Opening his heavy eyes, Jio takes a look around him and it just new strange place but it feel warm.
Yoka is snoring beside the bed where Jio is laying, Jio doesn't want to awake Yoka from his sleep so Jio tries to move slowly to get off from the bed. Once he gets down, Jio found out that Yoka's arms are both red and got little bit blister, most likely from when you get burn by hot water or burning muffler.
Tilting his head with his frowning brows, Jio is trying to remember what was happening before, the last thing he knows is when that Magic team leader, Gilink took away Mikan from him and disappeared into the thin air.
The rest of the events is blurry but Jio is sure about one thing, he saw someone in his unconsciousness and that person crying loudly when Mikan being taken away and Jio can feel his body burning that time.
Started to get a headache from thinking, Jio go out from the room and having little sightseeing of this new hideout. Blue painting walls, high metals ceilings and simple furniture made from sturdy wooden are filling the corners of this house.
Seems like they chose a comfortable and not so big house this time, there only three rooms including the room he used and one spacy living room.
"Jio...." someone calls him from behind; it's Hui Go voices
"Hi...what you guys doing?" Jio turn around and get to see what these two guardians doing in the small kitchen "You guys cooking?! I thought you guys didn't need food"
"Well.... it's actually for you...we don't need food; we're just consuming our swords master power so you guys are the ones who needs to be taking care of" Lokian showing off skill by spinning the spatula, he looks so cute with that tiny spatula while he looks so muscly
"Oh...well, that's make sense but can you please tell me what happened to Yoka? I mean his arms " Jio squatting near the doorway to the kitchen and watching both of these guardians are staring at each other before answering his questions.
"Well you know...He got..." Lokian almost tells the truth if Yoka isn't stopping him
"I got it when I try to save Mikan" Yoka joining the rest near the kitchen, he awakes right after Jio left the room.
"..." no words from Jio to respond to that answers, its makes Yoka feel nervous about his lying "Mikan... I'm not gonna forgive them if they hurt him" firmly with small voices Jio speaks out his feelings
"Let's discuss about that later... Now you guys need to eat to recharge your energy. We made this from the food supplies we brought from previous house... about the taste, don't ask" Hui Go bring the bowls of their food to the table for Jio and Yoka to eat.
Obediently Jio and Yoka come with Hui Go and sit up their food.
"The taste..." Yoka open his mouth after few bites.
"I'm not going to cook for you guys anymore..." Hui Go gave up on expecting nice comments from these human
"It tastes like my cook, It good. where did you learn to cook?" Yoka continue eating after some compliments while Jio secretly smiling upon hearing Hui Go's hopeless words before, that was Hui Go first time showing some emotion although it not a big wave of emotions it still great.
"I watched you cooking in the previous house...anyway...thanks for the compliments" Hui Go bows his head
"Wanna try some?" Yoka lifts his spoon and look at Lokian who just sitting across the table, watching them
"No thanks" he refused right away
Finished their food, the discussion started with the direction. Help by Jio's power on tracking their positions last time, they figure out where to go to get closer to where Mikan being taken and will try to communicate with Mikan using old method Mikan ever taught to Yoka to send news when he was away from home.
At the night,
Yoka and Jio stays in the same room while Lokian and Hui Go are back into the swords.
"Get some sleep...I want to check the weapons with Hui Go before we leave later" Jio get ready to go out to the living room for letting Yoka get more rest since he was the one who lacks sleep from anxiousness of Jio might into his possessed mode again
"Okay.... I'll have some rest" honestly Yoka wanted to watch how will Jio and Hui Go working with those weapons but his body is aching and these blisters on his burn skin torturing him so he just wants to sleep now.
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In the black castle where Mikan being taken to, there lived Megonor and Gilink after Rhinzeos and Sae killed by those human left only Megonor and Gilink as the leaders in this castle now.
They locked Mikan in one big room which is looks like a prison but these two big and tall pole give out vibe of those worshipping room than a prison and Gilink tied him on the wrists with the silver magic chains contained magic spell preventing and blocked him from using his powers against them.
Tap tap tap....
The stepping sounds echoing when Megonor entered the room, he found Gilink seated in front of Mikan.
"What happens with you?" Megonor realised that there was some bloods stain on Gilink clothes and dried bloods on his lower lip down to his chin
"Cuuuhhh....!!!!" Gilink spits mouthful of bloods "Fuck that little human!! He found me not focusing and got chances to hit me on the chest" Gilink going to remember that human named Jio and going to kill him if they meet again.
