AC: Dear readers, I'm sorry if I took a lot of time, but I was more concentrate on my other story More than a Starlight act one.

Chapter 3: Human revelation

Ario's POV

I awoke from my sleep. I didn't dream about anything. I woke up and then look at the human. He was awake. He took something from his pocket…A handle…of something…A knife? He looks at it, he seems to wonder something. He then saw me.

"OH!...Sorry, I was wondering if I should let this here…I case I offend any of your kind." He said nervously.

"A handle won't do anything bad." I said. It was strange that he worries about a handle…Now that I think about it, where's his knife? I know I saw one when he rescue me…Maybe it's the handle of the knife, but where's the blade? That's not important for now.

"So…How are we escorting you discreetly to the palace without causing ravage?" I ask.

"…I will cause ravage in any plans…The better will be if I pass like this." He then put his blue cloak and put the hood. The hood perfectly covers his face and all of his body. "I'll only attract the curious and not anyone who wants to see something they never see."

He was right, being mysterious, this time, will cause less problems than being uncover. Who would want to see something they never see, especially a tribe they never see?

"Before we go. I suggest we eat something fast. I fell your revelation will be very long." I said.

"Alright" He agreed.

After we eat we were preparing to go outside. Before we go I hear someone knocking at my door. Seraphin hide and I open the door. It was Vinta.

"Hello Ario." He said as he enters the house. I close the door. "Where's Seraphin."

"I'm here Vinta." Said Seraphin as he shows himself.

"What are you doing here?" I ask.

"I thought we should go to the palace together. Siado said he will in front of the entrance, waiting for us." Said Vinta.

"That's good to know." I said with a smile.

"I guess that your plan." Said Vinta looking at Seraphin. "It's understandable under those circumstances."

"Let's go." Said Seraphin.

Then we get out of my home and we are slowly moving to the palace. Seraphin was making sure his face was covered by the hood as we are approaching to the palace. The difficult part is that I live far away from the palace, so we have a big distance to do before we reach it.

As we walk, we can clearly see most of the mipedian looking at Seraphin with great curiosity. After all, he really gives the impression of mysteries and he is a real mystery for us. Some of them try to look under the hood, in a safe distance to see anything about him. Thankfully, they all fail since I hear them grunt without satisfaction of seeing his face. We keep walking until we were in the middle of our destination. I saw less mipedians around but I know they can be invisible. After all, I'm a mipedian. Seraphin is aware something is wrong and he put the hood deeper over his face to hide it more than before. We keep walking and thankfully, no mipedian do anything. We reach the palace. We climb the stairs and just outside the palace were Sobjeck and Siado. They look at us and smile.

"There you are." Said Siado. "You took you're time."

"Sorry, we were trying to keep a low profile…It was impossible." Said Vinta.

"It's understandable." Said Sobjeck. "The royal guard gave us the authorisation to enter. All of you can follow me."

Good. It means we don't need to infiltrate the palace after all.

Then we followed Sobjeck.

"Where are we going?" Ask Siado. I wonder it to because I don't know where we are meeting our king.

"We will meet him and the noble in the high council room." Said Sobjeck.

It wasn't the official throne room. It means this discussion will be with the elite only.

We then reach the high council. The royal guard open it and we enter in this big room.

There was a long table where all of the nobility was sitting. They were looking at us until they saw Seraphin who was still covering his body until he's ready to show himself and it's not now.

In the middle of the table was the king Theeb-Saar. By his side was his son Ifrar who smile when he saw us. By his other side was Theeb-Saar brother Bajar and his son Mudeenu. When I look at both of them…they don't have any resemblance.

I looked at some of the nobles: Those I know most are the Marquis Darini, he's age since his enter in the legend. He wasn't a noble when he was birth. He obtains it by merit. He was a proud warrior. He's a mipedian of peace even if he's a powerful warrior. There was also Tianne. He was an important member of the council. He's the only who's researching information about the Cothica. Something Mudeenu seems extremely interested; maybe it's best to say he's obsessed about it. Tianne wasn't a warrior type but he's a very good mugic user like Sobtjeck. As for the other noble…I don't really care for them so I don't know much about them. The 2 I named was an exception. They were both kind and the most loyal to the entire tribe.

