A few days went by since the incident, we cut to present day as Zane is getting ready to meet up with the group. No longer hes wearing a simple blue and red shirt, he now dawns a new purple vest with a gray shirt under it and wearing a green bandanna with a zig zag pattern. Zane makes his way out of the room they’re staying in for the night as sees Abby amongst the group of people going about their day. From the looks of it, she was waiting for him to wake up as she takes a look at the paper they’ve received about their adventures.
“Hey Abby.” Said Zane as he gets Abby’s attention.
“Well, Looks whos finally awake!” Abby smiled “how are you feeling?”
“Quite alright. Feeling a lot better than before.”
Zane looks around to find out its only him and Abby that are together.
“Where are the others?” Zane asked as Abby lets out a sigh.
“Well, I let Donnie and the others go and take a look for any hints that can help us with our travels while I wait for you to wake up.” Abby puts the papper away and leads Zane to the doorway of the inn.
“But now that you are awake, shall we meet up with the others?”
“Yeah, don’t want to keep them waiting” Zane respond as Abby opens the door letting Zane through as both of them make their way to the shrines.
Its another day for the soldiers of Tree Oak Grove as they go about their day as usual. Mike is just making his way to the base, but not in his uniform though as he wearing just plain clothing with a bandage thats just barely peeking over his sleeve. He seems to be looking for Lucas as he couldn’t find him anywhere, he thought he would be in the archery area waiting for him but hes not there. So he went to the one place he thinks that Lucas could be hiding is the stables. Mike makes his way there and turns around and sees Lucas laying up against the wall sleeping as he uses the cloak as a blanket.
He makes his way to him as he gets on his knees and sees Ubuvu who is now taken the form of a tiny bat noticing Mike’s arrival.
“Rough night too huh?” Mike asked as Ubuvu nods
“Lets just say, it can be a little tricky sleeping lying down with wings on your back.”
“I see. But whats with the little bat look?” Mike points as he noticed Ubuvu looking smaller than normal.
“Oh this. I thought I make my beast form a little bit more friendly, so I took the form of my brethren. Plus, being in a tiny form doesn’t consume so much of my energy.” Ubuvu looks at Lucas whos still sound asleep as he isn’t bothered by then talking to eachother.
“Perhaps we should wake up our friend here.” Ubuvu said “you look like you want to talk to him about something.”
Mike nods as he gently shakes Lucas up.
“Lucas. Wake up lad.”
Lucas opens his eyes and starts to wake up as he stretches, rubbing his eyes as he tries to stay awake.
“Tired?” Mike asked
“Yeah…” Lucas groveled as he sounds like he just woke up “I didn’t think having wings would be complicated.”
“Hey uhh. I don’t know how to sugar code this but I’ve got some bad news about what happened yesterday.” Mike points at his chest as he is talking about his injury he got from Naki. “Due to the injures I gotten I won’t be able to continue my duties as I might not be able to help ya fight.”
“Oh…” Lucas looked a little guilty about Mike as he could save him in time from Naki’s attack.
“I’m sorry about that Mike.” Ubuvu said as Mike shrugs it off.
“Ahh its ok, I knew what I was signing up for when I joined. Buut they didn’t say I can’t help ya with training.” Mike added as he was referring to Lucas’ new Hubatian powers.
“I thought instead of your usual training, I thought we try to figure out how you use your powers that you got. Sound good?”
“Sure.”Lucas nods as Ubuvu steps in.
“Is it alright if I teach him this time?” Ubuvu asked as he waits for Mike’s response.
“Sure, go right ahead.” Mike respond as Ubuvu starts to teach Lucas.
“Now Lucas, you got the shape shifting power down, I would like to teach you the next lesson.”
“Ok, and that is?”
“Flying!”
For Ubuvu’s flying lesson for Lucas he takes him to an edge of a hill and expects him to do is to make a leap for it and fly off. But Lucas isn’t quite found of the idea.
“THIS IS THE LESSON?!” Lucas asked as he yelled it out.
“Of course, If you want to learn how to fly this is how.” Ubuvu responds as Lucas looks defeated responds with “ok…” as he makes his way to the edge of the hill and looks down to see hes clearly way up high.
This makes Lucas freeze as he yelled out “NOPE!!!” and stumbles backwards losing his footing as he just lays there saying nope over and over as Ubuvu just watches Lucas stumble backwards.
“Afraid of heights are you?” Ubuvu asked as Lucas looks too spooked to respond back “hmm. Perhaps I should take the blame here.” Mike checks up with Lucas as he talks to Ubuvu “there has to be another way to teach him.” Mike respond as Ubuvu musters up a plan.
“Well, there is another way to learn how.”
Ubuvu takes Mike and Lucas to an open field as Ubuvu Begins his lesson again after Lucas collected himself.
“Maybe this way will help.” Ubuvu said “most of our kind usually run enough speed and jump for it for those who are afraid of heights. Whenever your ready, I let you know when.” The king retreats to the spirit orb as Lucas readys himself to take take flight. “Ok, I can do this.” He thought to himself as he spreads his wings, takes a deep breath, and makes a run for it as fast as he could. Lucas tries to pick up the pace as he runs faster and faster as Lucas heard Ubvuvu yell “NOW LUCAS NOW!” and jumps.
