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B2 Chapter 36: "A Cut Cannot Heal Unless You Leave It Alone"

B2 Chapter 36: "A Cut Cannot Heal Unless You Leave It Alone"

Standing in the Heart of Staug City Ryan looks around him and sees a ton of tourists in town. The city was having that food festival that Breanna told them about earlier. Surrounded by a lot of people, he takes deep breath and enjoys the feeling of being back home. He walks up the city wall and looks out into the distance as the sun starts to come up. He sits up there for a 15 minutes thinking about how he is going to apologize to Zephyr and Kannell.

He gets up off the wall and walks over to Breanna’s Inn. As he walks inside of it, he noticed that she was overwhelmed with people inside that were demanding to try some of her cuisines that he gave her. The inside of the Inn was flooded with people and outside there were tables that were set up to accompany the overflow.

As he walks around inside the building, he sees Kannell passed out and laying against the wall. People were stepping around her and not paying her any attention. He then looks over at Breanna who was working with 6 other people she hired in a hurry for this event. He walks to the side of the bar and tries to talk to her.

“Don’t talk to me, I already know what you did. If you want to redeem yourself Just get her home” Breanna told him while not paying him any mind and pointing to Kannell. She then attends to the mob of hungry tourists that wanted to try new stuff.

Ryan then picks her up and carries her out of the Inn with her in his arms.

Ryan then walks by Ernest’s blacksmith shop and goes inside and talks to him.

He walks into his shop and he smiles at him.

“Do you still have that mold from those 2 axle trucks you made me along with those 4 rims?” He asked him.

“For that board of yours? I think I do” He replied to him while looking at Kannell who was still passed out in his arms.

“Can you make me 2 more axles and 4 more rims. My board was destroyed in Disturbia” He told him.

“Sure, thing buddy” He told Ryan. Ryan then gently puts her down against the wall and pays him 40 gold in advance. He then picks her back up and gets walking down the road. 2 miles in, she wakes up and looks at Ryan who was carrying her.

“I’m broken without him” She told Ryan while starting to cry.

“I’m deeply sorry I got him killed. He was my hero you know, that right?” Ryan told her sounding upset.

“I wish you didn’t lie to us. I wish you told us what that mark meant. Now we don’t have Greena with us and we don’t have Joseph. I’m a wreck right now. I drank myself in sorrow last night trying to cover up my pain.” She told him.

“I honestly didn’t know what it was until we got going. I shouldn’t have banged Arcadia. I shouldn’t have cheated on Zephyr in the first place. But there was a need for sex that I sort of gave in to” He told her.

“But why did you do that with her? I mean If you wanted sex, Zephyr would have given it to you. She has been trying to throw herself at you for almost like forever” She replied to him while still completely paralyzed in sorrow.

“My mother had a lot to do with it. I was keeping the fact that she was my mother from her the whole time. I felt bad that she cursed her and fucked up her life. Also, you do know why I am here right?” He asked her.

“You are supposed to defeat Yulee, and then get out of here. I remember Zephyr telling me about that last night” She told him in a numb tone.

“Well, I’m scared to fall in love with her. It’s not because of the fact she’s crazy, or that shes a Lyieku. The minute Yulee goes down, I’m out of here and shes just a memory. I don’t want the emotional baggage of regretting that I left somone I loved behind. So, I just choose not to let myself fall in love. I get clingy as hell during sex as you may recall with what happened with me and Vedra. If I have sex with Zephyr or tell her I love her its game fucking over with leaving this place on a clean Conscience” He told her.

“I guess I can relate to you there. The Navy they didn’t want us fraternizing with one another in combat. It was a security issue so in the event something happened, we wouldn’t fall apart and get our whole unit killed. We were all pretty much prohibited from dating each other. That’s why when I stepped off that ship when we first arrived in Gnillàf I grabbed the first nice person I saw which was Noodle. Then I ended up falling in love with him” She told him in a sad hopeless depressed tone.

The tone of her voice started to make him feel really bad for what he did.

“If I may ask, how did you exactly make it out of there? There was no way with 200 plus anarchists coming your way, along with fighting the all-powerful Lilith that you could have made it out of there alive” She asked him still depressed.

