The team all lay down in the jet as Jace and Ness treated any wounds the team received during their little run-in with the demon.
"Well Lexi, mind telling us where we are going next?" Ness asked as he finished working on Green. With everyone besides his sister finished, Jace took a nearby book and started to read.
Ness worked last on Janet since she was the most injured and would take the longest. He started to work as he eagerly waited for Lexi to respond.
"It's weird," Lexi started.
"What is?" Jace asked not looking up from the book.
"Jace, your sanctuary completely disappeared off the map. Something must have happened to it."
At this, Jace stood up, floated the book away and started towards the navigator.
"Yeah, in a blip it was just…gone."
Lexi started to ponder more about it as Jace just scratched his head.
"Well don't think too much about it, okay?"
Janet looked down on Ness, seeing he still had a few bruises on his arms and face.
"Sorry about that." Janet apologized, feeling guilty.
The raven hair boy smiled an understanding smile.
"It's not your fault that that happened; it was Tsuskuyomi."
Janet just felt even guiltier for letting the demon control her like that, especially to hurt the others.
"Although you do hit pretty hard," Ness joked, noticing Janet in her depression. She smiled as he started working on another part of her body.
However, on the other side of the aircraft at the bar, sat Cien, who looked from afar. She huffed as she shifted her eyes away from the two.
"Hey, how's it going?" Leon asked as he walked to her from the bartenders' side.
Cien just shrugged as she inspected her new scythe. Leon made a drink as Zane plopped down next to her.
"Hey bro, you feeling any better?" Zane, however, just ignored him as Leon slid a coke and a baggy of ice to him. Zane greedily gulped the liquid down as he placed the ice on his head.
"That was unheedingly exhausting." Zane mumbled.
"Well it's over now." Leon mused, filling up another cup.
"Well, look on the bright side: at least we won't have to deal with her again." Poppy put in as she sat to Cien's left. Leon slid another drink to Poppy.
"Speaking of her, Leon, why didn't her spell work on you? It worked on Zane but..."
Leon shrugged. "I was thinking about that too, might be because I'm half demon." Leon suggested. Everyone looked shocked.
"What?"
"Wait, so you're a demon." Zane asked.
"Yeah, my father's a demon." Leon said, casually taking Zane's now empty glass.
"So how does that work?" Cien asked, interested.
Leon was about to answer until Jace came running up to the group.
"Guys, we have a problem!" Jace pointed towards the TV screen nearby.
"Yo, Phil, can you turn it up!?" Leon asked as obnoxiously as he could.
Phil rolled his eyes as he turned up the volume. A large-bodied, middle-aged police officer was at the mic next to a reporter.
"Right, eight of these kids lookin' no more than like, I don't know, twelve. Some armed with glocks and machine guns, others with swords. And lady, when I say swords, I mean real large ones that can cut people in half!" He had, strangely enough, a Brookland accent and he was extremely animated during his explanation as the reporter walked to another person.
"Hey, that's that bouncer to the casino!" Janet pointed out.
"Yeah, that kid walking with her boyfriend or something dislocated my hand. I think they were the ones that made that monster appear."
"Oh, no..." Ness face-palmed as he continued to watch the news.
"Yes, they came in with bags, like there were travelling. I believe they flew here," The women looked to be thinking. "They seemed like nice kids, but from what I've heard I'm not so sure." The reporter brought the mic back to herself. She had a finger on her ear.
"From what I've been told, the young, armed assailants have been tracked down to the local airport!"
"Shit!" Poppy swore as she ran out plane.
"Guys, we're going. NOW!" She yelled from outside.
Everyone scrambled to a seat as Poppy ran back inside. Faint sirens could be heard from outside.
"Why don't we just tell them what happened?" Green asked hopefully. Her only reply was a glare from Ness.
"Uh…Never mind."
Poppy ran to the cockpit quickly, ignoring procedures.
"Hang on!" Poppy shouted, pushing the lever.
The jet moved quickly out of the hanger onto the airstrip. The police cleared the runway as cars and officers waited for them, armed and ready to shoot. Undiscouraged, she continued on the throttle. At that point, some officers ran away.
Ricocheting bullets were heard as the jet continued to close in. She attempted to lift but she needed more run way that the police were covering.
"Guys, we got a problem! They won't move!" She yelled.
Everyone looked worried, trying to think of an idea.
Zane ran up to the cockpit. "Poppy, when I give the signal, open the hanger doors, alright?"
Poppy nodded. Zane ran towards the back of the plane, grabbing a crystal along the way. He went through a door and down a ladder to the hatch as he faced his back towards it.
"Now!" As it opened, Zane jumped backwards as the crystal glowed with light. In seconds, he transformed into a monstrous blue dragon. With an intense roar and amazing speed, he flew ahead of the plane, grabbing all the cars he could in his claws. The plane zoomed past as it finally started to lift off. Zane dropped the cars from his grasp as he flew back to the jet's hanger, transforming back just in time.
With the hanger doors closed, he climbed up the ladder and through the open door. As he entered, he was met with awkward stares from everyone, save Poppy.
"Is there anything else people want to tell me about themselves? First, I overhear that Leon's part demon, and now you're a dragon?" Ness questioned, getting out of his seat.
"I'm a prince." Phil said casually looking out the window.
"Same," Zane interjected. "Well, actually I'm king."
"Ok, let me get this straight: we have a prince, a king/dragon, a demon, an elf, PSI users, Caption Falcon's kid,-"
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Lexi yelled as she looked away from the hologram. Ness ignored her and continued.
