There's More To The Story | An alternate Mianite Season 2

Chapter 7 - Ziva

As Tom walked back from the lake, he couldn't help but feel determined to prove to Dianite that he was his champion. When he finally reached the site where the others were, he swiftly ran over to them and the woman, who was now resting against the wall.

"What took you so long?" Jordan questioned when Tom reached them.

"Oi! There wasn't water anywhere near here. I had to walk for a while." Tucker took the saucepan from Tom and began to give some water to the Lady.

She was pale, very pale. She looked like she had once been a beautiful, young woman. I wonder what happened to her. Tucker thought.

"What's out there?" Sonja asked, looking up at Tom from where she sat on the ground.

"The remains of a town, behind that there's a forest and through the forest there's a lake."

"We should probably head towards the lake," Jordan stated.

"How are we going to move her?"

"I can walk."

Everyone stopped what they were doing to look at her. It was as if a corpse had just spoke to them. Tom looked like he'd seen a ghost.

"A-Are you sure?" Jordan looked at her worriedly.

"Yes. Help me up," She demanded. Tucker and Sonja grabbed an arm each and gently lifted her to her feet.

"Okay, Lady, seeing as you can speak now, who are you?" Tom glared at her, as if testing to see if what Dianite had said was true.

"TOM!" Jordan yelled, hitting him in the shoulder.

"OW!"

"Don't be so rude."

The lady subtly nodded her head. "NO. Let the child speak."

"Child?" Tom whispered to Jordan.

"I am Ziva (A/N pronounced ZEE-va)"

"Ziva?"

"Yes. And you are?"

"I am Jordan Maron, or Captain Sparklez if you prefer."

"Tom - Syndicate"

"Tucker - Jericho"

"Sonja - Firefoxx"

"Jordan," Ziva said.

"Yes?"

"Come here. I will lean on you as we walk."

"Oh-Okay." He walked over to her and put his arm around her waist and her arm over his shoulder.

As Tom led the group into the town, they all gasped. They were shocked by the mountains of rubble and little grass. The whole town had a feeling of emptiness to it. Sonja leant into Tucker for comfort.

"Do you know what happened here Ziva?" Jordan asked. She suddenly seemed to become very distant, sadness glazed her eyes. She shook the feeling away.

"Yes." She looked at Jordan nervously.

"You've got to work with us woman," Tom butted in. Jordan glared at him until he turned around again and kept walking.

"Well," Jordan started. "What happened? This place looks like it would have been a busy town, full of people and children and animals and happiness." Jordan began to vision a busy town full of people with big smiles plastered on their faces going about their daily business. He wished he was back in the Realm of Mianite when things were happy. Before the war destroyed their homes, their land, their friendships...

Ziva stopped to think before answering. "Mianite." Tucker and Sonja turned around.

"Mianite?" Tucker asked. "He did this?" Ziva nodded.

"He wouldn't do that, right?" Sonja asked for reassurance. No one answered.

"But he's the good God, you know, the God of all things good," Tucker seemed unsure of his own words. Unsure of his own God.

"Y-Yes. To you he is. To us he is not."

The group looked at each other. Obviously Ziva didn't want to speak about what had happened, leaving the answer up in the air.

Tom looked at her. She seemed... Fidgety. She wouldn't make eye contact with anyone, she just stared at the ground and limped along beside Jordan. Tom wondered if she knew that he was team Dianite. He wondered if she knew that Dianite had told him about her. Maybe if she did, she'd be able to help him understand what was going on.

"You very nice man. Jordan," Ziva looked into Jordan's eyes. He shifted uncomfortably under her arm. "Why you no girlfriend?" Tucker looked to Jordan, seeing the pain glaze over his eyes.

"I'll explain if you want." Jordan nodded slightly and looked away. "Ziva," Tucker thought about what way was easiest to put what had happened. "Where we come from, there was some pirates that worshipped Ianite. One of them a young lady named Captain Capsize and her brother Skipper Redbeard. Jordan here, was meant to marry Capsize in the old wizards Cathedral. That was until Dianite's minion, Furia, brought her blade down on Capsize, leaving her dead. When we went to revive Ianite, we revived Capsize too but, she wasn't the same. She was a zombie mutant of her previous self. Redbeard was forced to send her back to her grave." Tucker put his head down. Everyone had loved Capsize and everyone had been emotionally touched by her parting. They missed her and her brother. Heck, they even missed Rupert the Grey and Earl Bluebeard, the pirates they didn't see or hear from much.

"Oh." Was all that Ziva could muster. And with that they proceeded to trudge along to the lake. Toom in the front, trying to speed up but refraining from doing so for Ziva's sake. Tucker and Sonja in the middle, Tucker holding Sonja tight to his body, not wanting to go through the same pain as Jordan. Jordan and Ziva at the back, Ziva seemed to be calm and at home when they reached the forest, the same could not be said for Jordan.

Jordan was a broken man. He'd lost his love, the one that kept him sane, and the one that appreciated him, gone... He was, once again, the only follower of Ianite in their group - seeing as Skipper Redbeard had stayed behind in Ianarea - he felt so... alone.

They made their way through the path that Tom had previously excavated, making their trip through the overgrowth a lot quicker than Tom's. When they reached the lake, they all collapsed. They lay there for a while.

"I'm going to go and try and find some berries in the forest," Sonja sat up, the first to move of them all.

"Not by yourself you aren't," Tucker began to stand up to follow her.

"Tucker, I'll be fine," She reassured him. "I'm not going far, Okay?"

"But The End is dangerous, Sonj, we don't know what's out there!"

"But we're going to run out of food quicker than you think, especially now that there's five of us," She glanced at Ziva, who was splashing her feet in the glimmering water.

"Okay, but just promise me you'll be careful."

"I will, don't worry." Tucker leant down and kissed her forehead before she turned to go into the dark depths of the forest. Tucker strolled back down to the rest of them and placed himself beside Tom.

Tom was staring contently at Jordan, trying to unravel what was happening inside his complex brain. He was about to speak when a blood curdling scream ripped through the forest.

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So yeahh... a lot kinda happened here. WOOO ANOTHER CHAPTER!!! Hopefully I'll post another chapter later this week or early next week! Don't forget to vote!