Chapter Three
"Why are you going to a feast with Lord Babi anyway." Garet mumbled with his teeth bared with a sound of annoyance in his voice acting like a grouch because trying to do his tie, but finds it a difficulty. He hated dressing up all the boys did not like to spend the time to make themselves look better for just one night. They were all forced to wear a black blazer, black pants, a white button down shirt, black shoes, and a black tire.
"He wants us to have dinner with him because he wants to make it up to us for saving his life." Ivan responded going into a deep trail of thought realizing something after observing what Babi said in the cave, "He wants to know about our powers, psynergy." He said with a smile on his face still being happy and humble about having dinner with a Lord, "Well that is why he did enter us into Colosso, so he can see our powers."
Garet just continued to mumble under his breath seeing Ivan was right. Mia looked over at her male friend seeing that he could not even do his tie she laughed to herself and walked over to him, "Let me held you with that." She said putting her hands on his hands, which were on the tie. He let go and let Mia just do it for him.
"Thanks." Garet said smiling looking down at Mia's sparkling blue green eyes her perfectly straight hair that was down going down to her chest, creamy smooth skin, a beautiful smile that made you feel all warm inside. She wore a one piece white dress that had crystals on it that made a design when the light beamed down on her the dress seemed to sparkle a silver neclace around her neck and matching earings.
"No problem." She said with a stutter realizing she was ruining the tie by squeezing it with most of her strength out of being nervous she immediately let go of it and made a weak smile. She gave a slight laugh on the way out of the room the four adepts were staying in.
"You like her don't you." Isaac said turning his head towards him looking into his eyes having the feeling to tease him, "Hm, I wonder how Jenna is going to think of this situation once I tell her. Once I tell her that you have a crush on her." Isaac teased him, Ivan just laughed in response ease dropping on the conversation being that curious Jupiter Adept always wanting to know as much as possible, even mind reading people for information.
Garet did not respond not finding it funny he felt like screaming at them to shut up, but knew he should just contain himself. He was known to have some anger problems, "Uh..." Was all he managed to say in response, as he was lost for words.
He found himself to be extremely lucky when he heard the sound of a bell, the bell that indicated that dinner was in a few minutes. Since the bell has rung he could escape from this situation, avoid answering the question and just go think over eating some gourmet food. The three boys walked towards the dining room not wanting to be late.
The dining room was a large room, shapped as a box nothing architecturally different about it. Dark brown floor boards covered by a elegant red carpet with many colors and some design, dark red walls all the support beams being painted white along with the ceiling. Hanging from the walls crystal torches holding lit candles. Over the large brown table coverd over a white tablecloth with a golden border and some sort of golden design in the middle was a crystal chandelier, which was illuminating most of the room. The food was nicely placed on the table with the wine glasses being full of white wine next to the trays of food were name tags for seat arrangements.
Suddenly in one of the corners of the dining hall was a glowing blue - white light, first it was faded, but it grew brighter and brighter rings of the blue and white rings encircled the light which was shaped as a human. Once the light faded and the rings disappeared Alex was there with a potion in one hand. He went around the table reading the name tags and once he found the seat of a particular person he unscrewed the cork to the bottle of the potion and poured it into the wine.
The grand wooden door that was the entrance of the room were swung open by a butler who was guiding the four adepts, Iodem, and Babi into the room. The six people took their arranged seats Mia and Garet being next to each other while Isaac and Ivan were across from them Babi was at one end of the table, while Iodem was at the other end. They put their napkins on their laps and quickly greeted each other. The food being coverd by a tin bowl like object was presented to the Lord and his guests.
Babi raised his wine glass and began to speak, "A toast." The others raised their wine glasses, "To wish Isaac, Garet, Ivan, and Mia a safe journey." The others agreed and they all tapped their wine glasses against one another.
"Cheers." They all said to each other and drank a sip of their wine a smile on their f aces.
