New Story - Fallen

Chapter 22 - Overnight…

As I was deeply in my dreams, the black and white that swirled in my mind blocked me from sight…
Of course I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night….
But I wish I did.
Geode was watching over me….he saw my window open and the breeze made me shiver and quiver under my covers…
He walked over slowly not to disturb me or Rachel.
Carefully he placed his hands on the window’s edges and let the breeze hit him a bit before he closed it.
The wind hitting his skin was the best feeling. He felt so free….and he loved it.
The wind blew his hair around…and the tears on the window dried off during the day..
He stared outside and smiled a bit looking at the sky….so cloudy but yet a star could be seen.
He took a small breathe and looked around. It was so empty around the headquarters…
He looked at the trees far off in the forest where Rai and I lost Rachel that one day….
He watched as the city shut off their lights…we had some still on in our home though.
I got a feeling Geode loved his place….he just stays here, besides going to school, he hangs out here. Its like another home…or his home here.
Maybe its because so many people that live here have such in common with him.
They have powers, they are special..
I must be the only outcast..
My nightmares turn dark a lot…they creep and murder me to unknown ends, I feel like a complete stranger to myself sometimes. I watch in my dreams that the gorgeous blue sky fades to blood red in front of my eyes….fire erupts and blinds everything with its smoke.
I feel so scared….is it because I don’t know what rightly happened?
Or am I just afraid of it happening again?
I know I have a fear of fire…its always been in me. Dark and deep inside but its spreading throughout me and even in my dreams I run away screaming scared to death.
Its like there is no break from your fears…..
You sleep having them and you might even see them when you’re awake.
It feels like…..fear takes over your life…
Is fear even real?
Its an imaginary thing that takes over our lives….our minds!
I wish I didn’t fear….if I didn’t…..I might have stayed away from that prison…..I wouldn’t have gotten hurt….and maybe my brother would be alive…
I can’t get him out of my head…
The fact that he left my life twice….kills me…
I wish that never happened….but you can’t change the past…
I….I have to move on.
Geode was still looking out. Soon as everything in our home dimmed Geode looked down at the ground…
A figure stood in a cloak looking up…..right at Geode….into our room…
He growled lowly not to wake me and Rachel up, but to scare the figure.
However the figure never feared it seemed like….he took a step further…..closer to our home…
Wake up….Geode you should of woke me up!!
Geode turned and left the room slowly….knowing he’d have to face someone…knowing he could die…..he was strong….
And he didn’t wake me up..
He left the room and shut the door locking it from the inside….we could open it….but no one else could…
He was protecting us…
Why?
Geode….why didn’t you protect yourself?
As Geode made his way around the base slowly, careful not to disturb those in their defenseless rest….
He walked outside and shut the door. The figure was there….staring him down.
“Wheres the mud blood?”
“She has a name..” Geode growled but the figured laughed.
“You never knew that…”
“I know now….now leave…”
“I want her.” High demand in his voice….Geode didn’t want to know who it was or how they knew me…all he knew was that if I was taken, I’d be killed…..he wouldn’t let a friend die….if I am a friend?
“You touch her and I’ll kill you..” Geode had a strong but strained voice.
“Hmmmm….and why?”
Geode looked up straighter trying to figure out this figure in front of him in the dim light.
“Why….what?”
“Why protect someone you hate?”
“I no longer hate her…she’s my friend..”
“You’re friend?”
“Yes and I care for my friends, touch her and your arm will be sliced off.”
“Ouch….you’re scary.”
“I know….now leave…”
The wind rushed as the figure took a step closer to Geode.
Geode’s heart was beating at a fast pace but he was brave hearted…
He….really thought of me as a friend…
His eyes narrowed at the figure but before he could even react…
The figure soon was in his face holding Geode up by his neck.
“You either hand her over or I’ll get her myself..”
He started to put pressure on his hold on Geode…strangling him.
“Leave…” Geode acted as if it didn’t bother him….
Fight….please fight!
The figure threw him down and smirked. “I’ll murder you…..then take your friend.”
The figure drew a sword and in Geode’s green eyes, a reflection of the sword dangling above his head was shown.
“Hm.” The figure smirked beyond its hood and cloak.
That was all Geode could see..
He thrust down the sword but thank goodness….Geode moved right before it hit him and the sword was thrust into the dry mud.
Geode smiled and kicked the mans leg, tripping him and he pushed him back making the man fall backwards, hitting the cement hard.
The man leaned up slowly growling…
“That’s it!”
He got up and ran at Geode.
Geode tried to move away but the man caught the collar of his shirt and grinned.
He forced Geode to the wall.
“Fine…..you won’t let me take her….I’ll just torture you…and take her later…”
Geode tried to twists the man’s wrist but it didn’t work…
Soon the man disappeared with him…
Geode…
“Get off me!”
Geode struggled as he was chained to the wall.
“You want to protect her? Take this for her!”
A whip hit him hard and he screamed in pain…
He resisted the tears trying to force out his innocent green eyes but he bit his lip and took the whippings…
*This….is…* He said in his mind…then a vision showed itself.
Not really a vision but….a flashback…
He remembered my scars….my cuts….my wounds…my blood.
He was bleeding now too..
“AH!”
He screamed at very few whips, biting his lip hard to keep most of the screams in.
Brave he is…
“How is this?!”
The man was whipping his harder now….cuts over cuts….blood pouring down his ripped shirt and pants..
“You saved her last time…”
The man reared his ugly head and showed an evil smile that made Geode growl…..growl low…but strong.
“Let’s see if she cares enough to save you..”
Like I was left…the man left him…
His body bleeding above all else and his eyes tired and needing rest….
He hoped…he knew that the man wouldn’t go for me yet….I was safe….and so were the other lunatics..
His mind thought of other things then his pain….he needed to think of a way to escape…
He smiled a bit…happy with himself.
I think he got a plan….
I’ll try to save you Geode!
In case your plan doesn’t work out…

