Chapter Four: Getting Somewhere!
It was around mid-morning by the time Autumn arrived at the space port she never stopped running, not once. She lent up against a pole and was panting really hard trying to catch her breath. She looked in front of her and seen many different vehicles parked outside and lots of people walking into the building through the large automatic doors. “I have to get inside there” she told herself. She then slowly walked into the building still trying to catch her breath. Inside there was people everywhere some people lined up others just standing around looking lost, this place was huge. Lights were flashing and televisions were hanging from the roof in nearly every direction Autumn looked. And right in the middle of everything was a feature fountain it had a statue of a young woman holding a Musk Cat and she had a long sword in the other hand. She appeared to be wearing a type of light armour.
Autumn walked over to it to read the description below the fountain. “Wow impressive” she exclaimed looking at the statute once again, she then bent down to read. “Tribute to Heroine Alis Landale, The original Chosen Child, destroyer of evil” it read. “Alis Landale? I can’t say I’ve ever heard of her before, well maybe because I never bothered going to school I guess”.
“Excuse me are you lost young lady?” asked an old man as he put his hand on Autumn’s shoulder. This made Autumn jump.
“Oh shi…I mean, you startled me sir” she said trying to be polite and not curse.
The old man just smiled at her reaction. “Your not a city girl are you where are you from?” he asked curiously.
“Well, I…um if you must know I’m from the Palman Orphanage, the one that was destroyed last night.”
Suddenly the old man's eyes widened as if he was in shock. He lent closer to Autumn’s face. “Did you witness it, did you see the darkness yourself?” he asked her with a serious tone.
Autumn was starting to get freaked out by the old guy but she responded anyway. “No, I uh, I guess I slept through it you could say” she said kind of embarrassed.
The man stepped back a bit and scratched his almost bald head. “You know young lady, they say that every one-thousand years a great evil has the potential to enter the Algol Solar system. The seal that traps the evil is said to weaken dramatically and the creature has a chance of escape.” The man seemed to say this with disappointment in his voice as though he himself failed to stop it from happening.
“Sir you really don’t believe that kind of stuff do you…I mean evil spirits, dark magic. That kind of stuff doesn’t exist I mean people must have just been hallucinating last night or something.” Autumn was clearly trying to avoid the possibility great evil existed.
“If these things do not exist why are you going to Motavia to search for your friend?” asked the man.
Autumn stepped back with signs of shock on her face. “How did you know that? Are you s-some kind of stalker?” without even waiting for his answer she ran away from the man and disappeared into a large crowd of people standing near by.
The man looked up and closed his eyes with a smile. “She’s the child” he said with certainty.
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Autumn ran all the way to the other side of the spaceport looking back making sure she wasn’t being followed. She headed for some cushioned seats she could see near a large window. She stopped in front of the seats and turned around checking for the man before she sat down.
“Man what a creep” Autumn said as she sat down. She then turned and looked out the window behind her and saw three large spaceships. “I just have to figure out which one goes to Motavia so…” Autumn stopped talking as another thought crossed her mind. (“What if Elisa really isn’t there what if she’s back with the other kids and I just never happened to encounter her. Maybe that hunter last night had her mistaken for another girl. If I leave this planet for no reason…Oh please, I need a sign of certainty”) Autumn thought to herself. She put her head in her hands and looked down at the ground not knowing what action to take. Her long green hair fell over her, covering her face.
Suddenly all the TV sets hanging up on the roof in the spaceport cut to a news broadcast. “Good Morning Algol” said the brunette news reporter. “We have just recently received shocking amateur footage from the planet Motavia of what appears to be a girl in her late teens attacking a small city.”
This immediately caught Autumn’s attention as she looked up at the TV above her.
The news lady continued to talk. “Many of the Hunter’s on Motavia tried to stop the girl but as they shot at her with their weapons she transformed into a kind of energy and vanished without a trace leaving the city destroyed and around thirty people dead…”
Autumn had all the proof she needed she seen Elisa’s face on the TV itself even though the footage was slightly blurred, but the description also matched what the hunter had told her last night as well.
“I’ve got a flight to catch” she told her self standing up and walking to the reception desk. Once she arrived at the desk she was greeted by another Numan girl who had shoulder length blonde hair and her ears seemed to be longer than Autumn’s.
The girl smiled and asked “How can I help you today?”
“I’d like to take a flight to Motavia thank you” responded Autumn.
“Which city were you after when landing?” the girl asked
Autumn never thought of that. She began frantically thinking but she didn’t know the name of any Motavian cities at all. She eventually threw out “Uh, capital city please”
“Aiedo?” replied the Numan girl still keeping a smile across her face.
“Uh, sure that’s the one” Autumn said trying to act like she knew what she was talking about.
“Okay now I just need your full name then” said the girl typing the current information into the computer next to her.
“Autumn, Autumn Erra” she replied. Not many people knew Autumn’s last name and not many knew Elisa’s either. According to the rest of society the two girls didn’t exist only the Orphanage held a small record of their presence.
“Now that’s done, how are you going to pay for your fare?” asked the girl eagerly waiting for a response.
Autumn never thought of this either she had no messeta on her what so ever.
“Um, you see about that…” Autumn had to think of something quick she was so close to getting to Motavia she couldn’t can it in now. “Oh my god look, an obvious distraction!” yelled Autumn pointing to the large widow on the other side of the spaceport. Because everyone had just seen an evil entity reported on TV everyone seemed to be on edge and ran for the exit door screaming and yelling, the girl at the counter followed the crowd outside as well.
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Autumn giggled to herself. “Maybe that was a wee bit to harsh” she said with a smile of accomplishment. “Talk about gullible” Now that the spaceport was completely empty and everyone one was outside this was her chance to get out back to reach the ships. Autumn jumped over the counter and made a mad dash for the back of the building. She wanted to be gone by the time everyone found out nothing was out there.
She reached a room full of wooden crates and cardboard boxes and it had a large glass door that led out to the ships. “Yes, the door” as Autumn ran up and grabbed the handle she realised the door was locked and there was no key anywhere. “Damn it, now what?” she asked herself kind of frustrated. She looked around trying to find something to smash the glass door with. But nothing she could see would fit the job. “Hmmm maybe I could hide in one of these crates instead they’re big enough. Lets just see which is going to Motavia first.” Luckily the first crate Autumn came across said Aiedo, Motavia. (“Okay great, what’s inside?”) she thought. Autumn opened up the top of the crate and seen it was full of Monomates. “Wow, this will do just fine” she said happily as she climbed in and pulled the lid down. Now all she had to do was wait to be moved onto the ship. Then her search would begin.
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