Improvisus (probably not updating again)

Chapter 16

“Fine.” He finally gave in, but sounded so defeated. I couldn’t do anything about that though, because Brent couldn’t come with us. I wouldn’t let him. He would probably quit the mission if he figured out that we lied to him and then hid Brooke.

“Thank you. Let’s meet at the entrance so we can go and see what flight we’re on.” Nat said. Brent nodded and we all walked around the side of the building.

Nat and I began to walk back to the car. Every step hurt, but I tried not to show it. I knew Nat would probably freak out if she saw me wincing.

As soon as we were out of hearing range Nat turned to me and stopped me from walking. “What in the world is wrong with you, Candace? I have seen you wince way to many times for you to be okay, or for it to be nothing. So spill the beans. What is wrong?”

“Nothing, I’ll be fine.”

“Candace, we just went over that you are not okay and it’s not nothing.”

“I’m fine Nat.” I started to walk away, but Nat grabbed my arm and pulled me back towards her. I felt pain in my stomach and neck and I gasped and bit my lip.

“You are not okay or fine! What in the world did the Epni-whatever do to you?”

“It’s the Epnicar and I’m fine Nat.” I made sure I covered up the hole on my shirt so Nat couldn’t see the blood on my shirt or the wound.

“No you’re not. You have blood all down your neck, so I can see that you were bleeding there, and it doesn’t look very good, and you’re trying to cover up your stomach so let me see.”

“What, my stomach? My stomach’s fine.”

“Then let me see it. I saw the little bit of blood on your shirt, Candace. I’m not dumb.”

“No, my stomach is fine so leave me alone.” I walked away again, but suddenly I had no control over my muscles and I fell.

“Candace!” Nat loudly said. I was glad she didn’t scream, because I didn’t want people to come running and we were lucky that no one was there. I lay on the ground my neck and stomach throbbing, while my bones felt like Jell-O. Nat grabbed me under my arms and dragged me so I was between two cars and then I would be less noticeable.

“Do you have water in your bag, Candace?” Nat asked urgently. I tried to nod, but I felt so much pain that I had a muscle spasm and almost hit Nat in the face. Nat’s ‘worried’ expression grew even more worried.

She grabbed her wand out of the air. “I’m so stupid, who needs human water when you have these?” I tried to respond, but my head was pounding. She suddenly turned her head. “Candace, there are people coming and I need you to stand up okay, just for a minute. I’ll help you up. One, two, three.” I tried to help Nat get me up, but it didn’t work. Nat did all the work and I leaned against a car.

I could barely stand and my legs turned to jelly so Nat grabbed me and walked me behind more cars so that way the people passing by wouldn’t see me pretty much dying. She stood me up against a car again and my legs started to burn but she held me up. The people would see our heads, but they wouldn’t be able to see how I couldn’t stand by myself. My legs began to throb so badly and I wanted to cry out in pain, but couldn’t.

By the time Nat finally helped me down, my whole body was throbbing and tears were running down my cheeks from the pain. “Candace, what exactly cut your stomach? The monsters teeth or nails?” I tried to correct her, but couldn’t because my mouth was on fire and it was very dry. I didn’t think that I would be able to form any words. “Nat, you’re so dumb! Of course it was the monster’s nails!” She said to herself. “Its teeth couldn’t cut her stomach!”

Nat grabbed her wand from the air again and said, “Sana.” Heal, she shot magic at my stomach and at first I didn’t feel anything. After about a minute I felt something pulling at my stomach, but I had no idea what it was. It felt like something was getting pulled out of me.

Nat kept flicking her wand for some reason, but I couldn’t see why. Eventually the pulling stopped and the throbbing pain went away. I felt normal again.

I sat up and didn’t feel any pain. I looked around and saw little piles of green blood around me. It wasn’t the most pleasant thing I had ever seen.

“Nat, what in the world happened to me?” I asked. I looked down at my stomach which felt much better and saw that the layer of skin had grown back.

“I think that the monsters-” I opened my mouth to correct her, but Nat fixed her problem before I had the chance. “The Epni-whatever had poison in its nails. When it strangled you and cut your stomach, the poison must’ve gotten into your bloodstream, hence the green blood. You should’ve seen your stomach though, Candace! It had a greenish tinge to it and it there was pus everywhere and-”

“Nat, thanks for the description, but I would rather not hear about what my stomach looked like.” I normally didn’t care what was inside of me or how much I bled. I normally didn’t care if I heard about insides, guts, blood, or anything like that. It didn’t really bother me, but considering I had almost died from poison, I didn’t want to hear about it.

“Candace, I think you might want to get cleaned up and change. I don’t think it would go over well if people saw you with a hole in your shirt with blood around it and dried up blood on your neck.”

“That might be a good idea.” I still had my backpack on, so when we reached Brooke’s car, I put it in the back seat and dumped my little things out of it. I picked through them until I found a t-shirt. “Cresce.” Grow, I said and my t-shirt became normal size again. That's when it hit me, we were going to begin the mission soon. My life really was about to begin.