Arc 6. A seemingly endless loss
Road to a Hero:
Three Chances in another world
Chapter 2. Finally, somethin’ to do.
Edward finishes reading the letter, and everyone is excited, including Gray, who now knows about Ceonstel
Gray: “So this grand rail opening thing, Valatrositice is making a train system?”
Soku: “What’s a train?”
Peter chimes in, wanting to tell all he knows, and forgetting what happened between him and Soku.
Peter: “How do you not know what a train is? It's like a big carriage that has a bunch of space and travels on a rail to get from place to place! It’s something that runs all over Oni-Mai!”
Soku’s excited nature falls, feeling insulted and annoyed, which goes unnoticed by Peter and only by Peter.
Rosemary: “Oh…my…GOSH!”
Rosemary shouts with excitement, hugging Gray, and jumps for joy. Gray jumps with her, feeding into her energy.
Edward: “Calm down. Well, I am pretty excited as well, but we need to talk to Lincoln about it.”
Gray: “Well you go get him, and give us those parts.”
Edward: “Oh, sorry I forgot.”
Edward reaches into a bag on his back, takes out a small crystal holder for Rosemary, and gives the rest of the backpack to Peter. Peter goes to hold the back, being slammed to the ground by the weight, causing Soku to smile. But when Peter sees this, he tries to smile back, which causes her smile to go away.
Gray lifts the bag off of Peter, letting him get up.
Peter: “Common, let’s go to my shed. We can finish the project!”
Edward: “The same one? You’ve been working on that for months. Can I see it now that it’s ready?”
Peter: “You’ll be able to see it once we’re about to leave.”
Gray and Peter run off, Rosemary finally goes to fix the water heater, and Edward begins walking to Lincoln's house, leaving Soku behind.
Edward: “You coming.”
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Soku runs up to Edward, starting to walk with him.
Soku: “Sure, I don’t have anything else to do.”
They walk briefly, not saying a word until Edward finally breaks the silence.
Edward: “Are you gonna let the dynamic stay like this?”
Soku: “What do you mean?”
Edward: “You and Peter. I’m not going to act like I don’t have my bad relationships… I and Gray don’t get along that well…but you and Peter were together. I know I shouldn’t be the one to say this…but one of you needs to get past this.”
Soku, annoyed, falls into her defensive side.
Soku: “I’m fine okay. Peter was a dick, he either doesn't know he was, or he doesn't care. He knows what he did…hell everyone knows what he did. He’s an idiot, and even if I “get past this” as you put it, I’ll never like him…trust him as I did.”
Edward nods his head, and makes it to the Leviathan army's training grounds, knocking on the door of the main house. Due to nobody answering, Soku walks in, calling out for him.
Soku: “Hey Lincoln!”
Edward looks around, absorbing the history. With all the paintings of the past Helsings on the walls and their armor set up under it, it shows a great picture of a warrior's family.
He walks past all of them, staring at each painting. Sulton lost his great-grandmother. Orm the elder, his great-grandfather. Flora the grand, his grandmother. Gilius the Great, his grandfather. Gotsu the monster slayer, his father. Kioshi the all-powerful. And lastly, Musashi, the greatest swordsman, is his uncle.
Lincoln: “What do ya want!?”
Lincoln spooks Edward, making him jump.
Edward: “Read this, and tell me what we should do.”
Lincoln grabs the letter from Edward's hand, quickly reading through it. He mumbles as he does, then his eyes light up.
Lincoln: “This is a good opportunity for you guys to get more notoriety. I say you should do it.”
Soku: “Are you coming?”
Lincoln: “Nah, due to the stupid god of war law thing I’m stuck here doing mountains of paperwork to get there. I’ll try to get there around New Year's, they got some great booze.”
Rosemary opens the door, getting their attention.
Rosemary: “Gray and Peter wanna show you what they’ve been working on.”
Edward: “Um…okay let’s go see I guess.”
Soku: “Ug. Whatever”
Lincoln: “Well now that you’re building it up I wanna see.”
They walk down the snow-covered roads, making it back to their house. They walk behind it into the yard, finally making it to the shed.
Gray: “YOU’RE HERE! NOW BEHOLD!”
Inside the shed, Peter and Gray stand beside a large object covered with a tarp.
Gray: “Now this is a special object we’ve been making for months!”
Peter: “Gray had the idea of how to make it, and told me a good amount of the parts required.”
Gray: “Then Peter helped me put it together!”
Peter: “And yeah, we’ve crashed it, broken it, lightened it on fire, and crashed it again.”
Gray: “Yeah crashed it a few times, burnt it, blew it up, a LOT!...and now…BEHOLD! THE SILVER CHARIOT!”
Gray and Peter take the cloth off, revealing a wondrous machine.
Soku: “What…is it?”
Rosemary: “It’s got wheels, does it move?”
Edward: “Armor that moves?”
Lincoln: “Yeah I don’t know what I’m looking at.”
Gray and Peter's faces fall to sadness. The four-door post-apocalyptic-looking buggy mixed with a muscle car stuns everyone.
Gray: “Yeah it may be a little cramped, a little miss matchy, dangerous, basically a fast-moving death machine.
Edward: “How does it work?”
Gray: “We can show you when we…wait won’t it just be easier to use Dema.”
Lincoln: “It might have been if they didn’t declare the use of any high-ranking spirit beast to be a war crime if used in Valatrositce that is.”
Gray tilts his head down, then jolts back up.
Gray: “WE GOT AN EXCUSE!”
Lincoln: “It’s only twelve, so you got a lot of the day left. It’ll take a few weeks to get there, you might wanna leave sometime today.”
Rosemary: “I guess we better start packing.”
Gray: “Finally, it’s been months since we’ve done something’. Just wake up, eat, train, read something, then repeat. Now we get to be knights again!”
Edward: “It is a relief.”
End of Chapter Two