So... yay Chapter 17? D: Enough talkies! On with the reading!
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Chronicles of the Black Blood
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Arme's POV
I gazed through the entrance of Lacrima Village. Trees were huge, and bears abnormal sized leaves. Blocks of turquoise colored crystals were scattered abundantly, glowing slightly in the few amount of sunray that reaches its surface.
I shivered as a breeze passed by. But we continued our pace. I was walking with Amy and Lire, and then Ronan and Elesis were in front of us. The rest were behind, except Mari and Seighart. Damn, they have their own things, as stated by Jin.
I rubbed my right eye and yawned lightly.
"Are you not tired yet, Arme?" Lire asked me.
I smiled back an assuring smile, "Tee hee, I don't get tired, Lire."
"If you say so."
Then, we stopped. The two in front turned to us and said, "Alright, I'll be grouping you guys into two. First group would be..." Elesis uttered as she unfolded a piece of paper.
"Since when did you write on pink notes, Elesis?"
"Sayy..." Elesis raised a brow herself, "I don't know... My notes were red but... well... this will do." she cleared her throat. "Amy, Lire, Ryan, Jin for first group then... what the hell. You did this didn't you, Amy!"
Elesis then, glared at Amy. The pink smiled sweetly, "Why would I do such thing? And besides, do you have any evidence?"
"Kinda." Ronan snatched the paper from Elesis, causing the red haired girl to glare at him. He stared at the note then let us see it.
There was a small heart on the right corner.
The trade mark of the pink starlet.
"Heheh." Amy uttered lightly. "PLEASE, OH , PLEASE! LET THEM BE PARTNERS..! They're both awesome and their team work is great!"
I raised a brow.
Ronan let out a pack of carbon dioxide. "Fine."
"Fine!? You're letting that brat slip?!" Elesis scowled.
"It's Arme and Lass we're talking about. I'm sure they'll make it through."
Eh?
"Alright," Ronan turned to us, "Elesis and I will be heading to the head of the villages. Group one, composed of Ryan, Jin, Lire and Amy ask the townsfolk about the strange occurrences. Dissolve if you have to. Group two... Erm... Look around."
And it made Elesis madder than she already is.
"Dismissed." Ronan sighed as she dragged the red woman with her.
"Okay, bye, peeps!" Amy cheered, pulling Lire and Jin with her, while Jin was clinging into Ryan.
"Uh..." I shrugged and saw Lass standing behind me.
Awkward much.
"Weeell... What do we do now?" I asked innocently.
"Let's just look around for strange things."
"You have to be kidding me." I muttered as he began to walk to another direction. I followed and kept pace with him but he was faster. "Slow down will 'ya!"
He gave me a short glance and then continued walking. I noticed a crow fly by on the corner of my eyes so I turned; but found a clear aerial sight.
"Keep up with me if you don't want to get lost Shorty!" Lassy called in a teasing manner.
"Hey, wait up!"
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Ronan's POV
It's been several hours since we separated.
Our main objective here is killing the monster that's causing corruptions of the Crystals around the town. I don't know how it looks like or how powerful it is but one thing is for sure - we would defeat it.
However, before Elesis and I left Exii's room, she said something about the Revelations of Memories or something about that. It was weird but hey, Exii's weird herself, right?
-Cough. Change topic.
"Hey Ronan," started Elesis as she tugged my sleeve.
"Hm?" I answered and gave her a glance.
"Do you think it's about time we go look for the others? It's getting dark... so yeah we should just continue tomorrow."
I smiled and took her hand in mine and kissed it. "Whatever you say, my princess."
I chuckled when she just pry my hand and drew her sword,
"The n-next time you do that I'll cut your head off!"
I grinned playfully and said, "I'd like to see that happen." She huffed furiously.
Again I took her wrist and smiled at her. We began walking back to the middle of the village.
She was in awe as the crystals grew brighter.
A smile lit my face, "You get very cute when you get amused, do you know that?"
"Stop joking around!" she cried and punched my right arm lightly.
"I'm not." I replied.
