Chapter 4

I have to rethink some of my ideas before I can get this under control. Until then, please enjoy what I've written so far in this chapter.
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         "Whoa...this place. It's huge," (y/n) whispered. Add took note of her awe at the library's size. He now wondered what else made her behave this way as he lowered them to one of the lower levels of the library.

         The rectangular split in the earth was its entrance and there were a total of seven floors that were approximately twenty feet in height. That amounted to about 140 feet of possible distance to fall to one's death. Then each floor was split by the entrance of course making it seem like two separate sets of seven floors but it was all the same. Both sides of each floor were evenly measured by Add himself. The dimensions were fourty feet by sixty feet on each side of all seven floors.

          Add counted the floors starting from the top since they were closer to the surface. It made more sense to him to do it this way rather than call the floor that was deepest in the earth, floor one. Instead, the first floor was the one closest to the sky and it went in that order.

         The gap between the floors where he and (y/n) now floated was about twenty  feet aross. Rather than plain rock at each end, there were twin waterfalls that faced each other and ran down into the three feet of water at the bottom of the library.

     Add still hadn't figured out how the water constantly kept itself going. Perhaps it was the library's enchantment. The same enchantment that kept anyone from hearing the waterfalls' crashing sound while on the surface, or on one of the floors of the library. It was also the same enchantment that kept the books from falling into the water down below but this same enchantment was the same one that had cursed him. The same enchantment that kept him bound to this library until he could figure out how to break it's spell.

         "Add, is this...where you live?" (y/n) asked. He simply nodded in answer. "How old are you?" she asked.

         "I'm eight right now," he said. He didn't know why she was suddenly asking such questions but he answered anyway despite the inquiry being a bit of a nuisance.

        "Does anyone else live here with you?" she asked. For a split second he thought to answer her but he realized she would keep asking questions if he did not stop her.

       "Do you have to ask so many questions?" Add asked with clear annoyance.

        "Uh, sorry," she muttered. She stayed silent after that. He took them to the last floor, the seventh floor. It was were all of the rooms were.

         The library must have once been owned by someone wealthy because the seventh floor was where the library's servants would live. Add had figured that out quite easily. On the sixth floor, there were rows and rows of tables and chairs for those who sat down to read. The fifth, third, second, and first floor were filled with nothing but books on almost any subject. The fourth floor was where all of the study rooms were.

         Add had cleaned one out and made it his lab. They were very large study rooms so there were only five on that floor. Once Add had gone to the seventh floor, he went towards the room that he considered his own. He hardly ever spent time there but he still had a room. He stopped in front of his door and put (y/n) down. He motioned to the room across from his own and said, "This is your room. Stay in there until I come back for you. Understand?"

         (Y/n) was about to protest but he put his finger to her lips to silence her. "Understand?" he asked again. (Y/n) nodded in reply. "Good," he said then he removed his finger from her lips and opened the door to her new room.

        "Can you read and write?" he asked her. She stayed quiet and he would have asked again if she hadn't said, "Not much. I...I only know a few things."

         This surprised him because for someone who couldn't read and write, she sure had a large vocabulary. Once she entered the room, he closed the door behind her only after telling her again not to leave until he returned.

        There were over a hundred rooms on that particular side of the seventh floor, so whether or not she listened to him and stayed found depended on her. He didn't want her to get lost but he had to test her level of trust. He made his way to his lab where he had maybe an extra blanket or two. Add had to make sure that she wanted to stay in the library with him so that he could study her further. Especially those wings of hers.

         Before he did that though, he needed her to learn how to read and write so that he could test how fast she could learn and let her teach herself self defense. There were a variety of self defense books in the library.

         He opened his lab door and immediately checked his makeshift radar. It was speckled with red dots. There were at least fifteen of them coming from the direction that he and (y/n) had just come from. They were most likely hunters and they had possibly picked up on his trail as well as hers.

