The Land Of The Rising Sun
We had been flying for hours almost half a day, however I had not felt tired whatsoever. In fact, I was very awake, awake because of my determination of what I was about to do. In fact, I also dared not sleep. My mind was clearer than it had been in weeks.
Which meant that I knew that it was still too early to trust Uncle Haru. Not after what he had done and what it lead to. By the time we had arrived it was night. With the moon full and the sky was littered with stars like glitter. I took the moment to enjoy the view and I felt at awe at the sheer beauty of the sky, with part of me wanting to see the stars closer.
I did not know the time nor for I care. The only thing that I cared for right in that moment was getting Alexander Hitler and whoever else might have been trapped within out of the other rock. Then after that ensure to get him to a safe place where he would be allowed to be himself and not be groomed to become identical to his father. As I thought about this, I immediately thought of Aunt Blue's mansion. It was secluded and tucked away and none would think to look for him there.
King Yaminox no, Stellum, Stellum Caeruliam, landed in front of a forest.
"Come on, time for you to meet mother and father." He said, with his unreadable tone to his voice.
I nodded, as I felt a smile spread across my lips. Yet suddenly it vanished as I suddenly felt nervous. After all, it suddenly hit me that I was going to meet my only living grandparents.
What if they don't like me? What if the moment they looked at me, they would not spit on me? What if they treat me like Uncle Haru has? What have I gotten myself into?
"Are you sure about this?"
Yes.
"Why?"
I have to be the one that does it! After all, I am pretty sure that if we don't do this, then this Alexander will be retrieved by another team, one that would do all they can to groom him to be exactly like his father, they will force him into it if they have to! They will do what they did to me and make him think the same way as his father. No, we can not allow that to happen.
"Good point. Just please, be careful. Do all you can to make it out alive!"
I will.
"Aqua!"
"One moment, I'm just getting Stellam."
I then reached out and once it was out Stellum's avatar returned to the rock with a flash of blue light. I shivered as the cold air hit me. We then walked on a path made of white stone tiles. That made an eerie echo as we walked. We then reached a set of doors and Uncle Haru was just about to knock when a man with Uncle Haru's eyes hit him.
"How dare you come here at this hour! And with a child no doubt! Why did you bring a child here dressed in that?"
"Are you alright?"
"Yes."
"Who are you?"
"His father!"
My eyes widened. I looked at him and drank in his fries. I took notice of his high cheekbones with stern eyes that were so much like my father's. I looked at his thin lips and her black hair. I took notice of his pointy thin nose.
"Get that look off your face girl. Now, Haru, explain to me what is going on!?"
That was when I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"I am sorry deer, my name is Aoshine Kira, or Kira Aoshine as you would say. Tell me do you speak Japanese?" Asked a woman that looked almost identical to Uncle Haru, apart from her eyes which had several wrinkles at their corners.
In fact both looked very old.
"Yes I do." I said as I bowed the proper way, just like the way my father had taught me. "My name is Aqua Aoshine, or Aoshine Aqua."
She chucked as she cupped my cheek. She looked at me with a shocked look in her eyes but then softened her features as she looked at me with such love and care that I felt myself calming down.
"So you are my granddaughter that cooked up such a stir. Although you are a beautiful girl, I am quite surprised. I thought that you would be an adult by now."
I looked down and nodded, she was right, I should be an adult right now. I could not help but feel shame sting my heart. Yet I did not know what to say for myself. I could not have known whether or not they knew about the rocks. So I looked at Uncle Haru wondering if I should tell the truth. He gave me the look that told me to be careful of what I said, yet after what he did and what that led to, I must admit that I did not care for him at that moment. So I decided to tell the truth.
"You are right. I should be an adult by now. However I do have to ask. Do you know about the rocks?"
"The sentient one that came from space. Yes we do. We know of that one."
"Do you know of both the blue and red one or must the red?"
Kira frowned as his eyes widened.
