Holding my sister’s body, I shake her and say, “Pari, Pari, wake up Pari, you can’t sleep here, it isn’t safe here and I have a lot to apologize about so we need to go. I am too weak right now to carry you so please get up Pari.” Shaking her more, I scream, “PARI WAKE UP!”
“No, no, this can’t be happening, Sister, SISTER! Why would you do this, you said you hated me, you said I was a parasite, why would you die for me!? Why, why, WHY! I wanted to be able to protect you, so why would you give up your life for me!?
This doesn’t make sense, why should you have to die for me, the only thing I needed in life was you, but you could live without me, so why, why Pari is dead while I am alive! Pari, Pari, PARI!!!!”
Φ Staring at Cyrus holding his sister, I feel my heart race. “No without a doubt happiness waits for her, now.” Raising my right arm, I say, “It is time to unite the siblings, bye Cyrus. Sailsaila Storm!”
As my chains come close to them, Cyrus lets out a roar that redirects my chains and shatters the area and him. Then picking up his sword he says, “DON’T YOU DARE COME ANYWHERE CLOSE TO HER!”
“Don’t waste any more time Cyrus, you know how this is going to go.”
Cyrus immediately lunges towards me, so I say again, “Sailsaila Storm!”
But he doesn’t even bother to dodge he just activates his legacy and charges straight through. “Fool,” I say as my chains break into him.
Still, he doesn’t stop no matter how much I stab him with my chains. Does he not feel pain? No, it isn’t that he has simply just blacked out with rage. He crashes his fist into my gut sending me flying backwards.
Easily recovering, I land on my feet. “If I hadn’t been in advent that might have actually been fatal, but even with this strength I can easily handle you.”
“I’LL KILL YOU!!!”
“Try. Sailsaila Cerberus.” My chains shoot out from my left side and right sides forming three giant dog heads. The bodies are made from the left and the teeth from the right. “Now let’s bring this to an end.”
Φ With blood leaking from my eardrum, I am still held still by Ahmed's chains.
I failed, the promise I made was broken, I wasn’t able to do anything for Cyrus. How could I let this happen? I fought so hard yet with all that I was capable of I still failed. Both Anto and Atalanta are in critical condition, and Cyrus definitely can’t win, especially with his injuries.
I could try to use my legacy to break out and fight since he is distracted, but I doubt my legacy has enough power left to break these chains off, and even if I somehow did would I be able to fight against Ahmed especially with my ear drums burst?
Not only that but Raqiue’s timer should be coming up soon. What the hell am I going to do? I need to do something; I can’t let them die, I can’t fail again.
“Fail again!? That is all you have done with your time.”
In front of me, all I see vanish, and appearing in its place is a white wolf. “Wolfie,” I say. “How can I hear you?”
“Did that last attack rock your brain, you should know that I exist right beside your soul. Even if your eardrums are burst, we can always still communicate, and I can take any form I wish.”
“I had always wondered if it really was you inside my soul. But please now I need your help, there must be some way I can beat Ahmed, and I need to rescue Atalanta Anto, Cyrus, and Raqiue so pl-.”
“BE QUIET!” Rage appears on the face of Wolfie in front of me, who says, “And why would you do such a thing? because for you Orb it is impossible to save anyone.”
“No that isn’t true.”
“YES, IT IS! The reason the village of Aplos got forcibly pulled out into the world was due to your presence. The people of Basileia will die brutal deaths while you reap the profits of selling their crystals, even though they did that for the purpose of providing a resource to those who couldn’t attain it.
You kept alive people who kidnapped people and made them into slaves because you believe that people can change. Now the freed slaves must live every day of their lives knowing the bastards who kept them are alive.”
“I made sure to punish them for such a th-.”
“That guarantees nothing only death does. Oh, that reminds me, have you ever told Suzuka that during her rampage that spirit killed people? I wonder how she would feel if she found out that people died because of her accursed powers.”
“That wasn’t her fault,” I say passionately.
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“Yes, but it was your fault, if you never appeared in the first place on Seirei it wouldn’t have happened. If you never appeared on Skydust they would have been forced to surrender to protect the children, and Paribanou wouldn’t have died if you hadn’t brought Cyrus here, did you not hear his words, he would have been fine if she was alive.
Even the few successes like with the bandits and the aliens on Elpída, were followed by failures. Do you not understand Orb, everywhere you go you leave failure after failure. You want to help people, you want to do good, but the world doesn’t reward such behaviour any more than evil.
All you have done since you have left the house has failed time and time again, and what you have added to this world is just pain and suffering, and those sins, that legacy will curse people until time comes to an end.”
Φ As I spoke Orb’s face became paler and paler, so I say, “So please tell me Orb, is this life the fulfilling one you wanted to lead!”
“Wolfie when I was with you, I was happy, if it had just been the two of us all alone together I would have been content for life, but one day you just vanished and because of that I met Capti.
