The Knight of the Night
Chapter 1
Mike Knight
The begging
“Mike are you training right now?” My mom yelled interrupting my training with fire and poison. I grabbed a shirt and threw it on. And climbed down the ladder to my training room and went down stairs.
“Nah, I’m down stairs now.” I yelled to her grabbing a bottle of water. I walked to the living room and saw Silver there. She’s my best friend in the world she has the power over making people fall asleep and mist. Her hair is black and brown and her eyes are gray. She looked scared. She jumped up.
“Mike, they found out. Yak-face is coming for me, for us.” She said. I grabbed a bag I had ready for months of clothes my size, which was 6’4” and some food that was recently stored in there. I grabbed a brush for my brown hair and my contacts. We ran off. I had a secret way down my cliff. We climbed aboard my speed boat and we took off. I took out a magical map and looked at how far away we were from the Safe Land. “We are 3 weeks away from the Safe Land.” I
said upset. She just nodded. I looked ahead and kept our speed boat going at full speed.
“We have a full tank so we should be able to go for about a day or two, just going.” I said. I set us in course and sat down. I didn’t even say goodbye to my mom. I felt horrible. I pulled out a sleeping bag and let Silver slide into it. I sat at the drivers eat and stared out at the ocean. I heard Silver climb out of her sleepy bag and sit next to me.
"I've heard stories of how you are able to enter. I think you need I get a tattoo of something. I wonder what I can get." She said to me. I looked in her eyes.
"I'm just sick of fighting Yak-face. Hopefully someone would help us get there." I said as I turned my head to the water. I turned back to Silver after a few minutes.
"Silver, you better sleep." She nodded an went the the sleeping bag. I heard soft snoring and smiled.
"Mike! Look out!" Silver screamed as she shoved me to the ground. I saw her clench her teeth. Her long hair covered her face. She got off me and moved the boat to the small island nearby. The boat was gonna last us another day, but we wanted to give it a break. She took out her knife and started walking into the island. I followed her.
"Don't ever scare me like that again. I can't believe they already found you." She said, smacking my face. Her fist hurt. She walked angrily towards a tree with coconuts. She threw up her knife and it wedged in the tree. She had attached a rope to it so she climbed up it. She punched off the coconuts and came down. She grabbed a bucket from the boat and set it down. She took a coconut and stabbed it. Milk drained out and she did that with the rest. I bottled it. I put the drinks into the boat and walked back to Silver. She was looking around the island.
“We can’t stay here tonight. We are going to sleep in the boat.” She said.
“Ok, but you need to do something else.”
“What?”
“Get out of that tree before the helicopter shoots you.” I said. She scrambled down and got to me. I grabbed her arm and led her into the rainforest. We stopped when the trees covered us. I sat down and a rock. She looked at me and sat down too. We heard footsteps and jumped up.
Chapter 2
We meet some more enemies
Silver
I had my knife drawn, but Mike was already at her throat. Ya, a her. His sword was at her neck, almost cutting her.
“Hey, uh, can you let me go now?” She asked, her brown eyes full of fear. Mike took down his sword and she said something else.
“I, uh, wanted to know if you were running to the Safe land too.” She said. We nodded.
“Thanks, can I come with?” She asked. We nodded. I smiled at her. She looked about 16. Our age. She looked at Mike and his eyes practically melted. I nudged him and he looked at me. I nodded and we started walking to our boat. We got to the beach and the girl climbed in the boat.
“What is your name anyway?” I asked her.
“Oh, sorry. I’m Shay.” She told us.
“I’m Mike.” Mike told her.
“I’m Silver.” She smiled. We got in the boat and watched the sunset. It was really late. I looked at Shay but she fell asleep. I closed my eyes too.
“Wake up.” Mike said, shaking me.
“I’m up!” I said. I was sitting down drinking coconut milk. Shay was too, so was Mike. We put down the drinks and started the boat and headed away. We watched the water and drove for hours. We finally saw the sunset. The gas was running really low. We ran out of gas as we pulled up to a large island. I got out and walked straight to the woods. Mike and Shay were following. Then I saw 10 people in front of us. They charged and I pulled up my knife. I slashed one on the neck and he fell. I charged for my second kill and kicked his chest, sending him flying. I stabbed another and twisted my knife. I pulled it out with so much force I slashed another guy who was coming for me. There were the guys left and Shay was beating one to death with their own sword. The second one was fighting Mike. The third, he was coming straight for me. I threw my knife. It landed at his heart. I knew if the man Mike was killing saw me unarmed, he would get my knife. I ran and grabbed it from the dead man. I stood up and saw that every man was dead. Then I heard a groan. I whipped around and threw my knife. It found a spot in the middle of his head. He dropped dead so I ran to grab my knife. I wiped it on his shirt after pulling it out. We kept walking in the woods. We set down our backpacks and ate. We finished and kept walking. We found a place to camp and slept.
I was walking with Mike and Shay when I saw a flash of blue hair, then brown, then short black, then short blond, and last white. I took a double take. It was gone. We kept walking then five teens jumped in front of us. The smallest girl looked thirteen. The other two girls looked 17 and the two boys looked 18. I saw the brown haired girl walk over to Mike. We put up our weapons. She backed away with her hands up.
“I’m Drew Maxie, but I go by Maxie.” The brown hair girl said. I noticed a bunch of her hair in front was more bright auburn rather than her brown. Then the blue hair girl started talking.
“I’m Rose.” She told us.
“I’m Adam.” The black hair guy said. I blushed. Mike nudged my arm.
“I’m TJ.” The blond guy said.
“Don’t forget the most important one, me. I’m Cassy. Now Mudface, go get the food.”
“No.” Maxie said.
TJ ran to get the food. I saw Mike looking at Rose and then checking out Maxie, but mostly Rose.
“Taken by TJ.” Rose told him.
“Adam’s my man.” Maxie said. Mike looked at me.
“I’m Silver.” I said.
“I’m Mike.”
“I’m Shay.”
“We are gonna help you get to the Safe Land.” Rose told us. I looked at them and asked,
“What are your powers?” They looked at me and smiled.
“I’m the goddess of ice and water, and I’m a mixie.” Rose said. That explained the blue hair. Then I looked at Maxie.
“I’m the goddess of earth and lava. I’m a mixe.” She said, that explained the mudface name Cassy said. Then Cassy went.
“I’m an sky user. Nothing more really.” She said then Adam spoke up.
“I’m a fire user.” He said. Just like Mike. Then TJ spoke up.
“I’m an air user.” He said. I nodded. We hiked for a couple more hours then they stopped and set up and awesome looking camp. We sat down at a camp fire and they looked at Cassie.
“The nearest people are runaways. They are 13.7 miles the opposite direction. Then Yak-face and the others are 97.6 miles away, walking.” She said. I looked at them.
“She has power over the sky, so she can tell where people are and if they are magic.” Rose explained. She made some water then added ‘homemade’ ice cubes. I looked at her then shook my head. Mike was still checking out Rose and Maxie. I felt jealous cause he was also checking out Shay. I ate some food and went to go lay down in my tent I was sharing with Rose so she could explain something to me. And Cassie. I laid down and couldn’t sleep so I sat there thinking. I thought of how I felt jealous seeing Mike like any girl, not me. True he was cute, sandy blonde hair, brown and blue eyes. Tall. But I couldn’t love him, I mean we have been best friends since we were kids. So I couldn’t love him, could I?
Chapter 3
Mike
the kiss
When everyone else left, it was just me and Shay. Rose had made the point of liking TJ by kissing him in front of me. So Shay and I were talking after they left. I finally leaned over.
“You’re very pretty.” I told her.
“And you’re very handsome.” She said. I felt my face get hot. She scooted closed to me. We were nose to nose, then, we leaned in. I must say, if you haven’t kissed someone who does magic, you are missing out. We kissed and we pulled away. I heard a voice.
“What just happened? Did you guys kiss?” Silver asked looking at me. I scrambled to act like it didn’t happen.
“No.”I said. she looked at me and frowned.
“Then why are your lips covered in pink lip gloss?” Silver said. I saw Shay blush. I wiped off the lip gloss. I Looked at Silver as she stomped away. She wasn’t happy. I got up after her.
“Silver! Silver wait!” I said, she turned around. She was crying.
“Why are you crying?” I asked her wiping off a tear.
“Because you don’t see it!” She said.
“See what?” I asked her.
“That...That I love you!” She said. Then something happened when we were both leaning down to kiss each other, everything got hot, I heard a loud noise, then everything went black.
When I opened my eyes there were remains of the camp site. I tried to get up but a voice said,
“Don’t move. You’re bleeding in the back of your head.” It was Maxie. I looked at her.
“What happened?” I said confused. She looked at me.
“Explosion. I’m going around and trying my best to heal everyone. I also have power over medicine and healing.” She said. My head soon felt better and I got up. I remembered Silver.
“Silver! SILVER!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. I ran to the sound of groaning. It was Silver. Her head looked fine, but her right arm and side didn’t. I took her hand and squeezed it. Maxie ran over. And examined her.
“3 broken ribs, sprained wrist, 2 broken fingers, and dislocated shoulder.” She said. Rose came over and made some ice and gave me the first pouch. Then they put some on Silvers injuries. Her left hand was the one that was broken, so she could still somewhat fight. I took her knife and then I had an idea. I took out my carving knife and carved a hole in the bottom. I took some chain and her bracelet and found a way to make it work. Now she had an easy way to retrieve her knife. It would be cuffed to her wrist so she could pull it back. She managed a smile then stopped. She clinched her teeth. I let go of her hand. I leaned down. I kissed her.
"Break it up. I have to heal her." I stood up and stared at her. Eventually Maxie won so I walked away. I heard Silver scream as Maxie fixed her shoulder. I got to the others. I got to Shay and she ran and hugged me tight.
"Babe! You're all right!" She exclaimed. I hugged her and she kissed me. I didn't feel as happy as I did with Silver. We pulled apart and I sat down next to TJ. We sat down and looked at the fire. We were silent until Maxie and Silver came back. Silver was busted up. She shot me a look. Don't tell anybody. She said. I nodded. She sat next to me and Maxie sat next to Cassy.
"Move Airhead."
"Sad you didn't die in the explosion Mudface."
"If not, who would've mended you're head? It was cracked open and even TJ can't do that. You were lucky we need you." Maxie told her. I took Maxie's side. Rose glared at both girls and they shut up. We sat at the campfire and Rose went to fix the camp site with magic. I looked around and saw Silver. She was lightly touching her lips. She looked at me and gave me a look that said,
Don’t tell anyone we kissed, Maxie will keep the secret too.
I nodded. I turned to Rose and she walked away to fix our camp. TJ was gone too. Shay got up and went through our huge backpacks and grabbed graham crackers, math mellows, and chocolate.
"Oh my gosh! Chocolate!" Maxie exclaimed as she saw Shay pull out the food. She ran and grabbed some sticks. She came back and we all got marshmallows on them. We roasted them on the fires and made s'mores. I saw Adam turn around and pull out a huge bar if chocolate. Maxie squealed and at her s'more. We laughed when she finished the s'more to devour the chocolate bar the size of her arm. Rose came back with TJ and gave us some good news.
"I fixed the camp with magic. Now, the tents are bigger and better." Rose told us all. We cheered with marshmallows sticking our mouths shut. We finished our campfire treat and walked back to camp.
One week later everyone was better and we were traveling. I heard Maxie call Cassy 'Airhead' and I laughed a little bit. We had reached a beach and it was sunset. Cassy set up camp with Rose, but Rose looked irritated. I sat on the pink sand an watched the sunset. Maxie sat next to me.
"So Adam does fire. Does that mean if you were single you would date me?" I asked her, joking. She laughed a little bit. She was pretty.
"I would still be single and not date you." She told me. Silver walked over.
"I better go." Maxie said and she walked away. Silver sat down next to me. I looked at her eyes. She turned to me and we jerked back to watching the sunset. I put my arm around her, no need for the old yawning trick. She got a little closer and put her head on my shoulder. I put my head on top of her head and we watched the sunset. I looked behind my shoulder too see everyone going into the tents. She looked behind also and stood up,
“We better get to bed because everyone else is.” She said. I started to protest when she leaned over and kissed me. I relaxed and kissed her back. She put her hands around my neck and I put my hands on her waist. She pulled away and said,
“I’ve been wanting to kiss you for so long.” She got up and went to bed. I stared at her as she walked away. I went to my tent and laid down thinking about the kiss.
Chapter 4
Silver
The secret comes out.
When I kissed Mike I felt like I was floating in air with 1000 butterflies stampeding my stomach. I smiled as I walked back to my tent. I laid down and slept. And my dream started:
“Hello there Silver.” A male voice said. I looked around. Then I saw him. He was tall, lanky, had black hair, and green eyes. I had seen his picture before in the news paper. I knew exactly who he was. Magic’s worst enemy, worse than Yak-face. The nations leader. Zach.
“Yes, it is me Zach. The human leader. Not yours though. At least in your mind.” He said. How did her get in my dreams?!
“How did you get in my dreams?!” I yelled to him.
“Magic, someone on my team, not important, I don’t want to kill you. Betray your friends and help us and you can be my right hand, or my girlfriend. Don’t worry, I’m only 17.” He said. I spit in my dream. He smiled. Then he turned my attention to the wall.
