An
Noah: 19 years old.
Also Uool and Illy will be stronger of course. I wont spoil of how they will come into the picture though.
Chapter 29
Trouble in the forest
Underground Garden
The Underground Garden was a place that used to house exotic plants from around the whole continent. It was used to preserve such plants and prayers asked the gods to preserve them. It also had a direct passage to the Spire.
Elsword's PoV
"Get up." I heard Regulus's voice rang though my head. I got up and looked around. I saw Raven laying on his back knocked out. Where were we.
That comes later i need to get Raven up first. "Raven, Raven, Raven cmon." I shake him up. He groans and slowly gets up rubbing his head. "So we are alive." He said. "So we fell down here huh." I asked and he nods.
"Gotta find a way up soon. I dont wanna worry Rena and the others." I say handing him his sword. He takes it and sheathes it at his side. We look around only to see we were on another cliff platform.
"This place goes lower?!" Raven says. All we could see was yellow illuminated lights at the bottom. "Lets not find out, this way." I say and point to a few other platform that lined up to a full path. We just had to jump.
We jumped on the platforms to the trial. The ground was blue with yellow plants sticking out of it. There were also small tenticals similar to ones that knocked us over but was smaller than the ones that knocked us over.
"Lets avoid those" Raven said. Agreed. We walked for sometime until we saw new creatures. They had a smooth white head with mouth with a bush on its bkdy with small berries growing on it. It slithered instead of walking. "Not sure how good you are with it." Raven hands me a knife the size of his palm.
"Better then nothing i sighed." We sneaked around it. Im guessing it doesn't have sight, well it doesn't have eyes so makes sense i guess. It then raised its head and turned at us.
It slithered to us and we got ready to strike. It came in front of my face and began to slither all over me. It slithered under my clothes like a dog sniffing me. "Heh i think it likes you." Raven chuckles lower his guard abit.
I held out my arm and it slithered down it and fell onto the floor squirming a bit. It was on its back trying to get back up and i kinda felt bad so flipped it over. It rubbed my leg as a thank you and slithered away.
"That was weird." Raven said. "Animals always liked me for some reason and now plants." I say and climbed the small hill. "C'mon lets see if we can find a away up.
3rd PoV
Noon
Velder Base Camp
Velder's base of operation situated in the outskirts of the capital instead of inside like the others. This where Princess Noah and the elite knighs, The black Steel soldiers resides.
The Black Steel Corps were soldiers who were trained to be the best. They were walking war machines capable of taking out an army in war with a scratches but were restricted to only protecting the Queen and not fight in war unless conditions required them to.
They wore a full black full body suits with black padded armor. The had black steel shoulder guard plates and black steel arm protectors. The had padded pants and black steel plate boots.
The black Steel Corps were made by a man long ago who fought many wars. He was a forgoten hero who fought in 10 conclusive wars and brought victory to the land. When people could not remember the man's nane, they gave him the nickname "The Man o War"
With Noah and Chung
Noah and Chung were having tea inside her tent, which was the largest one in the whole camp. Noah had a ice blue short dress on with the one of a kind, Velder kingdom necklace.(An the blue one.)
Chung changed into a white and blue suit with a blue tie. He was feeling a but uneasy about what happened with Elesis but he didn't want make it awkward.
"Are you, Unsatisfied with my choice on the matter of Elesis Sieghart?Noah placed her tea cup down with a smile. Chung rubbed the back of his head. Sorry its just i dont get what she done wrong.
"She left her position during a decisive mission. If she had did what she was told, we would have taken the palace." She says and then look out though the window opening. "Speka has been MIA, and all we had was Elesis, Edan and Valak." She paused before continuing.
"I am confident in their abilities but if Speka was there, we could have won this war." She says solemnly. Speka has been missing for sometime now. No one could find her, but knew she was not dead. As she possessed powers that could match and possible overpower Noah's own superior ice magic.
"I see. But dont you think you kinda vented all your anger on her?" Chung asked her. "Oh but i did. I admit i did pour my frustrations on her, but." She then looked into Chungs eyes. "This is war. There are none who can be forgiven soldiers must follow orders. I could have had her executed if i wanted to."