The feast was delicious the four adepts savoring every bite, as on the road they have to raison the food and it was not that good either and when at a Inn they do not buy big meals due to the fact they need most of their money to buy new weapons and herbs for the road ahead.
Ivan was right, Babi was very interested with their Psynergetic powers throughout the dinner he kept asking powers about it, and the four adepts were a little uncomfortable answering so many questions about it, since they did not know so much on it, sure Kraden taught some stuff about Alchemy to Garet and Isaac, Mia only knew about healing and the past about the Mercury Clan, and Ivan knew a good amount of everything on it, but not in specific details. They are adepts they use their powers to help them on their journey and learn techniques, they do not study on what psynergy is exactly.
"Could Psynergy be taught to anyone or does it have to be in your blood?" Babi asked beginning to ask, yet, another serious of questions on psynergy, "I did know how to use the black orb to guide the ship, but the Lemurians said it takes more concentration to use it then it does of Psynergy so I don't know if that really counts." "I guess anyone can learn it." Ivan said trying to be polite by answering, "Not a lot of it though only the easy techniques because a non-adept would not have a lot of psynergy in him or her because its not in the blood." He said shooting a glance at the other three members, not a glare, but a unusual look.
Isaac and Iodem seemed to be listening to all the questions that Babi was asking, sometimes adding in their own opinions otherwise they were tired. Isaac quickly ate his food and almost fell asleep on the table from listening to this for the whole dinner. Iodem seemed to be very interested since he did not know anything about Psynergy and continuously nodded his head hearing all the facts. Garet and Mia was in a conversation of whispers no one having any idea what they are talking about it, but it seemed to be more entertaining then talking about Psynergy.
"Excuse me while I freshen up." Mia announced suddenly in the conversation cutting everyone off. She meant to be polite, but Ivan just rolled his eyes meaning he found it rude. She stood up and began to leave the room once so the five other people began to talk again like nothing happened.
Garet stared at the door dying of boredom without her he could not concentrate on the main conversation and put his elbow on the table rudely and held his head with his hand his eyes locking on that door his head turned away from everyone. No one bothered to notice him or even glance over to him
"Mia has been gone a while thinking about it." Iodem announced seeing Garet has been staring at the door for quite a while now.
"I'm going to go look for her." Garet responded standing up taking off his blazer and throwing it on his chair then he went to his room and returned with his sword in its stealth tied around his waist.
"Why are you going to bring your weapon?" Ivan asked curious, "If you're just going to look for Mia."
"Why not?" Isaac responded in a groggy tone like he was sleeping for the last few hours.
"Just in case." Garet made a weak smile and left the palace to look for her worrying if she is okay or not.
The dinner continued as usual instead of being six people it went all the way down to four they ended the subject about Psynergy when Babi started to realize how annoying it must have been to Ivan to answer all these questions about his powers making Ivan think he is even more different from everyone else. They just skipped from topic to topic a light conversation nothing to strain the brain.
For some reason Ivan started to brainstorm with Isaac all the different scenarios Garet and Mia might be in at this exact moment only to entertain one another, "Maybe Mia ran away and she is waiting for one of us to look for her and once we find her she will attack us!"
"Uh, Mia is too gentle and nice to do something like that. Remember she is a warrior I highly doubt she would attack anything except by force." Isaac responded rolling his eyes.
"Or Garet hired people to trap Mia and then he went to get her right now so he can kill her himself."
"But Garet likes Mia, Ivan. That makes no sense he would not want to hurt her. Even though people think he is a bully he just gets angry easily and just curses out loud he would never try to hurt anybody physically, I would know I knew him for all - "
Isaac was cut off, as a loud high pitched scream was emitted from a female ringing through their ears so loud they thought they were going to become deaf. Isaac suddenly jumped up, "Sounds like Mia! She must be in trouble!" Isaac exclaimed running to his room to get his weapon, Ivan following him. They got their weapons and ran trying to get to their friend.
