Collision by Alyx D. Vacca (e ink ebook reader TXT) 📖

get Tobi close to us and kill us. I judged him to be alive and not a zombie, so I grabbed his arm and towed him away from the approaching zombies. Henry caught up to us and we ran toward the others who were slowly being cornered by the undead. "Run!" Henry and I yelled. We bolted to the door and when it didn't open I almost started to cry. "We'll have to bust it down," Allen said. "Don't be stupid," Riah told him. "The only way I would let you bust that door down is if I wanted to be attacked by the corpses. This kind of lock is spelled so that as soon as it's closed it's locked. So, the best plan of action would be..." She stepped forward and pulled out a few pieces of wire and inserted some of them into the lock. Within a few seconds the door was open and we were through. Riah closed the door firmly behind us and said to Allen smugly: "And you were going to bust it down." "Now is not the time, Cole." Henry said still watching the door as Allen stared at Riah suspiciously. "Where to next Henry?" Riah asked him brightly. I had finished filling Tobi in. I wanted to say something to him to help with the fact that his fathers body had just tried to kill him, but seriously, what do you say when that happens? I put my arm around his waist and hoped that my presence would help even a little. "This way," Henry said this time checking around corners and occasionally looking up. We were all wary now that we'd all been thrown into a zombie pit. I felt really sad now. If Aloe was a zombie, that meant that she was dead. I wondered what had happened to her. Did they kill her or was she already dead when they got ahold of her body? Tobi would know the finer points of how a zombie was made. Or maybe not, but I could still ask him. "Tobi?" He looked at me. "How are zombies made?" I signed. He shrugged and said, "I wouldn't know, only Necromancers know how. Them and those who hunt Necromancers that is." "Oh," I said aloud. The others looked back at us, unaware of our silent conversation. "'Oh' what?" Riah asked me with a comically puzzled expression on her face. "Nothing," I said. "I was just thinking about something and it just finally made sense, that's all." Tobi raised his eye brows at me but I shook my head to his question, indicating that I did not want to answer it. He shrugged and we continued down the long hall way when Tobi suddenly ran in front of everybody and motioned for them to stop. "What's up Tobi?" Henry asked. Tobi's face was urgent when he started signing. "There is a lot of magic being worked right now. It could be Necromancers or it could be Wizards, but either way I doubt that they're on our side. And I am no great Wizard. Compared to them, I am probably just an annoying little fly on the wall." No one said anything for a minute before Riah rounded on Henry. "Why is it that every time you lead us somewhere there is always something or someone trying to kill us?" He glared at her. "What? Do you think that I plan it like that?" She made a noise somewhere between a snort and a hiccup and turned her back to him huffly. Her act as a boy was starting to fail horribly. So horribly that Allen said, "You're not a boy are you." She froze and Tobi and Henry put their heads in their hands and I just sighed and gave Riah an "I told you so" look. "Um..." She said, not sure what to say. "I'm going to take that as a yes then," Allen said and turned to the rest of us. Which ever one of you gave her lessons on being a boy failed at the teaching." "What makes you so sure I failed?" Henry muttered. "It's not my fault that she's impossible to teach." Me and Tobi snickered as Riah glared at him. "Let me lead," Tobi signed. As I told them what he said Allen studied him then reached toward him and pulled the neck of his shirt down revealing a deep gash that seemed to go all the way down his torso. I stared at the wound for a moment than looked back up at Tobi's face and noticed what I hadn't before. His face was pale as death and his eyes had acquired a kind of dullness. "Sorry Jayd," He signed and then attacked. His hand reached out and grabbed my throat, cold fingers cutting off my air. I couldn't respond. I was in shock. Not Tobi, any one but Tobi! I fell backward just as my vision went dark. The fingers that were choking me let go suddenly and air slowly filtered down into my lungs. My vision cleared just as I saw Henry lift his sword up and bring it down. An animals scream tore through the air as the sword cut in to Tobi's shoulder. I couldn't help my self. This was Tobi. My Tobi, my best and up until now my only friend. I jumped up and pushed Henry away and tried to pull the sword out of him. "Jayd." Said a rasping voice. I realized that it came from Tobi when he coughed and put a hand up to his throat. Only it sounded more like "Awax." I stopped trying to pull out the blade and stared at him. "Stop. Let me die." I burst into tears and sank to the floor. Both of my best friends died in the same day, or at least I found out that one of them was dead whilst the other one died. Skinny arms wrapped around me giving me not the slightest bit of comfort.
