Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:06:57 EST From: BugarTheWizard@aol.com Subject: hero in love chapter 18 Hero In Love By Bugar the Wizard So here is chapter 18. Hopefully this is posting faster than my last chapter. What else? Oh yeah. Happy holidays!! I wish I could make this an Xmas episode...but I don't want to move that far ahead yet. what else? oh yeah!! see my editor's comments down below if anybody cares. but seriously he does a great job. I also hope you like the big surprise down below!! (in the story silly) Also.. happy holidays to everyone.. and I would like some feedback as to writing a wierd side fic holiday story.. like those annoying dragonball z movies that don't fit the tv show time line at all.. you konw what I mean? Any thoughts? thanks to my new reader twistedbiguy for his comments, greystar, (hey, that might be an interesting name for something) and um.. the amateur astronomer. I can't remember yor email nick name. Chapter 18. WHAT DO YOU WANT??" Kyle yells into the night sky. It is his dream again, and he wishes he had a better idea of what was coming. "I want you to stop it," a hollow echoing voice replies. It is slow and hesitant, as if it does not quite know what it is saying. Kyle turns around, shocked that he has received an answer. Kyle sees a form standing next to him. It's dark, like a shadowy outline with no substance, but it's starting to become more defined. "Stop what?" Kyle asks. Finally, he thinks; he is going to receive an answer. "It is hard...to say. It is far away... but is coming." Kyle feels a sense of motion and distance...extreme distance. He thinks his early idea about it being in space is making more sense now. "So what do I do?" "You must stop it. It consumes everything it touches, everything in its path." The voice is sounding more familiar now, and less strange. It is also becoming more defined; arms beginning to take shape; legs beginning to show. "But how?" he asks, wishing whatever this thing was could talk better. "The... blue flame I gave you. It will help you to destroy this thing." "So it was YOU!!" Kyle replies, feeling glad he knows where his power came from. "But who are you?" he continues. "I am. I exist. In a path... around the sun." he says. What? Wait. Was he a planet? Or like some sort of asteroid? "You... live on me." THE EARTH? The earth was talking to him? Kyle reels backward. Why him? Why Kyle? "So why me?" "You...are...the one. The genes...I had...begun molding...for eons." Huh? Kyle doesn't know what to think. He is just Kyle, not some special person. "No. You are the final piece. The one I've waited for." The figure is growing more human looking as it speaks, and soon it forms. It looked like Jason. "Jason?" Kyle asks, holding his hand up to touch the familiar body in front of him. So real! But it wasn't Jason. Was it? "This person was in your mind. He is important to you, is he not?" Kyle nods in reply, too confused to speak. "I thought conversing with you like this would easier for you. I can change if you'd like," the strange Jason offers. Kyle is not sure what to think of this, and then decides to deal with this part later. "No; it's fine. So what am I supposed to do?" Kyle asks, hoping to get more answers. "Watch." The Not-Jason points to the sky. Suddenly everything is empty, as if Kyle is floating in a void. He watches as the view zooms in towards a star. No; a sun with planets orbiting it. Then suddenly...something. Kyle is not sure what. He's not even sure what is going on...but one of the planets goes dead. Lifeless. It floats there...but it's like its dead. Then it slowly begins to erode, as if it's being eaten away from the inside. "What's causing it?" Kyle asks, his voice echoing in the darkness. The not-quite Jason voice replies, echoing around him. " It has been traveling through space, consuming everything it encounters. Watch." Kyle watches in alarm as several smaller bits shoot off the planet as it's being eaten, spreading outward across the system. Kyle cringes as he realizes what will happen next. Jason looked with horror at the collapsed form of his boyfriend. Worry and pain ran through his body as he crouched in the hallway, oblivious to the concerned voices around him. Kyle's body was lying at an unnatural angle. Jason didn't think he'd twisted anything, but the way Kyle's head was lying creeped him out. "Jason." Jason shrugged it off as he held Kyle's head, trying to get him to respond. "Jason!!" again, and this time it was followed by a hand on his shoulder. "Huh?" he asked confusedly as he stared down at Kyle's prone body. He was covered in sweat, and his hair was matted to his head. Kyle had mentioned his dreams lately and waking up in his own sweat. Was this one of