Once again, thanks for those lovely reviews! And to the reviewers.
GoldenSunGeek-We'll find out more about Jenna's feeling in the next chapter.
And as for the pairings, you'll see…
Hope you all enjoy this chapter! It's a bit…silly to be honest. Well, read and find out for yourselves.
To Karst's disgust, Agatio was not taking the grave situation the way she wanted him to.
"Agatio, what are you doing?" she said dangerously.
"Making pancakes," said Agatio, as though he sat on the Jupiter Lighthouse everyday to prepare breakfast.
"Agatio, what for?" she said sighing loudly. "There's still so much work to do! Don't you realise the importance of our mission, you thick-headed…Ugh!" she ended hopelessly.
"But it's 9 o' clock in the morning and I still haven't had breakfast!" whined Agatio.
"No it's not! I'll prove it to you!" She paced around for a while, scrutinized the people below, and finally yelled, " Hey you! The one with the blue hair! Look here."
This crude form of appellation took Piers, the haughty sea captain, by surprise.
"I sincerely hope you're not talking to me! After your behaviour at Champa…"
Karst made her hands look as though she was strangling someone invisible. "Are you the only one with blue hair here! No, I meant that girl there, at least she looks vaguely smart enough to be able to tell the time."
"I'm a sea captain! I am smart…I tell the time all the time!"
"Yeah, whatever, you talk like an alien anyway…" Karst said, making a vicious face. Agatio looked blankly at Piers.
Mia hurriedly dried her tears, put her hair neatly, and turned to face Karst. "Madam, I think it's about 3pm, judging by the position of the Sun relative to the Earth."
"Hah! Told you, Agatio! You just wanted an excuse to eat, didn't you?" Agatio just shrugged and said, " If we were back in Prox, I'd be sitting in that igloo eating breakfast right now."
Karst stared at him. Then,
"Wow. You just gave me an excellent idea. An excellent idea…" said Karst smiling evilly, "Hahaha! Tomorrow, we'll be eating Isaac and his little friends for breakfast…"
"But I prefer pancakes, Karst!"
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"Good thing these fluffy pillows were down here," said a certain redhead to himself, "The first thing I'm going to do is kill Ivan. As soon as I get up, that is."
But Garet didn't want to all the way up again. He hated puzzles, especially purple-wind ones. So far this had been his worst dungeon ever.
Just as he was thinking this, an escalator appeared to his right. Strange, he thought, never saw that before. There were pillows where he fell, so why should there not be an escalator? If Garet had been a little more philosophical, he might have thought some more about this profound matter. Fortunately, for you readers, he wasn't.
He stepped on to the escalator and it began to take him up slowly.
"Typical," he said, "it's purple. These Contigo-Jupiter people are so colour-coordinated." He thought about how even Ivan's eyes matched with him. Ha-ha, he thought, another reason to kill him!
Garet hummed a small tuneless tune till he reached wherever this purple staircase would take him. But as he stepped onto the platform, he realised that this wasn't the place he had fallen off from. Where was everyone? Where was he? Was the dratted lighthouse playing mean tricks on him? He wasn't lost…was he?
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Felix stared acrimoniously at the large group of 'happy' people down below, relieved that none of them could see him. He could spy on them to his heart's content. And from what he had learnt, the Jupiter star had not been found. They seemed to have forgotten about it. Also, he didn't know why he had been reluctant to meet Isaac. I mean, he thought, Isaac was talking so sweetly to his would-be murderess. How dangerous could he really be? And to talk to Karst like that, one had to be either extremely courageous or extremely foolish. Felix finally concluded that both Agatio and Isaac belonged to the latter.
He sighed and put his hair behind his ear. For some reason, Felix got an odd pleasure from thinking troubling thoughts. A self-pitying man, he enjoyed wallowing in his own misery.
And the last thing he wanted was for this bliss to be interrupted so crudely by:
"Aaaaargh! A lone person? Here? Waaaa….?"
Felix jumped around, getting his sword ready and by his side. But after seeing the object that made the girlish noise, he unintentionally dropped his sword and himself started screaming.
Two Adepts, on one of the highest towers of Jupiter Lighthouse, were screaming at each others presences. Let me assure you that it wasn't a pleasant sound.
After their throats had become too hoarse, there had been a mutual decision to stop screaming. The shock was starting to wear off.
"…So, how did you up here Garet?" asked Felix, " I was hoping you'd be a flat pancake by now."
Garet, who was getting quite used to people being disappointed with him being alive, an expecting no less from the cold brother of Jenna, said:
"Oh, sor-ry, but I think God Jupiter wanted me to live. There were some cushions to break my fall and an escalator to bring me up. Speaking of pancakes, do you smell something eggy?"
"Yeah, Agatio is preparing breakfast. Want to go get some?" Felix asked, shrugging his shoulders.
"You bet! I haven't had a decent meal in days!"
Hmm…some awfully weird things going on…why is Mia so nice to Karst? What's Earth, anyway? Why was the lighthouse being mean to Garet? And, will Agatio be willing to share his breakfast with his enemies?
The story is getting a little…stale, no? Fear not, the next chapter shall be great (I hope)! It's just that I had forgotten what really happened in the game…
Review, please? Thanks.