“Or you’re precious mom and dad can go bye bye.” He said.
“Don’t do it Silver!” My mom yelled.
“Stay strong! KEEP GOING!” My dad yelled. I saw something shock them.
“What did you do to them!” I demanded.
“They are still living, don’t worry. But now you have to choose. Friends, or family?” He said. I shot up in bed. We were on a boat. I got up and looked around my tent. I walked out.
“We can only stay on this for 1 more day. They’ll be searching for boats. Especially this one.” Rose said. I cleared my throat. They turned around.
“Hi Silver!” Rose said. She got up and put something in my hands, a bowl of soup. I ate it slowly and listened. What I gathered was that Rose made this boat with ice and we were sailing with her water power. But Yak-face would be looking for us boat, submarine, and foot. It was dangerous to not be moving.
“What do you think we should do Silver?” Rose asked. I stood up.
“I think what if we go air?” I suggested.
They looked at each other and Cassy stood up.
“Why not? Mud face or someone else could provide the thing we are in and I can set cruise control in the wind for just us. So we would have our own private bubble of air moving us basically.” She said, thankfully taking my side. They docked us and we quickly moved. I got stuff of the boat, the boys kept guard and the rest made the plane. Things were going good and we were about to climb on when we heard footsteps. We grabbed our weapons and about 35 men came out of the trees. Then my target came out, Yak-face. We all charged at each other. I used my power at first. I have power over mist and a special silver mist that puts people to sleep. So I granted everyone I was protecting the power over not falling asleep and seeing through my mist. I sent out my silver mist and about 10 people fell asleep. Then I made normal mist and we charged. I slashed one guy on the neck. Then I stabbed another through the heart, I sent my knife into the lung of one sleeping guy. I was getting closer to Yak-face. I kept slashing and stabbing till I got to him. He threw something at me. It sliced the top of my shoulder. I couldn’t fall down then he’d have me, so I stood standing. He sliced my cheek and my stomach. My lungs burned from the energy I used to make the mist. I took my sword when we was laughing and stabbed at him. I hit something metal and I pulled away. I had gone straight through Yak-face’s heart, what had I touched? When I pulled my sword out Yak-face fell to the ground. And there stood one of the most handsomest men I ever saw.
He was about 6’1” he had black and red hair, and green eyes.
“Hi, I’m Keith.” He said. I kept my sword up.
“I’m Silver. Are you going to the Safe Land?” I asked slowly. He smiled.
“Yes I am. Are you?” He asked.
“Yes. Me and my group of friends are.” I realized the mist was dissolving. He grabbed my waist and spun me behind him and killed one guy who tried to kill me. He turned around and saw my cuts. He took out a waterbottle and a cloth and cleaned them up.
“This may be a little forward of me, but you’re very beautiful.” He told me.
“And you’re very handsome.” I told him. We stood up and walked to the group.
“Guys this is Keith, he’s a runaway as well.” I said.
“What’s your power?” Maxie asked.
“I’m a air spirit.” He said. We made introductions and climbed in the airplane and took off.
“Hey Silver.” Keith said as he walked over to me. I was sitting on the edge of our plane, looking down at the ocean. As Keith sat down, his arm brushed my shoulder and my heart fluttered and did a backflip. Our feet were dangling off the side, but I looked out wards, my peanut butter chocolate hair blowing behind my face.
"Those emerald green eyes are sparkling." Keith whispered. I giggled a little bit. I fiddled aroun with my bracelet. It held a colada that is the only thing my birth dad gave me before u went I the foster home. Keith noticed and I stopped. I didn't really like the air. I wanted to be in the water, there was when my mist was the best. I turned to Keith.
"I have a question to ask you." I said. He nodded.
"Shoot."
"Do you believe in, well, the thought that dreams show what you desire?"
"Ya, I do. I know about nightmares, I've had more then I've asked for. Something evil knows everyone's fears. Magical people just figure them differently. You just had a nightmare and can't sleep. Right?"
I stared at Keith. He looked away, his face was a lobster. I looke up.
"I love the stars. They just make everything romantic." I sighed. Keith looked back over and brushed some hair from my face, but he kept his hand behind my head, firmly but yet softly. He got a little closer. So did I. We leaned in and our lips touched. I felt hot, as if I was on fire. I go up and started spinning for no reason, I hit Keith and we fell onto the grass floor of the plane and stood up I hugged him goodnight and went to bed. I saw Rose sleeping so I hopped into bed, I couldn't stop smiling. I fell asleep.
"Silver! Silver! I can't move!" I heard Mike tell out in pain. I was running to find him in a volcano, at the edge off the cliff. I ran and knocked him over. I watched as Maxie calmed down the lava and move it to make a shield of earth. She ran over as I got off of him to heal Mike. I watched as she healed him then he leaned down. She kissed him right as I woke up from the dream. I sat straight up and jumped out of bed. I ran to the kitchen tent to make breakfast. I sat down and TJ and Adam brought me a plate of breakfast sausages, pancakes, and some scrambled eggs. I dug in the grabbed some juice. I finished in about 3 minutes flat. I washed my bowl, (again, we are magic so don’t think we have five star service in a tent) and then walked out onto the plane floor. I saw everyone head back to the tents. I turned to sit down and look at the sky. I heard footsteps. Keith sat down. We were silent for a while, then he scooted a little closer. Then closer. Finally his hand was on mine. I looked down at my sneakers dangling off the edge. My feet were in them, so I wouldn’t lose them. My face felt hot. He locked his fingers in mine. I pulled my hand out.
“Right now, this doesn’t feel right. I mean, we are running away and almost dieing so I shouldn’t be kissing a random guy.” I said. He stood up and grabbed my shoulders and turned me around.
“What are you doing?!?” I screamed at him. He kept a tight grip on my shoulders and went to kiss me. I screamed for help before his lips touched mine. Mike ran in and saw I was struggling to get away. He pulled Keith away and punched him straight across the face.
“Dude! That burned!” Keith said holding his cheek. He turned to me.
“Baby, I’m hurt, kiss it better?” He said, then he leaned in for another forced kiss, but Mike caught him and punched him across the face again. Then Mike kneed him straight in the stomach. The back door opened some. Mike kept beating down Keith then stopped. Keith slowly got up and smiled.
“You’re all dead, I was working for Yak-face, he assigned me to kill him so I could gain your trust and lead my team to wherever y’all run to.” Mike grabbed him and punched him again. I went over and punched him straight across the face and kicked him in the chest.
“You don’t force a girl to kiss you!” I said. Mike pushed him closer to the edge when Keith said,
“You guys are as dead as me. My team is behind me.” He smiled. Mike pushed him out of the airplane. He turned around and ran to me. He grabbed me in a bear hug.
“Don’t ever be alone with another strange guy again.” He said. He looked at me straight in the eye.
“You got that?” He asked. I nodded. He looked at me and said,
“I love you Silver, don’t risk your life again.” We leaned in for a kiss and I heard a familiar loud sound, heat, but this time I felt falling.
Chapter 5
Mike
Someone’s end
Silver was hanging onto me for life but she fell off. I have been skydiving before, so I leaned down to get to her. I finally did, but someone else caught her on their back, Rose. I rolled my eyes as she tried to try slow our fall. The strain on her face told me she was in pain, and it was really draining. I heated my palms up and fire came out and it was slowing our fall and that made Silver come to senses. She created mist the made us sleep, but kept up alive. We all stopped our power, Silver looked gassed. We fell fast into the blue ocean below us.
I opened my eyes and paddled up to the surface of the ocean. I never learned to swim very well, I am a fire user. I looked around and saw Rose dunking us and down for the rest. I guided some to the shore. There was one person left. Shay but her body was limp and not moving. I grabbed her and carried her to shore. When we got there we listened for a heartbeat and looked for a pulse, none. She was dead. Maxie rushed over and shoved out of the way. She was surprisingly strong.
“Move it McKnight.” She said angrily. She thumped on Shay and pressed her chest. She grabbed her medical kit and tried to revive her. Nothing good happened. I laid down. It didn’t make sense. Why take Shay, sure she didn’t do much, but she was fun, she lightened the mood. I thought it over and eventually fell asleep. When I woke up Silver was laying right next to me. She was awake. I sat up and looked at her. I took her hand and interlocked it in mine. She sat up to. We looked at the ocean. I was thinking about the past, we used to have fun, running at the beach. I remember the first time we went together, alone. I remember when we went to see that movie six months ago. I remember it all. I miss it all. I almost wished I was normal, mortal. I looked at Silver.
“Mike, I miss it too, but we have to move on, keep going. When we get to the marking island..” Silver trailed off. I knew what she meant.
“When we get there we will be safe.” I said quietly. I looked towards the water again.
“McKnight.” Maxie said, she was poking at me, giving me a hard time. I laughed a little bit and left Maxie to care for Silver. Before I walked away I said one last thing.
“Drew, take good care of her while I’m gone.” MAxie laughed a little bit and nodded.
I looked at the stars on the beach. I saw everyone else walk onto the island, but they came back. I heard more footsteps.
“Don’t hurt me Mike Knight. I’m just here to give you your marking..” A man in a suit said to me. Maxie, Rose, TJ, and Adam all nodded in approval. I stepped forward and he pulled a sheet of designs out of nowhere. There were maybe 30 designs at the least. I scanned them all. I finally saw one, a flame. I told the man the one and pointed to my inner wrist. He led me into the forest and sat me down on a chair. He had me hold my left wrist out and took fire to it, but this fire I couldn’t control. It was a purple colored fire, when he touched it to my skin I was in pain. But to much pain for I was finally, the pain stopped. I relaxed, but my body was numb from the few minutes of the fire. My wrist was very red, but not burnt. I got up and walked out of the forest. I showed Silver my arm.
“McKnight, you didn’t know what was coming, you couldn’t have survived if you weren’t a fire user.” Maxie said looking at it said and Rose made ice for me. I watched as the man came back for Silver. I watched as she chose her marking.
Chapter 6
Silver
Fight or flight
I watched as the suited man pulled a sheet of designs from thin air. I scanned them, carefully choosing my marking. I carefully reminded myself I was born in Australia, to keep a sign from there. I saw the marking I wanted. It was in the form of an Australian coin, I told the man and he led me into the forest. I looked back at my friends then continued. I stopped at a chair and sat in it. I showed the man the lower left part of my palm and he nodded, never saying a word. He grabbed an Australian coin from his pocket I told him I wanted it green and silver. He made the symbol searing hot and he placed it on my skin. It stayed there for a few minutes then it was taken off, it turned out like a tattoo. I looked at my purple, the symbol was silver and green, like I wanted. I smiled and started to head back to my friends when the man stopped me and said,
“I hope you know of the power of the symbol you’ve chosen.” He said. Then he walked off without saying another word. I walked back to my friends and showed them my symbol. They all gasped and I pulled back my hand to see my symbol glowing then I felt it get hot and then it died down, my coin sat there in my hand. Then it grew into a sword. We looked at it. Now the guy made sense. It grew into a sword, or a dagger. I knew a dagger because it shifted to a dagger next. Then we heard footsteps and we turned around. There was about 40 guys and 10 girls with weapons. I grabbed my dagger. Sword, please, I need a sword. I thought. I felt my weapon grow into a sword. I grabbed the hilt. I looked at my sword it had an ivory and silver blade. The hilt was pitch black. They charged at us. I lifted up my blade and blocked one guys stab and I got my normal knife and threw it into the neck of another person. I retrieved it. I stabbed another through the stomach. I put out a fog and a sleeping mist, the fog affected everybody accept for me and my friends. The sleeping mist affected about 20 or so people. We killed those people. Then we continued down the path of killing people and almost being killed. We were down to about 10 people when I was fighting one and someone grabbed my from behind and put their hand over my mouth. They nodded to the others and they ran off and jumped into a plane. They guy holding me said,
“Say goodbye to Silver.” Then also got on. I was a captive.
They tied my hands together and I disarmed me. But my coin quickly came back and went back to being a tattoo. I thought my coin was really cool. I wanted to name it. So I named it Ferecity. So I as soon as I did that I got to my plan. I sat quiet for about 15 minutes acting like I was asleep, but here’s what was really going on in my mind:
I can call Ferecity out and than use the dagger to cut my ropes and then quickly switch it to a sword. . . but wait, they could over power me and figure out my secret of my tattoo and do something to it. . . . . . . . . . . . I KNOW! I’ll make one guy cut my ropes! I have to try the moving mist, I have to!
Moving mist is like my sleeping mist, but it puts the person in a trance and then I can move them around. So that’s what I did. Soon I had one guy get up and cut my ropes. The others looked at him. As they were fighting him I got up and called Ferecity out. I grabbed the hilt of my sword and found the hatch for the door. I’d have to risk it. I hit the open lever and it opened. Everyone looked at me, the new head apparently named Jake yelled some commands but I didn’t listen I grabbed my sword and jumped. On the way down I didn’t scream I thought of ways to slow my fall to the ocean below me. I remembered that mist is made of water and air. So I had to have power over that right? I concentrated and felt the movement of waves in my gut I pulled up hoping that water came with it. I felt something warm touch my toe. A big column of water had sprouted up. I let myself fall into it. I let the water go and I fell and soon hit the ocean. I expected to die or fall to pieces but instead I felt relief and like I just did a cannonball into a pool. I wasn’t hurt. I could hear Jake screaming but I couldn’t understand him 3,109 miles up in the air.