his dreams? "We need to get him to the Nurse's office." Rick said, taking charge. "Let's go. Steven, grab his arm. Josh, you grab the other one. I'll get his feet, Jason watch his head." the four boys quickly grabbed Kyle's body and began carrying it to the nurse's office, as Michelle and Alex watched with worry. Jason didn't know, but he thought Kyle should probably go to a doctor. As far as he knew, he was the only one who knew about the heavy night sweats Kyle had been having. And they'd been going on for months. Maybe something was really wrong if he was doing it now in the daytime. Jason felt more worry course through him as he realized this was way beyond him. How could he help Kyle? He wanted to help, wanted to do something. "Kyle...I love you," he whispered as he carried his lover's head. ************************************************************************************ Kyle could not believe the level of destruction he is witnessing. "And this is coming towards our system?" he asks, wondering how he can stop it. Those spores were HUGE. They were at least half the size of the moon. He's not quite sure though, as he doesn't know what size the planets are that he's looking at. "Yes. I can feel...the pain echoing across space..." not-Jason replies. They are back on the field now. Kyle feels more at home here, but its still kind of creepy. "Sounds kind of like Star wars," Kyle replies, thinking back to the scene where Obi Wan says he felt the planet explode. "That...is...similar. The power I gave you...is...an extension...of..." Kyle watches Not-Jason struggling to find the words. Suddenly a wave of pain washes over him...so intense he can barely stand it. "What is this?" he whispers, clutching his chest as he falls to the ground. "Why does it hurt so much?" He can't breath, the pain is so great. "It is what I feel...the echo of pain across the life...stream..." ************************************************************************************ Jason and his friends watched with concern as the nurse checked Kyle. "His arms seem to be ok...but I think he may have hit his head rather hard." Duh. Even Jason could tell that. Then horror replaced worry as Kyle's body began to spasm. That didn't look normal at all to Jason. "What's wrong?" he asked, his voice almost in panic. "I don't know; help me hold him down! We don't want him falling and hurting himself again." It took all four boys and the two girls, plus the nurse, to hold him down. "Some sort of seizure?" Josh grunted, still wrestling with Kyle's leg." We learned about them in health." "Perhaps," the nurse said, fighting Kyle's right arm. Oh. Seizure...that would make sense. But Jason didn't know of any seizure that made a person sleep badly. "Should we call the ambulance?" Alex asked, sounding worried but calm. Jason wished he could sound that good; he was fighting himself not to lose it, because he wouldn't be able to help Kyle if he lost it. Then before the nurse could respond, Kyle exploded. Well, not exactly; but it seemed like it. Jason felt realization war with disbelief, as a blue aura seemed to explode from his boyfriend. Blonde hair replaced brown, and Jason fought with the realization that his boyfriend was Kid Rush. Darkness replaced light as Jason fainted in the corner in which he'd landed. ************************************************************************************ Kyle woke up, the pain suddenly shielded by his aura. AURA? Where was he? He wasn't home. Kyle looked around and realized he was in the nurse's office. And there, lying on the floor, were his friends and the nurse. "Jason?" he asked, his first thought for his boyfriend. He looked at Jason's prone form, and immediately rushed to him. "Jason," he said, wishing he could drop his aura. But if he did, that overwhelming pain would consume him. "Kyle...you...you're really him?" Alex found the words to speak. "Yes. But we need to worry about Jason," he said. Right now he wanted his boyfriend awake. They could worry about his super hero side later. "Of course," the nurse said, coming to her senses. Kyle liked her from before when she'd helped Rick. She'd been really nice...down to earth, and the gay thing didn't bother her at all. "Be glad I take the doctor confidentiality thing seriously; I might be tempted to tell the higher ups." She laughed as she helped Kyle pick Jason up and laid him on the gurney. "I think he'll be ok...he was just overwhelmed by you collapsing in the hallway," she explained. "He'll wake up in another second or two. Now," and here she looked at Kyle very directly, " please tell me what happened?" "I guess I collapsed. I had this dream." This was going to sound weird to her. "It's going to sound weird...but it felt like a star had