The Infinite Chronicles
Act 5: Treachery
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And if you need more description on how Infinite looks like, imagine
Raven from fortnite(lol) but the outfit is different and he actually has a face
Chapter 16
"Now where do you suppose we go to get breakfast?" I asked Ace. "There's a little coffee shop down the road, I think that'll work fine" he said while walking. I took off my mask and breathed in the fresh morning air, "Hey Infinite, don't you want to take off your mask? It's pretty stuffy when it's used for a long time.". "No, I'm rather comfortable with this mask, I don't mind using it for a long time" he replied. "You use that thing forever! It's good to take breaks time to time" I pestered him. He sighed "Fine, I'll only use it in combat." he took it off and we could see his face again. In the daylight, his face had wisps of dark smoke coming out of him every once in a while. His purple eyes became pale instead of the headlamp-like eyes he had in the dungeon.
"You don't look half bad," Ace commented "Alright let's go find a place to eat.". We wandered around the early morning streets, shops had just opened up and the air was crisp. "Ah there it is" he pointed towards a small shop on the corner. "Ah, Lieutenant Ace! What can I do for you?" a woman inside the shop called to us. "Just the regular Amelia, and a few more for my friends over here." he gestured towards us. "Alright!" she rubbed her hands "Wait here and I'll bring your food in 15 minutes.". "Meh meh! 15 minutes take too long for Steve stomach!" Steve complained. "Master, I advise you to be patient," Grace said to him.
We talked a bit more on the subject on how to get to the surface. "The land up there could be the solution to all our problems, it's a field of green larger than any titan we have" Infinite described "and the only way up there is through a current in the End zone, that is blocked by a barrier.". "Why is there a barrier?" I asked. "To make sure no monster can go up there and ruin it, the Dragon is well aware of what can happen if she destroys the land above." he replied "the only way to get pass that barrier is using the Three Cubes of Life, and fortunately, the first one is here in Regeum.". Amelia came in with a huge platter of coffee, toast and eggs "Alright, here's your food, I hope you enjoy it.". It was certainly a feast, the excellent bitter coffee with the fresh runny eggs and the crispy toast.
"Was it worth the wait?" Ace joked. "Breakfast very excellent! Could live here forever!" he exclaimed. "Unfortunately, we don't have much time, let's get a move back to the palace." Infinite said. He made a rectangle with his fingers and collapsed them and opened a much bigger rectangle. "This way" he gestured towards the portal. We did make it to the palace, only we were a bit over our target. "What the hell!" Jess yelled as we fell from the sky. Inside a titan underwater, you think they would be small, but we were easily about 50 feet in the sky. "Infinite! Do something!" I shouted at him over the howling wind. The wings on his back clicked and his core crystal glowed. He moved at the speed of light, flying up and down to bring us to safety. "Sorry about that" he chuckled weakly. "Meh meh, that very scary." Steve had his fur ruffled up and was wide eyed. "Never again" Ace began before turning green and threw up in a nearby pot.
We cleaned ourselves up and went to make the Emperor. "Long ago, the Aegis entrusted three brothers to protect the Three Cubes of Life, each of the brothers went off to make the kingdoms of Regeum, Ischyros and Erimos." Marth began when we all gathered in his meeting room "Since I am the current leader of Regeum, I entrust the key to you.". He pulled out an odd looking key and gave it to me. "I trust you will be able to retrieve the Cube of Hope, it lies south of the palace in the Tomb of Leo.". "Thank you your majesty" I bowed on our way out "I hope we can visit you once more.". "You may visit me anytime you like," he laughed. It was hard to not like him, his personality was very cheerful and he had a good natured laugh. "Alright so we are heading south?" Jess asked.
"Yes, it won't be much of a problem, Regeum is very rich in plants, we should be crossing only planes of grass." Ace replied. We headed out past the main gate and out into a sea of emerald green grass. We ran in a happy fashion, like we were children, jumping up and down and having a great time. Infinite said he was tired and he switched to Avalon. After several hours of walking, night came and we reached the tomb. Half of the tomb was in a cliff wall and was hidden by some thick foliage.