Woah, how did I just estimate that? I thought. Duh, dumby mist involves the air do you have power over air as well. Something in the back of my mind told me. I just didn’t bother on what it was. Instead I focused my power to hear. I floated on my back and listened to Jake talk to one of his guys.
“Sir, she’s dead, no one can survive a 3,000 foot drop. Only someone with the power over water can. She had power over the mist. Not water, nothing concerning water.” He said. Jake smiled.
“Then that means we just eliminated one person of the group. Let’s go find the others.” He said. As soon as the plane was out of sight I started swimming to the shore that didn’t contain their castle base.
When I finally got there I had probably swum an hour. I got out and looked around. There was some tall grass that I could weave to put water in, but I’d have to find a stream first. Or at least boil some water. But I didn’t want to boil salt water. So I headed off into the forest in survival mode. I was prepared to fight for food, water, anything.
Chapter 7
Mike
Missing.
As soon as she was taken we all panicked. TJ stood up but then fell for he had a bad cut on his leg. Adam went to help him. I started yelling some pretty bad things and then I turned to Cassie.
“Can you track them? PLEASE TELL ME YOU CAN.” I yelled.
“Calm down Mckinght, of course Cassie can track them, why do you think she’s been so quiet? Cassie’s been tracking them. Let her finish, then she’ll tell us what she saw.” Maxie said. Rose sat me down and handed me some water. I drank it slowly, hoping she was fine. Or still alive. Crap, what if she was dead. I’d never see her pretty face, or hear her sweet laugh, or listen to her rant about the different types of mist again. I started hyperventilating and thought more about it.
What if she died? What if she will die thinking of me? NO WE HAVE TO HELP HER! I thought. Then everything went black.
I woke dazed and on the beach. Maxie was healing my head.
“Passed out Mcknight,.” she told me. “How stupid could you be? Hyperventilating seriously? If you’d of listen to us you would’ve heard that Silver is alive.” When she said that last part my heart jumped with joy, Silver is still alive!
“We have to find her! Make a boat or another plane or a car or something!” I said sitting up. Rose looked at me, her eyes were like ice shards in my eyes.
“What?” I asked.
“Look to your right McKnight.” She said. I wish people would stop calling me that, but I looked over and saw a boat. I jumped up and ran on it. I looked around and at the others.
“Hurry up! Silver needs our help!” I yelled. As the others climbed aboard I realized it was night.
“I, uh, I’m tired, I’ll go to bed in my tent.” I stammered. They all looked at me Adam stood up.
“All cool dude, we’ll find Silver.” He said. TJ stood up and said,
“Have a good rest, I think.” He said. I walked into my tent and zipped it up. That was close. I checked the day. The 21st of March, my birthday, the day my full powers came into effect.
“Wake up!” Maxie of all people yelled in my ear. I got up and came outside my tent. I saw shore ahead and lit up in flames. I put them out quickly but Maxie just laughed.
"We might need you if we are gonna build in the Safe Land. Fire and earth make bricks, remember? Basic fire an earth science. Now, just come on, we are almost at that beach then, we will find Silver." I smiled. I grabbed my backpack and cooked myself some soup. I ate it quickly then we were on the shore. I leaped out if the boat and ran as soon as my feet touched the ground. I found footprints and dashed after them. They stopped in the middle of the forest.
"Your girlfriend is here Micheal Andrew Knight."
"She isn't my girlfriend and how do you know my name?" I yelled to the voice. I saw what is was, a monster. She had the face if a raven and a body of a supermodel, she would've been pretty but her feet looked like boxes. She had wings coming out her back and she was clawing at the tree she was in. Grey and black feathers fell from her face, revealing Silver. I fell to my knees. I heard a muffled scream and ran it its direction. I found Silver tied up, hanging from a tree. Her marking was glowing. I threw fire up at the rope. It burned and she fell. I caught her and her eyes blared with anger. I burnt off her bonds and she winced. She got up and looked at me.
“That burned you know.” She said.
“I’ll find Rose to give you some water or ice.” I said I looked over and saw she was using water to heal her burn. My jaw dropped.
“You’re not a water user! You’re a fake Silver!” I got up to fight this fake Silver.
“No! I’m real! Look!” She held out her palm.
“Fire.” She said and a sword came out. I calmed down.
“Air and water go into mist so I can control those. That’s what I’ve been practicing for the past day.” She said. She saw the cut on my bicep and put some water to it. I looked into her storm green eyes and melted. We both leaned in and we kissed. I pulled away.
“I should tell the other’s I found you.” I said. I stood up then flashed back. Silver has gray eyes, not green I realized she was playing me, she was another bird lady. I got up and punched her. I knocked her down and pulled out a ball of poison and sent it down into her heart. She spassamed out. I heard laughing. The other weird bird lady flew down. I heard a faint muffled scream in the distance. I set fire to the weird things head and ran for the noise. I find the real Silver stuck up high to a pole, tied by a dozen ropes. I set fire to those and she fell down. She groans loudly. I helped her up and she looked mad at me. I undid the fabric around her mouth and she yelled some not so nice things at the bird ladies and me. I put the fabric back on and I heard a muffled laugh. I undid her bonds and she took of the fabric. She looked at me.
“I hate you. You could’ve saved me. And you fell for Sheforma thinking she was me.” She said.
“Who’s She- Sheformia?” I asked
“Sheforma. She’s the girl that looked like a bird lady. And one of them looked like me. Their weakness is they can never perfect the person they are trying to look like.” She said. That explained the green eyes instead of gray. I felt ashamed. I stood up.
“Come on, lets go find our friends.” I said. She stood up and looked at me, she still seemed mad. I led her to the ship.
"You are such and idiot." Silver whispered to herself. I laughed.
"Shut it McKnight. You aren't my m ought in shining armor yet." I stopped in my tracks. I whooped around and looked at her. She glared at me and kept walking.
"Gosh, moody much?" I whispered.
"Shut. It." She growled. I went quiet, she may be a girl but she can fight.
When we got to the boat, it was dark out and there was a fire going with the guides. I sat down next to Adam when Silve plopped down beside Maxie. She glared at me, I had no clue what I did wrong. She saw my confused look and rolled her eyes and turned away.
"What's with Silver?" Adam asked me. I shook my head and shrugged. Adam waved and Silver smiled, but I waved, she gave me the death stare. Everyone went to their tents later and I tried to talk to Silver.
"What's wr-"
"Shut up McKnight. I could've died from your mistake. You went too far. Maxie needs to help you. Or at least Adam. Never let that happen again. I can't believe you even kissed that, that thing. I can't believe you. Honestly, I'm not over reacting. What would you do if I kissed a bird-man-thing?" She stared me down. She is so pretty when she is angry. She slapped me. I rubbed my face.
"What was that for?"
"Don't think like that. I'm mad at you, idiot." She growled at me. I tried not to smile, but I did so she pinched a part of my neck and I fell to my knees a bit. She let go and walked away. I swear she cracked a smile. She kept walking. I got up and went to my tent.
Chapter 8
I get to meet Death.
“Gosh. He is so stupid.” I laughed as I ate caramel and chocolate candies. Maxie and Rose were there laughing too. We sat and talked for awhile then Maxie said something that made me stop.
“You know, you might be with McKnight just because you both went through a lot and now, you are kinda running away together. I think that your heart is looking for someone to lean on.” Maxie told me.
“But I talk to you a lot.” I said. She nodded. I looked to the door. It was late and I saw a shadow. My heart skipped a beat. Next thing I know, I’m on top of Mike with my knife at his neck. I was about to get up but then, I saw his eyes. His eyes were gray this time. I slashed Mike- I mean the bird thing’s neck and it turned and ran.
I ran right into a tree as I almost got to the others. I heard laughing and felt ice in my forehead. I put my hand on it and sat up. I could see Mike pounding then ground in laughter. I was fine. I got up and decided to go look out at the water. I sat down by the water and started practicing with it. I flashed back to when I got captured.
“Silver! SILVER!” A familiar voice yelled.
“Hunny? Where are you?” Another one yelled.
“Mom! Dad!” I screamed. What were they doing there?
“We see you come a bit closer!” Mom yelled. I put my weapons down I walked through the trees and saw them. I looked at them, dad had red hair and mom was 6’7”.
“This isn’t right... Dad you have brown hair and mom you’re 5’6.” I said I got out my knife. My “mom” snatched out a grabbed it. She put it up against my neck. My “dad” tied me up. Then they revealed their true form.
“Sheformias!” I screamed.
“Welcome to our island darling. This is where we are born and raised. TO KILL AND EAT HUMANS. But we’ll wait for your little boyfriend and friends before we feed.” They laughed evily.
I shook my head and kept practicing with water. I tried to focus, but the ball I was making exploded. I move onto air, but it didn't last long.
"My powers are fading!" I yelled in frustration.
"No they aren't, they just aren't your powers. You may have control over mist, but with you, air and water choose when you can handle them. And obviously, they wanna hang with Air Head and Rose. You should leave that stuff to them anyways." Maxie explained to me.
"That wasn't a question. Silver Slate, always behind." I grumbled.
"Precious Metals, don't be like that. When you deal with air you become just like AirHead. When you deal with water, that just makes you overly confident and eventually think you are better than the goddesses of that. If you have powers over three, it will only get to your head." She continued. She made a chair out of earth-woah- and made one for me. I sat down and made little mist movements. My burn was still bad so I put some mist on it. Maxie shook her head and smashed I away. She grabbed a medical kit- where did that come from?- and treated my burn. She then wrapped a bandage around it and looked to me. I pulled my arm back and looked and my wrist. There was a little scar. I remembered how I was cutting lettuce when I was 7 and cut myself. I could still feel it bleed. I rubbed it with my thumb and looked to the water. It shimmered and sparkled but I wasn't feeling better.
I layed down to get some rest. When I woke back up Maxie sat in front of me with a guilty expression on her face. She instantly replaced it with a smile. Her eyes glittered with sadness, and self-hatred. She got up and I did too. We went to the main tent and ate some breakfast. Everyone but Rose was there. They said she was sleeping late.
“You know, Adam, you make really good sausage!” I said with a mouthful of breakfast sausage, pointing my fork at Adam. He smiled with pride. Everyone nodded heads and stuffed themselves. My plate was empty, so I got up for more eggs, sausage, and bacon. I refilled my cup with OJ and sat back down. I dug in. When everyone else left, Maxie and I were the only one’s left in the tent.
“What happened last night?” I asked her as I stuffed some bacon in my mouth. She let out a sigh and began.
“Look, don’t judge me, okay?” I nodded. “I was walking on the beach with Adam, it was so romantic, when I made a little picnic with the basket of food and the blanket I brought. We were eating the sandwiches I brought-and made- when I saw someone walking and watching us. I set down my sandwich, and I threw up the earth where she was standing. She was Rose.” Maxie was choking up, almost crying. Then, she just balled. “I don’t- don’t know where-where she is!” She was barely audible. I gave her a hug and wiped her eyes. When her face was dry I sprayed a cool mist on her face to take the swollen, puffy, bloodshot eyes away. She looked better.
“It will be okay. We will find her, and she can survive on her own. Remember how you ran off. Remember she took care of you. Remember it, don’t dread it.” I whispered. She pulled away and nodded. She was really shaken up.
“Do the others know?”
“Yeah. And they want me to be the leader now. Please help out. ” Maxie pleaded. I agreed and we got everyone together. We talked about strategies to find her. We looked at Cassy.
“Looks like I’m the leader now. Maxie, massage my feet.” Cassy said with a stern look.
“Act like that and the only thing you will get is a punch to the face. Maxie is the leader. Everyone knows that except you. Just see if you can find Rose.” I growled.
Cassy concentrated and she opened her eyes.
“Got about five people coming here. Get ready to battle, but don’t attack.” Cassy snapped. I rolled my eyes and got my dagger. I had undid the chain a while ago. I sat down by the tent and played with my bracelet. There was a charm on it, like a puppy’s paw. I looked up. I heard rustling in the bushes. I saw Rose. She had bigger feet. Then I realized it was a Sheforma. She ran for Maxie and I jumped on it. I had my dagger and mist added the chain. I stabbed the monster and it bit my neck. My tattoo glowed. Everything went black.
"We'll come on. I don’t have all day." I heard a man say. He wore a black cloak and hood. I realized I was sitting in a room. Like a real estate office. The man took off the cloak to reveal, well, the hottest guy ever. He held out his hand and pulled me up. He shook his head and his short brown hair fell. His blue eyes looked into me. He sat me down and asked a question.
"Is it her time to die?" I realized he talked into an earpiece. He nodded at the other persons comment.
"Miss, you are not supposed to be dead. Unless you want to be, you should exit out that door." He pointed his hand to the door. I got up and thanked him, but opened the door.
I opened my eyes and saw everyone walking away.
"Shes dead. We are too late." Maxie sighed. I sat up and groanEd. My head hurt badly. Mike turned around to look at me one more time. He saw me breathing. He ran to me.
“I found her!” Mike yelled. Everyone else ran over. He looked looked at Maxie.
“What is it Mike?” I heard Maxie say. “Maxie she’s struggling for her life.” He said.
"Shut up. McKnight. Still not in shining armor."
