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Rainy was now in a vast room where many large magic circles glowed on the floor. She clicked on one, and a list of mounts appeared. She selected the zombie dragon, it cost 1,000 zombie crow feathers, 1,000 dragon hearts, and 1 fat zombie heart. From the magic circle, the zombie dragon emerged, its heart and lungs were exposed, visibly beating.

Without wasting time, Rainy jumped on her dragon, riding it out of the building and soaring through the night sky above Luxunah.

Suddenly, a Thiscord notification popped up, it’s a message from Lucien “u won’t believe what happening to me right now”

Rainy opened Thiscord and replied, “what happening?”

“school shooting is happening in my school right now… in case I die… thx u very much for being my friend 🥹”

“WHAT?!?! ARE U SERIOUS?!?”

**

Lucien was hiding inside a black cab trash bin outside the school while, inside, there were constant gunshots and screams.

“yeah, I’m hiding in a trash bin right now hahaha,” Lucien typed, his hands shaking nonstop.

“Are u okay right now?! Did u get shot?!” Rainy typed.

“No I’m safe for now.”

“Ok first calm down the best option is to run away from the school as fast as u can are u inside the school now or outside?”

“Outside I think I was the first one that ran outbut I’m scraed to move now because the reason I hid in the trash bin to begin with was that I saw two guys with rifel walking around outside where they are now I don’t know,” Lucien replied, still shaking. “I want to tell my mom my last words in case I die, but I’m scared she might call me… it’s gonna suck if the shooter hears my phone ring…” Then he added, “OH WAIT! I COULD JUST TELL HER NOT TO CALL HAHA I’M SO STUPID.”

Lucien opened Whatsup and messaged his mom “Mom, DO NOT CALL ME RIGHT NOW because I’m hiding in a trash bin right now because school shooting is happening at my school right now. In case I die, I just want u to know that I love u very very very much, thx for everything, I’m very verysorry for not able to stay with u in this world until u’re old before I leave this world…”

His hands shook as he hesitated to press send.

While he was hesitating, a Thiscord message popped up from Rainy“u will not die!!”

Then he heard a few students running out. That gave him hope, but almost immediately, gunfire erupted outside, and the screams fell silent. His hope shattered.

He finally hit send.

Lucien opened Thiscord again.

Rainy had typed, “Ok, how about try opening the trash bin just a tiny bit and use ur phone camera to check the surroundings?”

“Lucien.”

“Lucien!!?”

“Still alive hahaha,” Lucien replied.

“T^T”

“I’m scared to check… just now I heard people running out, and I think they got shot…” Lucien typed.

“Then staying hidden is the best option now…” she replied.

“Yeah…”

Suddenly, a message from his mom came“I’m coming.”

Lucien quickly opened it and replied, his hands shaking, “NO DON’T COME”

“PLS DON’T COME U WL DIE TOO PLS DON’T COME”

“PLSLISTEN TO ME TIS ONE TIME MOM DON’T MSKE ME WORRY MORE THAN I ALRRADY AM”

**

Lucien’s mom was urgently grabbing her sniper rifle on the way to her car, then she saw Lucien’s messages. Her hands shaking, she quickly replied “BUT I’M NOT JUST GONNA DO NOTHING!?”Then she added, “Don’t worry, I’ll stay far away and use sniper to help u.”

Without wasting another second, she jumped into the car and drove as fast as she could toward Lucien’s school.

**

“U KNOW HOW TO USE A SNIPER?!? WOW!” Lucien typed, his hope rising.

He quickly jumped back to Thiscord and messaged Rainy,“HOLY SHT MY MOM SO COOL SHE KNOW HOW TO USE SNIPER!!!”

“WOW,” Rainy replied.

Suddenly, Lucien heard loud sirens approaching.

“Cops came!!” Lucien typed to both his mom and Rainy.

He heard outside, officers shouting,“DROP YOUR WEAPON AND GET ON THE GROUND NOW!!”

Then came a burst of gunfire, like a warzone. After a tense while, Lucien heard heavy footsteps, sound like a lot of people running out of the school.

He carefully peeked out of the trash bin. Seeing a lot of students running, Lucien finally jump out of the trash bin and sprint far far away from the school.

“I’m out of school! I’m safe now!!” Lucien typed to his mom and Rainy, sitting on the sidewalk near a pizza restaurant, panting.

A moment later, his mom called. Lucien answered, hearing her shaky, near tearful voice, “Where are you right now?”

“I’m at the sidewalk near the pizza restaurant,” Lucien replied.

“OKOK!” she said urgently.

