-Chapter 7-
Sargatanas, Luciphawn and Dy Phawn were on a boat, silently stalking Silent's party.
"I don't understand…..how will they get to Juno on boat?" Dy Phawn asked
"They're not going to Juno." Luciphawn answered
"Their course has changed. They're now going to Umbala, where they will understand the magic of ancient lore." Sargatanas continued
They watched the boat move forward for quite a while, then….
"Let's spice up things a bit!" Luciphawn said, as he summoned an invisible boat to raid their ship.
"Let the action begin!"
-At Juno once more-
Rakukojin was pacing through Juno's library, searching for anything he could find about Assassin Crosses as his friend, Decipher had been killed by one of them. He looked in the west wing. Nothing. The right. Still nothing. He went up to the 34th floor of the library, and walked slowly, putting his fingers on the books that lined the shelves. And at last, he found it. The book of everything about assassin crosses: "The Holy Evil: The Assassin of the Cross". He picked up the book, then dropped it on his toe.
"Yeooooooow!"
The book was really heavy. He dragged it onto a table nearby and set the book on top of it. He opened it. It was really dusty as books on the 34th floor weren't read very often.
"Let's see……chapter 1: What is an Assassin Cross? An assassin cross is a……" he flipped through the pages as he was really interested at how an assassin cross's poison can instantly kill and how they, being like us, mortals, were able to withstand it.
"A katar: an assassin's pride……..stealth maneuvers……..dual-weilding…….ah here it is! An assassin cross's poison!"
He read through the pages, reading each and every word, understanding what makes this particular poison so deadly.
-Back at sea-
Silent woke up, his head aching a bit.
"What happened? Ugh! Sargatanas! Luciphawn! Where are you?" He shouted, the whole boat heard him.
"Calm down! It's okay, we're at the boat, heading to Umbala." Faerore said, comforting him.
"But I thought we were going to Juno?"
"Umbala also has vital information, we couldn't go to Juno because, as you know, Ayotaya was raided and we had to escape."
"I see." Silent stood up, looked around the boat, looking for the professor.
"Where is she?" He felt something hitting his leg. He bent down to see what it was, and he was surprised to see a poring with a cute, little backpack.
"Umm…hi?"
"I'm Vermillion, Decipher's pet poring, would it be okay if I joined you?"
"Well that was straight to the point! Well, I guess it would be okay…."
Silent headed over to the edge of the boat, as did Vermillion, who then hopped unto his head.
"Would it be ok if I asked you a question that I know would bother you?" Vermillion asked.
"I guess…." Silent was feeling uneasy at that question but he was curious, and because the poring said it in a very adorable way.
"Why did you kill Decipher?"
"Because…….I was instructed by a gypsy named……"
Their conversation was interrupted when Scythie shouted "Stalkers!" She conjured a ball of fire to circle around her, then threw it at a distortion in the space behind their boat. It revealed a boat, with stalkers, all wearing pirate bandanas. They all jumped towards Silent's boat, and a battle ensued. The stalkers did summersaults in the air before landing on the boat. Some didn't land on the boat as Scythie and Zan blasted the hell out of them. Silent moved in, drew his katar and started hitting them. He was surprised to see that everytime he would hit one of them, fire would emerge from his katar.
"I enchanted your weapon to make it stronger!" Scythie shouted to him
"I appreciate it!"
He continued hitting them with his katar, until such a time that he just wanted to use his poison. Faerore stood in the middle, full of fright. All the blood the stalkers shed was on her face now, and tears ran across her face.
"Why do they want to risk their life? For what? Money? Money is such a mortal thing, they'll eventually die and it will become useless….."
Silent made a stalker drink the poison.
"…..and our mortal possessions, they won't be hear forever….."
Zan blasted a stalker's head.
"……our life is just temporary, why don't people make the most of it?"
Scythie summoned firebolts and made it rain down on another stalker.
"why….Why…WHY?" and as she screamed, a greenish light engulfed the boat, just before a stalker was about to stab Silent, which just went through him.
"My turn!" Silent said as he stabbed the stalker as well. It just went through him.
"What?" Silent asked, confused.
"WHY DO WE WASTE OUR LIVES GATHERING USELESS MORTAL POSSESSIONS? WHY?" and the waters beside the boat began to bubble, they saw a serpent's head rise from it.
"What?" everyone said, including Faerore. The serpent was rising quickly.
"What is this?" Faeror shouted towards the dragon. Now it was headed towards them. Silent went in front of Faerore, trying to protect her, as the spiritual dragon, as they had noticed, had passed through the boat. Vermillion and Iris went behind Scythie, who was behind Zan. Since it was spiritual, no damage was done to the boat. But then they looked around. No damage was done to their party either. They saw the stalkers, they were all dead. The dragon went back into the water, and the party could see the souls of the stalkers inside it. Faerore collapsed. She was exhausted.
"Bravo!" Sargatanas shouted
"An assassin cross's poison is really deadly as I have seen." Luciphawn shouted as well.
"Yes….riiight…but what was that dragon? Could that high priestes really do that? And that greenish light that protected everyone? What is that?" Dy Phawn asked
"That dragon was the Hae Ryong, or "Sea Dragon". The light is called the Basillica." Luciphawn explained
"Lu! Wanna come to Juno? I think we should know who are enemies are….especially that Silent and his poison!" Sargatanas shouted
"Ok! Dy Phawn! You stay here." And the two disappeared
"What? Don't leave me here!" she shouted.
