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Fonts in italic are for character's thought
Gato was serene, it might been the most peaceful of all the cities, the wind that blows through the caves and rock formation gently rustle what small foliages there, the nun walking sedately. Gato could be called quiet but the sound of the waterfall complimented it all, the sound of water flowing made the perfect harmony in this temple town and cool air breezed through the city, in and out. The temple of healing laid atop of the grottoes silently waiting for pilgrims to go there to pray. Kain always like the atmosphere in the temple. So calm and gentle, it soothed the soul, made the weary could at least go on for one more day. He was on his way to the temple while enjoying the view.
"Oucchhh…..! My tummy hurt!" Screams of agony were heard from the shops area. There was a sproutling laid on the ground and quibbling about beside it, was a nun trying to calm him, when Kain want to reach them thinking maybe he could be of help then the sproutling burst off to the fork.
"Oh well, guess I have nothing to worry about." Kain said continuing to walk to the temple direction. At the fork he met a man wearing red garment and emitted some sparkling elegance in him, like a jewel. When he was about to pass him, that stranger talked to him, "Have you seen anything strange?"
Thinking… the only thing that he recalled was strange was just that, "I see a sproutling groveling, if you can count that as strange…"
He seemed to lighten up a bit when he heard this, "It must have been my imagination then, Oh… I'm Rubens, the flame keeper of the temple."
Well least he got his manner "I'm Kain, I came here to the temple. Perhaps by chance, do you know anything about the blessed Elixir?" Frowning a bit, Rubens answered Kain, "No, it would seem not. I'm sorry. I couldn't be of help." Guess no luck here…
"Oh well, thanks for the time. I'll just head to the temple and ask one of the nuns there, maybe they'll know something about it." Then Kain just walked straight ahead to the temple and when he entered the temple, he felt like he was being purified, blessed, and protected. Strange… This feeling of being sheltered… This temple might have its power and the one who conjured the spell was a good one too I guess…
For a while he searched for the Blessed Elixir but to no avail, he seems to have worst luck today, not only he didn't get any info about Blessed Elixir, he can't even meet with the head priestess here and he wanted to know so bad about this spell that was cast in here. Thinking he might change the mood by walking to cliff terrace, he strolled there slowly and when he reached he saw a nun and Rubens was somehow look like fighting or at least arguing about something.
"Don't you want to rescue your sweetheart at Geo?" the Nun said.
"How do you know she's there?" Rubens said apparently quite shocked to hear the news.
"You could save her you know. If you remove the Popo bug in the sproutling and gave it to her. She can be saved." The Nun replied back a bit buoyantly.
Looking down, Rubens was obviously pale from shock, sheer irritation, or perhaps anger "I do not wish to harm anyone." He said sourly.
"Then you can not save anyone! One who does not have the flame of hope in their heart does not deserve to live!" She shouted.
"What do you want?" he asked wearily, he looked at her with eyes one could know was like an old man, weary of his own life.
"I want to see tears… Cry like a child and beg for your life!" She unsheathed her little blade and pointed near his heart. Kain nearly jumped out to save Rubens but something hold him, something made him mystified by the scene and unable to move.
"Well… Where are your tears?" She angled her head just a bit looking more dangerous than before.
"I… I can't cry…" Rubens stuttered, hearing this, the nun chuckled.
"A jewel whom have lost its sparkle had no right to live" She stabbed Rubbens and took something that looked like a jewel,
"Damn it, a ruby core, he's a jumi." Kain stormed out and pointed his staff at her.
"Give me the core!" He maneuvered as she moved and it was kinda intense, he chanted words softly, barely a whisper but the power was there, "Flame that gorges through the boundaries of hell, be my blade that none can repel."
Tongues of flame came out from Kain's palm and seethed, when he clicked his hand the flames shoot towards the nun, she dodged the flame with grace, and breaking no sweat at it, "Hmmm… Ta.. Ta.." She jumped over Kain and gone like the wind.
"Damn it!" He whirled then to Rubbens and check him.
