Sahara Desert: Egypt
Gawr Gura & Murasaki Shion
"Proud of yourself?" Gura asks, she kick hot sand around her feet for hundred time since they walk aimlessly in the Sahara Desert.
"Strange." Shion said. "I link my portal with the place where the trident used to be. It should bring us to one of Atlantean colonies not a waterless desert. Like this."
She waves her hand around.
"Maybe this place used to bean Atlantean colonies.
I heard that millions of years ago it used to be a sea, maybe some Atlantean already built their city around here, long ago." Gura tried to put her thoughts together.
Shion face look brighter. "Then we just have to look for an old ruined, at least we come to the right place!"
Gura trying to hold her tears from the pain of hitting her toe with a rock that buried in sand.
"Well, Good luck looking for it in this sand… ocean."
Shion pulls out something that look suspiciously like dowsing rod from her pocket.
"With this magic item! We will surely find the city in no time."
She starts walking, follows the rod's direction. Gura has nothing better to do so she follows her as well, holding broken trident in her hand.
Hours pass and they still walking among the sand bolder, sun burned their skin as they drag their feet across the desert. Even if Gura hood starting to lose its cooling effect
after a while and Gura don't want to asks Shion how she feel, her purple magician uniform is much more revealing and expose Shion's skin to the sun without any protection.
Even if she has a big hat to cover her head with.
One time during their break. Gura found lizard hiding under rock and quickly eat in, enjoying the crispy bone and warm blood from the reptiles in order to regain her strength.
But Shion looks at her with such a contempt that making Gura choked.
"What is it? I just find some snack. That's all." Gura protests.
"If you cannot control your personal desire. How can you control your nation?" Shion lecturing.
"Look! Oasis." Gura point her hand at the right side of Shion's head.
" What ! Where?" Great Magi quickly stumble back without any dignity until she heard Gura laughing from behind behind .
"You brat!" Shion using wind magic to throw a pack of sand at Gura's mouth.
"We are reaching this point huh? Come here and see what I will give you!" Gura throwing some sand at Shion face and then they start brawling with each other in
Sahara Desert.
Their match abruptly end when Gura snatching Shion's dowsing rod and throw it away.
"Those accursed rod make us circling around this desert like forever!" She yelled
"Then what are you going to use?" Shion gasped, she is too tired to fight now.
"If there is a city beneath the sand, water should find it easier than us." Gura frowned.
"When I touch this sand I feel the water beneath it, let follows them and see if there are any clue."
They then circling around until Gura finally find the entrance. For some reason, it is the same place she throws those dowsing rod away. It's still spinning madly on the hot
sand.
"Told you! My magic item is working!" Shion quickly picks the rod up and toss in her pocket.
"Well? Whatever." Gura buried her hand in a hot sand, trying to control the water beneath it.
"I found a lock, let me unlock it. Done. Piece of cake." Gura said as there is a loud click under their feet.
"Good, but aren't we are above them-" before shion could finishes. The door suddenly open below them. Gravity dragging tons of sand along with Gura and Shion below.
" Nyooo!" Gura yelled.
"Neeeee!" Shion also panicked, but she use her wind magic to create an air dome that made their landing somewhat softened.
" So, this is Atlantean colonies?" Gura cough, everything around her made by sandstone, a room filled with dried bone from the creature they won't recognized. It's look more
like a tomb than a city hall.
" This way." To Gura relief Shion didn't pull out her dowsing rod and use her magic power instead, sending them across the room like a sonar and create a small map in her
hand.
After walking for a few minutes. They finally reached throne room.
There is a throne inside and some other furniture, that is.
"Legend said that Gawr Gorgo gain his power to defeat Leviathan and create his trident by going alone in the holy land. If we can follow his step we might be able to fix
yours." Shion explained.
" Nice, but what's next?" Gura asks.
" We have to make this city working again, at least an info part.
It is always behind the throne. Let's look." Shion walking at the old throne and find a small button behind it.
