SHADOW'S QUEST (On Hold!)

Chapter 2 - Shadow

I heard voices again.

"Wake him up," someone said. The voice was that of a calm and gentle male who was probably in his early twenties.

"I'm trying," another voice said. This was a voice of a girl about my age. It sounded very familiar. The voice was beautiful and smooth; that of an angel. There was no way someone could forget a voice like that. "Jacky wake up, please."

There was only one person that called me by that name, and that was Jade. I opened my eyes to see her emerald eyes staring right back at me. "What?"

"Oh good! You're awake," Jade hugged me before helping me to my feet.

"Where are we?" My chest still ached, but it did felt a little better. My vision was slowly coming back to me, and for a while I couldn't see anything that was more than six feet away.

"I don't know," replied Jade, "One thing for sure is that we're not in the school's bathroom anymore."

Good we're not in the bathroom anymore. Maybe that flash of light I saw was the fire fighters trying to see who was still in the school. My eye sight hadn't returned yet, so for right now Jade was the only person I could see. She had some ash on her cheeks, but she still looked great. Her curly hair was messy and everywhere.

I tried to wipe my eyes to see if it would help my vision. Instead I ended up getting sand in them.

"What the heck! Where did this sand came from?" I yelled.

"Wait, hold still. Let me get it out of your eyes," Jade said. She grabbed my hand, opened my eye lid and blew air into it. "Is that all better?"

I didn't want to give her the satisfaction and I also felt embarrassed that she pulled a mom move on me. "It's alright I guess."

"Are you two done fooling around?" another voice said. It was the same voice as before. "Your eye sight should return to you anytime now."

I opened my eyes again. This time they were back to normal. I was finally able to see where we were and was highly surprised and disappointed. We were in the middle of nowhere, literally. There was no civilization in sight. Just a blanket of sand and a hot sun beaming down on us.

"Where the hell are we? The Sahara desert?" I asked.

Someone laughed, "Not even close."

I looked up to see a figure. No, literally a figure. It looked like a shadow of someone, but it was floating in mid-air.

"What are you?" I asked.

"You meant to say who you are?" he said. "I'm still a human but I sent my shadow because I had some important work to do."

"Sent your what? Never mind that just tell us where we are."

The shadow stopped floating and stood on two legs. He walked toward us. "Yes," he said "you guys are the ones I was looking for. It was a good thing I showed up when I did or else you would've been dead."

"Thanks for saving us," Jade bowed.

"One question," I looked at the shadow. There was one question that been on my mind since I woke up and I need an answer now. "Why would you go out of your way to save us?"

"Would it be enough just saying I did it out of the kindness of my heart?" he replied.

"That would've been enough if we were still at the school," I replied back. "But that's not the case here. We're in the middle of nowhere and I'm thirsty!"