“My mother saved my ass. She sent a bombing squadron my way to clear out the anarchists. Then I was able to deal with Lilith alone. That STD that Arcadia accidently gave me boosted my spell power and recovery rate greatly. It was probably why I was able to destroy her” He told her.

“Shes not gone. They say she always comes back somehow” She told him while placing her cheek into his arms that were starting to get tired from carrying her.

“I hope she doesn’t. She almost got me, but when she turned into the form of my ex-girlfriend before she finished me off, I was like filled with extreme rage and anger and managed overpowered her.” He replied to her while walking over to a shady tree and putting her down next to it.

His arms started to burn from carrying her for about 2 miles.

“What I want to know is why would you cheat on Zephyr though? She has not done anything wrong to you. Noodle cheated on me with a skank I didn’t like, and it destroyed me. Then I found another guy and got married to him. But that guy was close to cheating on me because my job almost hardly let me go home” She explained to him.

“Arcadia is… a little weird. Look she and I are kind of in the same boat with being somewhere we don’t want to be because of poor choices. She made the first move and I told her I didn’t really want to cheat on Zephyr. But She’s been cooped up in her throne room almost since the creation of this world. She’s been taken advantage of several times, and both my mother and Yulee have betrayed her and almost wrote her out of the history books. She wanted just a little appreciation from someone. I ended up caving into the pressure when she made the first move. I didn’t feel bad about it at first because I knew it was just going to be a one-night stand and I wasn’t going to fall in love with her. But as soon as it was over regret hit me, then when we agreed to keep it a secret that dark cloud appeared and ruined everything” He told her feeling really sad.

“Cheating on people isn’t right there is no excuse for it. Look nothing you do or say will bring Noodle or Greena back. I’ve accepted that because of what I been through. Zephyr on the other hand doesn’t want anything to do with you right now. When we get home shes going to probably kill you. Look when we get home just wait outside and I’ll go grab your stuff for you” She told him still sounding depressed.

“No, I’m a big boy. If she wants to kill me, she can. I have to tell her I’m sorry and I’m going to see if there is anything, I can do to get another chance from her” He told her.

“Ryan, as a Woman, that’s highly unlikely going to work. She’s devastated that she gave you her heart, and you turned around and gave your love to somone else. Look I been through this before. The trust has been broken between you two. It’s going to be nearly impossible to get it back from her” She explained to him while Ryan gave her a sad look.

Ryan then bends over and backs up to her. She then climbs onto his shoulder and they get walking again.

“I… Have to try. The one main factor that was keeping me from getting closer to her romantically is out in the open now. I have to see what I can do to get her trust back” He told her.

“Still going to be hard. You abandoned her in her time of need when she lost her tail” Kannell said while rolling her eyes.

“I know. Look I have a plan in place. I just have to try hard and make it up to her” He told her.

“Again, it’s probably not going to work. But I have 1 good question” She told him as they start going up a small hill between a canopy of trees.

“Sure, go ahead” Ryan says while wiping off the sweat from his forehead.

“Tell me more about Joseph. How was he a hero to you. Tell me about your other life too” She asked him.

“Back on earth he was called Ronnie Radke. He was a singer of a band called Falling In Reverse. He kind of had the same issues here that he had back on earth. He made poor decisions, got someone killed, went to jail, got kicked out of a band he started and had to start over” He told her.

“Falling In Reverse? Isn’t that the band of some of those songs you played before?” She asked him.

“Yes, it is. I played quite a few of his songs actually” He told her.

“Play some of them right now. I want to hear his sweet voice right now” She told him sounding like she was about to start crying.

“Alright” Ryan said as he pulls out his phone and starts playing the song “Superhero” From Falling In Reverse.

As he plays that song she starts crying. His voice alone was destroying her from the inside. Ryan wanted to turn the song off, but she grabbed his hand and made herself listen to it to the very end.

“I can’t believe this was him in another life. This song is just so powerful.” She told him while crying heavily.

“Ya I feel like he’s trying to tell us something from this song” Ryan replied to her.

“Me too” She told him while hugging Ryan tight.

“You know I tried killing myself after you all left me after I defeated her? I ended up going on a drunk suicidal rampage and ended up kiting Metourum to Desteria and Arcadia saved my ass before the demon caught me. She then told me how I could get rid of my Disease. I ended up having to spend the night over at my mother’s castle which was awkward a fuck.” He told her while having flashbacks of last night.

