Off course
Chapter 25: Chapter 22: Bringing Hope
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI had woken up the next morning very early and decided to get up and work out. Evan in't the only one that does it, even though I rarely do it because it's annoying to clean all of my sweat off. Once I finished I went to clean myself up and got dressed. I went with something simple, a pair of blue jeans and a white shirt. I then decided to go talk to Bones, so I closed my eyes and went to find his magic signature. When I got a hold of it I teleported to him, and I ended up a few yards behind him. I decided to follow him and I watched as he Went down the halls and finally came to a stop in front of a door. He went in and when I saw the inside it looked to be a nursery or kids room. I watched as he went up to one of the cribs and ran his fingers across the crystal mobile. Then he picked up a stuffed brown teddy that was sitting in the crib, but that was when he seemed to noticed I was in the room.
"Must you stare at me from the shadows?" Bones asked as he turned to face me.
"Yes because you are different than other wraths." I said as I walked up to him.
"That so enlighten me," Bones said as he put the small bear back in the crib.
"You feel."
"Feel?" Bones asked.
"Yea, feel. You show much more emotions than just hatred and the obligation of order. And don't say you don't because i see the way your eyes change when you are around the young ones." I said as I crossed my arms.
"Perhaps I did say I have a soft spot for young lovers kids may also be included in there but most of the time I'll stick with following my given orders." he said.
"Well just don't be afraid of others getting close to you. Some see it as something that will hold them back, but it may save your life." I said as I turned around to leave.
"I not getting close to them because I don't want to I'm not getting close to them because if I do there will only cause heartache in the end," Bones said before he vanished from the room.
"I only tell you this because I care for you Bones as a friend." I said as I left and went on with my business.
POV Evan
I had woke u this morning and got ready and headed straight to the bridge to plan for the attack we had planned on before the holidays. I decided on using a stealth attack but if it failed we
"Well I'm glad seeing how we can't just go in there with no plan. I was thinking we could go in stealthy and broadcast the message, and all we have to do is pre-record a message and upload it once we get there." Evan said as he held his chin.
"Good but since the caribou need to pay and we need to rescue any mares there I was actually thinking a little differently I was going to ask if you can weaken them by starving the caribou into lowering their guard then Rage and Elisa can make a diversion while I take care of broadcasting the recording," Bones said.
"So essentially a wood pecker maneuver? Anyways I could use a scenario where I could use my new devastation spell I've been working on."
"As long as the town doesn't become a massive crater by the end of the day because Faust and Celestia are still a little miffed about Vanhoover." he said.
"I guess turning the city into a giant crater wasn't the best idea out there, but they could have been able to restart the town," Evan said.
"Uh huh but any way can I count on you for this?" Bones said.
"Yea I'll go along with it. Even though I prefer to confuse the enemy and send them into paranoia." I said before gathering up the plans and placing them inside the satchel on the table. When I got them in I turned my attention back to Bones. "Well I'm done with the plans. Let's go and gather the other members of the team and get ready." I said. Bones just gave me a nod before we left the bridge and returned to the castle, where upon we informed Rage and Elisa of what we planned. After that we worked on perfecting the plan by creating the message that would be broadcasted across the country. When we finished Bones said he had to leave and go train the Elements with the weapons that Ash gave them and Rage said he had something important to go do. As for Elisa and I we went back to the ship to get some weapons ready.
One Week Later
Location: Outside Applewood
POV Elisa /
It had been a week since we started planning for this attack and a few days since Evan had placed his new devistation spell on the city of Applewood. Luckily it only affected caribou, and no one else. The spell in general emitted a disease from Earth called Ebola, but he modified it to attack specific targets in a designated area. So we; meaning Bones, Rage, Evan and I were now standing outside the city looking at it from atop a hill next to it, one that was reasonably close to a giant wall that was erected around the aforementioned city.
"Gotta hand it to you Elisa you know how to make these bastards starve," Rage said
"Well it was easy with Evan's help. I had mutated a sample of a disease from our world."
