When angels fall
Alex jumped out of the hotel window randomly, causing a big scene in the streets, Alex didn’t need to do it, but it felt necessary, with the entire crowd staring at him it was in great silence, then everything returned back to normal as if it never even happened, it’s not like he was carrying various explosive foods and drinks or anything, and if he was, it’s totally legal! Alex went on the unnecessarily curvy path out into the desert before he heard a cry for help, “get off me you punks!” a woman cried out, Alex rushed over to the sound to see a woman fighting a pair of men in strange suits, they were yellow with a black X over the chest, Alex drew his trash can knife on the men and they both jumped back, “you dare try and fight the angels sent here to free the world? Lord Icarus won’t be happy to hear that some stupid kids are getting in the way, this guy must be the dude Doctor X was talking about” the men muttered, the woman said “let’s kick these guy’s heads off!” she then charged at them at full speed, giving Alex no choice but to join in, the angels pulled out laser weapons, with a few failed attempts at stabbing them due to the mini shields projected off of their arms, the girl quickly circled around and swept one of the men off of his feet and then she body slammed him into the ground, taking his laser gun she then shot the other man’s arm to take his shield away, Alex then rushed towards him and sliced the front of his armor which electrocuted the man shortly before frying him up, he cried out for mercy and they both backed up “you just wait until the captain gets a hold of you!” They cried, “the captain?” Alex wondered, the men both laughed in pain and fled the scene of attack.
“Thanks man, my name’s Lucy, I’m surprised you helped me although you don’t look like you’ve lived here long, what brings you here?” Lucy asked, “I’m hunting down a treasure and those guys are too I think” Alex answered, Lucy’s jaw dropped “no way! I’m looking for a treasure too, I was gonna take it and sell it whatever it was, and rumors have been spreading about it being right in the oasis not too far from here!” Alex then asked “why wouldn’t I help you by the way?” Lucy blushed and said “well I’m actually a thief, my reputation isn’t that good for my looting habit, yeah nobody really likes me, but since you’re looking for that treasure and you helped me, I guess I could help you for a little while, I got no better plans!” Lucy said, Alex accepted her request to join the journey, probably thinking that Lucy was going to be his girlfriend, Lucy then guided Alex out further into the desert to find the oasis, it took hours of walking and running from living cacti, you thought cacti couldn’t move? Cacti are actually the deadliest hunters in the wild, proven fact dude, or at least that’s what a hippie told me after I bought a suspicious flower from him.
All of the sudden in the calm desert, a strong gust kicked up, and the sand began to raise and create a small sandstorm, after a few seconds the storm revealed a golden vizor and a shadowy figure came forward to the pair of heroes, “what’s your business here?” Asked the figure, it was wielding a massive hammer almost twice the size of the 7 ft beast lurking in front of the heroes, “what’s it to you weirdo?” Lucy said, the figure laughed and then it leaped into the sky and slammed in front of the pair once again knocking the storm away, “you have no business being in MY desert, go back to where you came or I’ll make you into a sweet and syrupy pancake treat!” The heroes looked at each other for a moment and then back to the midnight purple armored figure, looking back and forth it waited for a response or some sort of action, but then the heroes stopped and yelled “RUN!” Before jolting away, the figure chased after them with incredible speed and swung her hammer after them in desperate hope to land a hit, the swift heroes were fast enough to dodge the hammer though, and this angered the warrior, they once again leaped into the sky with a loud roar and crashed down with a powerful wave of fire erupting from their war hammer, when they missed, they lost sight of our heroes and ran around looking for them. “That was a close one!” said Lucy, who became visible out of nowhere along with Alex “what just happened?!” He asked, “oh right, I’m a master of stealth, it’s a thief thing you know? Like becoming transparent, or is that just me and the weird radioactive muffins I ate on that field trip one time?” Lucy answered “let’s get out of here before that crazy dude comes back” said Alex, after turning around they noticed trees out in the distance, they looked like palm trees, it must be the oasis!
