It'd been so very long... Countless years now I lost track of the time when the days turned to months and the months turned to a year but overtime I was able to watch my body slowly wither away... Now I stand upon this balcony covered in wrinkles as my life is slowly coming to an end... I smile with all my heart looking out over the kingdom of Arafell.
--- Mc's Perspective ---
A week of boring travel into our journey I had been hidden away inside the backpack whilst controlling my mist to wrap Elies face at all times and having a cloud of mist traveling before us as I scout out the road ahead. Almost to spite the hectic journey we've had so far or simply to give us time to rest we encountered almost no exciting dangers along the road. Addie seems to get more and more excited the further we go clearly we are getting close to Arafell... The signs along the road show that but... Why is the foot traffic so limited? I've seen very few people. It's weird. The only group of people we've encountered were some riders in guards uniforms clearly patrolling the roads but they completely ignored us...
A day out from Arafell we encounted another group of travelers going the wrong direction... More accurately not going anywhere... So... They are clearly blocking the road... Sighing I tell Ellie to hide and Addie quickly follows along as I begin to spread my mist out along the ground. The moment the people ahead saw the cloud of mist heading their way they obviously backed away in fear but they didn't run away they just avoided the mist as they covered their faces in thick masks... Hmm... Seeing that they've wrapped their mouths in cloth and sealed over other part of their face air tight I think I've been discovered... As for the rest of their body? Eh... No thank you... So they know I make my mist attack internally so they have ways to block my mist from entering them... Looking at the one figure that didn't back away or adjust his cloths I can't help be the most curious and threatened by him... As I only feel a space where I cannot enter... A shroud of mana encompassing the figure. Feeling the familiar sensation of my mist vibrating I giggle a bit... They are yelling at me but I can't hear a thing...
As my mist spreads our along the ground I look along all paths as I search for a way for the girls to pass the road block. Seeing people stationed in the woods in the same outfits in a big circular formation and people slowly closing off the half circle behind us I quickly form a claw hand of mist and slap Ellie's ass as an arrow pops up before her. Mush!!! Ellie seems deeply offended but still feels my serious emotions and immediately rushes following the arrow holding Addie's hand dragging her along. A short while before the last hole in the formation that the people are setting up I manage to get the girls out of it and then have them walk around the edge of the circle back towards the city as the circular roadblock slowly closes in... If they are hunting me... They must realize I can fly... Or do they think I am the mist? No... It's already been made clear I'ma beast... So are they searching the mist for me? Laughing a bit at the panicking figures of the people in the formation as they see countless figures darting around inside the mist as they follow the plan slowly closing the formation I find it amusing as they waste so many arrows... As the circle has come so close together the many figures have managed to see each other in the mist again I start to resist them as the mist swirls into a big dome ahead of them I big to slow them in their tracks making it harder for them to approach all the while Ellie and Addie have long since passed the roadblock and we've moved on heading towards the city all the while I've been letting them watch my little recreation of the roadblock. As for killing these people? Nah... Addie seems to think they might just be people trying to stop the monster who just butchered an entire city... Which I guess to her makes them good people... I say kill them for trying to hunt us down but eh... Once the city comes into sight I leave the scouting fog behind as I let the girls head along their way hiding away in Ellie's hood like usual. Of course I kept Ellie's face covered cause she is still being her cool cloudwarrior self. She approached the guards at the gate and began to chat with them explaining she came hunting the beast in the fog blah blah. She's not a very good actor and it's very amusing to watch but kind of cringe worthy...
Getting into the city the two quickly make their way to an Inn as Addie repeatedly mumbles messages to me obviously saying I shouldn't kill everyone here... Of course I never planned to do that... I mean probably some of them right? Eh...
Walking through the crowded streets along a very long very wide road of the immense city of hundreds of thousands. The two small figures make their way to an Inn and manage to buy a room for the night with relative easy. Despite the roads being rather empty on the way to city, the city itself is clearly a bustling metropolis. Addie seems to think that road was so empty because of the mist and the fact I killed an entire town... she probably won't get over that for awhile... Setting down the two end up sharing a bed but Ellie is in her sleeping bag while Addie is over in the corner staring out the window at the large city below her face clearly spending a lot of time directed towards the center of the city... As Ellie went to sleep hugging me I saw Addie slowly rise up and walk towards the door... Sighing I block her path with a wall of mist as she looks back at me and says something aloud I can't understand but I shrug it off. She doesn't get to just leave Ellie like that.
Addie kept yelling for awhile before she took out her instrument and strumed it. Winds pushed back my mist as it began to vibrate heavily yet I heard nothing still in bed next to Ellie... If you must force my hand then let's see how you do...
The mist begins to gather slowly forming a dome around the girl as the music still tries to push it back as I make the dome spin, picking up speed little by little as I try to compress it forcibly squeezing the force that Addie generated as I push my mist towards her but a chime broke out and my dome was shattered by a slash made of sound and forced back immediately as Addie looked at me clearly angry desire the mask on her face she then turned to the mist wall and strummed the instrument again to generate a slash that cut it in half and then she cut it in fourths and cut it into six as she kept strumming away the barrier was torn apart before she turned back to me with a what I can only assume it a smug smile on her face based on her posture only to find...
--- Ellie's Perspective ---
With a start I raise to find the room in tatters and both my bed mates missing I jump from the bed looking about only to find an empty room and a door torn off it's hinges outside is a tattered hallway running out Ellie hears the guests discussing how a beast attacked one of the hotel's guests and she quickly runs to a clerk to question him but gets very little information. The clerk simply says even though the beast escaped the guards will handle it. Which frightens Ellie more as she realizes her little companion and the last of her family are out their all alone getting hunted.