We all pick up some of the daggers
and spears that lay around, Chaud picks up all of the orbs from the colossus. I choose one staff and one dagger to
keep. I don’t really have much of
anything on me except the clothes on my back and if things like this happen
frequently then I suppose I might need these.
Everyone starts to walk off in their own directions staring down at the
daggers or spears that they had picked up.
“What
are you guys doing?” I ask Thalia as she throws her dagger at the ground and
stares at it.
“Play
around with the weapons we got from the elders.
Try throwing them and things.
They do different kinds of things.
Try to keep away from others, just in case it messes up.”
Okay, so
I pull out the staff and walk off toward the edge of nearby forest. I swing it around and… nothing. I try hitting it on a tree and nothing. I try whapping it on the ground to
nothing. I don’t get what I am supposed
to do with this thing to make it behave other than just a staff. I try and peer over at what other people are
doing with their stuff; I can’t really tell what they are doing. I guess that I will play with my powers and
these weapons.
The hum
of electricity is buzzing in my ears feels so relaxing. I hold up my staff and channel the heat
energy out of me as an electric stream to one of the trees and it bounces back
to the staff and then returns back to the tree and the staff. That is neat, normally my lightning zap only
shoots out once, but it looks as though as long as I carry this staff, it will
keep relaying the electricity back again and again. I bring out the dagger that I picked up and
now try seeing what I can do with it.
I throw
it out and it wedges into the ground ahead of me. There’s a low hum of electricity in my ears
so I have just a smidge of heat energy stored in my still to try it again and
see what it does. So I shoot off an
electric charge out toward the dagger and it turns into a plasma sphere that
goes from the tip of the staff to the dagger and stops. That most definitely is weird, I like what
the staff does with me electric output, but I don’t know how I feel about this
plasma thing. I head back to the SUV to
meet up with everyone else. Most people
are back already and chatting about how to get to the Shadow Council, which
perks my attention though I play uninterested.
Eventually
everyone starts filing back into the van, or what is left of us starts filing
into the SUV. Except for Chaud, and I
don’t know what he did with his orbs that he had but I can’t see them anywhere
on him now. Or Thalia’s staff for that
matter. Perhaps they shrunk.
Not too
far from here we reach into something they call a portal that will apparently
jump us to where they need to be. It’s a
fairly huge looking metallic frame with bluish electric light inside the
framing. The guys that operate this
thing are saying that we can’t take the SUV in but Chaud is telling us no
worries and to push through anyway.
Well, if I had to pick, I guess dying in a portal accident beats
whatever unknown horror Sophie could produce.
Bracing myself for whatever might happen as we drive through does
nothing, neither does the car going through the portal.
We all come out the other side, the
van still works, not bad. Outside the
windows of the SUV, there are buildings that rise high into the sky. There are so many, not all reach to the same
height but the size of these buildings seems so excessive. Would a single city really need buildings of
this height to accommodate the needs of its residents? As we continue driving through these
buildings, we reach a tall fenced gate opening with four people wearing all the
same black uniform on each side of the gate.
Thalia begins to stop the vehicle as we approach the fence. You can see the looks of recognition the
guards give to Thalia and Chaud but change when they glance over Ravager and me.
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