Flauraan

Chapter Six

Chapter Six

Sophie glanced sideways at me, and then looked at the air in front of us.

“Oh yes.” She grinned, before poking her finger into the force field, which gave off sparks.

“Sophie!” I pulled her hand back quickly.

She rolled her eyes and laughed at me. “Worry wart.”

I turned to face her. “What do we do now then?”

Sophie quickly held her teleport watch up to her eye level and flipped the main compartment open, showing the screen I remembered from last night. She touched the teleport watch to the force field and then reeled back from the shock.

“I can’t teleport through here.” She eventually told me.

“I told you.” I muttered.

Sophie looked at me timidly. “Yeah, you did, and you were right. Your people are good with force fields.” She said, and then her tone changed drastically. “But all force fields have weak spots, and all we have to do is find this one’s.”

“I’m guessing you want me to use my powers to do that.” I smirked knowingly.

“Well….” Sophie sounded awkward. “Yeah, I do.”

“Alrighty then.” I stepped forward slightly, and held my hands out palm-first in front of me. My eyes slid shut, and I concentrated. Suddenly I could feel the particles of the air all swirling around me, bumping into each other and the solid, fixed particles of the ground and trees, and Sophie and I. I grimaced as I felt the electrical energy of the force field, and moving my mind around I felt for a chink in the structure of the force field. I frowned as I felt around and then stretched my concentration further along the force field to try and find a weak spot. But I still couldn’t.

“Abi?” Sophie’s voice sounded to me, and I turned, my eyes flickering open.

“I can’t find anything yet.” I told her. “We’ll have to go further along.”

“Alright.” Sophie grabbed my hand and we walked parallel to the force field until I found an adequate spot to try again.

Eyes closed, hands outstretched, I focused on the force field, and this time I found something, a small gap, absolutely miniscule, in the fabric of energy in front of me. My eyes flew open.

“Sophie!”

She ran over from where she’d been standing. “Where is it?”

“Right there!” I pointed up to the weak spot I’d found.

Sophie squinted, as if trying to make it out. “Yeah, I think I can see it.”

I nudged her, grinning. “Don’t lie, I know you can’t.”

She pouted and huffed. “Fine, but let’s at least hope I’ll be able to teleport through it.”

“Yeah.” I said absentmindedly.

Sophie opened her teleport watch again, and started typing some things on the small keypad she had on there, occasionally glancing at the force field or the screen.

After about two minutes, she flipped the compartment shut and reached out for my hand.

“Okay?” she asked me.

“Okay.” I replied confidently.

And so Sophie pressed a button on the watch with her free hand and the world disappeared.

Teleporting was the strangest and most exciting experience of my life. I felt like my lungs had been completely compressed as we rushed into blackness. I couldn’t see anything, couldn’t feel anything but my own body and the grip Sophie had on my hand, and then suddenly we were back in the world again. I stumbled slightly as we landed, feeling off-balance. I looked up at where we were, and then behind me, where the border of the shimmering, blue force field was now situated. We did it.