Being gifted...[ON HOLD]

Lizard slushies...?!!

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Recap:

“How are you going to get down?”

“Don’t worry about me. I have a plan. Now go and help them!”

Zak looks back reluctantly and teleports down. Okay. Now it is my turn.

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Place: Styx Base Camp (SBC),

Styx Institute, the Moon

Time: October 2nd, 2011------- 7:00 am

Zak’s POV

“Nick, help me pick him up!” I yell as I run over to Xavier’s limp body. Nick helps me and we run over to the edge of the stadium as fast as we can. We put him down under the platform we used to descend onto the floor. “Okay, let’s go.” I tell Nick.

“What?! No. We can’t leave Xavier like this. We have to stay here.”

“Staying here won’t protect him from the lizards heading over here right now. Look, we just have to distract them for 3 minutes and then we will head over here ourselves. We don’t have time to argue right now.” I reply as I start running toward a fallen gun. It was a good thing I bashed two of them before getting to Xavier or they would’ve been clawing at us by now. I just hope Andria is doing alright.

“As you say.” Nick agrees unwillingly and grabs onto a shield just as another lizard comes charging our way.

One thing is for sure….these are going to be one of the longest three minutes of my life.

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Andria’s POV

Okay, Andria, concentrate. You only get one chance. The lives of all of your teammates are in your hands right now.

Don’t panic. No pressure. It’s completely okay. What’s a little mistake goingna do, right? It is okay. Oh..kay…

I call on every single last drop of power in my body and focus on the task ahead. Now it is either do or die…. literally!

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Nick’s POV

“OVER HERE! BRING THEM IN THE MIDDLE!” Zak shouts over to me. I do as he says and run over to the middle to join him. The lizard I was fighting follows close behind. I don’t know if this is a good idea though. Clumping together will only make us weaker. But surely Zak knows that. This probably has to do with Dree’s plan. At least I hope.

“Okay. When I count to five, sprint to Xavier as fast as possible.” Zak instructs.

“Are you sure? I mean, isn’t that only going to put him in danger? He's dead enough as it is.” I ask.

“This is no time for jokes. I am serious.”

“Okay. Okay.” I reply as I jab the hilt of a ray gun on a lizards head. “What’s a guy got'a do to lighten the mood around here, huh? The lizards don’t seem to like my jokes either.”

Zak ignores me. “Alright. One…Two…Three…Four… RUN!!” Zak starts sprinting over to Xavier and I follow his lead. Note to self: When Zak says five, he actually means four.



Just as we are almost there…

All hell breaks loose!

An enormous blast throws me and Zak off our feet. I look back to be blinded by an extreme amount of light. What the hell just happened?

I look over to Zak for an answer, but he just looks up and then heads over to Xavier. I follow his lead. I crash on the floor beside him and Xavier when I reach there. Suddenly all of that exhaustion comes to me at once. I was so caught in the moment, I forgot to feel tired. And now, when it is hitting me all at once, I feel like my whole body is crying out in pain.

I look at Zak to see him just as out of breath as me. Like me, he has been gashed in multiple places. But Xavier looks the worst. He face has paled and it looks as if all the blood from his body has been drained out. My stomach churns just by looking at his pained face.

I look over to catch Zak looking with a shocked expression to the scene behind me. I turn again to face the arena. The lizards…. they are gone…

“Melted…*huff*…she *huff* did it!” Zak says. Melted? How in the world did they melt? Andria did this?

And what the hell is that bright liquid covering the floor of the arena? And why are my eyes burning?

“What?” I ask. Zak ignores me and looks up once again. I follow his gaze this time.

Above us are the remains of the weird chandelier that was lighting up the stadium. It was in fact nothing but a series of interconnected pipes with some weird glowing liquid in them; the same liquid that is now covering the floor of the arena. I could in fact swear that it is melting straight through the floor!

Someone broke the pipes and smashed the liquid down…right in the middle of the stadium and nowhere else. Right where we left the lizards!

And not just someone. Andria. But how?

“She was lying… she didn’t have one.” Zak says staring at the remains of the pipes on the stuck to the ceiling.

“She didn’t have one what?” I ask, now getting irritated by Zak’s vague sentences.

“She didn’t have an exit plan. She lied. She…” Zak stops and looks at the floor with anger and frustration. “I should have stayed with her.”

“But where is she?” I ask.

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Andria’s POV

Every cell in my body screams out in pain as I balance the 10 tonnes of nuclear plasma in mid-air. Breaking the pipe was the easy part. That is saying a lot considering the fact that I had to break through material that the plasma itself couldn’t break through while being 300 feet off the ground and while balancing on a pipe that was only half a foot wide.

Yep. That was definitely the easier part.

I can’t look down while holding the plasma up. I am just going to have to hope that the lizards are where they are supposed to be and those three are as far as possible from them. Okay here goes…

Imagine letting go of a really heavy backpack after carrying it around all day and imagine how it feels to let that burden go. Now multiply that feeling by a 100 and that is how I felt letting go of the plasma and directing it downwards.

But what I didn’t take in to count was how hard it would be staying on the pipe when the explosion hit the ground. And how well it could throw you off your feet.

And my so called exit plan….well… let’s just say it is still on its planning stage….

…so much for getting out of this one alive!

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