Phenomenon

Since the smoke or the mist was getting thicker we lost our path and decided just to walk straight. At least until we get out of it we will be able to find our way. We walked for a long while.
«Hmmm....I couldave sworn I saw this black spot before,that means....we are going in CIRCLES! I cant believe it!!! We are lost!» Flame was histeric. «Calm down Flame....If you havent noticed there are spots everywhere around the field..» I said. But I felt lost too. I didnt know where I was going. We were quiet for a while.
«Hey...do you hear that?» Peter asked. I look around. «I dont hear anything...» I was confused,so was Claire. «Hush!» Flame yelled. I was shocked he behaved like that. Flame,Kyle and Peter looked like they were warmed up for something? Like they were in a good mood. Hard to be in a good mood when youre lost in the middle of nowhere. «Whats wrong with you guys?» Claire asked. «You behave like youre ....» Claire stopped and looked at me. «...in love...» I finished the sentance. «The singing,the boys can only hear it! Quick,we gotta get them out of here find something usefull!» We soon ran all over the place but ended up acomplishing nothing. Suddanly something was coming from the mist. I could see the red eyes and after that I saw ghosts. They didnt attack me or Claire,they just hoover pass us. «What? Why they didnt attack us?» Claired asked. «They cant see us. Only the poisoned ones,which are in this case....» I soon realized we left the guys there. «Lets move!» We ran as fast as we could. The ghosts were coming slowly. I managed to find a rope. «Grab that end!» I say to Claire. We circled a few times around them until we tied them up. We pulled them as hard as we could. The ghosts attacked. «Watch out!» I yell and close my eyes. But I didnt feel anything. I look up and see the ghosts are on Flame,Peter and Kyle. «They are killing them!» Claire yelled. «Think of something Gana,think....think!» I say to myself. «Maybe if they cant feel anything...» I said quietly and put my hand on Flame. The last bits of my ice power froze them for a little while. At least until we get out of the mist. The ghosts stopped attacking them and disappeared. «Lets get them out of here,fast!»
* * *

I unfreeze Flame,Kyle and Peter. «What happened?» Peter asked. «We saved your lives...» Claire said. «Actually...Gana did.» she said that when I wasnt listening. They all thanked me for what Ive done. I didnt feel heroic at all. I was thinking of how couldave I done that? I know I lost a lot of my ice powers. I knew if I freeze them that that would destroy the ghosts for sure but there werent many chances that I would be able to unfreeze them later. I was so scared that I wont be able to do it. No more using elemental powers. As I was thinking Flame sit next to me. «Where now?» he asked. I breathe in and out. I look at the brightest star in the sky. «Over there?» I said pointing at the horizon where we could see a temple. «And there is....?» Flame asked. I knew that there is either something that's gonna help us clear things out or......

Fountain of Life

«I told you where to find me?» I was really confused. Flame explaind everything what happened there. «Wow...If I'm loosing all my powrs now I wonder how I get the time traveling ability...» As we were flying I noticed we are crossing a place that hasnt been affected by the war..yet. It's like a forest,or a garden or something. «Lets land here. Maybe we can find some food.» Flame suggested. So we landed on a valley that kinda reminded me of Avalar and the Spirit valley next to the fallen mistfalls village. How I miss that place. «Gana? Are you comming?» Flame asked. I was blank for a second but then a looked at him. «No, I think I'll stay here and rest for a while. You go.» Peter,Claire and Kyle nodded and left in search for food. I layed down,but then I felt someone standing above me. «You're not going,eh?» I asked Flame. «Hah,no. I decided to stay here and...protect you!»
«Oh now I fell down to that level where I need your protection,huh?»
«Yep! You need me....» He said. That was kind of wieard,in a way...but I laughed. «Well you're right...I do need you Flame. Very much» I said. Then we look at eachother for a few seconds. «Uhmm...» I tryed to say something. It was getting a little awkward. «...I'll close my eyes for a few minutes. Wake me up when those 3 come back,ok?» Flame noded. I put my head down and fall asleep.
* * *