As she said this her tea quickly turned into ice as well as Chung's. The oom also became a bit colder. Chung scooted back in his seat and Noah noticed this. "I am sorry. This war has been going on for too long for no initial purpose. Please excuse me." She says.
A Black steel guard walks in and goes over to her. He whispers something and she narrows her eyes. "I must go Prince Chung. I have matters to attend to." She gets up, bows and leaves Chung with a frozen tea cup. "Jeez."
Underground Confinement
Elesis's PoV
A war us going on and lock up me, for leaving my position. Seriously. I lean my head back and stare at the rocky, grey ceiling. I wonder Speka went. I know she would have something to say about this.
"Well this is certainly unacceptable." Who said that. I shot up and looked around. I may not be armed but i could still fight.
The space in front of me became distorted. It then torn in a blue and purple rift. "Hello, Elesis." A man in a cloak came down from the rift. White hair with a mask on and yellow eyes. "Who are you." I said and he walks to me.
"I want to take you out here." He said simply. I lowered my fist and sat down. "I refuse." I told him and he seemed surprised almost happy at my answer. "May i ask why?" He says. He sounds so...Foreign. Like he doesn't belong here.
"Im serving my time here." I say. "Are you sure? if you do stay here, Your brother will undeniably, fight Princess Noah." He says playing with his blue cubes.
What! Elsword would never...no...He would...but if he does he will habe to deal with the black steel corp and Noah's ice magic and her maguc is on a whole other world."Do you doubt your brother?" He says and before i could answer another rift opened.
This time it was pure purple and that alone made me guess who it was. Speka landed on the ground next to the man. "Finally found- Ele?" She jumped at me with a bear hug. Oh god...shes pretty st- no wait no she's not.
I brush her off and looked at her. "Why are you here?" She asked the same question i was going to ask her. "Imprisonment." I said simply and she lost her smile. "Why." she said darkly and chose to stay quiet.
"Berthe, am i wrong?" The man said putting a hand to chin. Damn him... Speka got up but i grabbed her before she could leave. "Speka, no." I told her but then i felt a force back me back to the wall. Speka began emitting a dark purple aura with the ground cracking a bit.
"Someone needs to teach that brat a lesson." She wasn't listening to me. "Now, now as much as i would want to die for to see that battle, i must ask. what did you want of me." He said and Speka's aura calmed down.
"You have been looking for me sometime very persistently." He said and looked at her. "Yes, well i want go to the demon realm." She said. Why would she want to go there?
"Hooo?" The man said in amazed. "I know you placed seals on it restricting anyone from going there who previously could." She said and then raised a finger. "You place five seals and i undid four already. The last one was the one really sweated on huh?" She said and the mask man looked visibly surprised.
He readjusted his mask. "You, truly are frightening. So you plan on ending the war do you?" He said collecting himself. "Not really, i just want to see something. Its purely for research i assure you." What was she planning?
"You could easily end this war whenever you want but choose to indulge yourself in your studies. A true Star Gazer no?" The masked man said and opened a rift behind him. "Very well. You may enter. For while however." He walked away and the rift closed.
Speka then turned to me. "Cmon Ele were leaving." She said grabbing me. "No, i-" Before i could finish a rift opened behind her. "I wasn't asking~" Wait where we going?!?!?!
Feita Camp
Night
Aisha's PoV
We arrived at the camp at night since we spent the day trying to get to Elsword and Raven. The only way to do that is to go through the Underground Chapel and to the Underground garden to get to them.
We decided to go through the mutated rock golems that Eve had closed off. But before all that, we have to destroy the rock barricade on the gate entrance that lead further though the Chapel.
"It feels so...strange without Elsword and Raven." Rena said laying down. We were all inside the tent and Eve went to go tell Lento and Allegro our plan for tomorrow but... "I can't sleep..." I said and Rena laughs next to me. "I can't either actually. I like sleeping next to or in between two people." Yea i know that, she doesn't like being alone for too long.
Well it is kinda hit in here so i get up. "Ima go explore a bit, wanna tag?" I asked her but then Eve came through. "I informed Lento and Allegro." I nod and looked back at Rena. "I think ill stay and talk with Eve a bit. Stay safe."
I put on a dark green coat and walked around. While walking i saw that tomb entrance from when we came into Feita. "I wonder whats in here." I mused aloud walking to it. The place sounded hollow so it could not be that deep.
