The Race Chapter 4-5

Chapter 4

As the month went by Maverick was bombarded by many important jobs that had to do with the Alliance ball, rebellious groups and much more.

As Maverick entered his room at the Alliance Base: Bishop; he lied down on his bed exhausted after another conference with the world leaders about these rebellious groups as even then he heard their voices in his head (Flashbacks to the conference)

“What are we going to do about these groups; the more days that grow by the more these rebellions are increasing.”

The president looked down then to Maverick, “General Maverick what are we going to do to keep these rebellions under control?”

Maverick sat there and thought, “What I think is that your people haven’t gotten used to our people interacting because of the war. Mainly from the deaths both sides have suffered during this war it’ll take a lot of time for both sides to soften up, which is why I think this Alliance ball with be a beneficial even for both sides to interact with each other.”

Before leaving Maverick stood, “I assure you my lords with both sides working together to help preserve the peace it’ll go by fast and I’ll take care of anything and everything.” (End Flashback)

Maverick rubs his hand on his face trying to help quell his headache, “Can I even handle this whole thing by myself? If I fail the blame will be on me and my people…”

Maverick turns and looks at a picture of his friends and pulls it closer focusing on, “Guys I feel so…alone ever since you guys left, I can’t handle this alone.” “You’re not alone.”

Maverick stiffened up as he shot up and saw his baby brother Phayt who was comatose for the past 1½ year walked in smiling, “Hey big bro how’s it going?”

Maverick lunged at his brother giving him a big hug, “Phayt, when did you awake!!”

Phayt sat down, “Last night actually. When I woke up I looked around waiting to get my next order, then I find out that the war’s been over for a month now, and that my Big bro Mave saved both our race and the human race from wiping each other out of existence!!”

Maverick blushed, “Well I did have some encouragement.” They both laughed as Maverick grabbed his head with one hand, “Oh man I have a serious migraine from all of this stuff, first the conference, and I have to set up this party so that the humans won’t be afraid of the deities but I can’t think of a way to have this work.”

Maverick sat down as Phayt thought about it, “Oh yeah Uncle and dad told me about it, the Alliance ball, hmmm, what’s the theme of the party Mave?”

Maverick picked up some papers and looked, “Apparently it’s going to be a mascaraed ball, nice theme, why do you ask bro?”

Phayt thought about it then smiled, “I got it, since the humans are still scared of the deities, why don’t we have the deities look like humans!”

Maverick looked at Phayt as he smiled, “By using our energy to conceal our wings and halos we can blend with the humans with no problems!” Maverick laughed and smiles, “Phayt you’re still a genius after a 1½ year of being comatose!! There will be some Deities that don’t want to conceal themselves but I don’t think that’s going to be a problem.”

Later that day after Maverick rested he just got out of the shower as Phayt sat their looking at the picture of their friends, “Those were good times, us just messing around and getting into trouble. Who knew that the day we actually decided to play in the park that day, it would be the last time we’d see everyone smiling and then they were gone as you carried me out of the destroyed park. Every time, I think about it; one thing keeps dawning on me bro.”

Maverick walked over to him and asked, “What’s up bro? What do you have on your mind?”

“Why didn’t we perish just like they did? We were exposed to that explosion more than they were, so why were we the lucky ones?”

Maverick went silent as Phayt put the picture down, “I don’t think we should go to this party next month Maverick. I don’t trust the humans, what if they try and pull something on us, what if this time you get hurt… and I can’t protect you!?”

Phayt wiped his tears as Maverick walked over to him and hugged him, “Don’t worry bro, I’ll make sure that nothing happens to us ever again.” Maverick smiled at him as he put on his Jacked and shoes then cloaked his wings as a shroud, “I'm gonna go for a walk kay, I’ll be back soon. If you can finish those party preparations, that’ll be helpful.”

