Convergence

Chapter Eight: Blue

"Uhhhh." Pyro tilted his head. "I don't know. I'm Pyro."

"The Latin root word for fire!" Ella smiled. "You taught me that, Nick, remember?"

"I am Xudio, and this is River."

"Hello." River waved politely.

"I'm Riley." Riley brought a hand to their chest.

"And I'm Morgan," said they as they did the same. "Um, pleasure to meet you all. Nick, was it?"

Nick was speechless, so Matilda took over. "I'm Matilda. That's Alistair, Wylie, and Ella." Everyone mentioned waved words of greetings.

While Nick walked closer to the two. "Morgan and Riley?" They asked, leaning forward. "You wouldn't happen to be Morgan Hensley and Riley Jameson?"

"Uh, that's exactly who we are." Riley laughed in confusion. "Have we met?"

"Are you kidding?!" Nick waved their hands out, grinning. "You were crazy famous in the 20s! Your case couldn't be solved by anyone, but then someone found the semifluid matter and I recently took over, and I've been trying to prove that it kept you alive for so long, and now I have proof!"

"Ooooookay." Morgan laughed sheepishly. "I didn't know we were, uh, that famous. That thing about the goop, it definitely did something."

"You went behind the walls of your house and met these three!" Nick exclaimed.

"That's practically exactly what happened, yeah." Pyro nodded and shrugged.

"This is amazing. This is just incredible," said Nick, stepping back. "This is... it's just..."

They slowly realized that this wasn't just proof for their deaths being magical. This was proof that they weren't dreaming. Meeting the three humanoids were strange, sure, but they couldn't just dream that stuff up. It was real. This was all totally real.

"I think we need to find our way back home, kid." Nick looked back to Ella with a less excited expression.

"Uh, yeah." Ella scratched the back of her head. "I mean, it's been great to meet you all, but do any of you know the way back?"

"If we knew, we would be there." Xudio pointed out. "None of us are here on purpose. If I had my way, I would still be in the Shifter district with River."

"I know what all of those words mean," said Wylie, sarcastically.

"And, uh, who's your friend?" Morgan pointed behind the other five, as they all looked where they pointed.

In the distance was a girl in a blue hoodie, and a brown ponytail, holding a staff and just staring.

"Uh, I'm not entirely sure." Matilda cupped her hands to her mouth. "Hey, kid! You know the way out of here?!"

But just as quickly, she turned to run away.

"Okay then, chase time!" Wylie grabbed Matilda's hand, who grabbed Alistair's, who grabbed Ella's, who grabbed Nick's.

"I feel like we should have voted on this!" Nick called, as they disappeared from view.

"Hey, wait up!" Pyro ran after them.

"Riley, hop on!" Xudio turned into a puddle, which they stepped on, and the two dashed away.

Morgan and River shrugged, as Morgan lifted themselves up with purple magic and River dashed the same way Xudio did.