It was so silent you could hear a pin drop. Both sides ceased fire either in amazement or pure confusion. What just happened. A voice from inside the forest broke the silence by saying "Uh. So what now?"
Another voice called back answering "What do you mean? I'm not fighting without Bjorn, fuck that. I'm out of here."
"Yeah, me too. They've still got those elite fuckers, I'm heading back"
"Hey, wait for me!"
Before we knew what was even going on, they had given up, and turned tail. Whatever. No one on our side even bothered chasing after them. It wasn't worth it.
We gathered up anyone who was injured and made our way back inside with them. As everyone was doing that I saw the Elites all together talking. Maybe they can tell me what just happened. I made my way over to them, Lilith saw me approaching and called out to me "Hey soldier! Come on over, introduce yourself."
All eyes were on me, now. "Everyone, this is Carly. She's the new prospect, David was talking about.
The one with the sword spoke up first, saying "Although I wish it was under better circumstances, it's nice to meet you, Carly. My name is Ryu." Now that I was close up on him, I could see that he had a scar on his face, like he was cut from the top on his eye to his chin, and jet black hair, tied in a ponytail.
The two with guns, the rifle and revolvers spoke next, although it seemed like they were too busy arguing to give a shit about me.
"Your aim was piss poor, Roland! You'd think you'd be at least halfway decent with that stupid rifle of yours."
"Me!? I didn't miss a damn thing! What about you, huh? I had to worry more about your stupid ass shooting me, more than I did Bjorn! You need to work on it aim, Rebel!" They're much too busy going at each other to even try to speak with them.
As I watched them argue, another voice spoke out to me "Hey. Nice to meet you. My name's Patrick, but everyone calls me Wrecking Ball, or just Wreck for short." It was the guy with the ball and chain, so it was easy to see why they'd call him that.
"It's nice to meet you all. I'm glad everyone is okay. But uh, what happened to David? Is he gonna be okay?"
Ryu spoke up and said "We don't know the specifics of what goes on in that bag, but rest assured he'll be okay. David isn't one to lose, so easy." He said as he held up David's Galaxy bag.
Lilith snatched it from him and said "Yeah, Bjorn is in boss man's world now. No way he'll win. For now let's just go see Eden and give her the bag to hold on to."
Everyone besides Roland and Rebel, who were still too busy arguing to pay attention to what was going on, started to walk back inside
"What about those two?" I asked
"They'll be fine. Let em kiss and make up." Wreck answered. I caught up with the rest and followed them to see Eden. We had idle chatter along the way, mostly centered around me and my journey here. They were all pretty impressed with my accomplishment of making it here, making it known that they could see why David wanted me so bad.
When we arrived we all went inside and we greeted by Eden and six other children running around, playing, and whatnot. When we entered they screamed in excitement of seeing familiar faces, jumping around us all. "Hey hey hey! That's enough now! I need you all to be quiet for a minute so we can talk. Play with each other till we're done."
They all scattered around the room, playing with random toys and each other, while Eden gathered herself and said "Alright now. So, where's David?" Lilith held the bag up and tossed it to Eden "He went in the bag with Bjorn They're in there slugging it out, I'd suppose."
Eden smirked and chuckled before saying "That man is something else. Well all we can do now is wait. He'll be back, I know it." She softly smiled as she talked about him. It was sweet. Her belief in him was incredible, too. I couldn't help but ask
"Hey, I'm not trying to be a downer, but how come everyone is so calm? All of us together couldn't do a thing to Thor, or Bjorn, whatever his name was. Can David really handle him on his own?"
Ryu spoke up first, saying "I understand how you feel, but think about how tough Bjorn was. David is just as strong. Each of the Chosen one's have different gifts that they each use in unique ways, so Bjorn's victory isn't a given. That bag is quite literally and figuratively, full of tricks. Bjorn is honestly at a huge disadvantage, in there."
Wreck chimed in, saying "Yeah. What he said. David's got this."