"Well that kinda sucks not entirely but still suc-," Bones started but was cut off as an arrow impaled itself in his throat, cutting off the rest of his conversation. "Really shoot a guy in the middle of a conversation?"
"No respect." Rage said.
"Well then I guess we have to go teach this guy some manners." I said as I ran to the large caribou that was atop a large wall.
"Here allow me," Rage said causing me to stop and my tracks and see what he was talking about. I watched as Rage reached his right arm into a flaming red glyph circle and pulled out a 88m AA gun. He held it with two hands before he pulled a trigger and completely destroyed the gate and wall, along with any caribou on the wall with a projectile made of hell fire.
"Hm loud effective but not exactly subtle," Bones said as he pulled the arrow out of his neck and held it.
"When breaching something like this there is no such thing as subtle." Rage said as the massive gun disappeared.
"Fair point," Bones acknowledged.
"Well you guys sure take the fun from a gal." I said before letting out a sigh. "Lets get moving. If that caribou wasn't effected by mine and Evans spell then there may be more."
"Don't be so down Elisa I'm confident that there's something here to satisfy both our bloodlust." Rage said.
"I honestly don't. I want this to be a simple in and out mission." I said as we made our way into the city. I just wanted to go back to the Mother of Invention and sleep.
"Elisa it's never that easy." Evan said.
I looked around taking in my surroundings when I suddenly heard and when I looked to the source I saw a caribou charging at Bones with a spear aimed at him. Before I could react Bones raised an arm and I saw he was carrying a purple ethereal bow. He then drew the bowstring back and an arrow materialized in the bow before he released it. The arrow flew at the caribou and impaled him threw the neck, causing him to collapse to his knees and die. As I saw his life leave him I noticed his ribs were beginning to show.
"Oh goody I was hoping these bastards hadn't been starved so badly they lost their spine," Rage said when suddenly growling came from up ahead and I turned to see more starved caribou riding on large dog like beats that had bean equally starved. "And the good news keeps getting better."
"Must be loyal beasts if they decided to not eat their masters." Bones said.
"Elisa would you like to have a go?" Rage asked.
"I'd be delighted." I said as I summoned Shi and rushed the caribou and their beasts. There were so many of the caribou that tried to stop us here but they didn't stand a chance in their weakened state. I mean they may have if they weren't affected by the Ebola, but ehh at least they go done easy. I lost myself in the slaughtering I was doing and when I finished I saw that the caribou were all dead, in gruesome ways. Some cut in pieces, others missing their limps and bleeding out; hell some were missing their heads and/o had their heads squashed. I noticed that the giant beasts the caribou were riding on had their faces mutilated by blade pierces, and I went over to one of them and looked over the rider. He looked to be normal and a little bigger than the others. I then noticed that he had a large gash in his gut and the tip of a tusk in his left eye, but other than that he was still alive. So I lightly kicked his side, which elected a grunt from him.
"Why the hell aren't you affected?" I asked as he turned his head towards me and opened eyes to look at me.
"Because I was chosen to be great, to be like the great king." he said as the guys walked up.
"Great like that filthy piece of shit you call a king pfft don't make me laugh," Rage said as we approached.
"No like Ash Blade," the caribou wheezed.
"What?" Rage asked as the temperature slightly increased around him. I immediately took action on this and turned around and faced Rage.
"Hold up Rage, he might not mean anything by it." I said as I placed a hand on Rage's chest. Slowly turning back to the caribou she looked on with a glare. "And what do you mean by that?" she asked.
"He was the true one, pure. Having both good and evil within him," he started before coughing up some blood. "It was a shame that none of us could have been able to face against him. Our king would have beaten him and tamed his bitch in front of him, but that tim-" he didn't finish as I kicked him in the arm.
"What rank are you?" I asked.
"Why?"
"Answer the damn question." I said with an even tone before drawing shi and aimed the tip at the caribous throat.
"I am or was the captain stationed here."