«Hey! We found something!» I heard Peter from the distance. As I opened my eyes I noticed Flame was quite close to me. «Eh...Flame,wake up! They found something in the woods.» we get up. «You have got to see this!» Claire said. We followed them. They led us to a fountain. The trees were quiet, the flowers were still. Fireflyes lighten up the beautifull place that I like to call paradise alsongside the sparkling moonlight. The sky was clear, dark blue with stars gathered up like little ants. A light,warm wind started to blow and woke up the trees as they started to dance to the song of crikets...and a beautifull sound of water coming from the fountain. I think I fell in love. I never want to leave this place.
«You found me.....» a misteryous voice said.
«Huh?» we were confused. We looked around but saw noone.
«Down here,right infornt of you....» We looked down
«Where are you? Who is this?» Kyle asked.
«Allow me to introduce myself...I am the Fountain of Life. I am a guide for the ones who lost theyr true path.»
We were shocked. «Fountain?» Claire said.
«Fountain of Life?» I started «I thought.....well,a lot of great dragons say that you dont exist..»
«Thats because they never needed me. I appear as an illusion to the ones that need my guidence. Only for the ones who truly need my help. I do not play God with the ones who dont need me yet keep praying for my apperance...»
This was amazing. I actually met the fountain of life. «So this place,the woods,crikets,flowers,clear skyes,everything that is too good to be true in now-a-days is just...»
«...an illusion,yes.» the fountain interupted Peter.
«It is time for you to go...follow that path,do not get distracted by the gentle singing....»
Soon the place I called paradise faded away and we got surounded by dry lands, burned down trees,and smoke...a lot of smoke. «Who could possibly sing in this gravy yard?» Flame asked.
«Cmon...let's just follow this path, and whoever sings,dont listen!» I say. We followed the path,unaware what teriffying things are just waiting desperatly for an audience to arrive. And they start singing.

Being and Nothingness - Prequel-

November 18th, 2021
Pyron: «Messing with time and trying to change the course of the future is dangerous and you know that!»
Gana: «Yes,but I gotta save myself from being a monster while my brain isnt damaged yet!»
Pyron: «But,no...I cant let you do this. If one little thing goes wrong youll kill us all! Remember the butterfly effect! »
Gana: «You know the things I'll do. Look at me. Im a cyborg. I gotta use this opportnity to prevent more bad things to happen,before its too late!»
Pyron: «You better hurry up then...youre running late...and try not to step on the butterfly»
I close my eyes and go back 3 years in the past,right before the machines captured me and brought me to a transporter.

November 18th, 2018
I saw Flame,Peter,Kyle and myself sleeping. The machines came. «Gana!» Flame yelled. I grab his leg and pull him over. I was a little hard on him so when I grabbed him he screamed of pain. He then looks at me.
Flame: «Gana?? But...how...? What ?»
Gana: «Shhh....stay down.»
Peter: «Flame!!»
I grab Peter and Kyle aswell.
Peter: «What the..?»
We all look at the other me being carried away by those machines.
Flame: «Can you explain whats happening?»
Gana: «I came from the future. I want to prevent a certain event from happening. You see,those machines are carrieing me to a transporter,where there are a lot of survivals. If the tansporter gets to his destination a lot of them will die and I will become a cyborg. Like I am one now. You must destroy the transporter, its on its way to San Francisco. I suggest you hurry up before its too late. You will change a lot of bad things that are to happen in the future. You have to fix all the mistakes we made. And Flame....dont go anywhere....by yourself. Dont try to be a hero and do something stupid. Think twice,before you make a decision. You will change your fate.»

