Fallen Stars
Mystery Thirteen
Light Show
*Draco and Vega walking
in on Wrath stabbing someone*
Draco (calm): The hell are you doing, Wrath?
Wrath takes his arm out of Rodney. Rodney slides down to the ground.
Rodney: Blrp...
Wrath (reassured): He was about to call the Army.
Wrath looking at his arm.
Wrath (sick): (Ugh… Blood…)
Wrath gets some paper towels from the desk and wipes off his arm. Grinning as always.
Vega: So you just killed him?
Wrath: I don’t wanna hear that from you, Vega. You just killed three people.
Draco: Let’s get out of here.
They all walk out of the store trying not to look suspicious. And continue walking out of the city.
Wrath: I got my cape exactly how I wanted it, plus I didn’t have to pay. What more could you ask for?
Wrath smirks, while Vega shakes his head.
Wrath: C’mon, it's a win-win situation.
Draco: How so?
Wrath: Well, killing him I can check to see if he’s a star, which would get me on a new tier, if he wasn’t, then I just stopped him from reporting me.
Draco nods his head, giving off an understanding impression.
Draco: He does have a point, Vega.
Vega is just completely cold.
Vega: ….Dumb.
They overhear some people on a bench.
Ernie: That lady is wilding again.
Clay: Who? The one in the mountains?
Ernie (laughs): Yea. Something about the time has come or some dumb shit like that.
Clay: Why won’t she just leave those ruins?
Draco and Wrath (peaked interest): (Ruins?)
Ernie: She says she’s still waiting on the next one. I don’t know what that means.
Draco: I kinda want to go now.
Wrath: Yeah, same. Mainly to get far away from this town.
Vega: Now you want to go.
Someone yells out!!
Tyson (frenzy): AYE!!! Someone killed old man Rodney!
Ernie and Clay (disturbed): What?!
They all run over there, some people leaving their restaurants open to see what has happened. Ruby is in complete shock!
Ruby (crying): Old man! Who did this?!
Clay (worried): What the hell….
Ernie: He has a hole in his chest. It’s not a gun hole either.
Clay: It’s about the size of an arm!?
Ruby lets out a scream, as she’s crying!!
Ruby (tears falling): AAAAAHHHHH!
Clay (serious): Someone calm her down!
Ernie: Did anyone see anything?!
Henry: I was in my restaurant. I didn’t see anything.
Riley looks around quickly, searching for anything.
Riley: Wait, I saw those three coming out of the store!
Riley points to Draco and the gang.
Wrath: Ah shit.
Draco: Wait, relax. We didn’t do anything we shouldn’t run.
Draco goes to wave at them with a slight smile. The townspeople pick up bats and rakes, and run after them!
Draco: What the….Run!
The gang takes off running. All of their animals jump off the rooftops and follow them.
Draco: Win-win situation, huh?
Wrath: Shut up.
**Rat’s Cafe**
This coffee shop has an animated neon sign of two rats fighting over coffee, biting each other back and forth.
At the coffee shop’s terrace is a lighter skin woman with a curvaceous figure wearing a smokey-colored sundress, having lustrous silver ash-like hair that goes down to her thighs. She has a furry silver tail on her backside. Her hair also has loose bangs covering her forehead and side bangs. Have sunglasses on and red lipstick. Her sword is to the side. Reading a book, she looks at the gang running and chuckles a little bit.
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Vulpecula: Hmph.
But then, she sees Vega running with his extremely serious demeanor, Vega slowly turns his head towards her, and she feels his red eyes darting at her! Then Vega turns away to keep running. Face turning red, Vulpecula starts to get hot, breathing hard… fanning herself. Her sword falls.
Vulpecula: *Huff* Ha… Who.. who was that...
Sitting right in front of her, is a caramel-skinned woman, with a fine-toned build. She has on a very revealing white cloth attire. She has authentic gold bracelets all over her, on her wrists, on one thigh, on her shoulders, around her stomach over her cloth clothes. Golden open-toed heeled shoes, also a left anklet.