Unknown Cavern
I walked in and the place was darker then expected. I lit a small flame on my finger for a light source and walked ahead.
It felt like...forever since i began walking. I saw markings and symbols everywhere and some was starting to look the same to bee honest. Ok that's it im outta here.
Wait...i think i heard something. Was something here in here? I walked down the path again. Maybe the symbols are readable.
I held the flame to the markings. Huh i can read this. "A staff, A staff that entwined the very nature of worlds. It sleeps." This sounds like someone cut off a bunch of sentences and put them together.
I turned and...wait which way did i come in? its so dark and i can't see the light of the entrance...
Nope nope nope, i am not getting stuck here. I held out left and right hand. If i shoot two blast, i will hear the impact. The side that doesn't have an impact is the way out.
I shot the fire blast and they traveled through the halls. They were meant for distance and not power. I waited and heard a weird sound in my right. Then i saw something coming at me. Was that, my fire?
I sidestepped and saw it traveled past me. It was blue though, and mines was red. Ok now i must see what is down here. I ran down my right to see what was that. That as definitely reflective magic.
The place began to warp between red, blue, green, brown, and purple. What was...
I jumped out the way to avoid a wind blast from behind me. "What?" I then ducked a fire ball. I used a magic shield to continue down.
I finally reached the end and at the end was something amazing. Golden Treasure chest, with jewels and gold spilling out of them was everywhere but that was nothing to the staff in front of me.
It was a long, black staff that had four golden dragon heads going up from the bottom the top. The heads curved out and came and made it seem like they were breathing fire. Each of the dragons eyes were different colors each head. Blue, Red, purple and Brown. At the center was a white symbol.
Screw the gold i want the staff. I took it out of its case on the wall and held it. I heard a deep growl and the eyes on the heads glowed before dying down. It had ancient hyroglphics. "Le-Via-Than. Leviathan huh."
I should test thus outside. I walked out and found i was already outside. It was now dawn as well. How long was i in there?
I go back to the tent and saw Eve and Rena sleeping. Huh. What happened.
Well im outside so i might as well test thus staff's potency with my magic. I hope it wasn't just for show.
I went to the training grounds and found some rocks to test on. "Ok then lets try fire." I aimed the staff and ran fire energy through it. The red eyed dragon's head glowed and moved up and opened its mouth wider and fired a torrent if fire at the rock.
When i stopped, the rock was almost molten. "Whoooooaaa." This thing is freakin awesome! I aimed it at the next rock and ran lighting through it. The red eyed dragon went back into place and purple eyed dragon came up and opened it mouth. It shot out beam of lightning at the rock practically shattering it.
I look at my old rod. The lizardmen gave this to me but...This staff is so much better. Ill just make this a keepsake. Although it is a bit too powerful so ill just use for when i really need it.
3rd PoV
After Rena and Eve got themself ready, Aisha told and showed them her new staff. They were both amazed at how powerful it was. "We can definitely get by with this." Lento said. "Lets go to Chapel again, im sure it will be different.
With Elsword and Raven
Elsword and Raven were laying down on the ground. Their shirts were covered in green and blue sticky, mucky substance so they had to abandon them. Elsword was in a black tang top and Raven was bare chested.
The same creatures that creature that slithered on Elsword the other day had came back with more of it. They slithered all over them but Elsword and Raven were to tires to push them off and care.
"I dont want to sound negative but we might die here..." Raven said groggy. They had to sleep on the ground and were mire hungry than ever. "I can't find the optimism to counter." Elsword slowly gets up. The creatures still slithering around his body.
"Think these thing would taste good?" Raven suggested. He gently grabbed one and it wiggled a bit. "Can you really put it in your mouth?" Elsword said with a smirk.
Raven set it back down and it slithered back over to him. "Yea it could be poisonous, and i would feel guilty" He says with a sigh.
"Cmon, lets move." Elsword held his hand out to Raven, at which he took.
They walked by the edge of the pathways looking around for any kind of exits. "Maybe we should jump." Elsword said looking down. Raven looked at him with a 'Your too hungry.' look.
"Say we did jump down." Raven began to reason. "What if we encounter that monster with the large tentical." Elsword rubbed his head. "Im dying here."
