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Chapter 9 - Reunion

Zemeki stops in the middle of the desert wasteland. He knocks on an invisible force and says "Yggdrasil". The veil lifts revealing a boreal oasis and a small wooden shack. There are decorations like a cactus with googly eyes so it's obvious the place is lived in. "I'm hungry" declares An. Keem hands her some bread. "this, place is password protected, so only members of the wild claw clan know about it" "interesting" stated Ramui. Zemeki enters a wooden shack in the center of it "Yo, Aisha I need you to fix the quilt you made" "It's broken!, but your my most careful client?" "I ran into, 2 protodemons" Aisha looks outside to see An having a staring contest with the cactus. "among other things" Inside the shack delicate equipment and vials can be seen "well, let me have a look" Zemeki hands her the quilt.

"I'll go back over to Joey Wheeler so it doesn't teleport away from you while your working. "Who?" "He's an imbued tool I ran into when I got captured" "You got captured?!" "It's a long story" Aisha peeks outside. "And that's when I said, Aye I'm walkin here" "I don't get it" replied Keem. "Yeah, I really don't get it" added An who then whispers to Keem "I don't think he knows how jokes work" "aye I can hear that you know" "no, way!" she squeals "It, can talk!"

Zemeki dashes out of the shack and the quilt teleports in front of him causing him to trip, he rolls back on his feet though. "Looks like I made it, let's try something" he says as he hugs the cloth tightly.

"I want to open you up and see what's inside" "I don't like where this is going" "You're right it would be a crime to mess with such superb craftsmanship" "I am superb now aren't I, hehehe" "Wait, you said your quilt is teleporting?" she turns toward Zemeki "Yeah" "What are you doing?" asked Aisha "Nothing important" The gang gathers around the shack as they all can't fit inside. "So, obviously there is something wrong with the Noad alignments" Aisha picks up a pen looking tool that fires a laser at the quilt. "As I suspected foreign noad made it's way inside the magic space" "Magical space..." said An "It's the axes where magical structures reside, you know how there's up, down, forward and so on, well there are other directions too, ones that normally can't be accessed by people" replied Keem. "Ok, I get it" said An "So magical space is to my left and right" "Nevermind" Aisha slides a magnifying glass over the quilt. The laser turns from black to grey, and pulls out a microscopic black ball. "If it wasn't deliberate the attack might have just had a lot of quanta behind it"

Without quanta noads you would be unable to interact with magic space. Like Keem stated there are a multitude of directions, and Quanta are the noads associated with all of them.

"Here is where the real fixing begins" said Aisha "So, when the quilt's fixed, I wont be able to use Joey, anymore, you think you could set it up so that he can move on his own" "I'm not sure I can, he's probably Arcada tech" "Is Arcada tech really that impenetrable?" asked Zemeki "Yes" replied Keem "Look I can try but no promises, but I'm gonna need you to do something for me"

On the continent of Pangea there are 7 powers, Portcrest, Heirokeep, Zeino, Varkovia, the Spectral Union, Mirkin Woods, and Arcada it is difficult to be an independent city because of the constant threat of demons. It is not uncommon for these places to be wiped out overnight. The powers have trained dedicated exorcists to prevent that from happening to them, then harvest the demons for more noad.

"Oh, and be careful, he's looking for you" "Figured, but you be careful too" Zemeki pulls out a white square from under his tongue and activates it "he, may be involved with demons" Zemeki points to Ramui flashing back to the skeleton seemingly knowing the future and Bialysis saying brother. "OK" she says. "I don't think I would have been able to shake him thanks to his Haiku ability, plus he did help us not die"

"Aight I'm gonna head out" he said grabbing his quilt "Need to take care of something" "Oh can I come?" asks Ramui "alone, I'll be back though" Zemeki wraps himself in the quilt becoming invisible and runs into the distance. He arrives at a thicket. "I'm being followed" he ducks off the trail to try and lose the pursuer and it seemingly worked as Zemeki could no longer sense a presence watching him. He arrives at a waterfall and climbs down into a cave in the side of the cliff. "Zemeki?" Zemeki removes the face portion of the quilt. "Hi, Bob" "Hi, what brings you around here, you know Enway is still looking for you" "I know, I'm here to get something for Aisha" "Sure, my armor and crafting tools are available to any Wildclaw who can use them" "She wants a duplicator" "Oh, that sure" he rummages through his stuff "don't mind this, just something I've been working on" he gently places it to the side "Here you go, 1 duplicator... but if I find out it's been damaged, stolen, or not given to Aisha, you'll have to reimburse me double" "Sure, can I borrow this armor too" Zemeki points to a full plate. "Gotcha, well be careful out there" Zemeki can be seen hiding in a bush in full plate.

"YO, ZEMEKI!" A dude with a scar over his left eye which has been replaced with a red marble thing approaches JoJo's menacingly down the path. Zemeki crawls attempting to sneak around the scar dude. Enway turns his head toward the direction of the full plate and a tree instantly falls to the ground. Zemeki stands up and readies his plated fists. He moves toward Enway. "Oh ho, so you are approaching me" Silence, Zemeki walks backward. "Lucky for you, I'm only supposed to take you in, but doesn't mean I can't rough you up in the process" Zemeki signals him to come forward then starts making baby jumps with his fist moving in circles. Zemeki jumps as some unseen force sweeps where his feat were. He lands on a tree then jumps at Enway, who thrusts his fist forward. Zemeki turns and moves his arms behind him catching the arm between his arms and back and squeezes. *Crunch* "Aah" Zemeki uses the momentum of the squeeze to roll off Enways arm. Zemeki dodges a leg sweep, then the unseen force shoves him into the ground. "THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE ZEMEKI, COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!" Silence. Enway screams as his hair envelops the armor crushing it. Enway then hears monkey noises coming from the armor, he looks inside to see Zemeki's quilt in its 4th configuration. "ZEEEEMEEEKIII!"

Zemeki is back in the boreal zone with the duplicator in hand. The quilt teleports into his hand. "Aisha saw how the teleporting worked and decided to make it a permanent feature, she has gotten much better at this" inner monologued Zemeki "With this I can work on a simulation of Joey Wheeler's blueprints without the risk of killing him" said Aisha "I left some diversions to keep Enway busy for a while, but it's only a matter of time before he finds his way here" thought Zemeki.