Lucas closed his eyes shut as he was expecting to land face first on the ground. But nothing happened as Lucas felt like he was floating. So he opened his eyes and realized, he was flying! Well, more like gliding as Lucas looks around in awe. Who knew Mythara is so pretty from a birds eye view? The pretty view didn’t last long as Lucas notice hes about to hit the ground as he tries to land. He made a hop, skip, and barely catch himself from falling to the ground as he made a somewhat successful landing.
“That…was…AWESOME!” Lucas said with excitement as Ubuvu praises Lucas for his efforts.
“Wonderful work Lucas I knew you can do it.”
“Lets do that again!”
———
While Lucas was busy learning how to fly, Zane and Abby are just making their way twords the rest of the group as things look like their going smoothly.
“Well, thanks to that kids efforts, it’ll put my mind at ease knowing the beast won’t hurt us.” Said Abby as they kept walking until they see Donnie and Isobel. But something looks wrong as Donnie looks panicked while Isobel is trying to calm him down.
“Wheres Jerry and Suzy?” Zane asked as he noticed their gone.
“I don’t know.” Abby respond “somethings wrong, come on!”
Zane and Abby catch up to the two of them as Isobel spots the two of them making their way twords them.
“Are you guys alright?” Abby asked “what happened? Where are the kids?”
“They…they came back.” Donnie respond
“Who is?”
“The Hubatians. “Isobel respond “they came back.”
Abby freezes in shock about the Hubatian kind returing to their world somehow.
“What…thats impossible…how did they- oh never mind that!” Abby shakes off the shocked feeling as shes worried about Jerry and Suzy.
“Donnie, where are the kids?” she asked with worry as Donnie looks upset by this.
“I’m sorry.” Donnie respond “when those Hubatian’s showed up, they surrounded us. I told them to run as fast as they could so they can’t catch them. I looked back to see we got separated, I don’t know what happened to them.”
Abby pats Donnie on the shoulder “its ok, we’ll find them.” She said as she looks at Zane. “Zane. I’m gonna need you and Izzy to wait here.”
“WHAT?! No way let me come with you!” Zane protest
“No. I’m sorry but after that incident, I don’t want you to get hurt like that again.” She insisted but Zane refused.
“But they’re in trouble!”
“BUT NOTHING!” she yelled out as she looks scared about losing him “usless you magically have a weapon, you must stay behind with Izzy, are we clear?”
Zane tried to convince Abby to take him with her but shes not budging as he admits defeat and sighs “fine..”
Zane and Isobel waited behind the town as Donnie and Abby look for Jerry and Suzy. They decided to meet up with an old friend while they wait for them to comeback. But Zane looks too worried to relax as he just leans up against the wall looking worried while Isobel told an old friend what has happened.
“Wait wait wait they’ve returned? How is that even possible?!” Maggie asked as shes confused buy all of this.
“Well, yeah..” Isobel respond as she can’t quite put it in words “but the thing is.. The Hubatians looked odd. As if someone is giving them orders.”
Zane overheard the conversation as he looks even more worried about the two, this starts to bother him alot as he can’t wait here anymore.
“And they went to find them? I hope they are more careful about this.”
“I hope so too” Isobel responds as she pets Chip. She looks over where Zane is to check up on him.
“Are you ok there Zane?”
Isobel didn’t get any response as she noticed that Zane is missing
“Zane?” right as she called out for him, they heard the door slam really loud as it started to two for a minute as Isobel sighs as she thought “oh no…”
“Whelp, that can’t be good.”
Zane makes a run for it out to the wilderness as Zane looks around and calls out for them.
“JERRY! SUZY!!!” He looked everywhere, even is places that looked like it could be a hiding spot. He kept calling for them as he hopes that he gets a reponse back from them. But, nothing from them.
“Guys!?” Zane called out one more time as he looks like hes getting tired of calling out for them as he just listens again….nothing. Zane just sits up against a tree with his head down with worry. The thought that they might be lost somewhere starts to weigh heavy on him.
“Ooh, I hope their okay…” Zane said to himself as he sounds defeated. He looks up to try to collect himself before heading back as he noticed someone standing there. It looked like Jerry as Zane gets right back up and noticed what it looks like Jerry standing there.
“Jerry? Is that you?!”
Jerry didn’t respond as he doesn’t look right. It is Jerry himself but somethings not right as he doesn’t say a word until red glowing eye appear on Jerry’s face as Zane steps away, as he was alerted the way Jerry looks.
“J-Jerry?!”
Jerry steps out of the forest as he suddenly grows a pair of bat wings, revaling he has turned into a Hubatian as he has wings and are black as the night sky.
“There you are, co-ogha (cousin).” Jerry said as Zane is in shocked of what Jerry has become.
“Jerry..what happened to you? Wheres your sibling?” Zane asked
“Oh this?” Jerry respond. “This is just a little gift I got from someone. Best decision I’ve ever made.”
Jerry looks at Zane and smiles “hey, I’ll take you to him and become one yourself. You won’t regret it.” Jerry reaches for Zane’s hand as he offers to lead Zane to Naki’s helper. Zane knew this is a trick as he starts to back away from him.
“No,NO! Get away from me!” he yelled as he makes a run for it. Jerry’s smile fades as he flies over twords Zane, making him stop dead on his tracks.
“I’m afraid I can’t let you do that?” Jerry said as he looks impatient.
“What are you going on about?!” Zane respond “this isn’t like you!”
“You’ll come with me right Zane?”
Zane was in a panic as he yells “someone, HEELLP!”
Comments (0)
See all