Yup... I know you guys have been asking me, sooo... here's chapter seven. I won't ramble just for the sake of your excitement. XD
An Unlikely Adventure
By: ADJLFanatic
Chapter 7: Intuitions
Jake just stood there, very perplexed by what he just saw… His hands trembling with the shiver of much dread… despair… maybe even…
Horror.
“Whoa…” Suddenly, he had heard a soft distant sound… growing louder as it went. It then grew with an almost strident resonance… Then it grew louder… and louder… and louder… until…
“AHHH!”
It turned out to be pretty anticlimactic as he quickly realized it was just two of his friends when he turned around. “Jeez, calm down. It’s just us,” Ash said, with Shade standing next to her.
“Yeah.” Shade said, looking at the almost oblivious, startled Jake. “What are YOU doing here?”
“Maybe I should ask you two the
same thing.” Jake crossed his arms. They both just rolled their eyes with such skepticism. “Okay, I just… thought I saw something.” Jake noticed as Shade and Ash both simultaneously responded with exasperation. “I’m serious, you guys!” He paused with a stifled sigh. “I really thought I spotted something here. This spot!” Shade and Ash glanced at each other and just shook their heads, agreeing that what Jake said didn’t feel right.
“Are you feeling okay?” Shade tilted his head slightly as if his friend were a deranged, mentally ill lunatic. Jake just sighed and noticed as he just muted a ‘never mind.’ Then, for some reason—for just SOME reason—he thought he saw that same person standing over behind them.
“There!” He pointed at the direction south of them. Shade and Ash turned around quickly… but all they saw was nothing. “I swear, guys! It was just there!”
“Come on, is this a joke?” They both looked at him funny, but with some serious thoughts inside.
“No! I’m serious! I… I saw something over there!” Jake pointed behind them. They both glanced and STILL say completely nothing there. He just sighed. “I am. I wish I could just… SAY IT. But…” All of a sudden, a voice was heard from a distance. “Do you guys hear something?” Shade and Ash glanced at each other. Ash did the typical, “lunatic” thing by twirling her finger next to her ear. “I’m NOT crazy!” He said with a kind of sober tone. “I really think I heard something…” The same distant shout was heard again… only this time, everybody heard it. Shade and Ash turned around with a startled. Jake shook his head to signal an ‘I told you so’ look. They both rolled their eyes, all three of them running over to where they heard it.
It felt somewhat anticlimactic when they only saw Kevin standing in front of them. He turned to them and said, “Hey guys.”
“Kevin, did you hear something?” Jake asked him. He shook his head as confusion arose in his head. “Oh, but let us know if you do, okay?”
Kevin nodded. “Sure. I’ll keep a close watch… I guess.”
“Thanks dude!” Shade, Ash, and Jake then ran over to another direction to search for where the voice had come from… again.
“Jake, are you
sure there’s really trouble around here?” Shade asked. “I don’t think there’s any bad signs around here…” He paused. “… yet.”
“Trust me.” Jake said. “I’m sure there’s something.”
The three kept on searching until on they heard the same yelp again. “There!” He pointed to a specific direction then started running there. Shade and Ash took a glance at each other, shrugged, and followed behind. They ended up in the same spot where they saw Kevin. All of them just looked around for anything suspicious. Shade noticed that Kevin was a little more spaced and ‘out there’; he was looking around more. Though Kevin never was able to keep his mental thoughts in one spot. Ash noted that there was something odd with one of the trees that stood on their left. Jake observed… well, nothing. After all, he wasn’t always the cerebral. I don’t blame him, though. “Oh… guess it was nothing… again.”
“Still didn’t hear anything?” Ash asked Kevin this time, waiting until he realized that someone was talking to him.
“Nope.” He said. “Why do you ask?” They all shrugged.
“Just thought we might’ve heard something.” Shade said.
“Oh… well… I’ll let you guys know if I spot something.” Kevin said. “I’ll just be here.” They all nodded and, once again, kept on searching.
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“Um, Dad… a-are you sure that this is gonna… work?” A soft voice was heard. It was from a teenage girl that was concealed with a black cloak with the hood placed on her head. She had gone inside a very resonant, quiet room that had no sound but clicking and sounds that were the same as a keyboard on a computer or from a technologic database. “I mean… if you look at it… this…”
“Silence daughter. It’ll surely be able to work.” A deep voice replied with an almost cold response.
