Discovered and Uncovered prt 2

Mark

I awoke in a shell of darkness only hearing the steady beat of my heart. I had the feeling I was falling. Into, I had no idea and I would've never expected it to hurt as much as it did.

Solem

I trudged along through the city trying to put as much distance between us and the kyrullan guard.  The searchlights passed over head a few times as the the sparrows flew overhead. Sparrows are helicopters that can drive on land if they need to. The design is very complex. The exterior usually have a logo along the wing and the searchlights use x-ray to search through solids. Ok I lied they are not very complex, just imagine a dune buggy with a helicopter top. It carries four passengers one pilot two gunners and a searcher. Anyway I hauled Luke Into the cart we entered in and hit it into full gear. The cart jumped and bounced over the road as two sparrows came and started to rain down a storm of bullets at us. One of the bullets hit the engine of the cart and set it on fire. I grabbed one of the ropes from the cart and slung it at the sparrow. Using the rope I climbed into it and tossed the passengers out. I flew the stolen falcon out of the city and a bullet knocked on the window barely above my head I can't believe my luck.

Luke

I woke up to wind and sand in my eyes and I jerked my head back in the window. Wait,...window. "Holy crap I'm in a sparrow!" I exclaimed. Solem was sitting in the control seat and said, "No you're in a bird's mouth, of course you're in a sparrow!" I gawked at the craft and said. "I thought these were only real in imagination." I looked around the ship. "Wait where's Mark and Circe?" "Mark was poisoned from the hybrid back there after saving your life." Solem said without looking away from the viewport. I slumped back in my seat. "So is...is he you know?" Solem sighed. "No not yet but will be if we don't find a cactus root or whatever." I sat up straight and  yelled. "Step on it then!" “Hold on we may have company.” Solem said as a blast rocked the sparrow

Mark

"Mark. Mark. Mark! Mark wake up!" I jumped up only to see a black and white world around me.  "You're finally awake." A voice said.   "Who's there?" I asked.  "Mark it's me, Circe."  I made an O with my mouth and said, "Circe, where are we?"  "Your body was poisoned so I've brought you to the shadow realm."  "Shadow realm?" I asked.  "Yes the shadow realm is a place full of shadow sprites and their occasional masters." She answered.  I nodded, "So where are you?"  "I am one with you while we are here, but there is one problem."  "And that is?" I asked.  "Six has an Alpha shadow sprite and he is here searching for you." She replied.  "Oh crap."  "Hold on, I will make myself visible to you." Suddenly I  saw Circe in front of me dressed in the same red jacket as me yet hers was smaller and instead of my white scarf she had a black one. “You can take a picture It’ll last longer she said. Just as I realized I’d been caught staring. “Sorry.” I ran my hand through my hair. "Okay Six is after us so what do we do?"  She put her hand on her hip. "We avoid him he has an Alpha so we run until Luke and Solem bring us back to the real world."We started to run and looked at Circe, "Sounds good to me. Left or Right?" “Left” she replied.

As Circe and I ran I caught a splitting headache causing me to fall and stumble a few times. Circe and I could tell Six was closing in on us fast and I really didn't want to face him in a world where I knew nothing. Our Path wove through the black and white forest with grotesque and twisted trees along the way. We sped to a halt when we could go no farther when we saw a large dark form in front of us. "Run." Circe said. I tried but I couldn't move. "The creature started to turn around and said, "Well we meet again." "Six!"I spat. The mass fully turned and I saw a bulk of a man with short black hair and eyes gray as stone. "Yes Mark, It is I and I see you have found the shadowrealm."  "Now way your Six you’re not that young!" "Or handsome.” Circe chimed in. “Not helping.” I told her.  She shrugged  "Bro, your real form is at ugly as Luke's singing is terrible." Si merely laughed, "It is not wise to make me angry. I also see that your shadow can manifest itself as well interesting I only thought alphas could do that. Shrine, come here."  I laughed again. “Who are you talking to?” "I'd be crazy to if I looked as bad as you do." "Mark!" Circe warned. "Hold up hold up. Six if you were a dog I'd draw a face on your butt and tell you to walk backwards. I wiped tears from my eyes and kept going.  "You're so dumb your first word was llama instead of mama."  Six's face flushed, “Enough! you draw the line when you say I'M dumb. That joke didn't even make sense." He kicked me as hard as he could and sent me into a rock  so hard I saw tweety bird. I got up and brushed the tiny pebbles off only to get ramed in the gut by something else. I fell to my knees, the wind knocked out of me." Six said, "Well allow me introduce you to Shrine." He rammed into me again, and another guy held me by my throat and Six had Circe in a headlock.. He looked like he could be Six’s son except I could really see all of the people he’d killed in those black pools for eyes. He had long red windswept hair his skin was pale. “You're the old man I saw at the village!” He smiled  and tossed me over the cliff face.  Six’s face peered over the edge and he yelled. “It Seems you were not worthy enough!” He threw Circe and  laughed as we fell into the black mist and to the ground below.