Reality Chronicles Ch.16 Book 3

Once the warriors returned to the ship I showed them the fairy we had bought and they showed us a strange cube they got from the robot; It was small and only needed one hand to hold it, it was also very light, almost seemed hollow.
“Why did he give you a weightless cube?” I asked and Kent shrugged.
“He just handed us the cube and then went silent, when I tried to get his attention he seemed immobile and stiff; as though he would never move again.”
“So he shut down…seems he was waiting for that moment and when it came he finally shut down done with his duty.” Alice said sure of her guess.
“Well now we have a cube…I’m n-not sure what it does though?” Sena said looking at it from every angle.
“Well we can worry about that later, for now we have what we need to advance to the water crystal.” Pent said pointing to the fairy on my shoulder; now that we had her we could acquire the oxyale and enter the submarine to get to the bottom of the ocean where the water crystal was, hopefully it had the hull to survive the corrosive water, “Let’s head for Gaia to return the fairy.”
“I have a name!” The tiny girl said with an angry pout on her face, “It’s Wendy.”
“Well then Wendy, let’s get you home.” I said and she beamed happily.
“Right!” As Kent began piloting us towards the far mountains Gareth took to the lower area of the ship to avoid getting motion sick while the rest of us stayed on the deck; I made sure to stay near the center to avoid getting vertigo while Lily and Sena sat in the crow’s nest while Hana went to the cockpit while Pent began training. I looked over to see Alice looking over the side with a smile on her face as she took in a deep breath; letting it out I could sense she was feeling exhilarated and energetic as she looked down at the land.
“Are you enjoying the view?” I asked from where I stood and she turned with the same smile on her face.
“Yep, even if it’s dangerous I still enjoy the moments like these when we travel to different worlds; with all the turmoil and fighting we deal with it’s nice to breath the fresh air and walk through the world…and  yet you stand there not even enjoying it, is your vertigo that bad?”
“Well I just think about how I could fall at any moment and my vision starts to blur and my head spins.”
“Oh don’t let that stop you.” Grabbing me she dragged me to the edge and as I looked down I felt my sense begin to spin until she wrapped her arm around me; looking at her she had a redness to her cheeks, “If you’re so scared of falling then I’ll hold onto you so you don’t fall.”
“Well…thanks Alice.”
“It’s just because I don’t want you falling…but you’re welcome.” As I looked out at the tiny far away land I felt safe with Alice holding onto me, guess this view is pretty nice…why is my heart racing so fast then…and why are my cheeks so hot?

Gareth
“Ohhh…this is not going well…urp!” I felt my stomach try to bring up my breakfast as the ship soared through the sky towards Gaia; having motion sickness wasn’t the most ideal of situations and definitely hindered any short travels on buses.
“H-Hey Gareth?” I turned to the door to see Lily standing there with a book in her hands.
“Wh-urp…what’s up?” I asked holding back the vomit currently wanting to make its appearance on the wood floor; not if I could help it though.
“Well…I found this book on the ship and apparently it lists techniques for conquering motion sickness.”
“R…Really?”
“Y-Yep! Here.” She opened the book and as I looked at the words I felt my stomach do even more twists and turns; might not be a good idea to try to look at something while moving, “Oh! S-Sorry, I forgot about that…most car trips aren’t a problem…guess it’s the perks of being a book worm.” She giggled nervously and I gave a weak laugh.
“It’s okay…I think I’ll just sleep until we get to Gaia. Would you mind waking me when we get there?”
“Sure…a-and if you want I can h-help you get to sleep with a story.” She said pulling out a strange book, “I found this a few towns back a-and decided to get it. These stories m-might help you sleep.” A story…sounds kind of nice actually.
“Sure. Give me your best one.” I said hopping into the nearby bed as she opened the book of fairytales and flipped through them.
