Welcome back to the story. As I said last chapter, this will be telling about the events that involve Goris, Ulysses, Emmeryn, Raiden, Morgan, and Morgana, that lead up to their arrival at the end of the last chapter.
Before I continue, I'd actually like to make the formal request to review this story! I don't have nearly enough reviews for it! Now...ONTO THE STORY!
Chapter 5: Shooting Stars
Morgana was outside her's and her brother's tent. Excited about the prospect of what she was learning tomorrow, she couldn't sleep. She knew she needed rest...but she couldn't bring herself to get it. As such, she just wandered outside her tent, hoping maybe to tire herself out somehow. As she continued to pace, however, she began paying less and less attention to her surroundings...until...
"Ooof! I'm sorry, I was just dis-" she stopped seeing who it was: that man that Raiden knew, Ulysses.
"Easy. I wonder why you aren't in bed. Didn't you have plans with Six for tomorrow?" he asked.
"Yeah," Morgana replied, "I'm just so excited that I can't sleep..."
"You do seem to be elated at the prospect of learning strategies and survival techniques from our world..." Ulysses said, nodding.
"Yeah, and it's making me too excited to sleep," Morgana said, "I wonder what he's gonna teach me! What kind of weapons are there? What kinds of strategies do they open up? What ki-" A large flash appeared, and meteorites flew overhead. "Woah..." The meteorites thundered past and smashed into the ground.
As though because of the ground shaking, Morgan awoke and poked his head out of the tent. "What was that?" he asked.
"Meteorites..." Morgana stated.
"Those weren't average meteorites..." Ulysses analyzed, before turning to the twins again. "Come on: let us see who else was woken up."
At that moment, in the camp's makeshift library, Goris was meditating in the quiet, the only other person in there being Emmeryn, who was just reading, and keeping quiet. Then, there came the rumbling, which disturbed Emmeryn from her reading. However, Goris seemed unaffected. Emmeryn approached the Deathclaw Sage. "Goris...hear that?" she asked in her still-damaged speech.
Goris, however remained silent, eyes closed, as the rumbling was replaced by a blast that rocked the tent. Suddenly, his eyes shot open, startling the former exalt. Then standing up and readying to leave, the Deathclaw uttered one word.
"Father..."
Raiden looked over the camp, serving as the lookout for the night...which put him in the proper position to see the twin meteorite...pod...things...that passed over the camp and crashed in a nearby forest. He knew they were pods because he'd seen plenty of falling junk and metal stuff in his time, from falling satellites to missiles to so-on. He looked over the camp again to see if it was alright...and he saw several people gathering in the camp, in response to the incident.
Morgana, Morgan, Ulysses, Goris, and Emmeryn were already gathered up and heading towards where the meteorites fell. Grabbing his gear, Raiden moved to follow them, meeting with them at the edge of the camp. "Let me guess: meteor-pod things?" he asked
"Yes, we're moving to investigate," Ulysses explained, "I take it you're coming with us."
"Yeah...not gonna leave me out of this game..." Raiden replied, and the group ran into the forest, right towards the closest meteor impact point. As they grew closer, the sounds of a mage and fighter fighting began to grow louder and louder, eventually, they reached the cliff overlooking the battle.
Morgan then pointed out, "Hey...that silver-haired woman looks a LOT like the Silver-Haired Maiden of legend, Micaiah of Daein."
"Yeah...but, what's with the Deathclaw she's fighting alongside?" Morgana asked.
Goris got a good look at the Deathclaw in question...Tan scales, rough exterior...The Sword and the shield on his left shoulder were knew, but beyond that, he knew, it could be no other. "Father..." Goris said.
"Father? Wait...you mean...that Deathclaw is..." Raiden started asking.
However, Goris, seeing his father and the Micaiah look-alike trapped by the attacking Risen, pulled out one of his Tomes. "THORON!" he shouted, as the beam of lightning came out, and soon, the two trapped fighters down there looked up. "That Deathclaw is may father. I do not know how he is alive or why he's here...but I will not lose him again!"
"And we will be right here with you," Ulysses declared.
"Yes...here to help..." Emmeryn added.
"We'll help you save your father," Morgan declared.
"Yeah, these Risen won't know what hit them!" Morgana added.
Raiden said the last thing. "So, time to enter the game!"
And with that, the team of 6, finding a slope down, charged, to open a path to the battle below...
Hey, that's the chapter. Just a hypothetical thought: how do you guys feel about Ulysses x Emmeryn?
