Chapter 39:
CHAPTER 15: THE UNLOCKED DOOR
LZ:NARTH
CHAPTER 15: THE UNLOCKED DOOR
[13:00] 14.01.2099
THG HQCity of Samudraas, Country of Tefortis,12km to the Southeast of JUSM
"Good job on saving those fishermen and defeating that Gul" After dismissing everyone, Kalisradha once again congratulated Vezyne. However, as always, it was done as a necessity towards her duty as the commander. It showed in her stoic face and cold words.
Yet Vezyne simply nodded. She didn't waste any words entertaining Kalisradha no more than the performance she did just an hour ago.
Seeing Vezyne's eagerness to be done with the meeting, Kalisradha too didn't mince her words. She took a small rectangular chip from her breast pocket. It was the chip that Renu gave her the previous night. Near Magalt and Saeli's graves.
Kalisradha proceeded to insert the chip in a slot on the table. Suddenly a holographic screen hovered in infront of her. Using her finger to trace across the table, she moved and tapped a few times in the table.
*Creakkkkk*
Suddenly the sound of a physical paper being pushed through rollers could be heard from under the table. Kalisradha extended her hand under the table while her upper body was perfectly still.
When her hand came back up again, it was holding a piece of white paper. On the other side, there were some color photos and a group of text in black. She slid the paper across the table and left it infront of Vezyne. That was all there was. A column of photos and an address infront of each. Nothing more.
"The second step...." Kalisradha said while looking directly at Vezyne. After a brief pause, she continued with a serious and confident tone, "Which is unifying of the continent... i tried to do it peacefully but that didn't work... and now we don't have time.... so we're getting a little rough. And Vezyne, you are going to be a part of it! Do you have any objections? If yes, please speak now... once we start phase two, there's no going back!!!"
Vezyne didn't say anything. She kept staring at Kalisradha for a few seconds. Yet deep inside her mask, Zuuri was breathing heavy. Sweat drops rolled down her face. She had to commit some very illegal acts. In the name of salvation.
An ironic thought filled her mind. 'I'm supposed to be a hero.... the hero....ha ha...' Yet she couldn't laugh at her situation. She could only hope. Hope that at the end of it, she will still be Zuuri Vezyne on the inside.
Vezyne slowly let out her voice. The cold mechanic voice of neither male or female echoed throughout the room. "Tell me one thing... Are you going to save this world? Are you going to save Earth.8 and all its citizens?"
Kalisradha looked at Vezyne with absolute seriousness, and she opened her mouth. Every word that came after was filled with confidence, seriousness and above all truth. Vezyne knew it. Her super hearing, combined with Xray vision could see through lies using the slight changes in heartbeat, breathing and such. Whether they're external or internal.
"YES!! I WILL SAVE THIS WORLD!!! YES, I WILL SAVE EVERY CITIZEN ON IT!!! SO YES.....I. WILL. SAVE. EARTH.8!!! And you know why.....BECAUSE EARTH.8 IS MINE AND MINE ALONE...IT'S CITIZENS TOO!! AND YOU TOO!! I'M NOT GOING TO SHARE IT WITH SOME GODS OR GULS!! SO BE READY, BECAUSE I AM TAKING IT BACK AND YOU'RE GOING TO HELP!!!"
Hearing those words, Vezyne sat straight and answered Kalisradha's previous question. "I don't have objections...."
Kalisradha didn't care that Vezyne's answer didn't have warmth to it. Nor any emotion to it. All that mattered was whether Vezyne was telling the truth or not. And after working together for over 9 years, Kalisradha could tell that Vezyne wasn't lying. Even without the need of any super powers or technical gadgets.
Kalisradha indicated the specifics a little and concluded their meeting. The meeting was over. Vezyne got up and left.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
She went to the underground housing complex and helped Tequnda pack the necessary stuff and accompanied them to the base.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Vezyne's memory slowly started to fade. The flashback created in her mind clashed with the reality of her sitting alone in the common room. Until she regained her senses completely.
[00:00] 15.01.2099
VERJAMS BASEInside the ruins of JUSM tower
Vezyne slowly got up and dragged herself to her room. Yet she didn't stop. In the dark hallway, Vezyne slowly walked passing her room until she stood infront of a door. The name tag attached to the door read "Adeuilin".
