Chapter 18

Hey guys! It's been about two months hasn't it? :/ I'm so, so sorry about not posting something sooner... I had this chapter already done, but many things came up in the month of August and I just couldn't get to it any sooner... :P I won't go into details, and i'm sorry it took so long... Hopefully this thrilling chapter will make it up to you... :3

Okay, so like there are 3 versions of this picture in my gallery... But this on fit the bill better than the other two, so I finished drawing it today... I've really come a long ways in drawing, yet I still think I derped this image... X/ Oh well, here's trying anyways... :3

Chapter 18

For what seemed like hours, Space had seen nothing but bright light blinding his face, but now it seemed that it was dying down as other colors started to take shape around him… “Ugh, I thought we’d never get anywhere!” Princess chirped behind him, which told Space that they had indeed finished teleporting… But Space didn’t care about that at the moment, (Where’s Lefty?) was all that Space could think of as he frantically looked around…

“Did we really make it?” A hushed voice whispered next to Space and Princess, making them turn around to see that it was Cat and Shila, along with Stripes who was looking astonished at the fact they had actually teleported in one piece… “Er… Ya I think we did…” Was all that Space could get out as he patted himself to make sure he really was all there…

“Hey guys! I think I found Lefty!” Shila exclaimed as she ran over towards a log… “What the..? Why is Lefty over there?” Space questioned as he followed Shila to the log… Shila had managed to move the log enough out of the way to reveal that Lefty was indeed lying down in the dirt unconscious… “Lefty!?” Cat screamed as she tried to pick up Lefty off of the dirt... Space quickly grabbed Lefty’s other arm and helped his little sister pull the unconscious lass up enough to where they could position her on the log…

Cat flicked her tail back and forth anxiously as she tried to wake Lefty up... Space wasn’t too sure how effective of a job she was doing, but she was the healer so Space guessed she knew better than him… A sudden cough told Space that Cat had effectively woke Lefty back up, as Cat hastily opened up her bag and started pulling out things…

“What the bees?! Why do I have dirt in my mouth?!” Lefty exclaimed as she hastily started scrubbing her tongue… Space had a hard time holding back a laugh as he watched her freak out over dirt getting inside her mouth… “Lefty you used a lot of power trying to teleport us out of your…, uh house… You could have killed yourself!” Cat exclaimed as she pulled out a cloth and handed it to Lefty, who eagerly accepted it and scrubbed the dirt off of her muzzle… “Grr... Don’t remind me….” Lefty growled as she eagerly tried to stand back up, but she only ended up spinning and falling back down…

Cat grabbed Lefty’s arm just in time to break Lefty’s fall, as she tried to gently help Lefty re-gain her balance… “I would have expected that it would take a lot of energy out of you, but not this much!” Cat exclaimed as she examined Lefty’s status… Lefty flattened her ears in anger and growled, “Grr… I don’t even wish to talk about it! At least I got us out of that scrape! If I hadn’t have done that, the shadow’s illusion would have trapped us in that dreamstate forever!” Lefty growled as she yet again tried to get up, and then quickly fell back down with a groan…

Space’s ears perked back up, “Wait! That was a shadow’s doing?!” Space yelped in horror as he slowly remembered and quickly drew out his sword… Lefty winced as she tried to move her weak leg, “Gee… You guys catch on fast… Ya it was a shadow! I thought you guys knew that! You need to read expressions better…” Lefty huffed angrily as she desperately tried to stand without shaking… However she couldn’t do so for very long and simply sat back down, angrily growling everytime she failed to get back up… Her weak leg didn’t help either…

Stripes pulled out his staff, “Like we would know that! Sheesh…” Stripes rolled his eyes annoyed; then fixed his gaze on Space and Shila who frowned at him, “However we can deal with that later… Lefty, you said a shadow had us under a spell right?” Stripes asked as his staff hummed… Lefty huffed and gave up trying to move for the moment as Cat helped her sit down without hurting her leg too much, “Y..Yes… Why do you…?” Lefty asked but was quickly interrupted as a glowing yellow ray burst into the sky, followed by a blood curdling scream that made Lefty shiver and squirm back further against the log she was propped up on…