"Good, then this will make things easier." Evan said as he walked up and placed a hand on the caribous head. The caribou tried to fight but I just pressed Shi closer to the throat, and after a minute Evan retracted his hand and stood up.
"Got something?" Bones asked.
"Yea, they're using Applewood as a giant relay station for communications. As well as other things." Evan said in disgusted tone. "After we send the message I'm frying the network. Hopefully that will cause them to stop for a little bit so we can attack places without them getting reinforcements."
"Now let's not be hasty I would actually like to 'borrow' one of their radios before we destroy anything we may be able to pick up a few targets of interest and get an earlier update in case we are discovered," Bone said.
"That's...That's actually a good idea," Rage said.
"Not everything in war needs to be murder and mayhem," Bones said
"Yes, but we may need to be careful because they could have passwords and encrypted messages. " Elisa said as she looked at me.
"Don't worry about that. Dickhead here knew everything about the encryptions and passwords." Evan said as he jabbed a thumb to the caribou.
"Great and speaking of said dickhead what do we do with him?" Bones asked as he looked at the caribou. Suddenly Rage snapped his fingers and dozens of blades shot of the caribous body, killing him instantly.
"Problem solved," Rage said before he began to walk off.
"I'm guessing Ash is a sore subject?" Evan asked.
"Imagine how you would you feel if a species desecrated a tomb and body of someone close to you who sacrificed their very soul to save you and throw in being a creature of vengeance into that," Bones said.
"Yea I guess I would." he said as he followed Rage.
"Sometimes he needs to learn when to say things and when to not." I said as I shook my head.
"Why don't you guys go kill some caribou I'll link up with you all later after I've broadcasted this tape and grabbed a radio," Bones said as he walked away.
"Copy." I said as I tried to catch up to Rage and Evan. I doubt that Bones heard what I said but ti really doesn't matter. I caught up with Evan and Rage and all three of us walked in silence as we walked down the street. We passed by multiple caribou that were on the ground either hugging their stomachs or crawling around while groaning in pain. All of them looked normal sized and not like the two caribou that were ridding the war beasts.
As we continued to walk there seemed to be less and less Caribou, not because Rage was slaughtering everyone of them that came in his path, but because there just seemed to be fewer as we went along. I also noticed that there were no mares around at all, none out in the streets or looking from the windows.We continued on until we came to what seemed to be a market of sorts, and there were at least a few dozen Caribou waiting. Four seemed to be the evolved ones while the others were regular.
"Stand down now. We have you out numbered!" one of the larger caribou yelled.
"What do you think?" Evan asked as I looked down and kicked a pebble.
"We kill them." Rage said as he walked forward and summoned a shotgun in his right hand. Said shotgun had a demonic look to it that even had me on edge. I looked on as Rage walked closer and closer to the caribou and I watched as they all tensed up as he neared.
"Stop where you are now!" another large caribou yelled as the rest of the caribou pulled what looked like guns off their backs. To my surprise Rage actually stopped when the caribou commanded, but after that he did nothing and I could feel the air around us thicken as the silence drew on. Finally Rage looked over all the caribou before he looked at the large one in the center of the others.
"No." He simply said as he dashed forward and battled them. But out of this I just couldn't get this feeling of something bad was going to happen soon. I started to look around us and tried to see if anything was off but I saw nothing. While I was doing this I could hear screams of agony and gun shots. When I turned back to Rage I saw that he was pulling on one of the larger caribou's arms while his left leg was on his torso. Amidst this he had his shotgun aimed at the caribous head, waiting to blow it to chunks.
"Just kill'em." Evan said as we walked over to Rage.
"I still need information." he said as he looked at us before turning his attention back to the caribou. "Now where are the rest of the caribou at?" he asked.
"F-fuck you." he said as he looked at Rage in anger.
"Not an answer." Rage said as he pulled on the guys arm harder, causing him to grunt in pain. "Tell me and I might bring you mercy."
"T-there all at the studio." he said after a few seconds of silence.
"See was that so hard." I said as Rage let the caribou go and kicked him a few feet away. The caribou landed with a grunt before he tried to get up using his uninjured arm. "Are you just going to let him go?" I asked Rage.
