Midnight: Hello everybody. This chapter may be quite short compared to the ones before but, who gives a damn.
BH: Hi again!
Midnight: I do hope you enjoy this chapter and just saying, Sayomi is going to be pissed off but it is not solely the fault of El.
BH: Ya, I hope you like this chapter enough to leave a review! And don't spoil it...
Midnight: Yes. Do please review our fanfiction. And is the spoiling things about the it's not solely based on El's fault?
BH: It was just a reminder, okay?
Midnight: No. Not okay. And maybe the next chapter would be the character profiles and storyline plot.
BH: Why isn't it okay?
Midnight: Because I said so. Now please enjoy the fanfiction while we two have a nice time making a new chapter. Also, I kind of said that I was chatting to my friend so I didn't get in trouble for writing fanfics.
BH: Meanie! I don't want to see you again 'til the end of the chapter!
El's POV, The Tree, Night (Around 3am)
Sayomi asked me where my sword was all of a sudden, as I then ran quickly to the place where I remembered I last placed it. I didn't realise that I left them all alone until now that I was alone too… 'Now I'm just panicking like hell… I can't believe that I was so stupid as to have left them alone, in the night, when they didn't even know where we were, without me realizing. How stupid am I?!'
'But first, my sword… Okay, my beautiful sword, where are you?... That's strange, it was just here when I left…'
I suddenly saw a pale crimson glint in the starlight. That must be my sword! I dashed towards the spot where I saw the scarlet radiance but I couldn't see my sword. I knew that it was somewhere around here but I didn't know exactly where. I slowed down to a steady jog so that I'd have time to look around but not take too long. I felt my foot hit something hard and I tripped, falling face-first, into the damp soil, and I was so lucky that the place that my face landed was void of any grass what-so-ever. I stood up and wiped the mud off of my face and clothes with my hands, smudging the mud into my clothes. I lowered myself just enough to pick up my sword, that I had tripped on, and ran back in the direction from which I came.
I ran to the place where I think I last saw the girls, although, it took some time to spot them, as the miasma kept my vision limited. I took a couples more steps when all of a sudden I got struck, by a tough, flat object, forcefully on the head as I was then stumbling down onto the ground. Surprised, I stood up, spun around, and then, pointed my sword towards my assailant as I saw nobody was there.
Cautiously, I kept up my guard with a headache swirling around inside my scared and flustered mind. I searched for Sayomi and Yuki with no luck, the fog was too dense and it clouded my sight. As I thought about the girls, I remembered about the attack that was taken against me. I only realised just then that the object used to hit me felt like a thick book.
'Like the one I gave to Yuki!' I thought, full of joy, and with a quick snap of my fingers.
I was glad to think that Yuki and Sayomi might be alright, it somewhat calmed me down a bit.
'Maybe the miasma was too heavy and they thought I was someone or something else!'
Although I may have known that I shouldn't have let my guard down so easily, I felt too relieved to manage holding onto it. As soon as I let my guard down, a pointed blade was held against the flesh of my neck and my hair was gripped from behind by a rather small hand. Whoever or whatever it was, it was behind me, and held an aura that sent shivers down my spine and made my hair stand on end but it soon died down as I heard a familiar voice.
"... Oh. It's just you" Yes, it was the apathetic voice of Sayomi Kuroi.
"What do you mean it's just me! This tree had never once been covered in such a miasma which means danger is creeping closer as we talk!" I proclaimed, the first part jokingly but for the latter I used a more serious tone.
"... Then stop talking and 'protect' us instead of running around while leaving us behind you fool!" … Whoa. That was the first that anyone had ever been so offensive to me.
"Yuki, did you hit someone or something with your book?" I asked, changing the topic, while Sayomi just gave me a loud tch and looked off into the distant horizon.
"I don't know~" Yuki replied innocently with a sweet smile although I could clearly tell that she did.
"Well… I'm pretty sure that you struck me on the head with that book in your hands," I lightly pressed on the word pretty as Yuki just kept continuing to deny my claim and used an 'I don't know anything' smile.
Looking at Sayomi's face, she seemed more pissed off than in fear to me. Wouldn't a normal petty girl like her be shaking in their boots?... Or maybe she's just pissed off that I left her all alone and left so utterly defenceless~ Cause every single girl in any world need their 'knight in a shining armour!' Yeah, that's probably it.
"... Wipe that pathetic grin off your face, you pitiful clown," Sayomi spat, making it as clear as day that I was smirking like a retard. 'Sayomi is so mean...'
"You are pretty damn pathetic, did you know that El? So uneducated…" Yuki then went back to talking about the educatedness and was pressing on the fact that Sayomi is mad at me. I was sulking about Sayomi's comment upon me that time, so I couldn't be bothered fighting back at all.
