BATTLE SCARS: (Indigo Symbols Book II)

Chapter Fifty-Nine: Recreate

HUNTOR:
    "Best control your female there." Seeka said as Reina stormed away. I frowned at her. "I know when my lovers have something for someone else." "We're lovers now?" I asked. She purred. "After what you do to my wings? flaming yes." I chuckled. "You want me to do such things to your wings, and other parts of you." Seeka said, "well, best talk to her, seems like she's getting jealous." "Well, you kissed me right in front of her, you really gave her no choice." "Neither did you." "Why are you here?" I asked, not hiding the smile. "Wenzi." She said. "It's time she learned her history, and just who and what she is. Speaking of that, has no one come for Kitana?" I shook my head. "Amala trained her though, so." "That's not enough, she'll be back, or one of Hiquanna's." I shook my head again, "Sometimes." Seeka rubbed my arm. Ah well, I." She stopped, as if something caught her eye. "Skies, flaming burning skies above, she looks just like Father." "Wenzi?" I asked. Seeka took my hand and pulled me over to where they were. Wenzi was in her Drac'on form alright, her hair was longer, and a deep dark red, her arms were adorned with scales of reds, oranges, and golds. Her wings, her actual wings were huge and just like Seeka's, but her form, it was, it was, "Warrior." Seeka said. "Wenzi, you're a Drac'on warrior." For a third time, I shook my head. Theia was speaking, giving Wenzi a history lesson. As she did, Vello kept instructing sister to keep her wings up, folded neatly, don't let them drag or lag on the ground. When she'd asked why, he'd said, "One, it's lazy, two, things can get caught in them, three, Drac'ons will see it as unethical." Wenzi muttered something about just where Drac'ons could shove their ethics. Vello had simply said, "Up." And theia continued her lesson.
    I felt the Communal-Plain ripple, and knew who made a portal, and who was arriving. A few dozen yards away, a group, much like the one Wenzi and Kitana brought in entered the plain. I left Wenzi to her history lesson and walked over to greet Camille, Lorna, Phoebe and Audrey. Indeed, they were walking toward me, leading the confused Indigos of young and old. "Welcome everyone." I said smoothly. "Welcome." So again, I told the copious group everything, my story, what and who they are, and gave them the choice. From the one hundred and fifty who were captured at the prison, ninety wanted to learn to fight back. "Huntor." Audrey was tugging on my arm, "There's something I need to tell you." "What is it Audrey?" But Camille had run over and despite being covered in blood and gore, she threw herself at me and squealed like a squirrel. Audrey sighed, hard, and waited. I hugged Camille back and said, "Ok, kid let go, Audrey has something to tell me." "No." She complained. "I'm more important." "Excuse me." Even i heard the venom in Audrey's words. "Child." I chitted. Camille let me go and pouted before walking away. "I swear Huntor—"Don't start Audrey, what happened?" Audrey colleted herself and said, "Amanda was there." That got my attention. I turned and said, "Tell me everything." Audrey shrugged, "Not much really, she was there, but she didn't die, the Indigoism only destroyed their hide away, expelling them." "not surprising." "Huh?" "We ran into her in Florida, she was the queen of a Rogue army, Rogue Indigos who believed their right to kill and destroy for fun." Audrey hissed. "Idiots." I smiled. "Exactly, well, while we were there, Rey stabbed her, I thought it was a killing blow, but apparently not."
    "Does it change anything?" Audrey asked. "No, not really, but we have to kill her." I said. "Well duh." "No, I mean, I have to kill her." "You? Kill an Indigo?" "She doesn't deserve to live after what she's done. This has to end, now." Audrey took my hand, "I'm behind you Huntor, I'll always be behind you, I'll always be here." I squeezed her fingers. "Thanks Audrey." "I'm sorry." She said. "Sorry for causing drama between you and the others, between you and her. You and Reina." "Audrey—"No, let, let me finish." So I did. "I'm not going to spin a tale, you already know everything, I love you, you know that, but I am getting through that, over it, over you. I don't know if I every will, but I will say that I'll always love you as a friend." She reached up and this time, this time waited, waited for me to make the choice, all be it hopefully. I pressed my lips to her's one last time, a promise, and a goodbye. Audrey sighed as my lips brushed her's, she pushed, then puled away. "Thank you Audrey." "I think I'm the one who should be thanking you." She said. We turned and she asked, 'So, what do we do now? We have an army, do we face the Keepers?" "Not yet." I said. "We need more Indigoism." She asked, "But Huntor, we have over two hundred who are ready to fight back." "Over two hundred who want to learn." I corrected. "Same difference." "Either way, we need more." "But where, we destroyed three known prisons, where else?" "We need to go to Clifornia." I said. "Why?" She asked. "Because that's where the King is waiting for us. He by now knows, one, I'm alive, two, I'm liberating and destroying Keeper prisons, his prisons, and he knows I'm putting together an army to face his." And he knows I'm figuring out why, just, why, he wants Indigos so badly. But I didn't voice that.
    No, no it was best if I didn't play that card until I had to. Bad enough the game was up, bad enough both sides drew blood, bad enough, but if they all knew what, just what, the King had in mind for Indigos, all Tartarus would break. I took a breath, "Huntor?" Audrey asked. I have to, I have to, because it was the only way to end this war, the only way. "Dolphin." I said. "What's the plan?" She asked. "We assemble all the old leaders, we recreate the old Symbol, then, we leave instructors, leave them to train these Indigos of young and old." "While?" "While we end this." I said. "While we wag war with the Keepers in California." "We're going West?" She asked. "California is west Dip-Stick, so.." "Don't be rude." She teased, swatting my arm. I felt the bonds of friendship, true friendship. I squeezed her fingers, that friendship, that friendship would need to be there, because, because for what I had to do, needed to do, no, no Audrey wouldn't let me, neither her, nor Wenzi, or Vera, Kitty Ramya. But it wasn't their choice, they couldn't stop me, not even Reina.