Taking a big sigh, Iancu says, "What an annoyance."
Turning, he looks at everyone fully walking around without a single restriction on their body, and smiles.
"OVER HERE!" a voice screams, grabbing Iancu's attention.
Soon, a group of nightmares with dark blue banners with a golden octopus attached to them appear, and say, "We are the Cursed sea army, Allpunkt, and you're all under arrest for unlawful use of one's curse to knowingly harm innocent."
Quickly, the members of Allpunkt move towards Taavi and his men, restraining them, and turning to Iancu, a nightmare reminiscent of an eel, with an extremely long neck, which it wraps around its shoulder forming a natural scarf, stares at Iancu and says, "Thank you young nightmare for the bravery you showed!"
Grabbing Iancu, he picks him up and starts swinging him around, saying, "You will surely grow up into a strong man, young boy."
As Iancu is spun around in the air like a baby, his annoyance soon turns to anger, and he slams the nightmare in the face with a kick. Quickly, Willow and Maple move over to Iancu, who has just landed, and, grabbing his shoulder, Willow says, "Why did you just kick him?"
"Because he was annoying me, no other reason is needed."
Maple, getting in front of the nightmare, starts bowing repeatedly while saying, "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry."
Laughing it off, the nightmare says, "No worries, I know young ones like him can be quite feisty, it is a good thing. One needs a strong mind to deal with the troubles of the world, but don't be too combative because it will distract people from seeing your kind heart."
Picking up Taavi, he says, "Let's take them back with us. Also, young kids, the purificare parade is about to start, you should go enjoy yourselves. That's all."
As the man walks away, Maple says, "Purificare parade?"
"It's a parade where people roam around the streets singing their hearts out, it's seen as a removal of all the hate and anger in your heart, allowing the dead to be in heaven without a worry in their hearts," Iancu says.
"You know a lot about this, you must really have wanted to come to Blestemate."
Annoyed, Iancu says, "No, I didn't, I am just diligent in my studies, none of this means anything, and if you think it does, you're the ones who are crazy."
As Iancu smiles, Willow says, "Ok, then, we will go, and you'll stay here."
Iancu's calm and collected demeanour breaks the moment Willow says this, but quickly putting himself back together, he says, "Fine, go do that, it's not like I care."
Willow says, "Though to be honest, our sense of direction really isn't the best. Căderea-dracului isn't the easiest city to navigate, so if we had a guide to make sure we get home in time, it would be really helpful, given that there are some who wish to do harm to us."
Walking forward Iancu says, "If you beg me like that, I guess I just have to keep a watchful eye on you stupid sheep, now let's get going."
Both Maple and Willow smile at each other as Iancu walks forward, though as he turns around, they quickly make sure to remove their smiles. "Hey, will Suzuka be able to handle the voices from a parade?"
Willow and Maple, realising the situation, turn to Suzuka, but as they do, they see nothing.
"Huh? I swear she was brushing her tail up against me moments ago."
"She was just here a minute ago?"
"Where did that stupid fox run off to?"
Each of them starts to turn their heads around looking for her, yet nowhere in sight can she be seen.
-Break-
Walking around one of the many cleared streets within Căderea-dracului for the Purificare parade, Suzuka moves forward in a daze, almost as if her mind is far away from her body.
Φ "Please help me." It's what a voice whispers in my head again and again.
"Just a little more. I know you can hear me, you're the only person who can I need you to be free, I need you to be safe, I need you to love myself one more time. To fulfil the purpose of my life."
It's voice is sweet like honey, and the despite no sound moving towards me, I can feel it's words brush against my brain almost like I am being caressed by my mother.
It feels like I must move towards the source of the voice; my body, mind, and soul are screaming at me to move forward, to help it, to grasp it. Right towards the castle that rests at the highest point in the sky. Right at the Queen's castle, Soarele blestemat.
"Now come you who shares the blood of the disrupters, and the inheritance of an imitations. You who understands anger and loneliness far more than any other. You who will be destined to die, and you who, under the authority of the messiah, deserve to unleash your wrath against this world. Now come to me."
"DON'T LISTEN!"
Hearing a second voice in my head, my legacy turns off, and my body falls backwards, as a sick feeling rushes over me. I quickly touch my face and body, then say, "I can control myself again? What even was that?"
Getting up, I say, "Where am I?"
My head quickly turns from left to right, and as I try to turn around, I feel a hand on my back and instinctively punch backwards with all my strength, though my fist cracks and bleeds as it hits its target.
Turning, I say, "CYRUS?!" as I see him lying on the floor with a defeated look.
With tears running down his face, he says, "I guess I really should die."
Moving up to him, I give Cyrus a big hug and say, "I am sorry, I didn't know it was you."
From my side, I hear, "You really have inhumane reaction time. How long did you have to train to get that far?"
Seeing him, I quickly hide behind Cyrus, and he says, "Suzu-uka, doesn't lik-ke talking to str-rangers."