Chapter 23 - Empty

I woke up feeling sore in the heart. I felt lost……I remember that feeling from 8 years ago and I still don’t like it.
I looked around the room cautiously…Rachel was still asleep…
Hmm….what happened?
My heart ached and it was nearby killing me each second…I got up slowly sure to not to disturb the goth across the room.
I tried to open the door swiftly…but…it was locked?
Strange as it seems I looked at it. Why was it locked?
I unlocked it and opened it, I began to walk to everyone’s room…..all doors shut and locked….
All but one….
Geode’s.
I went into his room and saw no sign of him….
I looked all over the base and still nothing…..no sign of him….
The emptiness in my heart grew…
Why?
So? He wasn’t here for most of my life why did I care?
I guess we were greater friends than I thought..
I walked outside…he had to be around…
My blonde hair…messy from sleeping was dancing in the wind…..I yawned looking around. “Geode…?”
The dark clouds never faded….how gracious.
My blue and white nightgown was moving in the wind as well. It was a dress nightgown. Long sleeves that cuff a bit then go a bit more.
And it has a bow in the middle of it and the gorgeous dress went down to my ankles and even had some ruffles at the end of it.
I rubbed my eyes looking around.
Where was Geode?
I turned and was about to go in when I felt someone’s hand on my wrist…
Geode…it reminded me of Geode!
“Geo-” I turned around smiling but it faded as a man stood there smirking.
“Your protector’s gone and its up to you to save him..”
My heart wanted to die.
“Where is Geode?!” I shouted growling a bit.
But that only made the man pull me close to him…
He lifted my chin with his two front fingers and looked me in the eye.
“How can something like you be so precious?”
“Huh..?” I looked at him and pulled away but he kept me there.
“You’re life to everyone here and even Geode seems to be very precious…”
I had nothing to say….there was nothing I could say…
“But you’re their enemy..”
I pulled away again. “NO! I will never be-AH!” He slapped me across the face.
“You want to save him?”
I glared and nodded. “Leave him be..”
“Then follow me…” He smirked. I could tell there was more to this guy than he spoke….so I followed.
He led me to a horrible place…
Worse than the prison…
A dark castle…inside and outside bones and the bodies of the innocent dead laid to not be buried.
Blood was splattered on walls and skulls were used as decorations….
I gulped….besides Fire…this is one of my fears…
This place was creepy to say the least and completely horrifying to start describing it.
The man grabbed my wrist.
“Follow me…”
He begun pulling me into this hell of a castle…
Geode smirked as someone entered his cell….his plan would work….He could easily control fire and burn off the chains…but he needed people down so no one could restrain him.
The person walked up to Geode….
Geode smiled getting ready….he was close….he just needed a small touch from the person to set him on fire…or he could just set the cell on fire….
The person placed his hand on Geode’s head and before Geode could rebel…..
He lost it.
His control and the man was now in control.
“Obey Your master Dragora..” Dragora smirked as Geode nodded.
His eyes blank green and soulless….
“Yes master Dragora…”
“Geode..?”
“Yes master?”
Geode’s gaze was at the ground but Dragora broke his chains and kneeled down to Geode.
“Someone is here to kill you….now…..I suggest you finish them first…”
He smiled as Geode nodded and stood up looking down at Dragora.
“Tell me who my lord..”
“A girl your age named Juliet…finish her, murder her….do what you have to, drown or burn her! Just make sure shes dead and she can’t harm you..”
Geode nodded and in his hand he made a sword out of fire..
“I will master…”
“Excellent…” Dragora walked off..
“She’ll be here soon….kill her….”
The sound of his footsteps rang in my ears…
He was close but far….
The man who had me pulled me further and further until we reached a dead end cell…
It was covered in blood..
“Geode?!”
I looked around and the man looked around..
“That’s it he wants to meet you on the roof…” He grabbed my arm more forcefully and pulled me to the stairs..
Before I knew it I was being dragged….one by one I tried to keep up…
The rough edges of the stairs cut my nightgown and legs…
Soon even with bloody feet I stood strong at the top of the steps..
I saw a door…it was wooden and the most normal thing…no blood or skull on it…
He pushed me into it, opening it with my face…
It hurt but I couldn’t complain…I just needed to find my friend!
It felt good….
Saying that…
Geode you are my friend.
At first I saw nothing…just bland outside…..
Then I saw a figure approaching from fog…the fog seemed to be everywhere…
He had a sword that made me turn pale…
Fire…
I took a step back and fell into the man that brought me here…
“Scared? Too bad.” He laughed and pushed me forward…my eyes were on him until I fell into someone else…the person with the fire…
I slowly looked at him….up at his face…
“Geode!”
He smirked and raised his sword. “I am Dragora’s servant…and You will die!”
He thrust it down…and my heart stopped….
Geode…..why….

Chapter 24 - Through Hell for you

The sword’s reflection stayed in my moon blue eyes…the flames….the amber….all showing as death red in my eyes.
*Geode..*
I couldn’t believe it…
I held my breathe….
Felt my heart slow in fear..
He smirked….evilly….whether he was controlled or not…
I knew he always wanted this…
I was sick of fighting….sick of running….they want this so bad….then…they can have it!
I watched his sword as he thrust it down.
I felt my heart stop….I needed to close my eyes…
But….
What…?
I opened them to see the sword still above me….Geode was struggling…to keep control….or to not lose it again..
“Juliet….” He made out quickly. “Run…”
“No!” I growled. “I’m tired of running! You want me dead? Finish me now!”
I stood still….
I didn’t even think about Geode…I mean…he WAS doing this for me….stopping himself….just to save me…
And what do I do? Refuse to move…
“Juli-”
He started to say before he dropped his sword….and a blade was in his arm….it stopped him….but….it was hurting him!
“How dare you defy me?!” Dragora growled and threw Geode back. Geode screamed….it pierced my eardrums and broke my heart..
Dragora paid me no attention….he yelled at Geode.
“You weak pathetic no good lousy piece of dirt!”
He kicked Geode in the side and all Geode did was scream and groan….he couldn’t move..
“Geode!” I tried to run to him but my arms were grabbed…each by a different man.
Dragora growled. “You’ll have yours Juliet…”
I growled as he started kicking Geode more…..he made him bleed and I even saw a tear…?
A tear?!
Geode….I don’t think I ever saw you cry…
“STOP!” I shouted about to cry myself….
“Make me..” Dragora kept kicking him and soon I could see blood….blood staining his body….and as I looked at him…
He was already bleeding….already scarred….already…..cut too deep…
“PLEASE STOP!” I pulled but the men kept me at bay.
“STOP!!”
Dragora smiled. “Fine….I’ll settle things like I settle everything….by whipping everything within a 5 meter radius!”
He took out a whip and lit it on fire….
My eyes concentrated on it…
I remember that…
I…..
I can see it all again….Being left for dead….the feeling of dying…..the feeling of being hurt to the limit of not death but to live then die…
How….how could my own grandfather do this?!
“Please stop!”
I shouted seeing him raise the whip…
“No!!!”
I pulled…jerked….squirmed….everything I could to get out of the claws of the two bastards holding me….I had to save him!
After all he did for me….
The whip went down furiously….hit Geode in the stomach…his screaming rung in my ears like a broken record….
I couldn’t take it….
He whipped him again..
No…I can’t anymore…
He whipped him again…
I can feel it pulse in me…
As he whipped him again…
It felt strong….too strong for even those men to hold back….I wanted him dead…my grandfather…I want him dead!
It coursed through my body….
Made me feel so cold….yet….
So powerful.
It strikes me hard that my heart could feel this!
Me murder my family?
Damn right…it feels so damn right…
He’s not going to get away with killing my family or hurting Geode…
So….Damn…..right…
I heard me say in my head….
Even though he was still being whipped….Geode’s screams were flushed out by this new…..what is it called?
It lit my eyes up….my moon blue eyes, they were glowing white-blue…
I felt my lips move…curl….a smirk.
“I..”
Dragora waited to hear. “Yes?”
“Said…”
He looked at me and saw my eyes…he begun to smile too….this….this is what he wanted…he didn’t want Geode dead…he wanted to see this! To have this! To kill this!
“STOP!”
I felt it pulse through me….cold breeze around me…
Ice…
Ice spikes arose from underneath the men holding me and blocked them from me…even stabbed them.
Some came from under Dragora….
But he smiled and jumped out of the way just in time. “Foolish child…..I waited for this all along!”
Before I knew it he was running at me….and my eyes dimmed…they weren’t glowing anymore…and ice spikes stopped growing..
Geode was leaning up barely…he was in so much pain….
He growled weakly and got up…staggering…he saw me fall to my knees…holding my head…it pounded and hurt…why though?! My power! I…I had a power! Ice! I controlled Ice! I wanted to smile but as I begun to my head pounded more and I could only groan…
“Uhhh…” I rubbed and held my head….trying to think…trying to see….
“Geode….are…you..?” I started to say but closed my eyes and opened them at times…
My vision was so blurred but I could see Dragora running at me….was he in slow motion?
No….my heart was just pounding too much where it felt as if forever…
“No!” Geode ran…barely…but as much as he could to get to Dragora…
He watched me struggle to even see….
I couldn’t!
I was still on my knees….weak…like always….
Then….
He got in front of me…
Geode growled at Dragora holding his arms out to protect me.
“You want…her…Dragora?” He was gasping..
“You…*gasp* ‘ll…have to go…*gasp* through me…”
Dragora smiled. “Gladly….” And I saw him raise the whip…
I knew by Geode’s wounds….by his blood…
This would be the last whipping…last one he could ever take….one hit…and he was done…
Oh Geode…the hell you went through for me…and…
Dragora smirked. “I’m going to enjoy this…”
Geode…No….please….
“Move..!” I shouted weakly seeing Geode with the poor vision I had…still struggling to keep together..
But no….
No matter what I said…
You resist to move.