“B-but… D-dad—”
“There is nothing more that needs to be said.”
She was about to open her mouth to speak, or backtalk, but didn’t bother to… it already ruined how she normally used to be… and she thought doing that would never solve anything anyway. “Alright… I guess so.”
As some very crazy-like and simultaneous beeping was heard, he had somehow managed to have whispered a “Success!” and run off to tell the others. The girl just sat there, yet to figure out what else would happen.
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“Come on, Jake. This is hopeless!”
“
You’re the one that’s hopeless! You’ve been saying that for about six billion times already!”
“That’s the point!”
“So what are you, a quitter?”
“I’m
not a loser!”
“I said
quitter.”
“You know what, I ought to just use my alchemy on you, huh?”
Shade shook his head, watching as the other two bickered immaturely. Looks like he took over and had the job of being the ‘responsible one’ now. He looked over and thought he saw a… flash of some sort. Either it was a huge chunk of ice or it was a very, very azure and almost white colored beam. “Guys! Just grow up!” He suddenly got a little fed up, but had calmed down a little. “Anyway…” He shook his head. “Look over there.” Jake and Ash walked over a tree that looked… white? But it’s not Christmas, isn’t it? Or is it?
“Why is this tree so… icy?” Ash asked no one in particular. “And so…” She ran her finger on a leaf. “Cold?”
“Maybe because anything
icy feels cold?” Jake said sarcastically.
“You know what!” She turned to the cynical, seemingly obnoxious-at-the-moment Jake.
Before Shade could even do anything, he had turned and saw the two fighting… well, in human. He sighed exasperatedly as he watched them roll around, punch and kick each other, and probably even try to pin the other down. “GUYS! This is serious!”
When both of them heard Shade, they knew he wasn’t joking. So they both stopped and decided to be staid this time.
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The girl sat nearby a glass-like casement that let the sun in; a radiant beam shone through the window. She sighed. She knew how much she hated being in the Huntsclan, but she also knew if she wasn’t, then it was probably off with her head or into the kraken she went.
“Hey, you okay?” A voice chimed in as a soft, momentary echo was heard through the spacey, but quiet and empty, room.
She looked up and saw who had walked in, waiting for him to sit down next to her before she would respond. “It’s nothing. Huntsdad is just getting to me again, I guess.”
“Yeah, kind of hard for someone with a good heart to be in such a… bad-hearted group, huh?”
“I guess so. But… why are you in the Huntsclan then, Tyler? You’re not mean like the other members.” She paused and sighed. “Well, like Roxy the day before.”
“Ohh, so it was you two who went through that boarding school, huh?” He didn’t answer the first question. She just nodded. “Oh… I heard it from someone; didn’t think it was true.”
“Yeah… I honestly don’t like going on missions like when Huntsdad and the Huntsman tell me too. Ever since Rose has been acting up, it’s always me doing things.” She stifled a sigh again. “And you know, I can’t believe that I probably won’t see him anymore.” She had shifted the topic a little.
“Your boyfriend?” He guessed. It was a lucky guess too…
“Yeah.” She nodded again. “Just because we’re both different people, it doesn’t mean we can’t be… together, right?” Tyler agreed with that response. “I remember he always said that.”
“So I see… who was your boyfriend again?” Tyler had managed to ask.
“Shade… His name was Shade.” She replied softly.
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“Hmm, seems like it’s been a recent time since this tree got frozen.” Shade said, taking a mental note as he examined, circling around the tree. “More like probably two minutes ago since we got here.”
“How do you know these things?”
“I’m Freezy the Ice Dragon, after all… how do you think I know?”
“Yeah, he has a good point… and you can tell too. Since, you know, there’s no water dripping or any ice melting or anything.”
“Smarty.” Jake mumbled.
“What was that?”
“Nothing.”
The three looked more closely, suddenly both startled by that same familiar shout and that same ‘white’ light that came across the sky. Shade looked more closely. “Hey! That’s not a white beam! That’s ice!!” Ash just glanced strangely, but shrugged as they all ran over to the same spot. But this time, they saw something they didn’t expect to see. It was Kevin in dragon form with his powers going out of control.