        "What's so important about this girl that these people are after her? What exactly is she?" he asked himself. They were about ten minutes out from the library's entrance. This left him with three minutes to get (y/n) a blanket, one to get back to his lab and turn on the library's defense systems that he'd installed, and the rest of the time would be for him to wait for anyone that somehow managed to get through.

      He would take them out himself. Just as he had just planned, he pulled a blanket from one of the chairs in his lab and took it to (y/n). He was thankful that she'd asked who was there instead of just opening the door.

        "There are people looking for you. Don't leave this room unless I come back," he told her. She nodded and he could tell she wanted to ask him something, but she remained quiet and watched him as he closed the door behind him.

     He went back to the lab and as he had predicted, taking the blanket to (y/n) only took three minutes. He turned on the library's defense systems and checked the radar. He had twelve seconds to spare. They had traveled faster than he had expected, but they were still three minutes out from the library's entrance. He floated to the middle of the library and waited as he hovered above the remaining seventy feet below him.

      It wouldn't be long before he heard screams of pain or cries of anguish from the hunters that were after his new research project. If he could unlock (y/n)'s secrets and learn her boundaries and figure out how she worked, then he would be sure that no one got in his way while he was in the process of doing this.

        The three minutes were up. They were there. They had to be there. He was never wrong about these things. He heard nothing for at least a minute and then there was the explosion. He heard the alarms from his lab ringing from where he floated in the air on his special nasod invention. His defense system was failing but there was no way possible that mere humans could take out his superior defenses.

        Add turned the alarms off with the remote on his wristband and waited for whatever was coming. There were several other explosions and a little debris fell into the library only to end up at the bottom in the three feet deep pool that made up the floor.

     They saw him before he saw them. He was sure of it because they were humanoid nasods. They hovered around him, all fifteen, and they said in unison, "You are harboring a fugitive. Hand her over immediately or suffer the consequences. If you resist too much, we have orders to kill. You have a total of five minutes and counting to hand over the fugitive."

        Add had no real experience in fighting nasods. Not yet anyway. He believed he could take down half of them before he would have to rely on his secondary defense system. If he used his now four and a half minutes to turn it on, then he stood a chance. The remaining three he would get lost in the confusing corridors of the library's seventh floor, the seventh floor opposite of the side that (y/n) currently resided.

        He had four minutes to carry out his plan now. The nasods watched him carefully and analyzed his every move but they allowed him to zoom off to his lab without following him.

        He used whatever time he had to turn on the secondary defense system in the library. He returned to the nasods and watched them as they watched him. They began to count down from ten signifying that his time was almost up.

        "Time's up. You have resisted for far too long. We will retrieve the fugitive and you will die," they all said in unison. They launched forward at him and Add did his best to dodge their maneuvers.

     He aimed for their heads, believing that this would disable them long enough for him to destroy their cores. One was down, falling into the seemingly endless abyss. Fourteen to go. His secondary defense shot down two and disarmed another which he took out. Eleven to go. He had successfully gotten down to five when they finally figured out why he was able to stay aloof in the air for so long.

        In a team effort, they aimed for and brought down his dynamos. He was able to teleport himself to the edge of the fourth floor, just barely holding on. He wasn't fast enough to pull himself up onto the floor so as a result, he felt the pain of the wound. One of them had shot him in the side.

        Add had never been shot before. He let out a small cry of pain against his will. He had no control over that. The pain was just too unimaginable and so he could hold on no longer and fell.

    "No! It can't end like this!" he thought as he fell. The nasods followed after him, perhaps to ensure his death. He watched the little droplets of blood that seemed to hover above him. He wondered if blood always looked like that when it fell. He even thought what (y/n)'s blood looked like. He wondered if it was even red like his.
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I am so sorry about this here cliff hanger. I hate them myself but I was reaching my word limit so I have to continue to the next chapter. Until next time my awesome and hopefully patient readers!

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