2 Chapter:2 On The Run

The seer wasn't there today so we're going to to try tomorrow.

"We need to rest somewhere." I quietly muttered

"Yes,you need to rest up. You have a big day ahead of you."

"Um, Is that a hotel." I pointed toward the building with a big sign saying…..OPEN 24/7.

"Uh,no.That, Is a strip club."He smirked

"OH." I said rubbing the back of my neck. He pointed toward a obsolete building.

"Now that's, a hotel."

"Ok, that is not a hotel. That is a house waiting to die."

"Come on, we can't run the risk of someone seeing you."

He walks toward the building and reaches for the handle on the door. I stay behind still examining the house, something doesn't feel right. The house looks abandoned, the black paint is chipping revealing the previous color, there are holes on the sides of the house as big as basketballs. I walk to the house, walking my step as there are nails and glass shards on the floor. I finally got to the door and it opened with a *CREAK*.

"James, where are you?" The house was dark,I could only see outlines of what I think is a dresser and a lamp. I tried to heat up my hand but instead I get a cold chill go through my body and a blue glow emerged from my hand. Still did the same, It lit up the room. And James was leaning against a wall in the corner.

"That power is Prenatal, the power of ice."He said "Here." he pointed toward the floor where he laid blanket and a pillow.

"You can sleep here."

"Oh, thank you….and where will you sleep." I said,already laying down

"I don't sleep.My mind has a scary capability of being dark and demented." I sat up and turned to him.

"You are afraid of your dreams."

He bowed his head "Yes" he said quietly. I laid back down.

"You can be much more, than you are right now. You have developed the power of ice, the rarest of the rare."

"I was fine just like I was, OK!"

"It's your choice"He shrugged "You can continue on with your worthless life,or you can become someone who matters."

I look at him and l whispered

"Goodnight James."

"Goodnight Blake." He whispered back

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In the middle of the night, I hear some rustling. But I don't think it was james.

"JAMES!"

Nothing responds back. Then,I just hear through whispers the words.

"Help me."

I lit up my hand to see two orcs. The have thick fangs sticking out of their mouths, their clothes are animal skin, and they are just a little bit bigger than a human. The orc next to the door I'm assuming is female and the one closer to me, I think is male. The male orc has his arm extended and is holding james by his neck.They are suffocating James.

James struggling to even get a breath, manages to get a word out.

"Elodian."

The female orc steps closer to me.

"Ah, at last we have found you princess. Come home with us."

"And why should I?"I snapped

"Because you belong with us!"

The male orc dropped James, and as James scrambled to get to his feet; The female orc had drawn her sword.

"Either you come with us WILLINGLY or we take you by force." At this point James was by my side with his one dagger drawn (since I melted his other one ,oops) I touched my necklace and the same thing as before, the symbol with words; and then 2 swords in my hand.

"I WON'T GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT." I said as I charged at the male orc and James charged the other one. The Elodian retrieved a flamberge sword, from his satchel which gave me time to attack. As the Elodian was crouched down, I brought my sword down and crashed into his back.

"AHHHH"He belted. In one hand he had the sword and in the other a WHIP.*CRACK* His whip went into my side and excruciating pain went up and down my body, as I fell to the floor.He came charging at me, I managed to get up, but not fast enough. The orc's sword buried its blade in my leg again.

He raised his sword at me again and it went into my stomach,he keep hitting me with his whip and sword over and over and over again.I tried to get back up,It wouldn't end like this,It couldn't.The final hit slashed across my face, forcing me to the floor.

"AH!" I was done, couldn't go any further; I was ready. The orc was charging at me, but everything was in slow-motion. I took this time to glance over at James, he was bruised and covered in blood. He was going to die too, the thought of that brought me extreme sadness which quickly turned to anger. I raised both of my hands and the blue glow emitted from them. I let out a deafening scream and let everything out. I collapsed, I froze the two Elodians. I did it. I looked at James and he turned to me.

"I love you."

"Oh shut up Impy, no you don't."

He snickered"You're right but this seemed like the part of the fight where I should say it."

We both laughed over his idiocy.

"This place isn't safe anymore." He whined

"YA, THINK."I yelled "Ok, we can leave as soon as we are bandaged."

"Ok, but only me."

I glared at him "And why is that."

He pointed toward my wounds.

"Because one of the benefits of being you is that you heal incredibly fast."

"Oh, well let's heal you then."

"Do you know how?"

"Yes, now shut up and hold still. OK"

I sat next to him as he laid down. He took off his T-shirt and metal plate. I took the T-shirt and grabbed his blade, tearing it up.

"Wow you have a Four-pack." I smirked as I got the cloth wet

"Actually a Six-pack, Let me guess you have a 2-pack."

"Sure,let's go with that." I touched his wound with a wet cloth, his skin was hot like literally burning. I wrapped his wound up with the remaining pieces of clothes.

"Done." I smiled at him, and stood up to go retrieve my swords.

"I bet you are jealous of my six-pack, aren't you."

Omg he is so annoying,ignorant and incredibly handsome but that's besides the point. I look over at him and rolled my eyes.

"YOU ARE."

"Am not."

"Are too."

I turned to him and lifted up my shirt revealing my Eight-pack.

"If anything James you should be jealous of me. Now get a shirt on."I scoffed

We grabbed our stuff, I had to lend James my old shirt since I had torn up his, so we had a guy in a crop top. I grabbed the hood that James had given me the day before.

"We are going to see the seer, right."

"That is right, and we first need to get something to eat because I'm starving." He said as he looked if the coast was clear.