“Wow that sounds like a fun night. We all had to bury him last night. Then we went over to town and tried to cheer ourselves up with the festival that was in town. But going there was a complete waste of time. Zephyr drank with me which is weird because she doesn’t drink according to Breanna. I drank myself to sleep then Zephyr got a teleport home that was paid for by Breanna” She told him while still crying.

“Again, I am very sorry I caused this. Look on your end can you forgive me?” He asked her.

“It’s going to take some time” She told him while signaling him to put her down. She then walks up to him and hugs him.

Kannell and him then walk 1 mile back to the house while he tells her more about him bringing down that capital city.

When they arrive at the front porch Zephyr was inside and depressed lying face down on the couch.

Kannell then enters the door and Zephyr turns over and looks at her and Ryan standing together.

Ryan then proceeds to sit down next to her. She then shoots him a pissed off look.

“Don’t sit down. You don’t live here anymore. I don’t even know why you are even alive, just get your shit and go” Zephyr told him as Liz comes down the stairs. Her blue emo hair was a mess from drinking and crying all last night.

“Look I want to talk to you about my fuck up” He said while leaning back on the couch.

“No there is no fixing this! Now get out of here! You lied to me about several things. You got Greena and Noodle killed, and you also kept the fact your mother was Bunnell from me. I can’t handle anymore lies. I loved you and you don’t even have the common courtesy to tell me you love me back. I’ll never forget you fucking ran away in my time of need when Metter chopped off my tail. Look you don’t deserve me. I had too much patience for you. Look just get your shit and go” She screamed at him while shoving him off the couch.

“I felt bad about what I did. I like seriously tried killing myself last night because of all the guilt that hit me at once. Can we please just talk this out?” He asked her.

“No. There is no talking this out. Just get the hell out of here” She screamed at him.

“Look what is it I can do to fix this? You need to give me a “step one” here to follow. I don’t want to give up on you” He begged her.

“Oh, you want a Step one? Go be a man and tell my mom what you did to me. Now get the hell out of my life!” She screams at him while getting up and shoving him 20 feet out the door. She then slams the door and starts screaming crying from inside the house at the same time.

Kannell then looks at him and shakes her head at Ryan. Ryan just walks away from the house and heads back to town feeling depressed and regretting his decisions.

When he gets back to town he checks in on his Trucks and rims for his board. Ernest told him they would be done in 2 hours. Ryan then goes over to Stark’s crafting shop and goes and talks to him.

He and Stark then catch up on whats new since they last talked. Ryan tells him all of his achievements and all his mistakes.

“Looks like you need some time to yourself. You need to figure out what you want in life. Seeing the country must have been fun with all your friends. But cheating on Zephyr was kind of a huge mistake that may never be fixable. It’s kind of funny you hated her when you two first met, and now you want her back now” He told him while giving him a cup of coffee.

“Yes, I know. I really fucked up. A road trip would be perfect for me to be honest. I’m in the process of making another board” He told him while taking a sip of coffee.

“Wait what happened to your last one?” He asked him.

“Well I completely lost it yesterday. My “Curse” I had on me from cheating on her with that goddess made it so I could pull a world boss across extreme distances. I sort of went on a death march and pulled Metourum to the anarchy capital city of Desteria. I was saved by that goddess, but my board was lost in the explosion I almost died in” He told him.

“Wait your Responsible for destroying that capital city?” He asked him while putting the local newspaper on the table.

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Stark then points to the front page that talked about the destruction of Desteria by a mysterious force that pulled Metourum to the town.

“Yep that was my doing” He told him while still feeling depressed from earlier.

“That was a hell of a stunt you pulled my good boy! I like it!” He told him while smiling at him.

“I need to make a new board though. Can I borrow some more wood from you?” He asked him.

“Sure! I actually have some magic-reinforced boards upstairs that’s the same dimensions as your board from last time” He told him.

“How much one?” He asked him.

“You obliterated that evil city right off the map my boy. Take anything you want for free. Now that they are gone my Supply orders will be tremendously cheaper since shipping through that zone won’t be so expensive” He told him while smiling.

“Well I need to run and go grab Rubber compound from the woods again Ryan told him.