"..a bad mouthed aviator and twin psychics?" Ness sat back down in his seat. "Well, I think this trip will go pretty well." Ness joked. Everyone laughed together.
Later that evening, everything settled down, that is until- "Guys we have a problem."
Poppy called from the cockpit.
Lexi went up to the front along with Ness.
"What's the matter?" Lexi asked.
"Well, the truth is, we left before we could completely refuel."
Ness raised a brow. "You're not saying-"
"We're going to go down..."
"Wait, wait, can't we refuel somewhere?" Lexi asked, hopeful.
"Well, there's an island called Hawaii. We can go there to refuel." Ness versed.
"Uhh, kind of already passed it." She scratched the back of her head.
"Aww man, what?" Ness rubbed his temples.
"Well, we're over the Pacific Ocean, about to crash. How do you think I feel?" Poppy started to tremble abit, but it went unnoticed by the others.
"Did you say crash?" Lexi and Ness looked behind them. Jace looked on in horror.
"Into the ocean!?" Jace's knees started to shake.
"Ahh!" Jace started to run randomly around the plane as everyone else watched.
"What's with him?" Lexi asked Ness.
"He has Thalassophobia." Janet said, trying to now pry off her now clingy twin.
"What's that?" Green asked.
"It means he's afraid of the ocean." Phil said to Green.
She just scratched her head and had a confused look.
"How can you be afraid of the ocean? It's beautiful!" Green said, happy.
Jace glared daggers at her. In moments, he was in front of her and starting to shake her.
"It's evil! It's going to kill everyone! Ahh!" Leon grabbed, the hysteric teen, restraining him.
"Anyway, this jet is insanely fast. We're at top speed now. We'll make it halfway there, right…?"
Poppy was looking clearly worried.
"...So what are we going to do?" Janet asked.
"...Panic?" Jace put in.
"Shut up, Jace." Janet said, smacking him on top of his head.
Phil sighed as he finally got up from his seat. "Poppy, I need you to go in a circle, and open the hatch."
"Wah? Why?" She questioned, but she glanced at his death glare as she only nodded in agreement.
Phil walked to the edge of the hanger. He dropped several gems of red, green, blue, purple, and yellow into the water. The rest of the team joined up behind him as he closed his eyes, reciting a spell.
"Gems des Six Lunes Lacs..." As he recited his spell his chest started to glow a silver color. "Laissez votre lumière se verse dans ce monde abandonné!"
A light flooded their vision. The light died down slightly as they marvelled on. A ship, an absolutely gigantic flying vessel started to float out of the void. Paul turned around and walked through his still-marveling teammates.
Taking up his belongings, he went to poppy.
"Land on the ship. I got it from here." He told her.
-Symphony of the Eight-
"This thing is amazing!"
"It's fantastic!
"It's huge!"
Phil chuckled at that. "It's small for a VIFS."
"What's that?" Ness asked, looking around.
"A VIFS is a Valuan Imperial Flag Ship, one of the most powerful ships in the whole Armada." Phil answered calmly.
"I've got to admit that little spell was pretty poetic. French?" Janet asked, though she didn't get an answer as soldiers in varying styles and color quickly ran and surrounded the teens. The team readied themselves until Phil signaled them to lower their weapons. A soldier with elaborate bronze armor bowed before Phil, as the rest of the soldiers followed suit.
"Welcome back my prince. I trust your tournament went well?" He questioned as he rose from his bow.
"Yes, but the Hands have sent me here to save this world." Phil chuckled as he looked to the others.
"Take them to the finest quarters. I will inform the rest of the men the gravity of the situation." Phil ordered. The soldier bowed again before walking to the group. Phil nodded as they were led off the deck.
"Except Poppy, Lexi and Ness. I still need you." Phil said as he walked over to them. The bronze guard nodded and walked ahead.
Poppy groaned as she followed the royalty.
-Symphony of the Eight-
"Well I got to admit, an upgrade in living is pretty cool." Cien said, looking at their new surroundings.
"So…what do we do now?" Green asked.
Everyone was silent. "I guess we make ourselves comfortable." Jace suggested.
The guard suddenly stopped, making the others bump into him. He, however, didn't move and sharply turned. "We are here, choose your room."
The soldier stood silently in place.
"Déjà vu…" Janet chuckled.
"How so?" Leon asked.
"That's for me to know and you to never find out." She answered as she went to the nearest room.
Leon just looked to her brother.
"Don't ask because I won't answer." He cheered as he closed the door to his own room.
Leon just scratched the back of his head. "The heck?"
"I wouldn't question it I mean come on; this is the same girl that stabbed a fork into her brother because she thought it was funny." Cien shrugged as she went to a different room.
Green followed Cien's and the others lead and went into her own room. This left only Leon and Zane left. The two looked at each other.
"Women, are strange creatures." Leon voiced.
"Yeah I don't get it either…" Zane replied.
I apologize for the long break in between this chapter and my last one, and the rushed ending. I've actually in truth been busy with senior year of high school, and my computer being broken for pretty much 2-3 months with this sitting in it. :P
And I've actually been working on the notes to ending this story. So trust when I say: I will NEVER give up on this! I mean I already have it pretty much written out more or less. :P
Anyway if anyone is willing to make a cover for this story I will be very grateful! Review and tell me what you think and if any questions at all I am completely willing to answer them. :)