Captain Rose looked shocked as her eyes looked like they could pop out any moment ...
she was even shivering as if she was afraid of something ...
"The Pure Red Yin Flame Flower ... yes it is ... it is a gift from me to you .. for giving so much effort in helping out our people ...
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After solving the other matters of the village .. such as planting crops ... the duo went on their way ... walking out of the forest ...
a cave met them at the end of the forest
.... and from inside Theo could see a large circular platform .. like the ones used in the military base .. to teleport ..
"My captain ... how is that .. the teleporter is here ... ??" Theo asked ...
"It's a temporary teleporter ... once we use it .. there's no using it again ... it will vanish with us .. when we finished our mission .. it appeared here .. close by so we can teleport to our second mission ... don't worry ... nobody other than us .. can use it ... if they aren't in our mission .. they can just see us off .." captain Rose said .. as she held a box similar to the one he had .. only her's was white .. with engravings ...
when the chief handed out the flower .. Theo noticed that .. it was something of importance to her ..
she even held it so tightly ... like she had her life connected to it ...
but he never asked her about it ..
so .. the two went off and jumped onto the teleporter which brought them .. to a large forest ...
a forest even bigger than the one close to the Rock Village ..
but despite the similarities .. and detailed traits ..
the forest felt so cold ..
even a snowy mist was gathering around the entire forest ..
however .. the trees weren't even frozen like he thought they would be .. they were standing tall .. with thier barks covered in green moss ... that held fungus ...
"Strange ... why is the frost not affecting the trees ..??" he muttered ..
captain Rose looked his way but didn't say anything and just kept walking forward while being protected from the frost by Theo's gold energy ...
inside the forest .. there didn't seem to be any path they could follow to where their next village was situated ...
the trees were all packed together .. without anything to see in sight ..
the silent in the forest was too silent ... there weren't even creature around them ...
the eerie silence was all there could ever be ...
"Hmm ... it is strange now that I think about it ... " captain Rose raised her wrist and tapped on it ...
a blue light then covered her wrist ..
she tapped on the blue light.. again ..
it then revealed a holographic map ... with two red dots standing idly as they flashed ...
around the red dots .. stood a giant forest ... and from the map ... there was something large flashing up ahead .. about a 100 miles from the dot's position ...
the area covered about half the size their military base ..
"That large area must be our destination .. " Theo said looking into the deep horizon ...
"A hundred miles though ... " he then sighed as he looked at the distance ..
"A hundred miles is fine ... we aren't normal people ... remember ... going a hundred miles is like walking 10 metres forward .. " captain Rose said giggling ..
"Oh okay .. but let's at least take a break ... after fighting that snake .. I haven't had a good rest ... .. " Theo pleaded ...
Captain Rose couldn't refuse him. .. so they laid on their back against a large tree ..
sigh ..
"It's creepy but some peace and quite never hurt anyone ... let me enjoy this chance .. " he said as he closed his eyes ..
a peaceful feeling went inside of him as his cells and nerves loosened ..
his blood stopped .. and his brain began to be even more active than when he was awake ...
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"You little brat .. you better go inside there or else .. I'll give the order ..!!"
"I'm going .. I'm going ..." a boy gnashed his teeth ... as his eyes gathered tears ..
"Good boy .. now go inside there and do what you were told to do .. I don't want to use force ..!!" the boy glared at the man and went inside a giant abysmal crater .. that had a dark black fog shrouding the centre like a black cloud ...
scary screeching and beast roars echoed inside the clouds like loud booming machines ..
a shiver went down the boy's spine as he stopped in his tracks when hearing the scary beastly noises ..
"Grr ..!!" he closed his eyes .. and gave up on hope ..
his body then dashed .. and jumped straight into the cloud ..
'I won't die here .. I can't ... I just can't ..!!'
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"Theo ..!!! Theo ..!!!" a female voice rang loudly at the man sleeping next to him ...