It was again, a deathly silence as the miasma thickened even more than before and we heard a barely audible scampering sound nearby that couldn't have possibly been heard if you were any further away from it then we were. I held up my sword in a basic position and shut my eyes, so that I focus on listening to where the noises were coming from but not let my guard down as I did so. They were too scattered for me to identify their location and so, I opened my eyes and looked at the girls.
I saw Sayomi whispering into Yuki's ear while Yuki kept nodding and making a sound as if to agree. Sayomi saw me looking at them and stopped whispering while Yuki did the same things I did before and told me the results of what she noticed.
"... 2… No, 4 beings surrounding us and the tree. El, can you take them on or should we run?" It seems that there's 4 glitters surround us and I believe that it would be quite hard to take them all on at once by myself while protecting two weak and utterly defenceless girls… But the more important thing is how did Yuki know how many glitters there were when their sounds were so scattered?
"I don't think I can handle all of them at once and protect you all by myself. In a case if something were to happen, we should run," I stated in a matter of factly manner while taking hold of Yuki's wrist, with Sayomi, who was still glaring at me, trailing close behind Yuki. I then pulled Yuki swiftly through the fog to another place, besides the tree and the glitter's hunting grounds. I think I'll ask her about the sensing thing another time, when we're all safe.
The three of us ran as far as we could although the glitters heard our footsteps and stampeded after us and made us eventually stop at a dead end. We were backed up towards the end of a cliff that was as high as the clouds, making it even more difficult to breathe due to the thin air and lack of available oxygen.
'What are we gonna do now?! The glitters had cornered us and Sayomi is just whispering into Yuki's ear… again!' Now I really don't know what to do... We ran as far as possible yet they still caught up with us! And on their way, they even picked up some of their bloodthirsty friends along with them as well! Now there's like too many glitters to even count!
Sayomi stopped whispering and Yuki grabbed my arm as she pulled me towards the edge of the cliff as she asked, "Do you trust me El?" with a serious expression plastered onto her face.
"Um, ya…" I replied, but when I was about to question why she had asked, it was too late. Yuki and Sayomi dragged me to the very edge of the cliff, we were so close to the ledge that some of the loose dirt beneath our feet began to crumble and fall into the endless abyss.
I just noticed, but why does, for some reason, Yuki take action after Sayomi finishes whispering in her ear? Well, who cares about that now when I got two 'helpless' girls and glitters that are surrounding us to deal with?!
Going back to Yuki's trusting thing, she muttered into my ear,"You said you trusted me so…" with her voice trailing off at the end. 'Uh oh… I think something verrrrry bad's gonna happen now...'
Sayomi grabbed hold of Yuki's waist as Yuki gripped on to my shoulders while saying "Now El, we're gonna jump and there's a branch. After jumping, you are to grab hold of it. Okay? Our lives are in your hands," she smiled and pushed me down the cliff leaving me with no time to say a thing and then sliding her hands down to my waist.
'This feels so awkward and weird but uhhhh… THE BRANCH!' I furiously swung my arms around trying to get a solid grip on the branch. As I then finally got my hold on it, I heard a small crack.
"This isn't going to hold the weight of all three of us!" I yelled at the two, not bothering to look down because… well… Let's just say I didn't want to… The only reply I gotten at all was an echo of my own voice bouncing endlessly off the canyon's walls. Yuki's hands then slid down to my ankles as I then heard a soft thump and about half the weight hanging off my ankles was gone.
"Sayomi?!" I cried in fear and terror that she might had fell, no longer able to hold on, "Sayomi are you there?!"
In reply, I heard a scream that slowly faded off as then, one of Yuki's hands slipped off my ankle before she gradually lost her grip on my other ankle as well. The weight on my ankles was gone as I heard another scream that echoed through the seemingly endless space below me, leaving me in a horrified frenzy.
Before anything else, I looked down to what seemed to be a never-ending fall with a thick layer of mist covering the vast space beneath me.
BH: I'm actually not that sure that there is an 'El' in the Lore of Eliros, but there's a Lady El...
Midnight: So it's a myth. We can make the El- Heck I didn't reveal anything about the future chapters.
BH: Of course you and your otakuness didn't reveal a thing!
Midnight: Are you being sarcastic with me? I would start if you were to provoke me.
BH: I'm not sarcastic around you, only around a certain person that we call Mello.
Midnight: Good~
BH: Good to know that that's good.
Midnight: … It's a hot day and I can easily become provoked ya know?~
BH: Yep and tomorrow's forecast to be even hotter than today.
Midnight: Oh I'll be fine with that. That is, without a jacket like I wore today.
BH: You wore a jacket! The El is wrong with you!? Okay, maybe you wear track pants on thirty something degree days but really, a jacket?
Midnight: I'm wearing long cotton tights too. And now, good bye everybody. I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you'll enjoy the next one too.
BH: I too, hope that you enjoyed this chapter and that you'll leave a review to show your appreciation. Bye!