After a quick run towards the trees they encountered a large body of sparkling pure water with a giant statue of a beautiful woman carrying buckets of water with many actual human sized statues surrounding her presence, bowing and kneeling to it. There was something written on the plaque, “to gain the power of Oriah you must prove your strength in a trial, touch the plaque to go to your trial” Alex read aloud, he then touched the plaque without second thought, streams of water jumped up and out of the oasis and formed into a hand that grasped an air bubble, it was very convenient to walk into, like an ancient elevator! The pair went into the bubble and arm retracted back into the water, a woman’s voice called out “I grant you my power temporarily so that you may pass my trials, at the end you will face my bravest and most loyal knight, Sariah, guard of the oasis, I wish you luck” the ceiling began to leak a sparkling water which gave the pair a rush of power, Alex could now make it rain and blast powerful bubbles of water wherever he wanted, neat! It was a straightforward path and only one room to go in, the room was empty of a floor and only had the walls and 2 doors, “uh I don’t think we can make a jump like that” Lucy said remarking about the 50 feet in between the doors, with the bottomless pit splitting them apart, Alex looked at the ceiling to inspect the room closely, he noticed that there was a path of light in it, he made the room rain with his trial power, and with the rain along the path of light left a streak of a path in between the doors following the pattern, the light that fell down reflected on the path, making a clear path to follow, they followed it of course and entered the next room “very well, ” the voice called out, this room was much smaller, but there were lines along the floor and a gate locked in the middle of the room, many wire looking paths were leading to an eye above the door on the other side, they examined every detail and Alex tried shooting the eye with water bubbles to no avail, he shot at the paths for nothing, he made it rain for nothing, they looked at the wall where they just came, there was a hole in the wall that looked like it could fit a knife, Alex stabbed it slowly but nothing happened, Lucy then tried and the a few tiles popped open on the roof, Alex shot a bubble into it and it drained throughout the small paths and flowed into the eye, a teardrop began to form and it fell into the dents of all the tiles, causing the entire room to glow and the gate to disappear. “This place is weird huh?” Lucy said, “not the weirdest thing I’ve seen” Alex replied, they then walked into a a blank room, with only a statue, immediately, it began to crack and broke open and exploded to show Sariah, the tall guard of this sacred temple, she stretched and pulled out a whip of water, “let us duel 1 on 1, hero” Lucy was then cast to the side unwillingly, immediately Sariah charged and threw her whip at a great speed, Alex shot a bubble to the ground on instinct and shot up into the air a little bit and threw a bubble as he landed towards the guard, “you’ve already got the hang of that skill, but your foes won’t go down that easily, you must prove all of your strength to me before I let you win!” During her monologue Alex was already rushing forward with his knife and he took 3 swift slices, each blocked, he was swept off his feet and slammed into the ground with an effortless hit, a whip flew at him and he shockingly caught it, and pulled it back to himself, he then whipped at her and knocked her back with a great force, this was no ordinary whip!
This was Alex’s time to strike, he lunged forward and jabbed the knife into her chest, he stabbed it into her shoulder as she reacted too slow to deflect the hit, Alex shot a bubble into her stomach and tried again with the knife, Sariah kicked him away and she fell to her knees, “you’re much stronger than I had anticipated, and I’m much weaker than I had thought... this will do, you pass the trial... I could hardly even fight-” before finishing the roof broke open and out came the shadowy figure from earlier “nice to meet you again, hero, I see you’ve handled this fight for me” Sariah lunged herself towards them and they had an equal force of power within them, neither side would budge with the pushing and many attacks, a beam of light shot up from the center of the room, and the heroes were cast into it, on the way out a pair of tear shaped earrings were equipped onto Alex, they glowed and said “these earrings are the artifact! Go before this beast gets-” she was cut off with a painful groan and a loud crash, then from the same area the figure shot up out of the water with its large hammer, its helm was gone, revealing long hair that was slicked back into a ponytail, long dark purple hair flowed alongside her armor, when her eyes met theirs they glowed a golden light, she drew her finger across her neck, but before she realized, a bubble of water shot into her face, and it caught her off guard, this gave heroes time to run again, although this time they had bubbles of water to shoot constantly to move much quicker.
Once in the town they stopped by the Doctor’s shop, but it was closed and absent with the mentally insane doctor, the heroes decided to catch their flight back home, Lucy deciding it best to leave this place considering how awful she felt it was, and she was angry that the treasure was just earrings, she hoped to find goodies somewhere along the journey, on the flight Lucy dug through her bag and noticed something very peculiar, it looked like a tape, it said “Warning: requires communicator to properly play” Alex then remembered the device the doctor had given him “I didn’t pick this up... you know what it is?” Alex took the tape and put it in the device, it was labeled “Data log X-1” on a new menu that appeared, the pair listened to it and it had a lot of rustling, but soon a voice came to play, but what it said was very unexpected…