They then stepped on something and fell down lower." "Why!!!!!"" They shouted and landed on their backs in a lower region of the garden now. The place had stange trees with yellow glowing orbs and strange looking plants. They got up and looked around.
"Lower, great." Raven complained and rubbed his back. "Screw that I see food!" Elsword ran over to a berry tree. The berries were yellow with blue and green spots and it size of a watermelon.
"Elsword!" Raven ran over to him but was too late. Elsword took a big bite and swallowed. Raven stopped and observed him as he made a squeezed and bitter face. Elsword stopped before holding up the strange food.
"Its so bitter but has a extreme sweet after taste." Elsword yelled. He went to the tree again and cut off another berry with his hand. "Here. Die now or later" He said. Raven sighs and grabbed the berry.
He took a bite and went wide eyed. But then the beautiful and wistful taste of sweet and watery replaced the bitterness. It tasted bitter like lemon or lime, but then had the sweetness of honey or sugur. Then the refreshing taste of cold water on a hot day.
They eat two more each before getting up. Elsword flexed his right arm with a smile. "I never felt so energized." Raven flexed his body and smiled as well. "I feel like i can fight a hored of demons right now."
Elsword took several seeds as well as the leaves and bark of tree. He tore a piece of cloth from his pants and place them inside and wrapped ut up to put in his pocket. "Ill have Eve and Apple try and reproduce this." He said and Raven nodded.
With Aisha, Rena and Eve
Aisha, Rena and Eve made it back to the gates to use Aisha's new staff. She used the lightning element to destroy the rocks blocking the way. When they did not see the mutated golens from before.
They walked through the are that connected it to the Underground garden. "So far so good i guess." Rena said with her bow and arrow drawn. As she said that, sounds came from seemingly off the walls. The golems were calling down to them from the ceiling.
"Ok!" Aisha said and aimed Leviathan at four golems. "Lightning stream!" The lighting dragon head shot out a purple concentrated beam at the ground. It caused a static explosion, destroying the golems.
The other three golems that remained fled after seeing what happened to the others. Eve went up to one the destroyed ones and layed her hand one it. Her hand glowed a blue light before dying down a few seconds later.
"This is a man made plant it seems. It is not natural." She said turning back to the crew. "So how could it have spread to golems?" Rena said to herself. "Hey i see the fate out here." Aisha said running over to it.
They reached the gate and opened it to reveal a long hall lined with bookcases. The books were scattered about the floor with purple wisp flying around the halls. They girls walked through the halls as to not disrupt any of the wisps.
"Huh, you would think the glitter demons would have found their way here." Aisha said looking around. "Maybe a guardian like the one from the corridor is protecting this place as well?" Eve suggested.
"I really hope not...That last ine was pretty tough." Rena said. As they walked through the wisp began to fly past them and into the double doors that was ahead of them. "Alot of doors dont ya think." Aisha said with flat voice.
The open the doors and were now in a large spaced room. The were now in the main hall of the Chapel. A large statue with wings is in the center of it. There were plants growing from the ruined windows and wall cracks.
"Is the garden starting to reach in side here?" Aisha said in amazement. They walked through out the ruined center hall and then, the roots began to move. The roots began slow thrashing before tearing open.
Out came a disfigured human body covered in blue green liquid. Its body was dark brown with bones sticking out its body. They had torn clothes with a symbol of a rhombus and wings around him. They numbered five.
"Uhh." Rena said backing away with the other girls. The disfigured beings then pointed their hands at them and out came a tenticals from a magic circle that appeared.
They dodged out the way and Rena shit several arrows at them. It struck the zombies but did not stopped them. They kept slowly advancing to them. Eve fired lasers that cut off all the zombies heads but they still kept advance.
"Yea lets just go." Aisha said grabbing them and running off to the end of hall. The door opened for them and they fell in.
The door closed by itself and the room glowed purple. The roots that surrounded the room began to twitch and out came the same disfigured zombies. The magic circle that was in the middle of the room glowed and out a glitter demon with red and white robes.
"Dieeee." It hissed at them and pointed at them and all the zombies began running at them, shooting magic blast at them. "Ice wall!" Aisha switched to her old staff and created the tall ice wall. Eve commanded Moby and Remy to fly up and fired beams at the zombies.
