BATTLE SCARS: (Indigo Symbols Book II)

Chapter Sixty-Two: Let's Play The Guessing Game, What's In The Backpack

SARAH:
    I spun on my heel, swinging the blade like Kitana taught me. I lashed out with me foot, kicking one Keeper and slicing into another. I slashed and stabbed, Huntor swinging next to me. We swung in unison and lashed out with our right foot. I flipped my dagger and it shifted into two ice fans, crusted with snow frosting. I slashed with my fans and felt Huntor swing with his hydro sword. In unison, we herded the Keepers back back back, out of Giant and on the sidewalks. I spun and flew through the air, slashed down, slicing through the guard of one Keeper and flesh and muscle tore. Feeling. Power in my blood, I flipped both fans and they transformed into two swords. Huntor's turned into a long staff of blue power. "Together." He said. I nodded, and we attacked together. I brought one sword down while stabbing with the other. Huntor swung with his staff, and we hit, our power singing, twinning together. I felt it, felt it sing and roar to life. I spun into it, letting myself feel, feel and explode with power. Snow and wind swirled around us, water weaving through like spider silk. Huntor grabbed my hand and I realized our power was a portal, that all of this was a distraction. What he had me do, Reina do, it was all a distraction, for what, I wasn't sure, but we vanished and went through the Indigo Worlds, blue pulsing like an endless song through our blood, then, we landed on pavement.
"Took you long enough." Reina said. Huntor chuckled. "We were a little busy fighting." Reina said, "With Sarah's small feet, I'm surprised she did much damage." "Kiss my chubby ass." I said. "What size are they?" Huntor asked. "Size four and a half." I muttered. Huntor made an, "Awing." Sound. "Let me feel." I held out my foot and he cooed and said, "You have adorable feet, like a child." I snatched my foot back. "Again, kiss my chubby ass." Huntor shook his head, "Not interested in asses." I slapped his arm and asked, "The two girls?" "Safe, in the Communal Plain." Said Reina. "Well, are we ready for our next adventure?" Hutor wanted to know. "So long as I'm not the bate." I said. He shook his head. "Oh no Khione, this time we go to D.C. we take out the Keeper Base there." "Why?" I asked. "Because under the base, is an ancient temple, a temple that holds the answers we need." Said Huntor. Reina shook her head. "You didn't say this before, even before our little interlude?" "I wanted Sarah to have some fun, and feed her inner fat girl." He gave me a wolfish smile and waved his hand. The basket of brownies, and donuts appeared, with a large bottle of Pepsi. I squealed like a squirrel and said, "Oh Huntor I love you so much." Without realizing it, I started jumping up and down and dug in. In no time, my mouth, chin, and fingers were covered in powder, and crumbs. Huntor and Reina looked down at me, "Skies above Sarah you're a child alright." I stuck my pale pink tongue out at them. Reina grabbed a handful of brownies, ate them, then stuck her own tongue out. Huntor said, "Eat up, we leave soon." When we were done, I took his hand and Reina's, and we made another portal, this time, to finish the prophecy.

REINA:
    We landed in the trees, Huntor describing where exactly we were and that the Keepers no doubt had that stone on the outer edge of the school fences, to prevent any Indigo from entering, or leaving. But Huntor looked at me, with that damned wolfish smile I was starting to love, even if it meant death. "Notice that they have the stone above the ground, not under." I bared my teeth in a replication of his smile. Sarah choked, but I could've sworn he saw, and lust filled his eye before he turned away. "Let's hunt." He said. With that, I slid my grass backpack off my shoulders, and opened it, to finally, finally see what else was inside. Rocks, rocks of all different sizes and colors were neatly placed inside, rocks, the two daggers I used, and a soft bedding of soil. I lifted one out that was the size of a small dinner plate and was as green as grass. "I never knew how to work these." Huntor frowned, turning back. "Rey, all we need is a tunnel, you know how to make one." "I know dumbass, I'm just saying these rocks, I don't know why Gaia gave them to me." "Put them aside." Huntor said uneasily. I slid the rock back in the pack. "Ou know what they're for, or you have a clue." He simply nodded, and gestured. I bared my teeth. "At least your Goddess gave you a gift." Said Sarah, perhaps a bit coldly. "All mine did was rape me, emotionally and physically, rape, and plan to highjack my body for her own purposes." I opened my mouth, not sure what to say, but Huntor said, "Come on, we have a school to rescue." And so, I separated my feet, shoulderwith, and palms facing the ground, I shoved downward, imagining a tunnel sinking deep underground, and rising fifty yards away from the fence, in the school grounds.
    Leading them through the tunnel, I allowed my feet to guide me, allowed my feet and inner eye to see the path ahead. I closed the tunnel behind us as we sped like quick silver through the underground passage. Then the ground rose and I said, "We're almost out." Sarah, who was panting behind Huntor said, "Good, because I don't think I can keep going like this." "Well if you hadn't stocked up on all that sugar." Said Huntor. "Kiss my ass, I couldn't help it, I have a massive sweet tooth." Huntor laughed, then went silent as light appeared, then we slowed as we came out of the tunnel and onto MSB property. I saw a small something in Huntor's fingers, he flicked it, and it grew into a staff, a staff I remembered him using in our training sessions. He gestured to the east, "That there, that was where Aquilla and I first met." sarah squinted, "I don't see anything but trees." Said Sarah. Huntor rolled his eye. "It's deeper in the trees obviously. He waved us forward and we ran through the trees, as silent as predators. Soon, we came across a creek, a creek that, even now, sang a depressing song as it ran sluggishly under the concrete bridge. Huntor paused, staring down at the murky water, as if he could see just how lifeless it was. He pointed, "There use to be an army of bushes there, bushes, rocks, stones, they acted as a filter to her creek, Aquilla's creek. they tore it all down, and now, now she's dead." "Huntor?" Sarah asked. He looked at us, and I saw the Indigo-God staring back at us, saw the limitless power in his blood. "We make them pay. We save this school, and destroy them for what they've taken." He looked down at the creek and held out his hand, I saw something drop from his fingers and into the water. The creek glowed blue, then the glow faded.
    He raised his staff, and walked down the sidewalk, toward a ruined building, a ruin that still had hazy smoke wafting from the burned soil and bricks. Huntor faced the trek ahead, nothing but open sidewalk up, nothing, except the tall wooden towers, the towers that had to have spotted us, the guard towers. Huntor said coldly, "It's time to finish this. I brought this to my school, and I'm taking it back." He marched toward the towers, the towers that were across the strees, flanking the sidewalk sweeping up to another building. Huntor paused at the street crossing, as if giving the six male guards in each tower a chance to make him out. As if he wanted them to ring the alarm. Someone shouted from the tower, then, when Huntor raised his staff, they shouted in alarm and a firetruck alarm bellowed from the towers, echoing over the school grounds. Huntor said smoothly, "Too late boys." He looked to me and said, "Give them, a little knock, in the knees." I flattened my palms in front of me, half a foot from my belly, and curved my fingers in, like cupping your fingers slowly. The soil around the towers shook, slowly, softly, then it grew, the more I curved my fingers in. The men yelled, in fear now, and two actually toppled out of the open top, falling thirty feet to the unforgiving concrete, and didn't move.