"Hold on, there is a blue one?"
"Yes. And I was trapped in it, here this is it. It's name is Stellum Caeruliam, and time moved slower in it's world than in the outside. This was because of a witch cursing it to lure children, like myself, in."
Her eyes widened as she nodded.
"Same thing that happened to the red one. Is that why you are still a child?"
"Yes. Sorry."
Why am I apologising? I have nothing to apologise for!
Her eyes suddenly became as cold as ice as they narrowed when they looked at Uncle Haru before I could say anything else she slapped him square in the cheek. She pointed at him with a lethal anger in her eyes.
"How dare you send one of our own into that monster's lair! Especially after you found out that she was still a child. Honestly, after all I heard about him, why did you even associate yourself with him! I sure as hell hope that you did not let him perform any strange experiments on her, especially the painful ones!" She shouted, gripping his ear.
"But she is his daughter! She has his blood running through her veins! A traitor's blood. A traitor or do you not remember?"
That was when I saw tears in her eyes.
"I do not care! He was your twin brother, and even though my daughter in law was on the enemy's side, there would be no woman I would trust with my son. I would rather have a living traitor of a son than a dead one! And as she is the daughter of my son that still makes her blood. Do you hear me?"
"Yes I do!"
"Now you must atone for this by ensuring that she never has to go through any of whatever that monster put her through ever again and do all you can to protect her. Do you understand?"
"Yes!"
"Swear by it!"
"I swear!"
"No, you have to do better than that. You must swear on the honour of your blood and this family!"
"I swear up on the honour of my blood and family!"
"Good! Now, I am Aoshine Sora. We will talk later. I can tell that the pair of you are tired and need to get some sleep. Especially you Aqua. You look like you have not had a decent sleep in days and far too thin. So, Kira, could you take Aqua to Natsu's old room. There she will stay as long as she stays here."
"Thank you Sir." I said as I bowed.
My grandmother took me aside and walked with me as I walked in. Inside it was strange, the place had many rooms, yet they were all connected on the outside by wooden beams that were raised over grass and white stones that looked like chalk which I knew that it was not.
"I can see that you take after your father quite a lot. In fact you even look like him, apart from the colour of your eyes and paler skin. However he never has those streaks in your hair. Now I know that in America and England girls have taken to dye their hair, but here in Japan it is extremely frowned upon." She explained.
"It isn't dyed. It's trauma hair from getting into fights."
She smiled for a moment out of nostalgia. Yet she quickly covered it up and frowned.
"Yes you definitely take after your father in that regard."
At this I suddenly became shy.
"I guess so. Although, I should not expect to be getting into any here."
"And why would that be?"
"I don't think people would be thinking about picking on me just because I look different."
"Is that why you ended up getting into those fights?"
"All the time."
She nodded.
"So there will not be any fights?"
"No."
"Good." She said as we turned a corner and she slid a door open.
I then walked into a room that was made of wood and had straw covering on the floor with a rolled up mat on the floor.
"This was your father's room." She said as she pulled the roll out and placed it on the floor. "I know that you are used to sleeping in a bed, but as we have yet to try to, you will be sleeping on this. Try to make yourself at home while I find a spare sheet."
I smiled and bowed.
"Thank you." I said appreciatively.
"What manners!" She commented as she smiled and left me there.
I walked in feeling uneasy and lost. I looked around as I thought of the fact that my father grew up in this room. He must have slept on the may in front of me. Yet I could not think of my father as a child in this room doing what children did but I did suddenly miss him. I wondered what kind of dreams he had here or what he did. Suddenly it became clear to me that I did not even know. Upon realising this, I suddenly felt myself suffocating on new tears of grief as it hit me of how little I knew of my father outside the time I spent with him. I lost track of time and the next thing that I knew my grandmother placed a hand on my back.
"There, there."
I dried my tears and looked up at her.
"What is it?"
"Nothing much, I just miss my father. That is all!"
She hugged me.