Chapter 9
Mike
Silver
I sat there and looked at Silver. Maxie had been hovered over Silver for 30 minutes. Adam walked over.
“Hey dude, I’m sorry about Silver man.” He said. He sat down and looked at me.
“Your talking as if she is already dead.” I said. I looked at him. He breathed in and held it for a minute. I let my mouth fall.
“You believe she’s really going to die don’t you?” I asked him, he started to nod but Maxie walked over. She looked at me.
“Maxie?” I asked. I looked behind her and Silver was gone. Where’s her body? I thought. I got ready to say something and I heard someone say,
“Mike?” It sounded like Silver. I stood up and looked around for her. Maxie stepped back and TJ was holding Silver in his arms she looked at me.
“Silver!” I said. I got her in my arms. She smiled. There was a scar on her neck I went to lightly kiss her but she pushed me aggressively away. I set her on the ground.
“Mike, no, lay off of the lovey-dovey stuff. ” She looked at Maxie.
“And I’m not going to practice water and air either.” She said. I nodded at the first thing she said. I looked around.
“We should probably get going on the road now. Quick.” I said.
“But what about Rose? I can’t leave her. I just can’t!!” Maxie screamed in my face. I nodded. Maxie slapped me .Silver stood up.
“Woah be careful Silver.” I said. Her coin glowed and out came a sword. She grabbed Maxie’s hand and pulled her off into the woods. I followed them with my sword. We got in a heard a loud scream.
“MAXIE!!!!!!”
We ran off towards the scream. We found Rose. She was in the middle of a fire. Maxie looked at Silver.
“Water! Create water!” She said. Silver looked at her.
“I can’t!” She said. Her eyes flickered from the blue to amber, and it seemed like a cruel trick. Then, she turned into a sheforma. Maxie cussed out the bird lady, and ran into the fire. She was burning while punching the bird across the face. I laughed a little then saw how everyone was looking and stopped. The bird went unconcios and the fires dies down. MAxie walked out, her face tear stained and she had a firey look in her eyes.
“Let’s go.” She said. She sounded deeper, more protected. She put up and emotional wall when fighting the sheforma. She lead us out while TJ help treat her burns. Silver was spraying icy mist on her too. We got back to camp and saw a spirit. Maxie ran over and the spirit became a woman.
“Mom!” Maxie whispered as she saw the lady. She started bawling. She collapsed into the fetal position. Her mom-or goddess?- picked her up and help her, singing a song. She stopped crying and the woman said in a voice that was sweet as honey,
“Darling, Drew, Rose is alright. Your sister is safe, but if she doesnt follow my guidince, she could die.” Maxie calmed down a little and we heard rustling. A man came out and gave a report to the woman. She sent us on our way.
“There is the cave!” Maxie screamed with joy. She ran into the metal bars and she turned rock, and the bar shattered. She was normal again and she ran into someones arms. I heard a familiar voice.
“Maxie! I can’t believe you found me! Oh my word!” Rose sobbed. They were clearly excited to be reunited. TJ stormed in as Maxie let go and kissed Rose. I frowned. Silver playfully punched my arm I smiled and walked in. I saw Rose sitting down, she looked like she was in pain. A rose was next to her, wow. Three petals were dead. Rose explained that three days ago, she got desperate. She tied her life to it temporarily till we found her, now that she was found, she lives until killed or some natural thing. We started walking and then we saw and icicle. Rose ran around, careful to be a yard away.
“Ice.” She muttered. I took note that something happened and we would have to let her recover. We got back to the tents and we packed up after a meal. We looked at Rose. She shook her head.
“Fine, I’ll make a boat then.” Maxie said. In a minute we had a nice big boat. Maxie smiled
“Two levels. One for the boys and one for the girls.” She said. We climbed on and took off quickly she showed me to my tent on the second level. I decided to climb in and just go to sleep. I finally fell asleep.
“The boy will never make it alive. He will choose for us to take his life, not hers. In fact he will do it without knowing. He is stupid that way.” A deep creepy voice said. I looked around. I felt like I was in a place I do not want to visit.
“Okay master but what about Death? He might let him back out, so he could live.” A different voice said. Then they came into sight, there was a tall black figure. About 15 feet high and I couldn’t see the face. The other looked like a over hairy person talking.
“Shut up you moron! Death will be on our side. Death has always had an evil side to him. Now change and go follow them. Make sure the boy does not make it to the gates alive.” The other figure said. The hairy figure ‘moron’ shifted into a wolf and ran off. The big black guy looked straight at me. He pulled down his hood. There stood a guy who looked just like Silver’s lost brother. But he had more of an ugly face, plus that couldn’t be him. He was pronounced dead 3 years ago. The guy cracked a smile showing he had very crooked teeth.
“Hello there boy. Time to wake up. You have company.” Then I woke up to screaming and monster sounds.
I jumped out of bed and and threw on a shirt and grabbed my sword and a javelin. I ran to the top floor and saw that there was a pack of werewolves. I tried to think of everything I learned and Silver taught me about them.
“Guys! When they are in their wolf form they are weaker! Try to hit them from the side or back.” I yelled. I ran after one of them. I jumped up before it bit me and did a flip in air. I started to fall straight down towards it’s open mouth. I pulled out my javelin and sent it straight through his skull. I pulled it out. Another wolf lunged for me. I must of killed his brother, or sister. I sent the javelin straight through the roof of his mouth. He fell to the floor. I kept killing wolves and I got to the one in my dream. It shifted into it’s hairy form.
“You’re a good fighter. Too bad I have to go now.” It disappeared and then I heard the explosion that sent me flying.
“Mcknight! Mcknight!” Maxie yelled. I opened my eyes. I was in the water. Maxie was on a piece of floating land. She looked good. She put her hands on my chest.
“Maxie what are you doing? Listen I like you but you’re with Adam-” I started coughing to be precise I was choking. She leaned down and put her ear to my chest. She hit it a couple times and I spitted out water.
“And I wasn’t making a move Mcknight. I was saving your life.” She got up and pulled my on the land. It was bigger than I thought. Rose sat on it staring off into space. Maxie added some sides to our makeshift boat and raised us adding more land. I looked around.
“Where’s the map?” I asked. Maxie threw it to me.
“ I know where we are. We are a days journey away.”
“We are going to make it to the gates!” I said. I saw the sun and I sat on the edge of the boat. Everyone went to bed. I walked around the boat and found a ledge that was just glass. It was late but I walked into Silver’s tent anyways. I woke her up and I showed her to the place. We sat down, looking at the stars.
“You know, shining armor sounds pretty good.” Silver giggled. I smiled and said back,
“I haven’t gotten it yet? What do I have to do?”
“Die to save me.” She said. I stared at her.
“I would but, you seem to never need that.”
“Then you will never be my knight McKnight.” She whispered. Her gray eyes sparkled like silver. I put my hand in her and she looked at me. I kissed her. She kissed back a little, but pulled off of me.
“Mcknight, I don’t want a relationship right now.” She said.
“What’s with you? You used to be my friend. But now ever since you met Maxie you’ve been calling me Mcknight and dissing me. You’ve changed.” I said standing up. She got up as well.
“I just don’t want a relationship right now!” she exclaimed.
“I understand that but please don’t keep dissing me! Let me be your friend Silver!” I said. She looked at me.
“You are! You just don’t understand that-”” she said.
“You’re not acting like it.” I said. She nodded.
“I’m sorry.” she said then she ran off.
I walked back to my tent. I laid down and fell asleep.
Chapter 10
Silver
The end of Mike
We walked for a while after waking up. Soon Cassy smiled,
“Less than 23 miles.” She said, I smiled. We walked for awhile in silence then we saw a cave, and a beautiful woman walked out, she saw Rose and Mxie and ran down,
“Maxie! Rose! You’re safe! I was so worried! You’re less than an hour from the gates!” She
squealed, she saw how tired we all looked. She studied me and then looked at Mike she shivered.
“Wanna ride to the gates?” She asked we all nodded happily, she whistled and and a beautiful multi-colored ice and fire dragon appeared. Rose smiled.
“Ferecity! You guys this is my pet dragon.” She said, we all climbed on.
“Bye mom!” Rose and Maxie said. We took off, we started flying and it was cold up there. Mike decided to use fire to warm himself up. It all happened at once. Rose screamed “No!” Ferecity reacted and shook. I held on and looked back, Mike was falling, I looked at Cassy and she rolled her eyes, she flicked her hand up and he came flying back up. He was really shaken up. Maxie whistled and I saw a beautiful phoenix come over in the distance. Maxie smiled and petted her.
“Hey Blaze.” She said, she climbed on her phoenix and waited for anyone else. Mike looked over nervously.
“McKnight, you won’t be cold, and Blaze, she doesn’t care if fire is used on her, she is made of it.” Maxie explained as she sat on the phoenix, no saddle. She plucked at some flame and a beautiful feather came off. She put it back in the fire and it left. Mike climbed over and looked at me. I got over.
“Meet you at the gates!” Rose yelled. We flew off.
When we landed we saw the others we ran to them. We still had about a mile or two to walk, we started walking when a giant appeared. It looked straight at me and reached down to grab me when Mike jumped in front of me. The giant picked him up and Mike used fire on his hand. Mike climbed to the giant’s neck and stabbed down on his neck. The giant tried to swat him away but he quickly made it to the temple. He stabbed down into the temple. The giant started to fall. Mike climbed the opposite way the giant was falling. We stood there and watched. When the giant fell we ran to find Mike. He was on the ground under the giants hand somehow.
“MIKE!!!!!” I yelled. We lifted the hand off him and I picked up his head.
“Did I get my armor yet?” He asked. He was bruised and had broken bones. I looked at Maxie.
“HEAL HIM!” I screamed. She sat down.
“Hun, I can’t do anything. It’s his time and I don’t have power over that.” She said. I looked at Mike.
“Mike, stay with us! You can have your armor and you can have me! STAY WITH US!” I cried. He looked at me.
“You’re so beautiful, I’m glad your face will be the last one I see.” He looked at the others. I could badly see him through my flood of tears. I was gasping for and and sniffling like crazy, and making the weird noises that sound like laughter.
“Promise to keep her safe! Don’t let anything happen to her!” He said. They nodded and he looked back at me. I couldn't see now.
“Silver, I love you, and I always will. I’ll be your guardian angel.” He said. He managed to wipe my face, clearing some of my view. I kissed him.
“I love you too Mike.” I yelled. I kissed him again. I pulled away.
“I will always love you.” He said, then he went silent. I started hitting in the place of his heart.
“NO DON’T LEAVE! MIKE! MIKE! MIKE!” I screamed. Rose stood me up and held me. I was sobbing. I didn’t want him to die, I wanted him to be my knight in shining armor. I reached for my dagger, I was going to join him wherever he was. But Cassy suspected this. She blew a gust of wind and took my weapons. I felt a cold breath on my neck. I whipped around.
I say Shay’s half-solid spirit.
“Why did you kill him?!” She shrieked, grabbing my neck. Cassy blew me my dagger now and I slashed the weird soul.
“I didn't kill him.”
“He loved me, you just couldn’t handle it. HE was always pretending you were me.” she muttered as if to change my mind. All my fears of my life, I had faced them with Mike. I al turned to anger. I slashed her neck. She was now bleeding, but silver blood. Rose was yelling in my ear but I didn't bother to listen. We fought. I was growing tired, so was Shay.
I touched her blood and licked my fingertip. My lungs burned, my stomach felt like it was being boiled and fried. I needed to throw up. I collapsed. I blinked back tears like I was on steroids. I then felt a surge of strength, relief. I saw Mike’s spirit watching. He gave me a wink and I hit Shay once more. Her spirit fell and she got up and floated away in the speed of light. Mike’s spirit got into his body once more. Mike came over and picked me up like a princess.
“Oh, my knight had saved me!” I said in a stupid voice We laughed and kissed.
Mike carried me to the gates. They showed them my palm and we were let in. Before we walked in, Mike set me down.
“I love you.” He whispered. We hugged and I told him that I loved him too. Mike made a pose like a knight and his body fell. His spirit was still there. He flew off. I felt tears falling. Adam wiped them and hugged me.
“You, you are like my little sister now. I will try to take care of you.” He said to me. Maxie and Rose took me to my house right next to theirs. They put me in bed and let me sleep. I woke up and Mike’s angel was next to me. I sat up.
“Mike?” I whispered.
“I told you I’d be your guardian angel.” He said. He picked up something from his pocket. His necklace that he always wore. He made himself from fire. I put in my hand. I fiddled with the dog tag that had a flame and now a wave.
“I’ll always be where you are even if you can’t see me.” He said. I put it around my neck. He stood up.
“I gotta go now.” He said. I started to open my mouth but he leaned down and kissed my forehead. I felt
“Try to move on, but please keep me in your heart.” He asked. I nodded he disappeared. I got out of bed, I walked out of the room where Rose and Maxie were.
“I’m ready to see the town.” I said. They eyed the necklace. They seemed to know what happened. They nodded and showed me around town. I met a lot of people. I was excited to make new friends and hang out with my old ones and the ones who moved here when I knew them. But there would always be a part of my heart that belonged to Mike, and it would stay that way. They showed me to the house they had made for me. I can’t wait to go and help guide some new people to the Safe Land with Maxie, Rose, Cassy, and the two boys. I wonder who we’ll meet.
