Legacy Rises (Lorien Legacies: Book 7)

Chapter 32: Lina

This as probably been the most stressful day every.

"Where did they take Daniela?" I ask John. I keep turning around, looking for incoming Mogs. It can't be long before the Mogs realize that we took out their entire loading crew.

"Did you guys see Setrukís Ra get on this ship?" Eight asks the ones of us who snuck on.

"I saw a big Mog in fancy war get-up climbing into a tiny ship with about a dozen soldiers," says a boy named....Razo I think. He looks familiar for some reason.

"That's him," Six says.

"This ship must just be the storage unit. I don't sense any major weapons. All I can detect is a lab of sorts with computers and equipment," Razo says.

"You can sense all of that?" I ask, amazed.

He nods. "Anything electronic."

"Pretty neat," I reply, smiling.

"What are your Legacies?" asks Olly.

"Electricity and wind," I say, floating up and making a ball of energy to demonstrate.

"So you're basically a walking storm cloud?" Razo jokes, laughing. That laugh. I know it from somewhere....

"Have we met before?" I ask Razo.

"You don't remember me?" He tilts his head. I shake mine. "We were pen-pals in the seventh grade? We Skyped a couple of times? You look almost the same, except now you have purple glasses. They used to be black."

I subconsciously touch my glasses. "Oh yeah! We had European pen-pals! We were always complaining about how short we were! How do you remember my glasses?"

"I'm good at remembering small details," Razo says modestly. "I remember that you're teacher looked kind of like Randy from Monster's Inc."

Before we know it we're laughing and everyone else is staring at us like we're crazy.

"Razo, can you find where the lab is and possible shut them down to slow down the operation?" John asks. Right. We've got more important priorities than catching up with an old friend.

Razo closes his eyes and scrunches up his face. "Um, take this hallway." He starts walking and we follow cautiously behind him.

I stay in the end of the pack to watch our backs. I end up next to Ani.

"So you can control the wind too?" she asks me. Her accent sounds like Razo's. They must be from the same European country.

"Yep. It's pretty nice being able to fly," I say, smiling. It's probably my favorite Legacy, though electricity is better in battle. It's shockingly helpful. (I couldn't help making the pun in my head. I'll have to use it sometime.) Ani and I don't say anything else. I'm pretty awkward when it comes to conversations with strangers.

We all try to walk as quietly as we can. It probably wasn't a great idea to have this many people on this mission, but our group will make any fights easier. A downside of it is that it makes us very conspicuous.

We don't pass many Mogs. We probably took out a majority of them at the entrance. There were about thirty loading the ship up. I guess they didn't think they'd need that many guards for cargo and six weak prisoners. We pass by doors and most are locked when we try them out, but some have windows where we can see into them. In one, we see a map of Earth with red tacks in the major cities of the planet. There is a Mog studying the map, but Olly freezes him before he can turn around. Olly breathes out again and defrosts the Mog, but lets out enough heat to make the Mog dissolve.