"I miss him too. Here, sit."
I did.
"You know, I must admit, I do have conflicting feelings about both you, your father and Haru. Both my sons did their duty and retained their families honour even though they did fight on opposing sides, for that I will always be proud. And I still love them both. Yet, because of what it led to, I loathe the war and the man that started it."
I still smiled sorrowfully, yet I did not know how to respond to that.
"I loved him too, yet why do you think…Uncle Haru does not think like you?"
"Well the relationship between your uncle and your father has always been a complicated one. The second world war only made it even more so. Yet I made the decision a long time ago that regardless of what that war brought I would still love them. Now, it is late, time for you to get some sleep."
I nodded as I lay on the mat. I took the blanket and the moment my head rested on the pillow I drifted off to sleep.
The next moment I found myself being shaken awake.
"I think that it is time for you to wake." Uncle Haru said.
Sleepily I nodded. I sat up and wiped sleep out of my eyes. I felt completely refreshed as I stretched.
"Alright. Although I don't think that it would be a good idea to tell your parents about what we're about to do. It will only provoke then to stop us."
He looked at me with an outraged look on his face.
"Are you psychic or something?"
"No, why?"
"Because I was just about to say exactly that!"
I nodded as I did not know how to react to that.
"Well I guess we thought alike."
He shuddered.
"What?"
"Nothing. Though I will be coming with you even in-"
"Let's call it I.R.S for short."
"I.R.S and I will do what I can to get you out of it along with the others. Here, get changed. Mother is making breakfast."
"Alright."
He then left and I took a bath and changed into a blue dress with a white color and leather belt to match. I then looked at myself in the mirror as I dried my hair and brushed it. It suddenly hit me, I was turning into a woman. I had noticed that I had suddenly started to look mature in my face, yet there was still the wide eyed innocence of still being a child.
I wish mum could see me. She would be so happy!
I hope that she is alright. I hope Aunt Blue is too. I hope that both are. Rounder what she's don't ripping now… Is she looking for me? Had she reported me missing? Considering my position probably not.
I shoved the thoughts aside. I knew that I could not focus on them. No, I had to focus on today. On what I would have to do. On preparing for what was to come and what I was going to do in the rock.
I left the room and I knelt as I saw the food on the table. I recognised it to be a traditional Japanese breakfast.
"Thank you." I said as I bowed and picked up my chopsticks. I soon ate my fill. I soon felt better than I had for a long time.
My grandmother beamed with the love only a mother could express. Suddenly I started to miss my mother. I wished I could have had the chance to say goodbye to her. I also wished that I could go back to her and see her again and prove to myself that she existed.
"You are welcome."
"So, could you tell me more about yourself, Aqua?"
"Sure." I said, hardly thinking about it.
I soon found myself telling them everything up until Uncle Haru arrived. I told them everything that happened in my life in America. It gave me a taste of nostalgia telling them about it. The time before the war and the time before the billing started. Before I found myself getting into fights. About the fact that my mother sent me to Aunt Blue when she saw the writing on the wall. She hoped that I was going to be safe there. About the adventures I had when I entered Stellam and after. So by the time I had finished it was already lunch.
We soon ate some and immediately after Uncle Haru received a phone call. He then turned to me.
"Excuse me, Aqua, a word."
I nodded. It was time.
"Right."
We made our excuse as we left the table and walked to my father's old room.
"How long do we have to prepare?"
"An hour."
Not a lot of time.
"I will get Stellam. You think of something to tell…grandmother and grandfather. Is it too soon to call them that?"
He smiled.
"No. Why the pause?"
"It's just weird saying it."
"Oh? And why is that?"
"My mother's parents died before I was born."
"Oh. Right, well I will be off then."
I then took the rock and we were by the door five minutes earlier.
"I hope that you do well!" Grandmother said.
"I will."
We then left the house.