"Theo ..!!! ... Theo ...!!" no matter how much she tried waking him up .. it just couldn't help ..
black substance like disgusting goo .. covered him ...
no .. more like .. a black fog .. or mist ..
it even gathered inside his eyes whilst it escaped through the gaps like a raging waterfall ...
captain Rose could even feel the fog like it was tangible ...
it was prickly and burning to the touch .. and when she tried running away from his vicinity ... the fog would pull her back .. forming black giant hands .. that restricted her movements .. and any energy she released ...
her skin was even starting to rot in the black hands ...
flesh after flesh ... her body started falling apart ...
but it took time for each layer of the skin to fall off ...
her eyes were shrouded in the same black most .. that made dark thick veins crack into her eyes ...
tears of blood went down like a rain full of bloody darkness ...
"I can't dieeeeeee!!!!!!!!" ... Theo woke up and swung his spine giant sword .. forward .. creating a massive energy shrouded with black energy .. surrounded by somethings like golden veins ...
the crescent slash blew up everything that it came in touch with ...
and everything that touched the energy .. simply withered into nothing ..
the soil .. the rocks ... everything ..
the air .. though was affected ... and cracked like some space rift breaking apart ...
"Not today ..!!!"
"Theo ..." a soft weak moan ... resounded next to him ...
the black energy disappeared into his body just like it had appeared ...
his eyes then returned to normal ...
he grabbed his head by his hands like a mad man ... causing blood to flow down from his head and eyes ...
captain Rose's skin then returned to the normal soft skin ... snow White ..
the black fog disappeared from her eyes ... and her health returned back to her fully like it was from before ...
her senses suddenly returned to her as she crawled hastily towards Theo ...
she grabbed his hands .. and tried stopping him from pulling his hair ..
but her strength couldn't even lift his hands up an inch ..
"Theo ..!!! listen to me .. let go ..!!" and since there was nothing more she could do .. she did the best thing ..
her body and her armour reacted with a surge of electrical element ...
dark blue electricity .. grew thicker and thicker as it went into her hands forming an orb of abudant energy ...
she closed her eyes and pressed her hands towards his chest ..
a shockwave .. appeared .. and removed the rocks from their places and made an earthly wave ...
the dark blue electricity .. orb electrocuted his body .. as it went deep into his flesh ..
but mid way .. it's course .. it stopped as it could no longer rip the flesh ..
the veins couldn't even be cut .. the flesh couldn't be fractured nor could it be ripped open by the strong strike ..
even the most weakest of the weakest bodily cells ... weren't even destroyed ..
the arteries .. remained steady as the electric power stroke them continuously ..
boom!!!!
the strike blew up and unsurprisingly it left Theo still sitting with tears falling down his cheeks ..
captain Rose's clothes were almost turned to ash .. but they were lucky to be of higher quality ...
Theo's eyes opened widely ... his hands lowered down slightly just below his ears ...
his tears had dried up ..
but to him as of now .. the tears weren't tears of sadness .. or any kind of emotion he had experienced before ..
it was something .. even more that even he couldn't understand ..
his senses returned and he then looked at his hands .. that were trembling with blood ..
he then discovered that .. he bled everywhere on his face ..
his nose .. bled .. his ears bled ... and his eyes as well ...
"Theo ..!!!" captain Rose ran up to him hurriedly with worry across her face ..
"My captain .. " his eyes drifted to her figure and noticed the black substances on her face ..
her hair had almost churned altogether ..
his body suddenly reacted on its own as it trembled and forced a bow .. with his head dug into the ground ....
"I'm sorry ..... my captain ... !!" he said ... his voice breaking in between the sentence ..
"There's no need ...!! .. you're hurt .. let me help .. you .. " captain Rose ... retrieved something from a storage in her status interface ..
a green orb ... of light appeared in her hands and went inside of Theo ... and healed every wound on him ..
another orb .. with a white light went through his head ...
"It's fine .. " captain Rose picked him up by his shoulders and looked into his eyes ..
"Hmm ." the latter just nodded and avoided her gaze ...
... for whatever happened that day .. was never brought up into a conversation between them ..
and for the remainder of the journey ... Theo kept his mouth shut ... his eyes always drifting away from focus .. gazing into the starry sky ...