A ray of Bright Dawn dazzled in the eyes of Eiser as he opened the door of the Church. With faces bruised yet shining brightly, The Five looked upon the Sun that had finally started to rise up in the Cut City. Its light and heat brought smiles upon everyone's faces as the doors that were seemingly closed by unbreakable shackles had now opened after a long wait, just for the light of the missed Sun. A long awaited gloom had just been brought to an end by them. The people could now relish and finally be free of the fear of chastened death.
Eiser's pack, battered and tired stayed at Arkas's house. As Arkas himself insisted upon it so he could meet with his mother once again. Chloria made lots of food for them, that they ate. Thier apitites were rather normal except for Arkas ofcourse, who ate as if he had not eaten anything all his life.
"You eat like a baby who eats alot!"
Sandy teased him abit. To which he replied "Shut up".
It brought warmth and smile to Chloria aswell, seeing her son lit up after along time.
The pack rested for some time as it was still early morning. Sandy, Ana and Arkas all fell asleep but sleep couldn't befall on Eiser's eyes who looked worried for someone victorious. So Chloria asked him about it to which he replied:
"Uhh... You see I (clears his throat). I am an Electric Mage." His gaze was fixated on the floor and he shivered. "So.... Uh.. I mean, I-i wouldn't d-do anything to them yknow!"
Upon hearing this Chloria hugged the little guy and pat his hair with her fingers as he seemed scared and overwhelmed.
"Its alright you! It doesn't matter abit what attribute you are, What matters is your heart (chuckling)."
Chloria said as to relieve him of some pressure.
"Uhh... Ummm.... T-th-thank youuu! Y-yo-you can leave me now!!"
Eiser said as his face was bitter red with embarrassment, since it was probably the first time Eiser had felt the touch of a woman.
That slight reaction made Chloria laugh so hard tears started to come out of her eyes. Eiser smiled aswell as she laughed.
"You see, Arkas's father Icaris was a criminal aswell. So it would matter least to me or Arkas that you're to be hunted from the government as all Electric Mages are."
Chloria explained after she calmed herself down amd she carried on.
"Arkas's father was a part of a big revolution organization you see. They tried all thier lives to over throw the goverment but sadly their comrades betrayed them and the leader of that organization, Mark, was killed."
Eiser listened to the entire story of Icaris, the revolutionary group and how its leader, Mark was brought down after a betrayal from his own comrades. Eiser also asked Chloria about Roger Dionysus, the man Eiser had spent his entire life with and the Guardian he set out to look for. Yet Sadly, Chloria had no clue about him but did advise him to head towards Tankava for some clues.
Trankava was a country that neighbourd Falu, the Country they were in right now. Trankava was country surrounded by arid hills and mountain stations. Chloria hoped that Eiser might get a clue from Colonel Angroff, who was a banifactor of Icaris and one of the three Colonels that were in power in the Grand Bastion located in Trankava. Upon further discussion Eiser also got to know that a Patriarchate—a church that handled affairs of a continent was also located in Trankava. Eiser got some hope to learn about that but at the end of thier discussion Chloria also mentioned that they have to get extremely strong in order to be able face thier enemies that they would make afterwards.
Giving Eiser some closure and hope that he probably desperately needed, Chloria got up and layed down at her futon to sleep aswell.
Eiser, chuckling, also smacked hishead down at his pillow in excitement and closed his eyes to sleep.
Voices were echoing, screams of people perhaps, The Sky was angry aswell as it was striking down lightning bolts and tornado blizzards were coming here amd there. In the middle stood Eiser, who watched as a man with long dark brown hair and long beard, with hammers in his hand fought a mysterious greyish haze. The man was clad in blue, Eiser couldn't see what it was and what it fought was completely mysterious, eeric almost, a greyish blur that commanded and perhaps all that ruckus was created by that haze too. Suddenly Eiser woke up, shocked, he gasped. He was covered in sweat and his heart felt like it would burst out any second. He looked here and there but it was all normal, sounds of Arkas's loud snores and a sleeping yet whining Sandy. All in all everyone was sleeping, and he realized it was a dream. So he lay back down, trying to sleep.
Soon after, in the midday, The pack geared up, picked their robes, packed their bags and got ready ready for their next journey. After saying their farewells to Chloria amd Arkas hugging her tightly once again, They left off for the Fade City!
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Meanwhile in the Police Station, Captain Stincer looked as if he was leaving for somewhere aswell. He gave his last orders to Seargent Querck and left him incharge of there in his absence. Soon after he left, the Executives, who were captured and were imprisoned in the cell beneath the Station this morning, finally woke up.
"Ohhhhh.... Look who decided to wake up!The betrayer!"
The sloppy mouth Uzikiel said as Julia lifter her head up and woke up.
He walked towards her with his mencales dragging with him. He grabbed her hair tightly from the back and his neck cracked upwards to face him.
"You are done!"
He said as he threw just so ruthlessly towards Tuskin who was sitting in the corner liting a Cigarette.
Just then the temperature started to chamge and a sudden change started to occur. It was so vivid everyone could sense it and feel the tension it brought. Julia was shocked and started to growl in anger as the temperature changed again. Suddenly the upper wall of their cell broke and from above came someone in full black with long silver hairs, who had already taken care of the three seargents amd all the troops present in the Station by themselves. It was Andrew Hawkins, who came from the dust to collect something that was lost by him.
"I am Sorry Julia!"
He said as he walked towards her, slowly with his expressions giving off a slight frown. Perhaps it was anguish he felt or maybe it was the rage upon seeing Julia down on her knees in a bruised state that he wanted to kill. Yet the words that came out of her tongue were constant.
Julia frowned in extreme rage as he saw him. For partly, it was Andy's fault that Julia's life had become an Inferno. A dystopia so dark that she had abandoned all hope and was on the path of creating new infernoes.
Julia tried to get up on her feet, but the shackles didn't allow her to and she started to fall. But then Andy quickly saved her and prevented the fall. Uzikiel seeing all that started to boil, so he attacked at Andy which he blocked effortlessly and knocked him out with a single blow. Julia then pushed her away and got in her stance as if being ready to fight him.
"Why did you come??"
She yelled. The pain in her voice was vivid and Andy felt it. Meanwhile, she continued:
"You abandoned me after all i did for you!! So then why?? (she starts crying) Why the hell did you come back??"
Julia said. The Pain of betrayal in her voice could be seen to which Andy had no reply. All he could say was just beg for forgiveness and admit the depth of his foolishness.
His clenched fists, quivering jaw, and meeting brows held the tears that were yearning to come out. So he picked Julia up and jumped up into the air. In a flash, he brought her to the edge of the city. To the hills, where once, a beast leashed his
carnage.
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Tips:
Andrew is one of most strongest people of the current generation.