“Hey thanks for taking me to the next town it can be really dangerous going on my own”
said Leafa as she smiles to the two guys taking her.
”it’s no problem at all”
coming from Balaam
“yea you don't need to worry at all, anything that tries to take us on we’ll just push them out the way”
said Barbados as he stands proudly with the sword on the armoured shoulder. As they walk down the grassy path a man wearing a ripped up grey cloak and a great sword on his back lifts his left hand covered in bandages and points to the girl and the two guys.
“hey what are you pointing at!?”
Barbados yells at the guy in the cloak. The man starts to walk forward towards them “Barbados?”
Balaam said wimply to Barbados
“Right!” said Barbados
as they both draw their weapons Barbados having a sword and Balaam holding a dagger they charge at the man. The cloak man ducks under Balaam’s attack and jumps over Barbados’ sword doing a flip in the air to land and facing their backs the two try to turn around as quick as they can but see the cloak man raise his right hand as they can see it is a robot hand with a crystal in it they stop, looking like they’ve seen the end of their days. The cloak man put his left hand on his right arm, with this the crystal starts to glow brightly and just like that a beam of light come out and strikes the two guys turning them into stone with the shocked look on their faces.
”no not again why does this keep happening why?”
crying her eyes out on the floor said Leafa with the cloak man not caring at all as he walks over to the two stoned guys. Leafa get up and runs to the cloak man grabbing his cloak and yelling “why please why did you only petrify them why do I deserve to live” he goes to push her away as she pulls off the cloak and grabs his arms. The cloak man has a shocked look on his face and Leafa drops to the floor screaming in pain with her hands grabbing her head through her eyes she is seeing multiple Images of the world being made the gods and all the wars that have happened to this point all this happening over a few seconds and at the end she sees 8 crystals in a circle with the silhouette of a woman before coming back to the real world seeing the cloak man have a shocked look
“err what was that what’s going on?”
Leafa said as she got up rubbing her head
“no way how are you alive?”
thought the cloak man
“who said that just now?”
Leafa said as she looks around for anyone else
“wait she can hear me? Hey young lady can you hear my thoughts?”
thought the cloak man
“hear your thoughts? Wait your mouth wasn’t moving how can I hear you then?”
said Leafa
“those damn gods so this was their damn trick that they meant. Anyway, you are hearing my thoughts as I think them right now. My name is Take Hagane I happened to save your life right now those two they are bandits they are known for helping young women get to places for a low price at some point on the road they will wait till you’re tired and have their way with you until you are no use to them anymore and straight up kill you and Take whatever you got”
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Leafa gasp at hearing this
“is that true, oh god … thank you then I thought it was my bad luck happening again”
said Leafa with a face looking like she’ll be sick at any moment from thinking about that
“Umm Mr. Hagane why am I now hearing your thoughts”
Leafa wonders as she looks at him, seeing if there were something allowing this to happen, and patting her head to try and feel if there were any sort of magic item there as well
“Truth be told I have no idea you're the first one this has happened too I’ve been cursed by the gods for my own mistake they took away my voice and my ability to touch anyone beside you anyone I touch in the past have all had a mental shutdown I wonder why you're different. Maybe I should do some tests at my lab it could be your blood, did the gods send you to toy with me …...”
Take keep thinking about why this girl Leafa is special and what test he could do on her
“Ummm Mr. Hagane I can still hear your thoughts about tests”
With an ‘is this ok’ smile on her face, wondering if she should get away from this weirdo or stay with him as he did just save her life and her escorts got turned to stone she has no way of getting to the next town safely now.
“Oh, really so you hear everything I will think about talk about having no space to think. Anyway, this stone spell won't last all day they will turn back to normal if I don't get them to prison soon and I’d like you to come with me”
As Take studies the stone bodies, he then faces Leafa with a scary smile on his old restless face while Leafa looks shocked from hearing that and seeing that face of his feeling like running away right now might be the best idea.
“Wait what do you mean come with you I didn’t do anything wrong I swear [sob] please don't send me to jail with them Mr. Hagane [sob]”
as she starts to cry a little and shaking Take’s arm begging not to
“Please call me Take and that not what I meant my lab is on the island the jail is on once I drop these two off we can head to my lab and if you wouldn't mind allowing some blood test and some other ones to be done and see if I’m able to …. Anyway, it will help a lot of people I’ve hurt in return I can pay you for your services of course”
“Thanks, but there’s something you should know about me first if you want this to happen everyone I’ve got involved with has had bad fate happen to them and even die knowing this I understand if you want to rethink your offer”
Leafa’s face turns sad with head going down and her hands together seeming like she’s about to walk back slowly
“So that doesn’t matter to me the worst has already happen to me nothing worse can happen now, if so I’ll think of a way to fight it off”
Take reaches for the bag that is on the left side just above the hip and pull 5 cube shape gems with runes on each one of them
“Now would you mind helping me and put these around a star pattern over there next to those two don't worry they will still be like that for little while longer”
They both place the cubes down in a star like pattern after doing so the gem runes start to glow and Take steps into the star
“Come on or you’ll be left here don't worry we help each other out okay”
Smiling to Leafa, not so scary this time if as seeing his restless face fade away to a new welcoming one. Leafa feeling calm and happy from that smile she steps into the star as well grabbing his hand and then a flash of light happens and they are gone and the cubes are burnt out with a light smoke coming from all 5 of them and a burnt ground leaving a star shape with an outer circle as well
A dark stoney room shows in the view as bright blue lighting shows sparking around the rocks then a big flash followed by a fog of smoke with two shadows in it, the fog lifts to a light smoke and we start to see Take and Leafa.
” *cough* *cough* wow, where are we?”
Leafa said whilst looking around the room and seeing mostly rock but a dark green metal door with a white marble stone block around it. Take didn’t think anything his thoughts where blank as he walks to the metal door. Leafa soon follows him as he opens the door a bright light blinds Leafa for a sec and when her eyes readjusted, she sees a beautiful city with a castle at the end but what was most important about this place was that it was right next to the clouds in the sky. Leafa was in the favoured city Hyka the city in the clouds
“welcome to my home Hyka”
Take gestures a welcome to Leafa
“your home? This is where you live I hear only the rich live here or those who serve the royal family of Hyka”
Leafa saying with a look of overjoying happiness on her face like this is a place where she would dream to go
“Well yes that is true but there is another way of getting up here thought some of them I would not recommend or you might just get shot down by my cannon. And before you ask I serve the family they’re good friends of mine. I am the inventor here”
Take thinks walking down the streets with Leafa next to him as there are walking a lot of town folk are trying to get as far away from Take it seems like they are afraid of him. While they keep walking Leafa thinks to herself that she isn’t hearing Take as much anymore she wonders if the teleport might have made it harder to hear his thoughts again.
“Aww here we are this is my place/workshop here we will rest and start testing in the morning”
Take gave a smile to Leafa while it was meant to be just a smile she saw it as an evil act about to happen to her, but she smiles back and looks up at the sign above the door it read Hagane Workshop