Jordan's p.o.v

Guard Tom had set up a coffee machine on my main floor, which I gladly took advantage of. Still don't understand where he gets all of this cool stuff. But I'm not complaining, I love coffee.
I had already drank two cups of it, and I was feeling great.

Tom chose to stay in bed. He was still majorly upset over yesterday and refused to leave my room, let alone the bed.

The thought made me angry. I was gonna give the Dianitees a little talk, just as soon as I grabbed my weapons and spells.
A knock on the huge metal doors interrupted my angry thoughts, and I ran to open it. Who would be up so early?

The face behind them made me want to throw a tantrum.

Nade shots smiling face appeared from behind the door. He had his hood off and his bandana pulled down, his messy black hair was sticking out from all sides.

"Hey Sparklez! Nice to see you after so long, how've you been?"

He acted like we were perfect buddies.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill your ass right now," my voice sounded flat and cold.

"Woah woah! Because I came to apologize to Tom! You wouldn't kill your old buddy Nade, would ya?" He smiled warmly, and I wanted to so badly punch him in the face.

"Why would I ever let you talk to him? You hurt him. Tell your buddies that I'll be having a talk with them soon. And it doesn't involve many words," I crossed my arms in front of chest and put an angry expression on my face.

"Come on Sparklez, just let me talk to him for a minute! I feel really bad about yesterday. I want to fix things, just let me try! Please?"

"If you speak even a single word that's out of line, I will kill you. Got it?"

"Sounds fair enough. Where's my homey Tom?" He walked in and searched around the tower.

"He's up stairs, the top floor. Remember what I said. One. Word."

"Got it." He nodded and headed up toward the staircase.

We reached his room and Nade knocked on the door lightly.

"Come in..." A tired voice called.
Nade opened the door quickly and showed his face to Tom.

"Hey buddy! How ya doin?" He beamed happily at Tom, who was still facing the other side of the bed.

"What do you want you bastard?" Tom grumbled.

"Dude, come on. I wasn't even the one who said anything. It was Tony who did all the talking...I was gonna say something to him..." He sat on the other side of the bed next to Tom.

"You didn't. You laughed when he called me a homo. I hope you're happy with yourself."

"You know I'm not...I'm really sorry Tom...it's just the thought of you with another dude...you didn't even like simple people when I last saw you man. How was I supposed to believe you were hitting up Sparklez for real? Sparklez liked that pirate hooker, I thought he was straight."

My anger flared when he talked about Capsize. I was trying my hardest not to choke him.

"Nade, she wasn't a hooker. She was a pirate who liked Sparklez. Stop offending people..."

"Sorry man...what so you want me to do bro? I'll do anything for you to forgive me," Nade smiled.

"What if I don't want to forgive you?"

"Dude come on...what's happened to you? You used to be so cool. Now you're all like Mr. Uptight or something. You've turned into a clone of Sparklez. I remember when you used to hate Sparklez and the others, and you only hung out with us. Do you remember that? We used to be the only ones you liked...you've changed man." Nade shook his head and stood up from the bed.

My temper flared. I couldn't hold myself back any longer. If he said another word...

"Now you're all gay and stuff. What's up with that? I mean, I could believe Sparklez was gay but you? When you said it I thought you were just messing with us dude. What about your other friends man? What about us? Are you just gonna abandon us so that you can screw Sparklez all day?"

I was already half way across the room with my fists clenched, but Tom beat me to it.

He jerked up from his spot on the bed and punched Nade square in the nose. Nade fell on the floor and shook his head, shocked at the action.
Tom jumped up from the bed and grabbed the front of Nades hoodie, his fist collided with Nades face over and over again. He was infuriated. His face was a dark shade of red and his eyes were wild with blind fury.

He wasn't gonna stop anytime soon. And Nade was already bleeding horribly from his nose.
Nade looked absolutely terrified, he begged Tom to stop. But I don't think Tom heard him over his own yelling.

"SAY IT AGAIN! DO IT NADE! I DARE YOU! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" He sounded possessed, his voice was a loud screech. Toms fist did not ease up at all. Nades face was a bloody pulp.

"Tom stop! He's had enough! Stop it!" I pulled at Toms arm, but he wasn't going to let up on Nade.

"IVE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU! I NEVER LEFT YOU! IT WAS YOU WHO LEFT ME HIGH AND DRY AND YOU DIDNT EVEN TELL ME YOU WERE GOING! DONT YOU DARE TALK ABOUT ABANDONMENT WHEN YOU LEFT ME! DONT YOU DARE TALK ABOUT SPARKLEZ LIKE THAT WHEN HE WAS THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME FROM HURTING MYSELF! YOU LEFT...you left me...like I didn't even matter..." Toms possessed voice cracked, and then he broke out into tears.

He let go of Nades shirt and Nade scrambled away from him, absolutely terrified.
Tom hid his face in his hands and sobbed pitifully. I pulled him into me and let him cry.