Chapter 25 - We’re done with that life….

“Geode…”
Weakly breathing and heart failing to beat stronger than a mile per hour….he wasn’t going to last…
“Juliet…” He gasped a bit. I could see him holding his chest….blood dripping from his fresh wound over his hand.
“Close your eyes….”
“Geode….No!” I feared he’d do the worst thing and that was protecting me with whatever he had left…. Now that I think about it….I found myself alone and beaten up….and this reminds me of that moment, of that day. No way its happening again!
“Geode you get away now!”
“No…close your eyes or I’ll make you!”
I gulped. “Please….just listen to me…”
“Juliet….I’m asking you a final time…”
Dragora got ready to whip him but was smirking listening to us conflict over me closing my eyes.
“No..”
“Please…” He said and I gave in….at least I could do this for him…I bowed my head down, still kneeling behind him.
I closed my eyes tightly.
Geode smiled a bit. His eyes turned to a fire red. “Two can play this Dragora..” Fire spun around his body in a dance….it swirled up and down his arms as he laughed a bit…he used some of his power to close his wound but used his fire to spread devastation…
He unleashed it and I could tell.
He didn’t want me seeing this because…..fire was my fear…and I think he noticed. I could smell it though. The burning passion of his power caused smoke that made me cough….as did Dragora’s minions. However Dragora and Geode were used to this…it was their power and they knew how to control it.
Dragora smirked. “So boy, is this how its going to be?”
“Yes.” Geode smiled and before Dragora could even move his whole castle was on fire….
The flames were high and I had to open my eyes.
Smoke made my eyes water and tear and I could barely breathe…however….even though I knew this was Geode’s fire and his power….as soon as my eyes laid on that fire….I screamed.
I….We…meaning me and Geode were surrounded by the nasty flames…the smoke and the fire kept both of us blind….I could hear footsteps away….maybe Dragora’s minions weren’t so stupid…but where was my grandfather?!
The fire….it made me remember….I thought of flesh…I thought of blood….my parents, my brother…me and Geode…
I can’t…..I was terrified…I only see death….my death…..our deaths…..
“NO!” I covered my eyes and shouted.
I heard screaming and someone hugged me tight. Ice spikes had grown everywhere…they grew up from the ground and attacked the minions left and even Dragora himself.
“No…No…No!” I cried still screaming. “Shhh..”
I heard Geode trying to calm me. “Its ok…” I wheezed….I can’t breathe even! Ice spikes even grew on the sides of the castle making the castle look gothic and decorated with spikes….only adding to the terror…
Geode smiled getting an idea….He pulled my arms around his neck. “Juliet I need you to let me carry you..”
I looked at him….like I had a choice right now…but…
“Why?”
“To get you away from here..” He stood, and my arms around him made me stand as well. I felt his hands on the back sides of my knees and he lifted my legs to the sides of his waist.
“You ok?” He asked as I coughed into his shoulder leaning on him.
“Yeah…” I could barely make out but I nodded and he held onto me tight.
“I’ll get us out of here…just hold on and whatever you do….do not look down.”
Oh great….now I’m tempted…I kept my eyes closed though….I knew what this meant…..he was going to take a chance….and I-he knew I didn’t want to see.
He took a deep breathe…I could hear it in my ears and my hair not only moved with the wind but with his breathe.
“Ok….Time to take our leave Juliet..”
He held onto me as I held onto him. Slowly he walked to the edge of the castle’s roof. He looked back and saw the fire was fading and so was the smoke….and a figure….Dragora was still there..
“Damn..”
Before thinking it completely through, he jumped off the edge and landed three feet down on an ice spike I had made.
He looked around and saw ice spikes all around just feet apart.
“Can’t fail now..” But he knew it could….if Dragora melted them…or better yet….he didn’t have to.
The fire Geode made was melting the best of the spikes near the roof…I could even feel the heat from the fading fire from where he was standing with me.
I held my breathe as I felt him leap….again…..and again. He jumped down on all the spikes then made it to the ground with a thud.
He smiled in his victory. “We did it Juliet…”
I coughed and looked up at him. “You….You did it..”
“I needed your help though..”
I smiled a bit….I was actually useful….I felt bad still….even though Geode closed his biggest wounds and some were still closing I felt his blood…he did all this for me and he was still the one carrying me, helping me out to the end…
“I’ll get us to safety…” He said and dashed off….never have I seen a boy run this fast! Unless you count Rai for Rachel’s breakfast waffles….that’s different…
I sighed thinking of them…my home….my family….
I could hear Geode breathing…struggling now….his footsteps landing hard on the ground cracking twigs and sticks and crunching leaves as we had entered a forest…
I felt him stop. He looked around. Shelter…we need shelter..
I knew I didn’t know where I was and neither did he….but we were already about 100 feet away from Dragora…maybe more. Which doesn’t seem like a lot but with smoke covering your eyes and lungs…fresh air as soon as possible is nice.
“There!” He shouted and I turned to look….it was a cave.
“Nice eyes..” I said to him and he nodded and ran over.. “Thank you.”
I could feel his heart beating more and more tensely.
Once we were inside the damp dark cave he set me down.
He kneeled next to me holding his knees and breathing heavily. “You ok?”
“Yeah..” I felt his face….sweat and tears….blood….he was exhausted….he looked it.
“You need rest Geode..”
“I’ll get it later..”
“Well…at least you need this….” I ripped the bottom of my nightgown and got up. “I’ll be right back..” I walked out of the cave and saw him rest on the ground leaning on the wall. I ran around a bit and saw water, a stream! Good…I really needed it..
I plunged the cloth into the river and ran back to him.
“Ok Geode…” I said. “This might sting…” I tore his shirt off, perfect muscles covered in blood and cuts. My heart fell but I washed his wounds until the blood was almost at a full stop. I did the same with his arms and his legs…well as far as just a bit above his knees…
“Thank you…and its ok…I didn’t feel anything..” He smiled a bit but I could tell the pain ached more than mine did….
I had only taken his shirt off and I pulled the bottom of his pant legs down.
“I’m sorry this was all I could do..” I placed his shirt on his chest and patted it a gently so it stopped more blood.
“No it was helpful, thank you.”
“You’re welcome..” I sat next to him and looked at him. “Geode..”
He fixed his shirt on his wounds a bit then looked at me. “Yeah?”
“We can never go back…” I said with my eyes staggering back and fourth as I thought of memories….soon I just closed my eyes, opened them again and was just looking at him.
“Go back?” He asked.
“To the Lunatics…..Salem….we can’t go back…”
He looked down but he knew I was right. “We’ve come too far to head back…they’ll have to do without us…”
“Yes and Dragora will know we’re not with them and when he comes for me….I won’t be there…the Lunatics will send him away and he’ll be forced to fight me! Face to face!” I stood up, holding a fist.
“I’m ready Geode..” I looked at my fist.
“Its now or never that I fight back….you’re right…we’ve gone too far to turn back now..”
He looked at me and nodded.
“But I have a question.” I looked at him. “Yeah?” He asked.
“You with me Geode?”
He seemed to freeze for a bit but smiled lightly. “All the way.”