“This is called: the princesses’ dragon.” She read the story aloud with her eyes glued to the words as she read it to me; it was a story about a princess who’s kidnaped by a dragon only to learn that the dragon was just lonely and wanted someone to spend time with, he chose the princess because of her understanding nature and kind smile that drew him to her. They bonded in the time of her capture and the dragon agreed to let her go but then the king’s knights showed up ready to defeat the dragon and as the princess tried to stop them they eventually slew him as he didn’t want to fight back…he didn’t want to hurt anyone but they wouldn’t listen…because he was a dragon…isn’t that the truth. In his final moments he didn’t regret capturing the princess because she was the first person to care about him; as he died the princess wept tears of sorrow that confused the knights and king, to cry for a beast was strange…eventually the princess became queen and vowed to protect the dragons with every fiber of her being, she would not see them killed for just being dragons, “The end…are you okay Gareth?” Lily gave me a concerned look and I felt something wet fall down my cheek.
“Nothing…this story just hits close to home for me.” I replied wiping it away.
“If it’s not too much trouble would you mind telling me?” She asked meekly.
“It’s something pretty basic is all, racism still exist in very twisted forms; back home I was accused for crimes when I passed by to see what was wrong, all because I was black. I was never taken to jail but it hurt to think I was judged for how I looked, being an orphan didn’t help either; being an orphan meant to the cops that I had nothing to lose so I must have done it but that wasn’t me. I kept my nose pretty clean, except when I snuck out at night to head for the hill but it wasn’t illegal to stargaze. If it wasn’t for Alice and Soren I might have made the same mistake. I would have done something stupid and effectively ended my life because I was alone, but I don’t want to make that mistake.”
“I never thought you would.” Lily replied making me give her a quizzical look at which she became flustered, “I j-j-just mean that you a-always try to find the positive in situations. You try to cheer people up when their down even if it seems impossible and I-I-I believe that you would have made friends regardless because of your g-good nature.” So that’s what she meant…she really can capture the tinniest details can’t she?
“Even so…I’m glad I met Soren and Alice…and you…after everything we’ve all been through as travelers and as earthlings in our normal lives were all still alive, we’ve all made it this far because we persevered. Soren protected each of us at some point and still got back up to fight again despite his own problems that he had to face, Alice overcame her weaknesses and continued to move to not only help herself but help us as well, I learned that there are some things more important than my own happiness and by protecting those I care about we all become happier together instead of my own hollow happiness…and you Lily; you realized that you couldn’t continue to support what you knew was wrong and protected Soren in his hour of need, with that you joined us and became a valuable ally and friend to all of us…you even got rid of Alice’s doubt, that’s awesome. Now we’re all friends and I know we can do anything together!” Once I finished my monologue I looked over to see Lily with a deep crimson blush on her face as she swung from left to right mumbling to herself; she was actually pretty adorable with how shy she was.
“W-W-W-Well th-th-thank you G-G-Gareth…that’s very sw-sw-sweet. I’m glad I met all of you guys to…it feels better than being alone.”
“Hey I have a question. If you sided with Owen then didn’t that mean you were working with a team?”
“No…every mission was a solo mission because we were dealing with new travelers, there was never any need to work together…until you guys came around. When Damien wasn’t enough they sent me to help but I wasn’t much help.”
“That’s a good thing; I don’t think I even wanted to go up against you in a serious fight.”
“Hehe, well even so you guys would have kicked our butts. When we came to this world he tried getting a three on three with him helping but we saw how that ended.”
“Yeah…hey what did he mean by he was going to get something back from you?”
“I’m guessing he meant my succubus part; from Sukia’s backstory I’m guessing he wants her back…which means he’s going to try and kill me…” As she sat there she began to tremble and had a look of fear and despair on her face; moving out of bed I put my hand on hers and gave her a confident smile.
“Don’t worry, we’ll make sure you don’t die,, I’ll personally protect you.” She gave a look of surprise and then gave a small giggle wiping her eyes.
“That makes me feel better…but I can’t rely on you to protect me, I want to help everyone and I can’t do that while I’m being protected.” What?
“Who said I was going to protect you from all harm?” It was her turn to give me a quizzical look and I laughed, “We’re a team; you, me, Alice and Soren are all working together to protect each other. That means each of us are going to get a little dirty but we’ll be there to protect each other when we need it…I expect you to have my back when I need it as well.” She gave me a confident look and nod, “Good then let’s make sure we protect each other…or it might end badly for Soren and Alice as well as us, we’re a team.”
