The Chaos Chronicles/ Chapter Fourteen

Rose attempts to distract Commander Tower while Kyle acquires an important book. Noon begins to help Thorn with her magic abilities. Midnight gets attacked by the creature.
==Included Characters==
Thorn the Fox
Kyle the Squirrel
Honey the Cat
Rose the Hedgehog
Midnight the Echidna
Noon the Echidna
Aurum the Dog
Quartz the Dog
Cocoa the Dog
Daisy the Dog
Topaz the Chameleon
Commander Tower
Jason the Squirrel
Chester the Squirrel
==Chapter Fourteen: Surrounded==
Thorn awoke from her sleep in the hospital. Kyle, Noon, and Kyle's father Jason surrounded her.
"What happened?" Thorn asked.
"Midnight attacked you. Don't you remember?" Kyle asked.
"Not really. Everything's a blur after we started skating." Thorn said.
"Noon, I've done all I can." Jason said. "Is there some way you can heal her? I've heard of your special talents."
"Yes, I believe I can." Noon said.
He placed his hand on Thorn's temples. His hands glowed white, and the wound healed.
"Thank you." Jason said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I must perform the autopsies on those young boys they found."
"Perhaps I can be of assisstance." Noon said.
"Well...alright." Jason said. "Follow me to the morgue."
Kyle held Thorn's hand as the door burst open.
"Kyle!" a young squirrel exclaimed. "What are you doing here? Where's dad? Is that your girlfriend? How come-"
"Chester!" Kyle snapped.
"I'm on a weekend break, dad's doing his job, and yes, this is my girlfriend." Kyle told him.
"Nice to meet you, Chester." Thorn said.
"You too!" Chester exclaimed.
"Honey, how did you end up here?" Daisy asked.
"I...I don't know. The last thing I remember was training at the G.U.N. Fortress." Honey said.
"Guys, why don't we head back to the plane." Topaz said.
"That's a good idea." Cocoa agreed.
Noon returned from the morgue after Chester left.
"Why didn't my wounds heal by themselves?" Thorn asked. "The charm should've protected me."
"I don't know exactly why, but I would guess that Midnight is now more powerful than you after absorbing Nightshade's abilities." Noon said. "And now the charm is waiting for you."
"Train me." Thorn said. "Help me become more powerful."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes!"
"Alright. We'll begin when we get back to the G.U.N. Fortress." Noon said.
"Also...we haven't told you about the creature we saw back at the base." Thorn said.
"What if that's the thing attacking those kids?" Kyle asked.
"The boys died of drowning. The one your friends found last night was slashed up after he drowned." Noon said. "Both were paralyzed and chained to the rocks."
"We need to find out what this creature is." Kyle said.
"I think G.U.N. might have a database containing all the creatures they've encountered." Noon said.
Omega Squad returned to the G.U.N. Fortress the next day.
They were at the Archery station now. Honey was the one who excelled at it, while the rest of the squad was lackluster.
"More of your training?" Thorn asked, shoving passed her.
Honey's jaw clenched up.
After they're archery practice, Thorn ran to catch up to Rose.
"Hey, how've you been?" Thorn asked.
"I've been okay. What about you?" Rose replied.
"I've been better." Thorn said. She told Rose about her altercation with Midnight last night.
"Gosh, I'm sorry Thorn." Rose said.
"That's why I need Noon's help. He's going to help train me." Thorn said.
"That's great!" Rose said.
"And, one more thing." Thorn said. "Think you can hack into a database?"
That night, Midnight, Quartz, and Aurum were training behind the G.U.N. Fortress. Aurum ran to attack Midnight, but she was knocked down. Quartz tried to jump on her from behind, but Midnight threw him off.
"Do something unexpected guys!" Midnight exclaimed.
Aurum slid under Midnight's legs, knocking her down. Quartz pinned Midnight down underneath him.
"Good job." she grinned.
Quartz let her up, and she turned on him, breaking his arm.
"Ah!" he cried in pain.
"Quartz!" Aurum exclaimed. She ran over to him, and touched his broken arm. Her hands glowed silver, and his arm healed.
"What was that for?" Quartz asked.
"If you can't take hits like that, what's gonna happen when you become the creature's victim?" Midnight asked. "I'm trying to teach you guys everything I know."
Thorn, Kyle, and Rose were sitting in the library.
"Noon told us about a book about creatures that G.U.N. has." Thorn said.
