The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 33: The Obelisk

Part 4/5

“It’s going away! My, what a magnificent beast,” Rick commented as he jotted down a few more notes.

“We don’t want to waste the time Sunny has given us, do we?” Skyler sternly said. Her eyebrows were scrunched and the friendly spark from her eyes was gone, “Let’s get a move on.”

Neddy mounted Goofy and began to run off.

“Last one there is a rotten egg!” Neddy jeered at Ruby. Ruby glared and shook her fist in the air.

“That’s not even fair!”

She began to run off after him, and Rick followed suit, still jotting a few notes down. Paige rolled her eyes but smiled anyway.

“Hm,” Paige thought.

The rest of the group made their way through the plains and toward the earth bridge, which connected to the metal platform. Samuel noticed a strange metal beam sticking out of the center.

“What IS that?” Samuel thought.

“Alright we’ve made it, great,” Skyler suddenly interrupted Samuel’s thinking. She looked up at the obelisk in all of its glory, as if she was waiting for something.

“So, what now?” Paige asked, putting her right hand on her hip, “Shouldn’t a fragment be falling down right about now? Or however it went.”

“Yes, YES,” Skyler spouted, “It should. It should. Right- Right about now.”

She raised her hand up in the air, as if she was calling for it with her own mind. Aurora raised her eyebrow at her as if she were crazy. Maybe she was.

But Samuel was looking at something else.

The strange metal beam was jutted right out of the platform like a sore thumb, and for a moment, he briefly remembered the words of the boy he had killed way back when. The one who was called Larry.

“Uh, well, we actually come from the west, all the way out west there’s a, a weird metal platform that looks kinda like the implants in our wrists,” Larry had claimed.

Samuel gingerly reached into his graduation robe pocket and pulled out Lil Jack’s implant. Dim and dull, it no longer hummed with that radiant life. He pulled it closer to the beam, and with wide eyes spotted an uncanny resemblance between the two. As Samuel moved the implant closer, so did his hand. It was almost as if the implant was being drawn to the metal beam. Within a second, the implant fully connected to the beam like a magnet.

CLICK!

SHOOOM!

The green beam that spewed from the obelisk began to glow more intensely, and everyone gasped in awe. Skyler began to laugh.

“Ah ha! I was right! It’s reacting to my call!” Skyler grinned with wide eyes.

Samuel’s hands were slightly shaking, a discovery made.

“What just- What just happened? What did I do? What’s going to happen?” Samuel thought, “Why do I feel so scared? This doesn’t make sense.”

Samuel looked past Skyler, into the forest where they had come from. As his pupils dilated, he noticed the red aura again. It was back. It lingered, and Samuel noticed sharp teeth flicker within the darkness, a large claw tapping softly on the tree. It sliced the tree, and it fell down. Samuel jumped back in surprise.

“YES! YES! THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!” Skyler suddenly screamed. Everyone was looking at Skyler in awe. In her hand was a small sphere that was wrapped in some strange hide. There was a weird pin on the top, and…

Suddenly shaken out of his daze, Samuel cried out in fear.

“THAT’S A GRENADE!”