Servants Of The
Red Rock
I soon climbed into the car. Trying not to think about my grandparents or what I was going to leave behind. I was tempted to go back and tell them all what I was going to do. I also knew that I should do everything in my power not to give in. Even though I would have loved to put it off and get to know my grandparents before I entered the Red Rock. I knew that I had to keep my mind focused on what I was going to do and why I was here.
"How long do you think it will be until we enter the Red Rock?"
"Within the day if all goes well."
Right.
"And should I need to know where we are going?"
"A building that is currently owned by the group called The Servants Of The Red Rock. Which we know to be Inanis Rubrum Stella. You could call them his cult."
"That sounds very much like him."
Easey Stellum!
"No. I do not want you to do this. If you do then you will have no help from me!"
That's alright. I will have people to help me.
I nodded. It was at this moment that I suddenly became concerned that this other rock would treat me differently. After all, I was only part human and the other part was whatever the race of rocks was called. I also wondered if I would be able to speak to Stellum when I was in Inanis. If not, then how would it affect me? Then it hit me, Uncle Haru would be going into the other rock too! Then that would mean that he would go through the same changes that I had. In that case then that would then mean that he might develop a telepathic connection with Inanis like I had with Stellum. Then again I might develop a telepathic connection to both of them. Yet there was another thing that concerned me, hour much will I change.
"You're being very quiet."
"Thinking."
"What of?"
"The tests and their results."
"Oh? Why?"
"I'm just worried how this would affect me and you too. Aren't you worried about it?"
"No."
"How come?"
"I heard what Mother said to you and what they had made me vow. So I should not concern myself about that."
"Oh, alright."
"I am sorry."
I looked down. I did not know how to respond to that. I knew that it was a genuine apology yet I did not know what to do with it. Part of me felt almost happy that he did and that he felt this guilt. However I did not like the fact that this did make me happy. I also knew that I wished that he had never put me through all that he did. My body still felt achy, almost like an echo of the pain that I had been through.
"Thank you." I finally said.
He nodded.
"I think that after this, I will take you home. After all, I can tell that you need to go back there. You need to see your Aunt Blue and your mother again. It will do you good. I think that I'll bring my parents too. Even though they do not admit it, they do need looking after and that house is very big and Mother will love those gardens there."
I smiled at this thought. It gave me a beautiful image in my mind. I knew that it would be good to have them there too. I would love to have both sides of my family there under one roof. Yet I would also love to see them again, touch them again, just to know that they existed. I would love to see mum laughing with my grandmother. She had hardly been happy since father died.
"Yeah. I think I would like that…and I think we should bring Alexander there too. Maybe one of you could adopt him. I would like to have someone my own age there. Same goes for whoever else is in the Red Rock."
He smiled and nodded.
"That would be a good idea. He is the son of Hitler, but I think that he has no less right to be a normal boy or have a chance to be." He agreed. "You too."
"What?"
"You have every right to try to be a normal girl too."
I smiled, yet I felt that it was a sad one. After all, I knew that deep down I could never be a normal girl. Regardless of what happened or where I went, I would never be a normal girl.
"Do you think that he will be like me? I mean biologically."
"Yeah, I think that he will."
At least that means that I will not be alone. I know that is selfish but I would like that.
We soon arrived and were greeted by a group dressed in crimson robes with scarlet lining. We soon climbed out of the car to get them.
Suddenly I felt slightly nervous, almost out of place. However, I had to ignore this.
A woman walked up to us. She had narrow black eyes and a bob. She looked at me and smiled with kindness in them.
"Who's this?" She asked, placing a hand on my head.
"My niece, Aqua."
"As in the one that went into the Blue one?"
"Do I have any other?"
"No, unless you have a secret sibling which is highly unlikely."
"Anyway, she volunteered to help us retrieve Alexander."
One of them smiled at me in a way that made me feel uncomfortable.
"Good, I think that we ought to introduce ourselves. Can she understand Japanese?"
"Yes." I said in Japanese.