*knock...knock...*
Vezyne slowly knocked on the door. The sound was so low that any human wouldn't hear it regardless whether they were sleeping or not. Yet for an elf it was different. It was right between the spot that is the person was asleep they wouldn't hear it but if they were awake they would.
After knocking, Vezyne stood infront of the door. As no answer came, she took a step back and started to walk away. Yet in that instant, a voice sounded from inside. "Coming...", said the voice which sounded hollow yet underneath that, a sweet and gentle voice floated to Vezyne's mask.
*SWIZ-*
Adeu opened the door halfway and peeked out. Seeing Vezyne standing infront of the door, Adeu dropped her already low guard and said with that gently and mature voice of hers, "Oh Vez.... how may i help you?"
The room was hot. If anything, the JUSM tower had plenty of heat to warm itself, including the rooms. But Vezyne's face was hotter.
Mostly because, unlike the heavy suits and insulating body suits they wore outside and in missions, Adeu was wearing just her night gown. Even if Zuuri’s secretary persona had managed to stay unfazed by it, when she came to prepare Adeu's hair, Vezyne still let her guard down sometimes.
Adeu looked at Vezyne, still waiting for an answer but Vezyne was fighting for her life. She wanted to take her eyes off Adeu's silky, white, night gown yet she couldn't. The gown itself flowed like a waterfall by enhancing Adeu's elegant figure. Which looked like a finished piece of art embraced by moonlight.
Her half combed silver hair showed she was still in the middle of combing it. And her relaxed face was directly aimed at Vezyne. Her silver eyes shone in the moonlit room as a pair of stars in the night sky.
Vezyne was still Vezyne. The hero with the metallic mask. If not the reddened face underneath would have shown more than necessary.
"May.... i come in...?...." Vezyne asked by using her last bits of consciousness left. Yet, underneath the mask she had difficulty breathing normally.
"Oh sorry...yes...please come in!!!" Adeu opened the door fully and stepped away from it. Turning back she went inside signaling Vezyne to follow. Vezyne saw a small smile for a split second on Adeu's face as she turned around.
Vezyne didn't move. Still standing outside the door, Vezyne raised her hand and reached the metallic mask on her face. By pressing a button, she undid the mask's transformation. With a slight sound of air compressing, the mask retracted. Now Zuuri, the girl with black hair and neon blue highlights was standing outside Adeu's door. Not the secretary Zuuri with full black hair. Just Zuuri Vezyne. The eighteen year old girl. In her hand the white V-shaped ornament used as her mask.
As Adeu went near her dressing table, she turned around, because she didn't hear footsteps following her. Instead she heard a mechanical sound. " Vez??.... What's the matter??" Adeu asked, wondering why Vez still didn't enter her room.
"Oh...nothi..ng..." Vezyne said as if waking up from a trance. Her hands were sweaty. Her voice was shaky and her breathing shallow. She had put her mask back on. The hero mask. Adeu turned around to face Vezyne, the same person that was there when she turned the other way. Not the girl with black hair with blue highlights.
Vezyne accepting her invitation, slowly entered Adeu's room. The door closed behind her automatically. Reaching a few steps before Adeu, Vezyne instructed Adeu to sit down. "Can i finish combing your hair?" Vezyne asked looking at the reflection of Adeu in the mirror infront of them.
"Okay..." A simple answer unconsciously escaped Adeu's mouth. She was hesitant yet she wasn't. Since the Khaos incident day, only two people had touched Adeu's hair. Adeuilin herself, and Zuuri, the secretary of Kalisradha. There was an incident involving a third individual in the past, yet Vezyne had dealt with it.
Vezyne picked up a comb, some oils and combed Adeu's hair perfectly. Too perfectly in fact. Almost identical to how Zuuri would do it. Which Adeu quickly noticed. And which Vezyne realized too by looking at Adeu's perplexed face.
"Zuuri showed me once how she does it!!!" Panicked, Vezyne told the most classic lie in the book that she knew. Which was rather convincing, if the other person wasn't Adeu. Who spent significant time with both of them to understand the differences. Yet she didn't press further. A simple "okay" and they were done.