"It's okay...it's okay..." I whispered to him. I rubbed my hands in circles on his back. He sobbed quieter.

I looked to Nades bloody face and shook my head.
"I told you, one word. You never listen, do you Nade?"

"Tom dude. I'm sorry. I messed up. And I'm sorry," his voice was filled with regret.

Tom just shook his head and pulled away from me, exiting the room and slamming the door behind him. I had no idea where he was going.

"Where...where's he going?" Nade pushed himself up from the floor and staggered a bit as he did. Blood dripped off of his face and onto the floor. His nose looked broken and he had so many cuts and already colored bruises. I shouldn't feel sorry for him...but I was an Ianitee after all. Stupid forgiveness...

"I don't know. Why did you even come here if all you were gonna do is insult him?"

"I didn't mean for it to turn out like that dude...I'm not good at apologizing. I was taught not to do it...ever."

"What did he mean by you left him? Where did you guys even go? I haven't seen you for weeks."

"We ran away. We thought some huge war was about to break out, so we ran off to like a different island and made a base there. The taint was everywhere dude, it was scaring us. We had to go."

"Why didn't you tell Tom you were leaving?"

"Because...we knew he'd stay anyway. Might as well not even tell him..."

"You're an idiot. Come with me, I'm patching up your bloody face."
I grabbed him by the arm and pulled him to the main floor, when most of my med supplies were. I didn't know how to do stitches, but at least I could get the blood off of his face and stop the bleeding.
He sat down on the floor and I pulled out my med kit Tom had given me when I moved my things here the first time.
I was in the middle of drying up Nades blood, when Guard Tom came down the steps and gasped at the sight.

"Captain! What's happened?! I heard screaming but I did not want to intrude in your conversation. Who is this man? And why is he bleeding?"

"Nade this is guard Tom. Guard Tom this is Nade. Nade is an idiot who used to be really good friends with my Tom, and my Tom just beat him to a pulp because Nade said something stupid and arrogant. You need a furthered explanation or are you good?"

Guard Tom walked carefully around Nade and stepped close to me. "I believe I am good. Is his nose broken? It very much looks like it..."

"Wait, who is this dude? I don't remember him being around when I was last here..." Nade asked me while I pressed a cloth to his deformed nose.

"He's just a friend, who we all met a while back. He lives with me." I wasn't going to say anything about the inertia, or else I might say too much.

"Okay...nice to meet you Guard Tom. Sorry you have to witness my bloody face. Thanks for helping out Sparklez. I'm sorry I insulted you too..." Nade scratched the back of his head nervously.

I taped the cloth to his nose and began cleaning up his busted lip.

"It's fine. Tilt you head back, it makes the blood stop flowing." He did as I said and leaned his head back slightly.

"What do I do about Tom? He's pretty pissed at me. And the modesteps..."

"Not sure. You got any ideas Tom?" I looked to guard Tom, who was examining Nades face with curiosity.

"I am not one for advice...I'm going to return upstairs. Aura is probably waiting for my return...goodbye Nade."

"Bye dude," Nade waved as I pressed a bandage to his lip.
I heard door shut moments later that signaled Guard Tom was gone.

"We met him at the inertia, the prison. We accidentally killed his friend and caused him to lose his job, so we gave him a ride back here. He was homeless and living in a dirty tent by himself. He was starving and he was wearing the same torn clothes everyday...I felt bad for him so I let him stay here. He doesn't know we killed his friend though...just that we're merchants. Oh, and Aura is his pet owl. Any questions?" I taped the bandage on his lip and pulled out the rubbing alcohol from the kit.

"Oh. That makes way more sense."

I poured the rubbing alcohol on a small cotton ball and pressed it to one of Nades cuts, he winced loudly.

"Stay still," I ordered sternly.

"Why are you so mean to me, man? I apologized to you," he tried not to move as I pressed the cotton harder against his cut.

"I have reasons to hate you. If I were to make a list it would stretch to the sun," I replied as I removed the cotton ball.
I pulled smaller bandages from the kit and placed one on his cut.

"Give me a few. I wanna know why I'm such a terrible person," his voice stated sarcastically.

"Okay, how about that time you tried to work for the shadows and you turned on everyone and tried to kill me multiple times? How about that time when you put a billion spiderwebs in my house and I had to sleep outside for a week? And what about that one time when you laughed at my boyfriend for opening up to you about his sexuality? And you called my dead crush a stripper? And you blamed me for Tom being-"

"Okay! I get it! I suck...I get why you hate me. Why are you helping me then?"

"Because I'm an Ianite. We're supposed to forgive and forget. But if I wasn't, you'd be a stain on the carpet by now. Just remember how nice me and my lady are..." I put on the last bandage and turned away from him to put up the kit supplies.

Nade was about to reply, but was cut off by a beeping sound. His communicator was going off like he had a message from someone. Then a few moments later, mine went off. It was a message from Sonja.

'Get down to the modesteps old base now. It's an emergency, and you're the only one who can help.'