“Right!”
“And we’ll call ourselves the Avenging wrecking balls!” She laughed loudly and I felt my cheeks heat up in embarrassment as she laughed out loud; everyone usually just give me a weird look but she laughed…it was nice to see she found it funny but even more embarrassing than being given a weird look.
“I think you should revise the name…I’ll help you…but then we have to check with Alice and Soren.”
“Alice will just shoot it down.”
“Not if we make it awesome…r-right?” I gave a chuckle feeling my heart race at this bonding feeling.
“Right.”

Soren
Once we touched down near Gaia Wendy started soaring around my head squealing happily; she must be excited to finally be so close to home, I wonder how long she’s been gone, must have been years from how ecstatic she was. We walked into town and Wendy flew away towards the forest getting engulfed in the forest; guess we were going to need to follow her into it.
“I’m going to go magic shopping with Hana.” Sena said as Hana stood next to her waving at us.
“Well I’m going to go see what the weapon shop has to offer.” Kent said.
“And I’m going to go restock us at the item shop; those who aren’t prepared are doomed to failure.” Pent said sounding insightful…monks are weird.
“Then I guess the four of us will go check on the fairy and grab the oxyale.” I said turning to the others who all nodded; with that we all separated with the four of us heading into the forest; eventually we came across a small lake with fairies surrounding it and flying over it happily content with their lives.
“This place is so peaceful.” Lily said in amazement as fairies came over and flew around us examining us all.
“It’s like a tiny paradise.” Gareth said as one of the fairies landed on his hand.
“This place is filled with nature.” Alice said looking around at the greenery and lush forest surrounding the lake; it was kind of mystical with how full of life it was, there was a strange mist that seem to flow over the river blocking the rivers surface from view.
“Soren!” Wendy came flying at me happily as the other fairies surrounded me all giving sounds of surprise and amazement at me, “I’m glad you came by to see my home. This is where every fairy lives; it’s a sacred place that few visit.”
“It’s a peaceful place.” I said admiring her home, “I can see why you like it here.”
“Well thanks…I would like to repay you for helping me get home, is there anything you would like from me?” Before I could answer another fairy came over and whispered in Wendy’s ear and she turned beat red, “No! I can’t give him that…it’s too embarrassing.”
“I don’t like what she said.” Alice said with a glare at the other fairy as she giggled.
“Actually could we get some oxyale from the bottom of the lake?” I asked and Wendy returned to her senses and giving me a nod; she dove into the lake with a small plop sound, as we waited the fairies began playing with our hair…it was like having several tiny monkeys on our backs. Suddenly Wendy cane out of the lake lugging a giant bottle and dropped it into my hands, “There, that should be enough oxyale to last one person two hours.”
“Two hours…Lily can you divide that by eight?” I asked turning to Lily who began counting in her head.
“Fifteen minutes per person…ten if everyone mouth breathes.” Lily responded confidently.
“Hopefully that should be enough to last us to the bottom of the sea and back.” Alice said thinking deeply.
“Well I’m glad I could help. Good luck with the water crystal.” Wendy said wishing us good luck.
“Make sure you don’t get captured by a hack merchant again Wendy. I don’t want to see you in another bottle, got it?”
“Don’t worry, I won’t let another person trick me…but I do hope I see you again.” Wendy said twisting from side to side; suddenly Alice grabbed the back of my coat and dragged me away in a huff.
“I’m getting sick of this world every time this happens, let’s go!” Alice said as my feet dragged across the ground; oh well, now with the oxyale we could enter the sanctuary of water and restore the water crystal.

With everything prepared we headed for the town of Onrac with Sena plotting out our path; the biggest problem we were going to face was getting to the bottom of the sea and finding the crystal.
“Hey why are we headed for Onrac for a submarine?” I asked confused by the whole thing; it just seemed strange we were going below the sea from Onrac when we didn’t know where to go.