" Bingo!" Shion punches the button and, of course nothing happens.
Gura snorted. " Now what?"
" Wait a minute." Shion quickly opens her imaginary book.
" They said that Atlantean system will work if it get the water. Let's give this thing some."
" I can find wa-" Gura said something but Shion cut her down.
" Just for today I will show you the power of Magician. Watch and learn kiddo."
Shion start chanting magic spell for few minutes and then a drop of water suddenly floating on her hand.
"That's it?" Gura yawn. She expects something miraculous, but a drop of water? Nah.
" This is pure H2O. Just creating second ago nothing but water!" Shion explained.
"So your ultimate magic is an Water Distillation machine? No wonder why there are only a few magicians left nowadays."
Gura losing her faith in Shion more than before.
"Normies like you don't understand it! I will show you the miracle of this thing." Shion quickly drops the water in the machine behind the throne and… Nothing happen.
Gura find a comfortable space to rest her back as Shion start punching the button nonstop.
"Wake me up when you are done." She closed her eyes, but Shion quickly shook her shoulders until Gura has to get up.
" Not enough water?" Gura give an idea, Shion pours another water in the machine, but there still no sight of it working anyway.
" Well, lucky for you. This whole city hasn't know sea water for millions of years. Maybe all the engine has been gone after all, who knows what happened to those buggers
here in the past?" Gura walk away and kick the dust-covered desk.
" Sea water! That's it! We need sea water, not just any water." Shion finally gets the idea.
" How are you going to find sea water here?" Gura spat dusty mist out of her throat.
" Some people said that in our spine has the same nutrients as sea water." Shion explained.
Gura quickly hide behind the wall. "Don't you think you can put a Predator move onme!"
" My point is our body are similar to sea water so, our body fluid should be suffice."
"So, we can just… Pee at the throne?" Gura asks.
" Lack of imagination!" Shion yelled. "There are many thing we can do. Blood, saliva or even sweat."
Shion then using her magic powers to control the sweat from her own body and drop it on the throne.
The engine starts and hologram picture of some ancient Atlantean king suddenly appeared in front of them.
"To those who looking for the secret of Atlantis kingdom." Hologram said.
" Gawr Gorgo never trust other people to hold his power after his death. So, he keep the secret way to gain his power to the holy land, a same place he sealed the beast
Leviathan inside.
Find the beast and you will find true power behind Gawr family. Great warriors, I hope you can find his secret and make Atlantis great again!" The hologram then disappeared,
leaving Gura and Shion in the ruined city.
" This is their last message." Shion looking for more information.
" They probably send entire army to get the secret of Gorgo in holy land, but no one ever come back.
" Good omen." Gura snorts. "So we have to follows them to their doom? Is that our plan?"
" Chloe will hunt us down wherever we go. And this is our only chance to prevent the war between Atlantis and humanity." Shion said.
" This is the reason why no one can find Gawr Gorgo secret. Everyone knows where to find the Leviathan, but no one knows he will hide something else with it. Smart move!"
Shion grudgingly praised the dead man.
" So, we will go to Bermuda Triangle? " Gura asks, knowing that her father has built a ceremonial entrances to the holy land in that certain place, after all her mother has
been sacrifice to the beast in that place.
Shion sits down. " Yes, but I will not walking from here to America.
And my portal magic can be only use once per 12 hours, I guess we have to rest here for a while."
Gura thinks hard. The more they stay here, the more likely that Chloe and her army will start doing something.
Shark girl then remembered something, she quickly opens her hood pocket and searching for something.
"Do you have any satellites phone in your pocket? I need to call my friend?" She asks Shion, pulling a business card that Ozora Subaru gave to her long time ago.
….
Arabian Desert
Seanz De Veur
Seanz and his companion follows Chloe order and travel to this God forsaken land. His new growing arm by Atlantean body modification technologies is still itching, but he
know enough to not complain with the soldier around him.
They aren't his friend and follows him by Chloe's order.
