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Chapter V: Healed! - (Luneth)

We entered the temple...

My party of Light Warriors walked into a main hall of the temple. There were numerous stone pillars holding up the ceiling, some of them were intact and untouched, but most were slanted and cracked a little.

"Very bizarre, there's no one here." stated Arc.

"This entire situation that we're in is bizarre!" mocked the karate-uniformed girl.

While Arc and Refia were talking with each other, I noticed that ahead of us there was a very long corridor leading to another room with many pillars and a staircase heading upstairs, while to our right there was a room with a faint glow coming from it.

"I'm going this way," I pointed towards the room. "Stand guard you two."

They both nodded in agreement.

I started heading for the room to my right, with Ingus still on my shoulders. His weight adding to the weight from my armor was getting unbearable. The deeper into the room I go, the brighter the glow it gets. I finally get into the opening and take a look to my left...

"A spring!" I shouted.

In front of me was a spring, filled with clear water. I let out a sigh of relief and put Ingus on the floor. I took off my right gauntlet and took what little water I could hold into my hand, tilted Ingus' head with my left hand and opened his mouth.

"Here! Drink this water Ingus! You'll feel better." I said to him in hopes that I was right.

I put little drops of water into his mouth. I then heard footsteps coming towards me, it was Arc and Refia!

"We..." Arc sounded exhausted from the running. "We heard you shouting... So we came..."

"Is that... water?!" exclaimed Refia.

"Mmm... cough... Uh..."

"Ingus!" the three of us said.

"Hey... Looks like you guys were fine without me, heh..." Ingus said softly.

"Seems like the water can heal us very fast." I said.

Both Arc and Refia took little sips of the clear water.

"I feel energized! No more fatigue!" said Refia with a big smile on her face.

Now it was my turn to drink the water, I felt renewed! I stood up with ease, put my right gauntlet back on and feeling more able to carry the weight of my armor. Ingus started to stand up and rearranged his red hat.

"Where are we?" questioned Ingus, who started to look around.

"We're in a temple where the mist doesn't appear to be present at." replied Arc.

"Hmm, I wonder why that is? Have you seen a crystal in this temple?" asked the tall blond.

"I brought you here right after we entered the temple," I said "Let's go up the stairs past that long corridor."

We all took one more sip of the clean water that revitalized us and exited the room. In the main room, we took a right towards the long corridor and took the stairs to go up the second floor.

On the second floor, there was only one room. The room had no stone pillars in the middle and there was running water on each side of the room with a pedestal at the far end of the room. I noticed a small light on the pedestal. I move closer and closer to the light while my other three companions follow me behind.

"A... Crystal?" I wondered while looking at the blue object.

Ingus looks over my shoulder. "It's a shard of a crystal, although it's intriguing why a shard would be broken off from the crystal itself."

"Yeah, I wonder where the crystal itself is." commented the freckled boy.

"Here, let me take it." I said in haste.

I held out my hand in front of me to reach out for the crystal shard.

FLASH

I felt my hand rebound off an invisible wall. There was no pain, but I was startled nonetheless.

'The crystal shard is protected by an unseen force!' I thought to myself. 'I wonder how we're ever going to get to it.'

"I'm fine guys, it didn't hurt." I assured my companions.

"Let's not dwell on this, for the moment we can't obtain the shard, we will find another way..." Ingus said.

"So what now?" asked Refia.

We all pondered for a few minutes, until Ingus had an idea.

"I will cast Sight, I could not see the entire world clearly in my head. Now that we're near a crystal shard and that I've been completely healed by that water we drank, the power of my spell will surely be more effective." stated Ingus.

Arc, Refia and I surrounded Ingus while watching him close his eyes for a few moments and reopening then with a white glow in his eyes. He started to mutter something.

"Hmm, this is interesting..." Ingus started to say...

Author's note:

My fans... Please... Forgive... My... LONG... ASS... Tardiness... I'm really sorry! I'm just a lazy person, but I've shaped up and got Chapter 5 DONE! BIG Thanks to; Juuichigatsu, AppleBerryGirl, Stefania27, Gravaja Umbros, NaraShikamaru21. Thanks very much for your review after my last update before this one, I hope you continue to read this fanfic and review. Blazer101, SilverCascade, hope you both will still read this fanfic. ) Future readers, please review/comment if you can, it will inspire me to continue writing. Regardless, I will continue writing without additional reviews for I really want to finish this Masterpiece! (lol j/k) :P

-FiresealFFXI