“Actually there’s a mermaid colony below Onrac, since mermaids are thought of as a connection between the earth and the water being half-human and half-fish it’s the best bet anyone has on where the water crystal could be.” So were visiting a mermaid colony; sounds like it’ll be interesting.
“Mermaids, one of the most beautiful creatures in both looks and music prowess.” Gareth said with a dreamy sounding sigh at which Lily gave a pensive look while Alice just sighed; he seemed to have a tent for mermaids…I also regret looking down while having that thought.
“Mermaids are total flirts!” Hana said in an outburst shocking all of us suddenly, “With their voice and beautiful looks they make men disappear.”
“Actually-” Sena began, “Those are Sirens you’re thinking of Hana.”
“Sirens?” We asked and Lily pulled out her makeshift beastiary.
“I managed to encounter a few on deck protecting duty when we had the ship. A few enemies were strange looking and with Sena’s great memory she was able to help me with naming them.” She flipped through a few pages before stopping and showing us a page marked ‘Siren’ with a strange fish looking creature sketched out.
“It kind of looks like a skinny fish with its bones sticking out of its body.” Kent said with a grimace on his face while looking at the picture; he was right though, it was a WRONG looking creature, strange how men fell for this.”
“Fun fact-” Sena began, “Sailors who were stranded at sea for days would follow these siren’s voices and when they saw them they saw nothing wrong with how they looked because of how long they had been at sea. They began to turn from ugly sirens to beautiful mermaids; it’s called the mermaid clock.” Wait…what? Isn’t that…
“I still don’t like them.” Hana said pouting making Kent chuckle.
“A man is easily controlled by an unmaintained libido. Only those disciplined enough to hold back can survive being eaten.” Pent said giving out another piece of monk insight.
“If that isn’t true.” Kent said patting him on the back.
“Is it?” I asked genuinely confused by his statement; his messages sound cool but they were kind of cryptic.
“Can we switch topics…this is locker room talk and I and I’m guessing the other females of our group would rather not be a part of this conversation.” Alice said as Sena and Hana nodded their heads while Lily turned redder by the second; maybe this wasn’t the best time to talk about mermaids and sirens…and libido. Touching down near Onrac we all entered the town and Sena led us to a small port with a steel vessel floating on the dark murky water; next to it stood a girl who gave us a quizzical look as we approached her.
“Is there something you two need?” She asked.
“We were wondering if we could borrow your submarine to get to the mermaid home?” Kent asked and she gave a sigh.
“As much as I would love to charge you to use my submarine-”
“Charge us?”
“-it has no air tank that can survive a trip down there, without that you can only last about a minute before you suffocate.”
“Would this help?” I said pulling out the container of oxyale Wendy gave me, “It’s called-”
“Oxyale! Perfect, that should give the submarine what it needs to get to the mermaid sanctuary. You eight are free to use my submarine, save our world.” What? She suddenly moved back and moved behind a nearby pillar; I went to look and she was gone, vanished without a trace leaving us with her submarine…was she there just to help the Warriors of Light? It seemed like everything in this world was another piece to help the warriors in their quest; this world put their faith in the Warriors of Light so much it would be amazing to see how much they would have to bend over backwards to do this without others to help them.
“This thing is small; it might be a tight fit for all of us.” Pent said knocking against the exterior as it made a hollow clatter.
“Tight…fit…I-I-I think this might be a little uncomfortable f-f-for me.” Lily said fidgeting uncontrollably; she must have a big problem with closed spaces.
“Didn’t you spend a lot of your time in libraries?” Alice asked a little amazed at her strange behavior.
“Libraries have large open ceilings and were never crowded. This is…too small and eight people all mushed together makes me a bit…uncomfortable…” She shuddered suddenly and Alice gave a sigh.
“Don’t worry Lily; we’ll knock you out before we get in.”
“What!?”
“What!?” I said and she gave a nod.
“Remember that spell that knocked me out back in the Mushroom Kingdom? We can just do that.” It sounds like a good idea…but problem was that Alice was out for a few hours and it will only take about five to ten minutes to reach the bottom, we can’t have her out for hours when it’s a short trip…maybe we could shorten the effects.
