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Chapter 3: Beyond Their Memory
(Beta-Read by Sorceress Ash)
Once again, Cecil found himself at the conference table, with Emily and the newest visitor, a Lunarian by the name of Glen. Emily nervously drummed her fingers on the tabletop, a habit of hers that she wanted to quit. She sighed in exasperation and turned her attention to the talk in front of her.
"What can be so important that the Lunarians would need to send someone to Earth?" asked Cecil, his face concentrated with worry.
Every person on this planet has something to worry about…
"Dragon humanoids attacked Lunaria and left the place in ruins," Glen said.
"Lunaria?" asked Cecil, a puzzled look on his face.
"We built a town on the Red Moon, so we could live there until we came to the Blue Planet." Glen said, "We made it hard to find, but I guess that wasn't good enough."
"It seems as if whatever war was waged upon Lunaria, was also waged upon Mysidia…" Cecil said, a hint of skepticism accenting the anxiousness in his voice .
"Do you think this is all connected?" asked Emily, finally joining the talk.
"Such events cannot be laid to rest as coincidences…" Cecil said. They all nodded in agreement.
"But why?" Glen asked, "None of us have seen these people before."
Yet they know more about us then we do…like during the attack on Mysidia…
"It doesn't make sense…" Cecil murmured.
They sighed in unison. Emily considered the two people in front of her. She found it uncanny that she had the same eye color and hair color as the two men with her. Cecil, in particular bore a resemblance to her late father that was even stranger.
What is the world coming to? Men with dragon wings? So many people with such uncanny resemblances to others?
"Emily," asked Cecil. Emily flinched at her name, her train of though interrupted, and turned her attention back to the conversation. "There is something I'd like to know…"
"Um…what is it?" Emily stammered, her hand flying to her crystal embedded locket and clutching it to her chest. The locket was the only thing that kept her tight in her past, other than her memories.
"Are you Lunarian?"
Emily's eyes grew wide in shock, although she had no idea as to the meaning of the word. "I don't know what you mean…" she said meekly.
"Lunarian, meaning from the moon," Glen said. Emily felt interrogated by the two men. Two men, one not much older than her, bombarding her with questions of her heritage and unfamiliar words. She had been brought up to believe that she was born a Mysidian.
"I only know that I was born in Mysidia, and how my father looked," Emily said, clutching the locket even closer to her chest.
"Do you, perchance have a picture of him?" asked Cecil, anticipation glowing in his eyes.
After much thought, Emily reluctantly removed her locket and handed it to the king. "There's a picture of my father inside…" she said.
Cecil fumbled with the locket a bit until he got it open. He examined the picture inside closely, and his eyes widened with shock and recognition. Glen, taking a look at the picture over Cecil's shoulder, choked, flabbergasted.
Guess they figured the resemblance…
The two men looked up from the locket. "Do you happen to know the name of your father?" Cecil asked, in a way which suggested that the answer would seal their fate.
"No, but the High Elder told me my father wrote his name on the back of the locket. I never bothered to look, though, I didn't want to really know, it would scare me…"
Cecil carefully removed the picture from its golden framing. He slowly flipped over the small portrait, both excited and afraid of what was on the back.
If boys behave like this, all of the time, I'm staying single.
Cecil gasped. "His name was…"
"KluYa…" Glen finished.
Emily looked impatiently at the two. "And your point is?" She muttered, drumming her fingers again. After a few seconds, she cursed herself for doing so.
"My father's name was KluYa," Cecil whispered, softly.
Emily, hearing this, very nearly fell from her chair. Just yesterday, she had aspiring dreams of being a fully-fledged Court Sage. She could have finally seen the world, and maybe even traveled.
Looks like it's been granted, because from recent events…it looks like I'm not going to be sitting in the Mysidian Mage School anymore…
"The winged man I faced said something about me having brothers…"
"And that would be Golbez and I…"
This puzzled Emily. "Who's Golbez?"
Cecil looked shocked, though he tried to keep it from showing. "The one who took control over the Red Wings when the Water Fiend banished me?"
"I've never heard of him," Emily said, "The High Elder never let me know what happened in the outside world. He never told me why..."
Cecil sighed, "There's the long version, and then there's the short. Which one would you like to hear?"
"The short version would be most adequate."
"A Lunarian named Zemus wanted the eight crystals of the Blue Planet so he could get out of the Red Moon, and wreak havoc on the Blue Planet. He had one of his fiends kill our King and take on his form. He sent the Red Wings- an airship unit of Baron- and I to Mysidia to retrieve the Water Crystal. We took it, and killed many innocents in the process. They eventually banished me for choosing to doubt the fiend. My friends and I embarked on… a whole journey, if you will, as we tried to prevent Zemus from laying his hands on the crystals. Zemus had taken control of Golbez and used him as a pawn to collect the crystals. At one point, we met a man called FuSoYa, who told us that he was my uncle, and that Golbez was my brother. He removed Zemus' control over Golbez, too. We managed to defeat Zemus, and… we returned to our lives."
Talk about shocking developments…
"The High Elder has really kept a lot from me…"
"I'm sure he had his reasons," Cecil said.
Emily found it hard to think of any plausible reasons for the High Elder to keep all of these events from her. She yawned, stretching her hands up like a cat would. She noticed Glen sweating a river, but didn't really care much for that.
We're all tired," Cecil said, suppressing a yawn. He got up and made his way to the door. "I'll go get a room for you two at the inn."
"You would do that?" asked Emily, hopefully.
"Would you rather sleep outside on the cold ground?" Cecil said with a rare and out of character smile, "You aren't alone." He quickly paced away.
I truly am not…
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