently back from a tour of duty in Iraq. Thought I left the war behind.”

 

“We have the whole school, almost completely intact. We're holding up in it. Glad to see we aren't the only ones not caught and killed.”

 

“They aren't killing. Mostly capturing. If I hadn't been one of the first one's these lizard friends of your found, the others here would never have come.”

 

“They're Reptildras. I'm, well just call me Corben Cypher for now.” This got me questioning looks from the others, but they assumed it had something to do with my calling Charlie, Tarius, and left it alone for then. “And before you ask, it isn't just us kids, the teachers are there too, but the students are running things and doing the work.”

He nodded.

 

“Eagle, lead them back to the front. AA, go with him. And what is your name?” I looked at our third member.

“Jake.”

 

“You too. Stanetly and his pals are sensing something. Go, now.”

They moved off, and I went over to Stanetly. The other two Reptildras bowed to me. They seemed to take the whole “High Guardian” thing very seriously. I tried to bow back to them, but Stanetly restrained me.

 

“The High Guardian has no need to bow.”

 

“I have everyneed. You guided them here, kept them safe, for that, I thank you.” I bowed. “I was given this blade by the former High Guardian. And you seem to think there is something special about my ring. But I am no High Guardian. I did nothing for that title, which seems to mean so much. I will hold onto the blade because it was entrusted to me, but I wish to have a better understanding of the honor and position of High Guardian. Please. I may know the name of your race which is used by those not of it, and the names of your orders. But I know nothing of your ranks, or lives, or of this so very advanced technology you weild, which those I know of have not the slightest bit of. What do you know about Winds?”

 

They stared at me. They stared at me and there is no other word for it. I knew I'd hit something, but precisely what, I couldn't know. Don't think I was meant to find out just yet. Something blasted no where, hurling us away, and gulping down one of the Reptildras in an instant. I don't think any of us saw it coming. Or felt it. This one was huge. The two others fired, I fired, no dice, no damage. It roared

 

Suddenly, my mind flashed back to my other little barrier. “Head for the school, now. Go!” we ran. It took a bit for that thing to actually start after us, but it did. We rounded the corner and hit the dirt. A barrage of fire hit the creature, but still dealt no damage. I heard Tarius saying something.

 

“Damage is too spread. Needs to be concentrated. Here, let me see that.” I had no idea what he was doing, didn't care right now. I fired off another shot. No good. This was not going well.

 

“Got it. Eat this, dung bag!” Charlie fired off a shot, but this time, it was a tight, focused beam. It pierced the thing, but that just made it madder. “Shit.”

 

I looked around for a second, and my sight fell upon the hole in the wall, and the barrier I had erected. I had an idea. “Quick. Drive it back, that way, away from the schools. both of them!” I joined the rounds of firing. Charlie had fixed up another of the guns already, so two people were firing piercing damage. “Aim for the head!”

 

With concentrated fire to its “head” we drove it back to the street. Then I summoned every ounce of willpower I had. And I willed a field into place, just like the one over the hole, but this field extended upwards about 100 ft at its tallest point, was roughly dome shaped, and covered a large portion of the grounds of both O'hara and Regis, including all the buildings. It didn't cover the football field, either of them, or the baseball diamond or the soccer field. But it did cover the parking lot.

 

I sighed in relief, then felt my legs go out from under me as a substantial amount of energy was sapped from me. The damned creature was battering at my field. The others had stopped firing because their shots hadn't gone through the field either. “Don't fire!” I shouted as I nearly collapsed from another blow to the field. But I stood back up. Couldn't afford to show weakness to the enemy. I stood, and glared at the thing, then turned, and walked away slowly. It kept battering, then suddenly, it gave up and left. I sat down against the wall.

 

“Tar, tell Reggie to organize hunting parties. There might have been some of those “things” inside the grounds that I just sealed off. We need to get rid of them now, not later.”

 

“You made that, that whatever it was the monster couldn't get through?”

 

“Yes, I did. Don't ask how, I'll try and explain things later. We have to finish securing our position. We need lookouts posted incase more people try to make their way here. and, and and…” at this point, I blacked out, drained. To most people, it didn't seem like I'd done enough to be that drained, but they didn't understand about my fields. Heck, I didn't even get them. I'd started calling them fields because well, they made me think of things like force fields, energy fields, even electromagnetic fields. But I didn't know which or what they were, so I called them fields. Sounded better than barriers to me.