LivingTale - Act 3 Chapter 1

“Right this way.” Fun said, leading Hexa into a room that is used for meetings. “Take a seat anywhere you like.” Fun went on as he sat in a chair near a painting of himself. Hexa sat on the steel floor crossed-legged. “Uh,” Fun said confused. “Do you want to sit on a chair? There is plenty.” “No, I am fine. But thank you.” Hexa replied. “O... k then. Anyways, let us not waste much time.” Fun said, summoning a piece of paper in his hands. “By what I am reading, you are the last known Golden-Eyed Dragon to survive Ains, correct?” Hexa was silent. Hexa stared blankly at Fun who looked back at the paper again. “And you have been trapped there for years, haven’t you?” Fun asked. Hexa shook his head slightly. “Nice. Now, I would read everything else, but your information is useless for us.” Fun said jokingly.

Hexa opened his mouth to try and ask a question, but Fun already knew what it was. “How did we find your information so quickly?” Fun asked looking at Hexa's surprised look. “Simple: as soon as you walk onto this ship, we gain your entire information from when you were born to whatever age you are now. And I mean EVERYTHING.” “Uh-” Hexa stopped as Fun stood up.

“Let’s hurry this up already. The writer of this story is having an Internal Mental Breakdown just by writing this part of this story.” Fun said proudly for some odd reason, “Let me to the epic part where I ask you to join our group to end Ains’s army and prevent him from taking over the Outerversal Catacombs!” “Sure, lol,” Hexa said reaching out for Fun’s hand and looking for a handshake. “Ah fuck, I feel a time skip-”

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“School was rough today, right Cheesepaw?” Colo asked the zoned-out Cheesepaw. “Huh!?! O-oh, yeah. I still hurt from that one math question we got.” Cheesepaw said rubbing his head with his tail. “And that fight with Yuro did not make anything better. Everything sees me as a bully now.” “But you are not though! You fought to protect me, right?” Coplo said smiling, “It’s not your fault he doesn’t when to stop picking on others.” “Yeah, I guess you are right-” Cheesepaw stopped as he noticed falling from the sky. It wasn’t a space rock from what Cheesepaw could see. Coplo seemed to notice it too. “Wanna go check it out?” Coplo asked, already preparing a portal to the possible location of the thing that fell from the sky. Cheesepaw shook his head.

“It is best to leave it for now, Coplo. We have no information on what that thing or what it could do to use.” Cheesepaw said, continuing into Uncle’s Ret Ice Cream shop. Coplo followed behind, sad but understanding Cheesepaw’s reasoning. As they both took a seat in front of the counter, Uncle Ret took out two cups and filled both cups with Almond Water. “On the house.” Uncle Ret said a cup to Cheesepaw and Coplo. “The both of you deserve it after a long day.”

Coplo was overjoyed. “Thank you, Uncle Ret!” he shouted before consuming his drink. Cheesepaw nodded, “Thank you.” “Anytime kiddos,” Ret said as he grabbed a dish rag and began washing the dishes. “Uh, Uncle Ret?” Coplo started, catching the demi-human attention. “Did you see the strange figure, or whatever it was, falling from the sky?” “A strange figure?” Ret turned around to look at Coplo. “What do you mean? What did it look like?”

“Not sure,” Cheesepaw answered taking a sip of his drink “but I think it's unwelcome news. I saw anything fall this close to Earth before, let alone land.” “You are right. That is odd.” Uncle Ret said with a bit of fear in his tone. “I recommend you two head home. It is getting late.” “Oh, you’re right. I must finish my project.” Coplo jumped down from his chair. Cheesepaw quickly finished his drink and followed Coplo. “Later Uncle Ret.” both cats said cheerfully before heading out with Uncle Ret waving goodbye.

Coplo could not get the falling object out of his head as he lay on his bed. What could it be? Was it a space rock? A time machine? A being from a different world? Coplo was eager to figure it out. As silently as he could, he hopped out of his bed and opened the door that led to his hallway. He had one chance to do this. His parents always keep their doors open. He never knew why, but he figured it was for times like this. Coplo could not use his powers mostly because it required him to say something, and his magic made noises as well.

He took one step. Nothing happened. He took another. Nothing. He took another. Nothing happened. Although Coplo hated this process, he knew he had already come WAY too far to back out. It took a while, but Coplo sighed in relief after making it past his parents' door. He hurried over to the living room window, opened it, hoping out, and used another form of magic.

Coplo walked a few inches away from his house saying “Gate Way!” A portal appeared in front of Coplo. Coplo poked his head through the portal to look for whatever it was that fell earlier. Coplo looked around the landscape: nothing but an endless field of pink and purple flowers.

Coplo sighed. “Nothing. Cheesepaw and I must have just seen something that nobody else could see-” Coplo froze. He couldn’t tell what he was seeing, but it wasn’t anything normal. It was a black, tall, skinny figure with glowing red eyes.

The strange figure and Coplo were staring at each other for a minute before the figure ran towards Coplo. “A-AH!” Coplo screamed as he closed the portal before the figure could reach him. Whatever that figure was, Coplo knew it was not good news, and so started to make his to Cheesepaw’s house, running as fast as he could.

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“Master Archer!” Diamond Jack shouted as he slammed open the door leading to Archer’s office. “We found it! We found the location!” “You found? And can you please stop slamming my door?” Archer said dropping his game controller to look at Diamond. Jack handed Archer and piece of paper. Archer gave a good look before smiling. “So,” Archer looked at Diamond “we did find it? No time to waste then.” Archer got up “Getting everyone ready. It is showtime.”