Proof

The train back was amazing. We could see the scenery that was filled with green, so many forests surrounded the sacred peak and ruins and as the train sped it's way along to Cusco, Peru almost creating a wavy distortions to our eyes, I almost got dizzy just watching what was outside the windows! Previous to the us being on the train, Mark and Socrates could never stop fighting, even after we said our farewells with the tour guide, it's funny that we never got to know his name, despite him having a badge with him throughout the whole walk and tour. He must be pretty fit because he was hardly tired, although he did say that he had been doing these walks with tourists from around the world for a long time. As we got to the ruins, he particularly stayed close with Lisa, who was obviously obsessing over these bunch of ruins. But who can blame her? Machu Picchu is pretty remarkable once you actually get there. I think to Lisa and some of us on the journey found that the trail's difficulty is well-compensated for the beautiful landscape and views that you get once you reach your final destination. Although it's apparent that many of the others on this journey, particularly May, find that it's a blessing that we've finished the walk and are finally taking transport again. Like always, she's planning her next outfit with her newly bought outfits from the airport, she really did buy a lot. Lucy on the other hand has strangely been through a roller coaster of emotions, one day she's very upset, the next she's completely happy and back to her usual self. I tried asking her what's wrong, but she kept quite and did her best to smile through all the sadness that could be seen on her face. I see, that she wipes her tears every-time, but does so cautiously, hoping that no one catches sight of her and she does disguise her emotions pretty well because no one actually looks at her twice, since they think that everything's fine, or possibly they don't really care… I told Adrian about my concern, but he told me to leave it alone and not to jump into everyone's business. But she's a friend of mine, how can I not care about her? Throughout the whole train ride, she sat all by herself leaning her head on the window, her eyes watering.

As opposed to Lucy, Socrates, May, Andre and Mark had a great time on the train. It's the first time I've actually seen Mark smile and become friendly towards the group. I sat there, watching them thinking to myself: "What on Earth happened to him?" but generally these days he seems a lot more happier now that usual and it's become a good thing. I remember the time we faced Aries together and when he would doubt my abilities to cope throughout this journey… But now, he's been very protective of me and we've talked about what was to come on this journey. He reminds me of Adrian sometimes, especially when Mark fights with Socrates. It always makes me laugh when they do.

As for someone who hasn't changed much from the journey is Lisa. She wasn't this mad from the start. I remember she was nice to me at the start, but now she's been against me with everything. We've conflicted and argued a lot with each other and I'm getting a feeling that she hates me. It's probably because she thinks of me as someone that is attempting to replace her sister Diane from the journey that they had together before in the past and how both of us were given such a responsibility to save the world by collecting magic force from beasts created by Mystic. But I'm not trying to replace her; it's the fact that me and her sister Diane are in the same boat in terms of being given amulets that give such impressive power. I've noticed that nowadays, Lisa carries a blue crystal pendant with a moon and find her always reading a big black book every time we are resting or when we are waiting for something and even the book itself seems kind of evil to me. Mark's warned me to watch out, don't you find that strange?

May and Andre spend a lot of time together now. May's usually bossing him around to help her and follow her but as we waited in the airport for our next destination, I saw them two at a bookstore with May reading to him. Andre struggled in understanding some of the words that she read, but instead of getting fussy and angry over his mistakes, she corrected him and explained the meanings in a more simple way. I've never seen them interact this way before… It's as if she's teaching him literacy skills. May's always been the spoilt princess type in this journey, but she's helped me the most and has encouraged me plenty of times during our adventure, so maybe I shouldn't have doubted her generousity and care for everyone else. But you should have seen the look on Lisa's face when May spent some of the money on extra clothes for herself at the airport. It was so funny; I burst into laughter and couldn't stop until my stomach was hurting.

Nothing weird has happened during our trip to Australia, our next destination. Most of the time we spent just getting to the Peruvian airport was our group struggling to find a lead for where we were supposed to go next. We had plenty of options, but as we were at the airports, Capricorn spoke to me in my mind and told me that the next place we should search for an Astral Beast is Australia and apparently one of her friends (the other fellow beasts she refers as) loved the beach. As I spoke about Capricorn speaking to me about our indicated place to travel, Lisa doubted and wanted to get proof. Sadly she didn't get it, and the group as a whole decided that because we had no leads, Capricorn's message is something that we should follow, since it was our only lead. Lisa was very hostile with this decision as she wasn't really the leader of the group anymore and things now aren't ultimately decided by her, but us as a whole. But as we agreed to this, I could hear Lisa muttering "the crazy bitch" under her breath. I didn't mind this though, cause the only "crazy bitch" in this was just her. So we agreed to go to Australia, made our bookings and waited a long time for our flight (as usual). Great, I thought. Australia being a land surrounded by seas and is as big as a continent would at least have too many beaches to visit just finding an Astral Beast. But saving the world was never to be easy and it didn't have a contract that stated that "tedious, arduous or irritating" would be conditions that we didn't have to face along the way. For me, Capricorn has been the nicest and the only Astral beast that has communicated to me during the journey. She's really encouraged me to continue with anything I believed in and I take her advice to heart. But one thing from Peru remains only a mystery to me. A man in a beige trench coat calls himself David Esterton talked about the Magic Alliance and their intent on supporting and protecting magical beings around the world. Protect them from what though? And there must be more that they do; David Esterton must be pretty powerful to be able to temporarily stop the curse from Mystic… Maybe that was something that could have prevented Diane… Lisa's sister from her demise…

But I shouldn't really delve into the unknown. Not now, since I have objectives to fulfil. So here I am, on a plane to Australia holding on to my favourite hero that's always tried to make things better for me. Right now, I'm cuddling him as I'm writing this in a journal that he had apparently kept in his pockets all this time. He told me I could use it for a diary and now I think it's the right time to stop writing and see what holds for us in Australia.

Love, Claire

The girl who's trying to play the heroine in this dark, cold world that needs a young heroine to save the day… Cuddling beside my hero slash guardian, Adrian.