X-TERMS

Chapter 12: Clarity comes in all shapes.

"Ok Colt," said Foxe warily,"Why are you here? Why aren't we fighting?"

Colt sat at the fire looking up at Foxe, Alex and Nox who stood ready to fight if they had to. Colt sighed and added a log to the fire.

"Well Foxe, I thought I'd killed you. I'd gotten my revenge for our family. But I felt so guilty afterwards and I didn't understand it,"Colt closed his eyes against the tears,"I thought about the past you and your dream to be hero of the people and how much I loved my little brother and if you'd ever forgive me."

"So come here to try and ask for forgiveness?!"yelled Alex.

Nox put a hand on her shoulder to try and calm her down, or hold her back from pummeling Colt. Foxe put up his hand to both of them and stared down at Colt and wondered if he could forgive him for hunting him for years.

"You do realize this is all sudden and confusing right? And that I won't just suddenly forgive you?"asked Foxe while Colt nodded slowly,"How'd you even find us?"

Colt opened his eyes and simply whispered,"Malachi."

Just the mention of the name seemed to chill everyone to the bone and Nox asked,"Who the hell is Malachi?"

Colt went about explaining that he was part of a group called The Apex and about each of the members of the Predators and their leader Axel Blitz.

"Malachi...is ruthless and scary,"Colt shivered,"He's the most soft spoken and seemingly nice person you'd ever meet but that makes his power over poison plants that much more frightening. Foxe you're Maynard portion of our genetic lines isn't very strong so your fire won't do anything to help you. And I can't join in on your fight, I'll have to go back and put on a show."

"Well I didn't expect you to join us, since we are out to take down The Apex."Said Foxe,"But will you be against us or with us? And is anyone following you? Do we have to worry?"

"No."answered Colt,"No one followed me. The members of The Apex don't really care what's happening with each other. Right now they're focusing on getting ready for war."

Colt stood and headed for the stairway then stopped and looked back,"You three..Axel is aware of you. He doesn't know your plan to stop him and The Apex. Please be careful, of the Predators and him, Lorenzo and Malachi are scary and strong but we are nothing compared to him. Don't die little brother I will help if I can."

"Thank you Colt."Foxe said as Colt headed down,"And I do forgive you brother."

Colt disappeared from sight and the group looked at each other and packed everything up. Foxe looked out the broken tower's window as the sun rose and smiled thinking of his crazy brother and out of his excitement to finally know the names of his targets. Like Nox said a few days ago it was time to kick some ass.

"NOX YOURE SUCH A CRYBABY!" yelled Alex.

Foxe could only groan and cover his ears. They'd been walking for hours it was already mid day and they made it our of sector 67 and into sector 70 and almost to the sector tower.

"WHAT DO YOU EXPECT IM JUST A DOCTOR AND I CANT EVEN FIGHT!"Nox screamed back,"MY WATER IS USELESS AND I FIGHT WITH FUCKING DAGGERS!"

"OH SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU JESUS CHRIST!" Yelled Foxe clapping them both on the back of the head,"I'M SICK OF HEARING YOU BOTH!"

"Sorry!"Nox and Alex whined.

Foxe was seriously wishing he'd just come alone with Genovia, she want very useful as a cat but she was his companion for years and she was good for sneaking missions. He was so used to being solo and having these two along was gonna help against The Apex, but dammit they needed to toughen up.

Again with the jumping and wall climbing with this tower, Foxe almost getting hurt a couple of times while he was lost in thought about how to train Nox and Alex and work on their teamwork and relationship with each other. They finally reached the top and Foxe smiled evil, this was perfect for them. Standing at the top of this tower was another dragon slightly bigger than the last, this one was up to Alex and Nox no help from Foxe this time, he chuckled silently to himself.