Chapter nine

Still half asleep, I woke up and shifted my head a bit more to what I think was my pillow

I nuzzled my cheeks into its soft surface. I finally fully woke up when I heard Chihiro swear aloud and my head fell and hit the ground.

"Ugh, what is it this time Chihiro?" nagged Nana, waking up as well.

"You guys did it! Didn't you?" complained Chihiro. "You probably did that because I pissed you off, Nana!"

"As if I was going to do something that childish," Nana said, rolling her eyes left and right, before she went to pack up our mattresses, ignoring Chihiro's swearing.

"So which Soul sibling will we find now?" I asked, sitting cross-legged on the bed, and tapping my fingers lightly against my knee.

"Maybe we should find Mao first," Nana suggested, looking at the ceiling with a worried look on her face.

"Why is that?" asked Michael.

"Mao is the weakest and 'youngest' out of us all, we can't risk letting her be alone for too long now. If those stupid soldiers and their horrific chief keep moving around this country and hurting us souls like how they hurt me, Mao won't be able to stand a chance with their powers."

"..If those bastards hurt Mao," thought Chihiro, "They will die a slow and painful death." Chihiro clenched his fists, and a light brown aura began growing from his feet and circling around him. The ground started to shake while the walls started to shake along with it. It felt as if an earthquake was about to commence.

"Chihiro, stop what you're doing now!" I said, trapping him in a light bubble which is capable of defending magic from reaching an individual.

"Sage, don't worry too much about Chihiro," spoke Michael. I was surprised as to how calm and relaxed his tone of voice is. "This reaction of Chihiro's is only normal. He is behaving this way only because of his respect towards Mao."

I shot a glare towards Chihiro. He has respect towards Mao? Mao is just a tiny little soul who cares for nothing but her immortal pet baby panda.

Nana came and patted me gently on my right shoulder and praised, "I find it somewhat really amazing as to how both of you, Chihiro and Sage, have lost your orbs and are still able to produce such power."

I blushed from embarrassment and pointed towards a window which sun rays shone boldly from into the room and answered," Thank the sunlight for assisting my powers. Without it I will be useless."

Sunlight is like a cousin to my light orb. I am able to extract its beams and use it for my own good, such as boosting my light powers effectiveness. Moving closer towards the window, I grinned as I soaked myself in the sunlight, feeling at home.

"Hey, don't forget to let me out of this thing Sage!" cried Chihiro who has finally cooled down after raging like a mad boar.

"Yeah yeah," I mumbled, making the 'bubble' pop resulting him to fall down like the idiot he is, and before Chihiro could open his mouth to complain some more, I had quickly added in," You said to let you out. You never mentioned anything on how gently or lightly I should let you out now did you."

"Enough is enough Sage, Chihiro," scolded Michael. "Now the sooner you two shut up and stop fighting, the sooner we will be able to assist Mao."

Looking at Michael, I saw that he and Nana had already packed their rucksacks including ours, and ready to leave.