Sinistral

Chapter Fifteen

Remember when I said I had friends, I had family back on Earth but nothing compared to Zack. Well this next bit I'm about to tell you is when I come to realise that.

You thought what we had been through already was bad enough but nothing is as bad as losing something you had since you pretty much arrived there. Someone that saved you from leading what ever part of life left in me beside Lucas.

What happened next, is just another part of Sinistral apart which could be seen as human. Something you could face on earth but to us. To me and Zack it felt twice as worse, it being in Sinistral.

I thought I had lost Zack, because of what happened next once we reached the desert. I thought I would never see him again and something worse then all those bad things put together is having that feeling.

The feeling that the only one you know is beside you probably being taken away. I could even say, it was the worst pain imaginable. Even now, if anyone found out that was my weakness. I think I would be in trouble.

All I know is, don't judge what a place is like or how it can be because that's what Zack and I did. We calmed down, we started joking around and that's why it caught us so of guard...

My throat had been marked from where the chains had been wrapped around it for so long, they had dug into my skin, it felt scarred. When that beast fell into the lava Zack and I ran, faster than any of us had ever done before and we didn't look back we were too afraid too.

There wasn't much of the bridge left to cross, Zack had strapped the sword safely back inside his belt, I had a gut feeling we would be needing it again, from what I had already seen here in Sinistral I knew danger was around every corner and we had to be prepared.

"What the hell was that?" Zack wheezed, we had stopped we had to our feet were on the verge of dropping off. I looked at his eyes, the bloodshot colour had disappeared, his bright blue eyes was all I could see now.

It felt strange seeing blue there instead of red. "Your eyes, are they okay?" Zack looked half relieved and half like he had lost something important. Zack didn't say anything, he pulled the map out from his back jeans pocket and let his eyes wonder, he was blinking quickly and squinting.

"My vision"... he started,  "Its changed, its gone back to the way it was before," he said like he couldn't believe it, like he didn't understand. He looked at me as if to ask me why, I half smiled at him "That's a good thing though right? I mean you said they were painful, has the pain stopped?" I asked.

He sighed and returned my half smile "Yeah, no more pain but we could have used that vision," he frowned looking at the map "The map doesn't make much sense to me anymore," he said shaking his head.

My half smiled turned into a proper smile "It doesn't matter, I'm just glad your okay we'll figure it out don't worry."

Zack put the map back into his pocket "l remember which way we have to go"  he had started walking east, he turned his head, "More heat, great just what we need," he said sarcastically over his shoulder

I was starting to get use to the heat here in Sinistral, I had already experienced the worst kind of heat, flames burning my flesh so a desert would be a cruise compared to that. I started off after Zack

I had been right, the desert was hot but not as hot as flames peeling your skin, Zack and I has been walking for a while now the sand made the walking harder  there was nothing here but sand left right and centre.

Zack and I are the only visible moving breathing figures for miles, every now and again the wind blew the sand all over the place including in our eyes, I must have rubbed my eyes a million times already but it didn't happen too often and the wind was soft most of the time.