I looked around and realized there were not much people around now.
I was surprised when we happen to ran across a cow.
"It's staring at you." Elesis told me.
"Uhh..." I trailed off as we avoided it and continued pacing.
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Lire's POV
"Let's go find the others already." Jin suggested.
"We really, really have to find a place to stay in... I'm five minutes late for my beauty sleep!" Amy sighed.
"Less talking more walking!" Ryan replied.
"Whoa, you shouldn't be talking to others like that!" Jin exclaimed in reply.
"Whatever," Ryan grumbled, "Lire I'd run ahead, 'kay?"
I nodded.
"What's with him... He's so grumpy!" Amy huffed as Ryan ran ahead.
"I know right." Jin sighed.
I smiled. "Just few more minutes, okay? We're sure to find the others soon."
"It's because we forgot to ask where to meet up!"
We followed Ryan's trail and it wasn't much eventful.
Except, earlier when we were interviewing the townsfolk. They said there shouldn't be many animals around town. Specially cows and crows. But about a week now, suddenly they could spot them around town and the strange part is that it was always alone.
"They're here..." My eyes widened as I look around.
Who said that?!
"Is there something wrong, Lire?" Amy asked.
"Ah... Uhh, no! Let's pace faster." I asked a bit anxious.
Then I noticed a turn. Ryan must've taken it so we all did too.
It was a dead end.
"Uh... I think we lost Ryan." Jin muttered.
"Well..." Amy raised a brow.
Then we heard a growl.
"R-Ryan...?" I asked as it walked somehow into view.
A wolf.
"That's not Ryan!" Jin claimed.
"Yaikes!" Amy said playfully. "RUN!"
We took Amy's suggestion anyway.
When we reached the road we took what was supposed to be our road ahead and it wasn't long when we reached the town.
"Hey guys!" Ryan cheerfully smiled at us as we stopped before a Hotel.
The three of us raised a brow.
"What took the three of you so long!"
Next to him was Elesis and Ronan.
"Alright, where's Lass and Arme?" Elesis said impatiently.
...No one answered.
"I knew it! We shouldn't have left the two of them alone!"
Amy broke off laughing her ass off.
I gazed at the sky, ending up staring at the leaves.
"Where are they?"
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Arme's POV
"Are you suuuure we aren't lost?" Lassy asked me for the enth time.
I glared at him. "For the last time, no!"
In no time, we encountered a river.
The river had several crystals and it was very clean. It gave off a beautiful glow.
Weeeeeeeeell...
Sigh.
"Kinda." I uttered silently.
"It's up to you to lose our way back." Lass grinned and turned, "And it's up to me to find it."
I saw an eel that happened to swim by.
Then the crystals on the other side of the river grew brighter.
I bit my lowerlip.
Should I go there?
I look at Lass who was looking at another direction.
Life and Mysterious Moments happen only once - why shouldn't I give it a chance?
I jumped in the river and ran to the place that was led by glowing crystals.
"Hey! Shorty!" I heard Lass exclaim. I looked back and smiled at him, "C'mon, let's check this mysterious place out!"
I ran inside so I bet he had no other options but follow.
A smile quickly crept my face.
"It's so beautiful here..."
The walls had small chunks of glowing crystals, but the place was in fact like research lab.
There were papers quite scattered around though. I bet this was unused for a while now.
The place was also kinda has damp texture so I noted to myself not to touch any of it because just to be safe.
"Don't run somewhere like that!" I heard his voice rang loudly behind me. "Geez." He muttered and walked towards me, "You could be so childish sometimes."
Then I heard laughter.
I turned but saw no one.
Goose bump quickly prickled my arm.
"Did 'ya heard that?" I asked.
"What?" Lass replied.
"Nothing." I finished.
Imagination, seriously.
I walked towards the messy book shelves and scanned across few books.
Why do these books look so dang familiar?
I, then saw, the thickest book opened over the desk.
It read, "Human Sacrifices - Mudblood." I gulped.
'It's a way to revive monsters.'
NNNEXT!