Chapter 30
A work of fate
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A little girl screams her longs out as millions of tiny insects eat her alive.
The little girl looked not older than ten.
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She had black hair that went down to her shoulders and black eyes devoid of life.
She doesn’t know where she is, nor how long she has been here.
It must have been hundreds or maybe thousands of years but that can’t be true, since when the insects go away and the people come back it doesn’t look like they aged and she doesn’t seem to age either.
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Maybe they messed with her sensation of time or maybe that’s just how time works.
She doesn’t know, for this cycle of being eaten and then restored is all she knew.
Suddenly the insects disappear and the empty void that was surrounding the little child is replaced by a beautiful vibrant hill.
A gentle breeze blows over the hill causing the trees to sing with beautiful notes.
The warmth of sunlight tickles the child’s skin and her eyes are met with the sight of a shabby white building on the top of the hill.
The white building shone brightly as it reflected the sunlight and gave off a pleasant serene atmosphere.
The girl feels warmth coming from behind her.
-you are back Mister Flame –
The girl smiles and turns around to see a person made of blue fire floating in the air behind her.
A blue flame danced in the wind above his head where hair should be but no smoke came out of it.
The world always got better when he came to visit her.
It’s like the world obeyed his will.
She wished he stayed all the time or visited more often but she was always too shy to ask.
The fiery entity looks at the child with a warm gaze.
Even if she didn’t say anything he was able to hear her thoughts.
Torn between his ancestor and his master he finds neutrality his only option.
He can only guide and teach Sapiens and hope they make the right choice.
- I am back little Lavi. -
The little girl pouts.
- I am not little. I bet I am older than you –
-oh? –
-yeah, I have been alive for a long long time. It’s so many I can’t even count it on my fingers anymore –
The fiery entity chuckles and pats the head of the young child.
-that is true little Lavi will turn 11 this year –
The little girl looks up at the fiery entity.
-um, how old are you mister Flame? –
-Oh, well I am much much older than that my child. I am 15753 years old.-
The fiery entity then projects the concept of fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty three into the child’s mind so she is able to comprehend the number.
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The child’s eyes grow wide in shock then she looks at the fiery entity in horror.
-does that mean you were eaten by the insects for that many years? Is that why you don’t have a body? –
The fiery entity looks at the child with pity.
-no, my child, and soon you won’t have to worry about the insects again either. -
The child's eyes grow hopeful.
-really? Do the insects go away eventually? –
-yes, my child –
The fiery entity smiles at the young child as her face glows up with hope and she begins to smile but then she looks sorrowful.
- you must be lying to me –
-have I ever lied to you? –
-no –
-then why would I lie now? The insects will go away and you will be able to see the outside world, maybe even you will be able to visit this hill one day and live in that home. -
The little girl looks hopeful again.
- will I be able to see Mom? –
- who knows maybe you will be able to. –
The little girl looks up at the fiery entity.
- is she still looking for me? –
- she never once stopped trying to find you –
The little girl smiles then clenches her fists and looks determined.
- then I won’t give up either. I will live, I will visit the shining home on the hill, I will see the outside world and I will find my mom for sure-
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_ I can’t believe you were going to kill those cops _
The silver cat complains while the trio runs out of the town.
~ I wasn’t going to ~
_huh? But I saw you grab the demon sword _
~pffft ~
Ken laughs slightly.
~ I did that to make you flood the shop. You are not very good at discrete communication, or lying, or acting, or really any of this ~
_Hey! _
The sliver cat finds herself getting slightly offended.
She knows he is not wrong and she doesn’t even want to get good at lying in the first place but it still hurts to be told she can’t do something.
~pffft, I didn’t say that’s necessarily a bad thing but back to my point. You are also easy to predict. You act in a very straightforward way so it’s easier and safer for the plan to manipulate you to do the action I want rather than try to inform you of the plan ~
The silver cat pouts.
_ That didn’t make it better. It’s worse acutely _
Ken shrugs his shoulders.
~ it is what it is. there was no way for me to tell you what to do without also having the cops know of the plan. Besides if I didn’t force you to act, you might have argued with me over attacking the cops. heck, I wouldn’t put it past you to acutely go with them to the station ~
Daxia raises her arms to stop the other two from running and interrupts their conversation.
-you can continue this later. We have company-
Ken looks at where Daxia is looking but sees nothing but endless trees.
~well, what is it? Also how far is it ~
-a 12 feet tall white robot carrying three individuals 1 human 1 light elf and 1 Therian from the Red Tiger tribe they are twenty miles away –
Ken blinks surprised.
~ an elf and a Therian? Well, that rules out them being from Kim Sungtae. Are they wearing strike force armor ~
- negative –
_maybe they are not after us. Why are we assuming we are the targets? _
Saiko asks the two bounty hunters.
They are always too paranoid, granted that’s probably needed since they are all wanted criminals at the moment but they take it to a ridiculous degree.
It’s like they view everyone in the world as a potential enemy.
~hmm, well I don’t think we have enough information to guess who they are or their motive so why risk it ~
Ken shrugs his shoulders and then uses his watch to take control of their car and makes it drive to their location.
~ Saiko give us a lift so we can meet up with the car before they can reach us ~
Saiko raises her hand and water rises from underground forming an ice platform.
The trio jumps onto the ice platform then Saiko uses her magic to fly them through the air in the direction of the car and away from the incoming white robot.
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The trio jumps off of the platform and quickly gets inside the car.
~are they still after us? ~
Daxia turns around and looks in the direction of the Robot to see it flying toward them still.
-yes –
_ We have been flying in a straight line you know and in the direction they were flying. they probably can’t even see us. The only reason we can see them in the first place is Daxia’s eyes _
~well, we will find out for sure now~
Ken says then presses a button causing the car to go into off road mode.
He then drives to the left leaving the road and entering the forest.
- they turned as well and are still flying toward us-
Ken’s lips curl up slightly and he looks at Saiko through the rearview mirror.
~see? ~
Saiko crosses her arms and looks at the smug bounty hunter.
_ That doesn’t mean anything. Yes, there are a lot of people after us but that doesn’t mean ALL people are after us _
~there are enough people after us to make it more likely that they are after us than not. Well, time to lose them ~
Ken presses another button and the car enters drill mode and begins to dig underground.
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-pffft, would you look at that they are trying to avoid us –
The human boy with different colored eyes says while eating a lollipop and his black hair fluttered in the wind.
He had his blue eye closed and his yellow eye open as he watched light brighter than the sun move underground.
The human boy Sat on the robot’s shoulder.
He wore a white formal shirt and dark blue tie with a vest that is half blue and half grey and grey suit pants.
The human boy gave off an aura of elegance and class in all his actions despite his bratty nature.
The light elf and red tiger sitting in cross legged position on the Robot’s back turned their heads to look at the human boy then the elf spoke then the elf spoke.
- are you able to keep track of them? -
-pfffft, with how bright Saiko is glowing I can keep track of them all the way from home. She is really the brightest one I have ever seen. –
- do you think it’s because she was the first weapon, Melky? –
The human boy shrugs his shoulder.
-how would I know? But I don’t think it works that way after all our leader glows brighter than most of the living weapons I saw but he was never a living weapon himself. the glow is probably something independent from the living weapon program. –
The elf thinks for a moment.
- so, it’s correlation, not causation-
The red tiger perks up after realizing something.
-wait, did you say that Saiko is the brightest one you have ever seen? does that mean she glows brighter than even our leader? –
Melky looks at the puzzled red tiger and then smirks.
-yes, yes I did -