"I said I would show mercy." he said as placed the shotgun on his back.
"Well I thought that maybe you'd have killed him." I said as I looked at the aforementioned caribou. I only had enough time to look as the caribou dropped something black before I heard a loud bang and then a searing pain in my right shoulder blade. I fell to the ground by the force of whatever hit me and began to clutch my shoulder.
"Sniper!" I heard Evan yell as another bang went off. "Fuck! The hell is he!?"
"I don't know but we need to go." Rage said as I was picked up. I guess he picked me up but I couldn't tell because everything was starting to blur. 'Huh haven't felt this sensation in a while.' I thought as I blacked out from what I guess was blood loss.
POV Evan
It was hard to concentrate on my magic when I had a bleeding bullet wound in my left thigh. Whatever they used is still in there which was making the pain worse. I erected a half shield around Elisa, Rage and I before looking back to Rage.
"I don't know if I can keep this up." I said as a projectile hit my shield, causing it to crack. This wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't gotten shot already, but somethings you can't stop.
"Just keep it up I'll get you two out of here." he said as two more objects hit my shield, cracking it even more.
"Hurry, I 'don't know how long- gahhh!" I yelled as my shield dropped and I was shot again, but this time in the gut. "F-fuck." I said as I cupped the wound and applied a heat spell. I hissed as it closed and things were starting to get bad; we were surrounded by a few snipers on a roof a few streets back, Elisa was out for now and I was too since I can't use magic. So that just leaves Rage. I watched as he held his right hand up in front of his face and waited. I was curious until I heard two bangs.
Blood started to leak from his shoulder as he took whatever they fired, while the other was in a magic field in front of his hand. The object fell to the round as his right hand went and cover the wound on his shoulder. I would have to guess he was healing it, and I could also guess he wasn't happy about getting shot; if the red aura around him was any indication.
"You bastards." he seethed as jets of fire roared from his shoulders, elbows, and the top of his boots. His boots and wings set ablaze as claws of fire formed on his hands. I couldn't really see very well right now because of the blood loss, but Rage look demonic in appearance even though it was blurry. He then let a demonic roar before he ran of to take care of the bastards.
I didn't get the chance to bother with the pain as I saw a caribou running to me. I couldn't move fast enough and the ass got atop of me and tried to choke me. I did my best to stop him but my body was already weak, so it was a losing fight. We went back an forth trying to kill each other for some time. I got the chance to attack him and I threw a right hook at his face causing him to reel back before bringing his left fist to my face. The adrenaline in my body had helped me do that since most of my vision wasn't blurred anymore.
"You know that actually hurt." he said with a smug grin.
"Don't get cocky." I said as I glared at him as I tried to ignore the pain in my face and body.
"Oh? And what are you going to do?" he asked as he punched me again and then started to choke me. I grabbed his face and started to plunge my thumbs into his eyes, doing this caused him to choke me harder and for him to scream. Slowly my strength started to slip and my vision started to blur again. I started to panic as I didn't want to go now, but there wasn't really anything I could do as the lights started to dim. Before I blacked out the last thing I saw was the caribou getting punctured by spikes as Rage came and rammed into him with his shoulder. After that everything was black.
Next Chapter: Chapter 23: What is to Come Estimated time remaining: 38 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Hey guys and gals I hope you enjoyed this chapter and continue to read. Sorry for the delay but I had gotten in an accident and had to deal with.... some unfortunate things. I had just got out of a car accident with a broken arm. I have several fractures along my left arm and my elbow is broken so I'll be a little slow. My uncle however, who was the person driving the car I was in, didn't get so lucky as I did. The force at which the air bag came out of the steering wheel killed him. I am glad he didn't have to suffer but I also didn't wish for him to die.
So I may be a little slow since I have to deal with the physical and emotional pain of what happened, but I will try my best to make sure it doesn't stop me. For you guys of course. Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you in the next one.
Remember to May the Tides of Revolution Carry You My Friends.