Fallen Hero (Check Author's note!)

Creature

"When. Did. This. Happen." Toby asked, shaking my shoulders.

"Like two years ago?" I squeaked out.

"And you didn't tell me about it first?!"

"I didn't think it was too important." I countered.

He let go of me, and looked at the other Claire who hadn't moved from the door. She had been frozen in place from the shock of that news. She walked up to me and gave me a fake laugh. I laughed along with her, confused.

"Why are we laughing?"

"This is unbelievable. That's why."

Claire slowly stumbled off the bed and walked toward us.

"I mean-" She said, butting in, "It's not that unbelievable."

Mom came back in and stared at the two Claires. She stumbled back slightly.

"O-oh. Is this what you meant by-"

"The timeline thing, yes." I responded.

"You told your mom?" Toby asked.

"She knew before, but she didn't take it as well as she did now."

She straightened herself before spotting a small burn on Toby's arm.

"When did this happen?" She asked, inspecting the burnt skin.

"I- I have no clue. Maybe some of the sparks got on me?"

"Let's get this treated." She said, dragging him out of the room.

The Claire from this timeline watched them leave, and followed close behind. Claire winced as she looked down at her ankle. She fell onto the hospital bed and looked at the cast on her leg.

"Be careful!"

"Is it broken?" She asked me.

"They actually think you tore something in your leg, which is a bit worse."

She groaned and hobbled over to the crutches in the room. She tested them out and was able to safely walk around the room.

"Now that you're here, we can fix all of this! Strickler, Nari, Nomura will be back."

"What about Toby?"

T-Toby? He's fine. He's just in the other room."

"That's not what I meant. What if they don't come back? You went back in time to save Toby, didn't you? What if he doesn't come back?"

"No. He will. I just have to hope he does."

Claire hopped over to where I was standing. Her head fell onto the side of my shoulder as she threw one of her arms around my neck, dropping her crutch.

"Have you figured out how to get back?" She asked, slightly changing the topic.

"Well, Kanjigar told me we'd have to get the Kronosphere and Excalibur. We already have the sphere, but the sword will be a problem." I said, nervousness growing in me.

"Don't worry about that right now." She dropped her other crutch and threw her other; now free, arm around the other side of my neck. "Relax. We'll get back somehow. I got here didn't I? Sorry for bringing it up."

I lowered my gaze slightly to meet her eyes. There was a long, still pause until she finally said, "Ugh. Do I have to do everything?"

She gently pressed her lips to mine for what seemed like a second, then pulled away.

"We're both going to get back no matter what." She said, clutching my hand, "I promise."

Meanwhile on Akiridion-5: (3rd person POV)

"What are you doing, little brother? We are supposed to listen to papa!" She said, running to him.

"Says the one who snuck out to see a bug contest."

"For your information, it was bug fighting."

"I cannot stop now! I saw something outside today. Something strange. There is no way it was from Akiridion-5."

This caught Aja's attention. She looked over at the screen to see blurry images of some creature, stealing random things.

"What is that?"

"I don't know. But the things it's taking seem familiar. Parts for..."

"A ship! It's building a ship."

"How did you know that?" Krel asked, confused.

"It's on the cameras!" Aja said, running out.

She grabbed her Serrator and leapt out the door.

"Stay here!" She yelled, "I'll bring mama and papa!"

Krel looked back at his screen to see the creature on one of the security cameras. It had almost finished building its ship. The creature stopped what it was doing to look at the parking drone recording it. It threw something then... static.

"Drone 27-LU has gone offline. Please check your drone's state at this time."

"Oh no."

-I'm adding more Jlaire, Zouxie, and hopefully other ship scenes(you can request because I don't really have any other ships in my mind. Staja just won't happen in this book.), just let me get past the "plot". After this book is over(It's actually pretty close to complete. Only 16ish chapters to go.) I want to do some oneshots for what happens after this story. You can give some ideas/requests for that too :> I was reading oneshots by @Rtte_hiccstridFan (Go read some. I love them ヾ(≧▽≦*)o) and I just felt like writing some myself because I just haven't had an opportunity to write some good Jlaire scenes. I think It would be fun to show what happens when they're like 20 and to show what I had in my mind for when they're older. (*Making excuses to write a wedding scene*) I also wanted say... THANK YOU SM FOR 400 READS IN 10 DAYS ≧ ﹏ ≦

-ONE LAST THING!!! I don't know if this is really useful for Wattpad, but I'm willing to be an editor for someone else's story for stuff like grammar or details(I don't really want anything in return). I'll make a separate "book" for that if anyone wants it. Trust me, I've written wayy better than this. I just upload my rough drafts because I don't have enough time to fix them. I'll upload an example of some of my better works there.