A right-leg tattoo of a jackal of the dead, with skulls and roses. A necklace with star rubies, and pink diamonds in it. Her earrings are star-in-circle symbols (diamond-encrusted). She has shorter hair compared to Vulpecula, a straight pink bob haircut with bangs, featuring two locs wrapped in gold rings, and pink eyes. She has a skeleton half-mask over her mouth. Then finally, she has a gold piece of headwear circling her head and showcasing a pink diamond skull where it meets in the front.
(Star-in-circle design)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/603784191850577941/989453753172238366/star-in-circle.png
Lich: Hm...
Lich turns her head to see what Vulpecula is looking at and she sees the person leading them, Draco, as he turns his head to look at her. Their eyes meet, and Draco closes his eyes, smiles, and holds up a peace sign.
Lich: (Weirdo…)
As she says this, Draco's smile becomes brighter, showing an illuminated light.
Lich: (What.) I k-now he isn’t looking at me.
Seeing her backside, she has an occult circle seal, on her right shoulder, with a triangle in it. Inside the triangle are four sections for sigils. One has an Ouroboros, another has an evil eye, another has a Chaos Star, and lastly, the center has a goat’s head, with a star in the center of the head.
A few seconds go by. Vulpecula tilts her head.
Vulpecula (concerned): ... Did you... just pronounce the “k” in know?
The gang continues to run away from the mob. They come up to the Great Salt Lake Mbozi. They stop in their tracks. All with astonished faces.
Draco: This place too…
Wrath: It’s cursed red rapid water too.
Vega: Caffua wasn’t lying. It’s everywhere.
Wrath: Besides that, what do we do? We can try to fly over it with our powers, but it looks like it will be more than a 20-minute flight. And our animals are not ready to carry us.
Enma: (I definitely can’t carry you, Vega.)
Vega: (Think. I don’t want to kill a whole city….. But I will if I have to.)
Draco: C’mon, the mountains are right over there, let’s head there.
Wrath: Nah.
Wrath turns around to face them, electricity forming around his fingertips with a smirk.
Draco: Wrath, c’mon…
Wrath: But I don't want to. C’mon Draco, just let me kill them.
Draco: (serious) Not here.
Wrath: ...Fine.
They start to run towards the mountains.
Vega: After hearing all that you still want to run there?
Draco: I heard ruins, I have to go.
Vega: Hm….
They keep running for 10 minutes, making it to the mountain's base.
Vega: No trees are covering this place. It’s open.
Wrath: Forget all that, we have to make it up the mountain.
They pass by a sign saying….
**Beware**
Crazy People
Up Ahead
WRC: 4 Days
Wrath: Crazy people?
Draco doubles tapped Wrath on the back.
Draco (joking smile): Oh, this must be your home.
Wrath (heated): Draco, if you don’t shut up.
The mob stopped following them. Waiting at the base of the mountain. Vega looks back.
Vega: They stopped chasing us. This lady must be super crazy if it stopped that mob.
Draco: Let’s follow these steps up.
Vega and Wrath: Alright.
After a few minutes of walking, no end in sight.
Draco: Anyone tired? Wanna quit?
Wrath: Hell no, we’re good.
Vega: Draco, I wanted to ask you.
Draco: Yeah?
Vega: I haven’t seen you talking to Apocalypse. Can you not communicate anymore?
Draco: Nah, I can’t. Ever since naming it, we haven’t been able to talk. It’s like we reverted to the non-talking level.
Vega: So I’m the only one that can talk to his animal.
Draco: Yup, as of now.
Wrath: I wonder how long the climb is.
30 minutes go by, then 2 hours.
Wrath (still heated): How long is this going to take?!
Draco: Did you think a mountain climb would be 2 hours?
Wrath: I don’t know.
Draco: I think the sign said “World Record Climb: 4 Days.” So let's just assume it will take 4 days to get to the top.
Wrath: No. We’re cutting that in half. 2 days, no more.
Vega: I’m up for that.
Wrath: Zeus doesn’t need to eat for days, so we’re good.
Draco: Same with Ap.
Vega: Enma rarely gets hungry. (Right, Enma?)
Enma: (Indeed.)
Wrath (excited): Well, let’s get it. To The Top!
Vega and Draco (charged): Yeah!
They all start running full of energy. The day goes by, while they still run full speed ahead, but they are halfway there!