Emergency?

"Oh no...oh crap. Toms gone insane," Nade started to pace nervously while he stared at the device on his wrist.

"What? Whats your message say?" I ran over to him and jerked his wrist towards me. It was a message from Champwan.

'Dude get over to our old base now! Toms killing Josh and Tony! Come stop him! I can't do anything, he's literally lost it!'

Oh no. Tom had went to the modesteps to fight them. This isn't good.

"Come on! You can calm him down when he's crazy, let's go!"

Nade pulled my arm towards the door and we ran off towards the modesteps base.

This was gonna be bad.

~

Nade couldn't fly, so I just ran alongside him. I couldn't really remember where the modesteps base was, but Nade seemed to know.

We weren't even there yet and I could already hear yelling and shouts and groans of pain.
The scene before me was shocking.
Sonja, Tucker, Wag, Martha, Ianite and Champ all stood around in a circle staring at something in utter shock.

And in that circle was my fiancé, the modesteps, and Steve.
Josh was lying on the ground, groaning and holding his head in pain. His nose was twisted in a unimaginable way and his clothes had been ripped in some places. He had mud and grime stuck to him like he'd been wrestling someone on the ground. One of his eyes were bloody, the white part of them splotched with crimson liquid. His bottom lip and his top lip were split open, the bottom bleeding down his chin.
Tony, however, looked much worse. He was throwing weak punches at Tom, and Tom was reflecting them and returning with ten times the amount of force. His cheek was swollen and black, his eyebrow was cut open and his hair had small spots where there wasn't any. Those spots were bleeding. Tom had ripped parts of his hair out. Oh my good god.
Tony looked enraged, even though he was in horrible shape.

Tom was bruised in some places and had a cut on his cheek that was bleeding, but he looked fine. Aside from the possessed screaming of curses and profanities, the crazed look in his eyes, and his face being twisted into an anger I'd never seen him have before, he seemed normal.

If you would call some one who looks and acts like that normal.

Steve was trying to break the two up, but even though he was the strongest person in Dagrun, he was failing. He was pulling at Toms waist, trying to get him away from Tony, but he might as well have been trying to restrain a demon.

It was impossible.

"Stevie stop them! They are killing eachother!" Martha cried, standing closely next to Sonja in fear.

"I can't budge him, he's like a monster savage!" Steve's Australian voice choked out.
Their conversation was barely audible over Toms screaming and cursing.

My friends didn't dare move a muscle, they all seemed too mesmerized by the horrible words coming out of Toms mouth.

I had to stop this. He would kill Tony if I didn't.

"TOM STOP! YOURE KILLING HIM!" I screamed over him, but he wouldn't listen. His fist rammed harder into Tonys chest and stomach.

Maybe if I stepped between them, Tom would stop when he saw me.
It sounded like a good plan at the time. But it wasn't. At all.

I stepped away from Nades side and ran into the circle, Steve yelled at me to stop but I ignored him.

I should've listened.

As soon as I stepped between the two, a fist collided with my nose, and I cried out in pain.

Streaks of pain shot up through my head and my eyes. I started to lose sight of everything. I'd never been hit in the nose so hard before. I'd most definitely fell when I was hit, because I was lying on my side in the grass with blood pouring from my nostrils and onto my chin and neck. I was bleeding way more than Nade had been earlier.
Where was I again? What hit me?
I started to see colors again, and faces appeared in front of me.
I recognized those faces after a moment or two.

Tom looked absolutely terrified for some reason. Martha was crying. Steve shaking his head in shame. Why are they upset?

I tried to breathe through my nose, which was a bad idea. I coughed violently as blood went through my breathing system.

"Don't just stand there! Stop the flowing!" I heard a guy say. Was it Tucker? Or champ? I couldn't tell...everything sounded weird. It was just a hit, wasn't it? Why was I reacting so horribly to it?

I felt something soft press against my nose, and I cried out in pain.

Pulses of agony shot through my head. My eyes flashed white for a minute.

What was happening?

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IM SORRY I DIDNT POST YESTERDAY BUT I HAD LIKE TWO ESSAYS DUE THE NEXT DAY AND I WAS SO FREAKING TIRED PLEASE FORGIVE MEH! ;((((

So my literature teacher on Monday is all like 'you need to turn in a rough draft essay by Wednesday' and I was like okay thats cool.

But then my world history teacher was like 'were writing an
argumentative paper, and it's due tomorrow.'

I STAYED ON MY COMPUTER FOR 4 HOURS STRAIGHT, TRYING TO WRITE ABOUT LEADERSHIP IN ONE ESSAY AND SLAVERY IN YHE OTHER! DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS?!

It sucked and I was tired and I was sick of seeing typed letters so I just went to bed...sorry.

I'll be gone tomorrow through Saturday, so don't be expecting any chapters because I probably won't be able to post any until Sunday. SORRY AGAIN!

I'll see all of you lovelies when I return, I will miss you all!

Goodbye!

- Lee