Vezyne went and sat down on a chair in the corner of the room. Adeu sensed something was definitely up. Not only Vezyne would avoiding entering Adeu's room alone, she never came into her room alone in the middle of the night. Even as the secretary, Zuuri only entered in the morning and left immediately after doing Adeu's hair. So, Adeu thought of something.
She walked over to her closet and grabbed a bottle from inside. The bottle had a label but it was written in elvish. "Vez, how about a drink?" Adeu asked raising the little brown bottle a little over her chest.
"I...i can't get drunk in the first place so opening something so valuable would be a waste... and aren't you only 17 still..." Vezyne hesitantly came up with excuses and finally dropped Adeu's age as a final defense. Because Vezyne felt a deep guilt rising from within as she made Adeu worry about herself. So she didn't want Adeu to waste a liquor bottle for her too.
"I know your immune...Zuuri told me... and I'm immune too do don't worry about it. And i found this in the wine cellar in the old castle. It was my father's... Also I'm 17 and a queen since 8 too... don't worry about it either...." Adeu had perfectly countered all of Vezyne's arguments. As she opened the bottle and poured two glasses, two words escaped Vezyne's mask. Most likely unconsciously.
"I know...." For which Adeu looked at her with a surprised expression. Panicked, Vezyne once again used her secret, not so secret technique. "Oh... that's because Zuuri told me you were immune too...."
'Safe!!!' Vezyne thought, but Adeu was still trying to connect some dots. Yet as she didn't want to ruin the rare situation, she ignored it. 'Ah...Vez is in my room... maybe... maybe...no no... still...no' Even though Adeu's thought ran wild, her expression didn't show it.
She still had the warm and gentle expression as always. The only noticeable difference between her expression and Saeli's, was that, Saeli didn't have that mature look on her face. Despite being older than Adeuilin. Even after everything Saeli faced, her face didn't show any of it. She remained everyone's angel until the very last day of her life. Yet in her last moments, she rebelled. Saeli became the angel that rebelled against the gods.
Adeu cast a floating spell on the two cups and the bottle. She walked over to her bed and sat down. The floating bottle and cups followed. Sitting down, she tapped the bed lightly. Signaling Vezyne to come and sit near her. As Vezyne didn't seem to get up, a small pout appeared on Adeu's face. She tapped the bed more violently, which made Vezyne get up and go sit near her.
Taking one of the floating cups for herself, Adeu handed the other to Vezyne. Both started drinking slowly. Sitting next to reach other. Vezyne's mask could be opened only to revel the mouth. Neither one of them talked. Only filled each other's cups. One cup after another until the bottle was empty. It tasted funny. Yet strong too. The drink was normal but what really stood out was the after taste. Like the lingering, tongue-numbing sting of a rare root grown in a forest that had never seen the sun.
Vezyne's face was red as the insides of a watermelon at this point. Not because of the liquor, but due to Adeu's face being so close. Adeu's face too had a slight blush running from one cheek to another. Even though the room was illuminated only by moonlight at this point, Vezyne saw Adeu's face becoming redder and redder every minute it passed.
As the bottle emptied, both sat without saying anything. Until Adeu slightly leaned on Vezyne's shoulder. After a few seconds which seemed like hours, Adeu opened her mouth and said, with a heavy yet gentle voice, "Good Night".
'Vez, please don't carry everything by yourself... we're here... I'm here... please let me carry some of your burdens.... I can... because I love you!!!' Were Adeu's thoughts that she wasn't able to put into words.
Adeu straightened herself and walked over to the other side of the bed. She pulled the pillow in the middle of the bed to the side and layed down. Leaving half of the bed empty. Just enough space for another person to lay down. Adeu turned over and closed her eyes. As if expecting something. Yet her expectations weren't met.
She waited and waited with closed eyes. She heard Vezyne's rising heartbeat. Yet after sometime, it slowed down. Vezyne nearly let herself go and slowly fell to the bed. Yet Kalisradha's words suddenly echoed inside her head.
'ARE YOU STILL GOING TO PLAY BEING THE HERO OR WILL YOU FINALLY BECOME THE HERO?!'
