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The Clones Return (Chapter 6)
By Vader
River, Para, JohnArnold, Jon, Majestic-1, and Rexoraptor sat atop their JPDatabase pteranadons, steering them across the Internet, back towards Jurassicpark.com. While JohnArnold caught up with his old friends through talk of the past, Para was concerned about the absolutely silent River. "Are you alright?" she asked him for the seemingly fiftieth time.
River shook his head. He wanted to tell his wife what had happened, to get it off his chest but it was too painful to even say the name of his old friend. He just sniffed as another tear rolled down his cheek. Below, jurassicpark.com came into view, before Para could continue to encourage River to divulge his feelings.
Everyone instructed their steeds to roll downward. The pteranadons gently rode the wind to make their way down to hover over the massive cities covering Jurassicpark.com. They swooped down to drop to the landing pad next to AcroIguana's mansion. Quickly, everyone got of their animals, tying them to nearby polls. "Wow," Rexoraptor nodded at the mansion. "Nice place."
"Indeed," JohnArnold smiled. They walked forward as the pteranadon's craned their neck about to view the brand new, bright world they had entered. The humans passed by Vader and Raptor-Rex's mini-chopper and noticed that there was another mini-chopper, more newly made. "Looks like Cyros is back from recruiting on the other side of the site," John took note.
They quickly entered inside the mansion, taking the elevator up stairs a few floors. They exited the cramped elevator full of people to come into a large suite, composed of lavish furniture and carpets fit for royalty. Count AcroIguana of the United Legislature with his right hand, SamFan, along with Vader, Raptor-Rex, and Cyros across from him with Enella in their arms, sat on the couches, spinning around to see the newly entering visitors.
"Welcome back!" Raptor-Rex exclaimed approaching them. They all exchanged hugs as SamFan darted up to Jon, Majestic, Rexo, and JohnArnold with a wide smile, something that hadn't been given to John by her in years. Vader handed Enella back to her parents as they nuzzled her with glee.
"I see your mission was very successful!" AcroIguana smiled. "I'm so glad! And Cyros was also successful in finding recruits! We've made an addition of twenty ground troopers from the volunteering members outside of the capitol!" Para looked up and grinned at him. Indeed, things had gone well while they were gone.
"Good job, Cyros," River said, forcing a complement out of his murky sea of gloomy feelings after ing his friend.
"Thanks, River. Sorry I wasn't here while Enella was born. I offer my congratulations, I'm very proud," Cyros replied. River nodded, making his lips creep in a small smile. He held Enella up to the side of his cheek, closing his eyes and hugging her warm and comforting tiny body.
JohnArnold arranged a banquet in his apartment in Acro's mansion for a chance for Jon, Majestic-1, Rexoraptor, and SamFan could all join together to converse. He sat, staring out his window as the large, vast sunset over the site. Flashes of the reactions of his announcement to leave JPDatabase for Dan's JP3 Page that occurred so incredibly long ago. Only two of those reactions were understanding and welcome - those of Jon and Majestic. Everyone else had been completely devastated by the news and John left them to form the Admin fleet to build up a constant grudge to become a crust over them.
And it was so wonderful to now have the chance to slowly build these relationships back up. Of course, John would must rather prefer that a grudge had never been formed, but that would have had required him to stay on his home site. Should he have stayed? Or should he had gone of to help the Admins? He shook his head, trying to rid his head of the thoughts. It was all in the past, which could not be changed. And he was so glad to have wonderful friends in Admins Vader, Raptor-Rex, Cyros, and everyone else he had met in his journeys across the internet. There was no regrets there.
The door to his apartment opened as SamFan walked in. John looked at her with admiration, recalling those wonderful times he'd spend with her before he'd left and broke her heart, hardening her. "The other will be up soon. They wanted to ask Acro a few questions first," she told him sitting down on the couch.
She stared off into the distance, purposely avoiding the stare of JohnArnold. Seeing her sitting there, having been stung by what he had done, surged emotion through him. This was enough. It was time to end this long, dark period in the relationship between them. He walked over and sat down on the couch next to her. She cast her eyes downward to her lap as he did so.
"SamFan," John said gently.
"What?" she asked still looking down. He reached out, taking her chin and turning her face to look into his eyes.
"I am so sorry. I will never leave you again." His simple words effected her as he looked deep into her eyes with sorrow. "I promise you, forever." She looked at him, a tear rolling down her cheek and she reached up to cover her mouth. She leaned forward, falling into his arms. "I would never mean to hurt you. We will be together till the end of our days."
"I couldn't help but feel pain, John," she sobbed, digging her face into his shoulder. "But I am so proud of what you've accomplished, and I know it was worth every second you spent away from JPDatabase."
"But now, it will be different," John assured her, leaned forward to kiss her passionately. The kiss, although interrupted by the sound of the door opening, was short, but still very meaningful, symbolizing the rebuilt bond between the two people. The other three members of JPDatabase walked in with a smile as John and SamFan stood.
"Glad you came!" John smiled as he motioned toward the banquet on the nearby table. "Come on. It'll be just like old times."
"That it will," Jon nodded as everyone gladly sat down.
River lay in his bed alone that night. His eyes were closed, filled with visions of him ing his friend his violent rage. He d being alone, since that was the time his thoughts always inevitably turned to what had happened at the Gondolend website. Para and Enella were off in the nursery, as she got patches for her wounds she achieved in her recent trip.
Fire consumed River's Brian, as if symbolizing extreme loathing. The other Admins had warmed him of letting the evil inside of him getting the better of him, but he'd never listened to them. Then, he'd made the biggest mistake in his life after not following their advice. He regretted it so badly, so tormented by it, words could not describe how bad his feelings were.
The door slid open as Vader and Raptor-Rex walked in. River pulled himself up to sit, trying his best to hide his true emotions. "Hello, River," Vader smiled with a certain understanding. "Para wanted us to check up on you."
"Why?" River asked.
"She said that something had happened at Rancor's old site that nobody knows about. She said its been severely disturbing you ever since," Raptor-Rex answered. River sighed, a lump forming in his throat, fighting back tears. "River, let it go. Tell us what happened." River braced himself, readying himself. He knew it was time.
"I went there to retrieve an old friend of mine. While growing up in my first 20 years of life, we had been very close friends. We were both blinded by the Flooders, since they had lied to us about the Admins, but we both had good intentions, and good hearts. I had left him behind when I'd gone with you, and I wanted to return to him, tell him everything new I'd learned, and bring him to join the Admins, to be reunited. But when I went . . ." he paused, taking a breath as a tear sprang to his eyelid. "When I went there, I become very angry, having been attacked by a carnivore and the Flooders. I was blinded by my loathing and I accidentally ed him in the process."
Vader and Raptor-Rex sighed. They had warned River of this before. "River, we are sorry to hear of this. But you know we have tried to stop this sort of thing from taking ever place. We feel horrible, however, that it did," Vader told him.
As River sulked, there was a small ding that echoed throughout the mansion, followed by the sound of AcroIguana's announcement. "Attention, attention. All members of the United Legislature report to the main hangar. The aircraft is ready to take of for Dan's JP3 Page." Vader patted River on the shoulder, helping him up, and then the three Admins left the room to join the others. They largest site war of all time was about to take place.
2/18/2002 6:34:03 PM
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