As Maverick walked through the streets he came upon a park that reminded him of the park that him and his friends would play in or just hang out at. He turned down the path and walked slowly looking left and right getting weird stares from everyone but just kept stepping. As he kept walking he saw that everyone was crowding around a really tall tree which held an infant in it about to fall. Maverick turned as he the child falling from the top branch and ran at him as the parents screamed. He pushed up his glasses and summoned his wings jumping into the air and catching the child.

As he floated down he handed the boy off to his parents smoothing the child with love and care. As he landed people whispered and stared as he didn’t bother to change his wings back and put his hands in his sleeves then walked away. Suddenly before he put his hand away a smaller hand came into his.

He looked down and saw the child that he rescued smiling at him missing a tooth, “Thank you, Mr. Angel.”

Maverick smiled as he took a feather that glew black and white then gave it to the kid, “You’re most welcome young one. Keep that safe now, okay.”

As he walked away the parents came over and smiled as the mother said, “You know we were wrong about you’re kind young man, not all of you are bad.”

Maverick smiled as he looked over and saw Sianne looking at him as he was thinking, “Weird is she one of the girl’s that was at the Presidents place… Eh it’s probably just my imagination.” As night came he kept walking as his wings, jacket and moon amulets illuminated in the Moonlite shining bright as he came upon a house that made him stop and look at it.

“I don’t know why…but I feel like this house… there’s this warm feeling coming from this house…” He looks up and sees a silhouette of a girl then shakes his head, “Eh I think it’s just the cold getting to me.”

As Maverick walked away he got a call from Emperor Rush asking him to return to the base to speak in private about an important matter. As Maverick spread his wings he flapped them creating a gale and flew off towards the base not knowing that the house and silhouette he saw had an eye on him.

Chapter 5

As Maverick flew back to the base he looked down and saw something in the park, something that didn’t look human. As he flew down he looked around and saw a menacing shadowy figure creeping in the darkness, as it kept moving Maverick started to channel energy into his hands engulfing them as it seep into the floor canceling out the Moonlite from his jacket, “Okay whoevers there come out now or else I’ll be forced to draw you out!”

“Oh so demanding now eh Mavey? I like it, it shows that you’ve matured, and you’re not afraid to use…you’re dark powers.”

Maverick heard the seductive voice as it got closer and thought it sounded familiar, “Who are you?”

The woman walked out of the shadows and flipped her hair back as she put her hands on her hips and licked her lips seductively, “Hey there Mavey, long time no see.”

Back at the base Rush was talking to Phayt and Tomias, “Damn it Maverick at a time like this you chose to be late, oh well this can’t wait.”

Phayt looked up, “Uncle, Dad, what’s going on, what’s so important?!”

Emperor Rush looked at Tomias then back to Phayt, “Well Phayt we have heard from the fortuneteller on Eden that she thinks that someone she talked to has come here with a purpose to kill someone.

Phayt looked confused, “Well this is going to be hard, but all we need is to do is monitor everything right?”

Tomias shook his head, “It’s much harder than that Phayt the fortuneteller says that she’s already here.”

Phayt looked confused, “Wait she, and the way you two are reacting to this, whoever she is must be dangerous, dad who is she?

Tomias looked into Phayt’s eyes and sighed, “The woman whose come to Earth for the death of one human used to be one of ours thought to dead at the beginning of the war. Her name is…”

Back in the park, Maverick stepped back as he heart stopped and the energy around his hands vanished, “Ph…Phantasia!? Yo…YOU’RE ALIVE!!” As she walked closer he couldn’t believe it even more, “How’s that possible, I saw you’re ship go down, I checked the remains myself and saw you’re body, YOU WERE DEAD!!!”  

She walked over to him and placed her hands on his face smiling seductively and talking close to his lips, “There’s no reason to fret Mavey I’m here now and thanks to you, this pesky war is over and we can finally be together, all I need to do is one little thing.”

But when she put her hands on his face he felt an evil pulse go through his body seeing the real purpose she had really come for but not the full complete picture. There were pieces missing from this deranged puzzle that he couldn’t figure out. But he knew he had to do something before she could successfully carry out this plan.