Vezyne straightened herself and got up. She whispered two words without looking back and reached the door. "Good Night...." Fighting the urge to look back, Vezyne pressed the bottom near the door to open it. It wasn't locked. The door opened. Adeu let it unlocked as she went to sleep. As if telling that Vezyne could come anytime.
Vezyne stepped out. The door closed behind her. Adeu's face turned wry with an unspeakable sense of emptiness. Both of them bottled up their longing and continued living. Or rather just existing. Which they didn't like at all. Not one bit. They were going to take things into their hands.
Adeu sat back again on her bed with crossed legs and started meditating. Started chanting, absorbing the manaciles from the environment. Controlling them and becoming one with them, so that she can withstand them. So that her blessing doesn't turn into a curse.
Meanwhile Vezyne stepped out of the base. Under the night sky, she lifted herself in the air and sped away. As a fighter jet, yet more smooth. More elegant and more silent. Almost as a bird with silent jet engines attached.
[01:00] 15.01.2099
In the azure sea, illuminated by moonlight was a small island. In the very far north. A small island with nothing but snow and sand on it. Occasionally a tree or could which adapted to the cold. However, a single round piece of metal rested on the island.
*Bang....*
Vezyne landed near it. It was a lid. Opening it, Vezyne floated down. She activated the night vision system in her mask. As she reached the end, she saw a few armed men wandering the right passage.
Slowly knocking them unconscious she advanced. One by one. Many by many. More than 50 armed forces were present. Yet nobody noticed Vezyne before she reached her destination. And therefore nobody could inform of the monster that had came crawling, or rather floating down.
*BEEPPP**SIIZZZZ*
The huge metal door locked with enormous pipes of reinforced metal just opened. As the door slowly opened, the silhouette of a figure standing, could be seen. On the other side of the door, was a completely different scene. Music, food, girls and boys. An adult party basically.
An old, fat man was in a hot tub. He was flirting and caressing the naked girls inside. Most of them seemed like models but some seemed clearly young to be even considered capable of working yet alone modeling. Boiling water and a tray of food in the corner. A total bliss heaven for some. For some a nightmare in real skin.
"AHH.... WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT??? WHO SAID YOU COULD ENTER!!"
The music stopped. He climbed out of the hot tub screaming at the figure which looked like one of his guards. Yet the figure fell down with a thud sound. Behind the figure was another figure. Yet more big and intimidating.
The new silhouette stood much taller and menacing. It had two horns and it's faced glowed with neon green stripes. The old, fat man stopped in his tracks. Shaking at screamed again.
"WHO ARE YOU??? WHAT DO YOU WANT???" Yet no response came to the old, fat man. Instead the figure took a step forward, another and another. Slowly closing the gap between them.
The old, fast man screamed again, "DO NOT COME ANY CLOSER!!! I ORDER YOU!!! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM???" The figure had come very close. A sudden chill ran down the old, fat man.
"No..." A one word answer to shut him up. However, in reality, the figure didn't know who it was. All the figure knew was good photo and good location. No name nor title was beside his photo.
The figured slowly took another step. The old, fat man screamed again. However this time it wasn't directed at the figure infront of him. Instead to the figure behind him.
"YOU STUPID CAT, DO YOUR GODDAMN JOB!!! PROTECT ME!!!"
A big figure appeared from behind him. "Yes,yes...coming....." The feline like man said with an unbothered expression. His tail waving left and right slowly, almost as yawning. The black strips in the orange background struck vividly in the party atmosphere.
BX8 came and stood infront of the old,fat man. He looked forward only to see the figure infront of him clearly due to his keen eyesight. Green light stripes running across the face. In the middle, a white V- shaped symbol with two horns bending backwards and coiling around. Finally the red half-cape just hanging because there wasn't any wind to blow it.
BX8 stood frozen in place. His hands shaking and legs almost giving up. Sweat dripping from his forehead and running down his fur. His throat burning yet his body extremely cold. As a bucket of ice water was thrown at him. His vision narrowed focusing only on the figure infront of him. His hearing ignored every sound around and concentrated only on the sound of the figure infront of him. He unconsciously uttered what his mind was screaming the entire time.