Mike Knight
The begging
“Mike are you training right now?” My mom yelled interrupting my training with fire and poison. I grabbed a shirt and threw it on. And climbed down the ladder to my training room and went down stairs.
“Nah, I’m down stairs now.” I yelled to her grabbing a bottle of water. I walked to the living room and saw Silver there. She’s my best friend in the world she has the power over making people fall asleep and mist. Her hair is black and brown and her eyes are gray. She looked scared. She jumped up.
“Mike, they found out. Yak-face is coming for me, for us.” She said. I grabbed a bag I had ready for months of clothes my size, which was 6’4” and some food that was recently stored in there. I grabbed a brush for my brown hair and my contacts. We ran off. I had a secret way down my cliff. We climbed aboard my speed boat and we took off. I took out a magical map and looked at how far away we were from the Safe Land. “We are 3 weeks away from the Safe Land.” I
said upset. She just nodded. I looked ahead and kept our speed boat going at full speed.
“We have a full tank so we should be able to go for about a day or two, just going.” I said. I set us in course and sat down. I didn’t even say goodbye to my mom. I felt horrible. I pulled out a sleeping bag and let Silver slide into it. I sat at the drivers eat and stared out at the ocean. I heard Silver climb out of her sleepy bag and sit next to me.
"I've heard stories of how you are able to enter. I think you need I get a tattoo of something. I wonder what I can get." She said to me. I looked in her eyes.
"I'm just sick of fighting Yak-face. Hopefully someone would help us get there." I said as I turned my head to the water. I turned back to Silver after a few minutes.
"Silver, you better sleep." She nodded an went the the sleeping bag. I heard soft snoring and smiled.
"Mike! Look out!" Silver screamed as she shoved me to the ground. I saw her clench her teeth. Her long hair covered her face. She got off me and moved the boat to the small island nearby. The boat was gonna last us another day, but we wanted to give it a break. She took out her knife and started walking into the island. I followed her.
"Don't ever scare me like that again. I can't believe they already found you." She said, smacking my face. Her fist hurt. She walked angrily towards a tree with coconuts. She threw up her knife and it wedged in the tree. She had attached a rope to it so she climbed up it. She punched off the coconuts and came down. She grabbed a bucket from the boat and set it down. She took a coconut and stabbed it. Milk drained out and she did that with the rest. I bottled it. I put the drinks into the boat and walked back to Silver. She was looking around the island.
“We can’t stay here tonight. We are going to sleep in the boat.” She said.
“Ok, but you need to do something else.”
“What?”
“Get out of that tree before the helicopter shoots you.” I said. She scrambled down and got to me. I grabbed her arm and led her into the rainforest. We stopped when the trees covered us. I sat down and a rock. She looked at me and sat down too. We heard footsteps and jumped up.
Chapter 2
We meet some more enemies
Silver
I had my knife drawn, but Mike was already at her throat. Ya, a her. His sword was at her neck, almost cutting her.
“Hey, uh, can you let me go now?” She asked, her brown eyes full of fear. Mike took down his sword and she said something else.
“I, uh, wanted to know if you were running to the Safe land too.” She said. We nodded.
“Thanks, can I come with?” She asked. We nodded. I smiled at her. She looked about 16. Our age. She looked at Mike and his eyes practically melted. I nudged him and he looked at me. I nodded and we started walking to our boat. We got to the beach and the girl climbed in the boat.
“What is your name anyway?” I asked her.
“Oh, sorry. I’m Shay.” She told us.
“I’m Mike.” Mike told her.
“I’m Silver.” She smiled. We got in the boat and watched the sunset. It was really late. I looked at Shay but she fell asleep. I closed my eyes too.
“Wake up.” Mike said, shaking me.
“I’m up!” I said. I was sitting down drinking coconut milk. Shay was too, so was Mike. We put down the drinks and started the boat and headed away. We watched the water and drove for hours. We finally saw the sunset. The gas was running really low. We ran out of gas as we pulled up to a large island. I got out and walked straight to the woods. Mike and Shay were following. Then I saw 10 people in front of us. They charged and I pulled up my knife. I slashed one on the neck and he fell. I charged for my second kill and kicked his chest, sending him flying. I stabbed another and twisted my knife. I pulled it out with so much force I slashed another guy who was coming for me. There were the guys left and Shay was beating one to death with their own sword. The second one was fighting Mike. The third, he was coming straight for me. I threw my knife. It landed at his heart. I knew if the man Mike was killing saw me unarmed, he would get my knife. I ran and grabbed it from the dead man. I stood up and saw that every man was dead. Then I heard a groan. I whipped around and threw my knife. It found a spot in the middle of his head. He dropped dead so I ran to grab my knife. I wiped it on his shirt after pulling it out. We kept walking in the woods. We set down our backpacks and ate. We finished and kept walking. We found a place to camp and slept.
I was walking with Mike and Shay when I saw a flash of blue hair, then brown, then short black, then short blond, and last white. I took a double take. It was gone. We kept walking then five teens jumped in front of us. The smallest girl looked thirteen. The other two girls looked 17 and the two boys looked 18. I saw the brown haired girl walk over to Mike. We put up our weapons. She backed away with her hands up.
“I’m Drew Maxie, but I go by Maxie.” The brown hair girl said. I noticed a bunch of her hair in front was more bright auburn rather than her brown. Then the blue hair girl started talking.
“I’m Rose.” She told us.
“I’m Adam.” The black hair guy said. I blushed. Mike nudged my arm.
“I’m TJ.” The blond guy said.
“Don’t forget the most important one, me. I’m Cassy. Now Mudface, go get the food.”
“No.” Maxie said.
TJ ran to get the food. I saw Mike looking at Rose and then checking out Maxie, but mostly Rose.
“Taken by TJ.” Rose told him.
“Adam’s my man.” Maxie said. Mike looked at me.
“I’m Silver.” I said.
“I’m Mike.”
“I’m Shay.”
“We are gonna help you get to the Safe Land.” Rose told us. I looked at them and asked,
“What are your powers?” They looked at me and smiled.
“I’m the goddess of ice and water, and I’m a mixie.” Rose said. That explained the blue hair. Then I looked at Maxie.
“I’m the goddess of earth and lava. I’m a mixe.” She said, that explained the mudface name Cassy said. Then Cassy went.
“I’m an sky user. Nothing more really.” She said then Adam spoke up.
“I’m a fire user.” He said. Just like Mike. Then TJ spoke up.
“I’m an air user.” He said. I nodded. We hiked for a couple more hours then they stopped and set up and awesome looking camp. We sat down at a camp fire and they looked at Cassie.
“The nearest people are runaways. They are 13.7 miles the opposite direction. Then Yak-face and the others are 97.6 miles away, walking.” She said. I looked at them.
“She has power over the sky, so she can tell where people are and if they are magic.” Rose explained. She made some water then added ‘homemade’ ice cubes. I looked at her then shook my head. Mike was still checking out Rose and Maxie. I felt jealous cause he was also checking out Shay. I ate some food and went to go lay down in my tent I was sharing with Rose so she could explain something to me. And Cassie. I laid down and couldn’t sleep so I sat there thinking. I thought of how I felt jealous seeing Mike like any girl, not me. True he was cute, sandy blonde hair, brown and blue eyes. Tall. But I couldn’t love him, I mean we have been best friends since we were kids. So I couldn’t love him, could I?
Chapter 3
Mike
the kiss
When everyone else left, it was just me and Shay. Rose had made the point of liking TJ by kissing him in front of me. So Shay and I were talking after they left. I finally leaned over.
“You’re very pretty.” I told her.
“And you’re very handsome.” She said. I felt my face get hot. She scooted closed to me. We were nose to nose, then, we leaned in. I must say, if you haven’t kissed someone who does magic, you are missing out. We kissed and we pulled away. I heard a voice.
“What just happened? Did you guys kiss?” Silver asked looking at me. I scrambled to act like it didn’t happen.
“No.”I said. she looked at me and frowned.
“Then why are your lips covered in pink lip gloss?” Silver said. I saw Shay blush. I wiped off the lip gloss. I Looked at Silver as she stomped away. She wasn’t happy. I got up after her.
“Silver! Silver wait!” I said, she turned around. She was crying.
“Why are you crying?” I asked her wiping off a tear.
“Because you don’t see it!” She said.
“See what?” I asked her.
“That...That I love you!” She said. Then something happened when we were both leaning down to kiss each other, everything got hot, I heard a loud noise, then everything went black.
When I opened my eyes there were remains of the camp site. I tried to get up but a voice said,
“Don’t move. You’re bleeding in the back of your head.” It was Maxie. I looked at her.
“What happened?” I said confused. She looked at me.
“Explosion. I’m going around and trying my best to heal everyone. I also have power over medicine and healing.” She said. My head soon felt better and I got up. I remembered Silver.
“Silver! SILVER!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. I ran to the sound of groaning. It was Silver. Her head looked fine, but her right arm and side didn’t. I took her hand and squeezed it. Maxie ran over. And examined her.
“3 broken ribs, sprained wrist, 2 broken fingers, and dislocated shoulder.” She said. Rose came over and made some ice and gave me the first pouch. Then they put some on Silvers injuries. Her left hand was the one that was broken, so she could still somewhat fight. I took her knife and then I had an idea. I took out my carving knife and carved a hole in the bottom. I took some chain and her bracelet and found a way to make it work. Now she had an easy way to retrieve her knife. It would be cuffed to her wrist so she could pull it back. She managed a smile then stopped. She clinched her teeth. I let go of her hand. I leaned down. I kissed her.
"Break it up. I have to heal her." I stood up and stared at her. Eventually Maxie won so I walked away. I heard Silver scream as Maxie fixed her shoulder. I got to the others. I got to Shay and she ran and hugged me tight.
"Babe! You're all right!" She exclaimed. I hugged her and she kissed me. I didn't feel as happy as I did with Silver. We pulled apart and I sat down next to TJ. We sat down and looked at the fire. We were silent until Maxie and Silver came back. Silver was busted up. She shot me a look. Don't tell anybody. She said. I nodded. She sat next to me and Maxie sat next to Cassy.
"Move Airhead."
"Sad you didn't die in the explosion Mudface."
"If not, who would've mended you're head? It was cracked open and even TJ can't do that. You were lucky we need you." Maxie told her. I took Maxie's side. Rose glared at both girls and they shut up. We sat at the campfire and Rose went to fix the camp site with magic. I looked around and saw Silver. She was lightly touching her lips. She looked at me and gave me a look that said,
Don’t tell anyone we kissed, Maxie will keep the secret too.
I nodded. I turned to Rose and she walked away to fix our camp. TJ was gone too. Shay got up and went through our huge backpacks and grabbed graham crackers, math mellows, and chocolate.
"Oh my gosh! Chocolate!" Maxie exclaimed as she saw Shay pull out the food. She ran and grabbed some sticks. She came back and we all got marshmallows on them. We roasted them on the fires and made s'mores. I saw Adam turn around and pull out a huge bar if chocolate. Maxie squealed and at her s'more. We laughed when she finished the s'more to devour the chocolate bar the size of her arm. Rose came back with TJ and gave us some good news.
"I fixed the camp with magic. Now, the tents are bigger and better." Rose told us all. We cheered with marshmallows sticking our mouths shut. We finished our campfire treat and walked back to camp.
One week later everyone was better and we were traveling. I heard Maxie call Cassy 'Airhead' and I laughed a little bit. We had reached a beach and it was sunset. Cassy set up camp with Rose, but Rose looked irritated. I sat on the pink sand an watched the sunset. Maxie sat next to me.
"So Adam does fire. Does that mean if you were single you would date me?" I asked her, joking. She laughed a little bit. She was pretty.
"I would still be single and not date you." She told me. Silver walked over.
"I better go." Maxie said and she walked away. Silver sat down next to me. I looked at her eyes. She turned to me and we jerked back to watching the sunset. I put my arm around her, no need for the old yawning trick. She got a little closer and put her head on my shoulder. I put my head on top of her head and we watched the sunset. I looked behind my shoulder too see everyone going into the tents. She looked behind also and stood up,
“We better get to bed because everyone else is.” She said. I started to protest when she leaned over and kissed me. I relaxed and kissed her back. She put her hands around my neck and I put my hands on her waist. She pulled away and said,
“I’ve been wanting to kiss you for so long.” She got up and went to bed. I stared at her as she walked away. I went to my tent and laid down thinking about the kiss.
Chapter 4
Silver
The secret comes out.
When I kissed Mike I felt like I was floating in air with 1000 butterflies stampeding my stomach. I smiled as I walked back to my tent. I laid down and slept. And my dream started:
“Hello there Silver.” A male voice said. I looked around. Then I saw him. He was tall, lanky, had black hair, and green eyes. I had seen his picture before in the news paper. I knew exactly who he was. Magic’s worst enemy, worse than Yak-face. The nations leader. Zach.
“Yes, it is me Zach. The human leader. Not yours though. At least in your mind.” He said. How did her get in my dreams?!
“How did you get in my dreams?!” I yelled to him.
“Magic, someone on my team, not important, I don’t want to kill you. Betray your friends and help us and you can be my right hand, or my girlfriend. Don’t worry, I’m only 17.” He said. I spit in my dream. He smiled. Then he turned my attention to the wall.
