"Oh, you are such a sweet girl!" Cora exclaimed and went to hug Alek. Alek just smiled and didn't say anything. She hugged Cora tightly.
"Thank you." They heard a voice from the entrance and, they saw Castor and Iris heading their way.
"You alright?" Pollux quickly went over to his siblings and took Iris in his arms. "Are you hurt?" He asked his sister.
"I'm okay." Iris answered him.
"You don't look good. What happened?" Rin saw his sister's face was a little pale.
"I just woke up." Iris didn't say the whole truth because she was scared of what Rin would think of her. She stung his twin and almost killed him.
Pollux looked unconvinced but when he looked at his brother, he had to let that go. Castor's face kind of told him to just let it flow. Rin sighed deeply before he took Iris by his hands and went back to the dining room.
Iris smelled the food when her brother pushed the glass door open and, her stomach growled in response. She blushed but, no one seemed to hear it. She was about to grab a plate of her own when she was put on a chair by Pollux.
"I will serve for you." He told her sister and started picking the food that she may like.
"Thanks, Alek." Jin told his cousin as he took a seat opposite of her. "Thank you, Mrs Kan'nazuki." He told the head and, she nodded in return.
"Your welcome but, I really do anything so, I don't think I deserve your thanks." Alek told him. She didn't deserve any credit. It occurred by coincidence. She was the only one with a phone on her and, everyone else could have done it if they didn't leave their phones in the car.
Castor laughed but didn't say anything. Soon, Pollux brought a plate for his sister and started picking food for another plate. He gave the food to his twin after no more food could be on the plate.
"Thanks." Jin thanked his brother before he started eating. By this time, everyone was done and, they were just sitting.
After the two from the hospital finished eating, people at the table started talking. "So how was the experience here?" Cora asked the guests, especially the young ones.
"It was amazing from the beginning to end. You guys are pretty fascinating." Alek told them. "And now I know where the myth of Harpies came from."
"It was a new experience. I still don't like the way we first met but coming here was refreshing." Bia spoke.
"I like it here. So much nature and less pollution. It's like being on earth's heaven." Rin spoke after Bia.
"Living here may be difficult but, I definitely want to spend some time here." Kai told them.
"I haven't really explored this place so, I hope I could come again and explore the beauty. And as the next head of Mutsuki, I would like to keep my friendship with you people." Jin told them.
"Of course. We and Mutsuki's are on good terms too. Johan and I used to play a lot when he was living here." Walter told him. Johan was the current head of Mutsuki and are the father of Robin and Lake.
"He did? I didn't know that." Castor turned to look at his parents accusingly.
"Dad never talks about that stuff. He is acts strong in front of us." Lake told his son and his old friend.
Walter laughed and, Lake sought help from his brother but, Robin just turned away from him.
"Well Iris, how about you?" Walter stopped laughing and asked the little girl.
"It wasn't that much fun but, I got to discover my new powers so, I am happy that I visited this place and I hope visit again." Iris told him while looking at the table.
The two Kan'nazuki just nodded in satisfaction after hearing them. They were happy that they enjoyed their home.
"I hope you will come back again." Cora told them. "Well, it's already past three thirty so, I guess you are leaving."
"We are." Panacea told her friend. "We will visit you again soon."
"I really do hope so." Cora sighed slightly. "We don't have that many visitors because they can't just come and go. You know it's sometimes lonely here. I am going to miss your pretty faces."
Panacea chuckled and stood up. "Let's get going. Oh, we'll wash the plates." She started picking the dirty plates that they used.
"Oh, no. It's okay, Pan. You are guests and, I can't let guests clean up." Cora stopped her almost immediately.
"We insist." Panacea told her.
"My house, my rules. In my house, guests are not allowed to wash dishes." Cora told her playfully and, Panacea chuckled again. She knew trying to help other things would be useless and, Cora would use 'my house, my rules'.
"Okay. I would not wash the dishes." Panacea raised her hands in defeat.
"Good." Cora smiled. "Let's get you to the car."