“I’ll predrill the holes for you while you’re gone.” He told him with a giant smile.

“Okay thank you” Ryan told him while he picks up 2 wooden buckets off the ground. Ryan then thinks about the task that Zephyr and Liz had to partake in when they had to repair Misty’s Roof. He then remembers them bringing a cart with them.

“Hey, Can I borrow a cart from you?” He asked him.

“Sure, it’s around back” He told him.

“Thank you” Ryan said while walking outside. He then finds the cart and goes on a long walk to get this rubber compound from the woods 3 miles away.

Ryan then walks through the woods and encounters some wild animals. He kills them very easily and then gets to his destination with ease. He then gets the rubber compound and starts walking back.

When he gets back to town he then walks over to Ernest’s shop and he had his axles and rims ready for him. He then takes the rims and the rubber compound to the nearby mage Class masters and Get them to help him form 4 solid rubber tires for his board.

When he had them made, he then heads back to Stark who had the main board all drilled out and ready for him. Ryan then attaches the trucks to the board using screws and bolts. He then takes left over leather scraps that he had laying in the trash and makes 2-foot straps for himself again. Ryan then shakes Stark’s hand and smiles at him.

“Thanks for talking to me. I’m going to a long ride through the country and clear my head” He told him.

“Well have fun son. You really need a break from the drama. Hey before you go take this” He said as he threw him a small rectangular box the size of his cellphone.

“What is this for?” Ryan asked him.

“It’s a pocket-sized Tent. I got it from some magical students the other day. You push that button on the side and all the parts inside of it grow back to full size. Then you assemble it. Then when your done you put everything back inside the bag and hit the button again which shrinks it all back down to size” He told him.

“That’s Awesome. Thank you very much” Ryan told him while pulling off his backpack and putting the small box in it with his kite.

“Your Welcome son. Have fun and go find yourself. I really hope everything works out for you” Stark told him while Ryan walks out the door. Ryan then starts walking north out of town.

He looks around and there were too many trees to be able to pop up his kite. He sees some of his old co-workers from the wall project that were driving a cart and he hops on the back. They take him 5 miles north and then he hops off at the supply depot.

Ryan then keeps walking on foot and just looks around at the landscape. He walks over to an orange tree and pulls an Orange off and starts peeling it while still maintaining a North West direction down the road. He passes a sign that says “Jerkville 15 miles North-East Miseryland 200 miles West and Lauderdale South-East 250 miles”. He just shakes his head and just keeps walking.

He walks for about 15 miles then comes to the Border of the Eyefore PVP Corridor. He takes a deep breath and just looks at the Eyefore-Eyesore monument in the distance and feels the wind blowing strong toward the north west. He decides he’s going set his kite up here. He then sets everything up and pops up his kite since this reddish barren wasteland had more bones on the ground then trees. He then launches his Kite up in the air and hops on his board and starts headed west toward the Eyesore monument.

As he feels the wind blow through his messy medium length auburn hair, he just takes a minute to glance at the scenery around him. There were craters from battles in the past that scarred the land, there were bones from dead adventures that died in this area and there were even skulls that were impaled on pikes that were stuck into the ground for some odd reason.

As he starts to roll westward at around 20 miles an hour, he starts to enjoy the change in speed. Walking at 3 miles an hour sucked. Rolling at 20 miles and hour was a hell of a lot faster. Sure, he wasn’t going at highway speeds, which he liked to be going but he had to keep in mind 20 miles an hour times ten hours means 200 miles he can travel. That’s a Hell of a lot more distance to be able to travel then 30 miles on foot for a whole entire day. He had to keep a positive mood on this little journey. He had to enjoy the small things.

As he keeps rolling further West, he sees a supply caravan in the distance coming his way. Remembering what Stark told him from earlier about supply caravans getting attacked through the Anarchy zones, he decides to not scare them. He turns away from them while still heading westward the best he could. The people on the carts take note of his change in course and are relived that he wasn’t a hostile enemy. He then keeps rolling in peace.

When he rolls into a segment of PvP zone that started to have Lush green grass he stops to take a break. He brings down his kite and then puts it in his bag. He then straps his board to his backpack and starts walking. On foot.

