Chapter 8
Once we returned back to the village, we went into Greta's hut and she looked at us with a smile on her face. And the fact that the villagers smiled at me all the way back was a nice change. Greta and Salia smiled upon seeing us and started to speak. "Nice to see you back safe and sound. Did you happen to find anything in the ruins?" Greta smiled at us.
"Actually, yes. And they consisted of tons of minerals, a gigantic Krawl at the bottom of it, and we got a strange shard that exudes incredible power," Jeena smiled as Rallen presented it and Greta gawked at it.
"Goodness! Now I remember! It's all flooding back to me!... But something's different about it..." Greta exclaimed before looking at it in confusion.
"What is it?" Rallen asked.
"Well, may be a trick of the memory, but, when I last saw it, the glow wasn't quite as bright as it is now," Greta said with confusion.
"It is unusually bright... maybe Radeese would know more about it. After all, he knew the Spectrobe Master personally," I said.
"Good idea, Maja. Besides, we have some Spectrobes to revive from fossils and then have them evolve into battle-ready Spectrobes," Rallen smiled.
"I agree, let's get back to the ship and on our way to Wyterra," I smiled at him with a wink.
"Teehee, young love, huh?" Salia giggled.
"Yes," I smiled back at her as Rallen put the shard back in the Cosmolink and we then bid farewell to the duo and left for the ship. Rallen and Jeena then started to excavate, awaken, and evolve numerous different Spectrobes until they had a full arsenal to work with on them. Rallen was now in control of a Sabogar, Zappira, and Zuwaja for battle and a cute little bulb Spectrobe named Hananomi for a searcher. And Jeena was in control of a Gazen, evolved Tobasu into Ketobasu, same with Zora into Bazora. And her new child form was a cute little seed-shaped Spectrobe called Dongu, who had one of the cutest little faces of all!
"Okay, we've still got quite a few evolve minerals on us, so I suggest we keep them for future evolutions," Rallen smiled.
"Um... could I possibly taste one? Just to see what happens?" I asked with honesty.
"Well, okay. It may actually help you remember something, who knows?" Jeena smiled as she gave me an evolution mineral and I held it in my grasp before placing it in my mouth. And when I started to eat it, I gasped as something actually came into my memory! I saw three different characters that looked similar to me in that they were Krawl and they had a humanoid appearance!
"I... I see other creatures like me... humanoid Krawl of different colors... One blue and skinny, another red with a regal look, and the last green with a bulbous body... I don't know their names, but they all look important to me..." I said in shock as I saw them all.
"You're probably thinking of the other 3 High Krawl," Rallen said to me.
"There were other High Krawl?" I gawked.
"The blue one was Jado and he actually survived my initial encounter with him and then hid on my ship and absorbed the other High Krawl's powers when they were beaten in the past. This isn't your first time you've been nominated to High Krawl, believe it or not," Rallen said, me sighing and curling my fists at the fact that one of my former accomplices would do something as horrid as that. "The red one was Gelberus and he was able to make flames on a whim. And the third was Gronos, whose first move in his previous plan included devouring all of the non-awakened Spectrobe fossils we had in storage and then trying to devour the gravity on Ziba's moons. If he'd have succeeded, Ziba would've been destroyed," Rallen explained.
"So all of them are just as evil as Krux?... So I was as evil as they were at one point... I surely hope I don't ever encounter Krux for the rest my life," I groaned.
"Well, we should get going back to Radeese. But first, I think we should try to contact NPP HQ again," Jeena said as we went to the front of the ship and we tried to connect back to Rallen and Jeena's boss again.
"Hello? Rallen? Jeena, do you copy?" asked a voice that I knew wasn't Grant's. It belonged to someone that sounded much younger.
"Hey, Harry. How's things back home?" Jeena asked him.
"Oh, I'm so relieved to hear your voice! Are you guys okay?" Harry asked, me confused at that.
"Wait... didn't the Commander tell you that we were sent through a portal?" I asked, Harry looking confused by the voice.
"Who's that? Do you have someone on the ship with you guys? And what do you mean by a portal?" Harry asked.
"Well... I can't believe Commander Grant didn't mention it to you. Well, we went through a portal around Sector W and, in the process, one of the High Krawl lost all of her memories and is now joining us in fighting against the Krawl," Jeena said.
"Female High Krawl? You mean Maja, right? Is that her who spoke?" Harry asked.
"Yes, that was my voice... it's kind of weird that Commander Grant didn't tell you anything. After all, we contacted him hours ago. Where is he anyways?" I asked.
"Well, I don't know myself... but you say you were sent through a portal?... I want to share something with you guys. Promise to keep it a secret?" Harry asked.
"Nanairo ice cream sundaes for a year if any of us blabs," Rallen smiled.
"Whoa! You mean it? I love those things!... Ahem... anyways, around 30 or so years ago, it seems that a junior officer disappeared on assignment out there," Harry said as Rallen produced the badge he found in the Cave of Evolution.
"Do you know who it was?" Jeena asked.
"You sitting down? It was Grant!" Harry said, me gasping as Rallen and Jeena jumped from their seats at this new information.
"Wait a second... is this his old badge?!" Rallen gawked at the badge he held in his person, the connection accidentally being cut in the process. "This doesn't make any sense! Why would Commander Grant have us go to that sector if he knew the risks beforehand? Especially since he's been here before?" Rallen growled in frustration.
"Hon, calm down. We can worry about that later. Right now the most important thing is that we head back to Radeese, okay?" I said as I put my hand on Rallen's shoulder, him sighing and calming down at that.
"You're right... let's get back to Wyterra," Rallen said with a sigh.