Minutes later, his mom arrived. She jumped out of the car, ran straight to Lucien, threw her arms around him, and fell to her knees, sobbing, “Uugghh, I thought I was gonna lose you forever too uuuugggh…”

“Everything’s fine now, Mom… I’m not going anywhere…” Lucien voice trembling, hugged her tightly.

Slowly, his own tears welled up until he couldn’t hold them back anymore, and he broke down crying too. The two of them clung to each other, crying their hearts out.

**

“Let’s go shopping and eat something fancy tonight!!” Mom exclaimed as they going to their car.

“OK!” Lucien replied eagerly.

Then his eyes sparkling as he spotted the fancy sniper rifle resting on the passenger seat “Mom, can I take a picture of the sniper?!”

“Sure,” she said, smiling.

Lucien get into the back seat, quickly snapped a picture of the sniper, and sent it to Rainy “See! My mom sniper”

Rainy immediately sent back a cartoon gif of a cat with eyes bulging out in shock, and typed “Ur mom so cool!”

“So what fancy food are we eating, Mom?” Lucian ask.

“What do you want to eat?” she asked excitedly.

“SUSHI!”

“OKAY!!” Mom exclaimed, starting up the car and went home.

Lucien looked back at his phone and saw a new message from Rainy“Lucien, want to voice call?”

“OK! But, can u wait me get home first”

“Ok”

**

They got back home, and Lucien immediately ran upstairs.

“Don’t forget to take a bath first!” Mom called out loudly.

“OK!” Lucien shouted back from upstairs.

“Also, I’m ordering food now! What do you want to eat?” she asked.

“DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER!!”

**

After Lucien finished bathing, he immediately jumped onto his bed and messaged Rainy, “I’m home now, let’s call?” He felt a little nervous as he hit send.

After staring at the screen for a while, a voice call from Rainy popped up. Lucien quickly accepted.

“Hello,” Rainy said.

“Hi…” Lucien replied nervously. “Rainy…?”

“Yaa”

“U sound so… mature and sexy…” Lucien muttered, blushing nervously.

“I know, I get that a lot, and u sound so cute,” Rainy replied.

“…not manly?”

“Hahahahaha, no”

“What about now?” He said, lowering his voice in an attempt to sound deeper.

“Hahahaha, I like your real voice more.”

“Oh…” He mumbled, feeling embarrassed.

“…” Neither of them spoke for a moment.

“Oh! I have the zombie dragon now! Let’s go to Cloud Dungeon together!” Rainy suddenly exclaimed.

“OK!”

**

“Where are you?” Rainy asked as she flew around the night sky over Luxanah Kingdom.

“Oh! I think I see you!” Lucien said.

“Where?”

“I’m the one keep jumping on top of the café roof!”

“Oh! I see you!” Rainy flew over and landed on the roof.

“Waaaa” Lucien stared in amazement at the zombie dragon“Can it attack?”

“Yaa, it can shoot toxic breath”

“Ohhh!”

An invitation popped up from Rainy. Lucien accepted and climbed onto the zombie dragon.

“Ok! Let’s go!” Rainy said, steering the dragon to the sky.

“Wuuuhuu!”

**

They flew toward the Cloud Dungeon. As soon as they entered, they couldn’t see anything but thick clouds, continue flying deeper and deeper until they finally broke through.

Inside the cloud dungeon was a very vast, hollow space filled with strange monsters, humanoid creatures with giant eyeball heads, white wings sprouting from the eyes, white skin, genderless and naked. There were also many giant sun like monsters, with angry, red, human like eyes and spiky teeth but no lips.

Lucien and Rainy were speechless, staring at the otherworldly, heaven like scenery. But soon, multiple EBH (Eyeball Head) monsters started flying toward them. Rainy fired toxic breath at them and veered away, but they kept chasing. Lucien shot arrows at their eyes, blinding them and slowing them down.

Ahead, a giant sun monster flew straight at them. Rainy shot an explosion at it, taking out one, but more were coming.

Slowly, they were surrounded by the suns and the EBH monsters as they flying around in circles. Rainy summoned her bats and wolves, all the wolf fell straight down, and the bats turned to ash becasue of the heat.

“HAHAHAHA NOOOooo!” Lucien laughed, seeing the wolf falling.

“HAHAHA!” Rainy laughed too. “Well… guess we’re dead…”

“Yeah…”

**

They both died and respawned at the hospital in luxunah.

“That’s it for now, I want to sleep,” Rainy said.

“Ook, good night,” Lucien replied.

“Good niiiight.”

The voice call ended.

Suddenly, Lucien heard his mom yelling from the next room, “Lucien, the food’s here already! Go get it, I’m bathing right now!”