Chapeter Two
I listened to the foot falls as the person, whoever they were, got closer to me. I felt a hand on my shoulder as the person turned me over.
"Hello, my name is Taylor, what's yours?" said a girl a year or two younger than me.
She had dirty blond hair brought up into a ponytail. Her green eyes looked down on me with a happy look. She had a cute and beautiful face and, as I stood up to greet her, she stood several inches shorter than me. She wore a T-shirt with the same design as the robe thing Crystal had been wearing and she wore a pair of jean shorts, she wasn't wearing any shoes though.She smiled a cute smile at me and I felt my heart kinda skipped a beat. She seemed so familiar yet I had never met her before, and at the same time I wanted to be able to kiss her. It was a weird feeling I had no idea where it was coming from. He smiled at her and shook her outstretched hand gently.
"Hi, my name's Kai" I said, sitting back down. "Have I ever seen you somewhere?"
"You could say that, but not really" said Taylor, enigmatically.
"Weird, but okay. So can you tell me some things about the Bone Collector Squad that I have been dying to know about?" I asked
"Sure, but in turn you must answer my questions" said Taylor with a smile.
"Okay, fine with me. Okay, so what exactly do you do? I mean i kno you are ninja, but what does that mean?" I asked.
"Well, I guess it depends on the person. I for instance am the defense specialist. I can cast any defense spell you can think of. Leader is a mage, Elem is an elementist, Crystal is a metamorph, and I'll tell you what the rest of the members you'll meet do when we get to the headquarters" she said. "Now, my turn. Okay, so tell me, do you have a girlfriend?"
I kinda looked taken aback by the question "uuuuhhhh, no? Well, I mean, no I don't. I want one, but I dont have very good luck with girls" I say with a sad smile.
"Aww, that's no good, maybe you will get one here" said Taylor with an odd smile.
I decided not to say more, and then I asked my next question. "Okay, what is this headquarters we are heading to?" I asked, turning on the couch so I could face her without turning my head.
"It is one of the main bases the Squad uses as its administration of its various services and it also serves as a home for us. It has everything and is self-suficient. You'll like it there. Okay, tell me, how many friends do you have?"
"Well it depends, do you mean good friends I would trust with my life? Well, I would have to say four, but I have plenty of friends" I looked a little taken aback by the question but I guess it made sense. "Okay, I guess that's all the questions I wanted to ask for now."
"Okay, well I have one more. Do you eat healthy?" Taylor looked very serious when she asked this.
"Uh, I guess? I don't know, I've never really cared" I said, scratching my head and thinking.
"Well that is no good either, you have to eat healthy if you wanna be a Bone Collector Squad member" said Taylor, she looked mad for some reason.
I kind of backed up away from her, feeling like she was gonna hit me so i put an arm up too in defense. She looked at me and kinda tilted her head to the side a little and then she laughed. I smiled and at as I sat there watching her, listening to her laugh I kept feeling more and more like I was safe, like I was at home around her. It was the weirdest thing, I had just met her and yet I couldn't but relax and take it easy around her.
"Hey you two, what's all the rukus?" came a male voice from the sleeping quaters (I had deduced this from the fact that everyone had been coming out of this door)
"Nothing much, Adam, we were just talking and exchanging information" said Taylor, slowly stopping her laughing.
"AH, okay, just curious" said Adam as he came walking into the main part of the skiff.
Adam walked over to me and Taylor, looking at us oddly. He had short, spikey black hair with blood red streaks in it and he had the same eye color as Crystal, as a matter of fact he looked like Crystal very much, but in boy form. It was remarkable, but he did not look scrawny or girly at all, he actually looked like he could do well in a fist fight. He walked over to me and held out his hand, I stood up and shook it. He had a strong grip, it was rather amazing.
"So, tell me, how long have you all been in business?" I asked, looking at both of them thinking that the Bone Collector Squad couldn't have been in business more than a few years.
"Several thousand years, actually" said Adam, looking at me.
My eyes widen and I let my mouth drop in amazement. "W...wha...what?! Se..several thousand YEARS?!" I stuttered, completely thrown off by the fact that Adam was totally serious.
"Well not all the members have been apart of it for that long, but me, Elem, Crystal, and Leader have been in it since the beginning. Its been a long road but its been a fun one. Why? Does that surprise you? Most of us are humans from your world that got pulled here by our gods. We were blessed with immortality like you have been and so we decided to help this world. A few of us aren't human but have immortalitly through other means, but in one way or another, we all can live for forever" said Adam in a smile.
"So you guys can't die?" I asked, looking awed by the fact that I was talking to people who have lived for thousands of years.
"No, we can die but we wont die of old age. We are still susceptible to disease, hunger, thirst, and attacks. If a normal human were to be shot and killed then so would we, but you have an increased healing ability that we do not, so you are harder to kill, but in the end, everything is killable and everything can die" said Adam with a look of what seemed to be relief.
"So what exactly will I be doing when I..." I didn't have time to finish my sentence as an explosion ripped through the skiff, almost tearing it in half.
