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Fate--Chapter 12
(A/N: If you thought things were confusing before, wait until you read this!)
Koushiro wanted to ask Nea so many more questions he didn't know where to begin. Although he understood that the Droglidites and Ghoulinthians were composed of photons, he had no idea exactly how. Nea's explanation had left him with a very vague and shadowy understanding of how it was possible. He also wanted to know how it was possible for some of these people to have the gift (or curse?) of physical contact and others not. And how many of them were like Rothena? And why were the Ghoulinthians and Droglidites so set against each other?
All these questions and more were racing through the young prodigy's mind and all of them needed to be answered. After a minute, Koushiro chose his first question and directed it to Nea: "how many Droglidites and Ghoulinthians are able to experience physical contact like Rothena? Do you know an approximate amount?"
"Four," she promptly replied.
"Four percent of all Droglidites and Ghoulinthians?"
Nea shook her head and replied: "no, just four."
Yamato narrowed his eyes suspiciously and demanded: "how do you know so exactly?"
"It…it's kind of a long story."
"Well go ahead and tell it!" Mimi piped. "I like stories."
Nea took a deep breath and thought: if mom knew that I'm telling them what I'm telling them right now…. "The first of the photon-people to be formed were Rothena and her husband, Corth. At first they did not have the ability to use physical contact. They weren't even human-formed to begin with. Over the course of a couple of millennia they became human-formed. The process took such a long time and was so difficult to complete that they also acquired the ability to have physical contact and they had infinite strength.
"Of course they were delighted. They lived peacefully for a while, until Rothena gave birth to me and my brother--"
"Wait a second, you're Rothena's daughter?" Mimi broke in.
Nea nodded and continued: "anyways, as I was saying, when Rothena gave birth to me and my brother things got rocky. See, with the birth Rothena and Corth lost their infinite strength. Some of it was transferred to my brother and I. But most of it eventually formed into the other Droglidites and Ghoulinthians."
"How can lost strength form a living organism?" Koushiro demanded. "You're not making any sense."
"The strength they lost was actually extra photons that were stored in their bodies. But that isn't really important until later. Rothena and Corth were furious that they had lost some of the strength they had once possessed. Every day they became more and more hostile to each other until one day they fought. Both thought the other was the cause of the loss of strength.
"The result of the fight was for them to absolutely hate each other. Both of them became bent on destroying the other and taking over the worlds first. Through sheer will they called the other photon-people to life and created armies against each other. Rothena called her people the Droglidites and Corth called his the Ghoulinthians. Rothena took me with her and Corth took my brother.
"Ever since then they have been after each other. They don't care if they destroy both worlds as long as the other person is killed in the process. The other Droglidites and Ghoulinthians are controlled by them and cannot exist without their leaders."
"So if Rothena or Corth died all their people would die, too?" Yamato inquired.
"That is correct. If Corth were killed all the other Ghoulinthians would die as well, excluding my brother and if Rothena were killed all the other Droglidites would die, excluding myself."
Mimi shivered at the tone of Nea's voice. It was cold and uncaring. Mimi knew by the way Nea had said her last sentence that the girl would feel no regrets if all the Ghoulinthians and Droglidites died. It gave her a chill that wouldn't leave.
She was shocked out of her stupor when Koushiro said: "do you hear that?"
"What?" she whispered, suddenly afraid.
"Footsteps. Someone's coming."
Mimi strained and listened. There were footsteps and they were definitely getting closer. "Who could it be?" she fearfully breathed.
"Maybe it'll be some guards with a little food," Yamato muttered. "They haven't bothered to feed us yet, maybe they're going to now."
"Yeah, or maybe they're coming to put us to work again," Koushiro replied.
But to everyone's surprise no guards appeared. Instead, Hikari, Taichi, Daisuke and Miyako came into view.
"There you guys are!" Miyako cried. "We've been looking for you for a long time."
"Let's get you out of here," Taichi added.
Hikari smiled. The beaten tone was no longer present in her brother's voice. He once again sounded how she was used to hearing him sound.
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Takeru, Sora, Ken, Jyou and Iori were running as fast as they could go, trying to get away from the Ghoulinthians.
About an hour after they had made their escape the Ghoulinthians had come after them and so now they were running away, in a panic with no way to fight back, no way to escape, no way to make it. They were in the middle of an enormous field that sported no place to hide. Plus, they were getting tired after a half hour of sprinting.
Sora was so exhausted she could no longer feel her body. The world was spinning around her and every breath she took was like a stab to her lungs. Quite suddenly she tripped and fell onto the ground. She was so tired she was unable to get back to her feet.
"Sora!" Jyou gasped. Everyone stopped and turned to the fallen girl.
"Go," she wheezed. "Don't…..worry about…..me. You guys….can still….make it."
"No. We can't," Ken calmly answered.
"Why not?" Takeru queried.
Ken sighed and pointed straight ahead of them. Approaching was the Droglidite army. It was massive and just as big as the Ghoulinthian army. "Does that answer your question?" he asked.