Chat room adventures

"It looks just as pretty flooded," Alice said space casingly.

"Alice, did you have your coffee this morning?" Bella asked reprochfully.

Alice jumpped as if just realizing she wasn't alone. "Oh, yeah i did, but...I just think somethings wrong."

Everybody tensed.

"Not here, but...the Highwind. We'd better hurry."

Nutty looked around. "Well then, let's go. Before Adam rips our heads off for going AWOL, or something."
The others agreed, and moved. Or, tried to.
"Um...how do we move while we're in this, bubble-thingy?"

Adam tugged at his bindings, weak and cold. What is going on? What was that thing? So many questions and a large lack of answers.

Someone...Alice? Bella? Matt? Nutty?

He fell back into unconciousness.

Alice smiled and shoved the edge of the bubble, immeaditly it started to roll.

Within twenty minutes they had the spatula and was on their way back to the Highwind.

Within two hours they were back on the Highwind, sneaking off to their rooms. Alice not being tired at all, decided to find Adam and apologize for most of the crew going AWOL.

She went onto the deck and saw Adam sitting comfortably in his chair, "Adam?"

He turned and smiled hugely at her, "why hello Alice, how are you?"

Alice took a stunned expression before replying, "fine, you did know we were gone?"

Adam nodded.

"And you're not mad?"

"No you came back didn't you?"

Mattster looked at the object in his hands. It resembled the handle of a sword.

"Evidently," he said to Bella and Heather, who were looking at it too, "you hold the handle and imagine what weapon you want it to be, and it becomes that weapon!"

Heather sighed. "Matt, that's the fifth time you've said that. Try it already!"
"Oh, right."

Mattster held the handle and imagined a sword. He closed his eyes and imagined a sword even harder. He opened his eyes and wasn't surprised to see that a sword, shining silver, sparkling with powerful battle magic, had failed to appear. He sighed and handed the handle to Bella.

Adam opened his eyes, looking at the cave walls. The ability to struggle was gone and he no longer knew how long he had been there. The bite seemed to have done more damage than he thought. Cold was sweeping his body, and feeling was being lost in his limbs.

Cant...give...up... He hoped with all his might, with every bit of energy he had left, that someone would come. One of his friends would save him. Hurry...

"How come it didn't work?" Heather wondered.

"The lack of the revenge factor, remember?" Mattster sighed and then turned eagerly to Bella who was still examining the handle.

"Go on Bella, try it," Heather urged.

"I did," She sighed. "It doesn't work."

"Well there goes that plan," Matt sighed.

"No," Heather objected. "We have to try Adam. He should have a large enough need for revenge."

"He's going to be so mad at us that he might just decide to use it against his friends," Bella sighed.

Heather and Matt decided to wait a while to show Adam the weapon, in case he really was mad. Bella, on the other hand, decided to go see him. She walked down to his room, and knocked on the door. No answer. She opened hte door and went in.

The room was in complete and utter disarray. All of Adam's research, books, and other belongings were strewn across the floor; and Adam was no where in sight. Bella closed her eyes, summoning her magic so she could see what had happened here while they were gone. WHen she opened her eyes again, she was near tears.

Adam was gone.

Bella didn't know who the fake Adam was, but she resolved not to tell the others. THey would act irrationally, and possibly put Adam in more danger. If Adam couldn't defeat this guy, it wasn't safe to let him know that she knew the truth. She had to find Adam though. She tried telepathy.

*Adam. Adam, can you hear me? Please answer me.*

Adam....

Could it be? It sounded so familer....

Adam!

"Bella?" he could barely get the words out.

Where are you Adam?

"I dont know Bella....I'm dying....you must save he crew. The imposter, he must be stopped.....hurry......."

Adam!

"Dammit," Bella muttered, stopping her telepathy for a moment. She knew he could do telepathy, but why wasn't he answering? He couldn't be dead...it wasn't possible. Well, it was, but this was Adam; Adam couldn't just die, to the crew he was practically immortal. She tried once more.

