The S.T.F. Files, Book 1: S.T.F.

Broken Bonds

Aly's POV 

"I'm fine. Let me move," I say. 

"Cleo says your injuries have not healed yet," Cleo pushes me down, but I shove her away. 

"I said I was fine," I glare at her. Cleo rolls her eyes. 

"Aly. Shouldn't you rest for a little?" Dimitri looks at me. 

"Which way did Riza run?" I order. 

"You really think I would tell you that? Riza can handle this by herself," Alagretto looks at the sky. 

"Tell me!" I scream at him. 

"No," Damien shouts. I shove him aside. 

"I'll find her myself," I take towards the sky. My black wings flap behind me as I speed through the air. 

I stay in the air for a good 10 minutes, then land to take a breather. Usually I could fly way longer, but I still had injuries. 

I thought for a little bit. That move. Tornado. That was a deadly move. It can lower the user's physical ability for some time. I couldn't believe she would use that move on me though. 

"Hurricane Storm!" a voice shouts. I knew that voice. Ulison. A gust of wind hit me dead in the face. I nearly got blown off my feet. Those gusts of wind. That move is the Level 5 Tornado. I hated it. 

"That's it. I'm not playing games anymore. I'm breaking the seal," Riza says. Seal? What seal? Riza rips the necklace off of her neck. I could feel her power get greater. 

Riza nearly beats the hell out of Ulison. 

"You're dead now," Riza looks at Ulison. I gasp. Riza was scary now, for real. But I couldn't let my twin die after what she did for me. But that was in the past, after what she did to me today and that I am still limping on my foot due to a broken ankle. 

"All or nothing," Riza says holding up a huge flame in the palm of her hand. 

"No!" I yell and rush to get in front of my sister. Riza lowers her hand with for and it nails me straight in the stomach. 

"Why are you in the way!" Riza yells at me. 

"I can't...let my sis...ter die," I choke out. Blood was coming out of my mouth. Geez, I really did it now. And if I made it back to the hotel, Cleo was gonna bring me back to life and kill me again. 

"Why?" Ulison asks bewildered. 

"I know you can change. You just need to get out of Zion's mind. All he is doing is controlling you," I tell her. 

"That's...that's not the truth. I trust Zion and only Zion. I only wish you would trust him too," Ulison had tears in her eyes. 

"So what is it? Do you believe me or Zion?" I ask, glaring at her. 

"Zion," Ulison says in a small voice, then runs away. 

"I don't believe it," I say to empty space. Riza grabs my shirt collar and lifts me in the air. 

"Why did you get in the way?!" Riza yells at me. 

"I will be the only one to kill Ulison since she is my sister and I can't see her die after all that she's done for me in the past," I say. 

"Stop living your life in the past! Grow up!" Riza drops me on the forest floor and runs away. I struggle to get up. 

"Stop living in the past huh," I sigh. I trudge along and hope to make it to the hotel but my legs give out. I lie on the forest floor. The sky starts pouring down rain. 

Here I am, lying in the rain in a forest. Pathetic, huh. I know. Living in the past. Which path to the future should I choose then? STF or darkness? I don't think I even care anymore.