"Ahem, now onto the chapter. Next week I'll be busy since I need to sleep early even though I don't want to, boo-hoo. And I stress too much about something that won't happen until next year but I'm suppose to stress about those things, even if I find it interesting and my friend don't. :D FCAT math, don't trick me like how my teacher says you will. *point*"-Blindshot
"Huh, Light and Ash. At least is not Sparkly Ash like how she thought it should be."-Theo
"We must thank her for consulting this with at least other people to choose as a chapter name."-Alma
"That we should."-Altair
Chapter 16; Light and Ash: 5:08PM
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"Wait did I-" I thought silently to myself when I slide my feet across the floor the wrong way. Quickly, I slid my hand over my mouth and waited right in the shadows behind some crates. I soon heard a blade being unsheathed from its scabbard and held my breath in my chest. "Sir, why don't you let me see what it is. You do have to tell the Vog what is going on in here, don't you?" A quick chatter of words came out of someone's mouth, then I slid my back against the crates. "Fine, you go check it out and I'll let you deal with it. Just don't make a mess." The person grumbled and slid the weapon back into it's scabbard. "I will sir." And then my relief was soon ended when I saw the shadow of a gremlin overlook the crates I hid behind. 'I can't let myself be discovered, Arion is waiting for some wolver tails I promised I'll get for him.' I thought and huffed with the odds of being dead/captured or being able to get back and feeding the big spiky guy again. I put my hand over the grip of my Sentenze, hoping for a quick shot at the gremlin's head and darting to the nearest elevator I could find. Suddenly, a fuzzy hand was on the top of my hand that was just resting on the grip of the Sentenze. I looked up and the gremlin put a finger over his mouth, looked all around us and whispered to me. "Follow me, but eat this first so that the monsters won't see you." He handed me a small piece of something hard and it looked like a Gel Core which I then looked up at him suspiciously. He grinned like everything was happy but then grabbed the thing out of my hands and stuffed it in my mouth, making me swallow it. "Hey! What the heck was it and why are you making me eat it?!" I shouted out a whisper. "It's to make you invisible to every kind of monsters, with exceptions from a special few, but I can get you to safety easily. Am I not right?" He looked away again and before I could respond, grabbed my wrist and pulled me along with him.
"Amazeltoa! Did you deal with whatever the thing was that was behind those crates?" It was the same rough voice I heard, though closer than before. Apparently the gremlin that made the sound wore regular Gremlin Order attire with some green on them as well as on his goggles. The thing I also saw was red covering the front of his furry body that looked like it was still wet with some deep wrinkles in them. This made me step back a bit, thinking that he was a knight-eating gremlin with little esteem about those that die. The other gremlin, supposedly "Amazeltoa," smiled and pulled his goggles down to cover the gleam in his eyes. "Yes sir, I dealt with the problem and lets just say we won't be dealing with anymore rascals around here."
"Ahh, nice job Amazeltoa. Perhaps you should be bumped up from a mechanic to something more suitable to your talents?" The gremlin held out his hand to shake Amazeltoa's, but he just held up his hand and shook his head. "I'm fine with the position I am at now, sir. Now if you excuse me." Amaze started to walk away and I turned around to see the other gremlin just stand there then turn on his heels and walked away. I stifled a laugh but a small chuckle managed to escape from my mouth, but no one saw, or heard me.
-Paramon (Haven)
"How about we send out a group to check on Alma? We could bring back some knights from where she is." Blue barked suddenly from her post standing outside of the Training Hall. Xeris looked down from atop a pillar, a lost look still lightly glazed over his eyes. "I'll go, anyone else wanna come with me?" Xeris turned around to look inside and saw Travid and Erick stand right underneath him. He grinned a little then jumped down to stand briefly on one of the monitors and jumped again to stand firmly on the ground. "I'll stay back here with Blue and Blitz if you don't mind. There are still some big boulders lying throughout the hall and there are others just about to fall from the ceiling." Firehate said and pointed up to the crumbling roof over their heads. "If you want to leave, go now before some monsters start popping up." Blue walked up to them and pulled on Erick's sleeve, dragging him out of the entrance into the open air. Xeris and Travid walked out right after them. Erick managed to get his arm free from her mouth and darted to stand briefly inside the Training Hall to say, "See ya later!" Erick shouted then started running off towards the stairs. "Erick, wait! You don't know what might be ahead!" Travid shouted, pulling out his Nightblade and running after him. Xeris turned into a skolver and ran after Travid's tracks, his tail up in an awkward position.
Travid caught Erick by the collar of his coat and spun him around. "Don't act like a idiot now. Who knows what kind of monsters are roaming around here. Just stay behind me, I know where Alma is and you can just have a friendly convo with Xeris. His memories aren't back to normal yet."
"Fine, I'll deal with Xeris back here. Don't be in the open so much though, you have to watch yourself too." Erick grumbled and stopped just when Xeris was standing behind Travid. His tail was still standing up, the hairs sticking out in every direction that it could and he looked a little fidgeted. "Just go, I'll see what's wrong with Xeris." Erick said to Travid and gently pushed him to the side. Travid said goodbye to the two then left. "Xeris, hey are you okay?" Erick crouched down a bit and had his hands on his knees. Xeris looked at him, his eyes wide. "I-I don't know. I just feel weird, maybe because of all the destruction that happened." He quivered out the sentence. Erick patted his head than asked, "How would you feel if I turned into an Ashtail, a bit better?" Xeris nodded his head slowly and buried his head into the side of his body into his fur, calming himself down a bit. When he turned around again, Erick was an Ashtail, his Ascended Calibur and Boltband on either sides on his small body. "I have to be ready if there's a ambush so I got my swords out." Erick smiled but it soon faded away into a fearful frown when Xeris got into a defensive position and growled at him. "Xeris, what are you doing? I'm on the good side, remember?" Erick tried to get the point across his head but even with that comment, Xeris didn't cared and tackled Erick down. When Erick recovered from the tackle with his eyes open, he saw that Xeris had a Grand Flourish up in the air, ready for a blow.
Erick. You took my DA. yours is on the balcony. >:I