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Chapter 5 - Arrival of the "Changeling"

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"Chirp! Chirp!" (birds are making noise)."

"Ding!" *

[SYSTEM] "Message!: [" Welcome!" User." we've arrived to our destination."]

The System's message was the first thing Maita, heard after gaining consiousness.

"Where am I ?," Wh_at happened?." Were the first words Maita said after he regained consciousness.

His memories are blurry, because of the unknown substance that he smelled after the capsule opened; the unknown substance contains a mixture of Benzodiazepines, and Carbon Monoxide, and other unknown substances. No wonder he suddenly fell unconscious, and his memories became blurry.

"Huff!" huff!" Maita's heart beat suddenly becomes faster, and was followed by a sudden headache as memories of what happened inside the white room suddenly flashed back in his mind."

"Oh!" right." "I am now in the new planet..." said Maita with a faint tone of melancholy.

Maita immediately observed his surrounding after having his memories back; he saw that there are trees everywhere, and he is currently sitting on purple- colour grasses, the leaves of the all the trees present there are also odd, they're all bright yellow in color, and they're bodies looks like chocolate. It's evening at that time, but it's a bit brighter compared to Earth's evening; maybe because, unlike sun, which is an orange star, the planet is located in a blue star system. The planet's name is Zxepyhr, and it's the seventh planet in the Styx Star system.

"System?" Maita mumbled."

[SYSTEM]:[Do you have any questions User Maita?]

"Yes" Maita replied back."

[SYSTEM]: "Just ask, User Maita; as long as it's in the scope of my knowledge I, am obliged to answer all the user's questions."

Maita is in deep thoughts for a minute, as if he's analyzing all the data he gathered on his observation, before he asks: "System!" How long has it been since I passed out? he asked with a serious expression on his face, looking forward to what the systems response would be.

[SYSTEM]: ["It's been exactly a thousand year, after the User entered the capsule."]

After hearing the System's response, Maita froze in his position, and his pure white eyes widened, followed by the increase in his heart beat rates." But Soon after he calmed down, purely because he had the reader's mind as his trait. If it's others, then they won't be as composed as Maita after learning about the information the system told him.

Even though that Maita already concluded the probability that they traveled for a long time, because of his analytical skills from observing his surroundings, especially the trees and other plants present in his location, he could tell that the New planet is not that new now because, if it's a newly created planet, the plants should have been bigger and the trees should have been taller, but of all the plants present there the one that caught his attention isn't a plant, but a mushroom underneath one of the trees, it's small and that evidence is enough proof to prove his suspicion. Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms. From around 420 to 350 million years ago, when land plants were still the relatively new kids on the evolutionary block and "the tallest trees stood just a few feet high," giant spires of life poked from Earth. Maita always paid attention to all of his Science subjects; that's why he is knowledgeable when it comes to the history of earth and the lifeforms within it.

Maita calmly laid down on the purple grass- bedding, while he again entered in his deep thoughts; he remained like that for exactly an hour before he snapped out, and stands right after."

"Oii! System; I, have a question!." said Maita to the System while looking at the wilderness.

[SYSTEM]: ["Please state your concern, I'll gladly respond to it, to the best of my ability."]

"You said earlier that we just traveled for a thousand year, right?." asked Maita with a serious look in his face.

[SYSTEM]: ["Yes, that's right!" system responded.]

"Then how can a newly created planet evolved this fast just after a thousand years? isn't that logically impossible? asked Maita, with a faint confused tone.

[SYSTEM]: "After 100 years of this world's creation, the developer used a divine artifact that speeds up time in this planet; it's to make this world catch-up with the otherworldly civilisations such as: Earth, Proxima b, and Planet X. Those are the only three planet that contains Humanoid life form in it ("Zxepyhr planet is excluded here"), especially the human race which is the most abundant in all humanoid races in all Four humanoid planets, except in the Planet X, because the human race there is in a brink of extinction due to some annoying Outers. But, 500 years ago the divine artifact that speeds up time was stopped, for the reason that the Zxepyhr's over all civilization have caught up with that of the Planet X. [the system explained some other small details to Maita; it continued for 2 hours and after that, it's already night time.]