Seanz know full well where their loyalty are.
They didn't even bring their ship to avoid attention from human, but it's seemed unnecessary since there is no one around them since they start traveling.
Finally, they saw their target. An orchard and green house in the middle of desert, around them are high-tech looking buildings and solar cell's power panels.
Group of man with gun wave for them to go on, Seanz sneers.
At the swimming pool that lay in front of them.
Usada Pekora who wearing her black sunglasses gesture at them to join a party.
A rabbit man dress in tuxedo gives them mince carrot water in wine glasses.
Atlantean soldier gulp it down without vomiting by their cheer wills and dignity, but Seanz didn't bother to tried it.
"Got the item? He asks, get to business first.
" What about you? Peko." Pekora asks back.
Seanz swear silently. He is a warrior from high born, but now has to argue like some damn merchant with this warcrime of the Galaxies.
Anyways, Chloe order is very clear. Seanz need to get that thing or there is no place for him in Atlantis.
" As you demanded, we give you a map marking with the place fill with fossil fuel. Oil, natural gasses at the sea floor. Not sure why you need this kind of thing anyway."
He shrugged.
"I have no need for these things, but human has. Peko.
Many of my friends will buy this information in a very good price.
It will benefit both of us when these human tearing each other throat for already running low resource." Pekora laugh.
" It will make our sea hotter so I don't want call it benefit." Seanz snorted.
"But we will wipe them out in a few years anyway. So, you better hurried get whatever you want from them and leave."
" I only need some time to create a genetic engineering carrot to be able to grow without water, that's why I build my lab here in the middle of desert.
If we can grow them here and it's still tasty. Then I can has a food supplied for my people anywhere. Peko"
" Just don't grow it in our sea is enough for me." Seanz shudder when he saw what is on Pekora's plate.
"Prime minister Chloe keeps her promise. What's about you?" Seanz demanded.
Pekora laugh and clapped her hand, one depressed- looking nousagi walking toward them. He carries big box on his back and drop it in front of Seanz.
The box itself is big enough to put human body inside.
" Open it." Pekora wave her hand at tired nousagi who gulp down whiskey in his throat.
He stumbles to crack and open the box. Inside it, there are robotic woman who wearing a glass, coiling her body like a baby in mother womb.
There is name tag in the box too, the character on the tag can be read as Roboco.
"Muti-purpose Android from ancient civilizations. Hope you put it a good use. Peko" Pekora smiles.
" How can I control it?" Seanz questioned.
"Read this manual or easier, see the panel on her chest? Tell me what you want it to do. I will set it for free, sort of costumer services Peko."
" I want it to hunt someone." Seanz said.
"Any links to that person?" Pekora punch the button, she can guess who that person will be.
Seanz picked up a small tube that contained Gura's blood inside.
" Her DNA. It's mix with sea water a bit during the fight. Can we use it?"
" We will tried, peko." Pekora pour red blood inside the robot's body, her system start working like crazy, calculate and lock on the target she has to search.
" It's working!" Pekora smiles.
" Wait for her to link with other algorithms. She will find your target in no time."
Seanz trying to hide his impressed. " I guess machine has their use after all."
"Remind you that she come from ancient time when any person can be god or control godlike technology-poke. We cannot reproduce her or making what like of her anymore.
If she's gone then it's done.
She might be the last of her kind. The reason I sell her in very low prices is because I literally dig her from junk yard and part of her function is being destroyed with no way
to fix. If your job is done and there is no need for this Android, I guess you can sale her back to me. Peko. We can discuss about prizes later."
Peko offers.
" I guess so." Seanz replied. " But when will-"
"We found the target!" Pekora raise her voice.
Holograms appear from Roboco's face and it's showing a picture of Gawr Gura. A satellite locates her in Africa.
" Gotcha!" Seanz shouts, they finally found her!
The robot opens her eyes." Target locations confirm: Exterminate operation begins."
Roboco climbs out of the box, and start the hunt.