exploded, and I felt the pain in my chest...that's when I woke up." The sense of pain was fading now, which meant Kyle could drop his aura as soon as it reached a tolerable level. "I can still sense the pain...beyond my aura." The other boys and girls were looking at him as if he was a stranger. Kyle wished he could deal with this right now, but he couldn't. He had other things on his mind. If that was truly what was coming...their planet was in trouble. And Only Kyle could stop it. "Kyle..." Jason moaned as he stirred on the bed. "What happened?" he asked, sitting up. "My head hurts for some reason," Jason said, looking at Kyle. ************************************************************************************* Jason couldn't believe it. There was HIS Kyle standing there, blonde hair gleaming and blue aura shining brightly. Jason wasn't sure if he should be angry, or happy, or what. He decided to run. He couldn't deal with it; not right now. Kyle going from fainting to a seizure to being a super hero; it was too much. Jason ran. Ran as fast as he could out the door, through the offices, and down the hallway. He needed his blade. He'd found a razor blade several months ago, and he'd sterilized it several times with hot water. It didn't occur to him that Kyle might catch up; he just needed to get to his blade. Too many thoughts; too much pressure. The earlier weeks of worry were finally catching up. He needed this; needed it now. He skidded to a stop in front of his locker, relieved that the hallway was almost empty by now. Jason quickly dialed the combination, somewhat surprised that his fingers didn't fail him. "Jason." Not now. He didn't want to talk to anyone now. He needed his blade. "JASON." "Go away!!" Jason said, ignoring the voice. He didn't' want to talk to Kyle right now; he couldn't. "No. Kyle sent me to tell you he knows you're looking for a knife." Jason looked up, then, to see Rick standing there next to him. Why would Kyle not come himself? "Kyle couldn't come because if he turns off..." Here Rick looked around at the several straggler students in the hallway. He whispered, " If he turns off his aura, the pain will come back, and he'll be on the floor again in spasms." Oh. Jason was torn. He needed to get back to Kyle, needed to talk to him, but he wanted to cut. "I know it's a lot to take in. but you can do it Jason. It's not the end of the world." Rick said, grabbing Jason in a hug. Jason froze; feeling shocked, and then started to cry. Jason found himself wrapping Rick in his arms...needing something to hold on to...anything. "I know I'm not Kyle, but I want to help," Rick whispered as Jason collapsed onto the floor with Rick behind him, holding him the whole time. But Jason couldn't hear him. He was busy shaking with sobs as he cried. Dun dun dun!! Kinda of short I know, but who cares? I want to post it now. I'm tired of taking forever to post. So there. Anyway... what do you guys think about a special Xmas episode? *Looks around* Thanks to my new reviewers and new friends. Jack smith, Grey star, and someone else I forget. Sorry, I lost the email you sent me. Editor's Note: The Wizard has asked me to comment on his work. I have been editing this story, with the exception of chapter 17, almost from the beginning; so will comment on the entire work to this point. I do a lot of editing on the web, but at least 90% of it as anonymous so this is somewhat of a challenge for me. I look for young authors with a very high level of creative talent and then offer my editing skills to them. I strongly believe that fiction needs to be presented in such a way that the reader can "play the movie" without any effort, meaning that the reader should not have to try and figure out what the author is trying to say. I have edited for authors as young as 14 (see Boys of Lady Lex) -- and find the creative imaginations of young writers absolutely mind-boggling at times. In any case, Hero in Love meets all of my criteria as a great story, with strong character development (the author knows and expresses the mind set of the typical gay teenager in such a way that readers can easily identify with all of the characters), consistent portrayal of the fantasy elements, and careful plot development. Emotionally, there is humor, anxiety, fear, excitement, sadness, and love. What more can one ask? It is true that he doesn't use many capitol letters, and I have to put in lots of commas and semicolons. But that's what editors do. It's true that I've been anxiously waiting for Jason to find out about Kyle -- and that the way it was done in this chapter was a complete surprise to me -- but it's his story and I wouldn't change a thing. I trust that you, his readers, agree with me. more notes from me!