“Or you’re precious mom and dad can go bye bye.” He said.
“Don’t do it Silver!” My mom yelled.
“Stay strong! KEEP GOING!” My dad yelled. I saw something shock them.
“What did you do to them!” I demanded.
“They are still living, don’t worry. But now you have to choose. Friends, or family?” He said. I shot up in bed. We were on a boat. I got up and looked around my tent. I walked out.
“We can only stay on this for 1 more day. They’ll be searching for boats. Especially this one.” Rose said. I cleared my throat. They turned around.
“Hi Silver!” Rose said. She got up and put something in my hands, a bowl of soup. I ate it slowly and listened. What I gathered was that Rose made this boat with ice and we were sailing with her water power. But Yak-face would be looking for us boat, submarine, and foot. It was dangerous to not be moving.
“What do you think we should do Silver?” Rose asked. I stood up.
“I think what if we go air?” I suggested.
They looked at each other and Cassy stood up.
“Why not? Mud face or someone else could provide the thing we are in and I can set cruise control in the wind for just us. So we would have our own private bubble of air moving us basically.” She said, thankfully taking my side. They docked us and we quickly moved. I got stuff of the boat, the boys kept guard and the rest made the plane. Things were going good and we were about to climb on when we heard footsteps. We grabbed our weapons and about 35 men came out of the trees. Then my target came out, Yak-face. We all charged at each other. I used my power at first. I have power over mist and a special silver mist that puts people to sleep. So I granted everyone I was protecting the power over not falling asleep and seeing through my mist. I sent out my silver mist and about 10 people fell asleep. Then I made normal mist and we charged. I slashed one guy on the neck. Then I stabbed another through the heart, I sent my knife into the lung of one sleeping guy. I was getting closer to Yak-face. I kept slashing and stabbing till I got to him. He threw something at me. It sliced the top of my shoulder. I couldn’t fall down then he’d have me, so I stood standing. He sliced my cheek and my stomach. My lungs burned from the energy I used to make the mist. I took my sword when we was laughing and stabbed at him. I hit something metal and I pulled away. I had gone straight through Yak-face’s heart, what had I touched? When I pulled my sword out Yak-face fell to the ground. And there stood one of the most handsomest men I ever saw.
He was about 6’1” he had black and red hair, and green eyes.
“Hi, I’m Keith.” He said. I kept my sword up.
“I’m Silver. Are you going to the Safe Land?” I asked slowly. He smiled.
“Yes I am. Are you?” He asked.
“Yes. Me and my group of friends are.” I realized the mist was dissolving. He grabbed my waist and spun me behind him and killed one guy who tried to kill me. He turned around and saw my cuts. He took out a waterbottle and a cloth and cleaned them up.
“This may be a little forward of me, but you’re very beautiful.” He told me.
“And you’re very handsome.” I told him. We stood up and walked to the group.
“Guys this is Keith, he’s a runaway as well.” I said.
“What’s your power?” Maxie asked.
“I’m a air spirit.” He said. We made introductions and climbed in the airplane and took off.
“Hey Silver.” Keith said as he walked over to me. I was sitting on the edge of our plane, looking down at the ocean. As Keith sat down, his arm brushed my shoulder and my heart fluttered and did a backflip. Our feet were dangling off the side, but I looked out wards, my peanut butter chocolate hair blowing behind my face.
"Those emerald green eyes are sparkling." Keith whispered. I giggled a little bit. I fiddled aroun with my bracelet. It held a colada that is the only thing my birth dad gave me before u went I the foster home. Keith noticed and I stopped. I didn't really like the air. I wanted to be in the water, there was when my mist was the best. I turned to Keith.
"I have a question to ask you." I said. He nodded.
"Shoot."
"Do you believe in, well, the thought that dreams show what you desire?"
"Ya, I do. I know about nightmares, I've had more then I've asked for. Something evil knows everyone's fears. Magical people just figure them differently. You just had a nightmare and can't sleep. Right?"
I stared at Keith. He looked away, his face was a lobster. I looke up.
"I love the stars. They just make everything romantic." I sighed. Keith looked back over and brushed some hair from my face, but he kept his hand behind my head, firmly but yet softly. He got a little closer. So did I. We leaned in and our lips touched. I felt hot, as if I was on fire. I go up and started spinning for no reason, I hit Keith and we fell onto the grass floor of the plane and stood up I hugged him goodnight and went to bed. I saw Rose sleeping so I hopped into bed, I couldn't stop smiling. I fell asleep.
"Silver! Silver! I can't move!" I heard Mike tell out in pain. I was running to find him in a volcano, at the edge off the cliff. I ran and knocked him over. I watched as Maxie calmed down the lava and move it to make a shield of earth. She ran over as I got off of him to heal Mike. I watched as she healed him then he leaned down. She kissed him right as I woke up from the dream. I sat straight up and jumped out of bed. I ran to the kitchen tent to make breakfast. I sat down and TJ and Adam brought me a plate of breakfast sausages, pancakes, and some scrambled eggs. I dug in the grabbed some juice. I finished in about 3 minutes flat. I washed my bowl, (again, we are magic so don’t think we have five star service in a tent) and then walked out onto the plane floor. I saw everyone head back to the tents. I turned to sit down and look at the sky. I heard footsteps. Keith sat down. We were silent for a while, then he scooted a little closer. Then closer. Finally his hand was on mine. I looked down at my sneakers dangling off the edge. My feet were in them, so I wouldn’t lose them. My face felt hot. He locked his fingers in mine. I pulled my hand out.
“Right now, this doesn’t feel right. I mean, we are running away and almost dieing so I shouldn’t be kissing a random guy.” I said. He stood up and grabbed my shoulders and turned me around.
“What are you doing?!?” I screamed at him. He kept a tight grip on my shoulders and went to kiss me. I screamed for help before his lips touched mine. Mike ran in and saw I was struggling to get away. He pulled Keith away and punched him straight across the face.
“Dude! That burned!” Keith said holding his cheek. He turned to me.
“Baby, I’m hurt, kiss it better?” He said, then he leaned in for another forced kiss, but Mike caught him and punched him across the face again. Then Mike kneed him straight in the stomach. The back door opened some. Mike kept beating down Keith then stopped. Keith slowly got up and smiled.
“You’re all dead, I was working for Yak-face, he assigned me to kill him so I could gain your trust and lead my team to wherever y’all run to.” Mike grabbed him and punched him again. I went over and punched him straight across the face and kicked him in the chest.
“You don’t force a girl to kiss you!” I said. Mike pushed him closer to the edge when Keith said,
“You guys are as dead as me. My team is behind me.” He smiled. Mike pushed him out of the airplane. He turned around and ran to me. He grabbed me in a bear hug.
“Don’t ever be alone with another strange guy again.” He said. He looked at me straight in the eye.
“You got that?” He asked. I nodded. He looked at me and said,
“I love you Silver, don’t risk your life again.” We leaned in for a kiss and I heard a familiar loud sound, heat, but this time I felt falling.
Chapter 5
Mike
Someone’s end
Silver was hanging onto me for life but she fell off. I have been skydiving before, so I leaned down to get to her. I finally did, but someone else caught her on their back, Rose. I rolled my eyes as she tried to try slow our fall. The strain on her face told me she was in pain, and it was really draining. I heated my palms up and fire came out and it was slowing our fall and that made Silver come to senses. She created mist the made us sleep, but kept up alive. We all stopped our power, Silver looked gassed. We fell fast into the blue ocean below us.
I opened my eyes and paddled up to the surface of the ocean. I never learned to swim very well, I am a fire user. I looked around and saw Rose dunking us and down for the rest. I guided some to the shore. There was one person left. Shay but her body was limp and not moving. I grabbed her and carried her to shore. When we got there we listened for a heartbeat and looked for a pulse, none. She was dead. Maxie rushed over and shoved out of the way. She was surprisingly strong.
“Move it McKnight.” She said angrily. She thumped on Shay and pressed her chest. She grabbed her medical kit and tried to revive her. Nothing good happened. I laid down. It didn’t make sense. Why take Shay, sure she didn’t do much, but she was fun, she lightened the mood. I thought it over and eventually fell asleep. When I woke up Silver was laying right next to me. She was awake. I sat up and looked at her. I took her hand and interlocked it in mine. She sat up to. We looked at the ocean. I was thinking about the past, we used to have fun, running at the beach. I remember the first time we went together, alone. I remember when we went to see that movie six months ago. I remember it all. I miss it all. I almost wished I was normal, mortal. I looked at Silver.
“Mike, I miss it too, but we have to move on, keep going. When we get to the marking island..” Silver trailed off. I knew what she meant.
“When we get there we will be safe.” I said quietly. I looked towards the water again.
“McKnight.” Maxie said, she was poking at me, giving me a hard time. I laughed a little bit and left Maxie to care for Silver. Before I walked away I said one last thing.
“Drew, take good care of her while I’m gone.” MAxie laughed a little bit and nodded.
I looked at the stars on the beach. I saw everyone else walk onto the island, but they came back. I heard more footsteps.
“Don’t hurt me Mike Knight. I’m just here to give you your marking..” A man in a suit said to me. Maxie, Rose, TJ, and Adam all nodded in approval. I stepped forward and he pulled a sheet of designs out of nowhere. There were maybe 30 designs at the least. I scanned them all. I finally saw one, a flame. I told the man the one and pointed to my inner wrist. He led me into the forest and sat me down on a chair. He had me hold my left wrist out and took fire to it, but this fire I couldn’t control. It was a purple colored fire, when he touched it to my skin I was in pain. But to much pain for I was finally, the pain stopped. I relaxed, but my body was numb from the few minutes of the fire. My wrist was very red, but not burnt. I got up and walked out of the forest. I showed Silver my arm.
“McKnight, you didn’t know what was coming, you couldn’t have survived if you weren’t a fire user.” Maxie said looking at it said and Rose made ice for me. I watched as the man came back for Silver. I watched as she chose her marking.
Chapter 6
Silver
Fight or flight
I watched as the suited man pulled a sheet of designs from thin air. I scanned them, carefully choosing my marking. I carefully reminded myself I was born in Australia, to keep a sign from there. I saw the marking I wanted. It was in the form of an Australian coin, I told the man and he led me into the forest. I looked back at my friends then continued. I stopped at a chair and sat in it. I showed the man the lower left part of my palm and he nodded, never saying a word. He grabbed an Australian coin from his pocket I told him I wanted it green and silver. He made the symbol searing hot and he placed it on my skin. It stayed there for a few minutes then it was taken off, it turned out like a tattoo. I looked at my purple, the symbol was silver and green, like I wanted. I smiled and started to head back to my friends when the man stopped me and said,
“I hope you know of the power of the symbol you’ve chosen.” He said. Then he walked off without saying another word. I walked back to my friends and showed them my symbol. They all gasped and I pulled back my hand to see my symbol glowing then I felt it get hot and then it died down, my coin sat there in my hand. Then it grew into a sword. We looked at it. Now the guy made sense. It grew into a sword, or a dagger. I knew a dagger because it shifted to a dagger next. Then we heard footsteps and we turned around. There was about 40 guys and 10 girls with weapons. I grabbed my dagger. Sword, please, I need a sword. I thought. I felt my weapon grow into a sword. I grabbed the hilt. I looked at my sword it had an ivory and silver blade. The hilt was pitch black. They charged at us. I lifted up my blade and blocked one guys stab and I got my normal knife and threw it into the neck of another person. I retrieved it. I stabbed another through the stomach. I put out a fog and a sleeping mist, the fog affected everybody accept for me and my friends. The sleeping mist affected about 20 or so people. We killed those people. Then we continued down the path of killing people and almost being killed. We were down to about 10 people when I was fighting one and someone grabbed my from behind and put their hand over my mouth. They nodded to the others and they ran off and jumped into a plane. They guy holding me said,
“Say goodbye to Silver.” Then also got on. I was a captive.
They tied my hands together and I disarmed me. But my coin quickly came back and went back to being a tattoo. I thought my coin was really cool. I wanted to name it. So I named it Ferecity. So I as soon as I did that I got to my plan. I sat quiet for about 15 minutes acting like I was asleep, but here’s what was really going on in my mind:
I can call Ferecity out and than use the dagger to cut my ropes and then quickly switch it to a sword. . . but wait, they could over power me and figure out my secret of my tattoo and do something to it. . . . . . . . . . . . I KNOW! I’ll make one guy cut my ropes! I have to try the moving mist, I have to!
Moving mist is like my sleeping mist, but it puts the person in a trance and then I can move them around. So that’s what I did. Soon I had one guy get up and cut my ropes. The others looked at him. As they were fighting him I got up and called Ferecity out. I grabbed the hilt of my sword and found the hatch for the door. I’d have to risk it. I hit the open lever and it opened. Everyone looked at me, the new head apparently named Jake yelled some commands but I didn’t listen I grabbed my sword and jumped. On the way down I didn’t scream I thought of ways to slow my fall to the ocean below me. I remembered that mist is made of water and air. So I had to have power over that right? I concentrated and felt the movement of waves in my gut I pulled up hoping that water came with it. I felt something warm touch my toe. A big column of water had sprouted up. I let myself fall into it. I let the water go and I fell and soon hit the ocean. I expected to die or fall to pieces but instead I felt relief and like I just did a cannonball into a pool. I wasn’t hurt. I could hear Jake screaming but I couldn’t understand him 3,109 miles up in the air.
