Kharon Chapter 80
Emma, Sparky, Luke and Jacob are walking the frozen tundra. “The suns are setting. Maybe we should find shelter for the night.”
No sooner has Jacob finished his sentence when the Ice King’s voice bellows, “We gave you a home and this is how you repay us.” The foursome turns to the sound of the voice and sees the Ice King and Ice Queen standing with an army behind them. “Now you must be terminated! Exterminator do your thing.”
A man steps out in front of the Ice King and Ice Queen heavily armed and wearing ice armor. “Marcus!” Cries Luke and Jacob in unison after laying eyes on the exterminator.
“What the fuck are you doing here?”, cries Luke.
“So my old pals show up on this berg and I get to do the honors of wasting ya. My lucky day”, says Marcus.
“Do you think Sparky has enough of a charge to wipe out all those soldiers?”, asks Jacob.
“I don’t think so.”
“Then I suggest we….RUN!”
The four of them turn around and take off in the opposite direction. “After them!”, yells Marcus as the soldiers charge in pursuit. “But I want them alive!”
Jacob, Luke, Emma and Sparky continue running until they come to a curved high wall of ice. “Shit!”, cries Luke. “Where the hell did this come from?”
“How the fuck does anyone find their way around this fucking place?!”
“I wonder if they manipulate the terrain”, Jacob ponders out loud.
“You can worry about that once we figure a way out fo this shit storm”, says Luke as he turns back and sees a horde of ice soldiers sprinting towards them. Suddenly the soldiers halt their pursuit and all look up above the four fugitives.
“Why the fuck did they stop?”
Jacob points above them. “Guessing that has something to do with it.”
The others look up and see stretching all across the ridge above them are finned fish-like humanoids.
“Are those…?”, Luke trails off.
“I think so. I thought Sarnacks went extinct when the sky was smeared”, says Jacob.
“What are Sarnacks?”, asks Emma.
“The original inhabitants of this planet, supposedly”, mutters Jacob.
One of the Sarnacks on the ridge lets out a half howl and half screech. With that they begin to pour over the ledge towards the ice soldiers. The ice soldiers also charge and the two armies collide in a bloody melee.
“What the hell is going on?”, yells Jacob as he and the others try to run for cover while the fighting rages. Just then the ice starts cracking.
Emma points to the growing crack. “Uh I think we’re fucked.”
The ice shatters beneath them and they go sliding down into the island on large sheets of ice. Luke’s map to The Gardens falls out of his belt as he is sliding and he scrambles to grab hold of it as they continue to descend down the slope. He catches it just as he comes to a ledge. He frantically uses his gun as he goes over the cliff and the coil springs out and grabs onto an icy protrusion. As he dangles over the dark chasm he reorients himself and searches for Emma and Jacob. He sees them hanging on from a small shelf in the ice several yards away and slightly above him.
Jacob is gripping onto Emma’s arm with one hand and the ledge with the other. Emma clutches Sparky tightly under her other arm. Luke realizes that they won’t be able to hang on much longer. Luke quickly tucks the map back into his belt and starts to work up momentum to swing over to them. As he swings a chunk of ice hits him and stuns him but he manages to hold on to the gun and continues to try to reach the others. Just as Luke takes one last gigantic swing over to them Jacob looses his grip and they start to fall. Just as Luke reaches for Jacob the map which was knocked loose by the falling frozen debris flies out of his belt once more from the rush of air. He doesn’t have time to grab for both it and Jacob so he extends his arm for Jacob and grabs hold of him at the last moment. Luke watches the map fall into the darkness. His head bows in defeat.
“Good thing they didn’t find the viper on you”, says Jacob breathless but not realizing the map is lost. Luke nods at him and gives a half smile. He then hits the retract button to pull them all up to safety.
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