"So, a bestiary." Rose said.
"Yeah, I guess you'd call it that." Kyle said.
"Anyways, do you think you could help us get into the central databse and distract Commander Tower while Kyle hacks into the database and gets the bestiary?" Thorn asked.
"I can try." Rose said.
That night, Rose met Commander Tower in his office.
"Hi, Commander Tower." she said.
"Hello Rose. I see you are performing well in your training." he told her.
"Commander Tower, I was wondering if you could help me with something." Rose said.
"Oh? Like what?" he asked.
"Well, I was hoping you could come have dinner with my parents and me right now." Rose said.
"Thank you for the invitation, Rose. But, I cannot leave my duties-"
"Please? After all, everyone has to eat." Rose said.
"Well, I suppose." Commander Tower said.
"Great!" Rose exclaimed. "Let's go."
Thorn and Kyle snuck into Commander Tower's office. Kyle hacked into his computer easily. He found a folder labeled "Bestiary" and clicked on it. Inside the folder was a list of creatures that G.U.N. had faced over the years.
"That's it!" Thorn exclaimed.
Kyle downloaded the bestiary to his flashdrive.
"Come on, let's go." Kyle said.
Midnight was walking alone down the hallway to Omega Squad's quarters.
Suddenly, the creature jumped out of the shadows.
Midnight ran to the swimming pool inside the fortress.
The creature leaped on top of her, pinning her down. She was inches away from the pool. Her fingers touched the water, and she said a spell.
"Aspergo!" Midnight yelled.
The water erupted onto the creature. It jumped away from her, afraid of the water.
Midnight crawled away from it, but the creature scratched her, paralyzing her. Midnight fell into the water.
Kyle went to the library while Thorn heard a commotion in the swimming pool area.
"Midnight!" Thorn exclaimed. Midnight's head was submerged underwater.
Thorn saw the creature stick it's claws in the water, then jump back, as if it was burned.
"It's afraid of the water..." Thorn muttered.
"Aspergo!" Thorn yelled. The water erupted all over the creature.
Thorn dived into the pool and grabbed Midnight. Thorn touched Midnight's heart, and water flushed from her mouth and nose. Midnight awoke with a cough.
The creature stared at them, and then caught a sight of its reflection. The creature was confused, and then looked frightened. It ran away, escaping through the skylight.
Thorn got Midnight out of the pool.
"You...you saved me." Midnight said.
"I guess I owe you one for stopping Nightshade." Thorn said. "But I'm still mad at you for almost killing me last night!"
"I didn't try to kill you." Midnight said. "I wanted you to ask me for help."
"Are you crazy?!" Thorn asked.
"I want you in my corner, Thorn." Midnight said.
"So...you maimed me...to try to get me to be your friend? Nice logic there." Thorn told her.
"I'm sorry." Midnight told her.
"Well, you don't need to transfer your powers to me." Thorn said. "I'm working on it."
"Alright," Midnight said. "Why don't we go get a towel."
After the two dried off, they met up with Kyle at the library. He had just finished downloading the flashdrive onto the computer.
"I can't translate the text in the bestiary." Kyle said.
"Great..." Thorn said.
"You don't have to." Midnight said. "The creature is a Jinn. I figured it out when Thorn told me it was scared of its own reflection. It's a shapeshifter. But here's the strange part. The Jinn looked familiar, like someone you know wearing a mask."
"I wonder why the Jinn was scared of the water, too." Thorn said.
"Hopefully we can decode the text and find out more." Midnight said.
"We?" Kyle asked.
"We're in this together now. I'm sorry for hurting you guys." Midnight said.
Later, Rose had finished her dinner distraction with her parents and Commander Tower.
Rose was thinking about the events that had occurred the past few days. She began to cry, slumping down on the floor.
Cocoa walked out of the infirmary. He saw Rose crying and went to comfort her.
"Rose, what's wrong?" he asked.
"I think I'm crazy..." Rose told him. "Am I?"
"Rose," Cocoa said, "you're a beautiful girl who's just been through a lot lately. You've had a lot of stress."
"You're not crazy." he assured her.
"Thank you, Cocoa." Rose told him.
He smiled at her.
Topaz woke up in his bed. He was wet. Topaz lurched up, throwing up. He began throwing up a viscous black liquid.
Daisy found him in the bathroom.
"Topaz what happened?!" she asked.
"I...don't...know!" he said in between throwing up.
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