“That’s why…” Stripes growled as a hissing sound echoed through the trees… Lefty’s eyes shrunk in horror as she screamed and she began claw the dirt underneath underneath her paws. Everyone else, save Cat, immediately grabbed their weapons and prepared themselves for the worst… Lefty breathed heavily as her eyes darted back and forth, as if she was waiting for something to jump out and try and rip her up like the bear had tried to do, but the forest remained silent… Once Lefty had enough time to calm down and catch her breath, she focused her senses and ‘light powers’ to see if there was anyone out there…

The hissing around them soon turned into the sound of laughter, not the good kind, but the kind that made the gang’s skin crawl… “Why are they laughing?!” Princess growled as she held her axe up even higher above herself. Space looked over his shoulder at Lefty while keeping his sword steady, “I don’t really care about that, rather I wish to know why they aren’t showing themselves!” Space snorted in frustration as he quickly turned his gaze back to the trees, as if waiting for something to spring out on them…

“They… They’re mocking us…” Lefty whispered as she pulled her hood over her head even tighter, “They don’t think we are even worth attacking now that they know how young and inexperienced we are….” Lefty whimpered as her eyes glowed an even brighter shade of blue, making Lefty scream and claw the earth, “St… Stop IT!!! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!!” Lefty screeched in desperation as she growled and clawed the air…

Cat had to literally grab Lefty’s arms to keep her from drawing out her sword, as she screamed and kicked the dirt, “Lefty calm down! What in the world are you yelling at?! Do you honestly want the shadows to come out and attack us?!” Cat yelled at Lefty as she meekly tried to pin Lefty down… Lefty seemed to have re-gained some of her reason as she stopped kicking and hastily grabbed her cross necklace huffing and half way whimpering, “They… They tried to get into my head…” Lefty replied to no one in particular as the blue light dimmed around her eyes, leaving terror left on her face, “S… So many… They were spitting horrible remarks… *Huff* Then they…” Lefty stopped and gripped her necklace hard and grimaced, “N… Nevermind…. Let’s just get out of here…” Lefty whimpered as she shakily stood up…

Cat expressed great concern as Lefty wobbly stood up, but said nothing as she helped her re-gain her balance again… “Stripes which way is the quickest to the next village?” Space flicked his ear in concern as he tightly gripped his sword… Stripes perked his ears up and immediately dragged out the map and began searching, “Mmmm… Well if we didn’t have that nasty shadow prank us we would have arrived to the next village by sunfall. However, it’s just thru these trees and then we’re there…” Stripes added hastily as he quickly stuffed the map back into his pocket…

Shila twitched her tail irritably, “Okay then we need to move now… We can’t afford to be playing at the time when the enemy comes out the most…” Shila exclaimed as she frantically looked for the exit. Suddenly her ears perked up as she looked to the right of her, “Over there! I see the exit! We can make it!” Shila cheered as she dashed off. The others exchanged glances as they quickly ran towards the exit, followed by Cat trying to help Lefty walk/stumble over to the exit…

“Just a few more paces, young Prophet… I promise you’ll be safe soon...” The stone cross whispered to Lefty as she tiredly dragged herself forwards without a word… “Just hang in there… Remember to have faith! You’ll make it!” The cross tried to comfort Lefty… Lefty simply flicked her tail angrily but didn’t reply as the gang reached the exit…..

Ok, so what did you guys think about this Chapter? ^^

Can you believe that this marks me finishing about one-third of the story already? :D Exciting! ^_^

Unfortunately I have some bad news.... My computer has not been the best of friends recently... It's got alot of glitches and doesn't like high grafic websites and games... That includes Blogger... D: So this may be the LAST post on blogger for my story... (nooooooooo!!!!!!) But guys, IF it is I will make sure to still write the story... It will just be posted onto my Da account here ==> http://lefty343.deviantart.com/

So if you don't see anything posted here in a month or two, try that k? ^_^;

Again I apologize... I'm just as happy as you guys are... :P 

Also, I can not promise you guys when the next update will be... I will not be putting it on a schedule anymore... It may be a week from now, or it could be four months.. I'm sorry... It's is NOT that I have lost interest in writing this story, it's just that I have many other things to attend to... (Such as school since this year I have alot more homework than usual...) Anyways, please forgive me if i'm busy and you don't see any updates... :/