Artemis Child

Artemis Child Ch19

Standing on a moving train, I watched the tracks and trees pass by. "The engine is up and in shape." Said a cute golden eyed girl with grease stains on her orange T-shirt of or camp. She was working hard to help this damadged train get to the next station. "From all the spare parts, I was able to tune up the engine. In fact it should run faster than the legal limit." She said with a cute devilish smile, her name was Gena. "Cory." Said a person behind me. I turned to see a well built teen, with blonde hair that came just past his ears parted in the middle like a surfer. "How are the people Andrew?" I asked him over the sound of the engine. "They are great, and we should arrive to our destination in an hour." Andrew informed me. "After we stop and let them all off of course.

"Gena. Full speed ahead!" I shouted an order. "Yes, sir capin sir." She said like a pirate with a speach problem. Heading to the place to drop off the mortals. "Final stop eeeeeeeeeverybody off." Gena stated through the intercom. Andrew and I uncuff the train connector, cops started heading towards us before Gena had us take off like a bat out of hell.
The train ride gave us time to sleep. Gena on the other hand, was still wide awake. She hadn't slept since she got that gift from Prometheus, the black flame. I fell quickly into sleep. In my dream, I saw something new.

I was following someone, they were familiar. It was Trisha, the girl that took my necklace. My dream eyes did a small scan of the area. A small store was selling sport fan stuff. One of the windows said: Best place to get Ohio State University football and baseball Fan wear.

It wasn't long til my dream was focused on Trisha again. My eyes looked down to a hand, gripping a gun.

I awoke to Andrew shaking me. "Cory, we just passed Kentucky, where do we go now?" He asked after giving me time to wake up completely.

"Head to Ohio." I answered with a firm voice. I explained to them what I saw in my dream. Gena agreed with my dream by, setting a small dial to a map. Then she pulled a knob on the left side and gave me a thumbs up.

Andrew's stomach growled, making a lot of noise in spite of the loud engine. "Damn, I was hoping I could last longer before my stomach would start making noise." He said with a sigh. "What's with the sigh?" I asked confused.

"There is only one granola bar left. I didn't want to be greedy." He answered me while digging into his backpack. He slowly pulled out the granola bar, which made his stomach make more noise.

"Dude just eat it. I'm not hungry." I lied to make him feel better. His face lit up after I said that. His fingers moved fast, almost clumsily trying to open the piece of food.

After a few hours, the dream still stuck to my head. It kept replaying, along with a name. "Toni? Do I know a Toni? If I do from where?" I asked myself in a low voice.

Suddenly, a large thump sound broke me from my trance. It was on the train roof and there was more than one. "Cory, we are under attack." Andrew pointed out as sharp talons pierced the ceiling above us, and unsheathed his sword. "Gena keep us going, we will take out the unwanted passengers!" Andrew shouted as he slashed at the talons of the mysterious creatures.

One started tearing the side up, and I could see it through the window. It had two dark ruby eyes, and the upper body of a voluptuous woman. Its lower body was that of a large serpent, but with to powerful legs that had seven talons on it. The wings on it shifted colors, and made it almost hard to not look at.

"Wyverns!" I announced to everyone, so that they know what we are dealing with. One smashed on the window that I was looking out of. I summoned my spear, and got ready. The second it smashed through the window, I drove my spear head hard into the creature.

It shrieked then started turning into dust. One wyvern claw broke through the roof and grabbed ahold of my hoodie. Andrew wasted no time to detach the limb from the body.

I dropped back onto the train floor, and thanked him.

"We have to get up top, or they will just keep braking the roof." He told me and headed for the door to the train.

As we headed out, my heart sunk as I saw the number of wyverns. There were at least forty flying above us, and the small amount of room on top the train, held five. We got up and slashed at everything that moved.

Stabbing one, and kicking its body off the train before it turned to dust, I turned to Andrew. I pointed to the last creature I killed and said: "No ticket." He didn't laugh, instead he continued fighting.

More wyverns landed to replace the ones we killed, and I was getting tired. One grabbed Andrew's leg and launched to the sky. Before it could get far, I ran up the back of a turning to dust body. I jumped and grabbed ahold of the creature's wing.

I did my best to tear up its wing, so it would be forced to fly lower. The wyvern tried to drop him, but I let him hold on to the end of my spear.

My grip became slippery, and hard to hold his weight. Soon enough the spear fell out of my grip. Andrew brought the spear down onto a wyvern that was lower. I let go of the wing of the creature and hoped onto a lower one as well.

I landed onto the wyverns back, and pulled on its head feathers. "Land now." I demanded it, but it made no change in its movement to follow the train.

The creature decided to dive downwards, and it made a sound that sounded like it could of been a defiant laugh.