Evolution- ON HOLD (for now hopefully)

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

LUNA'S POV

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"Stop it, stop it!", I squeal with delight as he chases me around the fire. 

"What don't you like a wee little bug?", He teases me, holding out the stick with the giant, ALIVE spider. 

"I hate bugs!", I tell him my eyes never leaving the end of the stick with that monstrous creature sitting on the end of it. 

"Fine", he says smirking. He then threw the stick in the fire where it broke with a pop. I imagine the thought of the spider burning in the blazing inferno. It makes me giggle.  

"What?", He asks. 

"Nothing", I say gesturing at the fire. I walk over to the log we use as a seat and plop down onto it. He joins me a few seconds later and looks off into the distance. I look down and see his hand sitting on the log while his other one lays on his lap. Coincidence? I think not.  

"What are you thinking about?" I ask as he continues to look into the distance. 

He turns his piercing green eyes on me, looking into my own. "What now?" He says to me. 

"What do you mean, 'what now'?", I ask curiously. 

"I mean what are we gonna do? We have hunters pursuing us, I'm sure, and we are heading to the Rebels, but what for? What can we do for them? Why are we going? Maybe we should just travel someplace far off and forget this place. Somewhere they will never find us." He finishes with a long sigh then says, "I'm just confused and don't know what to do anymore." 

"Yeah, I know what you mean. But we have to go to the Rebels, it is the only place we will be safe, we can't just leave, well you could but I can't because....... Well there is something I haven't told you yet." 

"What?", he asks looking concerned. 

"It's a long story so ya might want to prepare yourself" 

"I'm all good, let's hear it" 

Well here goes nothing. "Seven years ago, when I was 8, my parents and I were sitting around our campfire, just like you and me now. We were just talking. Talking about our future, the future of us and the rest of our kind. My parents were Evos too so we were on the run. We had been on the run since I was 5 and we had almost been caught a few times, but we had always escaped, always. My mother could make her hands turn into blade like things. Well, they still looked like her hands but they could cut through anything, and my dad..... Well, he never told me what his ability was but my mom always told me he had one.", I pause and look down into my lap, then take a deep breath and continue. 

"So as we were sitting there I remember hearing something behind me, like the breaking of a branch, but I passed it off thinking it was from the fire. I was wrong. All of a sudden, a group of hunters rushed out of the forest around us. There were so many of them, so much more than us three. My mother and I jumped up at once. Her changing her hands and I turning into my animal form. I even remember my father punching one or two, but anyways. My mom and I cleared a space in some of the hunters to escape, and as we were running out I heard my father shout. I turned around to see him falling to the ground, dead. General Bane M. Lucifer was standing above him, an evil grin stretched across his face. My mother screamed, grabbed my hand, for I had changed back when we thought it was safe, and sprinted away. I remember feeling the fear for the first time. She hid behind a rock but knew he knew where we were, so she turned to me and told me something. I still remember how she looked, scared but determined. She said to me, she told me.... She said to be careful, to always make sure I was safe and that she loved me, her and my father both. She said that I was to run as fast as I could..... Then she turned around and walked towards the General. I didn't look back but I heard her scream and hit the ground. I had already started running. She sacrificed herself for me. So I could escape from that monster, and I did. But he is determined to finish the job. 

"So you see? I can't just go hide. They will keep searching for me. They will keep going until I'm dead. I must go to the Rebels.... They are the only ones who can protect me." I finish and look down, waiting for his reaction. Will he be scared and leave me? Will he be angry and leave me? Will he turn me in? Will he leave me? I glance up and am surprised by what I see. 

"So let me guess, you think I'm going to abandon you now. Well I'm not." He smirks a kind, concerned smile at me. "I'm sorry about your parents.... I really am. And I will go to the Rebels with you."  

I smile a huge smile at him, truly grateful for what he has said for it has made me feel much better. Then I feel something down in my gut and lean forward and give him a giant hug. "You're the best", I tell him and I feel a shiver go through him. Cute.  

I pull back and look him in those amazing eyes. "Thank you, you don't know how much this means to me", I tell him. I see him gazing at me with increasing intensity and decide..... Well I think I should go to sleep. I quickly stand up and he looks up at me shocked. I feel awkward as I say "well..... I'm going to go to bed.... We will set out again in the morning." 

"Oh, ok" he says, looking slightly sad. 

I quickly turn around and move swiftly over to the place where I'm sleeping, lay down and turn over. I mumble a quick goodnight and go to sleep..... Or pretend to.  

When he thinks I'm asleep I hear him sigh and mumble "stupid, stupid stupid!" I feel bad for him then because, honestly, I really like him, but I just don't know. I listen as he walks around and lays down in his bed and hear him whisper a goodnight to me. 

That night I had dreams about several things. Some of it were random things but most of it was a kiss in the night.... A burning hot passion that I craved and hated that I did not go for. As someone else I know said, "stupid, stupid, stupid". Then as the sun started to rise and I could feel myself waking up, I begin to open my eyes. But when I do I notice several things happen at once. 

Even though my eyes are open, I don't see what is in front of me. Instead I see a dream, except it is clearer than any of the dreams I was having, as if it was really happening. There is a field, and all around me is red, with things all around me.... I think they are people, but there is so much movement I can't tell. Then all of a sudden the vision tips sideways and it turns to see a man standing above it and I see a gun in his hands. Then a smile spreads across his face and lifts the gun up until its all I see. It expands until *BLACK*.  

That's when I actually see what is around me. I look down and see I'm shaking and have sweat up and down my body. Great. But I don't care about that at the moment I can only think of one thing..... What just happened?