Later that evening, Luminous and the others had gone back into the base and explained what happened outside to the Resistance leaders. They had a small dinner party to celebrate the hero's success in driving the Black Wings out of their town, but Luminous wasn't that interested in celebrating, he knew the Black Wings wouldn't be gone for long and would probably strike again as soon as they left. On top of that though, he couldn't stop himself from thinking about what was said earlier, "Why IS Orchid building the Black Wings... Surely, the Black Mage isn't that important to her, even Hilla and Arkarium haven't done anything really effective so far to bring him back... Just Orchid and..." Luminous stared up at the ceiling of his room in silence, his thoughts just kept coiling around inside his mind, like an enormous snake waiting to strike at him. He laid in bed for a long time before finally giving up on any idea of sleeping, "I'll never be able to sleep like this, I need some fresh air" he sighed as he rolled over and crawled out of bed. The air was a bitter sweet cool as he came outside of the sewer passage and onto the empty street, a gentle breeze blew across his face as he looked up to see a bright, glittering night sky above him. He walked in silence, farther and farther from the Resistance's base, away from the town, past the sleeping monsters and into a deserted area away from the main roads of Edelstein.
Finally, he walked to the nearest boulder to him and sat down, closing his eyes and letting another gentle breeze blow through his hair. Luminous sat for what felt like an eternity, blank minded and peaceful feeling, the night was quiet, filled only with the soft sounds of monsters snoring in the distance. Luminous opened his eyes and looked around him, freezing at the sight of a strange, silvery mist like creature that stood at a distance watching him quietly. Luminous looked at the creature for a moment wondering what it was exactly he was looking at; the creature was rather large, perhaps slightly larger than Ryko, Aran's wolf mount, it had even looked like a wolf except it had two long, pointed ears and three fluffy tails, suggesting it was a very large fox instead. Luminous stared at the strange creature in awe, it's body was see-through almost like a ghost, though it's body seemed to be solid none the less. The creature stood completely still, it's purple-ish eye's staring at Luminous in light of equal interest, then it slowly turned it's body and started to walk away, stopping again a short distance later to look back at Luminous with a look in it's eyes that seemed to say "Follow me", Luminous carefully got up and followed after the strange creature, heeding it's call they walked for almost a mile more before it stopped in front of a large boulder that laid against the mountain side. Looking back eagerly at Luminous, the creature turned and walked through the boulder, leaving Luminous standing dumbfounded. Compelled for some reason he wasn't aware of, Luminous unconsciously walked up to the boulder and pressed a hand against it, "My hand went through!" Luminous stood in front of the boulder, shocked that he had gone through a solid object. The creature emerged again from the other side of the boulder and watched him closely, then, with what seemed like a sigh, it re-demonstrated to walk through the boulder, Luminous stared at the creature as it disappeared again, "What... is it doing... what is this thing?" Luminous shook his head and followed the creature's example to walk through the boulder. He emerged on the other side, greeted by a large rock filled, stadium like valley with a fresh spring located at either end of it, "What is this place...?" Luminous casually walked through the valley, taking in every corner of it with astonishment.
He looked behind him to see the creature was following him, "Hey... um.." Luminous watched the creature tilt its head as he spoke, sure that the creature couldn't understand him, he turned around again, hanging his head wondering how to communicate with the creature, but he suddenly jumped as something pushed against his back, looking over his shoulder, he seen the being had bumped its head against his back and was looking at his face, an expression of expectancy for him to finish what he was saying upon it's face. Luminous laughed and turned around again, this time lowering himself to eye level with the creature and asking again, "I know friends who need a better place to train at, this valley is large enough to provide us with that space we need... may we please use it?" Luminous watched the creature curiously, wondering if he should explain further about why they needed it, when the creature backed away from him and dropped something in front of it. Luminous looked down and jumped, the item the creature had dropped was a Black Wings badge, he looked up at it and it nodded, "S-so you already...?" The creature nodded again and turned around, Luminous watched it walk away and vanish behind the boulder, he stood there quietly for a while before bending down and picking up the badge and deciding to head back to the base. "So it already knows about the Black Wings... This must have been fate then" he thought as he walked silently, turning the badge around in his hand as he walked, "but... something is familiar about this badge in particular."
Luminous got back to the base and sleepily crawled into bed again, closing his eyes and falling asleep quickly, he looked at the badge one last time before dozing off into a deep, peaceful sleep. The door to Luminous's room creaked slowly as Mastema gently pushed it open with her paws, opening it just enough for her to creep into the room without waking Luminous up. She looked up at the clock next to his bed and then to him, shaking her head and softly mumbling "boys..." she jumped onto the bed, crawled up onto his stomach and poked at him, causing Luminous to wake up, blurrily look around and jump once he spotted Mastema peering into his face. He regained his posture and sat up before looking down at her "What's up Mastema...why'd you wake me up so early?" he yawned sleepily looking over at the clock on the night stand next to him, Mastema simply made a small grunting noise and pawed at his stomach with an annoyed expression before answering him, "Early?... Well..." she straightened herself out and looked him in the eyes, "Claudine is holding the meeting she was going to have yesterday before the Black Wings attacked us, you'll miss it if you don't hurry." Mastema jumped off Luminous's bed and started for the door when she turned her head for a brief moment, "Please hurry, they can't hold off for much longer." She finished with a worried expression and walked back out of the room leaving Luminous staring blankly at the door she had just exited, Luminous shook his head and sluggishly got up and dressed for the day.
Luminous managed to make it down to the meeting before it started, Claudine was rehearsing her speech to Checky when they seen Luminous go by, they both waved at him in which he returned with a smile then he went to meet up with Aran and Xenon who were waiting for him. "I think I found a place for the Resistance to train at last night" Luminous whispered to them, Aran and Xenon looked at each other before giving him a confused look, Luminous went into an explanation about everything that had happened, Aran nodded while Xenon just listened quietly. "I think it should be ok" Aran said upon Luminous's conclusion, "It'll be ok... but what about the creature that led me there, wouldn't we be destroying it's home?" Luminous gave a downcast look as he said it, Xenon patted his back and looked at Aran for support, Aran had closed his eyes, apparently deep in thought before he spoke again, "That wouldn't bother it..." Aran said in a confirmed way that made both Xenon and Luminous look up at him. "From how you described it, it sounds like some kind of earth spirit... So it could easily fix the landscape if it wanted to afterwards" Aran nodded again as he finished and looked up at Claudine who was now clearing her throat and facing the now full room. The meeting lasted almost an hour, Claudine started it off with introduction to and for the newest members, then moved on to recent events, going over what had happened both inside and outside the base and explaining that the Black Wings were being more active then usual and to stay on high alert for anything suspicious. Luminous took his opportunity after the meeting to talk to Claudine and Checky about what he had found the previous night, Checky left with Luminous, Xenon and Atan to go check it out later that evening and he confirmed it was safe to go there. Claudine was happy to hear about it from Checky when they got back to base, "This is a wonderful discovery!" she exclaimed, "Our members have needed this kind of training for a long time now... I'm glad we can finally offer it to them, and it's all thanks to you Luminous." Claudine and the other leaders of the Resistance spent the next week working hard to set the training area up for usage, Luminous took this time to return home and hang out with Lania, helping her around the house and with grocery shopping.