“Okay look, we need to find a way to keep him still so we can beat him. I’m going to shoot the ground again with my ice crossbow and freeze his feat.”
“1, that’s a bow and arrow, not a crossbow, and 2, no you’re not doing that again. You almost got killed doing that the last time.” I told my little sister.
“Well, we can’t leave the arena without beating him, so you got a better idea?”
“Actually, I do.” I smiled.
I turned around and raised my arms, looking from the bracelets of Vepengele to Dayax about a mile ahead. I tried to sprout tree roots from the ground to wrap them around Dayax’s feet, keeping him in place. Instead of that, the bracelets turned yellow and heated up. My wrists started burning.
“AH!” I screamed while at the same time, lightning bolts sprouted from the sky and struck Dayax. He yelled, then he sat there moaning and swaying in place while smoke rose from his body.
Then, Sunny got up from behind me and started to shoot frozen arrows at Dayax. “Quick, we can beat him now! End him!” Sunny yelled from across the arena.
Rage nodded then turned to Fog and started to tell him something. I couldn’t hear from where I was, but I was able to see Fog’s eyes widen and his head start nodding. Then, Rage pointed to the sword on Fog’s back, and Fog took it out as Rage waved a hand against it and pointed to Dayax’s lower end. They seemed to be making a plan. I turned to see Sunny right beside me watching them too. When her eyes flicked over to me, I busied myself looking back at them.
Finally, they stopped talking and Rage then went to one of the red jumping pads near Dayax. Fog, then held his sword to him kind of like a frisbee, then he threw it at Dayax’s legs. It slit through both of them like a boomerang and came spinning right back to Fog’s hand which he amateurishly caught. Dayax’s legs were sliced cleanly and detached from his body. His top half was beginning to fall.
By then, Rage had jumped on the Jumping pad next to Dayax. Once he got high enough to where he reached Dayax’s impala skull of a face, he shot it straight dead in the forehead. A morbid bullseye.
“He’s coming down!” Rage stated the obvious.
“Get low!” Sunny yelled and she ducked and covered her head with her arms.
I watched Dayax fall, an event that shook the ground. I went flying into the air and the people in the crowd shook.
I landed on my bottom pretty hard. But when I saw the huge storm of dust Dayax’s corpse was sending at us I quickly ducked in the position Sunny had.
For a minute the wind was very loud and I could hear the tiny specks of dirt hit each other in the sky while corralling me and the others in a quick sand storm.
However much I wanted to look up, I didn’t, lest I get sand in my eyes.
After a while it was finally over, and we were able to look up. Dayax’s huge body lay on the ground, motionless. The crowd began to cheer like crazy, until all I could hear was a loud “haaaaaaa” from the crowd. There were whistlers and clappers and even people who threw roses and flowers at us. I actually started to feel amazing. I, an 18-year-old girl, had just taken down a 30-foot beast!
I picked up one of the roses. It was a Mr. Lincoln red rose. I would keep it to remember this day forever.
Sunny began to run to Fog and Rage, and I followed her. After all that time I had spent trying to find her, there was no way I was losing her now.
She was so happy. “We did it!” she yelled to Rage, then gave out high fives all around, from Rage to Fog to me.
The lady from earlier came back to arena, but this time, walked all the way up to us. “Give it up for Rage, Frosta, and our two newcomers!” she yelled, and the crowd went wild. Then she turned to me and Fog and said, “And what are your battle names? In case we see you in the ring again. After all, it was a dangerous feet coming out here all unplanned like that!” the crowd quieted down for a second.
I was shocked and had no idea what to say. “I’m Fog,” Fog leaned into the microphone. Then the lady turned it to me. I decided to go all out with my name.
“And I’m Chef Shine, the excellent and powerful!”
“Well you heard it folks! Give it up for Fog and Chef Shine, the excellent and powerful!” the crowd roared again.
Fog looked at me. I shrugged.
I couldn’t believe any of this was happening.
“Let’s go celebrate at the juice bar!” Rage said, turning to all of us.
“Yeah! I could use a-” started Sunny, but I stopped her in her tracks. “Oh no, Sunny-I mean, Frosta- has a lot to do and doesn’t have time for a stop at the juice bar.” I told Rage, grabbing Sunny’s arm. I began to pull her back in the direction of the weapons room.
“Uh, I’ll be at the Juice...bar.” Fog said awkwardly, and once again I felt sorry for him and mad at myself. How could I just ditch him like this? It was his only day to visit me and my city, and I’m off chasing my sister and finding out what crazy stuff she’s done got herself into. Well, at least we could say we’ve both explored somewhere new. The Space, and all of it’s crazy stuff it’s got going on.
As we walked back into the building, I saw a lot of people I hadn’t seen before, they all held wondrous stuff and offered it up to me.
“Hey, want a carved sculpture of Eclipse!? Only 25 Kano!” a man said, shoving a wooden statuette in my face.
“Uh, no thanks.” I told him. Why would he try to sell me a sculpture of the evil god who split the sky?
“You look hungry! want a fried Sun cake? Just baked hot and fresh!” A lady came up with two plates of sun cakes that looked amazing. “Only 15 kano!”
“Oh, uh, maybe later.” I told her which wasn’t a lie. The sweet brown crust with sugar sprinkled on top in the shape of a sun with curly rays was almost too much to pass up.
There were even more people in the way, (like phone sellers and weapon shiners,) but I managed to ignore them. Why were there so many sellers out there!? But that didn’t matter right now. My sister sneaking off to random places and telling her family lies about it is what was really the ham of this burger. As soon as I shut the weapons room door, I grilled her.
“Sunny! What are you doing out here? Fighting deadly beasts under stage names and then coming home and lying about your bruises!? I should call mom right now and have you whooped!” I told her.
“No, please don’t tell her! Or dad! They’d never understand if you told them! I have to be the one to do it.” Sunny told me, surprisingly worried about me telling our parents about this.
“Why should I let you tell them!? So you can lie about your whereabouts again? Say your head hurts because you were spinning around and fell?” I asked her.
“No it’s just-” she started.
“No you listen!” I yelled at Sunny. I wondered if anyone outside the room could hear us. “I was wondering why you disappeared that early morning, only to come back and say you were at a friends house and cut your finger! How could you lie to me and mom, people who sincerely worry about you!? How do you think our parents and I would feel, if you died and never came back, and we would have no real explanation as to where you were, or what happened to you!?”
Sunny just looked down at the dirt floor, speechless. Then, she looked back up at me. “You’re right. I’m sorry Mist. I should have told you about this place. You, and the rest of our family. But you wouldn’t understand it, this place. I need to show you something. To explain a few things.”
“What?” I asked before even moving. “You can tell me right now!”
“No, I can’t, I-” Sunny stopped and huffed. “Mist, come on! Do you want to understand or not!?”
Now it was my turn to pause. I thought about where this conversation could lead. “I do,” I said worriedly.
“Well, it’s outside these walls first off.” Sunny said. “Follow me.”
“Fine, but Fog’s coming.”
Sunny turned to me strangely, then her face turned plain and she shrugged. “Okay. Bring ‘em.”
TO BE CONTINUED
It has been such a long time since I've written for the Syzygy story! If your curious about the full story, check the syzygy tag where most of it is posted. This was Part 12. part 11 is right here: @restcity/the-great-fight-begins-syzygy-part-11