AC: Ario will now rest and have a lucid dream.
Planetary secret
Arc 2: Resurrection of the life
Chapter 9: An eventful night
Ario dream
It was foggy like last time. Ario stands up and he walks through the strange fog for a while until it slowly cleans away. He then sees a mirror of water floating in the air. Around of the mirror were branches...Dead branches of the dead tree he sees outside.
Why is it there? Wonders Ario. He looks at the ground and he sees that he is floating in the air. I'm having a dream where I know I am dreaming. He smiles and he looks in the water. He wants to see only one thing in his dream. He looks into the water and it is slowly moving, showing images of the one he wants to see.
(Terranigma OST - Elle's Theme)
She was there in front of him, in the water where he cannot touch her. He looks at her and her beautiful body. He also sees her aura. Sadly for him...He cannot see her well in the water, the water are disturbing the water, but he can hear clearly what she is talking about in the water.
"...Ario...You finally came." She says with her sweet and beautiful voice, for Ario.
"Sorry for being late...I didn't want to get spotted outside duty." Replies Ario with a younger voice. It was a memory old of 2 years.
"Ario...I have something to tell you." Says Aquae.
"I have a gift for you." Says Ario. "But you can tell me what you have to say first."
"I have to move away...Our home is being repair right about now...Thanks to the conjurers...The Underworlders are gone." Says Aquae sadly.
"Aquae...Please...Stay with me in the town." Says Ario. "I promise I will love you with all my soul."
"I know that but..." She says nothing and she is sad.
"Let me give you this gift then, so you will never forget me." Says Ario.
She takes it and she looks at it.
"A Crystal Lotus...Those are so rare...Ario..." She then has some tear falling from her sweet face. "...This...You have found this for me...This is the sweetest gift I can never receive...I love the gift so much Ario." She then walks at Ario and she gives him a kiss on his mouth. The sweetest one any creatures can dream about. "Ario...I promise I'll be back." She says stopping the kiss for a moment. She then kisses him again and Ario puts his hands on her back. She moves closer and they continue for a while.
Ario looks at the deformed image the water is giving and he smiles at it.
(Theme end)
Ario sees something else. He knows it wasn't something that happens...But something he always wanted to happen. He sees himself, holding something small yet...Extremely precious, more than any treasure that exist upon a planet; A baby. It is not any baby, but his baby mipedian...When he falls in love with Aquae, he always thinks he'll have a family with her. Ario sees himself holding it closer to his chest and slowly patting him and whispering a calm melody so he can sleep peacefully.
The image loses more of his focus when something disturbed the mirror when the tears move at the direction of the floating water mysteriously. Ario wonders if she will wait for him...If he stays too long...She will find someone else.
Then, the image is changing and Ario looks at it surprise.
He sees himself sleeping in the cavern and being surrounded by 3 wood monsters who are about to attack him. He sees the trees raising their arms and prepare for the killing blow.
"Please wake up myself!" Ario shouts at the mirror.
Inside the tree corpse
Ario opens his eyes and he rolls to the left with his spear and bag and he dodges the mortal blow. He raises the spear and he kills the first one while he cannot defend itself and the heart has been pierce. He then jumps backward and he looks at the 2 remaining monster trees moving around him and circling him so he'll be attack at the 2 side. Ario grunts but nerveless he remains focused. He shakes the light necklace and he illuminates the room to see them more clearly. He jumps to the left and he evades one attack. He counters against the other and he cuts the veins of sugar blood. Ario receives a punch at his back and he grunts in pain. He turns around and he slashes the enemy with his spear and he cuts a few veins of the other one. He evades a mortal attack behind him and he jumps over one of them and he attacks the back of the beast of wood and he pierces the belly of wood and massive blood came out. He sees the other beast pass besides it and he punches the chest of Ario and forces him to evacuate the air in his lung. Ario raises his spear and he hits the red eye of the best and he creates a blind spot. He plays around the beast and he tries to spin and he uses him as a shield against the other one and he then pierces the heart of the beast. Only the half blind is remaining. Ario charges at him and he attacks as most vein has he can and he eventually makes the beast of wood bleed to dead. It falls on the ground and he shouts in pain for one last time. He falls on the ground and Ario looks around.
"That was...A close one." He says.
He feels rested and he decides to continue. It is too dangerous to stay in the room and he keeps advancing for a while. He walks for a while and he manages to evade 10 of those beasts going where he kills the 3 others. Ario smirks when he remembers that he hides the body in the bottom of the lake and they cannot find them. He continues for a while until he sees the end of the room.
Ario hears a slow and loud breath of something. Ario also feels the malevolence of the room. He can almost touch the evil and dead waiting for him at the end of the room.
"I have reached my destination." Says Ario with a small smile.
He then feels nervous when he wonders what is at the end of the room. He walks at the direction of the room and when he enters he sees something he wasn't expecting.
"This is...bad...Very bad." Says Ario.
GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
A powerful and inhuman shout resonates in the entire cavern and Ario must fight a giant and very strong being representing the fury and dead of the nature itself.
AC: Looks like Ario is in trouble. Can he defeat the monster waiting in the room?
Chapter 10: The fury of the corrupted nature.