We stayed there for around thirty minutes while I sobbed next to Tobi's corpse. I couldn't help but wish that it had been someone else. I know that's mean and an evil thought. But it didn't have to be Tobi. I cried until I felt all dried up inside, I felt empty, like everything that was once inside of me had turned to water and pored out of my tear ducts. Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, Tobi, I didn't realize that I had been saying his name out loud until I felt a touch on my knee. I looked up to see Tobi's hand there and his face tilted towards me. Was it just my imagination or was his eyes getting clearer? "Tobi?" Now I knew it wasn't my imagination. Everyone else was looking at him with astonishment as his skin gained it's usual dark tone as blood flowed through his veins. The only problem was that blood was now flowing through the gash under his shirt. I came alive immediately. "We need something to bind his cuts with and some thing to use as a needle." A bag was thrust under my nose my a large hand. Allen's. "Here, everything you should need. I am glad you know what to do with it, I carry it but there is no way that I could use any of that stuff." I gave him a quick smile and got to work. First I borrowed one of Riah's knives and cute his shirt off, then I rummaged through the bag until I found a jar of ointment and a bottle of water. i pored the water over the wound and Tobi gasped. Riah slipped into place without me telling her to, lifting his head and kneeling at his shoulders and resting his head on her lap. Making sure that she had restricted the movements of his upper body by putting her hands on his shoulders and pressing down gently, but firmly. Henry went to his legs and did the same as Riah, putting pressure on his calves so that he couldn't kick. I took a little of the ointment onto my fingers and spread it into the ugly gash. Like we expected he buckled and wrenched in pain. I quickly rubbed more in and then got out a needle and thread, sewing the wound closed. As I did this I asked Allen to get the bandages out of the bag. I held out my hand like a professional surgeon for the next tool. He put the bandages into my hand, neatly folded and ready for use. I wrapped them around him quickly, Henry and Riah did exactly what I needed them to do, and for that I was grateful. I sat back when I was done and found that I had started to sweat, I was so nervous about sewing him up, I had never giving any one stitches before. "Where did you get training for this anyway Jayd?" Riah asked curiously. She was my patient once too. "I never had any, I was just guessing both times." Tobi (conscious enough to hear) and Riah stared at me in absolute horror. "What? When would I have gotten taught this anyways? It shouldn't be that much of a surprise to you Tobi!" He didn't hear me though, he'd passed out. We didn't linger any longer than necessary. Allen, being bigger and taller than any of us carried Tobi as we continued down the long corador and through door ways picked by Henry. Finally he opened a door that led to a stair case and up we all went. At the top was an observatory. Bookcases lined one wall and the ceiling was a big glass dome that showed different places depending where you look. But the worst part is that I had been here before. This wasn't part of the palace though. I don't know when Tobi had become conscious but he was and it was he who said, "Not here." Moran walked into the room from the kitchen and started in surprise. "What are five doing here already? I hadn't finished preparing!"

Chapter Fourteen
The Unexpected Can Be a Sad Thing

"Wha- why? Moran you almost killed your son!" I didn't believe it. Moran was the Necromancer, he was the one who most likely killed all those people back there and turned them into zombies. For a year now Moran had been like a second father, I couldn't believe that he would- Wait what? I already knew that Moran was behind all this. Why didn't I tell anyone? Why didn't I remember? "Do you remember now Jayd?" Moran said, evilly. "Do you remember walking into my Tower for a spell and seeing my plans? Do you remember what the world was like before the