Pluto girl

Chapter 5 - Arrival

Damien's POV

          "Total time left before in the Earth's orbit is 3 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes, and 10 seconds." I look out at the stars and can barely see the earth getting bigger with every passing hour.  Eating the food I packed and surprisingly, still have enough to last an extra three days.  I look at the picture I had taken just a week and a half ago and how my parents went against the rules just to allow me to get onto their ship, flying here to Earth.  I look around and notice a book or two on fighting styles and I start reading them. Sam and Adam come forward and read it with me as I am hoping to start combining my spirits to make stronger and faster ones.  

          I tell the computer to open the training sector of the ship and to also put a barrier up to protect the ship better.  I look at the book again and saw a picture of fire and earth to make magma style.  I call forth Mark my earth spirit and I change to brown clothing, hair, and eyes, his weapon is two deer horn knives.  I start getting use to the feeling of the weapons, then type into a barcode scanner eight holographic enemies, then six of the enemies run at me, and I attack them head on.  I do a quick dive and quickly break two of the enemies shotguns and pierce their chest I hear Mark say behind, 6 o'clock. I roll to the left and start running to him, but someone intervened and came at me with a metal fan.  I watch carefully and notice that it's protecting its left arm more than anything so I do a round house high kick to its left arm and dislocate it.  It drops to the ground and I quickly "kill" it.  Moving on to my original plan of getting the guy with a bow.  I quickly stomp one foot on the ground and Mark makes a set of stairs as I continue to run up.  As I move up, the stairs behind me fall back to dirt.  I quickly jump up from behind the hologram and strike the back of his neck ending the practice with Mark. 

          I take a five minute break then call James and see if he's ready to start combining with Mark. As they combine it's like how a strawberry and banana get blended together to make a swirl color of red and almost white color. As Adam put it.  I slowly feel the cool texture of the ground from my feet up, as well as the heat begins to set in from the tips of my hair and down.  I begin to walk into the bathroom and look in the mirror to see that my hair is brown with red highlights, one brown and one red eye, my clothes are completely brown except for the small lines of red coming out and are noticeable.

          I put up some normal non-moving targets and pull forth my new weapon being an brown handle with red starting to intertwine into the blade being complete magma, with flames on the edge of it. I swing the double edged battle axe. Watching as magma forms into a single slash, destroying the target completely with flames burning it more.  I do this for the next seven hours with breaks in between each hour.  

          When the clock hits 6:15, I put into the barcode scanner and summon three new holographic enemies to fight.  I tell Jark ( James and Mark ) to go slow until they are comfortable with how the stance is and how they as well as myself hold the axe.  We wait for them to come to us since we already have a plan for how to trap more than one enemy at a time.  All three of them are pretty close to each other which is a bad thing on their part. I stomp my foot on the ground and a hole big enough for the three of them to barely move around in. Staring down at them I raise my arms with the axe only for the blade to have a flame trail in it's absence.  The axe hit the ground in the center of the three holograms only for it to open up at their feet lava rising with the walls changing to magma.  

          After the training battles I say to the computer to "take the barrier down and also how far out are we now?" "We are 3 days, 17 hours,  2 minutes and 12 seconds outs."  I walked into the bathroom and take a quick shower. Having my eyes slowly open under the freezing cold water I begin to see within the water Sam appearing before me.  He is in his spirit form which is a little ball of water with sparks coming out of it, whenever Sam speaks it glows brightly.  I quickly take my shower and drain the water to rerun fresh water for Sam to appear so I could see his face without the soap and sweat mixing into our conversation.  

Sam's POV

          "Hello Damien,  it seems that you found the book about combining two spirits to become one.  Your parents didn't tell you, but that book was given to your father by the leader of the Pluto settlement over 600 years ago. He was one of the few that found and earned the trust of us spirits since we are just...well as the humans say 'mythical creatures'  he found the cave where we spirits lived at and got to know them all and eventually, he brought his family and a few close friends.  Each spirit grew close with the humans and then joined them and some even joined together.  If you look in the very back of the book it will show the ancient spirits with Doc. Zalon who wrote the book while being around us spirits.  But what the Doc. didn't know was that one of his closest friends Myers Locke; wanted to use us for power over others, rather than joining together to make Pluto better for the future generations to come. It came down to a horrible war ending the relaxing, easy to trust, happy life of Zalon; who tried reasoning with him about how we spirits are not weapons but also living beings too. But his friend laughed and delivered the final blow to the doc. It wasn't until Zalon's daughter arrived to see her father dying did she use her shadow spirit to hold off Myers as she used her earth and water form to call forth any healing herbs and stop the bleeding.  When Myers called forth in outrage about how Zalon should've never been leader but rather he himself should be the leader and get all the credit for finding the spirits." Sam shook his head and continued "Myers wanted to use us to make money and rule Earth." Taking a breather from the story as well as for the fact of the water boiling with James remembering with me. All the disgust and anger slowly going away with the continuation of the story. "The spirits of Myers became enraged and disgusted with their human host that they one by one began starting to embrace the element they were. Destroying Myers slowly from the toxins started to melt him from the inside out. His shadow was consumed by Zalon's daughter, making her shadow spirit stronger. He was an empty shell that not even the earth spirits wanted to bury under the ground.  With much regret for not saving his friend, Zalon decided to build the rules of Pluto that are still there today. The Doc's daughter named her twin boys after Zalon and Myers. Hoping that one day that the two boys would learn that the spirits are to help others not benefit yourself."

         I see Damien look shocked and soon he starts opening and closing his mouth like a fish. Ten minutes go by, enough time to allow myself to show him some memories of when I took control of his small little body when he was a child and helped him get a water pipe to work for a neighbor, versus the time he had lost control over a game with his best friend, putting him in a hospital for a week cause James took over after the loss.  He smiles at me and simply says "thanks for always keeping an eye on me whenever I was alone as well as the others."  I nod my head and get out of the water and go back into Damien's chest where the other spirits lay in our human's body. Damien takes a deep breath and let the water out of the tub. Shutting the lights off and walking to the bunk beds for some rest.