Thanx alot all of you
. This story became longer than what I wanted it to be... oh well, damn that. I'm bored, so I'll just torment you with another chapter.
The light returned to my eyes. I was in a small room, a closet or a toilet perhaps. The sharp cold thing was still on my throat.
"If you take one breath too loud I'll make sure you'll never breath again. Get me?" hissed a voice beside my head. I recognized it anyway.
"Little Orion, it's no need to get so violent." I said and pushed his hand away from my throat. Orion was paralyzed.
"Little miracle? Is it really you?" he whispered. I nodded. He backed away from me. I turned around and took at look on him. He had small bulletholes on one oh his shoulders, it was a bleeding stripe on his forehead, his left eye was blue by hits and blood slowly ran down from the right side of his mouth. Brave Orion has fought.
"I.. I didn't know it was you... What a.. are you doing here?"
He spoke in a slow way with hacks in it.
"I'm getting you out." I replied. He shaked his head.
"I have nothing to go to. Kumen was killed in battle and our village is burned. They destroyed the statue of Laeben and took away the chiefs fertile daughter. Odd knows what they're doing to her. And they put us here. Me, Ae'umon and Aled Chul. The only survivors."
I stood wordless and looked on him.
"Three survivors... From a entire village?"
He thought a bit.
"Did I say survivors? I meant the only ones to be taken here. But I guess that no one of us is survivors anyway. This is no l.. li.. life..."
"You want to stay here? Forget it. I'm going to pull you away if I have to, but you're going out!"
He shaked his head, slowly.
"Good. Then come with me."
I walked out. He limped after me.Orion couldn't run. We had to keep out of trouble. Easier said than done. Tammer ran into me. He breathed quickly.
"What the hell was that good for you idiot? We could have been sighted."
"So?" I replied. He growled. The others came after him. No one of them said anything.
"I've found Orion." I said. "He's a bit hurt, and he can't run. But he's atleast not uncoinscous."
Nag nodded. Orion came after me and said directly:
"I guess that no one of you knows the way out. That's great, now even more lifes can be wasted."
"Shut your ****ing mouth, not everyone here is a damn desert creep!" Tammer said far too loud. Then he spit on the floor and walked away. Gaia looked on me. I shrugged and followed Tammer.
Somehow, Tammer was impressive when he was in that current mood. I had this feeling that he wanted to prevent something to happen.
It was just a feeling though...
We were walking slowly, in Orions speed. The good thing about that was that we didn't make so much noise. The bad things was that we couldn't just think out getting out all of the time. Nag whispered those words and the rest of us walked in silence and listened to him. Sometimes Tammer could growle something about Nag's neck, but that's about it. I trusted Tammer completely, since he knew this place. So I dug myself into my thoughts and floated around in them. I didn't want to stay there, but I didn't want to get out either. I remembered it all. The desert, Tzekhel, my coming to this town, the little ghost, Noah, when I took Gaia out and all of that. It was sort of strange how much I had to go through to find out who I was. All I did was to walk around, saving people, meeting people, killing people. How could that possibly help me?
"Gold, are you alright?" a voice said. I returned to reality.
"Huh?" I replied. "What? Have something happened?"
I was sitting down by a wall. I didn't understand what I was doing down there. When I looked on the floor, I understood. Blood.
"Have I been shot?" I asked them.
"I.. It's not your blood. One of them hit you really hard t.. though." Orion said.
I looked around me. There was no bodies. So no one was killed. A terrible thought hit me.
"Were I killed?" I said. What would I do if they said yes? Nag shaked his head.
"A big bro hit you. Those guys aren't actually weak." Gaia said and tried to help me. I pushed her hands away and got up on my own. I didn't want help.
"Tammer, how far is it to the exit?" I asked him.
"One or two hours, if we don't count with fights and plain troubles."
"Ok, take us there." I said and caughed. We were off again. I figured out where the big bro had hit me. In my chest. I felt a small pain in my left side by each breath. I didn't want to trouble anyone, so I kept silent. I knew a rib or so was broken, but I had to wait with fixing that. The sound of steps became countless. I fell back into my false sleep called thoughts.
The light hurt my eyes. I was staring on something on the sky. I heard Orion and Nag laugh. I realized what it was. A streetlight.
"I walked straight into a streetlight?" I asked them.
"Yep." Tammer said. We were outside. I pulled myself up again.
"I have to get myself out of my thoughts..." I said, making them laugh even harder. Gaia, Orion, Tammer and me said goodbye to Nag and walked back to Noah's shop.
[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: Silversnow ]