"Welcome." Said a kind, welcome and authority voice from Theeb-Saar. "You can all sit down." How shall I describe Theeb-Saar, king of the mipedian. He was a tall and imposing mipedian. He appears powerful and dangerous but his red shining eyes don't help him at all...But the way he looks at everyone and especially children is calm and kind looks. He is a mipedian with blue scales covering his body. He wears a purple armor with golden lines around it. Under his armor appears to be a black cloth covering his muscular body since its winter. He also has a purple cape on his back that gives him prestige. He also has a black belt made of tissue around his heist. He has golden bracelet around his wrist. He also has gold plate on his knee. He wears a gold crown on his head with a pure blue sapphire on it. He has behind the crown black horn. He has blue vine scales on his head acts like hair with golden bracelet thing on each of those. His head appears to be blue. He has black teeth in his mouth. His ears appear to be like fin at each side of his head. He has a blue tail at his back.

Anyway…We did as we are told. It was the first time I was in this room during a reunion so I was clearly at my best behavior, like my friends. I clearly saw Seraphin hesitation.

"Don't be shy." I said. He then sits next to me, still wearing the hood.

The door was closed and the council has begun.

"First thing first. You can show your face stranger." Said Theeb-Saar with his amicable voice.

After a few second of hesitation, Seraphin revealed his face. All of the council was silent by his unique appearance. After all, it was the first time they saw a human.

"I guess you never see a human." Said Seraphin, breaking the silence.

"…I'm sorry." Said Theeb-Saar. "I shouldn't have to stay silent this long."

"Sobjeck inform us about your presence here…human." Said Bajar. He was a little intimidated toward the human but it was because he was always like this. The human didn't react at this intimidation like he was use to that kind of voice.

"What do you want to know?" Ask Seraphin. "I promise I will explain everything I know."

"I appreciate your cooperation." Said Theeb-Saar. "Our first question is about you past…We want to know all important events about you past that link it with our tribe."

"Alright…I will also explain my presence here." Said Seraphin. "Don't hesitate to interrupt if you have any questions."

"Understood." They all said.

"Let's begin with something general. The general state of humanity was…very good. War was finally over for our kind. All of us were united into a single government. The entire nation was participating into a gigantic and ambitious project. The dream keeper."

"What is this project?" Ask Ifrar interested.

"It was mankind dream, to conquer the stars far beyond the sky and the moon." Said Seraphin with great passion. I hardly believe something like that was possible, but I knew he was honest. "One of our longest and biggest dreams…It was soon complete. We were reaching great prosperity when we were…exterminated."

"Exterminated?" Said Vinta suprised.

"Yes. The entire humanity was destroyed. We call it…when we were alive…Mankind fall. In took 15 days…or 15 sun cycles until we were all wiped out." He said more generally and understandable for us.

"So you're the last of your kind right?" Said Siado.

"Sadly no." Said Seraphin.

"… And what about you…personally." Ask Theeb-Saar

"At the beginning…let's forget about my youngling and let's jump to important fact. In our humans calendar…it was September 2234 after J.-C…I don't remember the exact day."

"J.-C.?" Ask Sobjeck.

"Jesus Christ. It was a saint man, but it's irrelevant to my explanation. I was a simple citizen of Paris. I was studying so I can become a teacher. It was my dream. I was going to the school that day when I was invited by a scientist Beruga to participate in his research." When he said Beruga, he has a point of hated in his voice. "He wanted to collect a small portion of my blood to do some examination for his experiment. Since I knew this genius scientist…by reputations, I accept to help him in his experiment. It was a little painful and a little freaky when I saw my blood being drain by a tube, but the pain warn me he did more than just blood but…I didn't mind at that time. I just mind my business. 13 days has passed since this meeting with Beruga. News was extremely bad around the Earth…You can compared Earth to Perim." He had to help us understand it. "Most of the Earth was wiped out. I was extremely afraid of course, since I knew I would die soon. Then I felt great pain on my back, I believe I was hit by a weapon that Knock me out…Then it was black until I awaken. Beruga was in front of me and announce he was going to freeze me with his machine with 999 other humans. The other was all conscious but we were in a strange liquid…naked. Then he press some buttons and the cold fell on us…I never saw the true end of my species. Then nothing until I reawaken…billions of years later."