Chapter 26 - Carefully and Quietly

I think me and him came a very long way. The first time we talked, he wanted nothing to do with me. Now he doesn’t want me to do this alone. I never thought about this but maybe me and him are the same sometimes….
When you think about it….we aren’t the same, just similar. We both live in this world, have powers beyond our imagination and we both want the end of Dragora and will stop at nothing to destroy him.
But its also strange, my fear is his power….this might be a bit tough.
But I know as long as we’re together until Dragora’s death, I’ll try my best to not let my power only summon from seeing his….because I might just end up hurting him….Then I’d be alone again…
I heard him groan for a second….I just cleaned his wounds but I felt horrible that I couldn’t do anything to stop them from hurting..
“I’m sorry..” I said looking at him with my sad eyes. He held the shirt on one of the worst wounds I’ve ever seen and looked at me with a sad but friendly smile.
“You did your best.”
I looked at him for a second then away straight at the cave wall in front of me.
“My best wasn’t good enough..” I felt my eyes water and a tear ran from my left eye to my cheek..
He looked at me then a bit down. “It was for me.”
I didn’t think I could look at him…..I really couldn’t.
“Juliet…listen to me, look at me..”
“I hear you.”
Geode looked down. “I’m tired….we’ll talk tomorrow ok?”
“Alright..” I closed my eyes a bit. I was exhausted…. I curled up a bit beside him to keep myself warm, laying my head on the side of his shoulder.
“You’re tired too…” I heard him say.
“I am..” I looked at his shirt to avoid his sweet eyes….I’m so tired of thinking he was the bad guy….I know he’s one of my best friends and I’m so happy to have him next to me and with me through his all.
I felt him move a bit then soon I was pushed a bit to him. His arm was around me and I felt his warmth.
“Geode…..you ok?”
“Yeah but you’re cold.”
I waited a while. How did he know?
Maybe its because he knows my power is ice and I’ll naturally be cold from it….and he’ll naturally be warm from his power being fire.
I yawned. “We need sleep..” I soon saw that familiar darkness again and I slowly feel asleep..
I felt a head on mine and he fell asleep too…
I think this was the first night I could go to sleep and feel great about it…
I don’t know why. But I smiled in my sleep….
I heard birds the next morning….the forest must be full of them.
Slowly I got out of the daydream called a dream and I opened my eyes to see Geode still next to me….a bit asleep..
“Juliet..?” He asked as he woke up.
“Yeah…I’m here…”
I saw him smile and I smiled back. “Good.”
“Yeah….we should get going..”
He nodded and got up helping me up….I saw that overnight his wounds had healed or scarred is the best way to say it.
He smiled a bit. “I feel better..”
“Good….and um.. Geode…?”
“Yes Juliet?”
“Where now?”
“Well…” He said looking around then at me. “I had an idea….an old Pangaea named Levitas could help..”
“But…isn’t he a bad guy?”
“He used to be….now he silences anyone who makes him choose sides….however I don’t think he likes Dragora too much..”
“Why though? If he doesn’t choose sides-”
“Dragora turned the girl Levitas loved into a fox so they couldn’t be together. But they are…just not that way…she is a look out for him since she can’t be with him.”
“A….look out?”
“Spy.”
“Oh…on others?”
“On people who try to go see him.”
“Then how will we get to him?”
“Well.” Geode started to say. “We need to find some people who knows where he is.”
“Pangaeas?”
“Exactly..”
And all I heard was me gulp…..I didn’t care about going but Geode being a guardian could put him in trouble. I’ll try to protect him..
“So where do we go?” I asked looking up at him.
“Well…” He looked outside. “We’re still on Pangaea territory and some of them hang out in forests…”
“So you pretty much want us to wander about so they come to kill us..”
He didn’t answer but got to the end of the cave and looked around.
“Geode..?”
He got out of the cave and smiled a bit.
“Geode what are you looking at?”
I walked to him and he pointed to smoke.
“Smells like a bonfire…or a fireplace..” He said.
I nodded a bit. “So…head there?”
“Yeah…you ready?”
“Yeah…” I nodded a bit. “All I have is my nightgown and as long as its on me I’m good.” I laughed a bit and I heard him make a small chuckle.
“Shall we go?” He turned to me and held out his hand.
I waited a while….thinking and wondering…
This is the next biggest step….
“Yes.”
I gripped his hand and he gently pulled me to him.
“To the smoke!”
For some reason that made me laugh…
Soon enough we started walking and I could see the smoke get thicker high in the air above the trees…
Glorious trees releasing their leaves in the wind….all types of colors…I saw green, red….yellow….and mixes between them.
I smiled breathing in not the smoke but the air the trees provided…
I looked at the trees and saw fruit….apples…cherries…they made me giggle.
Such a beautiful place inhabited by horrible people.
Geode looked at the trees as I giggled.
“You hungry?”
I nodded. “A bit…you?”
“Same..” He said and pulled me to a apple tree. “Stay here..” He said and I watched him climb the tree….he did it fast and I saw him carefully grab onto a branch and move his hand to a nice green apple.
“Here you go.” He picked it and let it drop. I held my hands out and it fell in them.
I took a bite and smiled. Fresh apples are very good..
I watched him as he slid down the tree holding his own apple.
He ate it a bit fast. “Pretty good..”
I nodded as me and him both rested our backs on the tree. I looked around at where the smoke was coming from. “Look..” I said seeing a small run down house on a hill behind some trees..
Geode and I finished our apples as we got past the trees and stood at the base of a small hill that supported a dark house ontop.
“Looks…vacant..” I said and Geode nodded.
“But the smoke…says its not. Ready?” He looked at me offering me his hand.
“Yeah.” I took his and we started walking to it..
I secretly felt something as he touched my hand…..maybe….something different? I trust him….maybe…I felt something for him…
But the question is…..does he feel anything for me?

