( Arkarian prov)
I stopped to make camp for the night. I sigh as I set down my backpack.
"That was to close," recalling that they almost found me. "I can't stop anymore, I can't take the chance of them finding me," I say to myself. "You shouldn't have left your group," comes a voice that sounds just like mine in a tree above me. I jump up, ready to fight. " who are you?"
"Calm down, I'm not here to hurt you,"
"If you're not here to hurt me then show yourself," I say getting annoyed.
"Good point," the voice said then jumped down from the tree staying in the shadows.
"Come into the light, so I can see you," I say.
"That wouldn't be best," the voice replies.
"What's your name," I ask.
"Max," the voice said.
"Okay, Max, why are you here," I ask still keeping my guard up.
"To find you," Max replied.
"So you are here to bring me harm," I say getting defensive.
"No, that's not what I meant,"
"Then what did you mean,"
"I needed to find you to tell you, you need to go back, let your friends find you,"
"...Why,"
"It's the prophecy, you need to make it happen,"
"Okay, Max, why are you staying in the shadows where I can't see you, I know you said it was for the best, but you're being so mysterious," I say.
"Fine, but if you freak out it's not my fault," Max replied. Then she slowly started to walk out of the shadows. She has black pants on knee-high brown boots and a dark green hoodie with the hood up that hides her face.
"I thought you were going to let me see you, I can't because you have your hood up," I say crossing my arms but still keeping my guard up. I hear her sigh with defeat.
"Fine, just don't freak out," She says.
"I won't," I replied. Then she slowly starts to pull her hood off, when it's off, my brain can't process what I am seeing. It's...it's...it's me?! I walk a couple of feet back, I'm back on defense.
" Why do you look like me?" an edge to my voice. She sighs again.
"You said you wouldn't freak out,"
"If I was freaking out you would already be on the ground,"
"You never answered my question," I said glaring. She sighs.
"Let's just say, I'm the real you,"
" What do you mean by that?" I ask taking a couple more steps back.
" How can I put this, you're a clone of...me," she said.
"A clone? Those don't exist," I replied narrowing my eyes.
" Neither should you," Max says crossing her arms.
"How did you find me?" I ask.
" That's easy when you're looking for yourself,"
"Like I said earlier you need to find your friends,"
"Why don't you just go in my place Max, you could be me we look the same they wouldn't know the difference," She shakes her head.
"No, I got out of that mess long ago, so the 'home' made you,"
"What, I don't want to be in this mess either but you are in it now, no changing that,"
"So what do we do now?" Max asks plopping down on the ground.
" I have no clue," I answer sitting down next to her.
( Matthew Prov )
We are walking in the forest again in the direction Emily smelled her in ( turned into a bloodhound).
"Everybody, stop," Deserae says in a loud whisper.
"Why," I ask.
"There are two people up ahead, that's why," She replies.
"Arkarian?" I ask my voice full of hope.
"umm, I think so," She says a smile spreading across her face.
"What are we waiting for, let's go!" I practically scream at them as I run ahead. I run until I see someone with long blue hair.
"There's only one person I know that has blue hair," I say with a smile.
"Arkarian!!!!!" I scream,still smiling.
( Arkarian Prov)
I was getting to know Max when all of a sudden I hear someone scream my name. I look in the direction of who screamed to see...Matthew?! I looked at Max panic on my face. As I looked at her I got an idea from her short hair dark blue hair. I quickly got out my pocketknife and stood up and cut my hair to try to look like more like her, hoping he can't tell us apart.
"Why did you do that?" Max asks. I turned to look at her.
" To look more like you," I replied.
" I don't think you can now, " she said with a small laugh. She was going to say more but then Matthew showed up out of breath but smiling like an idiot. When he get's his breathing back to normal he notices there's two of us.
"Am I seeing things or is there two of you?" He asks.
"I can't tell you apart,"
" what are you twins!?"
" No, we're not twins, I'm the real Arkarian, she's a clone," Max says pointing to me.
"A what?!" He yells.
"Clone, you idiot," I say.
" Your my Arkarian," He says walking up to me.
"One, I'm nobody's and two how did you know it was me?"
"Your attitude," He says with a shrug.
"Well, I'm leaving, so bye," I say as I quickly pick up my bag and start to run away.
"Bye Max!!" I yell as I don't look back. I open my wings and start to fly because I wasn't running fast enough. Then I feel my wings go heavy. Oh great. I land in a tree to get the ice off my wings. " Why did you do that!?" I yell at Matthew as I try to get the ice off.
" You're just going to keep running away? What happened to Arkarian I knew, you never ran away from anything," Matthew says as he starts to try to climb the tree I'm in. I don't say anything. Why am I running? I think.
"Well, why are you running, what are you scared of?" He asks still climbing.
"I..uh...don't know," I replied.
"That's not an answer," He's now a couple feet below me.
" I don't have the answer you want," I said glaring.
"I mean, I just learned I'm not who I think I am, I'm a clone, so I don't even know anymore Matthew," I say frustrated and confused at the same time. Matthew's now a branch below me.
"That's not true, you know who you are," He said as he pulled himself up to the branch I'm on.
"How do I know who I am when I don't even know that," Matthew shakes his head then looks right into my eyes.
"Your Arkarian, always has and always will be,"I shake my head.
"How can you be so sure of that," Matthew gently grabs my face staring into my eyes and says,
"Because, I know you, your Arkarian, my Arkarian," My eyes go blurry and hot, I can barley see him. He notices and takes his hands off my face and moves away fast.
"What did I do?!" He asks panic in his voice.
"Nothing," I say as I wipe my eyes.
"You sure?" he asks. I nod my head.
"Are you coming back now?" Matthew asks hopeful.
"Maybe," I said sitting down on the branch. Matthew takes a seat next to me.
"Why, what's so bad about coming back?" I stare at our dangling legs noticing how high up we are not saying anything for a minute.
" You need to get back to everyone," I finally say not looking up.
"No," He replies seriously.
"Why?" I ask finally looking at him.
"Your part of the team, if you like it or not, it's in the prophecy," He said looking right at me with a dead serious look. I've never seen him like this.
"You're serious," I say.
"I'll think about it," I said turning away. He doesn't say anything. I stand up and start climbing again, not bothering to look back to see if he's fallowing. When I get to the top I take a deep breath. Then I hear something down below, I look to see Matthew climbing. "Why did you start climbing all of a sudden?" He yells. I just stare at him.
"Well?" He asks. I don't say anything,I walk to the edge of the branch I'm on. Matthew's now standing at the base of the branch.
"What are you doing?" He asks slight panic in his voice. I don't say anything.
"Will you talk to me...please!" He screams at me. I didn't expect him to yell, I lose my balance and start to fall.
"Arkarian!!" Matthew screams, horror and shock on his face. I start to freak out, then I remember I have wings, I open them and start to flap to stop myself from falling. I finally stop myself.
"That was close,"I say sighing. I fly back up to were Matthew is.
"You almost killed me!" I yell at him.
"Oh, now you're talking to me, so all I had to do was yell at you!" He yells back.
"No, I just didn't know what to say!"
"You should have just said that!"
"I need to go," I say sighing. He's starts yelling at me to come back, that we're not done talking. I ignore him and start to fly away, then I feel my wings get heavy. You have got to be kidding me! I land, quickly getting the ice off before he can climb down.
"Sense I can't use my wings I'll have to run," I say.
"Were do you think you're going?" A voice behind me says. A chill runs down my back making the hair on my neck stand up. I turn around slowly.
"Hehe, no where," I say with a smile.
"That's right, Deserae, Emily," My brother says, Deserae and Emily walk out of the shadows with rope.