"That's way too much long…does this have anything to do about your presence in the mipedian desert?" Said Bajar.

"Of course…I will explain it now."

"Wait." Said Theeb-Saar. "I suggest we eat something…After all, a long time already pass."

Then he call servant and they brought some food. When the servant arrived, Seraphin hide his face in his hood again. After they were out we eat the food. After we eat Theeb-Saar talk again:

"You can continue."

"Alright. After all that time…the machine that froze me as a failure. I was the second to reawake. The first one was Beruga and it was 1 years before me. Since I suspect Beruga has some…bad intention, since he froze all of us, I go to the nearest computer and I look at his plan. I was able to do that since I was a good hacker."

"?" We all look at him without understanding what he means.

"Let's said I did like a spy." Said Seraphin. "I search all information and I found out his intention…He wants to destroy all of you so the humans can be the ruler of the Earth again. Then…I get out of the lab…I was in the mipedian desert and I met Ario. The rest…I think Sobjeck explain it."

"Wait!" Said Bajar. "From what you said…You were living in Perim before us…right?"

"…It's hard to believe but it's the true. At that time…Perim was call the Earth."

I my mouth can touch the ground; it will have touched it now.

"So the mipedian who's mysteriously disappearing is because of this Beruga." Said Theeb-Saar.

"Yes…When I've finished explaining this…I plan to stop him myself…Our era has come to an end…It's your era now."

"Do not say that!" Said Theeb-Saar with charisma. "You can live anytime you want."

"…" Seraphin didn't say anything.

"I have a question." Said Mudeenu. "Do you know anything about the Cothica?"

"Mudeenu, do not ask such question to our guest." Said Ifrar.

"But he may know something." Said Mudeenu.

"The true is, I don't know what is the Cothica…What is it?"

"We think it's a special land and I have a map about the Cothica." Said Proudly Mudeenu.

He showed his map and Seraphin look at it.

"I'm sorry to break your happiness but…That's the map of the earth at my time." Said Seraphin with melancholy. He was also sad to say this to Mudeenu.

"Well, I guess I just need to find the real map. At least I won't lose my time with a false map." Said Mudeenu trying to cheer himself up.

"If it exists, you will find it." Encourage Seraphin.

"Alright, now that we know what we are up against, we must prepare a plan to counter any attack from this Beruga." Said Theeb-Saar.

"What about us?" I ask.

"You will escort Seraphin to our guest chamber. I think he should stay here for now." Said Theeb-Saar. "As for you, you can rest in some of our other guest chamber. I don't want to cause any problem. We have enough problems with this Beruga."

We get out of the room, after Seraphin cover his face again. We go to the guest room and we separated.

3rd POV:

It was the night. Seraphin woke up during the night and looked at the window. He uses what he has to get out of the Palace, but before he go, he let a message explaining why he escaped from the palace.

I'm sorry Ario: Think Seraphin.

He het out of the palace and return to the desert.

Ario POV:

I wake up after a sweet night. I slept very well since it's a very comfortable bed. I decide to go to Seraphin room. I knock in case he was awake but he didn't answer. I open the door and I saw no one was there. I saw the note he let behind and I open it and read it.

Dear Ario,

Since I know it will be you who shall open the letter first I must explain why I run away. It's because I must personally stop Beruga. It's a human business. I'm sorry if I let you down but this is what I must do. I won't come back. After I stop Beruga, I won't come back. I'm sorry. I really have spent good time with you. I really appreciate it. You better be ready for a massive attack of those robots, you know, the one who attack when we first meet. This will be my warning in case I fail to stop him.

Your friends, Seraphin.

I was surprised by that letter. That idiot decides to stop this Beruga alone. I must warn Theeb-Saar now! I stand up and I run to Sobjeck. I explain what happen has he reads the letter and we go warn our King now. Vinta and Siado have waked up. When they saw our panicked face, they knew something was wrong and they follow us.

AC: Here's the end of the third chapter. Please be aware that the first season can be considered as a prologue for the main story. In the next chapter it will be a pursuit and talking. The chapter after the next one will have lot of actions.

Hope you enjoy it.