Elaine Valorrey-

'AHH!! I couldn't even tell him how I felt!' I yelled in my thoughts as I opened my door and entered the spacious brown room. Then laid down under the green covers, staring mindlessly at the ceiling as my head was filled with an excruciating number of thoughts.

However, it felt nice to finally let that off my chest...I thought Sin would've looked at me differently, but he didn't.

And now that I think about it, we're only seven. We're too young and knowing Sin... more than likely he'd say the same thing too. Plus, I don't even know how he feels about me with his beautiful face. I can never figure what he's thinking. Although, both father and mother approved of me and Skysin to get married when we're of age. I started blushing just thinking about me and him being married and possibly having…children. I quickly grasped a pillow and dug my redden face into it, forcing myself to sleep.

*****

The days had passed by quickly as we trained, during this time, we were all outside as master gave us further instructions for what to do. "You kids are going against a rampant chimera today," master stated, brimming with enthusiasm.

We all gazed at the man, wondering if he was serious, "aren't those things extremely dangerous. I read a few books in the study and it stated they're in the calamity ranks," Sin rose his hand being curious.

"Well, this in particular is one of the weaker variations, it's only in the warrior rank, it should only give you kids a bit of trouble. I'll get you kids a map, so you'll know how to get there," Master chuckled entering the house.

As he left, I happened to notice myself gazing at Skysin. He glanced over in my direction, his violet eyes encountering mine, "hey Elaine... you ok?" He asked keeping a mellowed expression.

I blushed staggering on my words, "ye-yes, I'm fine... just happened to have a daydream is all...haha."

He chuckled as master returned with a long off-white map, reviewing over our destination. "Good luck on your mission kids. It's called Mertzin-Ur on the map. It should be a mountain," The tall man merrily explained handing me the map. "And if you defeat it, you'll get a feast."

"Yessss" Crim and Skysin gave each other a fist pump.

I then used my telekinesis, folding the map until could fit into my pocket. Waving goodbye to Alzar, we set off into the vast woodland.

Moments later as we traveled, the four of us happened to come across a gaping, triangle-shaped talus cave, leading into a humongous mountain.

"Mertzin-Ur...Well then, this doesn't look like a death trap," Nirvana quipped sardonically, peering inside the giant dark cavern.

As we walked towards it, "let's just hope there's only one of them that we have go against," Crim remarked.

Ambling through the cave; the walls became narrow, to the point that we had to walk in a single file line. Hence, the sun's rays dimmed the further we made way into the caliginous tunnel.

Crim and Nirvana made fire appear on their palms as illumination, thus, I took in the bland scene. The rugged walls were filled with tiny crevice's, along with small amounts of condensed liquid on the rough shelter. Despite that, the ceiling of the cave is far above our heads, only capable to view reflective stalagmites that had a dim glister from the flames light.

We traversed through the cavern for maybe ten minutes, then suddenly, another crevice was viewed in the middle of a rocky wall in front of us. It's much larger, similar to a giant mouse hole, which would allow our small bodies to squeeze through without an issue.

Plus, there was a faint shine of light behind it as well. Skysin being precautious, "wait guys, let me make a portal first so I can check."

We all nodded, and Sin peeked through the crevice to mark his destination. Then a lavender mass emerged in front of us, creating a wide, circular doorway. Sin poked his head through the wide gateway, "it's all clear...but you guys gotta check this out." He stated in fascination.

Intrigued by what he declared, we trailed behind him through the portal. After I took a step out, I became astounded by the breathtaking scenery.

There were glowing orb-like plants, spread all over the cave, azure grass that covered the entire area. A large pond of fish was viewed, jumping out of the water and high into the air. But what really caught my eyes; the middle of the vast catacomb presenting a greatly, oversized hole. The sight was more than amazing, the suns glamorous rays falling upon the wonderous cavern. Birds and other huge windborne wildlife were displayed, soaring above the beautiful terrain filled with alienated plant life.