Chapter 27 - Whisper to Me

We walked slowly to the top of the hill. My eyes rested on the vacant mansion the whole time. It seemed spooky, reminded me of a scary movie to tell the truth.
My feet were killing me, I didn’t have shoes on, I guess that’s the least of my problems though. My priority is to find the person Geode spoke of, Levitas I believe?
I still can’t figure out why this is all happening….why does Dragora have to be evil? He can’t just be good….no….
He’s my family….or was..
We soon got to the top. Geode’s hand I just realized was firmly gripping to mine…
“Geode?”
I looked at him and he moved his head but not his eyes. He was staring at the house for a bit then looked me in the eyes.
“Yeah?”
“I…..uh..” I stared into his and noticed something….his beautiful green eyes were surrounded by a small circle of red. What happened?
I didn’t even remember my question now….just…why were his eyes red? Did he know? Best not to tell him….no need to get him worried…
“Nothing I uh…just wanted to say…uh we are here?”
“Oh.” He laughed a bit then turned back to the mansion and started running pulling me with him.
“Geode hey slow-down!” I almost tripped on a rock but jumped over it in enough time.
“Juliet look!” He said as he stopped and I stopped too.
I looked down at my nightgown and not only was it ripped from helping Geode but it was covered in mud and grass stains. “Eww…”
“it’s a house Juliet!”
“Not that moron, my night dress!”
“Oh..” He panned his vision to my dress. “Yeah you should really get that cleaned…”
“I would if we weren’t on a hill in the middle of the forest!”
“Lets just go..” He said and pulled me up to the door. He looked at me and pointed to the door. “Ladies first.”
“OH no!” I shook my head putting my hands on my hips. “No way!! You wanted us to come here you open the door!”
“Juliet you’re a lady open the door for the man on the hill..”
“Ok fine, I’ll open but you have to go in first..”
Geode stopped and stared at the door for a while he then looked up to see the smoke gone.
“Uh….second thoug-”
I already had the door opened, it wasn’t that hard…it was unlocked.
“Gentlemen first.” I smiled and I heard him mumble and he walked in…
I walked in after then closed the door. There was no fire….whoever was here put it out. And there being no fire left this place in complete darkness…
The windows where broken on the outside but they were covered on the inside with tarp or something. It was dark….a bit freezing….it only took us a few minutes to get up the hill but the fire must not of been burning for a while or this place, since covered, is just naturally more cold then outside..
I kept thinking to myself if I should ask if anyone was here…but knowing all the danger I was in so far that’s not a really good idea…
I was able to just barely see Geode, and I reached my hand out and grabbed his.
I felt him hold onto me and he pulled me closer to him.
“You ok?” I heard him whisper. “Yeah..” I looked at his face and the red circle in his eyes glow dimly but I could see them well being this close.
I breathed slowly to not alarm anything around us…
Soon I felt a hand to my mouth. “Hold your breathe for a second..” It was Geode and I did what he said. The room we were in was silent….but I heard a little creak soon after and I could hear my heart pound and my eyes widened plain with fear. I wanted to scream to get out of here but it was too late already with the door shut and all..
He removed his hand. “Did you hear that?” He whispered. “Yeah…”
I stared at his eyes as I said that…the circle of red got bigger and I could see his face better.
“Geode….your eyes are-”
I heard something move and took a step back feeling something behind me.
I jumped and screamed.
“Juliet! Ssh!” Geode shushed in a angry but low tone. “What’s gotten into you?!”
I started to cry very afraid of what was around me.
“Geode please we have to leave there is someone here!” I didn’t care about whispering, the person or people already knew we were here.
“No Juliet we came to get answers!”
“Please from somewhere else!” I started pulling him toward the door and as I went for the knob…..but I didn’t touch the knob. I felt something cold and just by touching the nail I knew it was a hand..
I gulped hoping it was Geode but I knew he was really behind me…
“Found you.” The hand grabbed my wrist and I screamed. “Geode! Geode!!!”
Soon before I even knew it…a light was turned on…it was dim but on…and there were dozens of vampires all around….even two small children…
I screamed as the one that held my wrist was pushed away by Geode. I grabbed his shirt and held onto him looking at the vampires…
They looked at us….hungry faces…..I saw the dried blood of their last victim on the edge of their mouths….
I gulped. “Geode….” I looked up at him and only a small circle around his pupils was still green..
“Geode….” I didn’t know what scared me more…the fact that something was wrong with Geode or the fact that I was stuck in a place where Vampires wanted to eat me…
I gulped. Definitely not a good day…
I watched the small circle disappear and he smirked. “Hold onto me mud blood..” He pushed me closer to him and blocked my sight with his hand.
I closed my eyes tight knowing what he was going to do.
Fire swirled around us and warmed me up…but that at the moment didn’t matter.
He looked at them and the fire spread around…I heard cries and thuds as they all moved around, I could tell some were trying to get to us still, why did the wait? They had the chance earlier….maybe they just knew I was one of them? I’m not sure….but I didn’t want to think about it….hearing them cry was bad enough…..
“Vampires can burn to death…” He smiled more twisted then I noticed he got an idea….
The fire was soon everywhere..
“In fact…” He said and pulled my hair so I was pulled from him. His eyes narrowed at me. I opened them fast to see him and I knew right away…
This is not the Geode I know..
“Goodbye Juliet..” He thrust me back hard into the fire. I felt the pain….everything burning…it hurt!! Geode how could you?!
But like I said….this wasn’t my Geode….
I knew I was going to die….but…I just can’t go out like this! I felt my body warm exceedingly then the temperature dropped inside me..
I laid on the ground, my body turning red and some parts turning a brown…
I screamed, I was too shocked before but now…..no…I had to scream!
I could feel it….oh god not again! The pain of this…..of the power inside me.
I could hear the floor break as ice spikes as large as me popped out form the ground. I heard the vampire’s scream again….smoke from the fire filled my lungs as it whipped around.
The ice was going everywhere…hitting everything it could…
The smoke was slowly putting me asleep and it was also putting me out of my misery…the burns I could feel them…but the pain lessened as I struggled to breathe.
I laid on my back same as before….feeling my power…hearing the ice still appearing from under the house and coming up…
I looked up, eyes half open….
I heard my name…Geode?
What…..what was going on?
I watched the smoke settle and my vision die.
“Geode…?”
“Juliet!”
I heard very faint as I coughed trying to surpass the smoke and get air…
But yet…I received nothing and I ended up blacking out.