"Diana, I'm… Sorry…" raggedly, Rubbens said his last words, then his body glimmer and just shattered into thin air. Leaving red dust that was blown by the wind. Kain was angry. No, he was outraged by the sheer atrocity of that woman. How she could kill him? Just because he is a Jumi and he can't cry? What's her problem? He sighed and felt the wind around him, "How sad for one's fate to be ended by such like her."
He chanted words afterwards, "Wind tells no lies, the eye of heaven shall see the unseen, reveal me the revelations, as I say to fairies, so heed it be." Then the wind around him gushed, swirled and danced, his vision was blackened but he saw a woman with a fancy dress, colorful in his mind, headed to the Cancun bird nest.
After he saw that he chant another spell, "Heed no mind to the law of time and space, carry me with the ancient light and divine wind as I speak, stars in the heaven and spirits in the earth, so I say mote it be." A magic circle formed around him, light was emitting around him, he felt the surge of power and the magic, he felt the space around him was different, when he opened his eyes, he was in the nest.
"Good..., now for the trap…, I bet it will fun… hmm…" He was in his merry-merry mood, he was not going to let this nun, whoever her name might be, escape so easily. He chanted many traps within the area, but he was careful enough not to destroy the surrounding, "Can't afford to get the temple get mad at me but this will do." He looked in satisfaction while he waited for that nun to come by.
Meanwhile…
Light was penetrating through the window, the wind blew softly, and the curtain blew tenderly, the smell of toast was lingering in the room. "Uhhmmm… what time is it?"
Drowsily, Angelique got up from her bed, she sat up for a while, it's just like her ritual for the morning, waiting for her soul to come in, not exactly a morning person, Kain said she had a nasty attitude when she just woke up, "That can't be helped I guess…"
She looked through the window, guessed that it might be well past midday, and peered through the room there's a plate of toast and fruit juice on the table. "Kain must have left me some of those."
After she had eaten her late breakfast or early lunch, she dressed herself in her usual attire, she wondered where Kain was, finding him nowhere in the house, and nowhere in the pasture, workshops, and the plantation. She decided to look for Bud and Lisa, but she can't find them either.
"Now what I'm gonna do? Kain was nowhere to be seen... left me no note or whatsoever about his whereabouts and the kids are nowhere to be found too. This sucks! What am I? A watchdog for the day??" She fumed and started to wonder around the house and she just wondered if she will work with the instruments and armament until either Kain or the kids went home.
When she went back to the house, she found the kids had been running about in the house but Kain was nowhere to be found. She was worried, really worried, since Kain usually already in home right now, and lecturing the kids not to run in the house. "Bud, Lisa, do you know where Kain is now?"
Hearing this Bud and Lisa drooped, they just looked sad and mournful, this only adds to Angelique anxiety about her brother, where could he be? What happen to him? "He's in the study."
Hearing this Angelique started to head to the study but Lisa's hand tugged at her skirt, "But… we don't think that you should go there, Kain seemed to be sad about something. When he picked us up at Rachel's home, he was looking weird and just called us once softly, but that make us more worried. Usually he called us loudly and playfully, then played with us for a while before he took us back. But this time no. he didn't do anything, he just called us, and walked us back to home silently. And when we reached home, Kain just gave us some sandwiches and left to the study. I wonder if he's mad at us, but we did nothing bad today." Lisa explained what happened today when Kain picked them up from Rachel's house.
Every color from her face was drained, she remembered once when Kain was behaving like this and it was when their parents have been missing and rumors of them being dead. Kain being the older one, didn't believe this and claimed it to be a lie, Angelique had appreciated the thought back then, but she knew better, the one who tell them the news was Pelican and she rarely and almost never lie. At tender age of 10 and 8, Kain and Angelique lost their parents, Kain took it harder than Angelique, and his reactions were just right as he was now doing. Whenever something bad happened, he will never act like this because he hate to make his sister worried like this. There must be something really bad that made him act like this. Angelique strode to the study and opened it without hesitation, there she found Kain sitting grimly, and he noticed her as soon she stepped into the study, "Ange, I failed…"
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