-Break-
Φ As we get ready to leave, Mimes tears run down her face as she cries, “I want to go!”
“Stop crying already, you lost so you stay.”
“NOOO, I WANT TO GO!”
Walking up to Mime, Anto says, “Isn’t it much more fun to watch everything through me rather than have to get dirty doing it yourself.”
“I guess.”
“Then wait for me Mime.”
“Ok, Anto.”
Walking up to us, Avram says, “Orb, Anto, Cyrus I need you all to sit down for a moment.”
Following Avrams Instructions we all take a seat. Then from behind us Gheorghe, Ivana and Wadim, come and start applying hair dye on us. “I thought we didn’t have much left?”
“While we were going around Skydust I made sure to pick up a lot of hair dye and some coloured contact lenses as well, this should grant you some safety while you are exploring.”
“Thank you for this.”
“It was no issue at all, but with this, you have just a tiny bit more safety than you would otherwise. So, make sure to use it to keep safe and out of sight.”
“Gotcha.”
After the hair dye is applied the four of us take off into the desert.
-Break-
“Orb, I am tired, I can’t do this anymore.”
“Stop complaining Lanta, we have barely been walking for 3 hours.”
“Unlike you, I happen to be a normal human, 3 hours of walking through the desert taxes my stamina.”
“Hey, I am a normal human as well.”
“Normal humans don’t have your absurd stamina. How the hell are you even standing?”
“We used to have longer walks when I was in Aplos, so this is nothing.”
“It is so dry and warm, my legs are too tired.”
Creating some snow, I throw it at Atalanta's face and say, “Eat this to cool down.”
“NO, I am so tired of eating your crunchy snow, I want some smooth refreshing water.”
“You’re an adult, suck it up. Have you seen Anto complain once?”
“That’s because he has been getting to ride on Cyrus’s head this entire time. Tell him to get off I want to have a turn.”
Did she really just say that; I think to myself with a face of disgust.
“Pleas-s-s-s-e don’t fight, I can ca-a-a-a-arry you two as well.”
“No Cyrus, she needs to walk on her own two feet.”
“Orb, you know what you’re just a bully, a big meanie head. People like you are going to go to hell.”
“I don’t have time for this nonsense!”
“Orb, there is some water over there,” Anto says.
Hopping up, Atalanta starts to run over to where Anto pointed. Looking over to where she is running, I see some sort of camel, but it has cubes of water where its humps are supposed to be.
That’s not a wonderbeast to my knowledge, and I don’t know any wonderbeasts that can produce water like this, though it wouldn’t have been the strangest thing I have seen.
Following behind Atalanta, I say, “Wait up, we don’t even know if that camel's water is drinkable.”
“Well, there is only one way to find out isn’t there.”
This idiot. As Atalanta gets close to the camel, it makes a face of shock and then starts to run away. Pretty sure it got scared away by seeing the hungry face Atalanta was making.
As we run, I hear a strange sound approaching, so I shout “ANTO SWITCH ME AND ATALANTA NOW!”
Following my instructions Anto switches us, and then I create a large amount of ice to my left which quickly gets shatter as something hits it, no it didn’t just shatter it was mostly vaporized.
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On the floor, Atalanta says, “Why did you do that?”
“I am going to need you to shut the hell up right now.” Whatever the hell I was just hit with was freaking loud, my ears are killing me.
When the vapour from my ice clears, I look in front of me and see a quadrupedal wonderbeast that looks like a jackal, though it has golden blades on its claws and a golden horn.
As I stare at it another similar wonderbeast appears to its side, and then I see small sparks appear at its horn, so I quickly create another shield of ice, then which is struck again by the same attack as last time.
This time my ice shield didn’t fully break, so looking at it I realize they hit us with lighting, which explains the ear pain. “Atalanta, I need some ranged support.”
“Right,” she says getting up and positioning her bow.
But during the time she is getting ready both of the wonderbeast make their way towards the camel. “DON’T TOUCH MY WATER!” Atalanta says as she releases five shots towards the wonderbeasts
Both of the beats are able to react to the arrow and dodge.
“Don’t get cocky you dumb dogs!” Suddenly Atalanta’s arrows curve and turn around to hit the wonderbeasts, but they dodge them again.
“Too little, too late,” Atalanta says, as another volley of arrows hit the beats in the direction they dodged the curved ones from.
One of the wonderbeast gets hit in the head while the other gets hit in the legs. As the one that got hit in the legs falls down it lets out a thunderous howl, while firing lighting into the sky from its horn. The sound wave from this pains my ears even more.
Shotting another arrow Atalanta hits the surviving wonderbeast through the head. “That’s what you get for messing with me,” Atlanta says, as she lets out a victorious laugh.
Holding my hands against my head, I scream, “Everyone gets ready, something is coming.”
Suddenly from my left, I hear something coming, so I create a wall of ice to my left, but it is quickly cut to pieces then looking behind the sliced ice I see a panther wonderbeast with a blade for its tail.