Being and Nothingness

«Gana, no!!» I heard Flame from the other end. But then he yelled. His scream was freezing the blood in my vains. After that I heard nothing. «Flame!» Peter yelled. then he got silent aswell. I didnt see Kyle anywhere but I guess he disappeared alongside Peter and Flame. The machines overruned me. I screamed for help but noone answered. I blacked out.
***
I woke up and noticed Im in a transporter. I look around. There were so many human and dragon survivors and they all are taken into San Francisco,the main hot spot of Buraki, the place overruned by machines. Prison,lab and factory. The main thing is the lab. San Fran is the only place where there are humans and dragons kept. They are not being tortured,held captive for informations and so on. Buraki's virus is using us to turn humans and dragons into perfect skin jobs. Actually, skin and flesh from the outside,machine from the inside. «We are all going to die!» someone yelled. «Nooo nooo!» others cryed. A massive panick attack started in the transporter. «Hey calm down!» I said. «Noone will die. Not under my watch.» I say. «Then do something! Youre a dragon! You have powers!»
«Buraki isnt that stupid! He desgined the machines,the prision,the transporter,everything to reject the physic powers of dragons and humans or any other creatures. Thats why they are so terifying and strong. If they werent,this war would be a piece of cake!» I explain. «So you say they are immune to all the powers we have?» a girl asked. She was so young, I felt really sorry for her to be here in this thing. «Yeah...whats your name?» I ask the girl. «Im Claire. I wanted to be of use to the resitance. Try to save the world. But instead of it I got my parents killed and got myself captured.» I felt it. The pain that she feels now. She was crying,inside. She didnt let it out. «Im sorry....» I put my head down. She didnt say anything. «So you say...you have a power?» Clarie nods. «What can you do?» I was curious. «Its not special,nor something very usefull....» She says. «What is it? Im sure its special» She looks at me. «I have the power of rapid cell regeneration. And I cant feel pain.» I was suprised. Its really a good power. «Now that is really special Claire.» I said and smiled,she smiled back. Sudanlly someone jumps at the transporter. It was Flame. "Flame!" "Step back!" Flame yells. He tryes to brake the prision cell with an axe. For our suprise it was working. He opens the cell large enough for all the dragons and humans to escape. "Look out!" I yell but it was too late. Flame got hit by a harvester that was attached to the transporter. He fell down. "Flame!!" I grab Claire and fly down to catch Flame before he falls to his death. Along the way while I was falling I turned around and used my last bits of fury power to destroy the transporter. The survivors escaped before I turned the transporter into ashes. Finally I grabbed Flame and carried him to safety where Peter and Kyle were waiting. "We have to move on! They know we are here." I say. Flame got up aswell. I pick up Peter and Claire, and he carried Kyle. "How did you guys know I was here?" I asked. Peter,Kyle and Flame looked at eachother. "You told us...." Finally Flame said. "What?!"

As Daylight Dies

«Ok guys,you have to be quiet now» I said to Flame and Peter who were chating and sharing interests. «Focus on finding a shelter where we can finally go to sleep!»
«We have been searching for it for hours now...lets just lay down right...here!» Flame said. «On train tracks? No way!» I said.
«Hey you two,what about this?» Peter yelled. Flame and I walked to him. He found a little tunnel. We manage to go in there and have a rest. But it wasnt too long when... «Wake up!» Peter shook me and Flame. «What?» Flame asked. «Shhhh! I heard something....» Peter said. I started to listen very carefully. After a few minutes «I dont hear anything.» Flame said. Neither do I.
«Its 2 a.m. Its dark outside. They are better hunters in the dark....» I got scared «Ive heard them,theyre hear...» Sudanlly we hear something coming from the end of the tunnel. We exit our shelter. «Ok guys grab something very sharp.» I said. Each of us found something long and sharp «You will go straight for the neck. Thats theyr blind spot. It will disorientate them for a while,but only for a little while! After you did that...run as fast as you can. Peter, climb my back,now!» So he did. Flame and I stayed low and quiet,and kept listening to the footsteps coming from the distance,and another unfamiliar sound. «Here he is!» Flame said. «Stop!» Peter said. «Its not a machine!» The thing we heard runing,was actually a young boy. Id give him 19. It looked like he was runing from someone. As soon as he saw us he stopped and pointed a gun at us. We froze. «Wait! Dont shoot us!» I said. The boy was breathing really fast. «Come with me if you want to live!» He said and ran away. We looked at each other,then we heared motor sounds not so far from us. «Motorcycles?» Flame said. «Runed by machines...go!» We ran after that boy. Two motorcycles cought up to us. One of them drove next to me. Ahead of us there was a post. I pushed it to the left side and it crashed into it. Flame grabbed a sharp piece of metal and pierced it thru the motorcycle that was driving next to him. It crashed down.
«Nice move.» Gana.
«Thanks!» Flame
We stoped runing. «Well at least we got rid of those pests...» Flame
«And we lost the boy!» Gana
«Up here!!» we heard that boy and followed his voice. He led us to the exit of the tunnel and we climb a large rock. He showed us the downtown of Los Angeles,the part from where we first came. It was overruned by transporters,aerostats and T-800's.«Thanks to you they know we are here!» the boy said and turned around. «Hey wait! You cant just leave us here!» Peter yelled. «Oh yea? Well watch me doing it...»