The smile on his face increases, and trying to move closer to me, he says, "Then let's become friends, Suzuka. I really want to spar with you."
I quickly move closer behind Cyrus, who uses his arms to push Dumnorix, who moves his body closer and closer against ours.
"STOP BEING AN IDIOT!" A voice says, right before a flying kick rams into Dumnorix's face.
As Dumnorix falls to the ground, we both see mini Abbán on his cheek, stamping away at his face. Turning to me, he says, "Are you okay? Did this fool do anything?"
Captured by Abbán's cuteness, I say, "No. But could you keep stepping on him?"
"Absolutely."
From behind me, I feel a tackle take me, causing my body to roll and tumble across the streets until my back is flat against the floor, and over me I see Maple, who says, "Look who I caught!"
Pushing her finger against my face, she says, "Why did you run away?"
Overwhelmed by the goddess on top of me, I say, "I am sorry, I was just felt someone calling for me."
"Calling for you?"
"Like a voice was playing in my head telling me to move towards the castle."
Iancu says, "Do you think it might be your legacy?"
Φ Suzuka's head drops low, and she grips her fist, then says, "I don't know."
Cyrus moving over to her starts inspecting her hair colour to everyones confusions, and he says, "No changes from last I saw you."
Willow, grabbing Cyrus's horns and swinging his head around in a spiral, says, "I know you spend lots of time with Orb, but it is definitely not a normal human custom to go around touching people randomly, especially a young girl's hair."
"S-S-S-Sorry!"
Suzuka, giving Cyrus a thumbs up, says, "It's fine, unlike Orb-who I will kill when we return home-I know that Cyrus isn't a pervert. I trust him."
Cyrus gets all teary-eyed and starts to hug Suzuka, and as he does, Maple claps her hands and says, "We can further discuss this when we get home. But for now let's enjoy the Purificare parade with all of the nightmares."
-Break-
Location: Cursed Sky District of Căderea-dracului
Φ With a large smile on his face, Orb skips and hops through the streets with his hair glowing green, and he says, "He likes me, he really likes me, soon I will be able to meet his wife and daughter, and then I will become best friends with them all basically entering the Nightfall family. Then, when I get buried, they will name me Orb Nightfall Rian, and it will be like I was actually his son."
Φ Putting my hands against my head, my head turns pink, and I say, "YES, THAT'S PERFECT, THAT'S AMAZING! THIS IS TOO GOOD, FAR TOO GOOD FOR MY MIND TO EVEN HANDLE. IT IS LIKE I AM IN HEAVEN!"
Φ But Orb's happy words that attract the attention of all the people surrounding him soon come to an end, and he falls to his knees with his hair turning blue, then black, and then yellow.
"I was too forward, though. I kept asking him questions and kept peering into his life. Maybe he thought I was a freak. Maybe the entire time we were spending with each other was frustrating, maybe he told the maid to come in after a set time so he could get rid of me. It's true, isn't it? He hates no good scum like me who cannot even do the most basic act of understanding another person's thoughts, doesn't he!"
He puts his hands against his head and smashes his head against the floor, causing those around him to move away one by one, but soon even his own anguish is drowned out by the violent shouts of a girl a little bit away.
The voice yells, "YOU THINK I AM A FOOL, DON'T YOU? I CAN SEE THROUGH YOUR NONSENSE, AND YOU BETTER SELL THIS TOO ME AT MARKET PRICE OR I WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL."
Raising his head from the ground, Orb says, "Isn't that?"
He quickly gets up and freezes all of the dirt off his waistcoat, shirt, and pants from lying on the ground, and quickly turns a corner where he sees Elia grabbing a man whose skin looks like glass with a giant. unruly bread all around that looks like it has more mass than Elia's body.
As she violently tugs on the man's beard, she turns her head to the right and stares directly at Orb.
Φ In front of me, Elia wears a white blouse with tiered sleeves falling, and a high collar with a red bowtie that has a singing silver cross of the church of the messiah right in the middle of the bowtie, across each tiered sleeve and across the collar are red frills. She wears a red bodice across her upper torso with golden embroidered designs that look like a cross within a heart that produces flames. Directly attached to the bodice is a thin, deep red skirt that, as it goes down, fades into a pink ombré. The skirt has openings in the front, back, left, and right sides, allowing the tiered white underskirt underneath it to show. Across the red skirt, golden embroidery of angels and nightmares is placed, with the tiered skirt having designs across the bottom levels that are reminiscent of stained glass art depicting holy imagery, like what one would find in a church. Across her waist is a long chain that has breaks in it, which have a series of coffins with holy figures etched into them.
Φ "Is there a reason you're staring at me, weirdo?"
Orb, smashing his hands against his face, says, "What are you doing?"
Tugging harshly on the man's beard, she says, "I am getting what's rightfully mine!"