The Seven lost Orsa's - book one - Defiance by E FromHebs (ereader with android .txt) 📕

"I-" I began

"What is is? What were you going to say!?"

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!? HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME THIS!?" it felt better to shout, but I instantly regretted it.

"I didn't want you going around out there with that thing" he pointed to my necklace "trying to find your long lost brother, who you can't even remember! Someone could easily kill you!"

"Whatever, I can take myself back" I stormed off, not looking back at him. I don't care if he hates me, because it can't feel anything like the hate I am feeling right now. There was a whole in my heart, a missing piece, a piece that has floated away, like a flower petal. Maybe that missing piece would find me, if I gave it some time to fix itself. I didn't know where I was going, I was just walking across a long row of fields. Behind me I could hear Dane shouting distantly for me to come back, as always, I have always been the one to storm off, but it felt good to get the anger out of your system, other wise I would short circuit. In other words, I'd loose it. 

Things in my life are always more complicated than they need to be, with my dreams, my friends, my enemies. I have alot of enemies, not something I want to go into, my dreams are getting worse every night. Every time I try too hard to figure it out, it slips away, like tug of war, the other end is winning. Other end. The word echoed in my head. Could that be the answer? Is someone giving me these dreams? Trying to tell me something? My mind was racing to find an answer, I needed to know, who? Why? Who would give me these dreams? Who would have the power to give me these dreams? Whoever it was, they must be pretty powerful to deliver such a dream. I was still walking through the fields, my feet were grazed and cut by the thorns. I looked behind me, Dane was running after me. I'm not going to bother running away, he is faster than me, and if I run, he will just run faster. I stopped in the middle of the field, waiting for him to catch up. 

"Where do you suppose you would go?" he asked me as he came up to me

"Somewhere away from here"

"Look, just because-"

"No time for that. I think I have figured it out, what if somebody is sending me these dreams? Trying to tell me something?"

"You could be onto something"

"I know" I smiled

He took my hand and starting pulling me back the way we came

"Where are we going?" I asked

"Home"

"It's not really home, is it?"

"It's the only home I've ever had"

I almost forgot, Dane never had a real home, with family and friends. He has been alone ever since the age of ten, unlike me. I lived with my dad, he knew what I was, but he never told me, so I had to find out the hard way, and when I did, I wasn't happy. Dane offered me a life where I could be with my own kind, to I took the opportunity. I don't know where my Dad is now, if he thinks of me, if he even remembers me. I vaguely remember him, he had the same silver hair as Dane, and, like all Seekers, golden eyes. 

"Was is hard?" I asked

"What?"

"Being on your own, having no one to turn to?"

"Yes. Until I met you, the first time I saw you, I instantly knew that you were a Seeker, but there was something else, something else about you that was, different"

"So?"

"I don't know, like there was this light shining out of you, making it so clear"

"Hmm"

To my surprise, he laughed. I loved it when he laughed, it was a very rare thing, but it was so angelic, like a siren. I always wondered that about him, if he really was a siren, it was impossible for a male to be one, but in this case, I think it would work.

"I've always thought you have been a siren" the words spilled out of my mouth

"What? That's impossible"

"I know, but your voice is so.."

"So what?"

"I don't know the word"

"I'm sure you'll come up with something"        

"I can guarantee it"         

A few hours later, we arrived back at the warehouse. Outside of the front door, was Sophia, with a worried look masking her happy face. When she saw us, her face grew even more worried.

"Nadia, where, wh-?"

"I know, really long story, but we have to figure this out" 

"Figure what out?"

"Nadia thinks that someone is giving her these dreams, trying to tell her something" said Dane

"Sounds real enough to me" me and Sophia ran around the corner, to the bookshelf where we kept all of our books. In the middle, was a massive grey book. The words on the spine were in Latin, but it was so dusty that I couldn't read what it said. Just as Sophia took it out, I heard a loud creak, and what stood in front of me was a sight that almost hurt my eyes.                                                              

In front of me was a long dark corridor. Never before had I seen this, and I never even knew about it.

"Wh-" I started

"I don't know"

 Dane came up behind me and gasped. I could feel his muscles tensing behind me, I could guess what his reaction would be.