*Adam?* she waited. *Please answer!*

*I can hear you,* came the feeble reply in her head. She sighed in relief.

*Where are you?* she demanded.

*I don't know. The Adam that's there; he's an imposter...you have to stop him, to save the crew.*

*But we have to save you too!*

*It may be too late to save me...I'm dying.*

*No! But I can't...* she stopped. Adam's presence in her mind had faded, and she was alone in the room. Or so she thought...

"Bella, why ever could you be in my room?" Came the false Adam's voice from the doorway. The door was shut, and Bella heard the lock click.

Alice walked into her room and fell asleep instantly. She didn't know why she had suddenly become so tired, but she had. She was roused hours later by Scipio calling her name.

"Alice!"

"What?" she said wearily.

"I'm hungry," his tone immitated that of a three year old, it made Alice laugh.

"Then go eat, and let me sleep."

"Come eat with me please!" He begged sitting on her feet. "Everything's more interesting with you around."

she threw her pillow at him, "because I'm always getting into trouble."

"Which is also partly why you should come with me. With all the trouble you get yourself into you shouldn't be left alone."

"You're not going to let me go back to sleep are you?"

Scipio shook his head, "nope."

Alice sighed and sat up, "Alright, get off my feet then."

Scipio stood with a grin and led the way to the kitchen.

"Wow," Alice gasped as she stared around. The table was set for two and the food had already been laid out.

"See. If I'd let you go back to sleep, it would have gone cold," Scipio declared, dragging her to a seat. He pulled the chair out and allowed her to sit down before hurrying tothe other side to claim his own seat.

"You made this?" Alice asked.

"No, I got Adam to do it. Of course, I made it. Heather helped though."

"Then why isn't she joning us?"

Scipio blushed, "haven't you caught on yet? This is a date."

Alice turned deep scarlet, "oh..." she hated admiting it but she hadn't known. "Well you should have said so earlier," she said, "you would have had a lot easier time getting me out of bed." She took a forkfull of food and stuffed it in her mouth.

Adam could barely feel Bella, she was scared. He was there, the imposter was going to get her and Adam was dying. Poisoned by the monster."

How selfish of you, Came a voice in Adam's head.

"What?"

Be nice, He's ill, Came another.

Please, he's a wuss. Gonna go and die and leave his friends to die from that thing, said the first voice.

He cant help it

He can too.

"Who's there?" Adam mumbled.

You should know us well. You've used our powers to save your friends enough times. And now they;re going to die cause you're just gonna go ahead and die

"I cant do anything...I'm not strong enough."

Pick yourself up, Came the second voice, sweet and elegant. You have to save them, you're the only one who can. Break free. Get up Adam

Move your arms, break the bonds. The first voice, rough and jagged sounded through his mind again. Colin thought of Bella, of Alice. Kitty, Matt, Scipio, and Rick. His friends, his crew.

"I will not surrender." Power surged through him, white and poure, then black and corrupted. It fluxed inside him, responding to his will. "I'm Coming!" The cave creaked and crumbled as power burst free from Adam. Golden flames rorared around him, revealing the dark cave.

Adam moved his hands in front of him, they were sharp, deamonic claws of the blackest tone. His body was shrouded in a glowing silver robe encased in golden armour. Black feathered wings stretched to the ceiling before being folded at Adam's back.

"I am Omni."

All hands report to the bridge Adam's voice called over the intercom.

"Oh crap," Alice said, "I guess its going to get cold anyways." She stood up and walked up to the bridge with her hand entertwined with Scipio's. When they got up there everyone was standing in a line, with two spots open for Scipio and Alice.

After they had moved into their spaces Adam turned around, a gun in his hand.

"Adam?! What are you doing?" Heather blurted.

Adam's eyes glinted with something unAdam.

"Thats not Adam!" Bella shouted, "he's a liar!"

Without a second opinion Alice threw herself at Adam, able to knock him to the ground, but getting shot in the arm in the process. She ignored the wound as she disarmed him. At first she didn't think anybody else was helpping her, but when the gun skidded off of someones shoe she realized that everyone was helpping to hold him down.