Using my legacy on my feet I snow boost towards it preparing to strike the wonderbeast. As I lunge towards it, I see the bladed tail of it extend and it tries to cut me.
Quickly I use my reflexes to dodge the attacks. After regaining my footing I create snow all around me while moving towards the beast, when its tail moves in between the snow I turn the snow into ice and freeze the tail into one place.
Then while the tail is stuck, I dash forward and punch the wonderbeast in the face sending it flying.
When the beast regains its composure it looks me dead in the eye, so I scream, “DO YOU WANT TO BECOME MY MEAL!”
Hearing my roar, the wonderbeast runs away. Taking a breath I say, “Looks like I am quite intimidating.”
Huh, I feel something on my leg, looking down I see a lot of little gold bugs. They all have single giant eyes, these must be wonderbeasts. “You know you guys are quite cute from certain angles.”
While I admire the bugs, I see little sparks form in their eyes, so I quickly create a shield of ice. Moments after I create the wall, I see it vaporize as it has been hit with lighting. “More of these lighting wonderbeasts, how annoying.”
With my hearing I notice more of the bug-type wonderbeasts have appeared behind me, so I create a giant wall of ice all around me, which defends me as the bugs shoot at me.
Crap, I let my guard down because they were cute, I need to be more cautious. Remember the days back when you hunted for Aplos, you need that level of caution.
Atalanta or Cyrus should have already helped me by now, but the bugs around me haven’t decreased. Using my hearing I try to hear what is currently going on outside my ice barrier and I hear loads of different sounds, they must be engaged in combat with something.
Hearing something at my feet, I see some of the little bugs coming up from the ground. Seeing this I jump from the sides of my ice barrier towards the top as the bugs prepare to shoot at me.
Φ Taking out my sword, I hear Anto say, “That wonderbeast looks cool.”
In front of both of us are five large wonderbeasts that all look the same. They are quadrupedal and have golden armoured shells and a thorny tail. but the strangest part was that it has bug-like wings on its back that appear from its armour.
The five wonderbeasts fly up into the sky, then move towards us, and as they do they fall to the ground rolling themselves up into circular balls(Like wheels) then charge at us.
Pouring spirit energy into my sword I run forward and slash the two first wonderbeasts.
Holding my horns Anto says, “WOOOOOO!”
“H-H-H-Hold on tight.”
Using my left arm, I stop the next wonderbeast motion then I throw it into the next one rolling at us. Then using my tail, I launch the last wonderbeast into the sky, then when it falls down, I place my sword under it so it plunges into it.
Turning around, I see the first two that got cut by me turn around and keep rolling towards me, but when they do sand starts to get stuck to them over and over until the sand has made them much larger.
Using my sword, I try to cut them again but the sand act as an armour and I am unable to reach their flesh this time. As they pass me, I see them preparing to do this again. When they come around again, I should dodge them and try to knock them over instead.
“Hey, Cyrus.”
“Y-Y-Y-Yes Anto.”
“Why don’t you use your legacy?”
“A-A-A-A-Atalanta said I have low spirit e-e-e-e-energy, so I was trying to train.”
“Don’t do that, seeing you fight like that is super boring, use your legacy and show me something cool right now!” Anto says throwing a fit on my head.
Φ Lowering his head, Cyrus says with a depressing aura, “Your right, I should never have been so presumptuous like that, I really do suck.”
He really is always so sad and boring he should really change his personality. As an idea pops into my head I say, “My brain is so fat!”
“H-H-Huh a-a-a-a-re you ok-k-k-k-k!”
Using my legacy on my dagger, I say, “Time to invert that personality.” Then I quickly strike Cyrus on the back of the head. “It is time for you to become fun.”
Suddenly I am thrown off of Cyrus’s head and land on my butt. Looking up to him I say, “Hey what was that for!”
Staring at me with a face full of annoyance, Cyrus screams, “SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU DISGUSTING EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING!” Sitting down on the sand Cyrus says, “I am going to take a nap, wake me and you die.”
“But the wonderbeasts are heading right towards us.”
“Not my problem, you accident.”
EHHHHHHHH! What is going on I thought he was going to become fun, but now he is just a mean bully of an adult.
Cyrus despite his attitude is a kind, sweet, hardworking boy, and the inverse of that is a mean, lazy, disgusting, bum. Due to being 10 years old, there is no way Anto could have known this, but nevertheless, it is the result of his actions.
I need to cancel my legacy and revert all my inversions. As I try to turn off my inversion by striking Cyrus, I suddenly feel my leg being pulled away.
As I am dragged through the sand I get a face full of dirt. When I get to a certain point I am instead lifted up into the air by my leg. Opening my eyes, I see a giant cobra-like wonderbeast in front of me with swirling patterns.
As I look at the swirling patterns I start to feel dizzy, and then my eyes start to get so heavy that they close. Letting out a yawn I say, “I feel so sleepy.”