Chapter 4: Manticores and Language!

Lucy POV

I woke up. I was on Solomon's back we were already at the base again why hasn't he put me down? I heard someone else, and I quickly closed my eyes, it was Ugo.

"Hey Solomon! Oh! Why haven't you put Lucy down already? You've been back for more than 2 hours." Ugo said. I inwardly gasped. 2 hours?! Why?

"To tell you the truth. I don't really know. I just don't want her to be alone." Solomon said. I felt like crying. He's keeping his promise even to this extent? I don't understand...

"Alright then. But I came to tell you we've reached the continental rift." Ugo said. I wonder what that is?

"What already?!" Solomon exclaimed.

"Yes. and the others don't have enough power to get us to the next continent. So we'll have to stay here for now." Ugo said. I felt Solomon nod.

"Alright then." he said. I decided this is probably the best time to wake up. But just before I did I took a little sniff. I know this was perverted but I couldn't help it. He smelled like pine and burnt mint, and then there was something that was entirely him. I moaned slightly pretending to be still tired. I opened my eyes groggily and had to close them again at the light. Finally I opened them again. And I looked around a bit. Then I pretended just to notice me and Solomon's position. But most of it was real blush because well his face was so very close. I felt my whole face light up. Then he tilted his head in confusion. And I found indescribably adorable.

"Wha-! Why are you?! Why are we?! I-! Ugh!..." I said leaning my head against his shoulder again my face burning. I heard him chuckle and the vibrations from from his just vibrated from him. I felt my blush deepen.

"You know. When your not hitting me over the head with that staff of yours. Your pretty cute." he said.

"Shut up..." I said quietly. My voice muffled from it being against his shoulder. He jus turned and started walking. "Aren't you gonna let me down?" I asked.

"Do you wanna get off?" he asked me.

"No... Not really..." I muttered just loud enough for him to catch it.

"Then I don't wanna let you down." he said. I settled down on his shoulders. My blush almost seemed permanent. But I was happy and comfortable like this. Finally I heard voices and I looked up to see us going towards a door. He stopped in front of it and finally he let me down. I missed it but instead he put his hand on my head and ruffled my hair. I looked up at him. He smiled down at me. I grinned back and then we walked through the door together. It lead to outside.

We looked around. I stuck close to Solomon and Arba. But suddenly there was rumbling coming from the ground. I grabbed Arba and she held me close. But then suddenly a bunch of the heads of lots of Manticores popped out of the ground. I felt fear fill me. Did they know I was the one doing those horrible things to them?! Are they here to kill me.

But suddenly Solomon went forward and seemed to be talking to them or something. And now that I see them like this. They don't look so bad. They seem nice and kind. I let go of Arba and walked forward slowly. She called for me. And Solomon looked back at me in confusion. I took a breath and walked up behind Solomon. I grabbed his sleeve though. I may be able to walk up to them but i'm still pretty freaking scared. I felt Solomon put his arm around my shoulders and pull me a little closer. He crouched down to my level. And then he whispered in my ear "Good work. I'm glad you concurred your fear." I turned to him and was greeted with a soft smile. I relaxed and smiled back. Then I turned to the Manticores. And then back to him.

"Can you understand them?" I asked.

"No not really. But I have an idea of what they are saying." he said.

"Well I can fix that." I said. Then I walked forward. "Excuse me! Do you think you could lend me a hand?!" I asked gesturing with some hand signs on what I wanted the Middle Manticore smiled and then he reached his paw towards me. I smiled and walked a little bit father forward. I put my hand agains his paw. "Archive magic! Transferendum!" I chanted. My eyes turned bright orange and my magic circle circled around everyone. "Activate!" I yelled. Then the Magic circle glowed brighter before dissipating. Then I removed my hand. Everyone else was frozen in shock. "Well. Can the Manticore's understand me now?" I asked. The Manticores eyes widened.

"W-We can! How are you speaking our language human?!" The Manticores asked.

"Good I can understand you as well." I said.

"Did you use a magic to read our minds and learn the magic?!" one of the other Manticores questioned.

"What?! No way! Your minds are private! I wouldn't do that! It's something much different. You see that spell allows me to be able translate what your saying as your saying it. To you when you speak manticore. Us humans will now hear english. And when we speak english you will hear manticore language. For now i'm serving as your personal communicator. That's all it is really. Otherwise wouldn't it be only me able to understand? The others can understand too. Right guys?" I asked turning back to Solomon.

"Yeah we can understand too!" Solomon said amazed. "Lucy this is so great! We can use this throughout all the other species too!" he said running up to me and lifting me up into the air with a hug. He twirled me around and I had to giggle a bit. A alight blush adorned my face. Then he put me down and ran over to the manticores . He began asking a whole range of questions. He really is a very weird person. I mean, he's acting like a kid now. I laughed slightly. Before I ran forward after him. I looked around the manticore village. It was an amazing sight that's for sure.

Finally he ran into a pair of double doors I followed him to see a library I gasped. There were so many books. I walked in and twirled around slowly, my eyes skimming over every shelf. Then I grinned and I ran forward and skimmed along the book cases when I came to a book. It was called 'Worlds'. I picked it out and opened the cover to see that the author was Mavis! I gasped. This must have been when she came to this world after meeting it's god. I held it close to me. But then I grabbed my Gale-force reading glasses. Then I opened it and began to read.

It explained how this world and my world how they were all parallel universes. And that they were all different with different creators. Then she uses almost half the book to explain our world about the magic there and all the different elements. But not once has she ever explained how to use or become a mage from my world. So either this means that the people of this world can't do such a thing. Or she doesn't think the humans of this world deserve the power from my world. I closed the book. I sighed tiredly. She's probably right. I look back at Solomon. For most of them anyway. I say with a small smile...