-Break-
Φ Sitting across the bed from Suzuka’s unconscious body, I ask Elia, “Is she ok?”
“She should be fine, there was no physical harm caused to her, but mentally I don’t know. Worst case she could be a vegetable.”
Standing up I say, “WHAT!”
“Calm down Atalanta, I said worst case, and knowing how strong this girl is I doubt something like this will break her mind.”
“I see.”
Iancu beside us says, “I had no idea she had such an affliction, to think she felt all those people dying. I can’t even imagine how painful that would be. And all those assholes who just abandoned her, I am getting pissed off just thinking about it.”
Avram standing at her bedside says, “I guess people with even minor curses have it ruff, though at the very least we needn’t worry about her having to experience any more abuse.”
Running into the room, Orb asks, “Is Suzuka ok!”
“She remains unchanged, so we really can’t say. But Orb you look tired maybe you should take a rest?”
Grabbing some water and drinking it Orb says, “I can’t do that, after the light crashed down on Skydust all the kids have started to freak out and some even lost control of their Zterytavises. If I don’t go, make sure they’re ok they might crash or even fall off of them.”
“Are you s-s-s-sure you still want t-t-t-to go to Je-e-edidiah?”
“Cyrus, didn’t I already tell you it is fine.”
“Orb, Cyrus might have a point,” Iancu says.
Following Iancu’s words I say, “The situation has changed it might be dangerous to try and fly over the sandstorm with all the kids with us, wouldn’t it be better to go back to Maple and everyone else.”
“I disagree with that, if we head back we would have to fly around Gevurah which is just as dangerous since they could be looking out for us, I would rather land in Jedidiah than take off after some time had passed and Gevurah would have stopped looking for us.”
Dropping the empty cup of Water Orb says, “I am going to head back out.”
Running towards the door Elia hits him in the balls, causing Orb to collapse on the floor. “WHYYYY!!!”
“How the hell do you expect to calm anyone’s nerves when you are so obviously worried. Your hair is pitch black, so when your hair starts turning green then we will let you go.”
As Orb tries to get up from the floor, Elia says, “Cyrus restrain him.”
“O-O-O-Orb doesn’t want to.”
“Cyrus, Re, Strain, Him!”
Intimidated by her, Cyrus grabs Orb and gives him a bear hug. “Cyrus let go of me right now!”
Getting up I say, “Elia is right Orb you need to take a rest.”
“I will rest when I am dead!”
Putting my hands on his face cheeks, I twist his neck which knocks him out. “That should do it!”
-Break-
Φ While doing stretches on the deck of the ship, I look upon the sandstorm in front of me and say, “So this is the entrance in Jedidiah.”
Iancu says, “Orb are you ready?”
“Without a doubt.”
“Ok, then I will go over the plan, you will use your ice to create a beacon for all the riders to see as we fly up so if anyone gets lost they can fly towards it.”
“Got it, but you guys on the inside need to be slow with your piloting if you get too far from the Zterytavises, gravity will act on them and they will fall due to being overweight.”
“I know, I know.”
Giving Iancu a fist bump I say, “See you later.” As he replies with a fist bump back, I say, “You really have warmed up to me, how adorable!”
Getting shy, Iancu says, “Piss off!”
“It is too late for that, you have already attached yourself to me for life,” I say giving him a hug.
Breaking my grip Iancu says, “Leave me alone weirdo, I am going to get started.”
After a little bit of waiting, I create a giant pillar of ice on the back of the ship, then soon after the ship flies straight up with the Zterytavises following close behind.
As we fly up, I have to go to the behind of the pillar and tightly freeze myself to it to make sure I am not swept away in the sand storm, due to this I can get a good look at all the Zterytavises behind us.
This storm is so strong that without a doubt I would be carried away under normal conditions. It is a good thing I froze a lot of the kids down to the Zterytavises, so they should be able to get through this.
“Everything will be ok Orb, isn’t that right Mime.”
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“100 Percent Mime.”
Looking at my sides I say, “Anto, Mime, what are you two doing here?”
“We thought you might get lonely.”
“So, we came to spend time with you.”
“Everything is more fun with more people.”
“Exactly.”
Freezing the two of them to me, I give them a hug and say, “How cute you both are! Giving you both hugs will stop me from feeling all worry.”
“Of course, it will!”
“We happen to be very soft!”
After a little while I suddenly no longer feel sand raging around us. Then looking around I see the sun shining brighter than ever.
“How pretty,” Anto says.
“Like a jewel,” Mime says.
Looking at the star in the sky I say, “How did I go years without seeing this?”
But our moment in the sky is interrupted by the ship suddenly going down at full speed. This shock causes me to scream at the top of my lungs out of excitement, with Anto and Mime following my lead.
After a very bumpy ride, we eventually landed behind the sandstorm. Looking around I see sand as far as the eye can see, it remains me of Fimbulwinter, but it is composed of sand, and is not as intense
Composing myself I create a pillar of ice and see if the Zterytavis are all right. But looking up I see one falling at high speed towards the ground.
“Shit it is going to crash, Anto can you switch it with me?”
“I can’t do that, to switch big things I need to switch things of roughly the same size.”
Creating ice behind me, I say, “What about now?”
“That should do,” Anto says throwing the dagger.
Seconds after the dagger is thrown, I suddenly find myself in a completely new position. While falling from the sky I can barely get a hold of my surroundings until Anto slaps me in the face and says, “Orb!”
With haste, I create snow beneath me and Anto to break our fall. “Let’s go again,” Anto says with a big smile on his face.
Rubbing his head I say, “Maybe a little bit later.”