«Stop!» I yell. He turned to me.
«Look at us... We are tired,hungry...we really need your help...please.»
The boy looked at each of us. Then he breathes in and out. «Follow me...» he said.
***

We soon reached a building. It looked like it was about to colapse. I was worried a bit. «Its ok...its safe here.» He said. We enter the building. The boy lights small fire in a flower pot and gives us food. We ate,but we saved a part of the food for later. «So whats your name boy?» Flame asked. «Im Kyle...» Then I felt goosebumps. Oh my God... Kyle... «Im Flame. This is Gana and Peter.»
«So your all by yourself here?» Peter asked,«Yes...»
«Arent you afraid that you will get caught?»
«Each and everyday...»
Thats a good answer.We talked a bit then we went to sleep. After a few hours I felt a hard,cold,metal hand grabbing my neck.

Ashes to Ashes

Pyron is gone,again. Flame also didnt notice he left cause we both were focused on Peter. Pyron probably must have used his shadow power after he said to Peter to show us his abilities. How was I so blind? But then again I know he knows exactly what he's doing. I know that he can take care of himself and that he will be back someday in the future. Maybe tomorrow,maybe next week. I just hope it wont be within a few years. It's been an hour since we left Peters village and Ive started to fear we are lost. «Im tired...were are we going again?» - Flame. «I dont know Flame,but keep up!» -Gana. I was also a bit tired. «Hey! I see someth

ing!»- Peter. «What? Where?» -Flame. «Over there!» Peter pointed to the distance infront of us. It was a smoke rising. It looked like and smelled like a city war. «They need our help! Lets go!» -Gana. We flew towards the smoke and landed in the city. It was a big city,it looked abandoned. We were wrong. There was no city war going on,this town has been destroyed and abanded for over a year. The smoke that we saw was because of an old building that colapsed. «Look at this place.» -Flame said. He grabed a rock and then threw it away. The rock hit a car and broke the car door. «Nice throw...» -Gana. «Thanks!»-Flame. «Hmm...hold on.» I say and ran to the car. «What are you doing?» -Flame. «Im trying to see where we are. What city it is.» I fond the cars registration a

nd picked it up. I turned to Peter. «(213) 897-3656 LA, this is Los Angeles!Well...what's it left of»- Peter. I droped the registration and turned around. I couldnt believe it. I was once in L.A. Actually just passing it by. The city was so big,so full of life. So many humans

lived here. And now whats left of the big city L.A. is just a dessert. I could only imagine the war going on in this city. Cruel,violent,mercless,painfull. «Hey,whos that?»-Peter pointed at someone standing in the distance. Looked like a human. Only a little bigger. «Could be a survivor!» - Flame. «HEY!» -Peter yelled. The misterious figure turned to us and stared. «I dont think that is a...» Before I could finish,that figure started shooting at us. Peter screams. I grab him and we take flight and hide inside a building. «It was a machine? Humanlike»- Flame «Ofcourse..Thats what that king was talking about. But that machine had skin on it! He never mentioned a machine with half skin and human chlotes!» «Yeah I know,its a skin-job. We will review that thing later! As soon as we manage to capture it....somehow» - Gana. «Yeah,how?» - Flame. «I dont know...» - Gana. «We better hide somewehere!» - Peter said and looked around. «over there!» He pointed to a tunnel. «Are you kidding me? Who knows what things are hiding in that darkness!» -Flame. Then sudanlly we heard an explosion. Its coming from the entrance. A skin job was after us. «Its either that or HIM!» -I said. We ran in the tunnel. It was really dark but we could see and I somehow managed to find a light switch on the wall and turned the lights,or whats left of it, on. «A subway!» - Peter. «Lets follow the tracks,it will lead us to the station where we can exit.» «And get back to that skin job? No way...Id rather stay here and look for,I dont kow...food? Place to sleep? Im really tired.» - Flame said. «Flames right. That machine probablly emited signals to others,they will start looking for us around here. Besides,its nearly dark and they are better hunters at night. Im tired aswell, and we do need rest. Specially you Peter. Lets look for shelter. Maybe there are survivors that can help us and give us food.» I said. «Ok...youre right.» - Peter agreed. We continued thru the tunnel,not knowing we were being watched.

Unsettled