Sinistral

Chapter Twnety Seven

What's being a hero all about? Risking your life, being the brave one, being that shield the world needs? Well I never was a hero. I never came close to that, not once on earth. On Sinistral, well that's not exactly something I could say I am now either. I mean far from it, maybe even the destroyer but I'll come back to that very soon. So I don't want to sound like I have a big ego but I think I never felt like a hero, never once. Not until I actually saved Zack's life and this time properly. It was scary but when Zack had told me about him seeing himself being turned into a scar. I wouldn't let that happen, I wouldn't let that happen to the only person I have now.

So somehow, not sure where from I stepped up and I became just that, a hero or in Zack's eyes anyway and for a split second I believed that too. I believed that I was a hero.

What can I say, sometimes you can't help it. But was it the biggest mistake I ever made believing that...Yes it was the biggest mistake I ever made. To believe I was a hero because I let it get the better of me. I thought it was all over but it never works out that way. Never...

We lost track of time, that's how long it had took to cross the ocean, not that it mattered though, in Sinistral why does time matter? If I had to guess I would say about a few days or a week maybe, I liked it though, because it was just me and Zack. Zack had told me about his nightmares about his life back on earth so I thought to do the same, it was only right that I did, in that time I grew closer to him and I felt it too, I felt like I knew Zack now, knew the real Zack. I hoped he felt close to me to, because we only had each other here in Sinistral, and if Zack didn't feel what I feel what hope would there be for the both of us? I needed Zack and I hoped he needed me to.

It was a strange thought but it was like Zack and I had been born to meet. To clash here in Sinistral and do this mission, our destiny you could say. Maybe I was sounding more and more like Actros but to be truly honest I'm starting to really believe he is right. That I was brought here to Sinistral to complete this mission, to bring Sinistral back to the way it once was. I remember what Actros had shown me and Zack that green grass. The thought of that ever being here in Sinistral again is something that would make anyone smile and I could tell, we both felt like it was almost over. We may have been through thick and thin and lost each other along the way but we are here still together and we can do this.

It's like I'm like ship, lost and confused stuck in a storm and Zack is the light house shinning the way. He has always shined the way, even when he wanted to turn back I think he wouldn't have, because you can't push aside something you are. Zack is a light house, there to guide people all the way. You could even call me a lost puppy; I wouldn't have got five miles away from that tower without him. I know that now and if I asked Zack he would to even if it would take some convincing. We know each other, our past and our present. We don't know our future but we see hope at the end of it. Hope which will bring back the light to Sinistral forever and what better way to do it then to destroy the core and make Lucas suffer for his crimes and evil ways. I still remember my promise, that I would take him down and make him suffer. I've not forgotten, I'm still going to do that too.

Zack took the map out from his back jeans pocket slowly; he studied it we both did. it still didn't make much sense to me, luckily even without Zack's bloodshot eyes he had before to help him, he still knew what to do, which way to go.

"Its not far now," Zack said looking at me, a smile appearing on his face, "I would say about five miles from here," I mirrored Zack's expression, it was such a relief knowing we were so close, that we were so close to ending this I exhaled deeply, looked back out across the ocean then back at Zack, the smile still present on both our faces.

"What are we waiting for?" I said optimistically "Let's go."

Zack and I walked for about two miles in silence; I guess we were both just so focused on getting to the core that all we thought about was putting one foot in front of the other and getting there as soon as possible. It was Zack who finally broke the silence though, not looking at me he said.