With Capti I learned so much about the world and all of the stars that exist outside. I was able to recover the happiness I lost when you left, but even Capti vanished one day.
Though Capti had given me a key to the world, and with that key in hand an idea popped into my head. Maybe I could go into the world where all the wonderful stars live, the stars who fight in a world that doesn’t agree with them.
Maybe I could talk to them, maybe we could spend time together, maybe I could help them be happy, maybe we could be friends, and one day I might be able to become one of those stars. I selfishly thought all of that, but I know it isn’t true.
The words you said are what I think about every day and night. Have I helped anyone? Has my presence caused more harm than good? Will I be able to protect anyone, and if I don’t do that will they die or even worst leave me.
I try, try, and try even more, but it is pointless because in truth I have known all along that a person like me could never do that, but I still tried to attain it and now Cyrus’s sister is dead!”
Crying Orb says, “I should have never left the mountain, this world isn’t for a person like me.”
Pressing my imaginary body against his, I say, “Then let us return there, I promise this time I will never let anyone come close to us ever again. Forget about all this and run away, there is nothing here for you.”
“Thank you Wolfie, but sorry I can’t do that yet.”
“What!?”
“I have simply wrapped up too many people in my selfish desire and I can’t just abandon them.”
“Have you listened to nothing I have said!”
“Of course, I have Wolfie, but even if I was to return to the mountain and lock myself away, I won’t be able to be happy knowing the people I have brought with me are suffering. So, I make a vow to you today, Let my own happiness be dammed until all the people I have come to care about are happy I won’t leave.”
Staring into Orb's impassioned yet hollow eyes, I say, “Such a path is even worse than hell.”
“That’s good to hear since hell was made for people not someone like me. Bye Wolfie, and just so you know I love you.”
Advent is achieved when a legacy and its vessel unify whether consciously or subconsciously; Let my own happiness be dammed, until all the people I have come to care about are happy I won’t leave. Those simple words cause countless memories to flow into my mind.
Φ With another blow of my chains I sent Cyrus tumbling down deeper into the underground kingdom. As he gets up and tries to move, I wrap my chains throughout his body and say, “Your physical strength has a limit.”
Trying to break free of the grasp of my chains, Cyrus pushes forward. So, I say, “Sailsaila lockdown,” Which causes my chains to completely restrain him. “I told you before, but this is the end, Bye Cyrus.”
Preparing myself, I say, “Sailsaila Tom-.”
Feeling my chains break, I stop mid-way and turn around where I see a dark blue light radiate upwards.
“No,” I say as I attach my chains to the wall and move myself into the sky to see what happens. Looking down at him, I say, “I need to strike! Sailsaila Furry.” Chains from my left form into 8 massive spiralling clumps that fly directly towards Orb.
But in the moment where they almost reach him, I see him lunge towards me, and hopping from one clump to another he moves towards me at incredible speed, but more than that he freezes everything he touches.
Before I can react, Orb has manoeuvred himself over my head, and with a bicycle kick, I am knocked straight down into the sand.
Getting up, I take a second to look directly at Orb. His right side is covered in his legacy, and his left in a radiating dark blue energy and where they meet in the center has the Advent symbol.
His clothes have changed to a pure white, and on his face no mask appears, instead on the right side of his face his legacy has created a crescent moon around his eye, and on the left side the energy just flows straight upwards through his eye.
But strangely, Orb seems to have grown a fluffy white tail, and his hair has completely overgrown itself to the point where it looks like a fluffy white cloud, though it has lots of silver within it. From his hair what looks like two wolf ears poke through.
Slowly Orb starts to hop in one place and says, “Come on Ahmed, I promise this won’t go like last time.”
His demeanour has changed, it is a lot more mature and stoic, which must be due to the fact that his legacies' influence on his personality and behaviour has increased.
Still, none of what I see before me poses a threat. “The blue energy is how much strength you have left in your legacy, and with how small it is I have nothing to fear, I will make this quick Orb. Sailsaila Tomb!”
My chains start to erupt out of my body and move towards Orb, with speed completely detached from what he once could do Orb dodges my chains. “Truly impressive Orb, if you were at a 100 percent I might be scared.” Suddenly all my chains surround Orb, so I say, “This is the end, Sailsaila nightmare!”
Every one of my chains stabs directly into this body. The only chains that didn’t hit were the one going for his head, they were frozen. Staring up at Orb's mutilated body, I say, “My you rest forever now.”
But I feel my chains break, and then moments later I am hit directly in my face.
Sliding backwards, I stare at Orb's body regenerate all the holes I put into him. What the hell is this?
No, when you advent all of the abilities of your legacy are brought to full force even the physical traits you inherited. Orb's fast healing was an ability he got from his legacy, and now in Advent, it is brought to its full power, hyper-regeneration.
“Now Ahmed, it is time for me to crush your face.”