"I see..." mumbled Maita. " I, now have a grasp to what happened..." he added.

[SYSTEM] Message!: The system strongly advice the user to seek refugee within 10 minutes, before the Wraiths parade begin...]

"Huh!?, Wraiths!?." Maita exclaimed; "if it is the Wraith that I know, this will be troublesome..."

Maita quickly asked the system where he may go to avoid the Wraiths parade, and the system immediately gave him a map of the forest they're at.

[SYSTEM]: "You may use this to go in an elf residence nearby; it's located near the front gate of the Elven village at this forest." but, first you need to change your appearance to that of a "Moon Elf."]

"How do I copy their features?." Maita asked the system."

[SYSTEM]: "Just think about how they looked-like and then, say 'Morph'."]

Maita followed the System's instructions, and he successfully changed his appearance to that of a Moon Elf. His pure white eyes turned blue in color, his hair didn't change much because, it's already a beautiful silver in color with a faint peach, so the only thing that changed is that the faint peach disappeared; his pale skin lighten up a bit added with icy blue hue, his ears turned long and pointy, and his lips colour became lively (kissable lips they say). He now looks like a cute petite Moon Elf. But of course he doesn't have a clue, for the reason that: he doesn't have a mirror to look upon; that's why he doesn't even know what his original form after his arrival look like up until now. Without much time to even confirm if he really succeeded in changing his appearance, he quickly runs to where the system advised him to go to.

"Huff! Huff!"(Maita panting) After five minutes of non-stop running, Maita is finally just inches away from his target location; after seeing the tree house in from of him, a smile appeared in Maita's face "Huff" Huff! "finally!" Exclaimed Maita while panting heavily; seeing that only five minutes passed, and he had already reached his destination Maita, decided to stop running and just walk normally because the house is now just ten steps away from his current location.

"Hey! System! what now?." Maita asked the system if he could just enter casually or if there is something he need to do if the house owner is inside."

[SYSTEM] Message!: [ Just knock on the door, and just ask them to let you in just until the Wraiths parade ends; don't worry, as long as you stay on your Elf form there won't be any problem; as you may not know: the Moon Elves are usually cold to other races but, they are very warm when it comes to their own kin."] System said, after reading Maita's worried expression.

The System grows fond to Maita, after being with him for a thousand year while traveling and passing through countless star systems; even though Maita was putted to a deep sleep, the system can still see the inside of Maita's dreams, and sometimes just observing his brains patterns that's why the System is the one who knows Maita more than anyone on that planet.

After hearing the System's explaination, Maita's mood lightened up as his worries dissipated as if it was just a smoke in a windy weather.

" Alright!" says Maita. " Here goes nothing!..." after saying those words he started walking towards the direction of the tree house, and after reaching the front door he knocked:

(knock!...)

(knock!...)

(knock!...)

On the other side of the door, the knocking could be heard by the four figures inside; all the four figures possessed one thing in common, and it's their silvery white hairs. Three (3) of them have pointy ears and the other one have a normal human ear, and he seems to be the Eldest person out of the four Elves inside the tree house; two of them are female while the other two are males.

after hearing the knocks, the younger looking male walks toward the door and stopped in the front of it.

"And, who might you be my friend?." he asked the unknown visitor on the other side of the door with a pleasing voice."

The elf already knew that the unknown figure behind the door is one of his kin, and that's because he had already used "sense" awhile ago, to confirm if the entity on the other side is an ally or a foe; and if it's the latter, then he wouldn't hesitate to burn him with "fire ball" the moment he open the door. But knowing that it's an ally, he then immediately dropped his guard and just wanted to know the person's name, and reason for visiting.

"Nothing much, really I'm just seeking refugee for the time being, for the reason that the Wraiths parade will start soon enough; just after a few minutes." Maita replied to the Elf.

Soon after Maita, gave his response to the one who've given him the question behind the 'oak door; the oak door opened, revealing a tall and handsome figure.

"Oh?." exclaimed the Moon elf who opened the door after seeing Maita's appearance. "I didn't expect you to be a youngster!; please come in" said the Moon Elf before he let Maita inside the house.