Phantasia pulled him closer trying to kiss him when suddenly he disappeared and reappeared behind her with a dark energy blade pointed past her shoulder, “Mavey what are you...”

“Don’t play dumb Phantom, I saw everything when you touched my face, you’re plans to kill someone, I just don’t understand why you want to!? What has one human done to you?”

She turned trying to hit him and jumped on top of a tree, “This human is just like all the rest, they all deserve to DIE!!!” She waves her hands summoning these strings like beams down upon Maverick as she flies down and looks at the smoke, “Oh Maverick babe, we could’ve been the rulers of this pathetic plan-ET!!!”

Suddenly Phantom was blasted into the open field by a pitch black claw. She turns to the direction and sees Maverick with these strange demonic hands sticking out of the ground from his shadows protecting him as he looked at her, “Humans deserve to live along with our kind. I chose this alliance to help both races, but what I can’t stand is when people like you who try to destroy this era of peace for their own…selfish…REASONS, LUNAR HAVOC!!!” Maverick fused his arms with the shadows and fired glaives that spired around Phantom trapping her in an explosion.

He lifted his shadow infused arms as it started to surge with energy fusing with him and slowly corrupting him and torturously hurting him deeply, “*Gh, D-Damn, I THOUght that I wasn’t effeCTED by Eclipse magic. I never kNew it could be…this…PAINful!!!”

He looked up seeing Phantom smiling, “Ooohhh ssoo much power, I love it!!” She lunges at him as he conjured up black arrow in his claws and released a battle cry firing them at her.

Meanwhile at the base, the alarm went off alerting everyone, “Whats going on!?”

Phayt yelled to his father as they rushed to the energy radar and saw a huge spike in the area of the park, “It seems there a large spike of dark matter energy in this park!”

Phayt thought about it then yelled, “THAT’S WHERE MAVERICK IS!!! He must’ve encountered Phantasia!!”

Emperor Rush came in concerned, “This isn’t good, if the humans see Maverick in this or find out that another human was hurt in this squabble, not just will we pay the price, but he will get the worse of it!”

Phayt rushed outside and kept running as he looked around as he looked at his hand and concentrated, “I haven’t used my powers for a year,” Suddenly Phayt started to burn up then erupts into flames, “But as an Elemental Deity, AS PHAYT CELESTI CLOUD, I WILL PROTECT MY BROTHER!!!” Phayt summoned his flames into the form of wings as they crystalized with ice and took to the skies seeing police cars heading to the dark exploding spires in the park.

Meanwhile at the park Maverick was in heated combat with Phantasia as he started to grow weaker the more he used his Eclipse magic. Suddenly Phantom appeared behind him and kicked him onto the air and released a combo of dark attributed punches and kicks then sent him flying to the ground and continuing to bombard him with more and more bolts causing an explosion that echoed through the city causing all to awaken and head for the cause.

Phantom flew down and stepped on his chest pressing down harder and harder piercing his chest causing him to scream in pain with her heals smiling as she holds an orb in her hands charging it more and more, “Sorry Maverick, but this is goodbye!!!”

“GET YOUR DAMN SLUTISH HEELS OFF MY BROTHER!!!” Phantasia turned and saw Phayt coming at her as his flames changed from red to purple to black the faster he got, “PHAYT, THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE, CRIMSON BARRAGE!!!” She fired these blood red orbs at him as they dissipated before they reached him and he kept coming.

“YOU TRAITOR, RIOT JAVALIN!!!” Phayt increased his speed faster and faster than created sonic boom right before head butting her off of Maverick and setting on fire as he lied on top of Maverick like a wolf ready to pounce,  “NEVER…TOUCH…MY…BROTHER!!!”

Phantom looked over and laughed as she looked at them and smiles as Maverick looked over at her with pain and rage.

As they readied themselves Maverick fell to his knees trying to stand as all eyes were on the three of them waiting to see who’ll make the next move, or who’ll end the other first.