Time Keeper

CHAPTER 2

BLOODS IN THE EYES

Neon was setting up his tent, he was out of breath, trying not to panic, realizing he needed to clean his rifle as well, but he was way to tired, it’s as if some unforgivable force drained his energy, so he lay down, he slowly fell a sleep.

“get down, you grab as much explosives as you can, Gemini I need you to plant the charges”Neon turned and looked at Gemini, she was not moving, but she was just standing there, but she was looking at him with sadness “Gemini?” all of a sudden a blade burst out of her chest “NO!!”* Amber peeked her head over her shoulder, she was smiling, but her mane was covering her eyes, her teeth was sharp like blades, and she had blood and flesh in her teeth. “Amber? why?”she answered back in a demons voice “Because you only belong to me” fire flooded Neons vision.Neon awakes with his heart pounding in his chest, he wanted to scream, but he was too traumatized to do anything, but finally he got his heart rate back to normal.“what the..the hell...was that?” he got out of bed, trying to overcome what was happening, he was afraid, it was strange, because he had no idea who this Gemini was, “who was she?” he asked himself.he had no idea what was going on, but he was afraid that he was just shown a piece of the future, or a secret of Ambers, but he decided to ignore it, but he did not sleep for the rest of the night.the next morning Neon was the first to be outside, he was waiting for the cook to get up so he can get his rations.Amber was getting out of her tent, not realizing Neon was there, and finally she saw him, “up so early Neon?”“Actually, I did not get much sleep, she walked over to the extra stool next to Neon, “i’m super tired” she stretched with a moan, and then she leaned against Neon for a pellow.Neon was not bothered at all, to him it felt natural, to him, there was no room for affection, he saw a bottle of apple cider, he grabbed himself a glass, and began to sip it, he had his own thing about cider, and chocolate, that was the one thing he always had with him, his jacket was getting a bit warm, so he took it off really quick.Amber looked at his neck, he still had that same glowing brace around his neck, it was green, in the front was a color of blue and purple.“Neon” she said in a soft voice, “Yes?”, “you never told me about that thing on your neck, you had it since I first met you” she started rubbing it, smooth and warm, thats the feeling it gave.“This? well, it’s not something I like to talk about much….but, I guess I could tell you,... when i was young, and it was before I ever met you, I left home to go play by the forest, and when I got there, a pony who was a little bit shy was sitting on a rock, you could not really see her face cause it was covered with her hood from her cloak, but I could see her gold and red mane, she was talking to herself until she had realized I was there, she just sat there, staring at me, or so I think,  so  asked if she was ok, she still just sat  there, and finally she spoke, she asked me if I could hear them, I did not know what she was asking, and then thats when I heard them, screams of pain and suffering, it was as if the happiness was taken from the area, I was scared, and I was sad, I wanted to run, but she wrapped her arms around me, and she told me, “I can make them go away, and i can protect you Neon”, i did not understand how she knew my name, but for some reason I felt safe and secure, so she pulled this out, this weird glowing coller out, and put it around my neck, at first it was too big for me, but then it adjusted to my neck, it fit perfect and comfortably, and that was the last time I ever saw her”Amber was amused at the story, “how old was she?”she only looked a bit older than me at the time, and I was 11, only a Year before me and you met”“really? well so she was about 15?” “Maybe, or maybe she was older, never really saw her face, but she sounded young, I don't really know”she glanced at his eyes, they were still the same, so beautiful, but so sad, she stood up to go and get her blade, she had forgotten she was to keep it next to her at all times, she could not trust the timing around here, she walked back to where Neon was, but he was gone, she walked around the camp, it was quiet, so she walked to the edge of the cliff, “Neon? are you around here? she whispered, a hoof pulled her to the ground, but then Neon covered her mouth with his hoof, and pointed with his snout, she looked over, and realized what he was pointing at, two changelings, sniffing the ground.“Changelings? this far out here?”Neon did not say anything, he slowly pulled pulled out two small blades.