He looks at this zone that was lush and green and looks 40 yards behind him that was straight up reddish clay and wonders how odd it was to have such a sudden transition. Ryan keeps walking west and explores this beautiful place. There were colorful flowers all around, a small crystal-clear lake in the distance and also the air smelled like peppermint. As he walks further on, he sees a Sign that said “Elysian Fields” that was hammered into the ground.

Ryan tilts his head in confusion and wonders why the hell “Elysian Fields” sounded so familiar to him. As he walks around this place, he had a strange urge lay down on the grass and relax. He then caves into this urge. He lays down in the grass and relaxes and looks up at the wonderful blue sky. The scenery was absolutely amazing, and the wonderful smell of peppermint just amplified this experience.

As he rolls to his side to smell the grass his ear facing the ground could hear something around him. As soon as he picks this up, he closes his eyes and homes in the direction this rustling noise was coming from. He then quickly turns 35 degrees and casts [Detonate] in that general direction. The blast strikes 1 girl out of [Stealth] and into the air and she comes falling into the ground hard. When Ryan realized she was a Rogue he quickly gets up on his feet and starts casting [Detonate] spam on her. She then starts to scream in pain and begs him to stop. He keeps doing it to her till her health was at 5%. He stops and she was begging for her life for him not to kill her.

Ryan walks over to this 16-year-old girl and takes her weapons off of her and throws them to the side. He then takes her backpack off of her and starts going through it. He finds just a little bit of gold and a few flasks of water in it and nothing else of interest on her. He then throws her backpack down and picks her up and carries her back to his backpack. He then reaches into it and pulls out a potion.

“I don’t want to die! Please don’t kill me!” She said while begging him with every last ounce of life she had while crying heavily.

Ryan then pulls off the cork stopper on a health potion and helps her drink it. She then starts to heal up and slowly stops crying.

“Why are you here?” Ryan screamed at her.

“I was just passing though!” She told him while appearing very terrified of him.

“No, I mean Why the hell were you trying to sneak up on me?” He screamed at her.

“I… was curious to see what you were doing” she told him while looking off to her left nervously.

“Bullshit. You were going to ambush me” Ryan told her while crossing her arms.

“No, I swear. I was just wanting to take a look at that thing you had that was flying in the sky” She told him while looking to her left again.

“Wrong answer. Just say nice shot” He told her while powering up [Ball Lightning] In lightning mode while pointing to her chest.

“Okay fine! You got me! I was going to attack you okay? I didn’t expect you to see me! Please don’t kill me!” She screamed in fear for her life. Ryan then just smiles at her and keeps the charged-up spell going. He then stands up and gets off of her then smiles at her. He then turns to his left and launches his spell and Detonates the spell in midflight in the middle of the empty field. 2 Other girls that were in the process of sneaking up on him then get stunned in their tracks and appear.

He then starts spamming [Detonate] on all of them and knocks them down.

“Please stop! Don’t kill my sisters!” The girl screams at him.

Ryan then walks over to them and pulls off their weapons from their hands and drags them by their shirts over to her. He then walks over to a near by tree and powers up [Void Blast] at full blast and fires his spell into it and the tree explodes sending split limber flying everywhere. He then picks up 4 pieces of wood and walks over to the girls that were all scared and terrified of him right now. He then ignites the firewood and sits down behind this campfire he just made for them all.

“I’m not a bad guy. But you three don’t want to fuck with me you understand?” Ryan tells them as they all start shaking in fear and start thinking deep about this critical mistake they all made with trying to ambush him. Ryan then walks away from them as they all start crying from their burn wounds from his attacks. Ryan then walks off and notices a deer in the distance that was grazing on some grass. He then leaves all 3 of these young girls alone. He then comes back dragging the corpse of this deer to them who were still sitting by this campfire motionless stricken with fear. Ryan then throws them their daggers back to them and looks them in the eyes. He then throws the other 2 girls a Health potion and they drink them up immediately.

Ryan then starts butchering up this deer. Ryan then looks at the oldest girl of this group and points to her.

“Come over here help me” Ryan told her while giving her a dead serous look. The 18-year-old girl then limps cautiously over to him and starts helping him cut this thing up. Her other sisters watch her as she works with Ryan. The older sister who was silent then starts handing meat over to her sisters to start cooking it on the fire. They quarter the deer and Ryan puts all the excess meat in a bag for them.