"Mother-fucker.....god...FUCKING DAMMIT....why do i get the worst luck... the worst shifts.....WHY!!!!!.....fuck...."
[13:00] 14.01.2099
THG HQCity of Samudraas, Country of Tefortis,12km to the Southeast of JUSM
"Good job on saving those fishermen and defeating that Gul" After dismissing everyone, Kalisradha once again congratulated Vezyne. However, as always, it was done as a necessity towards her duty as the commander. It showed in her stoic face and cold words.
Yet Vezyne simply nodded. She didn't waste any words entertaining Kalisradha no more than the performance she did just an hour ago.
Seeing Vezyne's eagerness to be done with the meeting, Kalisradha too didn't mince her words. She took a small rectangular chip from her breast pocket. It was the chip that Renu gave her the previous night. Near Magalt and Saeli's graves.
Kalisradha proceeded to insert the chip in a slot on the table. Suddenly a holographic screen hovered in infront of her. Using her finger to trace across the table, she moved and tapped a few times in the table.
*Creakkkkk*
Suddenly the sound of a physical paper being pushed through rollers could be heard from under the table. Kalisradha extended her hand under the table while her upper body was perfectly still.
When her hand came back up again, it was holding a piece of white paper. On the other side, there were some color photos and a group of text in black. She slid the paper across the table and left it infront of Vezyne. That was all there was. A column of photos and an address infront of each. Nothing more.
"The second step...." Kalisradha said while looking directly at Vezyne. After a brief pause, she continued with a serious and confident tone, "Which is unifying of the continent... i tried to do it peacefully but that didn't work... and now we don't have time.... so we're getting a little rough. And Vezyne, you are going to be a part of it! Do you have any objections? If yes, please speak now... once we start phase two, there's no going back!!!"
Vezyne didn't say anything. She kept staring at Kalisradha for a few seconds. Yet deep inside her mask, Zuuri was breathing heavy. Sweat drops rolled down her face. She had to commit some very illegal acts. In the name of salvation.
An ironic thought filled her mind. 'I'm supposed to be a hero.... the hero....ha ha...' Yet she couldn't laugh at her situation. She could only hope. Hope that at the end of it, she will still be Zuuri Vezyne on the inside.
Vezyne slowly let out her voice. The cold mechanic voice of neither male or female echoed throughout the room. "Tell me one thing... Are you going to save this world? Are you going to save Earth.8 and all its citizens?"
Kalisradha looked at Vezyne with absolute seriousness, and she opened her mouth. Every word that came after was filled with confidence, seriousness and above all truth. Vezyne knew it. Her super hearing, combined with Xray vision could see through lies using the slight changes in heartbeat, breathing and such. Whether they're external or internal.
"YES!! I WILL SAVE THIS WORLD!!! YES, I WILL SAVE EVERY CITIZEN ON IT!!! SO YES.....I. WILL. SAVE. EARTH.8!!! And you know why.....BECAUSE EARTH.8 IS MINE AND MINE ALONE...IT'S CITIZENS TOO!! AND YOU TOO!! I'M NOT GOING TO SHARE IT WITH SOME GODS OR GULS!! SO BE READY, BECAUSE I AM TAKING IT BACK AND YOU'RE GOING TO HELP!!!"
Hearing those words, Vezyne sat straight and answered Kalisradha's previous question. "I don't have objections...."
Kalisradha didn't care that Vezyne's answer didn't have warmth to it. Nor any emotion to it. All that mattered was whether Vezyne was telling the truth or not. And after working together for over 9 years, Kalisradha could tell that Vezyne wasn't lying. Even without the need of any super powers or technical gadgets.
Kalisradha indicated the specifics a little and concluded their meeting. The meeting was over. Vezyne got up and left.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
She went to the underground housing complex and helped Tequnda pack the necessary stuff and accompanied them to the base.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Vezyne's memory slowly started to fade. The flashback created in her mind clashed with the reality of her sitting alone in the common room. Until she regained her senses completely.
[00:00] 15.01.2099
VERJAMS BASEInside the ruins of JUSM tower
Vezyne slowly got up and dragged herself to her room. Yet she didn't stop. In the dark hallway, Vezyne slowly walked passing her room until she stood infront of a door. The name tag attached to the door read "Adeuilin".
