Sinistral

Chapter Twenty Five

Do you understand now? How even if I have Zack, he is with me. One day Amelia could come back, at that moment in time I wasn’t thinking that though. I felt sad for Zack; I knew he had something there with Amelia. If I liked to admit it or not, he may not admit it either but we both knew that to be true. I was angry but Zack was worse. He wanted to turn back, break through the door of the Tunnel as it was clear Lucas probably had taken her out of the tunnel. Far, far away from us but going back was insane. I thought Zack would have known that, he had told me before convinced me to carry on even if I didn’t want too. Even if I wanted to turn back around and go find my real parents. It’s not about how I or he feels. It’s about being a hero, about taking up this responsibility and save Sinistral for good.

So I took up his own advice and told him to focus, on the mission at hand.

I did feel like I was the bad guy but sometimes it what you have to do. But Amelia being gone was the least of our problems though at that moment in time. Because we still didn’t know how to escape and even if we had a plan…plans don’t always go to plan. I’ll let you figure it out for yourself, it make more sense then. Just say, I hate that nothing can just be a simple escape. Instead of being that it turned into a full fight, a fight which seemed would be our last.

 Amelia was gone, Lucas and his scars had dragged her away and the worst part was we didn't even know where to or what he was planning on doing with her, maybe he would give her no choice but to train his scars again, maybe he would make her a scar again, it hadn't even dawned on us properly, it had all happened all off a sudden and so fast. After she was gone, Zack and I sat on the floor in silence not looking at each other, not speaking to each other just about breathing, Zack had looked the way Amelia had been dragged of to about a thousands times, I could see the hurt in his eyes, I had to break the silence, it was putting me on edge and making me uncomfortable, I knew Zack wouldn't want to hear what I had to say but I said it anyway, I looked at him, he was looking at the floor but his eyes were closed, "Zack" I spoke softly, he didn't respond, I tried again "Zack", he finally looked at me, I saw something else in his eyes this time, it was anger, it was hatred, it was despair, "What," he said in a firm voice I took a deep breathe and said "we have to go" he turned away to look at the floor again "I’m not going anywhere without Amelia"

“I know this is hard, I know you want to go after her, teach Lucas a lesson. But hey that’s my job. I’m the one that’s going to do that you got that,” I nudged his arm. This made him smile but it vanished quite quickly. “I wanted to turn back a long time ago. I wanted to go after my real parents. You convinced me not to do that. So Zack, I’m giving you your own advice. We carry on to the core. We destroy it; we take Lucas down and make him pay. Then we can go after Amelia and find my real parents. It’s the only way,” I say softly to him.

Zack still didn't look like he wanted to budge, I could tell he was hurting and I wish I could do something to make it better, but all I could do was convince him to come with me and get Amelia out of his head, for now. He looked at me, a little of the anger in his eyes now gone, he tried to smile "I guess your right," he said softly he sighed and slowly got to his feet, I did the same, he brushed the dust of his clothes before looking around the tunnel as if for the final time then at me, this time he was smiling like he meant it. "Let’s get the hell out of here.” I returned his smile, I was so relived he was ok, maybe he was still hurting inside I thought but was hiding it, if he was he was good at hiding things, I meant what I had said to him though, we would go after Amelia, we would.

She may have been a scar but she didn't deserve to be turned back into one or whatever horror Lucas had planned for her. We would find her, we have too.

Zack led the way but I saw him hiss with pain every now and again. The thought of him being in pain because of me still made me feel guilty. My gut clenched every time he did. It’s clear he will be in a lot of pain with his shoulder for some time. I watch the sword in his belt, it hanging there. If we ever have to use the sword, which I think we may have too I don’t know if Zack be able to use it, we aren’t good with it anyway but just the thought of him not having the sword to protect him made me worry. I mean yeah I could take it up, defend us both but I’ve never been good at that. I got lucky with that monster back on that bridge; it feels so long ago since then. So much has happened, including nearly losing my mind and having mixed feelings about Amelia before she was taken.