"We are not going in there" just as I thought he would say

"Yes we are" I said, "how do you know that it doesn't lead to those missing girls?" I was getting angry at him again. As if to answer my question, he walked into the corridor, dissapearing. 

"What is going on between you two?" asked Sophia

"Doesn't matter" I mumbled as I followed him through. I ran my finger against the wall, it was moist. I glanced over my shoulder to check if the door way was still clear, apart from Sophia, it was. The only thing that enabled me to see was the light coming from where we came from, but as we got further and further away from it, the light faded, leaving us in complete darkness.

"Dane?" I whispered. No answer.

"Dane?" I asked again, louder

"I am still here" he said

The path we were walking along was getting steeper by the meter, and wetter. Suddenly, a bright light shone into my eyes, I fell to the ground, covering my eyes with my hands. 

"Sorry" Sophia said, "but I found a torch" she gave me and hand up. We were standing in a large room, I could hear the drips of water, and I could smell blood. In front of me I could see metal bars, I walked over to them. They were covered in some liquid that I swear was not human. 

"Do you think-" Sophia said

"Shhhhhhhh" Dane hushed her. I heard a dragging footstep, looking around, I could see that none of us were moving. Before I had the chance to say behind you, something came running out of nowhere, and lunged forward onto Dane. Even from that far away I could tell that it was an Omniform. 

"DANE!" I screamed. It looked up at me with a grey face, blood dripping from it's lips, and smirked as it jumped upwards. I looked up, but I couldn't see it. I ran over to Dane, there were two teeth marks on his cheek, which were bleeding ferociously. I found out a tissue from my pocket and placed it on his cheek.

"No, no, I'm fine" he complained

"No you're not, now hold still" he did as I said, Sophia hadn't had time to take it all in, so instead of questioning, she ran over to us.

"What just happened?" she asked

"Omniform. There are probably more, they like being in large groups"

"Right"

"Come on, we have to get going" I said. We helped Dane up, but then I was totally lost.

"Which way did we come from?" I asked, now worried.

"I don't know, maybe that way?" Sophia pointed in the direction where the Omniform came from.

"I'm pretty sure it was that way" Dane said, pointing the opposite way to Sophia.

"Okay, we'll just keep heading that way" I pointed with Sophia, "until we get to the end of a path"

"Are you sure that's a good idea? If that one Omniform came from that direction, wouldn't there be more that way?" asked Dane

"Not necessarily" 

We walked aimlessly for what felt like more than two hours, coming across nothing apart from the odd Omniform. How they got in there, we don't know, but if they were in our home, then we couldn't stay there any longer, but we had no where else to go. We could always contact the Primicerius, but for now, we would have to wonder down the never ending walk way.  

This reminded me alot of my dream, although it couldn't be, because the landscape wasn't right, but the atmosphere was perfect. Not that that is a good thing, it just means that we are getting closer and closer to my dream becoming true. That's not a good thing either. My head was pounding with the effort of trying to figure all of this out, how my dreams are connected with all of this, why we just found a hidden path way. There was only one thing that I really really really needed to do, go to Caleb. He has never really been a friend to me, but he thinks of me as his sister, not that I think of him as my brother. The flight is tomorrow, and by then, I need money, clothes, food, toothbrush and so on, but if we just found an Omniform nest in one of the safest places we could be, then there are bound to be more back where we came from.

We only had about twenty four hours until our flight leaves, but we have to be there two hours before, so that leaves us with twenty two hours to get out of here, find some decent clothes and get to the airport, but the airport is an hour away, so that only leaves us twenty one hours. It seems like a long time, but if you were going at snail pace like us, then it could take alot more than one day.

"Guys, we need to hurry" I complained

"We're going as fast as we can, but we don't want to fall and break a leg" said Dane, his voice was flat, was he still angry with me?

"I know, but we have to be at the airport for six tomorrow evening"

"We have ages, don't worry" Sophia reassured me

"Whatever" I tried not to say it too loud, but obviously one of them heard me. I started walking quicker, because if I did, then they would aswel. It was hard to see with only one torch that was running out of battery, but I could vaguely make out the moss on the walls. If the walls were damp, wouldn't that mean that there was water nearby? And if there was water, then there would be land.

"I think we're close to something"