“T-T-There’s a black magic spell for putting an enemy to sleep.” Lily said pulling out her journal and moving to a spell index with one labeled ‘sleep’ with a small black dot next to it.
“You’re okay with this?” I asked Lily amazed at her cooperation in this situation.
“I-I don’t mind; it sounds better than passing out from the stress.”
“See I think you would scream your head off before you faint.” Gareth said jumping into the conversation.
“What if it’s screaming and then fainting?” Alice said with a small chuckle, “Do you scream Lily?” She asked getting a little worry on her face at which Lily gave a shy shrug.
“So are we doing the sleep spell again?” Gareth asked and we gave him a nod, “So this is going to end in another threat against Soren’s ass?”
“Very funny, can we move on?” I asked as Alice turned slightly red from the mention of that moment.
“Right. Well Lily, get ready.” Alice pushed out her hand at Lily aggressively, “Sleep!” Within a few seconds Lily began to fall back and Gareth caught her holding her bridal style…we probably should have asked her how long it lasts before it wears off. I picked up the book and flipped to the sleep spell page…twenty minutes; that should be long enough for us to get down there and it will cut down on air consumption.
“We’ve got twenty minutes so shall we head down?” I said closing the book and putting it into Lily’s bag; with the warriors finally done preparing we had Gareth hold Lily as we all entered the sub, once Hana came in as the sixth person it started to push me and Alice against the side of the ship while Pent and Gareth had their heads pressed against the ceiling.
“O-Okay…l-let’s see how this w-works.” Sena said sounding a little unsure of how to get in and close the hatch; as she got in I heard a lot of grunting and the sound of a squeaky door closing and all outside sound disappearing, “Okay we’re all in…can someone reach the controls?”
“Hang on…” Kent said and suddenly I felt my weight shift as we sunk into the sea, “I didn’t do that.” If Kent didn’t do anything then why were we sinking into the water below; I listened closely for some indication of what was happening but I couldn’t hear anything…not even the sound of spinning blades pushing us.
“Hey Alice can you feel anything?” I asked and she closed her eyes trying to concentrate.
“It…kind of feels like we’re being pulled.” She answered; so something was pulling us towards itself which meant all we could do is wait for it to stop…I hope Lily doesn’t wake up in the middle of this.

When it stopped the hatch opened on its own and I felt as the space opened up and Alice and I fell onto the submarine floor as everyone else fell out.
“Ow…who opened the door?” Alice said getting up and rubbing her back; getting up I looked out to see everyone else groaning in pain as Lily stood up woozy and rubbing her eyes, to the left of the group I saw a gaggle of mermaids standing-well…positioned upright looking at us with one holding open the hatch door.
“It is the Warriors of Light…and four clones…huh?” One of the mermaids said cocking her head looking at all of us as Alice stepped out of the sub and looked around, suddenly she was surrounded by the mermaids as they started checking her all over, “Her skin is even softer than ours and yet she looks so tough and confident.”
“I thought a Warrior of Light would be well toned and muscly but she’s the perfect level of muscly and yet her skin is so soft!” This was weird…it was like the Gerudos all over again…only slightly more hands on.
“Why me!? I’m not even into girls and yet this keeps happening!” Alice yelled trying to push the mermaids off her.
“Maybe it’s BECAUSE you’re not into chicks.” Gareth said with a laugh as Alice tried to give him a glare through the mermaid horde in front of her…I was lucky I was in the back so I could see her…I should probably help her. Grabbing Alice’s arm I pulled her behind me as she gripped my arm; I’m guessing she was ready to use me as a human shield should they swarm again.
“Get back! I’ve got Soren and I’m not afraid to swing him!” Make that a human weapon.

With our group back on their feet we got some information from the mermaids; apparently when the water started to become corrosive they drained the water from the sunken shrine and sent up the submarine with one of their mermaids who would wait for the Warriors of Light.
“You mean-” Before Gareth could say it I covered his mouth.
