Something is going on a good distance away, but it as loud as all get out. They two of them start heading toward an SUV where some douche looking guy is driving. I run over and hop in. There’s no sense just staying here, and I don’t think my look alike will mind. The SUV starts heading off toward where the sound came from. We get closer and the crashing and booming noises have stopped and we come up to some scruffy man on a white motorcycle but as the light catches it, it shines a soft blue and next to it looks like something standing within the shadow of it. It looks as though a shadow is standing up in the shadow of this motorcycle.
My twin, the driver, and the short woman get out of the SUV to start talking with him. I learn their names and think I have a general idea about them. My look alike is called Thalia and she can split into multiple of herself. The guy on the motorcycle thing is Chaud, nothing to note about him except he has a motorcycle and has an odd accent. The short woman with the odd looking hair is called Eva, she can stomp an earthquake. The shadowy thing must have been what blacked me out back there; I guess he came over here to check on Chaud when I got my sight back.
“Who’s the bird?” he asks, indicating me with a shake of his head making his shaggy hair shake with his movement.
“Um, I haven’t really asked.” Thalia answers him then turns towards me. “So what’s your name?”
“Katherine.” I answer.
Suddenly, this skinny blonde girl jumps out from the forest line and grabs our driver while saying “I just need him for a bit, thanks!”
WHAT?! Who the hell was that creepy girl and why did she just run off with that guy? And why are they just still standing around like nothing just happened?
“Um, should we go get him?” I try to ask while sounding calm. I fail miserably.
“Oh no, that’s just Sophie,” Thalia responds.
I guess it really is only me who found that scary. We all begin to board back into the SUV except for Chaud who remains on his bike. I don’t even know where I am or where I was going, so why not go with these people. They are going to see some people called the Shadow Council; I don’t think that I have ever heard of the Shadow Council. Apparently Thalia and Chaud work for them, I don’t know about the icky shadow thing sitting way in the back or Eva. Apparently they went out on this mission of some sorts that Thalia didn’t do so well on, or at least the driver we just had, Eva, and Thalia did. Chaud was sent out to mock her and the shadow thing; they call him Ravager, just sits there all shadow-like I suppose. As we continue down the road, Thalia is having a hard time focusing on the road because bright light is shining directly into her eyes.
Looking out through the front of the window, there are centaurs in the road firing arrows toward a bright colossal man in the road. The man has four orbs circling him; the arrows the centaurs are shooting at him are continuously blocked by the orbs. Eva and I step out from the SUV as Ravager refuses to remove himself from under the backseat of the SUV and Thalia is still in the driver’s seat as well as standing outside of the vehicle with us. I to the front of the van and press my hand to the hood and absorb the remaining heat inside of me. I don’t have to absorb the heat through my hands like my life absorption works, but it’s not like I’m slapping my face on to the hood of the van to soak it in either.
Eva stomps her feet and the colossus sink down into the ground to its thighs as he begins to swing blindly about him. It seems that he is unable to see or he would not even be flailing about as he is, it is though he is trying to knock us down with a swing but cannot seem to find where we are. One of the orbs drops down into the earth and begins to spin around him, almost digging him out from the ground. I draw the energy in and shoot out a bolt of electricity towards the colossus but my attack is blocked by one of the orbs continuing to circle around him. Eva stomps her feet again and the colossus sinks further up to his chest. Then Thalia standing outside of the vehicle throws a pink shimmering light toward the spinning orbs and it gets squelched by their movements. Eva stomps her feet again and the colossus sinks down to its neck and another orb begins to aid the other to try and dig the colossus out from its earthen trap.
Chaud jumps up, his motorcycle wrapped around his body like some sort of mechanical suit and he punches down into one of the orbs sending it right into the skull of the colossus. As the colossus collapses, so do the orbs that were spinning around it. They all sit idly now and the centaurs give us a nod, leave their arrows and head back into the wood. Their arrows are enormous comparatively to our size, the tips are like daggers and the arrows that are in one piece still are like spears. Suddenly that thin, evil looking blonde child comes bounding out of the forest again and grabs Eva’s hand.
“I need her to help with training Skitz,” Sophie squeaks out as she runs off with Eva into the woods.
And again, looking around the group everyone acts like this occurrence is as natural as breathing. I am really starting to wonder if I should even stay with these people, this crazy child just comes out of nowhere every time they stop the van so far to run off with someone. How many more people has this Sophie taken? What exactly does she do with the people she takes? I crawl back into the SUV and press myself against the far side, away from the door. If that girl is going to try and take me anywhere, I will grab everything I can to not let her take me. I will not go quiet and without fight.
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