Nighttime being here, the sky looks completely different at night. Multiple lakes surround the mountains, all with rapid red water, but the look of the beautiful mountain tops blends with it well.
Then the sky has streamers of lights, showcasing different colors of red, blue, and purple. Wrath says “Whoa…”
Draco: I’ve read about this before, it's called the Southern Lights. What is seen is a light show called aurora. What Caffua showed us with Cosmos.
Vega: Aurora again…
Draco: Yeah, it happens when solar particles collide with atoms of nitrogen and oxygen.
Wrath: You’re such a nerd for stars and sky stuff.
Draco (smirks): I had a reason to study it...
The second day comes by, and the gang is still running to the top. But, they look and the sky looks completely different from last night. One section of the atmosphere has colors of orange/blue, while one has green/purple, and the last one is yellow/pink a worthwhile sight.
Wrath: This is the Southern Lights too? Does it change colors?
Draco: It can be all types of colors, just depending on what the ions want to give off.
Wrath: Wow.
Vega: …
Now, the colors in the sky begin changing back and forth, switching and mixing all the colors. Reverting to old ones, and bringing forth new ones, never before seen…
With these mixtures of colors, they abruptly stop. The light beams turn vertically and look as if they're going to shoot into the sky. All of them are different colors.
Draco: Light pillars…
Draco is suddenly reminded of something, something he saw in his past, and became amazed by it.
A massive shining tower, rooted into the ground made of a golden hue, stood high. At its summit are countless streaks of blinding light, branching out in an immeasurable amount of directions, dancing off into the colorful abyss that is the sky.
Draco: I- I remember this…
Off to the side of the gang, is a man hidden behind some trees and rocks.
Wonderboom: …
Wonderboom keeps cover, making sure to not be seen.
Wonderboom: Hamal was right… he showed up here...
*Pulling out his cellphone and typing away…*
**Meanwhile...
In Tethys**
Craig (frantic): Major General! Major General!
Marfik (angry): What is it?!
Marfik is a middle-aged man with dark skin and scruffy black hair. He has a serious face with glasses on, in his green army uniform.
Craig: Major General Marfik, sir!
Craig salutes him with his pinky raised.
Marfik: At ease, soldier. What did you run all the way here to tell me?
Craig: Sir, we have 3 people coming from the Void continent! They made it onto the Mainland!
Marfik with a worried face.
Marfik: I’m going to have a headache.
Marfik touches his head.
Marfik: Can you get in touch with your sergeant?
Craig (concerned): I already tried sir. She said, “If you can’t get in touch with me, presume us dead!” So I know she’s serious!
Marfik: Dead….
Marfik rests his elbows on the desk and locks his fingers together.
Marfik (thinking; distraught): What is with this continent!? They always breed the worst of the worst!
Craig: What do we do?
Marfik: You did a good job soldier, take the day off, go rest.
Craig: Yes sir!
Craig salutes and walks out of the room.
Marfik: I’m going to inform a Commander. Those roamers are up for this job, I’m sure of it. *starts making some calls* Why is it always this continent? What were their powers again? The fallen soldiers…
Marfik starts looking at the army registry papers.
**Sergeant Adhil**
Stellar: M2
Cosmic Path: Carbon
Animal: Otter (Modern)
**Corporal Tabit**
Stellar: M5
Cosmic Path: Expansion
Animal: Newt (Modern)
**Corporal Algol**
Stellar: M5
Cosmic Path: Cluster Formation
Animal: Seal (Modern)
Marfik: They beat all of them. It was 3 vs 3.
Someone picks up the phone on the other end.
Homam: Hello?
Marfik: Yes. Commander Homam, this is Major General Marfik.
Homam: What can I do for you?
Marfik: We have three people coming from the Void Continent. We want them eliminated.
Homam: Do you know their Stellar?
Marfik: They should be no more than M, maybe K now.
Homam: Alright, send me the location, I’ll handle it. I’m going down with my squad. *hangs up*
Marfik: Those Commanders will take any job.
**Meanwhile...
Back To The Gang**
As the gang continued the climb up the mountain. The morning comes, with them making it to the top!
[What’s At The Top?!
Something Crazy Might Show Up!]
Mystery 13 Fin