-Break-
It has been about two days since we left Seirei, and are almost to our destination. We decided, we shouldn’t head straight across to Terrafide for a few reasons: first, they have probably realized Suzuka is missing, so the first place they would expect her to be taken is the area around Deno, especially since I have been where church garments all this time.
I am going to have to apologise to Timothy next time I see him for the trouble headed his way.
The second reason would be, that we can actually take this ship very close to the point where we took the Cursed bull from.
None of us know how to steer a ship normally, but with this being a spirit all we have to do is feed it ship energy, and tell it where it to go. So, we guided the ship to the sea in between both Terrafide and Enotita.
And now we have finally arrived, when we all offload ourselves, Suzuka tells the spirit, “Wait right here for us.”
Then I ask, “Is it all right for a spirit to be left out here like this, couldn’t it run away.”
“It should be fine, I have fed it enough spirit energy for it to become loyal to me.”
“So, it works like a pet,” thinking of pets, I miss Willow the 2nd, this is the longest I have gone all year without him. I am definitely going to give him a big hug next time we meet. “Now we have to walk all the way to the meet-up point.”
“U-U-Um Orb.”
“Yes, Cyrus.”
“Will Sparrow be c-c-capable of that?” Cyrus says pointing at Sparrow's folded body on the ground.
“I guess not.” But then I am suddenly hit with an idea. Creating a bunch of snow in front of me, I ask Suzuka, “Could you shape all of this snow into a sledge, but with a special seat in front of the sledge as well?”
“Yeah, let me get right on it.” In a flash, Suzuka had shaped all of the snow into a sledge.
Then I create a large amount of ice underneath us, lifting all of us into the air, next I create a slide path down. “Everyone hop aboard, then Suzuka I am going to need you to reinforce this with Spirit energy.”
After we are all loaded on, I tell Suzuka to, “Use your tells and give us a large push forward.”
“Oh, I see,” she says following my instructions. Then we are sent down the large slide, which gives us a push forward, and as we descend I convert the ice we have gone down into snow, then bring it to the ground to create ice all over the floor we are going to travel.
When we reach the ground, we slip on the ice that is already there but we outpace it in no time, so I constantly create ice in front of us to make sure we down slip.
Though when we slow down, I tell Suzuka, “Give us another push.” Which she does, allowing us to continue at a similar speed, we do this until we reach a familiar area.
After we get there all of us hop out, with me collapsing on the floor soon after. Running over to my body, Cyrus asks, “O-O-Orb, are you ok.”
“Yeah, I just overexerted myself, my body can barely stand anymore.”
Picking me up Cyrus tells me “Willow isn’t here y-y-yet, so rest for a bit.”
“I will Cyrus,” I say falling asleep.
-Break-
Φ Sitting down here is so embarrassing, Orb come and save me. Since Cyrus is sitting beside Orb, I am right next to the man they call Sparrow, utterly unable to move out of embarrassment. My hands are covering my face, because if he looks at me, I will die right here right now.
I hear him say, “Hey you’ve been taking peaks at me through your hands, do you need something.”
Oh no, he spotted me what am I going to do, but then I hear Cyrus say, “O-O-Orb, said he doesn’t want you talking to h-h-her.”
“But she is the one bothering me, and don’t you think I have a right to know why you guys just brought some random girl back, and completely refuse to let me know more than her name.”
“Orb s-s-said, you hav-v-ving that information, would be dang-g-gerous.”
“Of course, he did but he can't control if she decides to tell me. So, honey would you please tell me why the hell you’re here.”
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“U-u-u-um Suzuka.” Oh no, I am messing up my words, he didn’t even ask for my name I must look like a complete idiot, someone, anyone, please save me.
I suddenly hear a large roar, the gods must have heard my prayers. Hearing the roar Sparrow freezes up then Cyrus says, “That must be Willow the 2nd.”
Looking over I see a giant beast. If I remember correctly, Willow the 2nd is their pet, but wait, if he is here that means some of Orb's friends are here, so that means my potentially new friends are here as well. Oh no, oh no, oh no, I am not ready yet, what do I say, how do I interact with them, I need help.
Running over to Orb, I slap him repeatedly on the face, and say, “WAKE UP YOU DUMB BITCH!”
“Wha-what IM UP!” He says jumping up.
Looking at him with tears in my eyes, I say to Orb, “How do I make people like me?”
“First don’t do that, and then give me more context.”
Cyrus tells him, “W-W-Willow, and Willow the 2nd are here.”
“Oh really, let me go talk with them.” Getting up Orb runs away.
“What about my question.”
“I will answer it eventually just give me a minute”
“You bastard!”
Φ Seeing Willow jump off of Willow the 2nd, I dash forward fainting a hug, but then using my legacy I lunge forward, and try to hit him in the face but he dodges and hits me with a blow that sends me back. Repositioning myself, I run up to him and give him a high five.