Chapter 28 - Drowning in Fire

The redness left his eyes as he watched me get threw into the fire. He rubbed his eyes, his head hurting unlike ever before. He held his head and looked around. Smoke and ember burning off of fire all around him.
His clothes a bit burned but his body was fine…he controlled this after all.
*Damn…this…..fire….* He thought for a second. Looking around, the place was burning up.
“I need to stop this…” He was about to pull the fire back but then he remembered me….being thrown in.
“Juliet!?” He looked around desperate. He put his arms out and calmed down the fire as much as he could.
“Juliet!?” He shouted again.
I remember that shout…..
“Geode…?”
His eyes widened and he put out the fire….but the smoke was still around. He coughed. “Juliet?” He looked around and started walking. He saw a figure and ran to it. He grabbed its collar knowing it wasn’t me.
“Where is she?!”
The vampire was almost completely burned alive. “Who..?” Geode calmed down, he needed to find Levitas too…. “Where is Levitas?”
“Why….why should I tell you Guardian? I rather be killed then betray my kind.” The vampire’s burned face seemed to show a smirk and Geode got furious. He pulled the vampire closer to his face and yelled at him. “Tell me!”
“Make me.” The Vampire didn’t let up and Geode was almost done with being nice…he saw one of my ice spikes still alive and pushed the Vampire down on it right near his heart. “I end your life now or make you suffer, your choice. All I want to know is where he is..”
The vampire coughed up blood. “Fine…..I hope he kills you bastards for what you’ve done to us….”
He wheezed a bit trying to stay alive just to speak it seemed. “He lives just a bit beyond this mansion….in the deepest part of the forest.”
“Thank you.” Geode had had enough though and pushed him all the way down until he hit the ground. It pierced the vampire’s heart and broke it up killing him.
“Now…” Geode made same gasps. “Time to find Juliet…” He looked around and saw bodies all around, burned from his fire and cut by my ice. If anything, we were the ones who looked like the monsters, not the vampires.
In the middle of burned circle in the ground, he saw blonde hair and a girl laying on her side. I was out cold.
“Juliet!” He ran over and gasped seeing me. His eyes filled with tears.
“What have I done….?”
My arms were a bit burned, just red, my dress and my legs were burned but my face only took minor burns to the cheek and some of the edges of my hair were black. Nothing too bad on my face…
He looked at all of me and guilt filled his heart.
“I did this….” A flashback of the event played in his mind. He didn’t know why or how but he remembered taking me by my hair and throwing me in the fire.
He leaned over me and looked around….searching the house. The vampire he killed was the only one that was last breathing.
He looked back at me and turned me on my back. He pressed his ear to where my heart was and listened.
“Still alive…good….” He stood up. *I need something to wrap her wounds..* He turned his head to the stairs. *Possibly a medicine cabinet? But then again a vampire wouldn’t need one….or maybe.* He thought to himself and ran up the stairs. He walked into the bathroom and above the sink was just what he needed.
“Yes!” He smiled and rampaged through it. He saw some gauze and grabbed it. “Not exactly what I need but close enough….” He grabbed a bottle of alcohol and shut the cabinet. “Not like they need it anymore.”
As much as he was happy with his defeat, killing so many people hurt him inside.
He ran back downstairs to me and turned me to my front. “Good thing you’re not awake.” He poured the alcohol on every burn I had then gently wrapped each one.
I felt it actually. It hurt barely as the burns pretty much covered me up…
I could some of the fresh air now in me….the smoke need a push and I felt myself coughing.
“Juliet..” Geode breathed a sigh of relief and I felt his arm under me holding me up a bit.
My head was sort of hanging off his help as he was only holding onto my back.
I could hear his voice and my vision started to come back. My eyes opened half way and I looked up at him. “Geode….” I coughed more and smiled a bit seeing his face. The burns didn’t hurt and I didn’t even know I had them.
“Are…..we….?”
“We’re ok.” He smiled at me and I saw his eyes were fully green again…
“Good.” I looked around and saw all the dead bodies….especially the one Geode pressed down onto my spike to make him talk.
My eyes widened.
Look what I done……look what I had done….I killed all these people….
Burned or not by Geode’s fire, it was my spike that tore their hearts!
I…I could never take a life….
But sadly I can’t say that anymore….I took dozens of lives…
My eyes moved a little farther and I felt my heart break more than ever…
The two children….a little red haired girl and a little black haired boy….not burned, not touched by fire…were murdered by a spike through their hearts. I could see the life out of their eyes and the blood flowing from their lips…
“No…”
Geode who was still looking at me, looked around as I spoke.
“No?” He saw all the bodies and the children. “Juliet…its not your fault..”
“No….No!” I felt my eyes water and I gripped his shirt and cried on his chest.
“I did this! I killed them!”
“Juliet..” He didn’t know what to say. He knew I did kill some…if not all.
“I’m sorry..” He held me and gently rubbed the back of my head to calm me down. But all he did was twist his fingers in my hair..
I couldn’t believe what I did….all of this….
Now I feel like I really am Dragora’s grandchild….
My tears wouldn’t stop and I knew nothing could stop them. I took all these lives….I don’t care if vampires lived forever….I ended that! ENDED IT!
“Please….I know you’re upset but we must go.” He kissed my forehead and looked at me. “Come on..”
I was…shocked by that.
Why-what did he just… I just stared at him with a shocked expression. I saw his cheeks get a bit red as he smiled. “You ok now?” I kind of forgot everything for that moment…
I stared at him for a while then blinked and wiped away my tears. “Yeah…”
“Good.” I felt him get up and he grabbed my arm and pulled me up with him.
“I know where Levitas is, we must go.” He was looking at the burned down and I nodded. “Alright.” I didn’t want to know how he got that information.
I think its better not to ask that question right now..
“You sure you can handle this?” He asked me and I nodded. “Yeah…after all I need to kill my grandfather….killing was possibly going to happen on the way anyway..”
“That’s the spirit..” He said sarcastic. I can tell he didn’t want to do the damage he did…but it had to be done.
He started to pull me to the door but I felt pain in my legs and I fell to the ground in agony.
“Juliet!” He turned back and saw me kneeling.
I wanted to cry. Pain increased in me..
“They…hurt…” He kneeled by me. “What do?”
“My legs…” I felt a tear come out and he looked down. “I’m sorry….I did that..”
“It wasn’t you..” I wiped it away but he had already seen it and knew my pain. “I know you wouldn’t…”
“I tried to heal it….don’t worry….I promise you it will heal, I’ll help it heal ok?”
I looked at him for a second. This was no time to get side tracked….we need help to defeat Dragora, we need Levitas’s guidance….or help.
“Yeah..” I nodded, I placed my hand on his shoulder. “I’ll be fine, just help me up?”
“No. I can’t see you fall like that again..”
“So what do you propose?”
“I’ll carry you.” He said simply and in a happy way.
“Carry me? Please…I’m too heavy.”
“You don’t look it and I’m very strong.” Before I could even say anything, I felt his hand on my back and his arm under my legs and he got up and lifted me up, carrying me.
“Um…” I could feel myself blushing a bit. I swear the more time I spend with him the more I feel something for him.
“You sure I’m not heavy?”
“Nope…” He smiled and walked to the door. He kicked it down and when we were outside he breathed in fresh air like I did in delight. “To the middle of the forest!”
He carried me around the house and I saw trees thickening in like some plot.
“This way is what the vampire said.”
He didn’t sound terribly confident in what he had heard but he started walking anyway past the trees and bushes that were all around.
“Geode…?”
“Yeah?” He asked with his eyes set in front of him watching and carefully walking over the stumps and twigs in our path.
“I feel….we’re not alone..” I said and he nodded. “I feel it too..” He walked just a bit faster but still was careful.
I looked around and in a bush a bit ahead to the side I saw eyes…..deep in the bush though.
I gulped.
Someone is here…

Chapter 29 - Its Hard to Forgive When You Get What You Lost..