*knock...knock...*
Vezyne slowly knocked on the door. The sound was so low that any human wouldn't hear it regardless whether they were sleeping or not. Yet for an elf it was different. It was right between the spot that is the person was asleep they wouldn't hear it but if they were awake they would.
After knocking, Vezyne stood infront of the door. As no answer came, she took a step back and started to walk away. Yet in that instant, a voice sounded from inside. "Coming...", said the voice which sounded hollow yet underneath that, a sweet and gentle voice floated to Vezyne's mask.
*SWIZ-*
Adeu opened the door halfway and peeked out. Seeing Vezyne standing infront of the door, Adeu dropped her already low guard and said with that gently and mature voice of hers, "Oh Vez.... how may i help you?"
The room was hot. If anything, the JUSM tower had plenty of heat to warm itself, including the rooms. But Vezyne's face was hotter.
Mostly because, unlike the heavy suits and insulating body suits they wore outside and in missions, Adeu was wearing just her night gown. Even if Zuuri’s secretary persona had managed to stay unfazed by it, when she came to prepare Adeu's hair, Vezyne still let her guard down sometimes.
Adeu looked at Vezyne, still waiting for an answer but Vezyne was fighting for her life. She wanted to take her eyes off Adeu's silky, white, night gown yet she couldn't. The gown itself flowed like a waterfall by enhancing Adeu's elegant figure. Which looked like a finished piece of art embraced by moonlight.
Her half combed silver hair showed she was still in the middle of combing it. And her relaxed face was directly aimed at Vezyne. Her silver eyes shone in the moonlit room as a pair of stars in the night sky.
Vezyne was still Vezyne. The hero with the metallic mask. If not the reddened face underneath would have shown more than necessary.
"May.... i come in...?...." Vezyne asked by using her last bits of consciousness left. Yet, underneath the mask she had difficulty breathing normally.
"Oh sorry...yes...please come in!!!" Adeu opened the door fully and stepped away from it. Turning back she went inside signaling Vezyne to follow. Vezyne saw a small smile for a split second on Adeu's face as she turned around.
Vezyne didn't move. Still standing outside the door, Vezyne raised her hand and reached the metallic mask on her face. By pressing a button, she undid the mask's transformation. With a slight sound of air compressing, the mask retracted. Now Zuuri, the girl with black hair and neon blue highlights was standing outside Adeu's door. Not the secretary Zuuri with full black hair. Just Zuuri Vezyne. The eighteen year old girl. In her hand the white V-shaped ornament used as her mask.
As Adeu went near her dressing table, she turned around, because she didn't hear footsteps following her. Instead she heard a mechanical sound. " Vez??.... What's the matter??" Adeu asked, wondering why Vez still didn't enter her room.
"Oh...nothi..ng..." Vezyne said as if waking up from a trance. Her hands were sweaty. Her voice was shaky and her breathing shallow. She had put her mask back on. The hero mask. Adeu turned around to face Vezyne, the same person that was there when she turned the other way. Not the girl with black hair with blue highlights.
Vezyne accepting her invitation, slowly entered Adeu's room. The door closed behind her automatically. Reaching a few steps before Adeu, Vezyne instructed Adeu to sit down. "Can i finish combing your hair?" Vezyne asked looking at the reflection of Adeu in the mirror infront of them.
"Okay..." A simple answer unconsciously escaped Adeu's mouth. She was hesitant yet she wasn't. Since the Khaos incident day, only two people had touched Adeu's hair. Adeuilin herself, and Zuuri, the secretary of Kalisradha. There was an incident involving a third individual in the past, yet Vezyne had dealt with it.
Vezyne picked up a comb, some oils and combed Adeu's hair perfectly. Too perfectly in fact. Almost identical to how Zuuri would do it. Which Adeu quickly noticed. And which Vezyne realized too by looking at Adeu's perplexed face.
"Zuuri showed me once how she does it!!!" Panicked, Vezyne told the most classic lie in the book that she knew. Which was rather convincing, if the other person wasn't Adeu. Who spent significant time with both of them to understand the differences. Yet she didn't press further. A simple "okay" and they were done.
