"How…?" Zeolite mutters, cannot believing what Theresa tell. "How did I fled?" She asks, asking him what she should explains, "Yes." He said quietly. "I met a very kind man before, named unknown, he never told me his name, so I just called him hero before, since he looks like a hero to me. At first we were planning to fled together, with a couple of kids in the same cells as me. I and the other kids really thought of him as a father, and he thought of us as his kids. We succeed on getting outside without getting caught, and succeed on getting the boat. But then, Sicarius Order's guard suddenly surrounded us. And then, he was killed, just when I thought we will be living happily with him." Theresa said, clenching her fists and brought her head down, facing her foot.
"Theresa…" Zeolite said, "If only I could use my magic since that day. I could've save him…But I couldn't…" Theresa said, her voice cracks, as tears slides off her eyes. "…You okay?" He ask, while patting her shoulder, trying to calm her down.
"I-I'm okay…" Theresa sniffs, wiping her tears with her wrist. "I'm sure…he's happy…that his sacrifice is not a waste. Look at you now, grow healthy and powerful." Zeolite said, trying to cheer her up. Theresa was first surprised by his words, since she never heard those kind words from him. "Thanks…Zeolite. I really need that." She smiles, thanking him for those kind words. "Don't mind it." Zeolite said, smiling a little.
"…Are there…anything else you wanted to ask?" She asks, wants to clear the confusion on Zeolite's head.
"Why'd you change your name?" He asks, wanted to know the base of her story. "The truth is, I was adopted by the La Fleur family, and I think too, I should change my first name too. It was an intentions to have a better life. But, that didn't work. Well, I still succeed on hiding my past identity until now, but past will always haunts you." Theresa said, with a calm voice.
"No wonders…You're kind of familiar when Hector introduce us…" Zeolite said, "Yeah. I also thought the same before." Theresa nods, agreeing with him. "So…You're officially Theresa, now?" Zeolite ask, throwing a swift glance at her. "Yes. I'm more comfortable with this current name of mine." Theresa said, the smile of her didn't leave her face, as she closes her eyes, relaxing her body.
A silence occurred between the two, none of them speak, until Zeolite does, "Should we…like…tell the others about our previous identity…?" Zeolite ask, asking his curiosity. "Well…times will tell. Whether we choose to tell or not, they will know sooner or longer without us even telling." Theresa replies.
"…Why…Aren't you afraid of me?" Zeolite asks quietly, "Zeolite. The past are the past. And the future is the future. I don't need to be afraid of you. I see you change, not cold blooded killer, but a soft hearted man." Theresa said softly, soothing Zeolite's uneasy heart. "But…I have-" Theresa cut him off by flicking his forehead, and makes Zeolite to let out a little yelp.
"Did you listen to what I'm saying? Then so it be! No need to make a damned excuse!" Theresa said, beginning to use not so polite words. "…Fine." Zeolite utters under his breath, while looking to the side, avoiding Theresa's eyes. "Let's resume our own activities. So none of them is going to get suspicious of us." Theresa said, interrupting Zeolite's thoughts. "Alright." Zeolite nods. As the two begin to resume their own activities.
Chiharu hums a song, as she drives the plane calmly. Her mind is currently at peace, since she cannot hear whatever things happens outside the cockpit.
'More clouds…birds…' She thoughts, trying to get rid of her boredom by identifying whatever things in front of her. 'Did it get eaten by something?' A bird with slimes stained on their body and wings, as it flies with an odd patterns, not straight, but up and down, right and left, like a drunk bird…wait….does bird can get drunk?
Nothing much happens in front of her very own eyes, until something odd comes to her sights. "What is that…?" She mumbles, squinting her eyes to see the things in front of her. And when she identified it, she widen her eyes and quickly tilts the yoke to the side, and makes the plane to spin.
Ashley was sleeping peacefully, until she feels like she's floating in her dream, she thought it's nothing to worried about since it's her weird, unusual dream, until her head hits the supposed to be empty void, and because of the force her head bumps with, she wakes up, and seeing the plane upside down. "…What?" She said, speechless, Hector then falls in front of her, with his face on the surface. "…Huh?" She said, confused at his sudden appearances.
As it turns out, Ashley is upside down, with her head on the bottom, head hard as rock, that she doesn't feel any pains.
Then after a while, the plane flips back to the normal positions, making Hector to falls in front of her once again, butt hitting the floor first. Ashley then drops down, dropping down to her seat. "Huh?!" She said, getting more confused, her face shows confusions.
