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Chapter 28

I looked up peacefully at the night sky.  The stars shone and I watched them.  I didn’t think to find constellations or anything like that.  I was merely thinking, Pretty lights…

One of the stars flew down to me.  Its light was small, bright, and shiny.  It stopped right in front of my nose and paused, then flew away.  It stopped again, circled around, and flew again, beckoning me to follow it.

Feeling like a kitten stalking a moving string, I stalked the little star.  Part of me knew that it wasn’t real, that is was only a hallucination caused by my heat stroke, but I didn’t care.  I wanted to catch it.

After a while, I was out of the sight of Dreyfus and Isee, who were asleep.  I pounced for the star.

“Yes!” I cheered as I caught the little star in my hands.  I rolled out of my pounce and stopped, laying on my back.  I opened my hands, but only to discover that the star had vanished.  “Aw, man.” I groaned.

Another groan sent the hairs on the back of my head sticking straight out.  I turned my head around.  I was next to one of the rotting huts, its open doorway a void of darkness.  The moan had definitely come from in there.

Had I only imagined it?  I couldn’t decide.  There seemed to be no sign of life, yet I couldn’t shake the feeling in my gut that something was going to come out of that doorway and try to eat me or something.

“Of course something’s in there.” One of the voices in my head said.  I was too out of it to tell which one.

“Yeah, and it’s gonna eat you alive.” Said another.  This one I could easily tell was Ted.  “You’ll never beat it in your condition.”

All voices were silent, as though suddenly startled by a sudden movement in the hut.  I stared into the darkness intensely.  I hadn’t seen or heard anything, but the voices seemed to know something was there.

A shadow moved in the darkness.  I didn’t know what it was, but it was definitely not a zombite bird thingy.

“Run, run RUN!!” the voices began chanting.  I felt every nerve in my body jump as danger signals went off all through my mind.  I turned my head back around to face forward again, then froze.

Despite being able to see in the dark, I could not make out a thing about whatever this was.  All I did know was that it was the same kind of thing that was in the hut and that it was hostile.

I felt doom upon me as the first creature stepped out of the hut toward me and fangs flashed in the mouth of the second.  Part of me seemed to be trying to wake up and regain my fighting spirit, but it was still blocked out by my current state of mind.

Then I thought about Dreyfus.  Even though the kid had proven himself to be more powerful than I, I still felt like I needed to protect him.  Which meant that I couldn’t get eaten by these things.

That was enough to awaken the fighter in me again.  I was still dizzy from heat stroke when I stood up, though, and I stumbled and fell.

There was a snarl from both creatures.  They circled closer, thinking their prey was as good as caught.

I smiled.  I was still able to use some of my powers, it seemed.  My Fire Blade floated out of my belt and hovered above my head.  The blade shot out of it, casting light onto the still extremely vague creatures.  Then it spun around, slicing right through them both.

With the creatures dead, I stood up.  The Fire Blade flew back into my hand.  The blade of fire disappeared and I slipped the handle back inside my belt.  Now it was time to find Dreyfus and Isee before more of these creatures did.

When I finally reached Dreyfus and Isee, they were still asleep.  No creatures seemed to have found them yet.

Then from out of nowhere they all just appeared.  They started from a distance, completely surrounding us.  They closed in, ready to attack.

“You led them here.” Ted said.  “You led them right to your friends.  If you had just let the first two eat you they never would have followed you here.”

Shut up! I told Ted.  “Dreyfus, Isee, wake up.” I said, shaking Dreyfus awake.  Finally all three of us were prepared to face the coming danger.

I don’t remember much of the fight after that.  I remember sticking the handle of the Fire Blade in the ground and fire circling around us, blocking off the shadow creatures.  I think my wings had the red glowing things again too.  Eventually, the ring of fire spread to the edge of the town that we were by.  The fire went up right there instead of out, like it was climbing up a wall.

Before I knew what was happening, we were running out of the town.  We never did find the one who saw all, and since the force field was back up it didn’t look like we were going to either.

Dreyfus and Isee exchanged some words in their weird language.  If Dreyfus translated, I didn’t know or care.  I was peacefully staring at the stars once again, ready to catch one when it came to me again.