"Good." Said a man with narrow eyes that eye pale blue which was made to look brighter and more piercing by the dark tone of his skin and dark black hair. "My name is Yukio Tongo."
I shook his hand.
"Good handshake!"
He laughed.
"Thank you."
"Cho Sango." Said a woman with low cheekbones and a bob with a fringe hiding her eyebrows, which made her look childish despite the fact she was in her late thirties.
I shook her hand.
"Mara Smith. I'm not from Japan either." Said a redhead with brown eyes.
I shook her hand.
"Charly Scott." Said another redhead with green eyes.
Must be a relative of Mara.
"I have never met a girl called Charly before!" I admitted as I shook her hand.
"Never met a Japanese girl with bleached streaks before either!"
"Trauma hair from fights when I lived in America! And I'm only half Japanese. The other part is British-American." I corrected her, feeling slightly annoyed.
Calm down, she didn't know.
"Just out of curiosity, how did you come about?"
"The Red Rock crashed here when it was during the Tudor era in England. It was discovered by a group of people, they soon became enchanted by its beauty and knew that it was special. They did not know how but they did. Yet some were able to go into the world. They soon set the Red Rock up as their secret god and worshipped it. We sacrificed people to it and during the German occupation it was moved here after the Fuhrer's son vanished. Doctor Leonhardt Wolfram moved over here with his family and studied it. And after more vanished it was sealed by us, its followers, and we have been here ever since!"
I nodded, yet kept up my guard.
"And did you know that it is an alien?"
"We do now, now we will be sending people to collect the Blue Rock once you are in."
I smiled, suddenly reassured at the closeness of the Blue Rock.
"By the way, could you think of a reason why Uncle Haru and I have been gone alright? I do not want my grandparents to worry. But say nothing about the Red Rock…or the truth of the Blue Rock either!"
He chuckled.
"Will do."
"Thank you."
My face became sombre as I came to the door under a hill. It opened and we were in.
The Layer Of The
Red Rock
We entered an old lift. It was bigger than any lift that I had ever seen, about the size of a small bedroom. It was made of steel and had dots of rust. There were seven rows of five buttons that were made of metal with a red ring of light around them. It had a clinical smell to it, almost like a hospital.
Yukio pressed the button to the lowest level and we descended. I could feel my heartbeat increase as I suddenly started to feel scared and claustrophobic. I found myself starting to sweat as the spontaneous fear sank into my bones. My mind went over all that I had been through in those labs at a rapid rate. It looped in my mind like seeing a piece of film on fast forward. I tried to divert my mind to something else yet I could not. I could feel my breathing increase as I thought for one moment that this could all be a trap to lure me back and, if this was true, then I had fallen right into it.
Then I felt Uncle Haru place a hand gently but firmly on my shoulder. He rubbed his thumb slowly on my back. This helped calm me down. I was able to push my thoughts aside as we reached the bottom. When the doors opened the first thing that met my eye was the red crystal walls. This told me that this was not a trap and just how long the red rock had been here for. Even though it was beautiful to look at, I knew with my experience with Stellam, just how dangerous it was.
Yet this gave me the advantage of already knowing what to do. The moment that I walked out I made sure not to touch it until the moment that I should. To help with this I clapped my hands in front of me. As I walked on I saw that there were a great deal of rooms that were eclipsed with the red rock.
"How much of this place has been eclipsed by the Red Rock?"
"About two miles." Said Cho.
"We were able to find out that the type of mud that is around us was a lot easier to convert to the material the rock is made of." Mara told me, looping her arm in my left. "So I should hardly be surprised that your rock would eclipse the mud too."
I nodded. Thinking back on the place where I found Stellum in.
I did not know that!
"And what about metal?"
"No, metal is twice as hard to convert. A rock needs to be where it is for decades before it can convert metal."
I nodded.
So that means that Stellum must have been there for over two decades. I wonder how many times and how long mum and Aunt Blue had been in there?
"Not that many."
What?