Woah, how did I just estimate that? I thought. Duh, dumby mist involves the air do you have power over air as well. Something in the back of my mind told me. I just didn’t bother on what it was. Instead I focused my power to hear. I floated on my back and listened to Jake talk to one of his guys.
“Sir, she’s dead, no one can survive a 3,000 foot drop. Only someone with the power over water can. She had power over the mist. Not water, nothing concerning water.” He said. Jake smiled.
“Then that means we just eliminated one person of the group. Let’s go find the others.” He said. As soon as the plane was out of sight I started swimming to the shore that didn’t contain their castle base.
When I finally got there I had probably swum an hour. I got out and looked around. There was some tall grass that I could weave to put water in, but I’d have to find a stream first. Or at least boil some water. But I didn’t want to boil salt water. So I headed off into the forest in survival mode. I was prepared to fight for food, water, anything.
Chapter 7
Mike
Missing.
As soon as she was taken we all panicked. TJ stood up but then fell for he had a bad cut on his leg. Adam went to help him. I started yelling some pretty bad things and then I turned to Cassie.
“Can you track them? PLEASE TELL ME YOU CAN.” I yelled.
“Calm down Mckinght, of course Cassie can track them, why do you think she’s been so quiet? Cassie’s been tracking them. Let her finish, then she’ll tell us what she saw.” Maxie said. Rose sat me down and handed me some water. I drank it slowly, hoping she was fine. Or still alive. Crap, what if she was dead. I’d never see her pretty face, or hear her sweet laugh, or listen to her rant about the different types of mist again. I started hyperventilating and thought more about it.
What if she died? What if she will die thinking of me? NO WE HAVE TO HELP HER! I thought. Then everything went black.
I woke dazed and on the beach. Maxie was healing my head.
“Passed out Mcknight,.” she told me. “How stupid could you be? Hyperventilating seriously? If you’d of listen to us you would’ve heard that Silver is alive.” When she said that last part my heart jumped with joy, Silver is still alive!
“We have to find her! Make a boat or another plane or a car or something!” I said sitting up. Rose looked at me, her eyes were like ice shards in my eyes.
“What?” I asked.
“Look to your right McKnight.” She said. I wish people would stop calling me that, but I looked over and saw a boat. I jumped up and ran on it. I looked around and at the others.
“Hurry up! Silver needs our help!” I yelled. As the others climbed aboard I realized it was night.
“I, uh, I’m tired, I’ll go to bed in my tent.” I stammered. They all looked at me Adam stood up.
“All cool dude, we’ll find Silver.” He said. TJ stood up and said,
“Have a good rest, I think.” He said. I walked into my tent and zipped it up. That was close. I checked the day. The 21st of March, my birthday, the day my full powers came into effect.
“Wake up!” Maxie of all people yelled in my ear. I got up and came outside my tent. I saw shore ahead and lit up in flames. I put them out quickly but Maxie just laughed.
"We might need you if we are gonna build in the Safe Land. Fire and earth make bricks, remember? Basic fire an earth science. Now, just come on, we are almost at that beach then, we will find Silver." I smiled. I grabbed my backpack and cooked myself some soup. I ate it quickly then we were on the shore. I leaped out if the boat and ran as soon as my feet touched the ground. I found footprints and dashed after them. They stopped in the middle of the forest.
"Your girlfriend is here Micheal Andrew Knight."
"She isn't my girlfriend and how do you know my name?" I yelled to the voice. I saw what is was, a monster. She had the face if a raven and a body of a supermodel, she would've been pretty but her feet looked like boxes. She had wings coming out her back and she was clawing at the tree she was in. Grey and black feathers fell from her face, revealing Silver. I fell to my knees. I heard a muffled scream and ran it its direction. I found Silver tied up, hanging from a tree. Her marking was glowing. I threw fire up at the rope. It burned and she fell. I caught her and her eyes blared with anger. I burnt off her bonds and she winced. She got up and looked at me.
“That burned you know.” She said.
“I’ll find Rose to give you some water or ice.” I said I looked over and saw she was using water to heal her burn. My jaw dropped.
“You’re not a water user! You’re a fake Silver!” I got up to fight this fake Silver.
“No! I’m real! Look!” She held out her palm.
“Fire.” She said and a sword came out. I calmed down.
“Air and water go into mist so I can control those. That’s what I’ve been practicing for the past day.” She said. She saw the cut on my bicep and put some water to it. I looked into her storm green eyes and melted. We both leaned in and we kissed. I pulled away.
“I should tell the other’s I found you.” I said. I stood up then flashed back. Silver has gray eyes, not green I realized she was playing me, she was another bird lady. I got up and punched her. I knocked her down and pulled out a ball of poison and sent it down into her heart. She spassamed out. I heard laughing. The other weird bird lady flew down. I heard a faint muffled scream in the distance. I set fire to the weird things head and ran for the noise. I find the real Silver stuck up high to a pole, tied by a dozen ropes. I set fire to those and she fell down. She groans loudly. I helped her up and she looked mad at me. I undid the fabric around her mouth and she yelled some not so nice things at the bird ladies and me. I put the fabric back on and I heard a muffled laugh. I undid her bonds and she took of the fabric. She looked at me.
“I hate you. You could’ve saved me. And you fell for Sheforma thinking she was me.” She said.
“Who’s She- Sheformia?” I asked
“Sheforma. She’s the girl that looked like a bird lady. And one of them looked like me. Their weakness is they can never perfect the person they are trying to look like.” She said. That explained the green eyes instead of gray. I felt ashamed. I stood up.
“Come on, lets go find our friends.” I said. She stood up and looked at me, she still seemed mad. I led her to the ship.
"You are such and idiot." Silver whispered to herself. I laughed.
"Shut it McKnight. You aren't my m ought in shining armor yet." I stopped in my tracks. I whooped around and looked at her. She glared at me and kept walking.
"Gosh, moody much?" I whispered.
"Shut. It." She growled. I went quiet, she may be a girl but she can fight.
When we got to the boat, it was dark out and there was a fire going with the guides. I sat down next to Adam when Silve plopped down beside Maxie. She glared at me, I had no clue what I did wrong. She saw my confused look and rolled her eyes and turned away.
"What's with Silver?" Adam asked me. I shook my head and shrugged. Adam waved and Silver smiled, but I waved, she gave me the death stare. Everyone went to their tents later and I tried to talk to Silver.
"What's wr-"
"Shut up McKnight. I could've died from your mistake. You went too far. Maxie needs to help you. Or at least Adam. Never let that happen again. I can't believe you even kissed that, that thing. I can't believe you. Honestly, I'm not over reacting. What would you do if I kissed a bird-man-thing?" She stared me down. She is so pretty when she is angry. She slapped me. I rubbed my face.
"What was that for?"
"Don't think like that. I'm mad at you, idiot." She growled at me. I tried not to smile, but I did so she pinched a part of my neck and I fell to my knees a bit. She let go and walked away. I swear she cracked a smile. She kept walking. I got up and went to my tent.
Chapter 8
I get to meet Death.
“Gosh. He is so stupid.” I laughed as I ate caramel and chocolate candies. Maxie and Rose were there laughing too. We sat and talked for awhile then Maxie said something that made me stop.
“You know, you might be with McKnight just because you both went through a lot and now, you are kinda running away together. I think that your heart is looking for someone to lean on.” Maxie told me.
“But I talk to you a lot.” I said. She nodded. I looked to the door. It was late and I saw a shadow. My heart skipped a beat. Next thing I know, I’m on top of Mike with my knife at his neck. I was about to get up but then, I saw his eyes. His eyes were gray this time. I slashed Mike- I mean the bird thing’s neck and it turned and ran.
I ran right into a tree as I almost got to the others. I heard laughing and felt ice in my forehead. I put my hand on it and sat up. I could see Mike pounding then ground in laughter. I was fine. I got up and decided to go look out at the water. I sat down by the water and started practicing with it. I flashed back to when I got captured.
“Silver! SILVER!” A familiar voice yelled.
“Hunny? Where are you?” Another one yelled.
“Mom! Dad!” I screamed. What were they doing there?
“We see you come a bit closer!” Mom yelled. I put my weapons down I walked through the trees and saw them. I looked at them, dad had red hair and mom was 6’7”.
“This isn’t right... Dad you have brown hair and mom you’re 5’6.” I said I got out my knife. My “mom” snatched out a grabbed it. She put it up against my neck. My “dad” tied me up. Then they revealed their true form.
“Sheformias!” I screamed.
“Welcome to our island darling. This is where we are born and raised. TO KILL AND EAT HUMANS. But we’ll wait for your little boyfriend and friends before we feed.” They laughed evily.
I shook my head and kept practicing with water. I tried to focus, but the ball I was making exploded. I move onto air, but it didn't last long.
"My powers are fading!" I yelled in frustration.
"No they aren't, they just aren't your powers. You may have control over mist, but with you, air and water choose when you can handle them. And obviously, they wanna hang with Air Head and Rose. You should leave that stuff to them anyways." Maxie explained to me.
"That wasn't a question. Silver Slate, always behind." I grumbled.
"Precious Metals, don't be like that. When you deal with air you become just like AirHead. When you deal with water, that just makes you overly confident and eventually think you are better than the goddesses of that. If you have powers over three, it will only get to your head." She continued. She made a chair out of earth-woah- and made one for me. I sat down and made little mist movements. My burn was still bad so I put some mist on it. Maxie shook her head and smashed I away. She grabbed a medical kit- where did that come from?- and treated my burn. She then wrapped a bandage around it and looked to me. I pulled my arm back and looked and my wrist. There was a little scar. I remembered how I was cutting lettuce when I was 7 and cut myself. I could still feel it bleed. I rubbed it with my thumb and looked to the water. It shimmered and sparkled but I wasn't feeling better.
I layed down to get some rest. When I woke back up Maxie sat in front of me with a guilty expression on her face. She instantly replaced it with a smile. Her eyes glittered with sadness, and self-hatred. She got up and I did too. We went to the main tent and ate some breakfast. Everyone but Rose was there. They said she was sleeping late.
“You know, Adam, you make really good sausage!” I said with a mouthful of breakfast sausage, pointing my fork at Adam. He smiled with pride. Everyone nodded heads and stuffed themselves. My plate was empty, so I got up for more eggs, sausage, and bacon. I refilled my cup with OJ and sat back down. I dug in. When everyone else left, Maxie and I were the only one’s left in the tent.
“What happened last night?” I asked her as I stuffed some bacon in my mouth. She let out a sigh and began.
“Look, don’t judge me, okay?” I nodded. “I was walking on the beach with Adam, it was so romantic, when I made a little picnic with the basket of food and the blanket I brought. We were eating the sandwiches I brought-and made- when I saw someone walking and watching us. I set down my sandwich, and I threw up the earth where she was standing. She was Rose.” Maxie was choking up, almost crying. Then, she just balled. “I don’t- don’t know where-where she is!” She was barely audible. I gave her a hug and wiped her eyes. When her face was dry I sprayed a cool mist on her face to take the swollen, puffy, bloodshot eyes away. She looked better.
“It will be okay. We will find her, and she can survive on her own. Remember how you ran off. Remember she took care of you. Remember it, don’t dread it.” I whispered. She pulled away and nodded. She was really shaken up.
“Do the others know?”
“Yeah. And they want me to be the leader now. Please help out. ” Maxie pleaded. I agreed and we got everyone together. We talked about strategies to find her. We looked at Cassy.
“Looks like I’m the leader now. Maxie, massage my feet.” Cassy said with a stern look.
“Act like that and the only thing you will get is a punch to the face. Maxie is the leader. Everyone knows that except you. Just see if you can find Rose.” I growled.
Cassy concentrated and she opened her eyes.
“Got about five people coming here. Get ready to battle, but don’t attack.” Cassy snapped. I rolled my eyes and got my dagger. I had undid the chain a while ago. I sat down by the tent and played with my bracelet. There was a charm on it, like a puppy’s paw. I looked up. I heard rustling in the bushes. I saw Rose. She had bigger feet. Then I realized it was a Sheforma. She ran for Maxie and I jumped on it. I had my dagger and mist added the chain. I stabbed the monster and it bit my neck. My tattoo glowed. Everything went black.
"We'll come on. I don’t have all day." I heard a man say. He wore a black cloak and hood. I realized I was sitting in a room. Like a real estate office. The man took off the cloak to reveal, well, the hottest guy ever. He held out his hand and pulled me up. He shook his head and his short brown hair fell. His blue eyes looked into me. He sat me down and asked a question.
"Is it her time to die?" I realized he talked into an earpiece. He nodded at the other persons comment.
"Miss, you are not supposed to be dead. Unless you want to be, you should exit out that door." He pointed his hand to the door. I got up and thanked him, but opened the door.
I opened my eyes and saw everyone walking away.
"Shes dead. We are too late." Maxie sighed. I sat up and groanEd. My head hurt badly. Mike turned around to look at me one more time. He saw me breathing. He ran to me.
“I found her!” Mike yelled. Everyone else ran over. He looked looked at Maxie.
“What is it Mike?” I heard Maxie say. “Maxie she’s struggling for her life.” He said.
"Shut up. McKnight. Still not in shining armor."