We walked through the stores and the little businesses, but found nothing. We rested on a bench since had been walking for two hours.

"Do you have a boyfriend back home?"

"Uh, no the closest thing I had to a boyfriend is you, and we aren't even anything."

"Huh, interesting."

"And what about you?"

"No, everybody here has been warned to stay away from me, since my job before being hired to take care of you….. I was an assassin."

"Oh"

"Aha now that's a food hole."

"You mean restaurant."i smirked

"Yeah whatever."

We start to walk over to the place. When we get inside and it's like a rustic/diner/bar. There was a fight going on in the corner, but everybody was going on about their business like it was their daily routine. James walks up the the counter and I stay behind him. The person that was in charge of the cashier was a human girl; she looked kinda gothic, her hair was dark purple and had black eye shadow.

"Hello ma'am, two cheese burgers and fries."

She looked up from the crossword she was doing and looked James up and down.

"Want something to drink?"

I pop out from behind James.

"YES,sorry. Yes we do want something to drink, we want two chocolate milkshakes."

"Will that be all?"

"Yes." James and I said in unison

"Ok,41."

James puts his hand in his pocket and then took out some papers that shimmered in the light,I assume that was what the money looked like here.

"It'll be ready in about ten minutes."

"Ok, thank you."

We walked to a vacant table and sat across from each other

"So what is the seer going to do for us?"

"She is going to give us a map to where your necklace was made,and we will see from there"

The gothic girl walks up to our table, with a tray in hand. She hands us two burgers and two vanilla milkshakes.

She rolls her eyes "Enjoy!"

"I ordered chocolate, but whatever."I said under my breath, but I guess loud enough for James to hear me.

"Hey, let's ask her for the right order."

"No,Its ok."

He gave me a sly smile. And he stood up from the table and faced everyone "NO,THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. HEY YOU,"The gothic girl turned " YEAH YOU, I DEMAND YOU TO GIVE US THE RIGHT MILKSHAKE FLAVOR."He yelled "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS BULL-CACA." Right now he was standing up and pointing at me.I was so embarrassed and I stood up beside him.

"Really it's ok." I glared at him and grabbed his hand and whispered to him. "Stop this now."

I started to cool my hand down and started to freeze his.

"After a while this will turn into frostbite and we will have to amputate it. If you are as good with a bow as you say you are, you are gonna need two hands."

"Ok,ok I'll STOP. Sorry folks just a misunderstanding." I let go of his hand.

"We need to go, you drawn too much attention to us. I thought that you were the smart one too."

"Hey you are the brains and I'm the brawn, ok."

"Not according to that Six-pack."I snickered

He gave me an annoyed look and I grabbed him.I pushed through the people , and finally got out.

"Let's go to the seer I don't know how long I can go with you without killing myself."He muttered.

"OH, admit it Impy..you loooove me,Right?"

He scoffed "In your dreams."

We walk through streets and we weave our way through the crowds;Until we get to the rundown building. We walked up the stairway again and it lead us to a long hallway with a bunch of doors each one having a sign. The signs read Future,powers,advice and then one that said directions. I gave James a nudge toward that door. We walked through it and it was a room covered in fabric and one desk. We sat down on the chairs in front of the desk. Once we sat down out from under the desk popped out a women that have dreadlocks and sewn shut eyes and lips.

"Hello young lads, what do you seek today?"

I heard a echoing voice in my head and I turned to James and he just nodded.

"We are in search of a map to where this necklace was made."I heard James voice in my head.

"Ah,and where is this necklace?May I feel it?"

"Of course."I replied,I took off the necklace with ease and put it on the seer's outstretched hand. James continued. "Do you know?Like where it was made and how to get there?"

"Yes,but beware it'll be a treacherous journey."She turned to me "And trust no one."

She gave back the necklace, and James stood up from his chair.

"Could we have the directions."

She looked under her desk, and pulled out a crumbled,blank piece of paper, seemed to be at least 100 years old. The seer laid it flat on the table, she put her hand over the paper and started to do circles with her hand. She started mumbling words that I didn't know and a red light emerged from her hand, but different from mine, this one was different. After about 30 sec. the paper starts to show a map.She rolled up the map and looked to James.

"Here."

"Thank you." He slipped her money in the handshake "There is a little extra money in there, we were never here, ok."

"Understood."The seer whispered

We walked out the door and into the darkness of the hallway.

"Um,Blake would you mind."I knew he meant to use my newly discovered powers. I felt hot and my hands lit up in flames.

"Thanks."

My lighted hands were bright enough to lit up the stairway and hallway. We made out but something was off, there was nobody,anywhere. I was usually crowded. Out of the shadows came two Dark elves with white hair and yellow eyes, they were way taller than James and I about 7ft. I studied their amour, It was dark but I don't know, there is something familiar.

"Hello your majesty." He bowed in my direction.

"I'm not going with you."

"Oh, ha. We are not here for you, yet. We are here for him."

"James"I said

"Is that the name he told you?"The dark elf laughed. James starts walking toward him, and he says something in infernal.They talked for about ten minutes and then they nodded in agreement.James turned to me and then stepped in to the shadows with the elves and they disappeared.I tried following them but the portal thing they used was already shut.James had left me.

"You will be fine, I didn't leave you we will meet again…..I promise." James voice was in my head, I tried to respond back but he didn't answer.

I was alone, in a world unknown.

I was Left by the only person I had come to trust.What would I do? I didn't know where I was or what I would do next but I was sure of something I would find James.