"Just answering your question."
Oh.
"Tell me, mum and Aunt went in and out of Stellum so how am I any different?"
"You are the youngest to get out and you did take down the witches spell on it, well most of it. Also you are the only known second generation that has been in and out of the blue rock." Uncle Haru explained.
Good to know! I thought as I nodded.
As I walked on I started to feel ill. Scared that I would be forced to go back, I quickly covered it up. I then felt my body start to burn and I looked around to the others only to see that they were not feeling this. This told me that this had something to do with Stellum. Was it trying to stop me from entering the red rock? Or was it the other rock trying to stop me from entering it? Whichever the case I could not say.
We soon came to a set of stairs. I found, as we descended, my head started to ache. I, again, covered it up. I did all that I could to focus on walking down the stairs and getting to the bottom. I then felt my legs start to ache too. Yet it took all the focus on my being to ensure that I reached the bottom without touching the rock. The moment that I reached the bottom I felt slightly relieved.
Yet I could not let this weaken me as I forced myself on. I could feel my sweating increase as I walked on. I knew that I needed a real break yet I found my legs walking on. I looked at them with shock as I realised that they were moving on their own! I soon knew better as I remembered having a similar, though less nauseating, experience when I fell into a trance when Stellum called me to the world within it. However, I frowned as I knew that this made no sense. After all that would mean that I should be touching the Red Rock however I made an effort to do no such thing! I looked down as my fever grew. Seeing that my shoes had not been converted. This meant that I had to look elsewhere. Then my eyes moved to my left hand. Only to see that itd palm was fixed firmly onto the side of the wall! I tried to go over all the moments, trying to find out the exact moment that I had touched the Red Rock wall. That was when I found it, it was the moment that I had felt ill!
Hold on, wasn't Mara looping my arm a moment ago? Yeah, where is she? When did she put my hand on the rock?
I looked around for her, yet I could not find her. I looked over to Uncle Haru, who was already touching the wall. I then looked at his face to find that even he was confused. Even Yukio was confused too! Then it dawned upon me, if Stellum could create human looking avatars then so could Inanis. If that was the case then it could very well be the case that Inanis has been posing as its own followers for years! The look on Yukio's face confirmed my theory. Then my body seized up and my Uncle moved on ahead.
Then Charly walked up behind me.
"No, no, no that just will not do. My god demands you most of all. Now, Stellam, I know that you are listening and are trying to protect the girl." She said, pulling out a knife and pressing it under my chin. "So if you continue to resist I will not hesitate! Or would you like to lose the only one that you have ever cared about for a long time?"
I felt Stellum's presence leave me. Suddenly I started to walk faster and I could feel the pounding of my heart in my head as Charly pointed the blade at my throat. I bit my lip as I knew that if Stellum took a step out of line I would be powerless as she would slit my throat. I knew that I was not only going in but if Stellum tried to protect me from this other rock then I would die. Despite this I had to swallow my pride and allow it. As I walked on, Charly took the pendant with a chip of Stellum on and she did this slowly. I looked at it dangling.
"Please put that back on me."
"No, I think that it will stay here with me."
"Why? You have no need for it!"
"You are right. I do not. But you do."
"Yes. It is my only link to Stellum. So I would like it for comfort. After all, I am scared. If I had it I would feel a little braver."
She hesitated.
"You said it yourself. There are people that we have to get out. You have Stellum so why hold onto that? What use would that have for you? I have my incentive to leave and my incentive to get out with Alexander. After all, you are my only way home."
She let out a sigh and smiled at me. He then put it back on my neck.
"Thank you." I said as I joined Uncle Haru at the last door between us and Inanis.
Yukio gripped the handle and opened it.
The Red Rock
The moment that I looked at Inanis Rubrum Stella, the Red Rock, I found it was just as beautiful as Stellum. It was scarlet and the size of a man from his stomach to his neck. I knew that this was at last the moment that I would spend before entering this rock. However, how beautiful the rock was, I knew that this one was even more dangerous than the blue counterpart.
