Escape From Antoria

Escape from Antoria part 11

Okay heres part 11 not really much going on but hope you like it :)

Chapter 10

I cringed away from the orb as it flew towards me but when it made contact with the area over my heart it seemed to dissolve through my skin because next thing I know I feel as if I've got really bad heartburn and I'm thrown backwards off my feet landing in the dirt 2 feet away from where I was previously standing. I lay on the ground for a few seconds before looking for Nate. I see him a few feet away also spread out in the dirt. What the hell was that?

"Nate, are you OK?"I said whilst getting up from the floor and brushing myself down. My hair is covering my face so I brush it out of the way as I stand up only to hear people gasp. Great what have I done this time to shock them?

I shake my head and walk over to Nate. I hold out my hand to a panting Nate only to see his eyes widen as they land on my face. I feel my own eyes widening as I look down at Nate's face. Whoa. His eyes are now bordered with markings similar to the ones on his back. I would have thought they would make him uglier but instead they framed his eyes making them stand out. He looked beautiful.

"Oh my god, your face!" We exclaimed at the same time. He grasped hold of my hand and pulled himself upright then used the hand to pull me close. We both lifted our hands and began to trace the markings. As my fingers moved along the lines tracing the pattern it changed colour from black to a bright red almost as if my touch was igniting the marking. Wow. Can this get any stranger?

As Nate traced my markings I could feel a tingling that for some reason made my heart warm. I wonder if mine is changing colour too.

"Nate is my marking glowing red when you touch it?"I said looking up at his dazed expression.

"No yours is glowing blue. You look so beautiful." He said with an awed voice. Cool I'm blue always did like blue. Oh god now I've got Eiffel 65 in my head. I started singing it in my head but I couldn't help it, it just burst from my lips so that everyone could hear me singing.

"Yo listen up here's a story

About a little guy that lives in a blue world

And all day and all night and everything he sees

Is just blue like him inside and outside

Blue his house with a blue little window

And a blue corvette

And everything is blue for him and hisself

And everybody around

Cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

I have a blue house with a blue window.

Blue is the colour of all that I wear.

Blue are the streets and all the trees are too.

I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.

Blue are the people here that walk around,

Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside.

Blue are the words I say and what I think.

Blue are the feelings that live inside me.

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die..." I had started dancing at the same time as I was singing and Ryan had an extremely amused expression on his face. "Umm yea sorry bout that but saying I was blue started off. I mean come on it's a classic!" The rest of the people just looked at me funny and Nate was just grinning ear to ear.

"I know what you mean I was struggling not to join in. The song does take me back though." Ryan said with a chuckle. "The only thing about being in Antoria is they have no idea what you are going on about half the time but I suppose it the same for us they'll talk about something and it won't make any sense." He sighed.

I laughed then turned to the old man who seemed to know so much. "Umm do you know what these markings mean?"

I got up and came close to me before tracing the marking with his fingers. Strange I didn't get the same tingling feeling as I did with Nate. "These my dear are the markings that appear when two mystics have bonded, when they find their soul mates so to speak. I've never seen it but then again we haven't had mystics for hundreds of years."Soul mates?? But I've only just met Nate, I hardly know him. I looked at Nate and he had the same wide eyed look I had.

"H-how can we be soul mates? We've only just met!"

"That has nothing to do with it. My guess is during you kiss your souls recognised their other half. It's quite simple to prove. I and any other person could touch your face and it would stay black but if Nathaniel here touches it ..." He pulled Nate towards me and gestured for him to touch my face. When he did I felt the tingling feeling again. "...It glows."

I didn't know what to feel. So much had happened in the last few days it was all a bit much to take in. I gripped hold of Nate and pulled him close to me. For some reason it just made me feel better even if things just seemed to be getting crazier each day. At that point my stomach decided to rumble.

"Umm don't suppose there's a chance of getting something to eat?"

© Katherine Pocock 2009