But at that point of time, a diabolical roar echoed through the entire landscape. Disconcerted by the startling cry, with haste, we shot our heads behind us to see the unsightly chimera standing before us. Its height is around fifteen feet, much taller than the Breuds. It had the face of a black wolf, brandishing its agonizing teeth, body of a lion, limbs that of a brown bear with baneful claws, and its tail is long and scaly like a lizard.

Skysin sighed, slumping his shoulders while squinting his eyes, "great..."

The large beast growled horridly as it lunged at us, using its razor-sharp teeth as a weapon. Not faltering our movements, we all scurried away, jumping backwards veering from the beast.

At that point of time, Nirvana blew a disastrous gale of wind and sharp pebbles of terra, making the beast unbalanced. As it lost its footing, Skysin covered the distance in a flash, slamming his foot onto the chimera's side.

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Next, Crim jumped in the air and placed his feet on a stalagmite fused in the ceiling of the cave. As he activated his orange phoenix flames, he dove towards the beast at great speeds, landing a powerful punch right on the monster's snout, smashing it in the ground.

Just as Sin and Crim backed off, the monster recovered standing enraged. Accordingly, me and Nirvana tagged in, striking a heavy kick on the monster's chest. The force of the attack sent the beast into a huge boulder, causing it to be crushed from the impact.

Not giving it a chance, I used my telekinesis and lifted all the gravel, projecting them on the beast. Burying the giant monster under a mass amount of rock. After all that occurred, we stopped, resolving that it had died. "Hm, I thought it'd still be alive," Sin figured with disappointment crossing his arms.

But unfortunately, we thought too early. The beast leapt out the tiny fragments of earth howling. The roar was monstrous, so great it caused a miniature shockwave, creating small amounts of wind to surround the area.

"You just had to say something..." Nirvana smacked the back of Sin's head.

While Sin rubbed his head, "Skysin, you ready?" Crim yelled, encasing himself in lively white flames.

"Right!" Skysin shouted, shrouding himself in ice-cold aura that flowed like a menacing blizzard. The two boys gathered side by side, then dashed towards the towering beast. The chimera growled aggressively, whipping its scaly tail and shot it at the boys like a spear, trying to pierce the two. While moving at rapid speeds, they evaded the incoming attacks, swiftly bobbing, weaving and jumping over the lethal appendage.

Skysin leapt high into the air as Crim trailed behind him. All with this transpiring, me and Nirvana began shooting barrages of plasma and elements at the beast.

While we caught its attention, Skysin positioned himself facing the chimera as Crim activated his sun-dragon flames, blazing on his feet. The boy brought his leg back and swept it across Sin's boots. At the same time, a thunderous, deafening crack, echoed through the cave from this action.

All in a blur, Skysin molded an ice spear on his right arm, shooting directly through the beast's long tail, completely destroying it. When the chimera howled in pain, Skysin yelled, "lets finish it!"

Both me and Nirvana nodded, separating from each other. We darted full speed to the sides of the monster. As we drew closer to the chimera, we jumped leading in with a deathly kick, simultaneously on both sides of its stomach.

I could hear the bloodcurdling cracks and spurts from inside the beast as this took place. Not being able to intake what happened, it vomited disgusting, black polluted blood, along with small air pockets popping on the ground.

Skysin molded crystal ice onto his legs and jumped high above the chimera. He rammed his feet on top of its head, knocking it unconscious while creating a large, spider-webbed crater under.

We all turned to Crim as he began manifesting his sun-dragon flames once more. Splitting away from the beast, Crim then moved in front of it, blasting a wave of blistering white blazes on the monster, completely incinerating it.

"Alright, we did it!!" I cheered jumping onto Nirvana as she hugged me.

As we all celebrated, a small rock fell on Skysin's head, "ow! What the hell?"

We began to chortle as he rubbed his injury again, but Crim made an eldritch expression. His grey eyes widened, and his mouth gaped open allowing view of his bottom teeth as he looked above.