"What in the world?" Zeolite asks himself, landing on his foots safely. "What's happening?" He quickly runs to the cockpit, wondering what Chiharu's doing, that makes the plane spins.
"Chiharu! What's going on?!" Zeolite shouts, barging in the cockpit, with his voice raised. "We're attacked!" Chiharu yells, before spinning the yoke once again, as Zeolite quickly grabs the door beside him, preventing him to follows the gravity.
Zeolite was about to say another thing, wanted to asks her about what's attacking them. "No time to talk! Get whoever that can use ranged attack up the plane! We need to bring them down!" Chiharu yells, trying her best to maintains the plane. "Got it." Zeolite said, and runs back to the others, when the plane back on normal positions.
"Theresa! Can you please go up the roof? There's someone who is attacking us!!" Zeolite shouts, gaining all of his friends attentions. "You crazy? How in the world will she handle the gravity?!" Hector shouts, against the idea. "I'll handle the gravity!" Zeolite blurted, yet to notices that he's going to use his magic.
"And how are you going to handle it-" Hector was cut off when Theresa walk past him, going near Zeolite. "Understood." She nods, as Zeolite replies with a hesitant nod. "…I'll…do my best." Zeolite said, not sure if he can do it. "I know you can." Theresa smiles, before opening the door beside her, feeling the sudden gush of the winds.
Zeolite takes a deep breath, trying to calm his nerves down. And when he's confident enough, he crouch down the floor, pulling the glove he wears on his right hand with his teeth. As he puts his palm on the floor, focusing on his magic flows.
"What are you doing…?" Hector asks, worried sick for Theresa. "Shh!" Ashley hush, appearing beside him, with her index finger on her lips. "Wha-" Ashley cut him off again by putting her other index finger on his lips. "Shh!!!" Hector stares at her for a while, before backing down a little.
"Are you going to…" Celine trailed off, seeing magic circle appears under his right palm.
Theresa got up the plane's roof, until the plane start to turns to the side, causing her to nearly lose her balances, she sighs in relief, noticing she doesn't fall off the plane, but then, without her awareness, the plane spins suddenly, catching her by surprised, and causes her to stumbles. Luckily, she didn't fall off the plane, and just stumbling.
She looks forward, looking for the enemy Zeolite mentioned before. Her eyes then catches a person's head. "Are they…flying?" She ask herself, not wanting to get lost in awe, she quickly brought her right hand behind under her chin, as a flaming arrow appears in between her arms. She adjusts her aim, getting troubled with the target movement.
She releases the arrow, as her arrow hits the person's mechanical wings, burning the wings to ashes, the person who is using the mechanical wings then falls along the burning wings behind him, while releasing a loud scream.
Three enemy then appears, getting out from their hiding place, behind the clouds. And it seems they see Theresa, since they don't want their plan to be ruined by her, they changes their target. They pulls the triggers of their guns, shooting bullets at her, she quickly ducks down, avoiding their attacks, until the plane spins once again, and this time, she lost her footing.
'Crap!' She thought, realizing she does not have her foot on the surface, but then, chains shoot out from the plane's surface, pulling Theresa's foot back to the surface. "What?" She asks, looking under her, wondering where the chains come from.
She shakes her head, not wanting to get distracted by other things. She quickly brought her head up, pulling her right hand under her chin, and close one of her eyes to improve her aiming. And when she got the aims, she releases the arrow, her arrow hits one of the enemy, knocking them off the fight.
'Hurry…!' Chiharu thoughts, looking at the fuel which is at the red bar. 'We have to land very soon!' She looks in front of her, looking at the enemies they're facing with. Flying unknown soldiers with some mechanical behind their back, which she assumed helping them to fly up in the air.
'Another one down!' Theresa thought, and looks at the last one. She pulls her right hand once again, and aims at the last one. Her aiming was right at the enemy's head, until suddenly the plane flies down, interrupting her aiming. 'Sh*t!' She thoughts, losing her balances due to the sudden moves, but thanks to Zeolite's chains, she have falls off the plane if his chains didn't wrapped around her foots.
The last enemy was surprised too at the sudden moves their plane did, and his currently having his finger resting on the gun's trigger, as he accidentally pulls the trigger, causing it to shoot it bullet. The bullet flies straight to Theresa's head.
"Theresa!!!"