I already knew that I should not excerpt to be treated like everyone else here. No, as far as I knew, Stellum was the enemy of Inanis so I should expect that he would make it into a special event. After all, I knew deep down that I too would be treated like an enemy.
Yukio did not have to close the doors behind me; however, it was a good way of showing me that it was far too late to turn back. Yet I knew that the door was closed behind me ever since I chose to come to Japan instead of England. Which I knew should have given me some sort of relief but it did not. In fact, I felt nothing but dread.
I felt my dread increase as I drew closer to the spider in its crystalline web feeling very much like a butterfly in a spider's web. Now came the part that made me so very terrified, the moment that the scarlet spider would take me inside it and take me into its guts. There was nothing I could do to prepare myself better to go forward. Not now and not ever and there was nothing that could stop me from entering the rock. I was completely helpless, yet the only strength that kept me together was the chip of Stellum around my neck. I had to remain strong regardless. I had to wait until I entered the rock and regained agency over my body.
"Now, to all of you, are you ready?"
"No, I am as ready as I can ever be."
"Haru?"
"Same."
"Good." He said as he placed his hand on the wall. "Then that would make us all ready."
"You are coming too?"
"Yes."
I could feel my heart in my ears as I approached the rock. I then reached out my hand and I was in.
Deal Of The Red Rock
The first thing that hit me as I was in the strange place between the surface of the rock and the world of the red rock. It was as if every cell in my body was on fire yet I could not scream or in pain. I could almost not take this kind of pain had I not been subject to those strange experiments. Then I felt like I was drowning yet there was not a drop of water around me. I could not breathe and then I could feel like there were needles in every pore of my skin. I soon felt pain under my skin and my blood felt like it was boiling in my very vanes. My heart soon felt like it was splitting as my eyes felt they were so dry that they felt like they were burning in their sockets! Once I felt my body fall the pain was brought to an end.
Good, I'm glad that's over. I think.
I looked down and saw the scarlet sky and the ground was a deep crimson. It was a good thing that I had gone to the loo before I came here for I knew that I would have put something unwanted in my knickers and that would have fallen out of my dress. Which would have done nothing but embarrassing. Even more so if it landed upon someone, especially Uncle Haru, even though it would have been funny.
Yet I knew that there was something wrong. I felt the force as we all fell and the wind whipping my hair round. I was so relieved that the pain was over that I did not notice this right away but the moment that I spotted this I knew that we were in danger. We were falling too fast! If Inanis did not do something soon we would all die. However I knew that it could not be trusted.
"Can I not?" A deep voice came that gave me a sense of unease.
I started to feel chills run down my spine like someone had poured ice down my back.
Are you Inanis?
"Yes child, I am."
Can you ensure our survival?
"I can."
Good. Then do so.
"I could."
Then why don't you?
"Because I do not want to."
And what is the catch?
"I beg your pardon?"
What will I have to do to guarantee our safe landing?
"What are you willing to do?"
Anything.
"I am well aware that you know of the spell that was on Stellum?"
Yes, what of it?
"As aggravating as it is to admit this, she placed the same spell on me too."
And you want me to break it?
"More than that. I want you to kill the witch that put this spell on me. Once she has resurrected."
What do you mean?
"Once the spell is broken she will have the ability to come back to life due to the nature of the spell. Provided if the right conditions are met."
How did she die?
"A princess in her world killed her in a tower when she was tasked to guard it by her master."
Oh…What!
"Never you mind that. What you need to focus on is your answer."
It seems like I do not have a choice.
Once it had my answer we started falling slowly. Once we fell the ground dipped slightly to cushion our landing. We all passed out. I was soon breathing yet I was surrounded by scarlet with the red field in front of me.
"Child I will remember this and I will hold you to your word."
Stop calling me 'child' my name is Aqua.
"Good to know, Aqua."
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