"Where's Jack?"
Kai asked Kevin and Kevin gestured to the step behind them. The tree house was not very big and the wooden layer they were on was only 4 metres above the ground, but there was a top layer of this wooden layer and although it was only a few centimetres high, it looked like another room. The direction it was facing was different and you had to go round the tree by stepping on a step like a door. Kai went towards it.
When Kai got to Jack, he saw that he was sitting on the wooden fence. His blonde hair was blowing in the wind. He was watching the sunset. Kai couldn't see his gaze, but he could see that he was getting worse. He didn't seem quite himself.
"Will it always be like this? You saw the chaos, it can't always be like this."
"Why do you ask? You've been thinking about it since you woke up, haven't you?"
He couldn't fool Kai. Jack knew that. He laughed. But it was short-lived. His arm was wrapped just like Jace's arm, but he couldn't use his abilities as well as Jace. Laughing, he accidentally squeezed his arm and it hurt. The expression on his face disappeared.
"It hurts, Kai. I'm scared too. I'm experiencing a fear I never realised until today, and it's not what I imagined. More than losing you, more than losing myself, I'm afraid of dying. I really don't want to die."
This world was cruel and the reality of justice was questionable. But this was reality. They had lived in a fake world all this time. He had thought about it since he woke up. He was right.
Kai approached and rested his hands on the fence next to his friend. He sighed deeply and a gentle breeze blew across his face.
"Me too, I'm scared too."
***
1 Week Later
Jace had gathered everyone at the main entrance to the tree house. For 1 week they had eaten things they didn't know where Jace had brought them from and they had come to their senses. That cool guy had told them to leave as soon as possible, but now he had kept them here for a week. It was really a strange way of understanding the world.
Although Jace gave them time to recover and digest the events, he regretted giving them so much time. Because Kai and his friends had nagged him many times during this period of time.
"We need to leave immediately(!). The hunters are after us!"
"We're out of time! Jump on my back! I'll take you all away from this realm!"
"It's time for me to sacrifice myself! I will die a hero!"
These were all things that had been said to Jace during the week to make fun of him. Everyone had a good time except Jace.
When Jace told them that their things had been taken to the academy, it was time for them to leave. Since Jace had told them this long ago, they had not taken anything that would weigh them down. Now that their belongings had arrived, they had to reach this land that they should have reached long ago.
Everyone gathered round. At that moment Jace started to speak once more and everyone listened to him calmly.
"One more thing... you may meet people like you... Don't trust them all... " Jace's last words were going into the great unknown. Kai and the others thought that the developers had each other's backs.
"Why? "
"They are, in any case, born of human emotion. They can betray. So whoever you meet, do not bring them here. You're unfamiliar with this system. Let me take care of everything until you go to the academy. " he said and went towards his bed. Since it was nighttime, everyone had to go to bed and leave early in the morning.
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"I don't understand this kid," Kai said and sighed deeply. He felt like an idiot.
"I'm going to bed too," Emma said and moved to the bed on the floor. Emma frowned when Kai took the spot next to her.
"What's wrong?"
"Shouldn't you be sleeping somewhere else? After all, I'm a girl and you're a pervert."
This time Kai frowned.
"How am I a pervert?! You don't want me here because you're afraid of my charms." Emma's face suddenly flushed and she frowned even more. She pulled her blanket over her and turned her back. Her expression was unseen.
"We both know who's tempted by whom," she said quietly. Kai laughed at that.
Kai laughed but said nothing.
Kai returned to his friends. Emma turned round and looked at him but Kai didn't notice. Jack and Kevin laughed at that.
Kai grinned at them and moved to a spot a little away from Emma. When Kai turned his head and lay down, all the noise had stopped. Kai closed his eyes and lay there in the silence of the night without realising he had retreated into the darkness.
***
"Where am I?"
Kai opened his eyes and found himself on the street where his house was. He realised he was dreaming. He was fully conscious. The street stretching in front of his eyes reminded him of a memory he used to have. A dream...
"Is this... Am I seeing the future again? This time I have to analyse it down to the smallest detail. Maybe it'll come in handy later." said Kai.
As Kai looked around, he saw a man ahead. The man had an evil smile on his face, but the most remarkable thing was what was in his hand. Kai's expression suddenly changed.
"Damn it! Not again! "
BOOOM!!!
As the man fired the bazooka in his hand towards a house, Kai turned his gaze towards the house and his eyes widened in fear.
This house belonged to Emma's family. Emma was very important to Kai and someone firing a bazooka at her house had caught his attention.
The street, the earth, the sky, and everything else began to blur as Kai couldn't contain himself and ran towards the man. Unfortunately, he wouldn't make it. He was waking up.