Getting startled by his looks, we all copied Crim like a parrot, glancing at the ceiling. However, as we gazed above, we came to notice the entire cave was trembling, preparing to crumble on our heads.

"RUN!!" Crim yelled.

While we all started to desperately dash towards the crevice connected to the other cave. "I'm not as good as my mom is with spatial kinesis yet, so when I make this portal, get ready to run!" Skysin called out as we ran.

We all nodded as he created the portal. After leaping through the gateway, it didn't even seem as if we went anywhere. Only coming to see the roughly shaped walls covered in minuscule amounts of water from its purple fluorescence. "Don't stop running, we're closer to the entrance. Just keep moving!" Skysin exclaimed keeping his pace.

At that point, rocks began to collapse as time quickly passed. We all willed ourselves in aura to increase our speed, but with Skysin being the fastest out of us all. "Hey Skysin, go full speed and see how far we are!" Crim shouted urgently.

Skysin nodded and beyond comprehension, he disappeared into the darkness, only leaving behind a faint afterimage of his back.

Less than a second, "you guys are almost there! Just a little bit more!" Skysin's voice echoed, bouncing off the walls in the tight cave as my ears absorbed the information. Just as we heard him, dim light had made an appearance and a small silhouette with wild hair was jumping, waving his hands from afar.

The rocks begun to become greater in size, and the walls began closing in on us. Nearing the end of this now demolishing cavern, multiple stalagmites were seen, falling right above me. I shrieked in terror, using my telekinesis to stop some as I ran, but more gradually came into view. Thinking that this was the end of me as the deadly sharp rocks were atop of my head, I closed my eyes.

But a burst of chilled winds encountered my skin. As I glanced up, Skysin was above me, using his frigid ice to stop the plummeting rocks. Skysin landed beside me with a bright smile, then lifted me like the princess I was. Although I was bewildered by his actions, before I knew it, I felt the sun's warm radiance beaming onto me.

'How fast is he??' I asked myself, unable to comprehend the fact we were just inside the crumbling cavern.

But I couldn't use this time to be relieved yet, after gathering my thoughts together, I utilized my telekinesis. I grounded my teeth, attempting to support the others as I held the rocks back while Skysin grabbed Crim and Nirvana. I could feel sweat slowly trail down my cheeks as I tried to sustain the massive weight of the enclosing cavern.

Moving like the wind, Skysin got the others out in a flash. Then I finally released my constraint on the rocks, allowing the cavern to be completely destroyed. All while I fell to the ground on my back, utterly fatigued. But sadly, that beautiful place would be forgotten, never to be seen again.

As all of us sat together, exhausted and relieved that none of us died. We glanced back at the now, demolished cave. "Wow - we'd totally be dead..." Skysin chuckled.

"Oh hehe-haha, very funny," Nirvana scoffed.

"Pfft..." Crim put his hands over his mouth as his shoulders bobbed, trying to restrain his laughter at Sin's joke.

Nirvana turned to Crim with a threatening smile, he then stiffened himself nervously as the fearful child came to him, "s-sorry hehe."

Skysin abruptly stood, "well I mean, at the end of the day…we weren't turned into pancakes. So, I think it's a job well done, except...maybe the part about almost being squished to death."

During that time as everyone giggled at Sin's comment, my attention was drawn to the glamorous orange and dark blue ether created from the setting sun, 'it's actually pretty nice to have friends,' I thought to myself, reminiscing all the fun times I spent with them so far. It's been a while since I laughed this much, always being alone in that institute...

A porcelain hand was placed in front of me, then I glanced up to see Skysin with a proud smile on his face, along with Crim and Nirvana behind him. "Let's go Elaine, I'm ready for that feast," Sin chortled. I nodded grasping his hand as he helped me up.

While we made our way to the mansion, my stomach rumbled as my hunger grew. Therefore, they all laughed at me as I became embarrassed. "Looks like someone's hungry," Crim chuckled.

"Shut up Crim," I uttered growing flustered.

But even so, I didn't hate it…I enjoyed their company, very much.