"Where do they even come from..." Aisha said taking cover behind the wall along with Rena. "There will always be obstacles.." Rena sighed.
Aisha then had an idea. "Wait i wanna try something, but ya gotta stand back." She said with a wink and Rena and Eve could only sweatdrop at the suggestion.
"Wha-What did you have in mind?" Rena asked nervously. She never doubted Aisha's plans, but sometimes was a little crazy.
Aisha summoned her new staff and struck it into the ground. She then closed her eyes. "Ill admit Els is better 2ith sage energy control than i am surprisingly but mines is still just as powerful ." She then began charging her sage energy.
She began to radiate static energy and it came off her body. Rena and Eve stood back as she began to glow even more. With a quick motion, she thrust the staff in front of her and opened her eyes, which were now a pure blue.
"Roaring Torrent Pillar!" She turned 180 degrees and swung the staff, releasing a enormous ocean wave of electric energy. The lightning was so potent, it was a l clear thunderous blue. It traveled across the room, destroying everything in its path.
It then reached the end of the room Nd gathered up before erupting into a large pillar of lightning.
He girls had taken cover behind the ice wall, which broke after the explosion.
The girls got up and looked around. All the zombies and that weird glitter were gone. "How did you create such a massive attack?" Eve asked.
Aisha then fell down into Rena's chest. "Ill answer later, lets go." She said sleepy. They nodded and kept walking and went through the destroyed gate.
They walked into a large room with scattered books and a maguc circle in the center. What was sticking out the magic circle was a humanoid figure. With with jet black skin. It had black horns and purple markings on its body.
It turned back at the crew and raised its hand. "I have lost. I surrender." It said in an other worldly voice. Rena and Eve looked dumbfounded at what its said. "Allow me to introduce myself." It said and gave a bow. "I am the see of this tower. The Unrelenting Watcher, Mayik."
Underground Garden
Raven's PoV
Me and Elsword were at a large dome and we went through and it was like we entered a whole other area. We were surrounded by trees and glowing wisps. In the center was a tree that seemed to pulse as if it was breathing.
"I hope this leads out side." Elsword said. We were walking to it and we had to jump more and more platforms and over trees. Seems like Elsword wanted to get to the center. Nowhere to head anyway.
We reached a long bridge that connected to the strange breathing center. It was still it seemed safe. As we crossed there it was...
It was a disgusting large plant monster with three heads shaped as fly eater trap mouth. Its body was a huge overgrowth of bushes and trees with tenticals sticking out of it. It also had rocks and other things sticking out of it.
"That thing is probably the size of the Alterian Palace." Elsword says stopping to stare. I hope that is an exaggeration.
It didn't seem like it could see us so we kept going. Inside the center was a staircase leading up. "So we reached the end of this place." So we advanced, but how do we get back.
Elsword turned back to the sleeping monster. "Dont that thing look like those grass snakes we encountered before?" Hmm i can see the comparison, but the head was what stood out the most.
"Lets try and find a way out before we fight that thing." I place ny hand on his shoulder. He nods and we were about to go up until a rumble happened.
Rocks began to fall from the ceiling and into the room. Then... a rock hit one of the heads of the fly eater monster. It stirred awake and looked around. Tenticals began to swarm around and then opened up and showed it was a large white orb. Was...was that its eyes?
The tenticals then swarmed around us with its "Eyes" looking dead at us. It then roared and got out of its sleeping position. Its body began to thrash and larger, more thicker tenticals came out and slammed onto the ground.
Smaller tenticals began to come out from the ground and circled us.
Me and Elsword got into a defensive position instinctively. "Well...now that i see how it really looks..." He trails off.
Well, hopefully Aisha and crew finds us somehow.
An
Sorry for a little late update.
Was trying to decide on weather i should go on vacation with my family or stay at my job. It was rally making me think, but i might end up on vacation for maybe two weeks.
Not yet however, i wanna get atleast out of the Fieta ark before im done.
Also, the vacation will only be for about two weeks, or however long my family plans to kidnap me. But i will still write while im away so when i come back i might flood chapters like crazy.
Remember to read some other projects i have circling this story. If your interested of course.
Peace
