Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Destiny's Call ❯ entry the Eighteenth ( Chapter 18 )

Entry the eighteenth

 

Now this, this is a weird, scary, strange, slightly new feeling. I'm getting yelled at for leaving the one person who couldn't stand to see me go, and now she's hugging me and crying and calling me what I am. An idiot. And yet, for all that, somehow, I can't find in myself regret for leaving, because I'm still missing something. The only regret is that I didn't say goodbye. And yet again some piece of me I hadn't known I was missing was back… but it only served to make the lack of that which I had not found more apparent, and in some ways, to drive me closer to an edge I didn't even see, and whose following depths no one could predict.

 

“Jewels… I won't leave you like that again… I promise.” Tears filled my own eyes as my arms finally remembered how to move and grasped her closer. I was all she had left from before all this started. She did not know where all her other precious friends were, and her visions did not say. I could not even begin to comprehend that, for I had found my friends, and some had found me, and when I left them all behind, it was my own choice. She never had that choice, and my mind finally began to grasp the concept.

 

Suddenly, I felt her go limp in my arms, her breathing shallowed, and then picked back up. She was having a vision. “Franky!” I called, and she came over as I took Jewels and set was about to set her down. Then suddenly, she cried out, “NO!” and started thrashing and crying more, and yet she was still in the vision. Suddenly, words spilled from her mouth, exclaiming, “… Can't have… Please… Have him back… RUN!” and just then she opened her eyes, shivering. I held her close as she collected herself, still crying. What horrors had she witnessed?

 

“We… We have to go, now. They're coming for us, all of us, we have to run, get away, hurry.” I looked at her, and smiled as reassuringly as I could.

 

“We'll be fine. Sprite, start packing this gear into the Bearcat,” I shouted. I had noticed the Bearcat which they must have driven about say, 2 seconds ago.

 

He replied, “Right, Got it, Going.”

 

I turned to Franky. “Get it started, and then get moving. I can hold them for you.”

 

She turned to me. “Oh no you don't, we just found you, and you are not leaving again.” She looked ready to knock me unconscious and drag me into the Cat.

 

“I'm just going to draw their attention for a bit. The Leviathan can more than outpace any of them, but I'm not so sure about the Cat. I'm coming back.”

 

Jewels stood, and looked at me, not sure she believed I was coming back. “I promised I wouldn't leave, and I meant it. Get in the Cat, I'll be fine. I can trace you from the Leviathan.”

 

“No, you can't, you'll die. I saw, it, God, I saw it.” She started crying again.

 

I hugged her one last time. “I swear I won't die, I'm not gonna let some vision kill me.”

 

I handed Sprite an 11 digit code. “Put that into the tracking system on the bearcat and you'll be able to follow my signal on the Leviathan. Now move.”

 

As soon as Sprite, Jewels, Franky, and Loophole were on the Cat, along with the Hound Sprite had been riding.

 

I got on the Levia and sped off towards the Antis heading for us. This time though, I knew I couldn't stick around and kill them all, just leave them off and hope I really could outrun them. The beginnings of a plan formed in my head. Coming into range of a pack of raptors, I opened up with the new guns, barreling through and running over one of them, mowing down with laser fire several more. I swerved around and came back, taking out the rest of the pack with guns and blades. Another pack of them found me though, and having attracted their attention, I shot off further towards the giant Turtle, shooting and slashing as I went. Then I swerved in a southern direction and motored away, the lot of them just behind me.

 

As soon as I thought I had them enough off the scent, I drove onto a field and into the air, risking an aerial assault and zooming away just above the treetops at very high speeds, before dipping back down into the forest and following the tracking signal towards the Cat. I almost didn't see it coming. A creature, some kind of Giant Chameleon type, suddenly appeared before me and grabbed the Levia, tossing it. I caught it and me on a field, and suddenly realized I was in a nest of the things. Try as I might to slash and cut and shoot them, I missed, and rarely saw them coming. Even my visor couldn't pick them up. Their camouflage was equal to Leon's, easily, which was downright scary.

 

I realized I should have listened. Unfortunetly, I didn't think I was going to be around to make use of the lesson, and I was about to whisper an apology for breaking a promise I had just made, when a white blur attached itself to thin air, and suddenly, my own personal Deus Ex Machina had arrived to save me by showing me where the creatures were. I slashed 3 times through the creatures, and with Loophole's help, found the rest. Loophole escaped completely unscathed. I had 3 scratches, which were miraculously not poisonous, and was extremely exhausted from fight and the drain from my fields. I will never doubt the power of a Deus Ex Machina again, I swear. I just hope it isn't the other guy getting them.

 

I reached the Bearcat without further incident, Loophole riding on my shoulders.

 

Following a severe scolding by Franky, and an angry Jewels, I continued to be thankful for being alive.

 

I was petting Loophole when a now calm Jewels came over. “Corben, I had a vision.”

 

“What, now? What did it say?” I was suddenly on edge, thinking we would have to run again. I mean, it wasn't like we'd actually stopped the huge turtle carrying an army on its back. Just killed a small portion of the army.

 

She shook her head. “No, it was while we were still looking for you. It said you would find somebody, and that somebody would find you. And I'm pretty sure it didn't mean us either time.” There was another piece to the visions, but Jewels feared mentioning it, because she believed I might be the soul in question. “Also… it told me that Kindred spirits would light each others path.

 

I looked at her thoughtfully. “Thankyou. And I'm glad you're safe.” The Last piece of that statement, the one I should have said, it didn't escape my mouth. The words, “I'm sorry,” could not pass my lips. Instead, I started speaking of what perhaps the visions meant. “I met a man, about two weeks ago. A kid, really, well, my age. We had much in common, and he has strange powers even as I do. He could destroy with his thoughts, gather explosive power and unleash it against the Antis, and they could not stand against it. We traveled together until about 2 days ago. I would say he found me… I'd have never noticed him if he hadn't chosen to sit at my table…”

 

Jewels suddenly stiffened, then relaxed. I caught her, but it had already passed.

 

“Another vision.” It wasn't a question.

 

She nodded. “We have to get moving. That giant mountain isn't dead, and its heading this way. if we stay here, we'll die. I'm sure of it. And we can't beat it, not as we are now.”

 

“But if we leave it be, what happens to all the people in its path?”

 

She shook. “I don't know, I don't know.”

 

“Alright. Franky, Sprite, we've got to move. Big Ugly is heading our way.” and of course, forever more the giant turtles would be known as Big Uglies. And I really didn't like them.

 

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