Me, Taylor and Adam were thrown to the floor, I caught Taylor but all the same we still started to slide to the great gaping opening in the hull. Adam held up his hand and it looked like blood came out of his fingers and solidified into long spikes that he stabbed into the floor of the skiff, grabbing onto my jacket color and I held onto Taylor.
"What the heck is going on!" I yelled up at Adam.
"It seems that we have been attacked, Leader'll try to crash us safely, just hold on to Taylor, I wont let you go!" he yelled down, digging his hand into the floor.
The skiff started to tilt to one side, making us vertical and if I looked down I could see the ocean flying by below us with the occasional island-like blur zooming by. I held onto Taylor tighter and for some reason she remained completely calm and so was Adam, it amazed me and so I tried to keep myself from freaking out. I always thought everything through, but it didn't always come through and sometimes I just reacted. Suddenly, Leader jumped out of nowhere, grabbing all of us and Adam let go, letting us free fall and then we all slowed as Leader seemed to be floating slowly down the an island below us. Elem and Crystal went flying by they seemed to be different somehow and suddenly they both seemed to be freezing the air around them and suddenly ice exploded out all around them, creating an ice floe in midair. The ice floe kind of grew upwards and caught all of us as we fell, but we landed on it lightly and just as we were about to reach the ground, the ice floe seemed to fall apart and an evil laughter filled the air around us.
"I'VE COME TO CLAIM MY PRIZE! EYAHAHAHAHA!" yelled a twisted voice that seemed to be from a twisted old psychotic man.
"Ah crap, Fate Stromhearte is here, we have to.." was all Adam said before a tall, extremely slender man in a long black trench coat and a large tall top hat on his head seemed to instantly appear right before me and Taylor. Taylor held out her hand with her palm facing the man who now had raised his hand that was fully bandaged, she said a few words I couldn't quite hear and a blue aura seemed to stretch in an orb around me and her and Adam. The man opened his bandaged hand revealing large metal claws and he struck the blue field, seeming to crack it, though I didn't understand how he had done so, and just as Fate broke through the blue aura, I felt the hilt of a sword hit the back of my head and I blacked out again, thinking that it really sucked that I was being knocked out all the time.
I felt water being slowly dripped on my face, it was cold and didn't drip in the same place all the time. I tried to move my head but I couldn't, it seemed impossible. I opened my eyes to find that it was pitch black and that I couldn't see at all. I could hear screams, horrible screams of pain from people that seemed to be far off in the cavern that I must have been in. I started to struggle as hard as I could to get up, but the chains around my wrists and ankles kept me down. I hated it, I didn't want to be here and I started to scream, as loud as I could, yelling for help. And just as I stopped there came a voice that seemed to be coming from every direction at once, it was loud and echoed everywhere.
"Hello, fellow immortal, you have been brought to the Cavern of the Endless to serve the sentence you have recieved, may your time here teach you" is what it said, it sounded mellow and very humbling even, but I had no idea what it was talking about. I hadn't done anything wrong and suddenly a white light turned on in a circle around me and there above me floated a large sword that seemed to be made of magma and it was pointed at my stomach. I looked at in horror as it sank into my stomach.
I sat up with a yell, sweating in a dark room on a small cot. I looked around, incapable of figuring out where I am. There was a small window, and moonlight leaked in from outside, casting a small beam of light onto the floor. From the dim light it looked like it could have been a nice room but it seemed to be run down. Footsteps came sounding down the hall and a shadow stopped in front of my door. It opened and light flowed in and as the man flipped a switch he walked in. He was an inch or two shorter than the nine foot ceiling. He wore a loose grey T-shirt, a worn pair of jean, black military looking boots and a long open trench coat. He carried a beautiful looking samurai sword that seemed to give off an eerie aura. He had fair skin and long scraggly stormy blue hair with cloudy grey eyes. Hanging on his lip was something that looked like a cigarette but the smell it was giving off was the same smell right before a rainstorm.
"Hello my good friend, my name is Rein Stromhearte and I will be your host until you can recover and until you hear what I have to say. You will have the option of staying longer, but that is up to you" said Rein in a voice that seemed like I could trust him with my life.
Behind Rein stood a boy no older than me with black hair brought up into a short ponytail, he had fierce red eyes and wore jeans, a black leather jacket and underneath a white T-shirt. He wore regular shoes though they seemed to have a slight glow to them. Slung over his shoulder was a wooden training sword called a Bokken. It was my weapon of choice and apparantly his too.
"This is Zzyzk Stromhearte" said Rein seeing that I was wondering who he was.
"Hey, I guess" said Zzyzk with a non-chalant kind of tone.
"Why did you kidnap me, seeing as that is the only thing you could have done" I said, slightly annoyed with Zzyzk's attitude.
"We got you to warn about the Bone Collector Squad" said Rein. "No matter what they have said and no matter what they have promised, it isn't worth it."
"Oh? Why not?" I said, interested.
"Because they are pure evil and they work towards the end of the world. The Bone Collector Sqaud is the cause of all evil on this planet."
