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Chapter Six: Split Paths
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“half an hour”, Pandora groaned then went off to the training room to try and duel wield for the first time.
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Andaluza followed Pandora. “Apollo, keep doing your thing, I’ll go check on her.” Andaluza then grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran after Pandora.
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*Pandora was whacking a dummy with her two swords, they kept knocking into each other making clicking noises as she weakly slashed trying to develop patters, she noticed Andaluza in the back ground ready with a fire extinguished, she frowned and turned to him*”Why do you guys think I’m going to blow stuff up or something!”, she said waving her right arm sword above her head annoyed.”I blow stuff up when i want to geez!”, she pouted before turning back to the dummy and slashing at it a little harder than last time.
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Andaluza held out the fire extinguisher at the dummies. “I dunno it’s just that you and Apollo are the two most destructive beings that have ever existed. And why do I need a fire extinguisher? I’m an Ascendii!”
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Apollo pointed to Mars and hit a few coordinate buttons, speaking through the comms. “Alright we’re ready, we’ll go down there in 5 minutes. Suit up!”
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“Point taken… but when ever i do destroy stuff i mean it”, she said choping her dummy slanted with both her swords the severed upper half ploped to the ground tattered from all the slashing.”Duel wielding is hard”, she whined before sheathing the Hexillior (think i spelled that wrong) sword in its sheath, she turned to Andaluza.”Dude remember when you made a Rapier and we almost dueled”, she said remembering that day but mostly remembering the part were Apollo went ham on Andaluza.
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“heh!”, Pandora said forgetting what suit up meant and were to go, she ran out the hall then ran down the hall way then ran the other way confused.
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Andaluza went in the pod and waited. “So what do we do once we get there?”
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Apollo began giving briefing details as the machine began putting the suits over everyone. “So once we get there, we need to immediately zip into the room before gathering information from the lab.”
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*Pandora nodded*
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The lab guides the shuttle with Apollo, Pandora, and Andaluza down to the surface of the earth, stealthily landing in a swamp.
“Alright, we’re here.” Apollo opened the boarding ramp, which sloshed down with a squishy “splash” on the swamp water. “Yeah it hit the bedrock. Swamp is about waist deep so don’t worry about it too much.” Apollo slowly placed his foot into the swamp water before walking down the ramp. “Uh…fair warning, if you feel anything moving around your feet it’s probably a mudfish. Keep moving.”
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Andaluza followed Apollo into the swamp, but soon began to shudder. “Ew. And humans call me a slob!” Andaluza looks around the area for solid ground, then turns his eyes to the water, taking a handful of water and drinking it. “Hmm, tastes like waste products and pollution. What kind of people even live here?”
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Apollo quickly smacks Andaluza on the back. “Don’t drink that! Also, this is Earth. Humans live here. Good luck with that.”
Apollo took out what looked like a pen and a small orange package from the inside of the boarding ramp. “No, this is not a life jacket, I’m pretty sure you’re all capable of not drowning in four feet of water.” Apollo attached the “pen” to the orange box and floated it on the water. “Stand back.” Apollo then pressed the back of the “pen” and the orange box inflated into a raft. “The landing shuttle took us into the middle of nowhere, in a shallow spot in the middle of a swampy lake about 500 miles across. Either you try to swim across the entire length all on your own or get in the raft to save your energy for the OGA.”
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*Pandora flapped up and sat in the raft puting her lets semi over the edge so she didn’t get to much of the slop, mud, and muck into the raft, the bottom half o her wings had gotten touched by the swamp water, little clumps of mud and weeds clung to her wings, she stretched them out and mumbled while brushing the gunck out of her wings*”Good thing we had this I don’t think I could have swam all the way”, she said with a little smile,”Because I can’t”, she thought sadly.
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Andaluza looked at Pandora’s feathers over and over. “Hey, Pandora, we need to restore some of the OGA experimentation on you. The waterproofing qualities of your feathers are gone.” Andaluza lifted Apollo’s wing and his own, showing that they were both perfectly clean.
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