-Juno-
The two knew exactly where it was. The 34th floor. They glided to that particular floor.
"Why don't we change clothes to blend into the crowd?" Luciphawn asked
"What crowd?" Sargatanas replied, looking around.
"Never mind, just change!"
With a sparkle, Luciphawn changed into a black trenchcoat and wore a black hat, while Sargatanas wore black pants with fire-designs, and wore something like bandages as his shirt, like an assassin would, only without anything underneath those bandages.
"There! You check the east wing, I check the west." Sargatanas said.
They did just that, looking at each and every book. But none of the titles had anything to do with an assassin crosses poison. Card Catalogs weren't made yet…..to their demise. Sargatanas saw a man sitting on a chair, reading a book entitled….."The Holy Evil"!
"This is it….." he walked over to the man and asked if he could borrow the book.
"No, I'm not yet done."
"Too bad! I want it!" and he disappeared then reappeared behind the man.
"What's your name?"
"Rakukojin."
"Well, Rakukojin, Goodnight!" and he passed his hand through his body and his hand held Rakukojin's heart when it came out once again.
"Lu! Here!" Sargatanas called out to his partner.
Luciphawn went over to Sargatanas, walking briskly, as his trench trailed behind him.
"Awww….poor professor." Luciphawn said. He touched the whole in his body and the blood ignited.
"Take cover!" Luciphawn conjured a greenish light and the blood disintegrated before it touched them.
"Hmph! The blood of a mortal! How disgusting!" Luciphawn said
"Now to get rid of the evidence…..would you care to do the honor?" Sargatanas asked
"Of course!" and Luciphawn walked over to the body and burnt it. Sargatanas took the book with him.
"Let's get back to Dy Phawn!" then they disappeared…once more.
-The Sea-
Faerore opened her eyes. She was on a soft bed.
"Are you alright?" Silent asked her.
"Y-Yes, I'm fine." She concentrated, hands in the air, then light started emitting from the floor. She was getting more and more rejuvenated, but more and more tired. Suddenly, the light disappeared.
"What happened?" She said, she was now panting.
"Don't waste your energy! See! You're already exhausted! Rest 'till we get to Umbala." Scythie said, as she was descending the steps.
"Y-Yes, I appreciate your concern."
Scythie went back up onto the deck.
"Will you be alright if I leave you?" Silent asked her.
"Yes, I'll be alright." Faerore kissed Silent swiftly on the cheek, lay down on her bed again, and just smiled. Silent was now burning hot.
"I'll be going n-now….." and he went up the steps, and Faerore fell asleep. As Silent was going up the steps, he saw an image. A cross. Then he saw Decipher. He was tied to the cross, his blood spurting out. Silent tripped.
"Argh! Another vision?" he paused for a while to reflect on what had just happened, then started ascending once more.
Dy Phawn was sitting on her chair. Alone. Not a single fish in the sea was swimming with the boat she was on.
"Where the hell are those bastards?" She shouted.
"Thou art mad at thee? Hm?" Luciphawn shouted. Dy Phawn turned and looked at them immediately.
"We have…..information on these so called Assassin Crosses." Luciphawn said.
"We haven't read it though, as we wanted to shaaaaaaaaare it with you." Sargatanas "took" some air, and solidified it into a book.
"Well, come over here and let's read it!" Dy Phawn said, and the two boys sat down beside her.
"Let's see…….katars……bloodlust…ah! here! Poison." Sargatanas said, as he flipped the pages. Luciphawn drew out a pair of mini-glasses out of the air as well and wore them.
"An Assassin Cross's poison is the most deadly thing to mortals on Midgard. If one drop of it would touch your blood or saliva, you're dead. Immortal entities or better known as gods or the valkyries are immune to this." Luciphawn said, and as he read each word, fiddled with his glasses.
"Ha! We're immune to it! Dy Phawn's not! Haha! Silent's gonna get you!" Luciphawn taunted Dy Phawn, prancing around with the book in hand.
"Shut up! Give me the book! I'll show you something!" and Dy Phawn grabbed the book from Luciphawn, as well as his glasses and imitated Luciphawn's actions with his glasses on. Sargatanas just giggled.
"Here! ……as gods or valkyries……..immune to this." Dy Phawn read once more.
"So?" Luciphawn questioned her.
"Shush! See! Here! It says: However, if the Assassin Cross were to add another ingredient, which is the Breath of Soul and Anger of Valkyrie, the immortals would die with one sip of it as well. Even f he or she would be the last immortal entity left in the nine worlds." She closed the book. Dust escaped from it, just before the book closed.
"H-What?" The two guys shouted. Sargatanas grabbed the book and the glasses.
"It says here that when added with the two ingredients mentioned above, mortals would be immune to it. Why don't we trick Silent using this knowledge?" Sargatanas suggested.
"Hmm……possible..yes." Luciphawn and Dy Phawn said, scratching their chins. Sargatanas pushed the glasses that were now on his nose nearer to his eyes.
"Hmph."
"Faerore! We're here!" Zan shouted, and went down the cabin and woke her up. The party saw a jungle with bridges on the trees and various treehouses. They went down the boat.
"We'll be headin' to Alberta now!" and the boat left.
An old man who seemed to be a person of great importance, judging from the clothes he was wearing approached the group.
"Welcome to Umbala, home to a part of the Yggdrasil tree, which allows movement between the nine worlds."
"Ooooooooooh" all of them said in astonishment.
-End of Chapter 7-