Book 2: Rift Wars

Chapter 18: Who I really am

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Rift Wars

Chapter 4

Who I really Am

Inky looked around at the lighthouse. The place was huge and smelled a little like old pages in books. She loved that smell. She leaned onto the table slowly closing her eyes. She must have fallen asleep because she woke up in someones arms. Their were a lot of voices and lots of words being said. She opened her eyes to see she was in Coles arms. He rocked back and forth. She liked that feeling. It almost caused her to fall back asleep again. She heard a chuckle and the room quieted for a second.

"She's a sleepy little thing." Cole said. She looked up at him again to see his dark green eyes. He had the most calming eyes she had ever seen.

"She had tasted dark matter. It threw her body into overload and shes recovering." Cryptor told him.

"Oh and what caused her to eat the dark matter?" Jay accused.

"It was the captain of the ship." Inky said wanting to yell it, but it came out like she were a small butterfly trying to be angrily flutter at a large dog.

"Oh hey there Inky." Jay waved at her. Inky gave a small wave back to Jay.

"I think she's taken a shine to you Cryptor." Nya said waving at Inky who jumped and curled into Cole trying to hide. "Still afraid of me huh?"

"Why would she be afraid of you?" Cryptor asked.

"She lost her temper." Lloyd said "At the shaved ice blender. It was hot and she really wanted shaved ice. Inkys head almost became a target. Luckily Danny or Dareth never found out about it. Zane however did discipline her himself.

"Its hard to think that Danny has killed so many people." Kai said running his fingers through his hair and sighed. "She's been so kind to us."

"I think think its been her." Inky said touching her head. "When I was being controlled by Gaya I remember bits and pieces and one of them was the fact that their were many different models of mom. Mostly all in those tanks. They work by a hive mind. A shared memory. Mom might have killed say 200 people while another killed 500 and in their shared mind they killed 700." Inky said and slowly sat up letting Cole put her down next to Cryptor who put his cloak around her. It was tattered and torn.

"Cryptor...your incredibly good with children."

"Pfft no he isn't. He sucks." Cygnus said from the corner where he was sitting in the corner wearing quite literally a dunce cap. Inky giggled.

"He threatened to take Mindroids legs off and throw them to the gulls." Cryptor said. Inky giggled and looked around at her other uncle who was still playing chess with the seagull. Actually it looked like it was still the same game and Mindroid sat there still thinking about the same move. The gull sat there with its head under its wing having fallen asleep.

"I know your really tired Inky. But please...can you give us anymore information about these...nindroids."

"I wouldn't even call them that. They were called Hornets once upon a time. I think thats what we should keep calling them. We can't call them Danny because of this." Echo said putting the blueprints on the table. Their are three sets of weapons other then the outside. She incredibly powerful theirs no joke. Two guns one in each arm created through electromagnetics. One in her chest plate that one can fire huge cannon balls of dark matter. Theirs a third weapon...its kind of a self destruct that can destroy city blocks." Echo said and sat back down.