“AH! Help me! Somebody!” He managed to have said before blowing a bunch of ice at Jake, accidentally of course. When he turned back to human, he shrugged sheepishly as he looked at the frozen Jake. “Ehhh, sorry?”
“It’s okay, I got it covered.” Shade said as the ice that was around Jake was now gone. Jake shivered a little but was not damp or soaking wet. He stopped and looked at Kevin unexpectedly, maintaining his composure.
“Dude, was that about?”
“I don’t know! This has never happened before.” Kevin responded with confusion.
“That’s strange. So, I guess the ‘mystery’ has been solved, huh?” Ash said.
“Guess so.” Shade shrugged. “But not really…”
“Has this been happening lately?” Jake asked.
“Well, it actually only happened at a late time yesterday.” Kevin replied. “It’s strange since I always manage to keep my powers in check.”
“Ironic… but… I think that was about the same time when I saw those two girls in black or something.”
“Weird. Do you think that maybe my powers are trying to tell me something?”
“Maybe… it could be.” Jake just shrugged. “Are you sure you really don’t remember this happening before?”
“Well, I think I remember it happening back then… but when I was probably a lot younger and less experienced with my powers.”
“Ah. Would you mind telling us what happened?”
“I don’t mind, actually… not one bit.” He replied first.
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“Shade, huh?” Tyler asked.
“Yeah. I miss him.” She sighed softly.
“I can tell.”
“I just can’t believe that we probably won’t see each other again. I mean I haven’t even seen him in school lately. He’s always absent for some reason! And this has probably been going on for a month now. Nobody’s ever been telling me about him. Not even his friends know.”
“I never knew that you and him went to the same school together, Flo.”
“Guess I never mentioned it. But you know, I don’t even have a dream charm like Rose does to talk to Jake when they communicate with each other in their dreams.”
“Dream charms, huh? Always heard about those.” Tyler said. “In fact, I have one.” He held out his hand. Florence could see the dream charm dangling in his wrist.
“Lucky.” She mumbled. “I always want to ask Shade how he’s doing. But there’s no way to talk to him anymore.” She sighed again. “Sometimes, I even think about quitting the Huntsclan… just for him.”
“Wow, that’s a really good heart right there.” He said. “I’ve never heard any Huntsclan members ever tell me that. And whenever I do ask them, they just tell me how they are either glad to be in it or how they can’t really quit for their own sake.”
“I only joined the Huntsclan because when I was seven, my step-dad always told me how dragons are so mean and cold-hearted and how magical creatures don’t even deserve their lives. After all these years, he’s always trained me to be a good Huntslass and even fight side-by-side with Rose, the Huntsgirl. And you know, we’re really good friends.” Florence said. “But you know, ever since we found out about Jake and Shade being a dragons a long time ago, we regret even thinking it that way. Since you know, killing a magical creature or a dragon means killing a human being too. It’s murder; it makes no difference.”
“That’s true. But you know, why do you even want to stay?”
“Because Huntsdad is always so proud of me. I used to like having the attention of ovation or accomplishment; it always made me feel good inside. But more importantly, if I even try to escape or quit, then he’ll probably just finish me off. And I don’t want to die. At least, not just yet.”
“Yeah, we all think that way.”
“Yeah… I mean, who would want to die?”
They both remained quiet for a while, but Florence broke the silence with a little bit of wondering.
“All I really want now is to just see Shade again.” She said to herself. “I just want to remember what it’s like to be around him.”
Tyler looked over at Florence, who seemed as sad as she could’ve ever been. “You know, I don’t always use my dream charm. I could give it to you… that is, if you want.”
Flo had lost some sadness in her eyes. “Really?”
“Of course. I mean, I can tell how much you miss Shade. So why do you guys have to stop talking?”
“Aww, thanks, Tyler!” Florence said. “You know, sometimes… I really wish there were more members of the Huntsclan that are just like you.”
End Chapter Seven
Weell... that's it. Oooh, guess you found out who Florence is now, huh? XD Yeah, I know that I promised that Kevin was gonna show up a whole bunchies, but I wanted to get to something interesting. I dunno... but I guess he'll show up more in chapter eight. I'm seeing what I can do.
In the meantime, catch you all on the flip side... or something.
ADJLFanatic
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