Description
Chapter 28

I looked up peacefully at the night sky.  The stars shone and I watched them.  I didn’t think to find constellations or anything like that.  I was merely thinking, Pretty lights…

One of the stars flew down to me.  Its light was small, bright, and shiny.  It stopped right in front of my nose and paused, then flew away.  It stopped again, circled around, and flew again, beckoning me to follow it.

Feeling like a kitten stalking a moving string, I stalked the little star.  Part of me knew that it wasn’t real, that is was only a hallucination caused by my heat stroke, but I didn’t care.  I wanted to catch it.

After a while, I was out of the sight of Dreyfus and Isee, who were asleep.  I pounced for the star.

“Yes!” I cheered as I caught the little star in my hands.  I rolled out of my pounce and stopped, laying on my back.  I opened my hands, but only to discover that the star had vanished.  “Aw, man.” I groaned.

Another groan sent the hairs on the back of my head sticking straight out.  I turned my head around.  I was next to one of the rotting huts, its open doorway a void of darkness.  The moan had definitely come from in there.

Had I only imagined it?  I couldn’t decide.  There seemed to be no sign of life, yet I couldn’t shake the feeling in my gut that something was going to come out of that doorway and try to eat me or something.

“Of course something’s in there.” One of the voices in my head said.  I was too out of it to tell which one.

“Yeah, and it’s gonna eat you alive.” Said another.  This one I could easily tell was Ted.  “You’ll never beat it in your condition.”

All voices were silent, as though suddenly startled by a sudden movement in the hut.  I stared into the darkness intensely.  I hadn’t seen or heard anything, but the voices seemed to know something was there.

A shadow moved in the darkness.  I didn’t know what it was, but it was definitely not a zombite bird thingy.

“Run, run RUN!!” the voices began chanting.  I felt every nerve in my body jump as danger signals went off all through my mind.  I turned my head back around to face forward again, then froze.

Despite being able to see in the dark, I could not make out a thing about whatever this was.  All I did know was that it was the same kind of thing that was in the hut and that it was hostile.

I felt doom upon me as the first creature stepped out of the hut toward me and fangs flashed in the mouth of the second.  Part of me seemed to be trying to wake up and regain my fighting spirit, but it was still blocked out by my current state of mind.

Then I thought about Dreyfus.  Even though the kid had proven himself to be more powerful than I, I still felt like I needed to protect him.  Which meant that I couldn’t get eaten by these things.

That was enough to awaken the fighter in me again.  I was still dizzy from heat stroke when I stood up, though, and I stumbled and fell.

There was a snarl from both creatures.  They circled closer, thinking their prey was as good as caught.

I smiled.  I was still able to use some of my powers, it seemed.  My Fire Blade floated out of my belt and hovered above my head.  The blade shot out of it, casting light onto the still extremely vague creatures.  Then it spun around, slicing right through them both.

With the creatures dead, I stood up.  The Fire Blade flew back into my hand.  The blade of fire disappeared and I slipped the handle back inside my belt.  Now it was time to find Dreyfus and Isee before more of these creatures did.

When I finally reached Dreyfus and Isee, they were still asleep.  No creatures seemed to have found them yet.

Then from out of nowhere they all just appeared.  They started from a distance, completely surrounding us.  They closed in, ready to attack.

“You led them here.” Ted said.  “You led them right to your friends.  If you had just let the first two eat you they never would have followed you here.”

Shut up! I told Ted.  “Dreyfus, Isee, wake up.” I said, shaking Dreyfus awake.  Finally all three of us were prepared to face the coming danger.

I don’t remember much of the fight after that.  I remember sticking the handle of the Fire Blade in the ground and fire circling around us, blocking off the shadow creatures.  I think my wings had the red glowing things again too.  Eventually, the ring of fire spread to the edge of the town that we were by.  The fire went up right there instead of out, like it was climbing up a wall.

Before I knew what was happening, we were running out of the town.  We never did find the one who saw all, and since the force field was back up it didn’t look like we were going to either.

Dreyfus and Isee exchanged some words in their weird language.  If Dreyfus translated, I didn’t know or care.  I was peacefully staring at the stars once again, ready to catch one when it came to me again.