Tales Of Arcadia Ficlet Collection

A Symbiotic Relationship (Part 3)

Everything really just happened so fast. Jim could feel his symbiote preparing to encase him in that weird slimy armor when he heard a loud roar and the guards were thrown to the ground. Standing in the hallway stood a large blue creature with large horns, it bent down to retrieve Aja from the floor as carefully as it could and was muttering things under its breath.

"Stupid humans, no wonder Gunmar and Bular want to destroy this planet." The creature muttered as it walked towards the group of frightened children. "Fear not young human's, my host and I are here to free you and your symbiotes of this prison. Come, we must leave before Stricklander comes."

"Wait but my brother!" Claire yelled as the kids parted to let the symbiote pass. "Blinky says his brother could still be in here, the other symbiotes who haven't been hosted yet!"

"Unfortunately your symbiote's brethren is gone, I'm sorry child. But if there's any consolation, I know where your baby brother is and I can assure you he was paired with a harmless symbiote."

"Okay but how do we know we can trust you?" Steve asks. "You just show up out of nowhere and break us free, and no explanation!"

"Dude, it just saved our life!" Toby exclaims. "But really, who are you?"

"I am called Kanjigar, and my host already knows one of you." The symbiote says with a small bow. "Come, we need to get you all out of here- now."

The teens looked at each other, unsure of what to do until Krel began to follow the symbiote and motioned for them to follow. They hurried through the hallways, Claire's symbiote coming out of her to crawl up the walls and destroying several security cameras to provide them easy access without having to worry about security until they came to a large lab. Inside they could see a single small cradle with a small child inside of it. Claire let out a small sob as she ran to the glass doors.

"Hermanito! Enrique! You're okay!" She cried as the others approached the glass door. "We need to open this!"

"Here, I'll try it." Krel said, stepping forward and putting a hand on the glass. A large blue glop similar to the one Aja had seeped out of his skin and squeezed itself into the cracks of the glass door, and after a few moments it slid open. Claire immediately pushed past him and ran into the room, scooping up the sleeping infant and hugged him to her chest, sobbing softly.

"There's no time to waste, we all have to get out of here." Kanjigar states. "They'll come at us with guns, so your symbiotes will have to envelope you and you'll have to momentarily take charge of the escape."

"Oh no no no, I am not letting this weird goop take control of my body!" Jim exclaims in horror. "All this time he's been wanting to take control and start murdering people and eating their heads!"

"Well to be fair these people have been poking them with needles, kept them contained and separated from their families and caused several deaths of other symbiotes." Steve points out. "Believe me, you never want to ever see a dead symbiote leak out of a corpse like that. It's horrifying."

"He's eaten through several people!" Claire retorts. "Before Jim he's already plowed through several adults, and ever since he got to be the new host we've all been waiting to see if he'll end up as the next unfortunate victim! I'm still surprised he's not dead yet!"

I hate needles. Jim heard his symbiote mutter. Just let me take control this once, let me feed on at least one body and then I won't make a single peep.

"I don't buy it." Jim says aloud. "For now you will stay immobile, I don't trust you- yet."

"I take it you don't want to let him take control?" Kanjigar asks. "Good. I think I know what symbiote you got, and I'm surprised you've survived this long with him. Good work."

"So, do we suit up?" Toby asks. "Or not?"

"Those who wish to allow their symbiotes to take over and armor themselves can, the rest will be carried because we have a lot of running to do and I don't want to be out when the sun is out." Kanjigar responds as he adjusts Aja in his arms. "We have lots of running to do."

A/N: So some news!

1) I am very much not dead

2) You can now read "A Symbiotic Relationship" on AO3 and get faster updates on there because Wattpad acts dumb when i try to update stuff from my phone

3) GTD recently announced on Twitter at the end of February that the third installment of the Tales of Arcadia series will be released to Netflix in June or July of this year! So hopefully in the next month o so we'll be getting more information on Wizards and a month before the series release we get a trailer!