Darkness Glows

Chapter.20

Ivory.
"Is she waking up?"
"I don't know why don't you ask her!?"
"I can't cause she's sleeping or knocked out or whatever!"
"Well there you go!"
I hear voices, Cody is one of them and the other, I think it's Scarlett. There are more, but they are nothing more than muffled noises in the background. Then there's a smell it's crisp and in a sense sweet, it's bacon. I scrunch up my nose and the voices stop.
"Nat? Are you awake?"
I open my mouth to speak but nothing comes out, so I clear my throat and manage four words.
"Get..me..some..bacon"
I hear laughter off to the side of the room and then Mandy say:
"Sure thing princess."
Finally my eye lids don't feel so heavy anymore so I open them, then close then, and then open them again. Even though everything is blurry, it's better than blackness and not knowing what's going on.
I see Carter bending over me, at least it looks like Carter but in blob form. Scarlett and Cody are off to the side conversing. My hand aimlessly moves to my side where I feel something that's not supposed to be there. Being the curious person I am, I yank on it. that probably wasn't the best idea. Wincing, I gasp at the pain in my side. Figures run to my side quickly.
"Natalie you idiot!" Scarlett yells. "That was a empirium steel knife! Hold still!"
Obeying her seems to be the only thing I can do at the moment considering that pain is coursing through my body. It travels through my veins and through my skin. Down my spine and right back to the place where the knife had been.
Empirium steel sounds interesting. It's defiantly not a real metal, I would know considering I used to go digging in my backyard when I was little, then one back into the house and research metals. I had to keep myself occupied somehow.
Suddenly the pain is gone and the blobs turn into people. I give no one in particular a questioning look, wondering what on earth just happened.
Trying to sit up, I realize that it is not the best idea as a wave of nausea wages over me and I am eased bak down by Carters careful hands.
"Order up!"
The wonderful smell of food fills the room as Mandy walks in with a plate of bacon.
"As her majesty requested," she giggles and then places the plate on the floor next to me before crossing the room and sitting on the couch.
I hungrily munch on the bacon as I shoot another questioning look, this one directed at Scarlett
"What's ivory?"
The question seems simple enough, but Scarlett sighs and leans back on her hands from the point where she was sitting on the floor.
"Ivory... oh not a what, but a who. She is the most dangerous assassin out there, and the horrible thing about it is that she doesn't work for anyone, just herself. Intending she tried to kill you, you are not safe."
I stop chewing, my bacon stuck in y mouth, my appetite suddenly Gina from the distasteful news.
"Can we kill her?"
Scarlett shakes her head and looks down, avoiding contact with me.
"Many people have tried, she did something a log while ago, many years before you were born, to make her stop aging. If she is here, we are all in danger."
A wary silence fell over everyone as her words sunk in.
"Then we leave."
I pipe up because it seems to e the right thing to do.
"Oh ho ho princess, your not going anywhere until you are better." Ethan walks over to me and hands me a glass of water and two pills, which I swallow with discomfort.
"I don't like pills" I complain. "And I'm fine, if what Scarlett is saying is true, we need to get out of dodge."
Everyone's gazes turn almost blank and I can see Cody go to protest before he sinks back in his seat without a word. They all know what we have to do. I may be pretty badly injured but we need to keep moving. If this Ivory girl is on our trail, it will just make our entire quest a hell of a lot harder.
"We leave in three hours," I announce confidently even though that is what I lack at the moment, confidence. "Scarlett, Ethan, are you coming with us."
"Yes, of course, we have a car that we can all take, everything will be ready in three hours, just you wait and rest."
Three hours, more like three days. That's what it felt like to me. To be honest I am grateful for Scarlett and Ethan to be joining us. I don't know what I would do without their expertise on our world. All this princess and new world stuff is still taking some time to get used to, I mean, I was sprung on me in less then a day and what made it even harder was that most of the information came from my dreams.
Watching everyone rush by, getting things ready was kind of exhausting. They packed bags and walking in and out of the front door. Carter and Scarlett came and checked on me several times, Carter even managed to coax something other than bacon into me. Just when I was about to fall asleep Mandy came and told me that we were ready to go. Being half awake I replied quite funnily I guess considering she snickered and then called Carter in to come and carry me to the car.
So when I say car, let me re fraise that, more like a double decor bus inside of a van. The thin was completely black on the outside and from what I could tell, heavily valed with magic. It seems that Scarlett practice quite a lot while waiting for me to awaken form my 'memory loss sleep'.
The inside of the van was literally a double decor tour bus. The drivers seats at in the front with large fuzzy chairs meant to sit in for hours. Booths with tables lined one side of the bus and a kitchen lined the other. At the end of the bus there was a large bathroom thy for a bathtub, shower, toilet, sink, and a locker for each of our personal barroom necessities. Next to the bathrooms lead a spiralling stair case that lead to a large upper area that heals four bunks and two single beds. There was more to it up there but it would take hours to explain every detail.
There was a vote and Carter and I it the single beds wile the other got the bunks. Girls on one side and boys on the other. Ethan and Scarlett decided that they would switch off driving. Where to next? Canada.

Sorry sorry sorry this took so long to update! I had MAJOUR MAJOUR majour writers block and I finally came up with this. I super hope you all enjoy and I will come up with a new chapter soon.
P.s. I am currently working on a book to publish as a paperback! So excited!!!
-Sparkiiy