The Unexpected

20 • Stupid Black Arrow

"We fell but couldn't stand up"

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The water rushed past my head as I felt an aching sensation in my back. Slowly I opened my eyes as water flowed through my hair. I tried to sit up straight but the pain shot through my back as i fell back on the ground. I wasn't able to sit. I turned my head to the left and saw one of the towers from thr castle right next to me, totally ruined. I scanned my right and saw seperate pieces of the castle. I wasn't able to hear anyone so I had to think of something. "Hello?? Anyone there?" I screamed, but no response. "Celeste?

Zillah?

Raven?

Mother Meira?" I screamed their names but again, no response.

But I started to hear something. Footsteps! I slowly heard footsteps getting closer. "Zillah is that you? Raven? Celeste?" I yelled relieved, but they didn't answer. The footsteps were closer as I looked to my right and saw a man cone up to me. He had a masculine body and a full set of tech clothes on his body.
As anxious as I was I tried to stand up but couldn't because of the pain in my back. The man came closer and hang over my body. He had a black mask around his mouth but took it off when he looked at me. And I directly recognized him.

Lee..

*Celeste POV*

A dizzy feeling went through my head as I tried to open my eyes. My vision was blurry and my stomach ached terribly. I groaned as I breathed harshly. As i clenched my teeth I pressed my hands on my stomach and felt a thick liquid. Blood.
I tried to sit straight but every move gave me a terrifying pain. I saw pieces of the castle fallen to the ground as i tried to crawl towards it and leaned my back on it. I tried to focus on my healing but I got interupted by quick footsteps running towards me. I tried to hide behind the fallen pillar but then a shadow hang over my body. I looked up and saw Raven above me. She jumped down infront of me and quickly went on her knees and placed her hands around my wound. I groaned as I removed my hands sk she could see what stabbed me. "Its glass. I'll pull it out so you can heal it. Just look away." Raven looked at the wound as I looked away and suffered while Raven tried to pull out every piece. I felt her fingers trying to grab the glass and pulling it out. The agony was horrible.

"Done," she says as I put my hands on the wound and started to focus on healing it. "Did you find the others?" I mumbled as she shook her head. "No I didn't. I'll go look for them." She stood up as she jumped right over me and the pillar and started looking for the others. I looked around and noticed we were on the bottom of the wide cliff of Arcelia. The castle was ripped apart and layed here in pieces. I sat against one of the towers as I looked around and noticed that there was a wide beach here. But there was lots of water, I was worried about Zillah.
I saw Raven her shadow appear above me. She jumped over my head and landed infront of me. She had a dissapointed look on her face. "I went all over the beach but there is no sign of Rowan or Zillah." She looked down to the ground as I finished healing my wound.

"Can you use your Kagune?" I asked as her eyes turned red and black and the dark wings appeared. My wings came out of my back as I looked up to the cliff.
We need to find them, I don't want to find Rowans bones next to Zillah," I joked as I looked for our way out. But suddenly a loud sound was heard. We looked at the cliff opening and sudddnly saw a large swarm of Phoenixes flying around eachother. "They are in there!" Raven pointed at the biggest Phoenix and I gasped as I saw Rowan and Zillah chained with weird mechanisms around their body. As far as I could see, Zillah was unconsious and Rowan was constantly moving. The Phoenixes were flying around the biggest one and all had a metal collar around their neck with green injections in them. I was ready to go towards them but then I saw him. Imber flew with them. That couldn't be..They caught him too.