Onyx's Secret Power

"Onyx! We have to go NOW!" you shout.

She doesn't listen.

*PEW PEW PEW* She keeps shooting.

She dashes out into the middle, and Blackfire is forced to chase after her.

"ONYX!" you shout.

The Hunters take aim at her as she continues to run into the center.

*PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW* They fire away, and the beams hit her!

No, wait, they go though her. But how?

*POW BLAM* She smashes one Hunter with the butt of her rifle, and kicks another.

*WHAM BAMF* Blackfire punches out some others and grabs Onyx by the arm.

*WHOOSH* Blackfire hauls Onyx up and slings her on her shoulder. You all fly back to the mountain at full speed.

"How did you do that?" Flashfire asks. "Those lazers should have killed you!"

"When I need to, I can let things phase through me," Onyx says. "But only things like light beams and lazers, nothing solid. Shaping and Light-Phasing are abilities that earned us our names, 'Shadowans.' It is as if we are living shadows."

You arrive at the mountain, exhausted. Nuh and the others were able to set up sleeping areas, which were really just large beds of leaves and grass.

"We need to rest," you say. "Any food been gathered?"

"Here, have a Limenous fruit," Agate says, handing you a glowing blue one.

You bite into it, and it tastes very sweet.

Blackfire lies down on a bed of leaves, and you join her. The two of you look up into the sky, admiring the glowing stars in the light of the setting Moonstar.

"We did good out there," she says.

"I know," you say. "I'm proud."

"Me, too," she says, "but i also feel odd. I mean, you and I are criminals. We normally wouldn't help others."

"True," you agree. "But we are Tamaranians, and we help friends. Onyx is our friend, and her people are in danger. She'd do the same if Tamaranians were being hunted and captured."

Blackfire rolls towards you and rests her head on your shoulder. The two of you stay like that for another five minutes.

"Alright," you say, getting up, "let's move out."