"Why are you going to a feast with Lord Babi anyway." Garet mumbled with his teeth bared with a sound of annoyance in his voice acting like a grouch because trying to do his tie, but finds it a difficulty. He hated dressing up all the boys did not like to spend the time to make themselves look better for just one night. They were all forced to wear a black blazer, black pants, a white button down shirt, black shoes, and a black tire.
"He wants us to have dinner with him because he wants to make it up to us for saving his life." Ivan responded going into a deep trail of thought realizing something after observing what Babi said in the cave, "He wants to know about our powers, psynergy." He said with a smile on his face still being happy and humble about having dinner with a Lord, "Well that is why he did enter us into Colosso, so he can see our powers."
Garet just continued to mumble under his breath seeing Ivan was right. Mia looked over at her male friend seeing that he could not even do his tie she laughed to herself and walked over to him, "Let me held you with that." She said putting her hands on his hands, which were on the tie. He let go and let Mia just do it for him.
"Thanks." Garet said smiling looking down at Mia's sparkling blue green eyes her perfectly straight hair that was down going down to her chest, creamy smooth skin, a beautiful smile that made you feel all warm inside. She wore a one piece white dress that had crystals on it that made a design when the light beamed down on her the dress seemed to sparkle a silver neclace around her neck and matching earings.
"No problem." She said with a stutter realizing she was ruining the tie by squeezing it with most of her strength out of being nervous she immediately let go of it and made a weak smile. She gave a slight laugh on the way out of the room the four adepts were staying in.
"You like her don't you." Isaac said turning his head towards him looking into his eyes having the feeling to tease him, "Hm, I wonder how Jenna is going to think of this situation once I tell her. Once I tell her that you have a crush on her." Isaac teased him, Ivan just laughed in response ease dropping on the conversation being that curious Jupiter Adept always wanting to know as much as possible, even mind reading people for information.
Garet did not respond not finding it funny he felt like screaming at them to shut up, but knew he should just contain himself. He was known to have some anger problems, "Uh..." Was all he managed to say in response, as he was lost for words.
He found himself to be extremely lucky when he heard the sound of a bell, the bell that indicated that dinner was in a few minutes. Since the bell has rung he could escape from this situation, avoid answering the question and just go think over eating some gourmet food. The three boys walked towards the dining room not wanting to be late.
The dining room was a large room, shapped as a box nothing architecturally different about it. Dark brown floor boards covered by a elegant red carpet with many colors and some design, dark red walls all the support beams being painted white along with the ceiling. Hanging from the walls crystal torches holding lit candles. Over the large brown table coverd over a white tablecloth with a golden border and some sort of golden design in the middle was a crystal chandelier, which was illuminating most of the room. The food was nicely placed on the table with the wine glasses being full of white wine next to the trays of food were name tags for seat arrangements.
Suddenly in one of the corners of the dining hall was a glowing blue - white light, first it was faded, but it grew brighter and brighter rings of the blue and white rings encircled the light which was shaped as a human. Once the light faded and the rings disappeared Alex was there with a potion in one hand. He went around the table reading the name tags and once he found the seat of a particular person he unscrewed the cork to the bottle of the potion and poured it into the wine.
The grand wooden door that was the entrance of the room were swung open by a butler who was guiding the four adepts, Iodem, and Babi into the room. The six people took their arranged seats Mia and Garet being next to each other while Isaac and Ivan were across from them Babi was at one end of the table, while Iodem was at the other end. They put their napkins on their laps and quickly greeted each other. The food being coverd by a tin bowl like object was presented to the Lord and his guests.
Babi raised his wine glass and began to speak, "A toast." The others raised their wine glasses, "To wish Isaac, Garet, Ivan, and Mia a safe journey." The others agreed and they all tapped their wine glasses against one another.
"Cheers." They all said to each other and drank a sip of their wine a smile on their f aces.