"The cars would be located in the fake forest, right? How do we find the cars in THIS forest?" Panacea asked. She knew how to get into the forest but not out.
"It's pretty much the same. We know where your cars are parked in the 'fake forest' you said and, when we disappear, it would appear." Cora told her nonchalantly.
"Oh, okay." Panacea said and, Cora and Walter went away from the dining to shift. They shifted faster than a bullet.
"I will come more people for carrying you." Cora told them as they came closer to her and, she called her worriers through the mind. Soon three bird-humans came to the entrance.
"My lady, my lord." The man in the middle spoke while facing down. They were two men and woman on their knees as they greeted their leaders. "You called."
"Yes. I called because I needed help in taking our guests back to their cars. They are leaving." Cora told them and, Walter just stood there. He knew he wasn't a head so, he kept his mouth shut.
"We will carry them back." The man spoke as he slowly stood up along with two others behind him.
Cora smiled. "Me and my husband will carry the adults and I want you to carry the young ones."
They nodded their head in unison and each came over to two pairs of people. They acted as they knew who to carry.
"Hello. I am Riley. I will carry you to the el ex forest." The man who was in the middle came to Alek and Kai.
"What is el ex forest?"Alek asked. Wasn't she supposed to be dropped at the car in the fake forest?
"My apologies. We call the forest that's under our magic 'el ex forest'. 'El ex' means 'the former' in Spanish." Riley gave an apologetic smile to Alek. Kai saw this and wrinkled his eyebrows slightly.
"Ahhhh." Alek nodded her head with understanding. "And what are you?"
"I am Vulture." Riley laughed a little before he answered. He liked her honesty.
Alek diverted her attention to his wings and saw that it was brown with white horizontal lines. She had never seen a vulture and, seeing him half-vulture made her fascinated.
"We are leaving." He told Alek as he saw everyone getting on his friends' backs.
"Okay." Alek told him and, he lowered his head for her to climb his back. Kai followed Alek onto his back but, he was not in a good mood.
Alek guys were the last ones to leave as they waited for all of them to go. Riley jumped out of the exit and stretched out his wings. His wings were a little bigger than Cora's. Alek enjoyed the flying but, Kai didn't even bat an eye at the view. He was quite annoyed by the guy he was on. The way he talked with his sister was not something he enjoyed.
Riley landed safely to the location where everyone else was and dropped Alek and Kai off of him.
"Thank you, Riley." Alek thanked him as she got off.
"My pleasure." Riley lowered his head a bit like a noble.
"Don't do that." Alek told him while she laughed. It was weird seeing a person bowing in anywhere else than Japan. She was not used to it as no one in her friends did that.
Kai twitched his mouth with annoyance. He didn't like the way Riley acted nor his existence. It was irritating.
Bia was talking with the woman who had brought her when she saw her brother in a bad mood. "Thank you, Sara and excuse me." She told her as she went to him.
"What's wrong?" Bia asked him from behind. She saw him staring at the bird-man who spoke in Cora's house.
"I don't like him." Kai only said that and walked away.
Bia watched her brother walk away and switched her attention to the bird-man talking with her sister. He was a good-looking guy with tanned skin and, he had a smile that could make girls flutter.
She then understood why Kai acted like that. "Hi. I'm Bia." She got into the conversation and introduced herself.
"Hello, I am Riley. Nice to meet you. I never got to say hi in our first meeting." He told Bia.
"Which was?" Bia asked. She did not remember this guy.
"When we 'attacked you'. I was actually the one fighting with you back then. You are quite a fighter." Riley told Bia and Alek.
"Oh. Thank you." Bia told him and, Alek looked like she didn't care about that. Well, she didn't.
Riley smiled and, Panacea called the children to say their goodbyes. Alek and everyone thanked each one of them and said goodbyes.
The bird-humans flew away and, after a few seconds, the forest they were in turned into el ex forest and they found their car the way they left it. They got in the car and slowly left the magical forest behind them.