Maia's POV
Feeling returned to my nerves pretty quickly, but I wished I could just lay there.
Chaot had won.
I felt like everything was over... which it probably was.
All I could do was wait there and watch as the glass shards moved, like puppets, toward Chaot.
She built a massive, uneven glass wall around her.
"This," Chaot exclaimed, "is when everything ends!"
No!
It can't end like this!
Good always wins, and it will!
We could stop this woman!
We will find a way!
I couldn't just... lay here!
Groaning, I pushed myself to a kneeling position. I felt like a blob of jelly. I couldn't support myself, and I collapsed again.
The wall of glass inched toward the others on the rooftop. They were scrambling about trying to get Riverflow and Arcmagos and find a way off there without being killed.
But... they were screaming, not from pain, but out of concern. I tried to look around, and all I saw was a little girl walking out the back door.
Little girl...
Mae.
"Mae!" Forestra screamed.
"Get out of there! Stop!"
Chaot started laughing.
"Oh, Mae, I see my torture worked quite well on you. How are you holding up?"
"I'm doing just fine," the girl rasped.
"I cooked up some real good food. I guess you would have liked it if you weren't so evil."
Chaot hesitated for a moment. I didn't hear her speak after Mae's remark.
"Get... out of there!" Pyroclast yelled.
"Trust me," she said.
"I know exactly what I'm doing."
I felt a burning urge to scream. Words rose up to my mouth, but I couldn't get them out, if not in a slur.
"No... you don't... get out."
I had to help.
I pushed myself up, and I was able to make myself kneel without feeling like jelly. I put one knee up after the other, and I was finally standing. I started limping forward, my muscles still numb.
"Mae, how kind you are," Chaot commented.
"But now is not dinner time."
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Tale of Chaos 3: For All Eternity
Fantastik*BOOK 3 OF THE TALES SAGA* It's been a year since the Ten discovered the truth about the powers they possess. Through that year, they have hidden from Chaot and her ever growing army of monsters. But they are afraid of the outcome of their powers fa...
