Chapter Nine
Toomy Hermanius,
the Chief of the Cetra
Aeris woke up in the House of Healing. She opened her eyes. She was lying with her face up towards the white ceiling.
She yawned. Her head had stopped hurting. "Aeris?" Ageha come over to her. She was a tall girl with long, blonde hair tied back in a blue ribbon. She had big, dark, sad blue eyes. At least they looked sad at the moment. "Ageha." Aeris replied, and sat up.
"Feeling better, now?" Ageha asked, looking concerned.
"Much better, thanks." A silence stretched between them for a few moments. "Ageha. Does anyone know were Aireth went?"
"No idea. She didn't tell you anything, did she?" "Not a single one of my questions were answered." Aeris answered bitterly.
A great sadness filled Ageha's face. "She has turned, hasn't she? The whole village knows what she did to the flower field.
The whole village's talking about it. And the Chief of Himitsu says he has something to say to every Cetra of the Village."
"How'd you know that?" Aeris asked "I overheard them talking in the Temple." Ageha replied. "Did he talk extremely loudly, since you managed to overhear him?" "Well. You know how loudly that man talks. Perhaps it has something to do with his size. Aeris said thoughtfully.
A few hours later, the whole village sat in the Temple, awaiting their chief to start speaking. Toomy Hermaansiuus waited a few seconds before he opened his mouth to speak. "Yesterday, one of our people left our Village." He began. "I'm sure you all know by now who it is, and what she's done. So I won't talk about that here. I'll jump straight to what we're going to do about the situation. None of us know were Aireth has gone, or what she's up to." He paused, looking around at his people. "Is that what this meeting is about? Is he gonna –" "Aeris! There shall not be any kind of disturbance while I'm talking! You must resist the temptation of turning your head sixty degrees, and talking to the person sitting beside you!
Why can't I get everyone's full attention!" Toomy Hermaansiuus said in his enormously loud voice. "Once you've entered this Temple, and I am about to start TALKING, then you are not allowed to keep talking to each other like that! Has your minds grasped that now!" "Yeah, yeah. We read ya, BIG BOSS." Aeris mumbled loudly enough for everyone to hear her, and the whole room burst into laughter. Toomy Hermaaniuus waited a few seconds before he continued to roar.
Two hours later, Toomy Hermaaniuus came trotting back into the assembling room. "I've spoken to Holy, and it has told me what we need to know." Toomy Hermaaniuus paused again. "Aireth is about to unlock the Seal on the reactor holding our ancient enemy Lucifer locked away, keeping our Earth out of reach from his grasp of Darkness." Toomy Hermaaniuus roared unaware. He paused, looking down upon the thunderstruck Cetra sitting in front of him. Several people gasped in horror, other people (Aeris among them) just sat there, looking anxious for what would happen to her best friend.
"We don't want this to happen, and we're going to do anything we can to prevent this incident to occur. We'll send our Fighting Squad; The Valkyries to combat this traitor to our people. You'll be allowed to resort to anything to achieve our goal. Aireth managed to find the Reactor of Sealing, even though she's never been there before. And when she can find it, so can the Valkyries. I'll expect you to be ready in 30 minutes. This meeting is hereby adjured!" He stomped on the floor three times, since he did not have a hammer, and the sound thundered through the room. The Cetra went out of the Temple.