"Damn it!! The dream is ending.... Details!! I need to find a date." Kai felt his feet disappear as he turned his head and tried to find out about the date. His hands were disappearing too.
The dream realm was crumbling and disappearing. Only Kai's head and torso were left. He couldn't see history either.
Kai was about to despair when Kai's eyes were left alone. Just as he was about to wake himself up, he saw what he was looking for. It was a newspaper! The date was written on it and Kai had seen the date shortly before he woke up. For the first time in his life he realised how lucky he was.
29th of August
"Tomorrow! "
***
In Kai's mind, six holy beings sat around a round table. One emanated a very angry aura, while one emanated fear. The other four radiated Excitement, Curiosity, Love and Peace respectively. But that was it. Their faces were not clear.
These were mighty figures connected to the 6 emotions in Kai's mind. They all had the power to destroy the earth. They could destroy a planet with a single finger.
"Don't you think it's too much this time? First Eros and then you, Diana, didn't you help him too much?! He needs to develop on his own!! Not for us to hand him everything on a platter!! We'll explain everything to him when he starts communicating with us. Why do you care so much about him already!!!" everyone fell silent when the person from the table, from whom the aura of anger radiated, spoke. The one she called Diana was looking at her curiously. She had blonde hair and a very sweet face. With a sweet movement, she moved her hand to her chin.
As the aura of the person with the aura of anger thickened, Diana's aura of curiosity also thickened. When Diana started to speak, no one was talking at the table again.
"If we helped him, we helped him. What's it to you? We want to know what he's going to do. 200 years ago. We lost all our friends and power that day. No matter how powerful we are, we are in the mind of a teenager. What we have to do is to make him take our revenge. Not die. We are all equal here Ezra. So stop telling us what to do and calmly make suggestions. " Ezra became even more angry with the words he heard. But he didn't want to be too rude to them. After all, he had spent a lifetime with them and couldn't get too far away for 200 years. Only when this child was born did they have a chance to get away from each other.
Ezra calmed himself down. And he started to speak.
"If you want him to get stronger, he has to get stronger himself. It's not the right way for us to give him power like this. What you've shown is that you can see the future in two short years. For a seer to do that, he must have awakened his second sense. The speed of his healing is again the work of Eros. I know that the speed of healing in healers depends on love, but that boy is still a teenager, he cannot love someone that much in such a short time. Everyone in this room knows you did it. And Lea, don't think I've forgotten what you did! You did worse than them! You've not only empowered our heir, you've empowered someone else! They stopped time on the bus. That only occurs at the blue-eye level. Those two novices are only at the yellow eye level! I didn't expect it from you!"
When Ezra fell silent, no one spoke. Everyone silently waited for what would happen next. Everyone knew that Ezra's anger was really strong. Even though everyone was of equal strength, they knew that in a battle with Ezra, they would receive great wounds. And because Ezra was always inclined to fight, everyone was silent. Right now, Ezra's aura of rage was at a level that could destroy even the strongest people in the world. That's how he was. He should have died of anger the day he died.
As Ezra's aura slowly decreased, he turned his head to where the peace chair was. Ezra became completely serious. This was someone even he was hesitant to fight. He was dangerous. His calm was dangerous.
"Elvis, what do you think? You showed yourself to him. Why did you do it?" Elvis was the strongest of them all. If they all got together, Elvis was still stronger than them. He had suffered much more than them on his way to power, but in the end, he had finally eaten his bread. Elvis was home to great power.
Elvis revealed himself as he slowly raised his head. The aura emanating from that blurred figure calmed all emotions. It was a sense of peace.
"That boy needs to reach us, Ezra. His curiosity will bring him here. There are things you don't know. There are things I don't know either. There are stipulations about the conditions under which we can enter that child's body. We have to abide by those conditions. "
Elvis' voice sounded colder. The others were worried. Not surprisingly, Ezra was furious at this behaviour.
"The world changed a lot while we were gone. Very powerful people began to appear. Those in the universe would have invaded this world long ago if it weren't for the power of the Star Lord. From the very beginning, we were not the main characters." When Elvis turned his head, this time everyone was looking at him in all seriousness.
"That boy will grow stronger and help us get our revenge. We may not be the main characters, but he will be part of the story. He will make sure that the balance of power is back in our favour and he will wipe these wretched, evil creations of the Era, the hunters, from this world. " When Elvis stood up and slammed his hand on the table, everyone stood up at once. Their aura could destroy the entire world. When Elvis and the others, the Guardians of the 6 Emotions united, their power could reach beyond emotions.
That cold aura would cause violent waves even in the hearts of the figures on the 6th step.
"We won't lose this time!"