"He hit you? Wow... that's a quick progress of him, he surely fast before but no slight chance of touching me, you should consuming more diamonds to strengthen your powers... seems like you got weak but staying to long in this castle" Megonor did impressive about Jio bravery but finding the facts that he able to hurt Gilink is very new
"I was just playing around and go check on him... I got hit because of him" Gilink pointing at Mikan who passed out and powerless leaning forward
Megonor go closer to Mikan and carefully looking at his features
"Yes its him... I'm sure because there is no such kind of creature like him in this Trapped World but why is he siding up with the human?" Megonor asked Gilink, he busily heals his wound by consuming the diamonds he keep in one medium box.
"Don't ask me, I need one quick recovery before use my power on reading his memories" Gilink leaves the room to heal himself on the other side of the castle
Representing their kind, the Winger creatures have amazing skills on the battlefield, fighting and everything related with using strength and Magic team appears to be weaker on everything related with muscle and strength but they have the most powerful spells and magic in the Trapped World among the citizens of this world.
These are the reasons why they're teamed up betraying the guardians and others minority kind in the Trapped World as they also discovered a way to invade to human's world and gain more powers from consuming those diamonds inside the human.
And there is only one power they are afraid of, it was the power of the Grand Almighty which nowhere to be found since the war declared by Winger creatures and Magic team when they've almost killed half of the guardians.
And now the purpose of having Mikan with them here is to find any information or any tracks about the Grand Almighty which might became a source for them to get ready and prepare everything needed to face his power.
"I remember you...But seems like you are not recognise me, siding with human must be tiring for you as you need to protect them all the time but hey.... surprisingly that Jio is surely showing off, he said he wanted to protect you ha ha ha... that's sound funny to me...." Megonor is having a monologue while wandering around Mikan
"Funny because you never have someone to protect..." Steadily speaking, Mikan isn't making any movement but from the way he talked, he must've gained his consciousness now
"Oh hi... you're awake? You heard me before?"Annoyingly Megonor act like he surprised upon hearing Mikan's speaking
"..." Mikan is back into silence, he doesn't feel like answering the useless questions
"Ha ha ha...you know... you're siding with the wrong side...I don't think your power is matching against us so why don't you just joining our side so we can give you diamonds to strengthen your powers... let's find your truly power with us" Megonor luring Mikan to speaks and convincing him to joining their side
"Your life must be so empty and lonely...all you know is only about the power... everything you think only about the power and that's sound boring" lifting his face and pitifully looking at Megonor
"HA HA HA HA..... playing to much with the dumb will change you into the dummy as well, wait and see who will win later...." Megonor tapped hard on Mikan's cheek twice with sadistic looks but he can't let his anger out to Mikan now as they still need him for their plans.
Megonor leaves the room as well.
Three days later,
Megonor and Gilink with some lower levels of the magic team gathering around Mikan who looks skinnier and messy now, his hands still tied up.
"We're going to start now" Gilink moves closer to Mikan and touches the back of his head and their hands are chaining on each other as they made a smaller circle by standing closer to Mikan.
Megonor doesn't include in the rituals. The further Megonor can do is attacking the mind and some ability of reading mind which he learnt from the magic team and for this ritual, only the magic team can do so him just standing nearby observing.
As the hand of Gilink touching the back of Mikan's head, Mikan pull the rest of his power to avoiding the touch but slowly when they're starting to murmuring unknown words which seems to be the spell, Mikan eventually losing consciousness falling into deep sleep
Gilink closed his eyes and ready to read Mikan's memories, the memories Gilink found just those time Mikan spent with the human, and no further memories about Mikan's past.
"It's weird..." Gilink wonders why, then with more force which could be a threatening for Mikan's life,Gilink forcibly put more power to break through to the blocked area of Mikan's memories causing a big painful wave to Mikan head and body
"AAAAHHHHHHH....!!!!!!" the loud cry and screaming from Mikan who was passed out are a sign of a great pain happening to him right now.
His body shaking greatly from not being able to handle the pain and the loud screams continued echoing through all the hallway of the castle
Gilink who is now able to see into some small of Mikan's memories is witnessing someone standing there, looking back at Gilink angrily.
"TAKE YOUR HAND OUT OF HIM....!!!!" as fast as lighting, someone breaks into the room where the rituals happening and destroying the living chain of the magic team made around Mikan
Slessshhhhhhh.....
Gilink fell to the ground, his eyes full of fear and anxiety. Not able to move an inch of his body, Gilink look up to Megonor
"Someone is in there... staring back at me full of angry" from his shaken words, Megonor can conclude that there must something horrible happened when Gilink into Mikan's memories.
But that's not the problem now
Here, right now is the real problem just coming and yes that problem is Jio and his team who just arrived.