"How did you find us?" Argus asked Scarlet as they wandered through the city. It hadn't been that long but they had soldiers around looking for them.
"First of all, because we have the same power source. Second, because we put a mind link on each other when we were heading to New York." She said, reminding all of them, "and I noticed the huge explosion when you used magic to that level. As in who could miss that." She was referring to what Alex had just done back at the street.
Alex said nothing, as she was feeling drowsy from the spell, and had wrapped her hand around Jack's neck for support as they moved.
They had arrived at the very end of the city where the research facility was along with the gate. The only problem was there were so many soldiers on guard because Dr. Lin knew that that was where they had to pass through the gate if they were to leave his world.
"Shit." Argus cursed with seeing the armed men just surrounding the facility. He could only imagine how many were inside if these were the ones outside,
"How are we going to get through without getting noticed," Argus asked.
"Teleportation. We need to jump next to the gate," Said Jack while staring at the facility.
"Wouldn't that screw up the map. I thought Leon said that if we try jumping it messes with the spatial coordinates." Scarlet mentioned
"Yes, but I have a copy. An updated one." Said Jack. He slowly released Alex so he could do the teleportation spell. He had to aim for the nearest route to the gate to give them time to open the gate. He quickly started the spell that would allow the whole group to jump through space instantly.
Once he was done, they all disappeared and appeared in a white corridor with a blink of an eye. The corridor was an extension to the research facility stretching out and directly heading in the direction of the gate. And without wasting a single minute, they all ran heading in the direction the gateway was.
"There they are !" a soldier immediately spotted them the moment they exited the corridor and started firing the explosive plasma blasts at them as they ran.
Scarlet stopped to make a force field around to protect them from the blasts. They were halfway to where they were supposed to stop. She saw the soldiers marching through the corridor they had just passed through.
Ahead, about two hundred meters of wasteland before you could reach the gateway. Meaning she had to stop them somehow or else they wouldn't make it to the gate. Jack also stopped running and held her hand,
"We have to go now!" he said pulling her in the direction they were supposed to be running in. She pulled away, "We have to destroy the corridor, it's where they are all coming from." Scarlet said.
"Have you gone mad? That corridor has human soldiers. We may kill them." He said, staring directly at her.
She had forgotten the love and sympathy he had for humans. "I am sorry, Jack, but these humans have wronged us even when we trusted them," she said then pushed him away with an invisible energy force.
She turned to the facility, then forced her mind to start crushing the building, using telekinesis. The facility began to crumble and shake. She wasn't strong enough to do it instantly, but she was still going to achieve it if she was given enough time.
Jack yelled angrily.
"What are you doing?"
He rushed to stop her by hitting her with an energy blast, which paused the disaster for a bit.
"Those people have families. I can't let you kill them, don't force my hand Scarlet," he said while getting himself ready to fight.
Scarlet turned to him, "I understand you value all life Jack, I truly do. But this must be done if we are to leave this place alive."
She sounded so different. So calm and terrifying. Something had brought about this version, was it at the hospital? He would have assumed it was Chaos but her eyes weren't even glowing this was definitely Scarlet. She had a dark side all along.
She created a red flame that grew on her fist once saw Jack in a fighting position. "Jack," the look on her face was fearsome, "I don't want you to get in my--"
"Jack, Scarlet!" Alex called them, from a distance. Alex and Argus were already at the gate and were waiting for them.
They immediately stopped their misunderstanding and ran towards Alex and Argus," Were you guys fighting."Alex laughed, "we don't have time for that sadly. We need to get through this gate before_"
Alex paused on feeling strange vibrations that had suddenly started from below.
'Do you feel that? " She asked all of them, it looked like it was being by something right above the surface. Scarlet then felt a weak blow of warm air coming from the surface as the ground started to shake even harder and she quickly knew it was bad news.
"Guys. Ummm, we should go now." Scarlet immediately warned and waved her hands forming something that resembled a pentagram with a circle surrounding it. The symbol covered the gate and a magical gateway opened up. She was using advanced spatial magic. After her incident with Orcus, she had somehow gained many abilities like he had unlocked her magical knowledge.
The surface then started to melt to larva and started to appear as if someone or something was trying to break in by burning through the surface. They all looked up when finally a huge winged monster flew through and started releasing fire down on the entire city.
"A dragon. Impossible." Jack said. Surprised by what they were looking at. A huge black scaled monster with wings blowing yellow bright flames from its mouth.
"They're here." said Argus looking at the dragon, "we must go now."
Scarlet stared at the dragon even longer as it burnt down the city, the cries, the loud sound the buildings made as they collapsed, and the smell of fire. Something about all this made her even scared of the fact that she didn't feel pity about what was happening to the citizens of this city.
"Valron. His name is Valron," she remembered the dragon's name, then pulled out of the trance.
The dragon noticed her and quickly flew heading towards their direction, opening up its mouth to release the hot flames. But jack pulled her through the gate as they all ran through which instantly closed hence surviving the dragon's flames that continued pouring down destroying the gate itself.
There was darkness for a moment before they ended up falling into an underground waterfall. In what looked like a cave.
"Uh, where are we?" Argus' asked, pushing himself up and scanning the entire place.
"Tecar," said Scarlet, "the sword is in Tecar."
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Scalaban and Victor moved through the damage they had caused. The surface that was protecting the city had been completely destroyed and the crystal was now in broken pieces. Around them, everything was still on fire and the rest was rubble and dead bodies.
The dragon landed right behind them as he stared at Dr. Lin who was crying, "Why did you do this? You killed them why?" she yelled
The boy squatted and faced her eye to eye, "Because I wanted to." said Scalaban. Lin pulled out a gun and shot it right in his head. But he didn't move and wasn't even hurt, but he had been angered by her attempt to kill him.
He grabbed her neck and started strangling the life out of her.
"Scalaban!" Victor yelled and he let her go.
"Do you know how to turn on that gate?" Scalaban asked, she nodded terrified by what he may do to her if she didn't know-how.
"Perfect. Because I have to kill the people who killed my sister."