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Kothrak

Kothrak

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Chapter Eleven
Ice Mountain
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It was an eight-day journey from Caltha's ramshackle treehouse to the base of Ice Mountain. Of course, such restrictions didn't apply if you had the power of flight.
Drakos had used his magic to put Caltha into a coma-like state after she had proven to be a bother whie flying. Though he didn't have to walk for eight days, he still had to fly for several hours, and trying to hold onto a squirming child who KEPT TRYING TO BITE YOU was more trouble than it was worth. Drakos had actually considered simply dropping her, but he needed her for leverage against Willow. Instead, he just imagined what it would be like to watch the horrible little girl fall through the air and be impaled on the sharp rocks.
There was always a lot of blood in his imaginings.
It almost made him want to smile.
Instead, he remembered Willow as he had killed her. For some odd reason, it caused him pain when he remembered it. He could not understand it. He wasn't hurting physically, but there was a deep, impenetrable ache inside the deepest part of his chest.
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Caltha slept. Troubled dreams of ice, blood, and war filled her. But one dream held itself in her mind, coming to her over and over. A dream of a speck of light in a black shadow.
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"WILLOW, DAMN YOU! WHERE ARE YOU!?" Willow could barely hear Tyron's roars behind her now, as she outdistanced everyone, even Jessica. She could not slow down. She knew where Drakos would be. She knew he would want a place where he held the advantage of flight.
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Tyron was running on pure adrenaline now. There was no energy left in his body. Attempting to keep up with Willow had required a full-on sprint. Sprinting he could handle. Sprinting for four hours straight, he could not.
He felt his strength flagging. He used the last of his energy to shout to Willow once more: "WILLOW, DAMN YOU! WHERE ARE YOU!?" His breath ran out.
Tyron fell.

23-Sep-2010 00:19:26

Kothrak

Kothrak

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Chapter Eleven
Ice Mountain (continued)
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Jessica had been just a few moments behind Tyron, and she saw him fall.
"TYRON!" she screamed, although the scream died in her throat from lack of air. She fell to her knees beside him and rolled him over. She peeled open one eyelid and was relieved to see the eye moving. He was alive, but unconscious. Iolous, Chazz, and Termac appeared from the foliage, and Ace landed in a treetop, then jumped from limb to limb to the ground.
Iolous could barely breathe, but he managed to pant out in between breaths: "Is--huff huff--he still--gasp--alive?" Jessica nodded, then espied the sack Ace held.
"Ace, what's in there?"
"Your medicines, Tyron's crown thing, Chazz's--"
Chazz coughed loudly to conceal the last part of Ace's reply as Jessica snatched the bag and emptied it of its contents. Chazz quickly snatched up an item from the pile, and Jessica raised an eyebrow and sorted through her medicines until she found what she was looking for.
"Invigouration... It'll wake him up, but it's risky. He was already weak from the poison, and after a run like that, the wrong dosage could cause his heart to stop. And even if I do, he'll only want to chase after Willow again. Invigouration only does so much; his body will still take the damage, he'll just be able to keep going..."
Tyron's eyes cracked open and he reached up to take the vial from Jessica. She held it out of his reach and shook her head.
"No. I've decided it's too risky. We'll just have to make camp and keep following Willow tomorrow."
A stream of weak obscenities made their way from Tyron's mouth, followed by: "I need to... Help her... She'll just be hurt again... Please..."
Jessica wanted so badly to say yes, but even as she was opening her mouth to tell him no, it was too dangerous, a hand snatched the vial and poured the entire contents down Tyron's throat. Tyron's breathing steadied.
He ran.
"RUN, TYRON!" yelled Ace. "GO HELP WILLOW!"

23-Sep-2010 00:38:41

Kothrak

Kothrak

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Chapter Eleven
Ice Mountain (continued)
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Jessica whirled on Ace, furious. "Why did you do that?!" she shouted at him. "Are you trying to kill him?!"
Ace stared at her. "He loves her, and he's willing to go the distance to save her. Anyway, fighting Drakos is bad enough for Willow. Fighting Drakos with a hostage, especially one she cares about, will be even worse. She's going to need all the help she can get. Even if she isn't human."
Jessica opened her mouth, presumably to shout some more, when the gravity of what Ace had just said struck her.
"Not human?"
"Whaaaaat?" said Chazz, but she barely heard him.
"Of course not, said Ace. "Can any normal human run that far without breaking a sweat? Can any normal human COME BACK FROM THE DEAD?! No! And her silver eyes. Don't tell me you didn't notice."
Dumbly, Jessica shook her head.
Ace shrugged. "Well, before you start berating me again about Tyron, know that there's nothing you can do about it now, and I would have done it again. After all, I would do the same thing."
Jessica was momentarily distracted from the astounding thought of Willow being nonhuman to the absurd thought of Ace in love. He was too strange, too mysterious, to love someone. Before she could stop herself, she blurted out, "You? In love?"
Suddenly something sparked in Ace's eyes. An emotion she had never seen before in him that she couldn't quite name.
"Well," he said gruffly, "I'm going to follow them from the air. You, Chazz, and Termac can make camp here. If I don't return with Willow and Tyron, I'm dead. Don't be too surprised."
He said this with a note of what was almost resignation in his voice. It was entirely possible that both Tyron and Ace would die. And Ace seemed to realize this, as he turned back to Jessica.
Without hesitation, Ace swept Jessica into his arms and kissed her on the lips. Before this had time to register in her mind, he dropped her and took off.
She recognized the look in his eyes.
Pain.

23-Sep-2010 01:03:59

Zfire0100

Zfire0100

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Groovy. Long time no see. You still writin' on the forums, huh? lol. So many familiar faces. It feels good to be back. I see Willow's not done yet either. I'll have to check up on her a little later. Can't wait to read the new story.

25-Sep-2010 17:34:51

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