The two other girls just cook the meat while they kept butchering up this carcass. When everything was done cooking Ryan then pulls out some spices from his bag and then throws them at the girls.

They all then start eating in awkward silence as the sun starts to set. As they all start eating Ryan then starts to introduce himself. He tells him about his week, he tells them about why he’s traveling through here and he tells them about his kite and his board. He then starts talking to them about how he may have fucked up a perfectly good relationship with somone he didn’t like at first which has set him on this journey to go rediscover himself. The girls listen carefully to his story and then start talking to him about his problems and situation.

“Cheating on somone isn’t very nice. It doesn’t matter if it was with a goddess or a queen. But with that circumstance you were put in I can kind of see why you did it” The older girl told him.

“I’m pretty much just a walking disaster. I’m tired of tragedy following me around every turn. That’s why I didn’t want to kill you all. I was suicidal last night, and I almost died. That goddess who fucked up didn’t give up on me and risked her own life to save me from my own destructive rampage. With that being said, You girls are young and are just hanging out in a PvP zone just killing people just to get by. This is no way to live. Just like how Arcadia didn’t give up on me when she knew she messed up, I wanted to return the favor to somone else” He told them.

“Your right. This is no way to live. Killing people, scavenging for food, and having trade deals go horribly wrong is scary. Look we were going to kill you and steal your stuff. But we never came across a Blackfire Battle Mage before. You kicked our ass and could have killed us. I mean if you did You would have set us free from our guilt and our suffering of being stuck here. But you really surprised us with healing us and feeding us. I just want to say thank you for granting us mercy.” The older girl told him.

“What is your name if I may ask?” Ryan asked the older girl

“My name is Aurora” She told him.

“Well Aurora, it’s never too late to start over. My hero fucked up and had to start over. You can do it too” He told her.

“I guess we could try” She told him while taking a bite of deer meat that she was holding in her arms.

“Ryan, I have a burning question” The youngest girl asked him.

“Sure, go ahead” Ryan replied.

“You mentioned there is another goddess out there. We were only told there were two. Both of them are pretty much trash to be honest. Whats the Third on like?” The younger one asked him.

“Well shes kind and understanding. Shes not extreme like Yulee, and shes not a Bitch like Bunnell. Also, with what I learned from the other day, shes not perfect either. She makes mistakes just like you and me. But she owns up to them. Something that I don’t think Bunnell or Yulee will ever do. Shes just like us. She’s misunderstood and just wants friends to believe in her” He explains.

“What does she require from her followers if I may ask?” That girl asks him.

“Nothing really. She just wants people to believe in her. She’s not going to make you pray to her like 3 times a day and shes not going to make you follow a ridiculous strict lifestyle” Ryan tells them.

Aurora then looks at all three of her sisters and they smile at him.

“To be honest. We used to follow Yulee heavily. Then we kind of saw firsthand of what Selling your soul means in her religious clause. Our mother was killed in battle with Bunnell’s forces and Yulee took her soul and turned her into a demon right before our eyes and sent it out to attack Bunnell’s troops. What we saw scarred us for life with what we agreed to become in exchange for power and domination. We don’t want to become one of those things if we die in battle, so we quit her faction” She told him.

“I heard about that. You die in battle she could revive you as a demon and send you in for round 2. I get that” Ryan told her.

“Ya its not pretty. We honestly really miss being apart of something meaningful” Aurora told Ryan.

“If You wanted to, I could recruit you to Arcadia’s faction. She will treat you nicely and with respect” Ryan told her sounding eager to help.

“What exactly does she provide?” the middle-aged girl asked him.

“Her Global passive is +5% Stat Regeneration, +3% Precision, +2% Healing affects. She also provides a 5% Experience boost. At night if the Moon is hidden You get like a 20% increase in power. Once a month however, New moons give you a +100% Damage Boost. Her Warzones buffs if I remember right like give you like a +5% Dodge chance, and +5% Spirit.” He tells them.

“She sounds freaking amazing! Bunnell offers only healing and efficiency and shes very picky about her crusaders. She only takes the best of the best. Yulee is just pure destruction and will give a weapon to anyone with a Pulse. Arcadia provides a wider range of enhancements along with experience. Me, Asylum and Laura are all in!” Aurora said while smiling at him.

