Electroid's - A Collaboration Project

Chapter 8 - The Castle

I heard a slightly raspy, soft voice of an angel. It was Venus! Though the white noise of her microphone was still deafening, I could still pick up what she was saying. The dust, rocks and wind coming from all directions felt like waves of relief.

"You're alive!" I shouted, "Venus, you're alive!" I could hear a soft chuckle, but it was a bit distorted since the service was bad.

"Yeah, I'm alive," I heard her say, "but I think I'm close to Jupiter's castle. Where are you? Do you know?"

I looked around, "No I don't. I'm behind a," I looked behind me, "huge boulder."

"What color?"

"Redish-Orange with...big, dark red spots."

"Okay, I think I know where you are. Give me a second, I'm gonna try and find you."

So I waited, and I waited, and I waited. Where was she? It probably had been at least 10 minutes now. I looked around the boulder, behind it, above it. Nothing. I sat back down, and dark thoughts started to enter my mind again. What if Venus died on the way here? Rocks were already hitting. What if I can never get back home?

Until I felt a hand grab my shoulder. Out of reflex, I punched it.

"OW!" I heard a voice yelp, "What was that for?"

I had just punched Venus. My only friend on these planets.

"Venus? It's you? I'm so sorry! I thought-" I started to frantically apologize, "I thought it was someone else, or a villain, or-"

Venus stopped me, "It's alright." She reached out a hand, "Let me help you up."

So I grabbed her hand and helped myself up. Immediately, a handcuff like thing attached our suits together.

"This is gonna be weird," Venus started, "but this is the only way we can survive together." I nodded. Better than being alone.

We almost blew away a few times when walking to the castle, but we made it. The wind got progressively worse, and the rocks turned into small boulders. The weights almost blew away as well, and that was alarming to me, considering my foot the weight landed on still felt completely crushed.

As the wind limited my vision, I saw a tall building in the distance. It looked like.. A castle! We made it! I thought. We made it to the castle! I looked over at Venus, who seemed extremely concentrated.

"Venus, we're here!" I said.

"I know," She didn't even look at me, "but we need to stay concentrated. There still is a chance of not being able to see the prince." Oh, right, I thought. This is right next to that gigantic storm, and the castle doors will produce wind that can and probably will blow us back a distance.

We reached the doors, and Venus knocked loudly. She rushed back about 3 feet, and I followed. We waited, and waited, and waited. Maybe the prince isn't here, I thought.

But then, the castle doors shook a bit.

"He's opening the door," Venus whispered, "be quiet and fix your posture." Fix my posture? Why? Either way, I did it. I set my back straight and I put my arms to my sides.

The castle doors opened slowly, to reveal a tall, slim, and mustached figure. Wow, I thought. Price Jupiter is..much slimmer than I expected. You know, being the prince of the biggest planet in our solar system. He immediately looked me straight in the eye, with what felt like a wave of intense pressure was around him and pouring onto me.

"Who is this?" Jupiter looked me up and down like a Mean Girl, "He seems..unprofessional." He gave me a glare.

"This is my friend Parzival," Venus said, "he's from Earth. We need your help."

"What do you need my help with?" Jupiter gave Venus the same glare, and then grinned, "And what's my reward?"

"We need to gather up all the rulers and take down Athena once and for all. She's destroying every planet with her robots."

Jupiter's eyes widened, and then he laughed.

"What are you, some kind of idiot? You won't stand a chance against Athena. She's the most powerful ruler in the galaxy, all of us together wouldn't even make a difference."

Venus looked at him straight in the eyes.

"Have you tried it? Please, Jupiter, we need you. Let us in and we can discuss it." Jupiter sighed, and walked inside.

"Come in."