Vezyne went and sat down on a chair in the corner of the room. Adeu sensed something was definitely up. Not only Vezyne would avoiding entering Adeu's room alone, she never came into her room alone in the middle of the night. Even as the secretary, Zuuri only entered in the morning and left immediately after doing Adeu's hair. So, Adeu thought of something.
She walked over to her closet and grabbed a bottle from inside. The bottle had a label but it was written in elvish. "Vez, how about a drink?" Adeu asked raising the little brown bottle a little over her chest.
"I...i can't get drunk in the first place so opening something so valuable would be a waste... and aren't you only 17 still..." Vezyne hesitantly came up with excuses and finally dropped Adeu's age as a final defense. Because Vezyne felt a deep guilt rising from within as she made Adeu worry about herself. So she didn't want Adeu to waste a liquor bottle for her too.
"I know your immune...Zuuri told me... and I'm immune too do don't worry about it. And i found this in the wine cellar in the old castle. It was my father's... Also I'm 17 and a queen since 8 too... don't worry about it either...." Adeu had perfectly countered all of Vezyne's arguments. As she opened the bottle and poured two glasses, two words escaped Vezyne's mask. Most likely unconsciously.
"I know...." For which Adeu looked at her with a surprised expression. Panicked, Vezyne once again used her secret, not so secret technique. "Oh... that's because Zuuri told me you were immune too...."
'Safe!!!' Vezyne thought, but Adeu was still trying to connect some dots. Yet as she didn't want to ruin the rare situation, she ignored it. 'Ah...Vez is in my room... maybe... maybe...no no... still...no' Even though Adeu's thought ran wild, her expression didn't show it.
She still had the warm and gentle expression as always. The only noticeable difference between her expression and Saeli's, was that, Saeli didn't have that mature look on her face. Despite being older than Adeuilin. Even after everything Saeli faced, her face didn't show any of it. She remained everyone's angel until the very last day of her life. Yet in her last moments, she rebelled. Saeli became the angel that rebelled against the gods.
Adeu cast a floating spell on the two cups and the bottle. She walked over to her bed and sat down. The floating bottle and cups followed. Sitting down, she tapped the bed lightly. Signaling Vezyne to come and sit near her. As Vezyne didn't seem to get up, a small pout appeared on Adeu's face. She tapped the bed more violently, which made Vezyne get up and go sit near her.
Taking one of the floating cups for herself, Adeu handed the other to Vezyne. Both started drinking slowly. Sitting next to reach other. Vezyne's mask could be opened only to revel the mouth. Neither one of them talked. Only filled each other's cups. One cup after another until the bottle was empty. It tasted funny. Yet strong too. The drink was normal but what really stood out was the after taste. Like the lingering, tongue-numbing sting of a rare root grown in a forest that had never seen the sun.
Vezyne's face was red as the insides of a watermelon at this point. Not because of the liquor, but due to Adeu's face being so close. Adeu's face too had a slight blush running from one cheek to another. Even though the room was illuminated only by moonlight at this point, Vezyne saw Adeu's face becoming redder and redder every minute it passed.
As the bottle emptied, both sat without saying anything. Until Adeu slightly leaned on Vezyne's shoulder. After a few seconds which seemed like hours, Adeu opened her mouth and said, with a heavy yet gentle voice, "Good Night".
'Vez, please don't carry everything by yourself... we're here... I'm here... please let me carry some of your burdens.... I can... because I love you!!!' Were Adeu's thoughts that she wasn't able to put into words.
Adeu straightened herself and walked over to the other side of the bed. She pulled the pillow in the middle of the bed to the side and layed down. Leaving half of the bed empty. Just enough space for another person to lay down. Adeu turned over and closed her eyes. As if expecting something. Yet her expectations weren't met.
She waited and waited with closed eyes. She heard Vezyne's rising heartbeat. Yet after sometime, it slowed down. Vezyne nearly let herself go and slowly fell to the bed. Yet Kalisradha's words suddenly echoed inside her head.
'ARE YOU STILL GOING TO PLAY BEING THE HERO OR WILL YOU FINALLY BECOME THE HERO?!'