“What are you going to do with those?”he still did not say anything, his horn glowed green, and the two blades hovered in the air, and then they both shot directly at the changelings heads with successful hits.Neon finally spoke “i could not risk using my rifle, changelings travel in packs”“I thought the changelings were gone” said Amber.not gone said Neon “only hiding, lets go, we must find the rest and exterminate them, we should check down the cliff, maybe we were lucky and only found two rogues, but I really doubt it”“But what if they were, then they would just leave us alone, right?”Neon looked at her, “it’s possible I said, but a low chance, we must find the rest”His ear flickered, “Get down!!” he tackled her just as a green ray of light flew over them.He was on the ground, with arms wrapped around amber, a explosion caused debris to go flying everywhere, they both stood up, “aww shit” said Neon as a platoon of changelings stood in front of them, blades to his throat. Neon looked at amber with worry in his eyes, “when I say run, you do it”“What?are you crazy?”she was confused wondering what he was planning, and then she noticed a blade floating from behind them.“NOW!!!”The blade flew by them, it spliced threw one creature, and stabbed the other in the eye, a flash went by her head, glowing green, she was almost blinded, she turned and ducked, and rolled behind a rock.Neon was fighting with a mix of fear and blood rage in his eyes, blocking bolts of changeling energy with his magic, channeling it into a strong shield, a flash of light here and there, Amber pulled out her pouch of throwing knives, she had trained herself to use her mouth as a thrower, she was pretty good at it, her first few times trying, she had cut her tongue and lips, but as the years progressed, she was throwing with precise accuracy.she took a blade in her mouth and tossed it at a changeling, it stabbed in its chest, but two more sighted her and was after her, now it was time for her to put her training to the test, one swung a hoof at her, she ducked, and then jumped into the air, and planted a kick into its head, but it quickly recovered, it flew a headbutt at her, but she jumped back and planted her elbow into its head again and again, all of a sudden a hoof planted into her chest, the other changeling jumped over the others back and did a successful superman punch into her cheek, she fell back, and as it jumped into the air to stomp on her head, Neon tackled it out of the air, and dug a dagger into its chest. but then the other jumped on Neon, Amber grabbed it by the head and locked him into a choke hold, but he started jamming his elbow into her side repeatedly, she did not let go, she just kept holding.Neon jabbed his dagger into the monster’s side and it finally stopped moving, Amber was still holding on with she had rage in her eyes.“Amber….hey, you need to let go, we need to get back up to the camp and warn the others,I think we are close to a nest” he looked around as if to see any more changelings.“maybe this was a bad idea”as Neon was thinking, Amber was trying to check the area.she did not see anything, but he was right, changelings are never alone, unless they went rogue.“If these are rogue warriors, than we should be fine”Neon looked at her, but wasn't sure of her words, “how can we be sure?” he asked, but she had no certain way of answering that question. “I-I don’t know” she was quite embarrassed of her foolishness, that idea could risk the camp, “you head back to the camp, make sure everything is fine, i’ll scout around and see what I can find” he brushes the bit of dirt that was on his arm, “but your out of blades Neon, what will you use?” he lifts a few rocks and crushes them with his magic, creating sharp throwing spikes. “I can think of a few things” he tucks the spikes into his throwing knife holster and made sure they were staying tight, “my armor Is a bit damaged, but it will make do, but i’m not sure if I get hit, but i doubt that will happen” she smiled and a sharp pain was in her cheek, she almost forgot she got punched. “how is your cheek? he asked. “its fine, its not too bad” he looked at it anyways to see if it was bad, he held her cheek, and she held his hoof as it pressed against her face, “be safe out there Neon, please, come back to me in one piece” he looked at her and smiled “I will, don’t worry” he kissed her on the cheek, and she blushed, trying not to show it, she turned her head down. “okay, time for you to go to the camp” he turned away and started walking off, she watched him as he disappeared behind the cliffside, after he was out of sight, she made her way back to camp, she got back and saw the others awake, she tried to avoid conversation, but somepony walked up to her and asked “where is Neon, we need to know our next move” she tried to think “he went out to see if any danger is lurking around, he will be back soon, and i'm sure we will be off soon” “well we need to hurry*