“We should stop..” I said holding onto Geode. Seeing those eyes…..I could feel the goose bumps on my back.
Geode looked down at me. “We can’t…..”
He took a step closer and a loud growl was heard. I looked at the bush and it was glowing purple!? Geode stopped walking and I could hear him gulp. I wasn’t the only one afraid. He shivered for a second but held onto me.
“Who-Whose there?!” Geode shouted looking at the bush.
“Leave…” A one word warning that scared me and made me want to run off….
Geode stayed still, I felt his arms freeze a bit but he stayed still. “No.” I looked up at him with wide eyes and I gulped. But it was true….we have to do this, even if we have to fight first.
“Juliet….I’m going to put you down and I want you to go behind me.”
He looked….I have no idea how to describe it, strong willed….incredible really.
“Geode….I want to help..”
“No, trust me.”
I looked down and I knew I wasn’t going to win. I nodded. He gently placed me on my feet and pulled me behind him before I could even move.
“Well? Come get me.” He shouted at the bush. For a second nothing happened and I felt as if we were frozen in time. I held onto the back of his shirt. If anything came out of those bushes I’m not going to let him get hurt, I’ll fight with him!
To our surprise a fox, black and gray with purple glowing eyes jumped out from the bush.
It showed Geode it’s teeth and growled loudly.
It…..it was adorable! I couldn’t help but awe and I heard Geode laugh a bit. “Don’t laugh at me!” The fox growled and walked closer to us. “I’mma strong foxy!”
That’s when me and Geode burst out laughing. I couldn’t contain it, it was like a little kid acting like they’re older than you, too cute, annoying but so cute its funny!
The fox kept growling. “That’s it!” She jumped up and before me and Geode knew it, Geode was kicked by her and he fell on me. He held his stomach. “Ouch!!”
“Ah! Get off me!” He landed right on my stomach and one of my arms. “Oops, sorry!” He quickly got up and pulled me up.
“So do I look cute now?!” The fox asked walking to us.
“Yes.” I heard us both say. “But-” Geode said as it growled. “You are tough, I must give you that.”
“Thank you.” The fox seemed to smile and sat down. “So how can I help you two?”
“Well…I’m Geode and this is my friend Juliet, we are here to see Levitas.”
“Ohh…..Well….I uhh.”
I didn’t notice till now that the fox had a headset on. I could hear her speaking into it.
“Levitas?…….Should I?…..Yes……Ok.” She looked up at us. “My name is Luna and I shall take you two to Levitas.”
“Ohh so you’re the-” I nudged Geode so he stopped talking.
“Yes.” Luna said as she turned around. “Follow me.” She started walking and we followed her. Geode held my hand so I could keep up. My legs felt a bit better so I was able to take in small steps.
“I am the one they talk about.” Luna began. “Dragora didn’t think a human and a Pangaea should be together, in his rage, he made sure we could never. After all a dragon and a fox could never, you know, mate.”
She took a pause then continued as we walked through more trees. “Two completely different creatures can never really be together and that is Dragora’s religion it seems. And well, of course he had to prove it and make me even more different than the man I love.”
She soon stopped and we were in front of a huge hut, but it was surrounded by so many trees and covered up too well where, if me and Geode looked for it on our own, we would of missed it.
She turned to us. “This is where Levitas is, I must go, but if Levitas wants to aid you in defeating Dragora, I will certainly help. After all…” I saw her smirk a bit. “He deserves death.”
She then bended down and took a big leap, jumping over our heads. As we turned around to see her off, she was already gone.
“Fast fox..” I said and Geode nodded and looked at the hut. “Looks like this is the place Jules, we find out if we should keep going or stop and let someone else handle Dragora.”
I nodded. “Well lets go..” I had more bravery than before, I guess that’s what happens when you meet people that aren’t too afraid of the unknown.
Geode let go of my hand and touched the hut, looking for the door. He then fell forward.
“Found the entrance!” I laughed as he fell forward into the hut. “You ok?”
“Yeah…” I saw him get up as I walked in. “Just fine.” He finished saying then looked around. A man in a cloak was sitting at a table. He had black hair and it overshadowed his blue eyes.
“I foreseen your coming Juliet, here, have a seat.” He pointed to two chairs and me and Geode nodded and took one.
“How do you know me?” I asked Levitas, but it seemed to be too obvious. “Dragora would gloat about killing his family, he would often bring up the only one that survived- you.”
I gulped and nodded. “Ok…”
“Then he would talk about the millions of ways to kill you..”
“Oh…how sweet.” I said and I heard Geode let out a chuckle, then he got a bit serious.
“I know. At first I wanted to help, but then I stopped caring about him and his race, I met Luna and just wanted to be with her for the rest of my life. However, that would not come, I was one of the best warriors Dragora had on his side and he told me in his own words: ‘I will not have you out with some muggle! You will stay on my team until we are the rulers and then you may do as you please when we are the only race left!’. However, as I refused, he had some of his spies find Luna and capture her. I found her in the dungeons one day and when I went to free her, they pulled me away and turned her in front of my eyes. They knocked her out and put her in the middle of this forest.”
I stared at him as he spoke. My grandfather did things I couldn’t believe! He was and is a horrible man.
Levitas continued, his voice strong.
“I went and searched for her, I never stopped looking until I found her. I then proved I was against Dragora by burning down one of the camps that his minions hide out in. You see Juliet, I am on your side, same with you Geode, your side.”
“But I’m both.” I said remembering how I was of equal races. “I belong to both sides.”
“That might be true but you can only pick to follow one.” He said and I looked down. “So Juliet, which side are you on?”
“The Guardians of course.” I heard myself say it strong. No way was I ever going to be on that bastard’s side!
“Very well.” I saw him smile a bit. “Me and Luna shall aid you in your quest to defeat him, however, we can not just come with you, we must get ready.”
“Wait!” I said standing up. “So do I!”
“No Juliet, you were born ready.” He got up and before I could say anything he picked up two things from behind him, they seemed to have sat on a bench or something.
“A sword for you.” He handed Geode a sword, its handle was fire red and the blade was the sharpest I ever saw. Nice and silver.
“And for you.” He gave me something strange, it wasn’t even a weapon. It was a crystal-gem like rock, it had ice crystals on it.
“Levitas, what is this?” I asked him. “How do I use it?”
“Its not something you use, Juliet your power is all you need to defeat Dragora, since you are his grandchild, your power can easily exceed his if you are taught right. I believe Geode can teach you.”
“Ok.” Geode smiled looking at me and I nodded. “But what is it?” I asked him again.
“Its actually your mother’s, Dragora had it all this time and I made sure to get it for you. I know how much you miss your parents and I remember when we captured your parents…..”
Levitas looked down and took a deep breathe….it was hard for him to say. “She was holding it…..I believe it was a sacred jewel in your village…”
He didn’t say more but I felt myself cry. I held the rock to my chest and to my heart….
“Mom..” Geode looked at me, he hugged me as I cried and I knew this was going to be hard.
To think, the person that is going to help me kill my own grandfather, was one of the people that murdered my parents and possibly my brother…
Besides the charm bracelet on my wrist….this was my only connection to my mother.
I looked at the rock with all the tears coming out of my eyes. It was beautiful, as if it was specially made.
“I don’t know if it will help you Juliet.” Levitas said. “But it belongs to you now…..and it might just help you pull through. And if it can’t.” He looked at Geode. “You have friends-including me and Luna now, that will help you through it all.”
I looked at him and nodded. “Thank you…”