“Don’t, just…don’t.” He chuckled at my annoyance at went quiet obviously proud he had found something annoying to me. Since then they have avoided the ocean water and it showed with how dry their skin had become, it was like sandpaper with how dry and rough it was; no wonder they freaked over Alice’s baby soft hospital skin…weird how she was pink skinned and strong yet had soft hands…maybe it was a mix of her first seventeen years and previous two adventures clashing perfectly…what was I listening to? The mermaids eventually led us on the right path through the sunken shrine and handed us a strange item called a Rosetta stone...did Rosetta Stone steal their name from Final Fantasy? As they led us through the shrine we protected them from the various monsters that threw themselves at us in an effort to stop us from reaching their leader; I began to notice that the enemies we ran into on each attempt to restore a crystal seemed different in tactic. The Lich threw waves of enemies at us as if they were disposable while Marilith was confident enough in her abilities that she never sent a single enemy at us, now we were dealing with an enemy that was smart, they didn’t give us the chance to become stronger by throwing endless waves at us but wasn’t convinced in their skills that he still had henchmen who even if they didn’t win they still wasted some of our strength that was going to be needed when we faced them. Luckily it was the eight of us, something I’m guessing they weren’t planning on; we were able to switch out each battle and keep our strength up and recover easily and stay in top condition, I even managed to get the hang of having my magic activate on swings thanks to Alice’s help, she was a pro at that. Lily even taught Gareth how to better control his momentum to increase his hit rate; seems the boss didn’t expect us to make each other stronger with his lines of enemies, it was still weird to get use to the monster blood that coated my clothes; it was like I was in Bloodborne. We eventually came to the double doors that meant that the crystal was beyond it…and the fiend of water; we all pushed against it as it slowly opened to our combined strength, it almost felt like every double door was heavier than the one before. Beyond the door stood a giant creature that sported tentacles all over its body  that all moved to their own beat except for the bottom eight that swerved to the right as the entire mass turned around to face us.
“So you came. Just like he said you would; the four of you have stepped into your doom.”
“You can’t stop the Warriors of Light!” Kent yelled drawing his blade and pointing it at the creature, “We will take you out here Kraken!” The Kraken laughed at Kent making us all draw our weapons and Pent put up his fists.
“Your end will come warriors but I was talking to the travelers.” What, he was addressing us? We took a step back in surprise as Kent and the others gave us a confused look, “I was told about you four…they told me you would come and then they would take care of you.” They? Suddenly I felt something strange above me and I guess Lily felt it to because we both looked up to see two shadowy figures sitting on top of a broken pillar. As they jumped down I saw the glint of a weapon and pushed Gareth out of the way as Lily did the same for Alice; when they landed their weapons crashed into the ground shaking the foundation. Two people stood there, one boy and one girl slightly younger looking then us at about 14-15; the boy had messy black hair and wore a simple t-shirt and jeans combo with brown boots and a large cleaver in his hand while the girl had bright, almost white, blond hair that was tied into twin tails on the side of her head and wore a long sleeved sweater with a short skirt and sneakers to finish it off while in her hands she wielded a long staff tipped at the edges like a javelin…it must be an extended javelin.
“We missed Penny.” The boy said turning to the girl.
“It seems they could sense us Denys. He was right when he said they were more competent than beginners.” The girl replied to the boy.
“Lily, who are they?” Alice asked.
“I-I-I…don’t know, they must be new recruits but he wouldn’t send new guys after us.”
“Correct.” They said in unison shocking all of us, “He wouldn’t send unexperienced people after you guys but with twins who work together you don’t pass up the chance like that, especially for creatures that work together.” Creatures that work together…no!
“Gemini Creatures!” I shouted and they smirked.
“So she told them.” Penny said.
“Doesn’t matter, she wouldn’t betray us.” Denys said and they turned to Lily.
“Right?” They both said and Lily gave a scared look, “Why don’t you come out Sukia? The boss is waiting for you to come back.” All three of us moved in front of her and brandished our weapons at them.
“Like hell we’re letting you take Lily!” Gareth said ready to strike.
“She’s not going anywhere.” Alice said getting a spell ready.
