Chapter 7: Kaeya's Treasure Hunt
/POV: Neosphere\
Neosphere was sitting on a throne made of darkness surrounded by darkness on all sides. He is located in the realm of darkness, located in another multiverse connected to the central multiverse. Suddenly a figure approaches the throne, Neosphere looks at them. "Speak." He commands.
"My lord, the sensors you have placed around the multiverse have pinpointed the Elementalist's location: a world called Teyvat."
'The world of the 7, so he's there.' "Dismissed" Neosphere simply replied. The figure left, and Neosphere smiled. 'I'll let you have some fun there, but after 2 months I'll send Malos to ruin your fun.'
Then he frowned, although he is as old as existence itself, he is still not omnipotent, this frustrates him. Then he started laughing, he doesn't need to be omnipotent, he's already truly immortal, he cannot die and is unable to be erased from existence, after all darkness will always exist, and he is darkness itself.
/POV: Colton\
I open my eyes and sit up with a yawn. I look and see Paimon doing the same, "Oh your awake already, I'm going to fix my self up then head out to train a little, of course we'll stop by the kitchen and have breakfast first though." "Okay" Paimon replies, I then get up and head for the washroom, lucky each room has its own washroom, other wise it'd be a hassle.
After a few minutes of showering, I change into a clean version of my clothes with my hair already dry, after all I never take the orbs off, ever. Paimon and I head out quietly walking down to the kitchen and I look through the room for ingredients, I find enough and start cooking in the stove, after about 20 minutes I've made a nice large meal, consisting of pancakes and bacon. I eat my share and Paimon eats hers, then I lay the leftovers on the counter for other knights to eat if they want, with a note saying that it's from me. Then we head outside and towards the training grounds.
/POV: Eula\
Eula and Amber had just gotten up and headed downstairs to start the day, they walk by the kitchen when something smelled off.
"Hang on." Eula says, "Something the matter?" Amber asks, "Something smells off in the kitchen." Eula states.
The two girls walk over to the kitchen and find a plate of pancakes and bacon on the counter. There was a note by the food, the note said 'For anyone who's hungry -Colton'
"Who is this Colton?" Eula asks, "Oh, he's the new Honorary Knight." Amber explains, "And it looks like he made some food for us!"
"Well then I guess I can indulge in some breakfast before starting the day, this way I can eat with no one refusing to take my mora." Eula states, Amber just giggles and takes some food with Eula in tow.
Eula and Amber had just finished their food, "Who knew the Honorary Knight was such a good cook!" Amber exclaims, "I might just ask him to teach me sometime."
Eula simply sighs in annoyance, "Well then I guess I'll just have to take my vengeance upon him for this."
Out of the corner of her eye, Eula spots Captain Kaeya and Master Jean taking some of the food as well and Eula thought she heard Master Jean mutter about the food being delicious
'Well I guess that would be the reaction most people would have to this food, it's delicious, though I'll never openly admit that.'
"Eula, you won't be able to get your 'vengeance' on him for this, he seems like the type of person who helps unconditionally then asks for nothing in return, at least that's what I've gathered from the interactions I've had with him these past 2 days."
Eula gives a confused look "Nothing in return? Are you sure he's trustworthy?" Master Jean walks over to join the conversation, "Eula, he drove off Stormterror, and he helped get rid of the three tornadoes from two days ago, even finding the locations of their power sources."
"Hmph, I guess I'll just have to see how he really is when I meet him." Eula notices Kaeya no longer around, 'he probably has to go do something.'
A few minutes later, Eula and the rest finish getting ready for the day and head off.
/POV: Colton\
I was walking around the city while talking with Paimon, when we were approached by Kaeya.
"Oh, hello there Kaeya!" Paimon energetically says as the man approaches.
"Hello to you too... I'll keep this brief, I need a favor from the two of you" Kaeya says while glancing towards a set of stairs behind me. Why? What back there?
"What's the matter?" I ask
"I need the two of you to go looking for some... secret treasure, believe it or not, my grandfather was a pirate, and he hid some valuable items in a domain. The problem is that the location of the domain is unknown and information regarding it is scattered across the city. I'm unfortunately a little busy and need your help to get the treasure."
I raise an eyebrow skeptically. Paimon however is completely onboard with the idea.
Sighing in defeat, I agree to help."Where do we start?" I ask.
"Here take this clue and try from there."
I'm handed a piece of paper, which holds a riddle.
"Cmon let's go!" Paimon cheers
We walk away, ok I walk Paimon floats, and start going around the city finding clue after clue, easier said than done, and we are lead out of the city, and eventually find the domain in question.
"Alright this should be i-" before I finish my sentence, I'm shoved to the ground as I see a group of treasure Hoarders run in out of the corner of my eye.
"Hey! There going to get the treasure before us!" Paimon shouts.
I get up and run in, pulling my Prototype Rancour out from hammer space, I start to knock down any treasure Hoarder in my path, of course without killing, or seriously injuring them.
After a few minutes I finally reach the end of the domain.
"Hey!" I shout at the treasure hoarder in front of me, "What do you think your doing!"
The hoarder looks at me and laughs, "Just taking the treasure that's all."
This guy must've overheard my conversation with Kaeya!
They hoarder activates the mechanism to the door I front of us, what I didn't expect to happen was there to be a large robot to be on the other side of the door.
"A Ruin Guard!" The hoarder shouts
'So it's called a Ruin Guard, interesting'
The hoarder starts to run in fear, but is stopped when Kaeya and a few other knights appear to apprehend him
"Honorary Knight, can I trust you to take care of this?" Kaeya asks pointing the the machine
"On it!" I reply
I starts attacking the ruin guard with my sword, hitting it from different angles as it tries, and fails to hit me, however I dong seem to be damaging it
'It's tough like the guardians back in Hyrule, I'll take care of it like such'
I jump into the air and pull out my prototype crescent, creating an ancient arrow, I shoot it right at the ruin guard's eye, destroying it instantly
"Well done Honorary Knight, I think we should head back and rest up for the day." Kaeya says while approaching
"Sure I'm hungry anyway."
...
"So... that was a set up wasn't it?" I ask as we leave the domain
"Unfortunately, yes. I had to use you to capture that group of treasure hoarders, after all you know what they say, 'to trick your enemies, you must trick your allies first'"
"Sure" I say with a hint of annoyance in my voice.
We head back and after a meal I start to head back to the headquarters, I walk up from the central plaza, and walk up the stairs... I felt a really strong presence, a presence of wind no less. I whip my head towards the direction of the presence, I don't see anything out of the ordinary, the presence is gone too.
"Something wrong?" Paimon asks
"I felt some strong presence of wind, but as soon as I felt it, it disappeared."
"Weird. Well let's get going."
"K" I say nonchalantly
We walk away and go into our room, as I reflect on my life here so far.
'This place is nice, but it just doesn't have the right appeal to me, Liyue however sounds like a really nice place'
I yawn and lay down on my bed, letting myself fall asleep.
/hello everyone, sorry that I haven't updated in such a long time, I just so happened to forget about the story from time to time.
For those of you wondering about the POVs I've used, don't look into them, it's just to add a little bit of a different angle to the story. Plus I know that some(quite a bit) people seem to not like Eula as a character, which is dumb, you can have your own opinion, but just look into a character a little more before judging them, like for example Eula is actually one of the kindest people in Genshin, she just doesn't like to show it, because of how she was raised and because people don't let her show it.
Rant over, I'm not sure when I'll update next.
Also if people have been leaving reviews, I have no idea how to view them.
See y'all next time\