"So we just put the key in here?" I pointed to a small hole in the wall."Yep, that's it" he replied. "How is a bloody stone wall going to stop a powerful being from entering this temple?" Ace asked. Avalon smiled, he drew his sword and launched a series of attacks on the wall. The wall didn't break, instead it seemed to absorb the attacks and now was glowing blue. "What on earth is this thing made of?" Jess gasped.
"Energy absorption bricks, wonderful stuff." he replied. I put in the key and the wall slid and opened a passage. "Down the creepy hallway I suppose" I said as we walked in. There really wasn't much down here, just more glowing bricks and a few broken statues. "There it is" Avalon pointed out. A cube with elaborate gold designs the size of a basketball was floating in the hands of a statue of Leo. "Alright let's go get it" Jess walked forward before being pushed back by Zero. Where she was about to step a dozen spikes popped up before disappearing into the floor. "Of course there's traps," she muttered. "This way," Avalon moved a stone to reveal a tunnel, we followed him in and we appeared next to the cube. "I made it easy for those who knew this temple.". I picked up the cube, and it shrank to the size of a coin.
"Thanks for doing the hard part" a cheery voice behind us called. We turned around to see two figures in the shadows. The first was a young man with dark hair and brown eyes with a rather nice red jacket and his partner beside him was a female. She had light brown hair like mine but with green eyes and a rather childish attitude. She wore a white robe stretching from her shoulders down to her knees. And of course, they had blades, on the right of the man, was a massive blade with four arms and had its face covered by a knight's helmet but the woman didn't have a blade.
"Alexander and Caroline, how many more members are gonna chase after us huh?" Jess spat at them. "Oooh fancy words for the traitor" Caroline teased. "Let's just get down to fighting shall we?" Her chest began to glow and she changed into a different uniform. The robe shifted to become more like tentacles and her eyes glowed with power. A rectangular core crystal shined brightly in the middle of her chest and in her hand a rather threatening scythe. "She's a flesh eater!" Ace said in alarm. "No shit sherlock, we got that." I retorted, grabbing my weapon. Alexander's weapon of choice was his fists encased in metal. They all easily vaulted over the trap and met our swords. Steve went to parry Alexander's gigantic fists while Ace sniped Alexander with arrows but they got blocked by his blade.
"Quaking strike!" he yelled, punching Steve with such force he went flying backwards. Now Jess took his position, dodging his heavy hitting yet clumsy attacks with ease. Meanwhile, I was crossing swords with Carolin. She was incredibly fast, had Avalon not have a powerful shield, I would have been dead many times. She was fighting in such a flurry, she became a blur of grey. Her scythe came at me, I parried it but she brought it down and sliced my leg. "We need to slow her down" Avalon's voice said inside my head "On the count of three, one, two, three!"
He exploded his shield, pushing her out of reach. We both held the sword "Winter Night!". The floor turned to ice, the perfect fighting condition for Avalon. Caroline ran at us, but she slipped past us. "Blast this stupid ice, no matter, I'll still kill you" she grinned "Tsunami Strike!" she launched blasts of water at us, but when they got near, they just froze and floated in the air. Avalon thrust his palm outwards and the icicles turned and chased her. She shattered all of them, and ran at us again. This time she didn't miss, I parried it and we went back to fighting. Alexander was chasing Ace, who expertly avoided him, bouncing off the walls and pelting him with arrows. "Earthquake!" his blade hit the ground and sent a shockwave enough to knock us down and make Ace fall.
Before Alexander could do anything to him, he got blasted by a column of fire from Grace. He engaged him instead, Ace fell down and got knocked out. Wildcard dragged him to the side and went back to fight Alexander who was still holding his own, despite fighting five people at once. I used Freezing Edge at Caroline which hit her and sent her out of commission. Seeing his partner down, Alexander used another Earthquake to topple all of them. He picked Caroline up "Well, I suppose we'll see you next time?" he gave a charming wink. We all rushed at him, but before we could, his blade pummeled the ground and a large amount of dust and debris stopped us. Coughing and unable to see "Where did they go?" I ask. When the dust settled, they were nowhere to be found.
"Call Atlas, we're going to Ischyros, Luke and Jackson's hometown" Avalon said.
Note: Disregard chapter 5, it does not make sense at ALL, except for the note. Any arts used past chapter 5 are correct.