The feast was delicious the four adepts savoring every bite, as on the road they have to raison the food and it was not that good either and when at a Inn they do not buy big meals due to the fact they need most of their money to buy new weapons and herbs for the road ahead.
Ivan was right, Babi was very interested with their Psynergetic powers throughout the dinner he kept asking powers about it, and the four adepts were a little uncomfortable answering so many questions about it, since they did not know so much on it, sure Kraden taught some stuff about Alchemy to Garet and Isaac, Mia only knew about healing and the past about the Mercury Clan, and Ivan knew a good amount of everything on it, but not in specific details. They are adepts they use their powers to help them on their journey and learn techniques, they do not study on what psynergy is exactly.
"Could Psynergy be taught to anyone or does it have to be in your blood?" Babi asked beginning to ask, yet, another serious of questions on psynergy, "I did know how to use the black orb to guide the ship, but the Lemurians said it takes more concentration to use it then it does of Psynergy so I don't know if that really counts." "I guess anyone can learn it." Ivan said trying to be polite by answering, "Not a lot of it though only the easy techniques because a non-adept would not have a lot of psynergy in him or her because its not in the blood." He said shooting a glance at the other three members, not a glare, but a unusual look.
Isaac and Iodem seemed to be listening to all the questions that Babi was asking, sometimes adding in their own opinions otherwise they were tired. Isaac quickly ate his food and almost fell asleep on the table from listening to this for the whole dinner. Iodem seemed to be very interested since he did not know anything about Psynergy and continuously nodded his head hearing all the facts. Garet and Mia was in a conversation of whispers no one having any idea what they are talking about it, but it seemed to be more entertaining then talking about Psynergy.
"Excuse me while I freshen up." Mia announced suddenly in the conversation cutting everyone off. She meant to be polite, but Ivan just rolled his eyes meaning he found it rude. She stood up and began to leave the room once so the five other people began to talk again like nothing happened.
Garet stared at the door dying of boredom without her he could not concentrate on the main conversation and put his elbow on the table rudely and held his head with his hand his eyes locking on that door his head turned away from everyone. No one bothered to notice him or even glance over to him
"Mia has been gone a while thinking about it." Iodem announced seeing Garet has been staring at the door for quite a while now.
"I'm going to go look for her." Garet responded standing up taking off his blazer and throwing it on his chair then he went to his room and returned with his sword in its stealth tied around his waist.
"Why are you going to bring your weapon?" Ivan asked curious, "If you're just going to look for Mia."
"Why not?" Isaac responded in a groggy tone like he was sleeping for the last few hours.
"Just in case." Garet made a weak smile and left the palace to look for her worrying if she is okay or not.
The dinner continued as usual instead of being six people it went all the way down to four they ended the subject about Psynergy when Babi started to realize how annoying it must have been to Ivan to answer all these questions about his powers making Ivan think he is even more different from everyone else. They just skipped from topic to topic a light conversation nothing to strain the brain.
For some reason Ivan started to brainstorm with Isaac all the different scenarios Garet and Mia might be in at this exact moment only to entertain one another, "Maybe Mia ran away and she is waiting for one of us to look for her and once we find her she will attack us!"
"Uh, Mia is too gentle and nice to do something like that. Remember she is a warrior I highly doubt she would attack anything except by force." Isaac responded rolling his eyes.
"Or Garet hired people to trap Mia and then he went to get her right now so he can kill her himself."
"But Garet likes Mia, Ivan. That makes no sense he would not want to hurt her. Even though people think he is a bully he just gets angry easily and just curses out loud he would never try to hurt anybody physically, I would know I knew him for all - "
Isaac was cut off, as a loud high pitched scream was emitted from a female ringing through their ears so loud they thought they were going to become deaf. Isaac suddenly jumped up, "Sounds like Mia! She must be in trouble!" Isaac exclaimed running to his room to get his weapon, Ivan following him. They got their weapons and ran trying to get to their friend.