Chapter 30 - Controlling the Power Deep Inside

Levitas waved us good bye as we left. Now was the toughest part of this journey. We have Levitas and Luna on our side and I know in my heart the Lunatics and Guardians are there too….
Just how to do this will be hard. Geode has to train me Levitas said….
I pondered that thought for a very long time as me and Geode made it back to the cave we slept in.
“Geode…” I said looking out of the cave once we were inside it.
“I think we really-I really need to be trained.”
“I’d be happy to train you.” Geode was sitting down sharpening the sword with a rock. “This is the best sword I’ve ever seen.” He said to me. “Maybe I should train you to use a sword first, if you get the hang of it, then we’ll move to your powers.”
“But Geode why would I use a swor-”
“Listen Juliet your fears and hatred can’t protect you forever and make your power work, you have to control it yourself like Levitas said. If you want me to train you, please work with me on this.”
He was right, I watched as the gray clouds covered the sky making it dark and stormy looking.
“Alright.” I said in reply as I heard him get up. He walked over to me and looked outside. “A storm is about to come soon.” He said observing the sky. “We can start training outside, when a battle comes Juliet, you have to battle, you can’t just stop because of the weather.”
I looked at him. “You’re really wise you know that?”
“Its what my father told me.” He held the sword tightly then looked at me. He took my hand and opened it putting the sword’s handle in it. “Its time for us to end this war between races….and this is our first step.”
He let go of the sword and surprisingly it was a bit light. “You ready?” He asked looking at me. I hesitated for a bit, I didn’t want to say no or yes…
I felt like my life was going to end - but it will if I don’t prepare….
“Yes.” I said having that regretful feeling in my gut. “Now or never.” I gained some confidence in those words I spoke. I just hope this isn’t a mistake…
“Time isn’t on our side, we have only a bit to train before Dragora comes looking for you.”
“Got it.” I nodded and walked outside, I twirled under the gray sky for a second then looked at Geode who was just staring at me.
“Well teach, you coming?”
He laughed and nodded. “Yeah.” I watched him make a sword from plain fire….it wasn’t tangible then he somehow made it solid.
“Ok, I’m going to come at you….you show me what to do!” Before he finished that sentence he was already running at me. His sword raised high and he lunged at me, pushing his sword down to hit me.
I gulped, frozen for a second. I was terrified….but…I have to do this….
I quickly jumped back a bit and held the sword he gave me up. I put it in front of me and put my other arm to keep the sword in place, horizontal, in front of me to block the attack.
I watched as Geode’s sword was pushing down on mine. “Not bad, you need to be quicker though and block all your weakness..” He then bended a bit and kicked me in the stomach making me fall back, with the sword at my side.
“Your good with blocking using the sword, you just need to block everything.” He said walking to me. As I started to lean up he had it sword in my face. “If I was Dragora, you’d be dead by now. He doesn’t play games and you need to get better, but you know the basics.” He put the sword to his side and lifted me up with one hand.
“Got it?”
I nodded. “I’m ready.” Shaking and terrified, I was ready more than I’d ever be. It started to rain as we trained…..
At first it was my weakness, but then I ignored it and focused on Geode.
I blocked every attack but I tripped up walking backwards to avoid attacks and he aimed his sword to my stomach. I know he’d stop it before he actually stabbed me but being in the fear I was I had no choice. “No!” I shouted and grabbed his sword by its middle, I then used all my strength to push him to the ground. I used my sword to knock his out of his hands.
He was actually down. Instead of celebrating with throwing him down I put my sword to his neck and he smiled. “You did good.” He got up with my help. “You’re almost ready.”
I looked at him and handed him my sword. “You sure? What about my powers?” “That’s next.” He said and patted me on the shoulder. “You know how to block pretty well and you know how to throw someone back and leave them defenseless.”
He got his sword off the ground and made it disappear.
“Ok.” He took my sword and put it down by us.
“Now.” He took a few steps from me. “Your powers seem to work on your fear as I said earlier. What I want you to do is try to use your power by just thinking of your biggest fear, that usually works.”
I nodded. “Ok….” I thought for a bit. My family is dead and now all that I have is my friends, especially Geode….my biggest fear, is losing them.
Geode made fire appear. “Ok….try to get past this fire….you need to control your power.” I looked at the fire. I gulped and took a step back. I felt cold and knew my power would come. No, I have to control it.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breathe….I need to get over the sight of fire. I calmed down a bit so I wasn’t so cold.
“Concentrate Juliet….my fire won’t hurt you but you need to defeat it ok?” I opened my eyes and looked at him. “Ok….ok…” I took in deep breathes.
Think….I need to think…I need to concentrate on my powers….
I shivered as a chill went down my spine. I felt my eyes glow but I didn’t think I was doing it….
“No! NO! Work for me! Work for me!!” I shouted and held my head. “Work for me…” I kept my mind closed to the fire….all I thought about was the deaths….the dead bodies….the people I killed and the people I love all dead…
My eyes started to stop glowing but I could feel a pulse throughout my body….it ran up and down my arms and on the back on my hands I felt it lay….
I started to gasp and as my eyes stopped glowing I opened them and smiled. “I….I stopped it! I stopped it!” I looked at my hands, a smile across my face. “Geode-Geode I did it!”
I looked up and looked seeing the fire gone….the ground burned…..Geode was laying on the ground….bleeding…..stabbed…dead…
“Ge-GEODE!!?!?” My eyes widened. “NO!!!” I ran to him and shook my head, I knelt by him.
“No! NO!!” I growled…..feeling something around me…..I looked up seeing a figure. I growled. “Dragora…” He smirked at me and held up a bloody sword. “Like what I did to your friend? That will be you soon…”
I couldn’t take this…..symbols, swirl like symbols were on the back of my hands….they were blue and they glowed as I growled. I stood up by Geode’s dead body. “Dragora…..”
My eyes were closed as I stood up and I could tell he was smiling at me. “I’LL KILL YOU!” My eyes opened wide and they were glowing blue like the back of my hands. I screamed and attacked Dragora down….Ice came up and stabbed him everywhere.
“Juliet?”
I felt the rain on me and heard a voice…
“Juliet!!! Juliet!!!”
Something was shaking me, but I kept my vision on Dragora…
“I’ll kill you Dragora….I’ll kill you….”
I closed my eyes to see darkness.
“Please wake up!!!”
I began seeing colors…..I opened my eyes…
“Geode?” I looked up seeing the rain hit me and Geode….Geode was leaning over me, he was shaking me…
“Juliet…are you ok!? You…you were trying to concentrate on your powers then you fell backwards and fainted….and your hands…” He looked at me as he helped me lean up. He took one of my wrists and showed me the back of my hand.
“There is a symbol! Are you ok?” I smiled a nodded. “Yeah…I’m fine..” I saw the symbol…same as in…my dream? What happened in that dream? Geode died….wait….maybe….no it was a dream! He was alive…but…maybe…
“Geode…” I explained all that happened to him and he smiled. “You’re happy you died?” I asked him and he shook his head. “No…..I’m happy because that was you….you gaining real control of your powers…..look! You didn’t attack or make ice appear from my fire, you stopped it and….” He pulled me up.
“Lets see if you gained full control….cause it looks like you did.” He summoned his fire by making a few moves.
I smiled, the fire didn’t bother me anymore….and soon enough…my eyes were glowing and so were the swirls on my hands…
I concerned on that fire and held my hands out.
Quicker than Geode could react…..the fire was frozen….by my ice.
His eyes widened and he clapped and made his fire disappear leaving my ice.
“Juliet…” He ran over and hugged me. “You did it!”
I smiled at him. “I….I did…Thank you…” I smiled and my emotions over came me and I didn’t even know why I did this but I….I kissed him on the lips.
I opened my eyes and I looked at him….I saw his eyes were wide and his cheeks were pink….
I broke it quickly and blushed and took a step back. That….that was the best experience…..I….I know I kissed him but….I love the taste of his lips, if I could I would of kissed him again but I bet he didn’t like me like that…
I stuttered as I spoke. “I’m-I’m sor-sorry…” I looked up at him, my cheeks were still red and a bit hot.
He smiled and he shook his head getting rid of his blush. “Its ok….come on…we should go inside..”
He was looking up at the rain falling harder. I nodded and pulled him into the cave.
Yawning, I sat down leaning on the wall and he sat by me. I leaned a bit on him and he let me.
I smiled as I drifted off to sleep. I felt his hand on my arm holding me close to him.
I don’t know why, but I feel like…..like I was falling in love with him.