Chapter 9
Mike
Silver
I sat there and looked at Silver. Maxie had been hovered over Silver for 30 minutes. Adam walked over.
“Hey dude, I’m sorry about Silver man.” He said. He sat down and looked at me.
“Your talking as if she is already dead.” I said. I looked at him. He breathed in and held it for a minute. I let my mouth fall.
“You believe she’s really going to die don’t you?” I asked him, he started to nod but Maxie walked over. She looked at me.
“Maxie?” I asked. I looked behind her and Silver was gone. Where’s her body? I thought. I got ready to say something and I heard someone say,
“Mike?” It sounded like Silver. I stood up and looked around for her. Maxie stepped back and TJ was holding Silver in his arms she looked at me.
“Silver!” I said. I got her in my arms. She smiled. There was a scar on her neck I went to lightly kiss her but she pushed me aggressively away. I set her on the ground.
“Mike, no, lay off of the lovey-dovey stuff. ” She looked at Maxie.
“And I’m not going to practice water and air either.” She said. I nodded at the first thing she said. I looked around.
“We should probably get going on the road now. Quick.” I said.
“But what about Rose? I can’t leave her. I just can’t!!” Maxie screamed in my face. I nodded. Maxie slapped me .Silver stood up.
“Woah be careful Silver.” I said. Her coin glowed and out came a sword. She grabbed Maxie’s hand and pulled her off into the woods. I followed them with my sword. We got in a heard a loud scream.
“MAXIE!!!!!!”
We ran off towards the scream. We found Rose. She was in the middle of a fire. Maxie looked at Silver.
“Water! Create water!” She said. Silver looked at her.
“I can’t!” She said. Her eyes flickered from the blue to amber, and it seemed like a cruel trick. Then, she turned into a sheforma. Maxie cussed out the bird lady, and ran into the fire. She was burning while punching the bird across the face. I laughed a little then saw how everyone was looking and stopped. The bird went unconcios and the fires dies down. MAxie walked out, her face tear stained and she had a firey look in her eyes.
“Let’s go.” She said. She sounded deeper, more protected. She put up and emotional wall when fighting the sheforma. She lead us out while TJ help treat her burns. Silver was spraying icy mist on her too. We got back to camp and saw a spirit. Maxie ran over and the spirit became a woman.
“Mom!” Maxie whispered as she saw the lady. She started bawling. She collapsed into the fetal position. Her mom-or goddess?- picked her up and help her, singing a song. She stopped crying and the woman said in a voice that was sweet as honey,
“Darling, Drew, Rose is alright. Your sister is safe, but if she doesnt follow my guidince, she could die.” Maxie calmed down a little and we heard rustling. A man came out and gave a report to the woman. She sent us on our way.
“There is the cave!” Maxie screamed with joy. She ran into the metal bars and she turned rock, and the bar shattered. She was normal again and she ran into someones arms. I heard a familiar voice.
“Maxie! I can’t believe you found me! Oh my word!” Rose sobbed. They were clearly excited to be reunited. TJ stormed in as Maxie let go and kissed Rose. I frowned. Silver playfully punched my arm I smiled and walked in. I saw Rose sitting down, she looked like she was in pain. A rose was next to her, wow. Three petals were dead. Rose explained that three days ago, she got desperate. She tied her life to it temporarily till we found her, now that she was found, she lives until killed or some natural thing. We started walking and then we saw and icicle. Rose ran around, careful to be a yard away.
“Ice.” She muttered. I took note that something happened and we would have to let her recover. We got back to the tents and we packed up after a meal. We looked at Rose. She shook her head.
“Fine, I’ll make a boat then.” Maxie said. In a minute we had a nice big boat. Maxie smiled
“Two levels. One for the boys and one for the girls.” She said. We climbed on and took off quickly she showed me to my tent on the second level. I decided to climb in and just go to sleep. I finally fell asleep.
“The boy will never make it alive. He will choose for us to take his life, not hers. In fact he will do it without knowing. He is stupid that way.” A deep creepy voice said. I looked around. I felt like I was in a place I do not want to visit.
“Okay master but what about Death? He might let him back out, so he could live.” A different voice said. Then they came into sight, there was a tall black figure. About 15 feet high and I couldn’t see the face. The other looked like a over hairy person talking.
“Shut up you moron! Death will be on our side. Death has always had an evil side to him. Now change and go follow them. Make sure the boy does not make it to the gates alive.” The other figure said. The hairy figure ‘moron’ shifted into a wolf and ran off. The big black guy looked straight at me. He pulled down his hood. There stood a guy who looked just like Silver’s lost brother. But he had more of an ugly face, plus that couldn’t be him. He was pronounced dead 3 years ago. The guy cracked a smile showing he had very crooked teeth.
“Hello there boy. Time to wake up. You have company.” Then I woke up to screaming and monster sounds.
I jumped out of bed and and threw on a shirt and grabbed my sword and a javelin. I ran to the top floor and saw that there was a pack of werewolves. I tried to think of everything I learned and Silver taught me about them.
“Guys! When they are in their wolf form they are weaker! Try to hit them from the side or back.” I yelled. I ran after one of them. I jumped up before it bit me and did a flip in air. I started to fall straight down towards it’s open mouth. I pulled out my javelin and sent it straight through his skull. I pulled it out. Another wolf lunged for me. I must of killed his brother, or sister. I sent the javelin straight through the roof of his mouth. He fell to the floor. I kept killing wolves and I got to the one in my dream. It shifted into it’s hairy form.
“You’re a good fighter. Too bad I have to go now.” It disappeared and then I heard the explosion that sent me flying.
“Mcknight! Mcknight!” Maxie yelled. I opened my eyes. I was in the water. Maxie was on a piece of floating land. She looked good. She put her hands on my chest.
“Maxie what are you doing? Listen I like you but you’re with Adam-” I started coughing to be precise I was choking. She leaned down and put her ear to my chest. She hit it a couple times and I spitted out water.
“And I wasn’t making a move Mcknight. I was saving your life.” She got up and pulled my on the land. It was bigger than I thought. Rose sat on it staring off into space. Maxie added some sides to our makeshift boat and raised us adding more land. I looked around.
“Where’s the map?” I asked. Maxie threw it to me.
“ I know where we are. We are a days journey away.”
“We are going to make it to the gates!” I said. I saw the sun and I sat on the edge of the boat. Everyone went to bed. I walked around the boat and found a ledge that was just glass. It was late but I walked into Silver’s tent anyways. I woke her up and I showed her to the place. We sat down, looking at the stars.
“You know, shining armor sounds pretty good.” Silver giggled. I smiled and said back,
“I haven’t gotten it yet? What do I have to do?”
“Die to save me.” She said. I stared at her.
“I would but, you seem to never need that.”
“Then you will never be my knight McKnight.” She whispered. Her gray eyes sparkled like silver. I put my hand in her and she looked at me. I kissed her. She kissed back a little, but pulled off of me.
“Mcknight, I don’t want a relationship right now.” She said.
“What’s with you? You used to be my friend. But now ever since you met Maxie you’ve been calling me Mcknight and dissing me. You’ve changed.” I said standing up. She got up as well.
“I just don’t want a relationship right now!” she exclaimed.
“I understand that but please don’t keep dissing me! Let me be your friend Silver!” I said. She looked at me.
“You are! You just don’t understand that-”” she said.
“You’re not acting like it.” I said. She nodded.
“I’m sorry.” she said then she ran off.
I walked back to my tent. I laid down and fell asleep.
Chapter 10
Silver
The end of Mike
We walked for a while after waking up. Soon Cassy smiled,
“Less than 23 miles.” She said, I smiled. We walked for awhile in silence then we saw a cave, and a beautiful woman walked out, she saw Rose and Mxie and ran down,
“Maxie! Rose! You’re safe! I was so worried! You’re less than an hour from the gates!” She
squealed, she saw how tired we all looked. She studied me and then looked at Mike she shivered.
“Wanna ride to the gates?” She asked we all nodded happily, she whistled and and a beautiful multi-colored ice and fire dragon appeared. Rose smiled.
“Ferecity! You guys this is my pet dragon.” She said, we all climbed on.
“Bye mom!” Rose and Maxie said. We took off, we started flying and it was cold up there. Mike decided to use fire to warm himself up. It all happened at once. Rose screamed “No!” Ferecity reacted and shook. I held on and looked back, Mike was falling, I looked at Cassy and she rolled her eyes, she flicked her hand up and he came flying back up. He was really shaken up. Maxie whistled and I saw a beautiful phoenix come over in the distance. Maxie smiled and petted her.
“Hey Blaze.” She said, she climbed on her phoenix and waited for anyone else. Mike looked over nervously.
“McKnight, you won’t be cold, and Blaze, she doesn’t care if fire is used on her, she is made of it.” Maxie explained as she sat on the phoenix, no saddle. She plucked at some flame and a beautiful feather came off. She put it back in the fire and it left. Mike climbed over and looked at me. I got over.
“Meet you at the gates!” Rose yelled. We flew off.
When we landed we saw the others we ran to them. We still had about a mile or two to walk, we started walking when a giant appeared. It looked straight at me and reached down to grab me when Mike jumped in front of me. The giant picked him up and Mike used fire on his hand. Mike climbed to the giant’s neck and stabbed down on his neck. The giant tried to swat him away but he quickly made it to the temple. He stabbed down into the temple. The giant started to fall. Mike climbed the opposite way the giant was falling. We stood there and watched. When the giant fell we ran to find Mike. He was on the ground under the giants hand somehow.
“MIKE!!!!!” I yelled. We lifted the hand off him and I picked up his head.
“Did I get my armor yet?” He asked. He was bruised and had broken bones. I looked at Maxie.
“HEAL HIM!” I screamed. She sat down.
“Hun, I can’t do anything. It’s his time and I don’t have power over that.” She said. I looked at Mike.
“Mike, stay with us! You can have your armor and you can have me! STAY WITH US!” I cried. He looked at me.
“You’re so beautiful, I’m glad your face will be the last one I see.” He looked at the others. I could badly see him through my flood of tears. I was gasping for and and sniffling like crazy, and making the weird noises that sound like laughter.
“Promise to keep her safe! Don’t let anything happen to her!” He said. They nodded and he looked back at me. I couldn't see now.
“Silver, I love you, and I always will. I’ll be your guardian angel.” He said. He managed to wipe my face, clearing some of my view. I kissed him.
“I love you too Mike.” I yelled. I kissed him again. I pulled away.
“I will always love you.” He said, then he went silent. I started hitting in the place of his heart.
“NO DON’T LEAVE! MIKE! MIKE! MIKE!” I screamed. Rose stood me up and held me. I was sobbing. I didn’t want him to die, I wanted him to be my knight in shining armor. I reached for my dagger, I was going to join him wherever he was. But Cassy suspected this. She blew a gust of wind and took my weapons. I felt a cold breath on my neck. I whipped around.
I say Shay’s half-solid spirit.
“Why did you kill him?!” She shrieked, grabbing my neck. Cassy blew me my dagger now and I slashed the weird soul.
“I didn't kill him.”
“He loved me, you just couldn’t handle it. HE was always pretending you were me.” she muttered as if to change my mind. All my fears of my life, I had faced them with Mike. I al turned to anger. I slashed her neck. She was now bleeding, but silver blood. Rose was yelling in my ear but I didn't bother to listen. We fought. I was growing tired, so was Shay.
I touched her blood and licked my fingertip. My lungs burned, my stomach felt like it was being boiled and fried. I needed to throw up. I collapsed. I blinked back tears like I was on steroids. I then felt a surge of strength, relief. I saw Mike’s spirit watching. He gave me a wink and I hit Shay once more. Her spirit fell and she got up and floated away in the speed of light. Mike’s spirit got into his body once more. Mike came over and picked me up like a princess.
“Oh, my knight had saved me!” I said in a stupid voice We laughed and kissed.
Mike carried me to the gates. They showed them my palm and we were let in. Before we walked in, Mike set me down.
“I love you.” He whispered. We hugged and I told him that I loved him too. Mike made a pose like a knight and his body fell. His spirit was still there. He flew off. I felt tears falling. Adam wiped them and hugged me.
“You, you are like my little sister now. I will try to take care of you.” He said to me. Maxie and Rose took me to my house right next to theirs. They put me in bed and let me sleep. I woke up and Mike’s angel was next to me. I sat up.
“Mike?” I whispered.
“I told you I’d be your guardian angel.” He said. He picked up something from his pocket. His necklace that he always wore. He made himself from fire. I put in my hand. I fiddled with the dog tag that had a flame and now a wave.
“I’ll always be where you are even if you can’t see me.” He said. I put it around my neck. He stood up.
“I gotta go now.” He said. I started to open my mouth but he leaned down and kissed my forehead. I felt
“Try to move on, but please keep me in your heart.” He asked. I nodded he disappeared. I got out of bed, I walked out of the room where Rose and Maxie were.
“I’m ready to see the town.” I said. They eyed the necklace. They seemed to know what happened. They nodded and showed me around town. I met a lot of people. I was excited to make new friends and hang out with my old ones and the ones who moved here when I knew them. But there would always be a part of my heart that belonged to Mike, and it would stay that way. They showed me to the house they had made for me. I can’t wait to go and help guide some new people to the Safe Land with Maxie, Rose, Cassy, and the two boys. I wonder who we’ll meet.