“Wait her name is Asylum?” Ryan asked her while pointing to the middle-aged girl.

“Ya, it’s a unique name” Asylum told him.

Ryan then smiles at her and stands up.

“Alright. Well if you want to join her order draw a unicursal hexagram over you heart and say “Cross my Heart and hope to Die, I promise you I will never leave your side” He told them while drawing a Unicursal hexagram in the dirt.

The girls get excited and do it and all of a sudden instead of a leaf emoji popping up over their heads, a black and white umbrella Emoji appears over their heads. Ryan who was surprised to see this, then hears the Windows XP start up theme and smiles at them.

“What does that mean? Aurora asked Ryan while pointing up to the umbrella.

“It means that you all were accepted into her faction. Welcome to the Cult” Ryan said with a smile.

“Wait we joined a Cult?” Laura said with a confused voice.

“No not really. It’s just a joke me and Arcadia have between each other” Ryan tells her.

“Ha! Hell fucking Yes girls We joined a Cult!” Aurora said jokingly with extreme enthusiasm to her sisters.

“Hell ya! Were joined a Cult!” Asylum shouted joining in on the joke.

“Yes!!! I joined a cult! Whoo hooo!” Laura shouted playful.

They all start smiling and start eating. They all then start seeing lightning in the distance and Ryan smiles at them all. Ryan then gets up and pulls out that magic tent he had in his bag. He pulls the top half off the box and sees a button that Stark was talking about. He holds down that button for 3 seconds and the case starts to grow in size. Everything in the box grows to 20 times its normal size.

He then unravels the canopy that was wrapped around the stakes and starts assembling this Neon green 5-person tent. The girls don’t say anything and just watch him as Lightning starts to strike closer to them in the distance. Ryan reads the instructions that were on the box and gets the thing erected in 10 minutes as the girls just ate their meal. When Ryan was done, He looks at the girls and reads their body language. They were too scared to ask if they could share a tent with him. Ryan picks up on this and smiles at them.

“If you all want to sleep out of the rain you can come in here” He tells them. The girls then smile at him and dart for the inside of the tent. As soon as they get inside of it the rain starts to come down hard. Ryan pulls out his phone and turns on his flashlight and the girls light up with amazement.

“Before you all ask, this is a magical talisman of mine. Don’t ask me to explain to you what it does or where I got it. It has many uses” He tells them.

“Oh okay” Aurora tells him while waving her hand over the light. Just then a flash of lightning hits a tree in the distance and the thunder scares all of them.

“Its good to be able to sleep out of the rain for once. Thank you, Ryan,” Aurora tells him.

“Your very welcome. Just don’t kill me in my sleep” Ryan said sarcastically.

“We won’t. You helped us open up our eyes and helped us take the first step to quit this Crooked path that we been on. You also gave us a cause we could try to believe in” Aurora said while finishing up her dinner.

“Thank you. I’m glad I at least helped somone today. I needed to hear that. Hey, do you all want to listen to some music?” Ryan asked them.

“Sure, I guess? Do you have like a flute in your bag? Asylum asked him

“No, I don’t, but I have something even better!” He said while picking his phone up and looking for a song to play right now. He looks at his phone and finds the perfect song to play.

He then starts playing “Bones Exposed” from Of Mice And Men while they wait out the storm.

Ryan then leans back, and Aurora then lays back next to him and curls her legs. Laura then comes over to her older sister and lays on her chest really thankful to be out of the rain tonight. Asylum on the other hand lays her head on Ryan’s Thigh and starts thinking really hard about life.

“Guys, I Really miss mom” Asylum said while listening to this song.

“We all miss her. I really wish she were here right now” Aurora replied back to her while she cuddled with her sister and listened to the song.

Meanwhile at the house over in Staug City, Zephyr was still upset and crying her heart out while she was drinking a glass of wine. She was still a complete wreck. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Zephyr then walks up to the door and answers it.

Arcadia was standing outside on the front porch with her Blue and Green torches illuminating her up in the darkness.

“Who are you?” Zephyr asks her.

“Just a sad sorry friend who comes bearing a gift” Arcadia said with guilt.

Greena then comes out of the shadows and walks towards them with her head hanging down in shame.