Our Planet has Crashed [COMPLETE]

sixty seven - Wings of Fire

Leaf POV:

"Where are your nexuses?" Jensi cried, "Hurry, put them on! Here, put mine on Ivy and Leaf . . ."

Rowan snatched Jensi's two nexuses and clasped them around her brother's and Ivy's wrists. Ivy was unconscious now, probably due to the blood loss. Leaf searched through his bag for the other nexuses they had, but only found one more. He gave it to Grove. 

When Jensi looked up from fumbling with a crystal on a stick, he sighed and said, "I guess I can shield one of you too," before he grabbed Ivy's feet, which Leaf had dropped. Rowan still had Ivy's arms, and Grove and Leaf hurriedly joined the chain, hooking their arms in Jensi's. 

Something whizzed by. Leaf turned back towards the house and saw one last Neverseen member standing half in the door, shooting a melder at them. Jensi startled. "Okay, one, two, three!" he said, pulling everyone into the light. 

They tumbled on dying purple grass. The frame of a pyramid was surrounded by shattered glass in the center of the field, surrounded by debris of what seemed to use to be towers. A U-shaped building made of glass had some cracked windows, but otherwise seemed to be the part of the odd structure that was the most intact. 

"Come on!" he urged the humans, who had all been gaping at the buildings. "Do we want Ivy to live or not?"

That got them moving. Jensi and Rowan hobbled across the stone courtyard, Grove and Leaf trying to catch up from behind. What a scene they must have made. An elf and a human, carrying a young human girl with a blood-soaked white blouse, followed by two other humans, one with limp arms which only got in his way as he ran after the young girl being carried, and another human boy panting as he clutched his chest, trying to keep up but only falling more and more behind, until he could only stumble along. 

Adult elves in orange capes came out to see what the commotion was, saw the injured, and hurried over to help. Two ran over to Ivy, Rowan and Jensi, making Ivy float into the U-shaped building doubly faster than when Rowan and Jensi were carrying her. The two uninjured children also ran in after the two adults in orange capes. Two more of the orange-caped people ran to Leaf and Grove, the first going over to Grove and putting his arm over her shoulder and helping him inside. The other picked Leaf up without touching him, like they had Ivy, much to his surprise. The orange-caped man ran after him, guiding him to a room where he had just seen Ivy disappear. 

Inside, a disheveled-looking man was rushing over to Ivy from a smaller room inside. He grabbed vials from a shelf and a long roll of bandages, and began wrapping up her torso. Leaf was set on a cot next to her, and he watched anxiously as the man (in a tunic with fluffy dinosaurs on it) treated her injuries.

Grove was ushered in a second later, and set on the cot on Ivy's other side. Ivy still hadn't moved, and as the man poured vials upon vials of multi-colored liquids into her mouth, something that looked like a demented ferret crawled up to Ivy, screaming its head off. The man blanched, hurrying back to work. He put on some funny-looking glasses and snapped, making a red colored orb of light appear. The humans gasped. What was that supposed to be?

As the man urged the ball of light closer, Rowan seemed to snap out of her daze. "Will it hurt her?" she asked worriedly.

The man paused a second, then moved it closer again, snapping again and making it purple. "I'm a Flasher, and I can make light. It won't hurt her at all." he said distractedly as he ran over to the shelf again, knocking two of the orange-caped elves out of the way. 

Ivy was paling, her breaths becoming more and more shallow. Grove and Leaf's eyes met with an identical fear across Ivy's cot. The elf physician came back, arms full of vials as he mumbled to himself. "Wound in the stomach . . ." Leaf heard him say, "this one, then. Hmm . . . something looks wrong with her stomach . . ."