Chapter 15 A Battle against a Girl
I woke up with Jamie’s grassy green eyes in my vision. She shook me.
“Get up and get dressed. I have to take you to meet our new student.” she said.
I got up and headed to the bathroom. I came out of shower with my hair dripping and I had on a red t-shirt and blue jeans on. Jamie led me to the fireplace. She touched the orb carved into it. We both turned into Camouflage orbs. Our vision was tunneled. A ocean blue portal appeared. We flew into it.
Materializing, we appeared in front of the castle. We turned around. A girl was standing in front of us. She was wearing a black shirt and jeans. Her dark brown hair was hanging down by her shoulders. Her eyes glowed. Her face was milky white. Jamie stood in between us.
“Oh, you must be Annathea Foxx. Skyrid, this is the girl you will be partnering with in the competition. “Jamie said.
“Hi, I am Skyrid Crop and it is nice to meet you Annathea. “I said, politely.
“Your skills didn’t get you in. Your dad did.” Annathea said.
“That’s not true!” I said.
“Yes it is! Nester let you win!” Anna said.
I ran at her. Jamie broke us up.
“Break it up! Anna, shut it!”
Jamie rushed Annathea and I inside. She led us out of Pedro’s office and down the long corridor. When we had gotten to the end of the hallway, there was a green pedestal.
Landing on the ground of a triangular room with many battlefields, we saw a man with auburn hair, green eyes, a black shirt, a velvet vest and white pants standing in the middle of the room.
“Skyrid and Annathea, meet Jared Riker. He’ll be your new weapons master and the coach for all warrior battles.” Annathea and I ran onto a battlefield. I stood on the right. Anna stood across from me.
I raised my right hand to the sky. Jamie motioned to me.
“You can’t do that!” she said.
“Wait! Why?!” I said
“The Warrior council has this rule that you can’t fight a person who hasn’t learned how to use their warrior form if you use warrior powers during a fight against a Cithian.”
After Jamie spoke, I threw a beam of light towards Annathea and, then Annathea sucked my power beam into an orb of light. Throwing the orb of light at me, Annathea knocked me down onto the ground. My chest seared with pain. The pain spreads to my legs. I can’t get up no matter what I try.
I totally underestimated Anna. I am not gonna stop fighting though.
I get up. I take some deep breaths. I shoot an orb of light towards Anna. She shoots an orb of light towards my orb.
Hitting against each other, the orbs combined into a huge orb of power and then the orb lit itself on fire.
Splitting itself two fireballs, the power orb shot a fireball straight towards me and the other fireball went towards Annathea. As soon as we tossed orbs of water at the fireballs, smoke emerged from the fireballs and rose up slowly to the ceiling.
We all got down on our hands and knees. We crawled over to a door. Jamie opened it. Inside it were two big white poles. Annathea, Jamie and I joined hands. We appeared in my dorm.
I walked in front of the fireplace with Anna in my arms.
“This is Anna, our new roommate. “
“Well, hello. My name is Chaser.” Chaser said.
“I’m so excited to have a new girl to hang around with.” Caitlyn said.
“Me too.” said Karrithea
“Everyone clear out of here. I want some alone time with Anna.”
They all went to their dorms. I looked at Anna. She looked at me. I kissed her on her lips. She slapped me.
“I don’t like you! You’re a cheat!” she said.
“How am I that?” I said.
“Nester let you win because you two are best friends. So, you cheated your way into the competition.” Anna said.
“No! I didn’t! Nester’s my enemy, not my friend.” I said.
“But you two just seem so compatible.” Anna said.
“We’re not. We are enemies.” I said.
“Fine. You didn’t cheat.”
“Alright, Good. Can you help me come up with a strategy for the competition?”
“Sure. How about a combination orb?”
“What’s that?” I said.
“It’s an orb made out of two orbs mixed together.” Anna said.
“Cool. So like a fusion orb?” I said.
“Yeah.” Anna said.
“Did you know Kodyack and Pedro were kidnapped?”
“No. But, I heard that your sister was kidnapped on the news.”
“I still can’t believe they’re gone. I mean, Pedro is a Sayis. So, he could’ve...”
“That’s why you got into competition. To get to Pedro, Kodyack and Crystal so you can save them.”
“Yeah. That’s the reason.” I said.
“Well, you’re gonna have a hard time with that. The word is that these captors are pretty strong. Some say the mastermind might even be a Striker.”
“A Striker?”
“Yeah.”
“You mean, I could get killed if I lose!?”
“Yep. “
“Then, I better have a good strategy.”
“You’re right. I have something that might help.”
Anna pulled something out of her left pocket. She laid it down on the table. It was a pencil. I heard a voice.
“So, you’re Skyrid Crop.” It said.
“Your pencil! It can talk!” I said.
“Sure it can. It’s a talking pencil.”
“Where’d you get it?”
“I found it in a cave just outside Siraka.”
“That’s rad, girl!”
“Thanks. So what was your malfunction like?”
“Anger arose in my veins. White orbs went into my hands. Beams of light shot out of them.”
“Cool. So it was like a anger episode?”
“Yes.”
“Well, my mine was kinda like that too. I was having a fight with my little brother, Pacer. On this day I turned twelve and Pacer said happy birthday to the freak. Then I grabbed him and pushed him up against the wall. As I held him up against the wall, smoke start to rise up from my hands and then I looked at them and noticed that they had lit on fire.” Anna said, messing with her hair nervously.
“Wow. That seems pretty normal for a Cithian. How’d you react when your parents told you’re a Cithian?” I said.
“I was speechless. Just scared for my life. How’d you react when you were told?”
“About the same. I mean, I was captured by the strikers before I was told.” I said.
“Captured? So what it was like?”
“They put me in a blue jumpsuit. They paired me with a zombified boy who thought that the Strikers were good people.” I said.
“Well, he’s wrong. You know, Cithians used to be war heroes.”
“Really? How?”
“They fought in the interdimensional War of 1885 and the war of Darkomega.”
“I know. But, people want the same freedom as Cithians have because of their powers.”
“Yeah. True. That’ll never change. People will always be jealous of the Cithians.”
“You’re right. Because of our powers people will always be jealous.”
“Exactly. Cithians are totally misunderstood.”
“So, let’s get back on subject. What strategy should I use in the competition?”
“Fusion beams and Combination orbs.”
“What’s a fusion beam?”
“It’s a beam made out of two beams mixed together.”
“Cool. But, will it work?”
“It should.”
Anna yawned.
“I think it’s time we hit the hay.”
“Me too.”
We both took our showers and went to bed.