"That not important right, now. Can you help her?" Kikei had stabilised her life force but had not been able to heal Jania major injuries.
"No, we have no ability that can heal, but Littleman can we just need to get her home." Null and Infy had attempted to teleport back to the golden chariot but it wasn't working. They had already returned to their normal mode, as hybrid mode had drained them.
They didn't understand what was wrong, nothing they had tried worked. It was like the planet wasn't even part of the universe. They couldn't sense anything outside of the planet.
A will-o-wisp came rushing over. "Did you do that?" it asked the twins.
"No, we've done nothing and who are you?" first the young girl and now a talking spirit projection.
"Well if you didn't do it, then we are in trouble. Someone has shifted the whole planet out of phase with the primary dimension"
"It must be Phosphoros, getting sick of him" Infy was pissed off at Phosphoros interfering in his life.
"No, he doesn't have the power for this.. that means it's his backer. We are in trouble, collect the girls and follow me"
"No, not until I know who you are"
"uuuhm, we need to go, I don't know who you are or what's going on but there are thousands of people heading this way, I don't know much but I know we don't want to be here when they get here," said Kikei she could see thousands of aura coming from all directions.
"Fine, you spirit thingie, lead the way" Null placed The Eous in stealth mode and then wrapped his arm around a surprised Kikei and made Jania weightless. He waited until the will-o-wisp had gone some distance and would then teleport to its location. He was hoping to limit the Elves ability to track them.
Once the will-o-wisp caught on to the plan, they increased their speed dramatically allowing them to cover a great distance in only a few hours. They had arrived at a large mountain range.
"Here will do, the Elves won't come here as it's a sacred site that they are forbidden from entering" before the will-o-wisp finished speaking, Kikei was emptying her stomach all over Null shirt. She was glaring at Null while trying to recover from her vomit-inducing trip.
"What was that? Tell a girl before doing whatever the hell that was, if I hadn't just emptied it, I would swear my stomach is back at the ship" she was so upset that she had unconsciously blocked the mental link. So Null couldn't even say anything back.
"Come on speak up, I'm waiting. It is not that hard 'sorry Kikei, won't happen again' see?" Kikei knew it wasn't their fault but today had just been too confusing and he was the closest target.
Null just glare at her and gave her a universally recognised rude gesture.
"Null, Infy stop being rude, Sorry Kikei they are mute and you have blocked them" Jania had just regained consciousness.
"Sorry I would get up but I can't feel my legs" Jania gave them both a little smile that didn't reach her eyes. Everyone could feel the pain in that statement.
'Sorry big sis, someone has trapped us on this planet, I promise we will get you back home and let Littleman look at you' Null and Infy were communicating privately with Jania.
'Did you see me? I saved someone this time, I didn't run away and I completed the mission' Jania gave Null pad that all the data she had collected on the mission.
Null caught the pad but kept walking towards Jania and gave her a long hug. 'Hey, we told you, your life comes first. What would Chris do if you didn't return?' They were just happy that she had survived.
'I know, but I couldn't just run away again, I don't want to run away anymore, plus there is something strange about Kikei, I feel she got a part to play in this
'well she did save you, not sure how, but she so annoying and she—'
'NULL, what are you covered in!'
'oh..that'
Null quickly let go of Jania, he had only just realised he forgot to clean the vomit off of himself before hugging Jania. He looked for the nearest body of water and was able to channel a stream of water to all three of them. He gently washed himself and Jania down. He was less gentle with Kikei dousing her completely in water.
Kikei was sputtering "Oi, stop that! You have some serious problems you know"
Null couldn't help but smile.
A second will-o-wisp had come to join the first one. The new will-o-wisp was the spirit projection of the spirit dragon.
"Are we sure they are the one?" spirit dragons privately asked the other dragon.
"Yes, but they are developing much quicker than expected. Their powers have outpaced their maturity"
"It will be interesting to see if they can escape this now that the Immortal One has made a move. "
They were both worried, Pythia could never see the results of futures that involved the paragons especially their own paragon. This meant they had no inkling of what was about to happen.
The three humans were now clean and sitting down on the ground. Null and Infy had spent too much energy following the will-o-wisp, so were struggling to stay awake. Kikei had calmed down enough and had allowed the others to communicate with her mentally.
"Let's start again, I'm Kikei and I'm human, that is Jania she human and who and what are you?"
Null rolled his eyes "Wow, I would never know that is Jania"
"Little Bro, be nice"
"Okay, well I'm Null and I'm human..ish"
"and I'm Infinity, but you can call me Infy, I'm an Angel..ish"
Kikei didn't understand "Wait, there is two of you and your both ish?"
"It's complicated, they are the result of an experiment. 2 lives, 2 minds but only 1 soul. You don't need to know more at the moment." Answered Jania as the boys' had already fallen asleep.
Kikei wanted to know more, but could tell by the tone that more information wasn't coming, she also didn't realise how tired she was and fell asleep, Jania didn't last much longer and also fell asleep.
Null and Infy were the first to awaken, It was rare for Infy to sleep but they hadn't used up that much energy since they had started using true magic. It would take some time for them to recharge until then they had to be careful with casting spells.
They had sensed the presence of the two will-o-wisp so slowly made their way to them.
"Hi, who are you two? If we are right you are from the dragon race"
"Yes we are, but how did you know?"
"Your spirit projection has the same feel as Pamphilos, it is the only reason we ended up following you" answered Infy.
He continued "can we ask you a question, why does everyone want us dead? It can't just be because of true magic is it because we are an Alterra seed or something?"
"Who told you about being from an Alterra seed race?" asked the spirit of the planet.
"It was Pamphilos, the Primordial one wiped the memories from the rest of the party and then punished us for knowing." Null and Infy shivered at the memory of being completely overpowered.
"That would explain, a few things. We can explain some things but not everything as there is plenty we don't know. You need to be sure you want to know. This knowledge is dangerous."
"Yes we want to know", "Yes same here" they both answered so the dragons knew they both agreed.
"The universe is vast, we are talking millions upon millions of galaxies. Within the universe, there are a few races that have managed to take a hold of countless galaxies. One of those races is the Alterra Empire. The Alterrians have a unique way of conquering galaxies. They have seeded countless planets with life. We don't know the exact process but all the humanoid races are just deviations of this seed"
Infy was engrossed in the explanation. "So dwarfs, Elves and Humans are all Alterra seed races?"
"That is correct, being a seed race doesn't mean much except in the rare case when a seed sprouts and creates a true magi. You are the 7th seed to have sprouted. Each sprouted seed follows the same trajectory. They try to take over a galaxy in the name of the Alterra empire. We don't know how, but they seem to be corrupted by the empire."
"What happened to the other 6?"
"They became too powerful and dangerous. For the sake of the galaxy, they were killed by the 5 paragons working together. It is because of the risk of the Alterrian that the 5 faction system works.
This place both boys deep into their thoughts, many things had finally made sense.