Collision - Alyx D. Vacca (best reads of all time txt) 📗

I said. The assassin stared at me through his mask. "First you want me to kill you than you said that you want me to teach you. Make up your mind." I decided that I liked this man. He seemed to be one of those people who could take things in stride, no matter that he was an assassin. Because of this I told him, "The reason I could not decide at first, is because I want to die, but I want to take a few others lives first." He continued to stare at me before grabbing my arm and towing me to the window. He was going to toss me out. Or so I thought. "Go," he said. "We can have this discussion later when we are not in the middle of a crime scene." It made since, so I crawled out and onto a part of the roof that protruded just out from under the floor of the Mayors office and climbed out. The assassin followed quickly and motioned for me to follow. I had no idea where we were going but I did know that once we got there he would most likely kill me. But I still didn't care. You could probably call me suicidal by this point, except that I wont kill myself. That does not however exclude me from putting myself in dangers path. As I followed him through alleys and over roofs. He stopped next to a old broken down house and motioned me through. That is all I ask." I nodded. It was a reasonable request and I had nothing to lose from it, only gain. "It's a deal," I said out loud. I offered my hand and he took it. Now it was set in stone. What ever would happen next would either raise us both high above where we were now, or sink us to the very bottom of Hell.

Immediately after finishing that sentence I fell asleep and did not wake up until morning. In fact I had to be woken up. "Jayd. It's morning, wake up." The voice was familiar but I couldn't place who it belonged to until I remembered that I was at my uncles house. "Uncle Aden?" "Yup?" I shook the sleep out of my head and sat up stretching out my spine until I heard a crack. "Well what do ya expect, sleeping in a chair all night?" Said yet another familiar voice, but one who did not quite belong in this house hold. As you might have guessed, I still have not got around to opening my eyes. Now I did and I was more than surprised to see Bastion sitting at the foot of Tobi's bed. He was awake as well and laughing silently. I stared at Bastion for a long time, until he said, "Did you know that it's impolite to stare, expecially with your mouth open. And for that long too!" I snapped my mouth shut and then opened it again almost immediately to ask questions but he answered all of them before I could ask. "I Felt that Tobi was sick, so I came here. Demon Healers can Sense when a former patient is sick or injured and go to them." He paused for breath and then continued, talking so fast he had me beat. "I was in the middle of something important too, so you had better be grateful! I knew you guys were on the run, or sort of, and could not go to the hospital so I though I might as well be nice and come and help." He motioned for someone outside the room to come in. She looked a lot like Bastion except she was female (obviously) and instead of super pale skin hers was only really pale. Besides that she could have been Bastions twin, which, as we found out, she was. "This is my twin sister Shelby. She came with me for no particular reason." Shelby rolled her eyes and said, "There is too a reason and you know it!" She turned to us. "The Treahians solve the people problem pretty well usually in prophecies, but this time they failed horribly. They had all the right people together and everything, and then they went and split them all up!" "Um... How do you know that all the right people were together?" She looked affronted. "I was the person who wrote that prophecy! Didn't they say that? I am a world famous prophecizer, every one in Treah knows my name, isn't that right Tobi?" Tobi shook his head slowly, trying to hide a smile. "What do you mean 'no'!" Bastion went to his sister and put a hand on her shoulder. "Calm down Shelby, it's not like it's the end of the world or anything." He said. "So if your the person who wrote the prophecy, why didn't they ask you who the people were?" I wanted to know. "That would be because they did not know it was me who wrote the prophecy. See, I wrote it on a piece of paper and left it on some ones desk." Me and Tobi exchanged looks than raised our eyebrows in Shelby's direction. "So who are the people featured in the prophecy?" "You two and Riah and Henry and that one guard what's his face..." She pretended not to notice the looks of disbelief that had come over our faces as she tried to remember the last name. "Allen! Ha! I remembered!" "No one said that you wouldn't," Bastion said, trying and failing to make his sister less hyper. "So you are saying that when us five were together we were this close to finishing the prophecy?" "Nope." "You care to elaborate on that sis?" Bastion said. His patience was starting to deteriorate. "Well... Needless to say, it takes a lot more than getting the right people together to solve a prophecy, you have to think and you have to do. Those are the three things most important to do when attempting to complete the inevitable." "Huh? You mean even if we didn't try it would happen anyway?" "Precisely! Fate would twist in the most excruciating positions so that it would happen." She sighed romanticizing. "And it would twist your hearts as well. You see, although you don't have to take on this daring quest, if you don't, fate will make your lives miserable, but if you try and succeed, it might have mercy on you and give you a loop hole. I know you two don't want the worlds to separate, but that is the only way. One time I made a prophecy (and whom ever makes the prophecy has to watch it unfold, that's the rules you know) and the main chosen didn't do anything and in the end it made him do it by convincing him through killing his lover. That made him vengeful and off he went to slay the Serpent.
" It makes you think about that one quote by Garth Nix, it goes, 'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?' It's quite a good quote is it not?" I had never met some one who could talk to much and so fast. She didn't seem to stop even to breathe through that whole long paragraph of words that she had just spouted. And for all that, she looked as though she could go on and on for a good long while yet. "Yes it is a good quote," I said before she could start again. "But why us? I mean, why did you choose us to be in your prophecy? It seems to me that you would and should choose people who actually want for the worlds to split." "The answer to your-" I cut her off, "And could you make your answers shorter please?" She glared at me but did summerize what ever she was about to say. "Prophecies are simply telling the world what is going to happen so that we, who would not do what we needed to do, will do what we need to do. Get it? So basically, I did not choose you, Fate did. I am Fates messenger. I run around and tell people what it wants done. Fate chose you five and for what reason I do not know." She glared at me again. "See, I can do short." "Never thought you couldn't," I lied. "Come on you four," my Aunt Beka called. "Brunch is on the table." Tobi eased himself out of bed and across the room I followed him and the Demons were already at the table filling their plates. "Whats a Brunch?" Shelby asked through a mouth full of food. "It's a meal half way between lunch and breakfast. The food is usually more on the breakfast side so people sometimes call lunch brunch if they eat breakfast food in the middle of the day," my Uncle Aden replied. "Huh..." Bastion said his mouth full as well (who taught these two table manners, if anybody?) "You humans come up with the weirdest yet best things ever." "Thank you, I think."
Later on Shelby and Bastion called us out to the front porch. "Jayd and Tobi, come out here for a moment please," came Bastions voice as we were finishing up the brunch dishes. "One minute," I called back. Tobi put the last dish away and we went out side. "We need you two to come with us to the Capitol to get the others." Bastion said bluntly. "We can't." I answered immediately. Tobi held up his hand and signed: "What do you need us for? Bring them here." I told them what he'd said and (no surprise here) Shelby answered: "Well, what are the chances that they are going to believe that we are Demon Healers and not the normal Demons who would want to eat them? On the out side there is not all that much difference between the two species of Demon you know." I shook my head, "No I don't know. I hadn't met a Demon up until a few months ago and that was Bastion. You are the second." "Really? Well I am honored. Simply honored." She said with a small curtsy. "Yeah, enough Shelby." Bastion said. "Look you two. This needs to be done, all of the mystical beings are dieing because of this worlds aversion to magic. Nothing is going to stay as it is now anyways so even if it you two are not happy with what will happen, think about the others will you? Our uncle just keeled over dead a few days ago for no reason what so ever except that the worlds are one instead of apart. This is a problem, and it needs fixed!" Me and Tobi looked away. Shame crawled over our faces for the worlds to see. We were being selfish. People were dieing. And not just humans but others and it would continue if we didn't break through and do what we least wanted to