The Prisoners: Fight the Tarrasque

[Celena]

She had a dagger tucked in between a black belt, both which she had picked up from the area of weaponry, and then there was the mace which was gripped in her right hand. Despite her best efforts, the heavy mace had hardly dealt any damage to the largest monstrosity she had ever encountered, known as the Tarresque, and also known as Magnus’ pet monster. As if battling the unstoppable creature was bad enough, they also had to deal with the hacker, Magnus himself. The monster was obviously capable of defending itself; therefore it seemed Magnus was there for his own pleasure.

Xenia ran her left hand through her moist blonde hair as she gazed at a copy of Moby Dick that lay on the ground near her, unable to work out why random things were appearing out of nowhere Among the couple of books that lay on the desert, were a few bottles and soda cans. What also puzzled her was that despite being on the battlefield for the past twelve minutes, Magnus had yet to attack her. He had gone past her a few times but each time, had shown no interest in her despite telling her during their previous altercation that he was going to ‘enjoy killing her’. Perhaps he wanted to save her for last, but he may not get his wish if the Tarresque had its way with her, however, Magnus’ lack of interest towards her was not only mutual, but it worked in her favour because there was a matter she had to take care of, ahead of Magnus and the beast.

With a swift flight journey, she made her way over to her sister and the young man known as Ander. “Hey Xenia,” he smiled; taking note of her screwed up face, and then trailed his eyes to the weapon she was holding in her right hand. “This situation is awful, I agree.”

The blonde turned to view her sister, who was wearing her usual expression, the sad puppy.

“Depressing, isn’t it?”

“B-But we can win, right?”

“I asked you a question.”

“You’re not helping,” said Ander.

Sage dipped her head towards the sand. “I wish you never ever had to see me like this.”

“Then do something about it. Isn’t there anything that can change your mood?”

Ander gave Sage a shifty expression. He was thinking what the blue haired girl was thinking, Valium, but she had no intention of revealing her secret to her sister, and the young man was not about to rat on her even though he felt Xenia deserved to know the truth.

Meanwhile a handful of people had managed to redirect the Tarresque away from the mansion and back towards the opposite direction while Magnus tried his best to keep an eye on the trio, Xenia especially.

This was definitely the most awkward moment of Sage’s life, so awkward that she prepared to go toe to toe with the Tarresque just to get away from the moment. Ice began to form from around her hands while Ander took steps forward. “I’ve got it.” Xenia placed her hand on Sage’s shoulder. “How about Valium?”

The daggers of ice stopped moving as she gazed at the desert in horror, while Ander had to stop in his tracks.

“Why the face?”

She knows, Ander thought to himself. Had Xenia listened to their conversation earlier? If so then he suspected that the Tarresque and Magnus were not the only things he would have to worry about, unless she was cool with Sage having kept this secret from her for so many years, and that she had told him a secret neither were supposed to reveal to anyone.

The ice resumed its formation but Xenia grabbed a hold of her wrist, wincing due to how cold her palm felt, but she was willing to bear it, just as long as she stopped the ice princess from trying to escape from the subject.

“Don’t avoid my questions. Why the face?”

Xenia’s teeth began to clatter while her hand began to sting. For the first time since she could remember, Sage meant her sister harm. She had no intention of reducing her body temperature. She hoped Xenia would let go of her and let her fight the Tarresque in order to prevent the truth from coming out.

Xenia finally let go, placing her red, right hand by her stomach, trying not to utter a cry of pain even though she was hurting. Unable to sustain the weight of the mace in her other hand, she let it sink to the ground. “Just admit it! Admit the truth!”

Sage released a shrilling cry, collapsing onto her knees.

“Admit it!”

“Nooo!” Sage cried, pressing her hands on her face to cover her teary eyes. Xenia released an effortful groan as she used her free hand to pull Sage off the ground. “Nooo!” Sage tried to pull away but her twin gripped onto her like a relentless pit-bull.

Once Xenia realised she was not getting her way, she let her go and watched the blue haired girl sprint away. Ander tried to go after her but was intercepted by the blonde who shoulder blocked him, his momentum, almost the cause of him toppling backwards. “For a reason I can’t understand, she told you and not me, and then there’s the fact that you know who I really am.”

“I’m sorry you had to find out the truth the way you did and not from Sage herself, but as for the other part, I promise, your secret is safe with me.”

“I don’t know anything about you so I can’t trust you with that secret.”

“Sage trusts me, just as I trust her.”

“But the point is that I don’t trust you.”

“You don’t understand the relationship your sister and I have.”

Sage had no idea where she was heading; she just kept running until she tripped, landing flat out on her face. After spitting out dust from her mouth she turned around to see Xenia and Ander in the distance facing one another. A bad vibe lingered, one that caused her to get up and run back towards them.

“There was a reason why we couldn’t tell anyone who we really were, but now that you know, it could be troublesome. I can’t let you live.”

“What?”

With a hiss, Xenia quickly raised her hands in length with his neck and clawed her fingers while her eyes turned completely purple. Ander used both hands to grasp his neck. “With my psych kinesis; I can kill you without even touching you.”

Ander fell to one knee, continuing to struggle while his face turned bright red.

“There’s no use trying to struggle. I’ll eventually crush your neck.”

A dagger of ice pieced into the ground, ten centimetres from Xenia’s feet, causing her to lose her concentration, eyes returning to their normal colour.

“I take it! I take Valium.!” Sage reached into her top and pulled out a tube of tablets. Tears raced down her eyes while her hands trembled, tablets rattling. “Please don’t hurt him! It’s my fault! I should have told you!” Sahe threw the tablet case onto the floor and began stepping on it. “Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!” Due to the dusty ground, the case did not break under her feet, only dug deeper and deeper into the ground.

“Why him?!” yelled Xenia, pointing at Ander.

“I didn’t want to tell him! I didn’t want him to know anything!”

“Gamer is supposed to be the enemy, yet I found out the truth from his mouth. If it wasn’t for him you’d have continued to hide the truth from me.” She laughed. “Ironic isn’t it? He revealed to me something that the person I consider the closest to me, kept hidden from me.”

“I didn’t mean for any of this,” Sage sobbed.

“It’s too late. You’ve already broken our promise. I can’t let anyone live to share our secret.”

“No!” Sage screamed.

Had Sage not alerted her, she would not have seen the blade poised in her direction. Ander thrust it towards her neck, but she leapt backwards.

“Stop it! Sage came in between them.

“Get out of my way, Sage!” Ander growled, but Sage refused to move.

Xenia reached for her blade. It had yet to get a taste of action, but she had every intention on utilizing it now. His blade was around two inches bigger but that did not bother her. Ander knew too much; he had to die, it was that simple.

“This is all your fault Sage; now Ander has to die because of your incompetence. I’m going to slice him into pieces. Unless he can regenerate himself which I highly doubt, even you won’t be unable to heal him.”

It was no good standing in her way because what Sage failed to realise was that Xenia intended on slicing her way through her in order to get to Ander.