"Which one of you stole my fries!!" he cried out, but due to the immense discomfort he felt from over eating, he couldn't really put his lungs into it, causing it to come out as a strained sentence. As expected, both of them denied the main character's accusations claiming that they were too full to ever think about more food.
'Do they really expecting me to believe the fries ate themselves??' The main character thought with indigestion, both literally and metaphorical. Clicking his tongue, he pushed this matter to the back of his head, vowing to get revenge in the future.
'Just you wait!!'
Brewing in his frielesness, the main character stared at the plate in his hands with a look of reminiscent longing. Giving the side eye to the two on his sides, he secretly dragged his finger across the plate, scraping off some of the oil that had accumulated on it.
Giving the others a quick side eye for a second time, he made sure that he wasn't being watched before pretended to scratch his nose with his thumb, whilst simultaneously, sucking off the oil from his fingertip.
'I thought it was gonna taste waaaaaaay better...'
His face scrunching up in disgust. Although he wanted to spit it out, he couldn't simply destroy the cool and mysterious image he had presented in front of the two.
And so, although unwilling, he swallowed it with a big gulp, shaking his head in odd ways as he did.
. . .
After about two hour or so, the main character was able to move adequately enough to continue with his array formation... formation. Squatting on the ground with some difficulty, he resumed his work, drawing runes left and right, oblivious to the changed that had been made by that squirrel.
With the passage of each second, the main character came closer and closer to finishing the formation, before finally, he did. Once he was done, he wiped away the tears from his eyes, tears that had accumulated from staring at the ground for far too long...
Hearing that, the main character's face turned into one of confusion as he looked up, passively staring straight at [Cameraman]'s camera lens, before saying,
"Why would you lie like that? I'm not tearing up because I stared for too long, I'm tearing up because I'm finally done with creating this array!!! You can't possibly imagine the relief I'm feeling right now!!"
Unbeknownst to him though, the city lord and Lenny had head some parts of what he said, asking, "Have you really finished setting up the array???" Rolling his eyes at the camera, the main character turned towards the two before nodding as he said, "I have indeed finished setting it up, but now is where I need your help..."
"Anything!", the city lord said in firm determination, Lenny nodding on the side. 'Splendid!', the main character thought before directing them to stand at different points on the array. Although the placement looked random, once the main character got into position, they were obviously laid out in a triangular design.
Once that was done, the main character said, "Okay, now we must create a link made of qi between us. Through that, we shall transfer our qi to the other person... That should activate the array but let me warn you, once we start, we mustn't stop! Or else we will end up messing with the nature of time!"
Excuse me what?!
Lenny and the city lord were taken aback as they asked what he meant by, 'messing with the nature of time...'
"Well, this is a time altering array after all, so if we do it wrong, we may be sent to an alternate time line or something..."
The two seemed to think he was playing around but looking at the array, it did give an ancient and primordial presence. Yet, time manipulation, coming from a sixteen year old sounded too preposterous. Though, his casual attitude did make them wonder whether he really was sixteen year old, or if he was a master that had ascended beyond the mortal flesh...
Regardless of whichever it was, in their eyes, the image of the main character had now been bolstered to greater heights. After all, he had casually spoken about manipulating the most fundamental law of the universe, the law of time.
That was a feat reserved only for the all powerful and the highly acclaimed, but in front of their eyes, the main character had created the same miracle. At least that's what he said... whether or not it really worked, no one knew. Not even the main character
Noticing their expressions, the main character assured them, "If you don't believe me its alright, we just have to activate the array... its effects will give you enough reason to trust me..."
The two agreed to his words before doing as they were instructed. The city lord transferred some of his qi to Lenny, while Lenny transferred some of his, to the main character, but since the main character didn't have his own qi to use, he simple directed Lenny's towards the city lord.
As they did that, a white glow appeared connecting the three in the shape of a triangle. That was soon followed by the runes that slowly lit up!
"Okay now, maintain the state of your qi flow. If we're even off by a tiny bit, the effects of the array may be altered..."
The two nodded their heads in conviction, maintaining the flow of their qi with absolute control. And as if to reward their efforts, after a while, the runes that had lit up, seemed to come alive as they lifted themselves off the ground, slowly floating up into the air with lively and innocent movements.
They then started to spin around the trio, the spin speed increasing with each new addition of runes. By the time there was only a single rune left on the ground, the spinning runes had melted into an unrecognizable ring of white light. When the last rune had finally lifted and joined the race, a loud fundamental shockwave, spread. The spinning runes had now disappeared into oblivion.
Not knowing what was to come next, the trio searched for the white light that had vanished, only stopping when Lenny exclaimed. "In the middle, look!" Turning their heads, in the space between the three; a transparent, soap bubble colored, distortion had appeared.
Looking at it curiously, they were just about discuss it amongst themselves before the distortion suddenly pulled them in and disappeared without a trace!