Vezyne straightened herself and got up. She whispered two words without looking back and reached the door. "Good Night...." Fighting the urge to look back, Vezyne pressed the bottom near the door to open it. It wasn't locked. The door opened. Adeu let it unlocked as she went to sleep. As if telling that Vezyne could come anytime.
Vezyne stepped out. The door closed behind her. Adeu's face turned wry with an unspeakable sense of emptiness. Both of them bottled up their longing and continued living. Or rather just existing. Which they didn't like at all. Not one bit. They were going to take things into their hands.
Adeu sat back again on her bed with crossed legs and started meditating. Started chanting, absorbing the manaciles from the environment. Controlling them and becoming one with them, so that she can withstand them. So that her blessing doesn't turn into a curse.
Meanwhile Vezyne stepped out of the base. Under the night sky, she lifted herself in the air and sped away. As a fighter jet, yet more smooth. More elegant and more silent. Almost as a bird with silent jet engines attached.
[01:00] 15.01.2099
In the azure sea, illuminated by moonlight was a small island. In the very far north. A small island with nothing but snow and sand on it. Occasionally a tree or could which adapted to the cold. However, a single round piece of metal rested on the island.
*Bang....*
Vezyne landed near it. It was a lid. Opening it, Vezyne floated down. She activated the night vision system in her mask. As she reached the end, she saw a few armed men wandering the right passage.
Slowly knocking them unconscious she advanced. One by one. Many by many. More than 50 armed forces were present. Yet nobody noticed Vezyne before she reached her destination. And therefore nobody could inform of the monster that had came crawling, or rather floating down.
*BEEPPP**SIIZZZZ*
The huge metal door locked with enormous pipes of reinforced metal just opened. As the door slowly opened, the silhouette of a figure standing, could be seen. On the other side of the door, was a completely different scene. Music, food, girls and boys. An adult party basically.
An old, fat man was in a hot tub. He was flirting and caressing the naked girls inside. Most of them seemed like models but some seemed clearly young to be even considered capable of working yet alone modeling. Boiling water and a tray of food in the corner. A total bliss heaven for some. For some a nightmare in real skin.
"AHH.... WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT??? WHO SAID YOU COULD ENTER!!"
The music stopped. He climbed out of the hot tub screaming at the figure which looked like one of his guards. Yet the figure fell down with a thud sound. Behind the figure was another figure. Yet more big and intimidating.
The new silhouette stood much taller and menacing. It had two horns and it's faced glowed with neon green stripes. The old, fat man stopped in his tracks. Shaking at screamed again.
"WHO ARE YOU??? WHAT DO YOU WANT???" Yet no response came to the old, fat man. Instead the figure took a step forward, another and another. Slowly closing the gap between them.
The old, fast man screamed again, "DO NOT COME ANY CLOSER!!! I ORDER YOU!!! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM???" The figure had come very close. A sudden chill ran down the old, fat man.
"No..." A one word answer to shut him up. However, in reality, the figure didn't know who it was. All the figure knew was good photo and good location. No name nor title was beside his photo.
The figured slowly took another step. The old, fat man screamed again. However this time it wasn't directed at the figure infront of him. Instead to the figure behind him.
"YOU STUPID CAT, DO YOUR GODDAMN JOB!!! PROTECT ME!!!"
A big figure appeared from behind him. "Yes,yes...coming....." The feline like man said with an unbothered expression. His tail waving left and right slowly, almost as yawning. The black strips in the orange background struck vividly in the party atmosphere.
BX8 came and stood infront of the old,fat man. He looked forward only to see the figure infront of him clearly due to his keen eyesight. Green light stripes running across the face. In the middle, a white V- shaped symbol with two horns bending backwards and coiling around. Finally the red half-cape just hanging because there wasn't any wind to blow it.
BX8 stood frozen in place. His hands shaking and legs almost giving up. Sweat dripping from his forehead and running down his fur. His throat burning yet his body extremely cold. As a bucket of ice water was thrown at him. His vision narrowed focusing only on the figure infront of him. His hearing ignored every sound around and concentrated only on the sound of the figure infront of him. He unconsciously uttered what his mind was screaming the entire time.
"Mother-fucker.....god...FUCKING DAMMIT....why do i get the worst luck... the worst shifts.....WHY!!!!!.....fuck...."
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