What an adventure

Chapter ten: Playing the hero isn't so fun

"So you've taken up the responsibility of saving both realms while also finding out more about your past that you had forgotten due to childhood trauma?"

"Yeah."

Eli stuffed his hands into his sweater pockets. "It's like you're a protagonist in some kind of fantasy book," he said "I guess you should start trying to save the realms now, let's go!" Eli turned around and continued walking to the door, Nick ran over to Eli and stopped him. "No, I can't put you in any more danger. You're staying in here."

"Hell no! I've been stuck in here for I don't know how long, I am helping you."

Nick knew that now wasn't the time to start an argument so he just gave up. The older reached into the bag and pulled out a vile filled with green liquid. "Reach out your hand."

Eli looked at him with a confused stare but reached out his hand anyways. Nick poured the liquid into Eli's palm and it sunk into his skin. "This will give you the ability to spray acid onto anything and anyone for only a few minutes, you stay behind me and shoot at anything that has purple armor, it won't kill them but it will make their whole body go numb, capiche?"

"Capiche."

Nick nodded his head and walked out of the room, Eli at his heel. They began sprinting down the hall, Eli shot at every door that they passed and every guard as well.

"So what are we looking for!?"

"A room with a huge, blue crystal in the center! Beatrice said that if it's destroyed, all evil falls weak and energy will be returned to the world!" Nick yelled as he ran faster.

"Oh! I saw a room like that a few doors back!"

Nick came to a stop, "What!? Why didn't you say anything!?"

"Well, you didn't give me all of the details!"

Before Nick could answer back, two dozen guards came running down the hall. Nick panicked, he grabbed Eli by the arm and pulled him into one of the rooms that didn't have a melted door.

He pulled out a pole from his bag and pushed it through the handles.

When they heard that the guards had passed by, Nick and Eli let out a relieved breath. Nick turned to Eli, "This is why I wanted you to stay in the hall, I can handle this myself!"

"I just wanted to help! I didn't want to just sit back while you risked your life being the hero!" Eli stretched his arms out dramatically, he ended up knocking over a vase that was on a pedestal. Nick jumped at it and caught the vase. "Eli, you'll remain here till I destroy the crystal."

What Nick didn't notice was the pedestal falling to the ground which made a huge crash, alerting the guards who were returning down the hall.

Nick's eyes widened when he heard the guards running back towards the room they were in.

Just as there was banging on the door, Eli felt something in his pocket that he hadn't noticed was there before. He pulled out what he had been feeling, it was a small silver ball. Identical to the ones Finn and Calypso were given.

"Nick!"

Nick looked at Eli with a stern look as he reached into his bag for a sword "What!?"

"Look!" He presented the small silver ball to Nick, his eyes widened in shock. "Where the hell did you get that?"

"I don't know, it was just in my pocket."

Nick laughed a bit "Finn, you absolute genius! Throw it."

Eli looked at Nick a bit confused and threw the ball to the ground which opened up a portal. They looked through the portal to see the room that everyone else was in, Finn was conscious now, trying to protect Iris's body from Althea while Ophelia and Argus were still trying to apprehend Calypso.