Emerald

Chapter Five: Survival Instincts.

         My eyes slowly opened up, I was extremely warm, and comfortable which made it even more hard to open up my eyes and wake up. I Felt the soft blanket on me, I slowly pushed it off of me, kicking it onto the floor. Once that sweet warmth left me, my eyes flew open, easily. I stood up, and looked around. I didn't know where I was, I was in some sort of airplane. I looked down at the ring, it wasn't buzzing, or ringing, I was safe but where's Eighteen? I looked towards the front of the plane, figuring Eighteen was probably the one driving this thing. I walked towards the Cockpit, separated from the rest of the plane by a large door. I knocked lightly on the door "Eighteen? Are you in there?" I waited for a response before I just rudely barged into the cockpit. A few seconds later Eighteen's voice came from behind the door "Yeah, You can come in." I opened the door slowly, and walked into the cockpit, and saw Eighteen in the pilots' seat. "So, What can't you do, my all powerful Protector?" I smiled softly, and closed the door after I was in all the way. He didn't smile, or show any emotion at all, he just stared out the windshield, he didn't even respond at all. I rolled my eyes, and leaned up against the door.

      After  a few minutes of leaning up against the wall, and staring out the windshield, I saw a black dot far away from the plane, but it was coming quickly at us. I walked next to Eighteen's chair, putting my hand on his shoulder, and looking forward. "Eighteen, What is that?" He looked at it for a second, then shrugged. "It's probably just a bird or something." The ring started to buzz erratically, I squinted my eyes at the black dot, and suddenly my vision cleared up, and the black dot was a man. I stopped squinting, and my vision was normal again, I clenched Eighteen's shoulder. "That's a man. Flying???" Eighteen's eyes widened, and his grip on the controls tightened. "Emerald, get in the back of the plane, buckle in. this is going to get rough." I opened the cockpit door, and ran to the back of the plane, sitting in one of the seats that had a seat belt with it. I strapped myself into the, the screens scattered around the plane lit up, showing different angles from the plane. A couple showing the tail of the plane, a couple showing the wings, a couple showing the front, one in the cockpit, and one on me.

        The ring was buzzing nonstop, it was highly annoying I was trying to focus on the screens, not the buzzing, it was distracting me. Suddenly, a man in all black was on top of the plane. He started to punch the top of the plane, putting dents into it, smiling crookedly. More guys landed on top of the plane, they all looked the same, no difference to them. They punched the same, they looked the same, and they all had the same crooked smile. Eighteen's voice came from the speaker. "Emerald. Shield Up. Stay in your seat, Don't move. We May go down." I panicked for a moment, then took a deep breath, closing my eyes. My eyes shot open, and I was focused and calm, I focused on the ring, swiftly forming it into a shield, I ducked behind the shield. Moments later a fist broke through the top of the plane, then disappeared, a hand grabbed the hole from the fist, and started to pull back on it, ripping it bigger. One by one the guy's jumped into the plane, looking at me. I watched them through my crystal clear emerald shield, all of their crooked smiles widened as they saw me.

     "Princess Emerald, Nice to finally meet you," they all said in unison "I've been anticipating this moment for a while. This moment, the moment Evil meets Good. I like the chances I have. Evil will win. Darkness will take to the skies, permanently. You will die fighting." They finished talking, then started to throw black energy balls at me, they all bounced off my shield, hitting walls, couches, or chairs. I'm not going to listen to Eighteen, I'm not going to stand here and take this bullying. With my free hand I unbuckled myself, and jumped up quickly, launching myself at one of them. I used the edge of my shield to throat punch him, then kick off of him and do a backflip, landing perfectly. He went down quickly, staying down for now. I ran back at another, body slamming him with my shield, sending him to the floor. I turned to my side, kicking the next one in the throat and jumping up, and bashing his head with my shield. I turned my Shield into its Sword form, lunging myself at a group of the guys. I stabbed one in the gut, then kicking him off my sword, I spun around, and stabbed one of them through the face. I ripped my sword out of his face, dropping to the floor to dodge an Energy ball.