“That’s right! We’re not going to let you make her doubt herself again.” I said watching them ready to retaliate against their attacks. They gave a sinister laugh at us.
“We don’t want Lily, we want Sukia.” What did they mean by that, “Time to see if this works.” Penny moved forward and as Gareth took a swing at her she slid under him and swung knocking him to the ground as Denys focused on us and took a heavy swing as we blocked his attack; unfortunately he put full force in and caught us on half guard so we flew behind Lily. As I got up Penny pulled out a small mirror and showed it to Lily; as she stared into it the reflection began to change and morph and then Penny side stepped revealing another Lily behind him; what was that mirror!? I looked down to see Lily holding her body shaking uncontrollably.
“W-W-What…j-j-just…ha-happened?” She said wide eyed with horror across her face, “Something was just…r-r-ripped out of me.”
“I…think that was me.” The other Lily said…wait…those eyes…that’s Sukia!
“How did they pull her out of you and give her a body?” There are no mirrors I know of that can do that…it’s too similar as well.
“Have you ever heard of Lilith’s mirror, specifically Rosario+Vampire Lilith’s Mirror and Kid Icarus’s Mirror of Truth?” Lilith’s Mirror and the Mirror of Truth…
“Lilith’s Mirror had the ability to show a monster’s true form while the Mirror of Truth was able to create a copy of the person who gazed into it…”
“That’s it!” Alice said and I turned to her, “They combined the mirror shards to create one mirror that showed Lily’s other true form which was Sukia and then because it was combined with the mirror of truth it created a copy that she could use as a body.”
“This is…my body?” Sukia said amazed as Lily stood up stumbling around.
“That’s right Sukia.” Penny said moving to one side of her.
“You’re back with us, back to your cause.” Denys said handing her a large scythe like Lily’s.
“I…of course.” Sukia said getting into a ready stance.
“Sukia?” Gareth said surprised at her sudden aggressiveness.
“I told you guys before that I can’t betray Owen, I will follow him to the end and I meant it!” Before she could jump in to attack Penny and Denys grabbed her by the shoulders stopping her as we helped Lily back on her feet.
“Not so fast Sukia, we need to do something.” They said pulling her in; I turned my attention to Lily who seemed disoriented and reached out trying to grab something.
“What’s wrong?” Alice asked.
“I…I can’t see very well.” Lily said, “I wore glasses and without Sukia my vision went back to normal.”
“What’s happening here!?” Kent asked in disbelief at what’s been happening.
“Not now Kent…Sena do you have an extra pair of glasses we could use?” Alice asked and she pulled out a pair from her robes giving them to Alice who placed them on Lily’s face; looking at her face I noticed that Lily’s hair had shortened down…she really was the girl I met at the library.
“Oh Soren?” I turned to see Sukia giving me a sly smile and then Penny dashed forward knocking me on my back with her javelin; as I tried to get up a tail coiled around me lifting me up and pulling me towards Sukia.
“Soren!” I heard Alice yell as Sukia held me in front of her.
“Put him down!” Gareth yelled and I turned my head to see Gareth, Alice, Lily and the warriors ready to charge at them.
“We don’t think so.” Penny said as Denys pulled out a strange hourglass…wait…I recognize that hourglass!
“Bravely Second!” Suddenly the world turned black and white as everyone became still leaving the Gemini creatures, Sukia and me still moving. The hourglass from Bravely Default; it could stop enemies in their tracks and break the damage capacity wide open…but why wasn’t I paused?
“Time to see if what the boss said is true.” Penny said as Sukia faced me towards her and she held up the mirror to my face; I gazed into it and as the version of me twisted and changed into…Jarek…no, no, NONONONONONONONONONONONO! In that instant I felt something inside me rip me apart in an instant as intense pain jolted across my body; when I was let go I dropped to the ground in a crumbled heap as my body refused to move.
“So…this is what he meant…finally.” That voice…it can’t be, “This is the first time I’ve gotten to look at you like this…I’d appreciate it if you did the same.” I struggled as I stood up shakily looking at the copy of me that stood across the way with a wicked smile…no…there stood Jarek.