Wow. They all trust in him so much. David must really be something special. I couldn't help but to just smile at the assurance they all had, in him. "Yeah. You guy's are right. He's got this." "Damn straight, he does! But if he's away for too long, and you happen to get lonely, Eden, I wouldn't mind keeping you....Company." Lilith said to Eden, with a wink, and a rather seductive voice, that sent chills down my spine.
"Honey you couldn't handle me, let's be honest, now. Do I need to remind me of our little escapade, with David?" She replied with a sly smile.
Ouch. Ryu, Wreck and I, were embarrassed for her. Lilith turned bright red and said
"I was tired that night! It was the first time, and I didn't know it'd be so..... So demanding."
"Uh huh. It's okay, sweety. Anywho. Would you all mind watching the little ones while I talk with our friend, Carly. I'd just like to see how she's doing after all this."
"What about us!? You don't check on us, after near death fights!" Wreck asked and pouted
"Oh hush, you big baby. You guy's are used to being in the field with David. This is her first big encounter. So I'm gonna take her home, and just see how she's doing. Okay? Okay. Hey! Be good and don't give the adults a hard time, kids? Mommy will be back soon" she said to the kids and got up, motioning for me to follow. I stepped out with her, and she asked me"Well how was it? How was your first big fight?"
"Intense. One of the most intense things I've done, so far. Holy fuck, that Bjorn guy was insane! There was lightning, and holy fuck, the Elites! They're so damn cool, they've all got cool ass weapons, and they were fighting with David." I rambled on and on for awhile and Eden didn't stop me not once.
Before I even realised it we were back at my apartment complex "I mean, how's he even carry that ball and chain around? How strong is he? Oh, we're here. Wanna come up?"
Eden laughed and replied "Finally taking a breather, huh? I'd love to come up." We went to to my room and sat on the couch together. It felt nice to take a breather. Now that I was resting, I could feel how tired I was, again. All of a sudden as I was sitting there next to Eden, I thought about earlier, when I got excited, as I was laying on top of David, and I felt... guilty.
"Eden. I need to tell you something. I, I uh, it happened earlier. David and I were in the forest, an animal came out of nowhere, and David he was trying to protect me, so he grabbed me and threw me to the ground with him. But I was, I was under him at first, but ended up on top of him, and he wasn't doing anything, I promise, but I, I kinda got excited." My face was down to the ground and my heart was heavy as a rock. Eden has been treating me so well and I feel like I betrayed her.
After a moment of silence between us, Eden burst out in laughter. I looked over at her in confusion. I wanted to ask her why she was laughing, but she was laughing so hard, I didn't get the chance. Tears were flowing from her eyes, she was laughing so hard.
She took a moment and caught her breath before looking at me and putting her hand on my back, rubbing it as she said "Carly you were out there for five long years, all by yourself. You had to deal with a lot of frustrations, many of which I'm sure were of the... sexual nature."
As she talked, she got closer to me till I could feel her breath on my lips. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of light brown. She grabbed my legs and pulled me under her. My heart was racing, and I was getting so excited, but I was so confused.
"You need to release some of that tension" her hands ran along my sides, her fingers gently brushing against my skin, under my shirt. She cupped my breasts, squeezing my nipple in between her finger "You're so tense. Loosen up. I'll take good care of you, if you want." I was dead silent, but trust me it wasn't because I didn't wanna do this. I was just so taken aback by it all.
But of course, all good things must come to an end, right?
All of a sudden David's bag began to shake and flew off Eden's hip onto the floor, opening wide, and spitting David out. He crashed against the wall, breathing heavy, and looked like he had been through hell, his clothes tattered, and bruises covering him.
We looked at each other and before I could even think about the fact that Eden was on top of me, one step away from doing whatever she pleased with me, David smiled and said "Keep going."
"Oh hush, maybe later. Are you okay?" Eden asked as she went over to him, kneeling next to him "Oh yeah. I'm better than thunder boy. Okay, so look at this." David reached back in the bag and pulled out something resembling a will o wisp. "Bjorn spit out it after I killed him. It's the piece of Mother Nature's essence that she gave to him."