Putting Anto on my shoulders, I run back to the ship to see if everything is all right. Getting there, I see that everyone on the ship has started to offload people from the Zterytavises, so I go over and start to help too.
-Break-
“That should be everyone,” I say taking a big stretch.
Interrupting my stretch one of the kids walks up to me and says, “Mister?”
Kneeling I say, “Yes, oh sorry what is your name?”
“It is Peppa Mercury.”
She is the daughter of Jeter, now that I think about it doesn’t that make her a princess. “Yes, Peppa what is the issue?”
With tears and a smile on her face, she asks me, “Everyone on Skydust is alright, aren’t they.”
Looking at her face a freeze up for a moment, then lifting my head a little bit I see the faces of all the other kids from Skydust. They all have hollow expressions as if they have just lived through a plague.
Earlier when I was jumping from Zettie to Zettie I noticed the younger kids don’t fully understand what happened to Skydust, but the older ones (Around 15-17) have realized what has become of Skydust.
In this environment I don’t need a bunch of small easily lost kids freaking out, so I say, “Yes they are all fine, they promised all of us they would put up a good fight didn’t they!”
With her tears fading Peppa says, “They did, and my family aren’t liars.”
“Your family is trying their best, so as the princess of Skydust, I need you to make sure none of the others are freaking out, can you do that for me Peppa?”
Cheerfully she says, “Absolutely!” and then walks off towards the kids.
Taking a deep breath, I feel a sharp pain in my chest which causes me to hold my hand against it. “That might be one of the worst things I have ever done.”
Walking up behind me Avram says, “It was necessary, if you didn’t do such a thing the kids might have endangered themselves, so be proud.”
“Avram, I didn’t know how easy it is to lie once you have started. Makes me feel like shit knowing that I bereted Capti for such things.”
“Sorry to say but it is something you have to get used to.”
“I would rather not.”
Putting his hand on my head, Avram says, “Even if you become a person who lies out of convenience like the rest of us, just make sure to always keep your promises to counteract that.”
“I guess you’re right.”
“Now don’t you have a promise to go keep?”
“Yeah, it is time to go find Cyrus’s sister!”
-Break-
As all of my friends and associates sit around a table I say, “Everyone please introduce yourselves.”
“Atalanta here!”
“My name is Cyrus.”
Casually Iancu says, “Iancu is the name.”
Knocking Iancu on the head Avram says, “Watch your posture boy, and my name is Avram.”
“Hello, scum my name is Elia.”
As Ivana, Gheorghe and Wadim try to introduce themselves Avram knocks Elia on the head and says, “Don’t pick fights, you dunderhead!”
“I was kidding, I thought a joke would lighten up the mood.”
“Jokes are supposed to be funny.”
“But your sense of style doesn’t make me laugh? Weird.”
Elia gets another knock on the head which completely destroys the moment for the three nice idiots to introduce themselves.
Looking at their sad faces, I want to say something, but then the last member at the table says, “Hello my name is Elliot, and I am representing all of the members of Skydust here today. As I will be a permanent member of your little family, I hope you will welcome my servitude, especially you lady Lanta and sir Orb.”
He really is just like from my books, a real-life butler, and he just radiates experience. But what can I expect, he is older than Dush. “Thank you for that Elliot.”
Avram says, “First order of business; what are our next steps.”
“Me, Cyrus, and Atalanta will head through the desert, until we reach civilization, where we will look for Cyrus’s sister as quickly as possible. though I can’t tell you how long it will take, I planned to use Suzuka’s mind reading to speed up this process but we can’t do that now.”
Avram says, “That sounds fine to me, but Orb I need you to keep one thing in mind.”
“What?”
“The sandstorm blew off a good bit of the Zetties’ scent, and now it will take some time before we can apply enough to make the Zetties follow us. So please don’t cause trouble over there, because we still don’t know when we will take off.”
“I see, I promise I won’t.”
Elliot says, “But don’t you guys think it is dangerous for us to split up our strongest people with our current situation, especially without any communication? Don’t you guys have Kaidenwa’s?”
Atalanta says, “We do but Orb and Cyrus don’t have enough spirit energy to use a Kaidenwa over a large range, and mine is being saved for combat. This was originally another task for Suzuka.”
I say, “Well this is a dilemma isn’t it, we could go without communication but that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.”
“Then we will go.”
“We are up to the task.”
Feeling them on my shoulders I say, “Anto, Mime what do you mean?”
“Hey, you two brats this isn’t the time for jokes go eat some sand or whatever you kids do.”
Sticking out her tongue Mime says, “Shut up stupid Lanta, just watch our amazingness. Anto!”
Anto quickly leaves the room, and then Mime says, “Orb do some strange things.”
“Why?”
“Just do it!”
Following her instruction, I make a strange face, then I juggle Mime and a few other small objects around us in my arms, then to finish it off I flip on Cyrus’s head and I hold my body up on his head with one finger.
Spinning off of Cyrus’s head, I land perfectly and say, “Done.”
Anto comes back in the room, and Mime says, “Anto what happened while you were away.”
Anto then perfectly says back to us what just happened. “Anto, where you watching through the door?”
“No, I wasn’t, I am able to hear and see everything Mime does, and Mime is able to do the same to me.”
Atalanta says, “It is probably due to their legacy.”
“You’re right I guess this is the special adaption they have like my heighten senses, but this is good we can use them to communicate, now which one of you two are going to stay and who is going to come with us.”
They both scream, “ME!” Hearing each other they both freeze and look at each other then get into combat positions.
Then they shout in unison, “ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!”