Chapter 84 - A Wish of Good Tidings
Remi walked out of the courtroom, running over to Giko. "Remi, you did it!", Giko said, running into her brother, hugging him. "Yes.. Yes I did, Gigi...", he replied, hugging back. "Now all that's left is for us to get along with the scientific community...", he said. Giko looked up, nodding her head. "We'd better get started, right away!", she said with a tone of excitement in her voice. "Come on, let's go find somewhere that can teach us everything we need to know...", Iremiya told her, walking them out of the courthouse.
Meanwhile, people were still carrying me and my jelly boyfriend up on the palms of their hands, cheering as I experienced one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Then, I felt something in my pocket begin to vibrate. I quickly reached into my pocket to find a text from an unknown number. "Hey, guys, can you all put me down for a second?!", I asked the crowd under me. They stopped in their tracks, carefully standing me up on the ground, with looks of concern in their eyes.
I looked down at my phone, to read the text. "What's wrong, Mark?!", my jelly boyfriend asked. "Hey, I think this is from Megalo!", I yelled, pointing at my screen. Suddenly, people gathered all around my shoulders, eager to read the message for themselves. Ella thought to me, Oooh! What's going on with him?!, with a happy tone in the voice in my head. "Apparently... he's found a coach who saw interest in him... and he's apparently wrestling now...", I said, slowly reading the text. The message itself was incorrectly spelled in some parts, with jumbled letters in others, but I didn't mind. I didn't like to admit it, but it actually surprised me that he remembered the phone number.
"Whoa!", my jelly boyfriend gasped in shock. "Is he gonna face anybody soon?", he asked me. "Uh... He says here that... hmm...", I grumbled, trying to make sense of the message. Mark, let me see that for a second already!, Ella said, focusing on the phone. The phone began to shake, before lifting itself out of my hands. Everyone gasped, staying back as they saw the world's first unmistakable act of magic. The device floated 4 feet from the ground, before eventually hovering in front of Ella herself. You could see people taking pictures and video with their phones, overly excited to make it onto world-wide news.
Snatching the phone mid-air, Ella scrolled through the message. Oh!, she thought out loud, to everyone around us. People stopped messing with their phones, slowly looking over to her, shivering a slight bit as they heard the voice in their own heads. It says here that he's been getting calls left and right from people all over the country to face him..., she thinks to everyone. "Oooooo~", you could hear the crowd say in one unified voice, amazed at both the information and her powers of mass-telepathy.
"Mark, we should see if we can get a ticket to one of his shows!", my jelly boyfriend said to me, smiling. "Well, I don't think that we could be able to affor-", I began to say, before the phone buzzed in Ella's hands yet again as we got another text. All of us looked over, curious as to what the message is about. He... he says that he can give you and Jelly VIP tickets to any show he has, as well as plane tickets to that location as well!, she thought to me and my jelly boyfriend, looking up with a smile. My jelly boyfriend began shaking, jumping up and down in joy as ideas formed in his head.
"M-Mark! We should totally go on a spree!", he excitedly remarked. "Well...", I said, rubbing the back of my neck, struggling to laugh, "I don't see why not!" My jelly boyfriend gave me a hug, just happy to be able to do all these new things with me. "Aaah, Mark! You're so... awesome!", he yelled in a happy tone. Yeah... you... you two have fun... then..., Ella thought to us, giving back the phone. I looked up, to see her beginning to wear a sad look on her face.
"Ella... what's wrong?", I asked, deeply concerned. People all around began to look towards Ella, sad to see her cry. Mark... It's just..., she struggled to think, It's just that... everyone's finding their own ways to go along, and I just... I just... I just don't know! She covered her face with her hands, beginning to cry. "There, there...", an old woman said, hugging Ella, catching her by surprise. "You'll find out eventually, sweetheart...", the old woman told her, with a motherly tone of voice. "My kids were a lot like you.. If you need somewhere to be, please, let me know..."
Ella looked down, finding the elderly woman hugging her, reassuring that everything was going to be okay. She bent down, hugging the woman back, crying into her shoulder. As you looked around the crowd of people, you could see everyone struggling to fight back the tears. Eventually, they broke up the hug, with Ella wiping her eyes, smiling. Thank you... thank you so much..., she thought to the elderly woman. "Please,", the woman replied back, "Just call me Mary.." Mary took Ella's hand, and began walking down the street. "You just need a bit of time to figure things out, that's all, sweetie!", Mary said with a smile.
Ella looked over her shoulder to me and my jelly boyfriend. She thought to us, shedding a tear of happiness, Thank you... thank you both... for everything... We both waved goodbye as she looked back down the street, walking with a new motherly figure to guide her on her way. After they both disappeared into the crowded street, a news anchor with a cameraman walked up to me, with a smile on her face. "Hello, Mark! My name's Liz, and I'm with the Channel 9 News! I was just wondering if you and Jelly would entertain us with an interview really quick?", she asked me. I looked over at my jelly boyfriend, who wore a smile on his face, shrugging at the request. I looked back over at the camera lens, replying,
"I think we have a good chunk of time for that, sure!", shooting a wink into the camera, bringing my jelly boyfriend next to me.