“So you were able to learn spirit arts.”
“I haven’t just been sitting up on ass while you were gone.”
“Orb I want to go next,” I hear a voice say to me.
Looking up on top of Willow the 2nd, I see Atalanta. “What are you doing here?”
“How mean, I thought you would be happy to see me.”
“See kept, complaining how bored she was ever since you guys left. Eventually, everyone got really annoyed, so I brought her with me to give her something to do.”
Giving her a look of disgust, I say, “Are you really an adult?”
Jumping off of Willow the 2nd, she says, “Of course I am, you idiot.”
“Despite how annoying she has been, she has also been a great help at keeping everyone’s spirit up.”
“You hear that you Or,” she stops halfway through her sentence and grabs my face saying, “Are you ok, did something happen.”
Breaking her hold I say, “Stop touching me.” Giving her a look of disgust, I say, “I am fine not really happened.”
“Well, that’s a lie. I don’t remember you having those clothes before you left and aside from that, there is also the girl with three tails behind her,” Willow says.
“Oh yeah about her just wait here I moment.”
Φ “So Atalanta what was that about.”
“Oh, his face looked more mature, so I just thought something happened,” she says playfully while rubbing the back of her head.
“Well, I hope whatever he had experienced isn’t bothering him he tends to worry.”
Φ As Orb runs back over to me, he puts his hands on my shoulder and says, “Suzuka it is time for you to make some new friends. Willow is a good person so you should get along nicely.” My body is stiff unable to move, but Orb starts pushing my body over in their direction.
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I am not ready for this yet, please give me time.”
“When will you be ready then.”
“Let's say, in about three years.”
“Yeah, no, we are not doing that, where getting you friends right here, right now.”
“But how am I supposed to get people to like me.”
“Just be yourself,” he says, leaving me in front of the two of them then says, “This is my friend Suzuka Gozen.”
As I stand in front of the two of them, my mind goes wild. Just be myself, what does that even mean? I was always being myself around the people from Seirei, but they all still hated me. Oh no, I am panicking, screw this I am just going to return to the old reliable, changing my personality. Ok, Suzuka read his mind, find out what he likes.
Taking a moment to read his mind, I hear the boy named Willow think: what a weird girl. Weird girl, he called me a weird girl, it is over I have already messed up before I ever had a chance. All I can do is reject him before he has a chance to further reject me. so, I put on my fox mask, and say, “Forget my name immediately you bastard.”
Φ “What are you saying Suzuka.”
“I just don’t want this tiny, idiotic, grass-haired, asshole to know my name, so for all, I care he can jump off a ledge.” Starring at Willow directly in the face she says, “If you ever come near me, I will kick your ass, got that.”
Thonking Suzuka on the head, she falls to the floor as I grab the mask right off of her face, then I say, “Sorry about her, she really wants to make friends but has a bit too much trauma.”
“Don’t worry about that, Maple used to say worse stuff too me.”
“So, she has a communication issue. How adorable, would you like to be friends with me.” Atalanta says.
Suzuka's face lights up as she stares at her but as she approaches Atalanta, she suddenly runs behind me.
Atalanta looking dejected says “Why, why did she just run from me.”
As I ask Suzuka why, she whispers why into my ear, so I tell Atlanta “Suzuka read your mind, and said she doesn’t want to get an std from touching you,” with a little laugh.
Suzuka hits me in the face for spilling her secret, and as I defend against her Atlanta walks up to us and hugs Suzuka tight.
“Let go of me you crazy bitch.”
“You really have a foul mouth, but don’t worry I will be your friend regardless,” Atalanta says as she continues to hug Suzuka.
Hearing a large sound over at Willow the 2nd I turn around, unbeknownst to me Cyrus walked up and rubbed Willows the second's head, seeing this I go up to him and do the same. “Willow the 2nd I missed you so much, I wish I could stay with you for longer but we will be leaving soon.”
Willow hearing this hits me on the back and says, “I haven’t heard anything about this yet.”
“Oh, sorry about that.” So, sitting down with Willow I catch him up on everything we have been through. “So, Willow we are going to head straight for Elpída to go find the informant.”
“I guess that covers everything except the girl over there.”
“Well, the stuff involving her will take a while to explain, so I would rather do it once in front of everyone.”
“I see, well you will need a lift to the ship.”
“Are you sure about that we could just walk.”
“I don’t need you guys tired, if you were to encounter something unexpected, I would like you guys to be at full strength. So, after I drop you off I will take the medicine back.”
“Thank you, Willow.”
“But make sure to return as quickly as possible or everyone will get worried alright.”
“I promise.” So getting up I see both Suzuka and Atalanta hugging, “So You finally gave in Suzuka.”
“Well, it is just that hugs feel nice.”
“Then let me join in.”
So as I and Atalanta hug her she says “Let me go you bastards!”