*Cera PoV*
Hello, is anyone there? Glad if there is.
First of all about this section, to put it in one short notice, the 'Writer' can't accompanied you for story telling this time. However don't be sad, the 'Writer' will soon return.
The cause are...Could be connected with 'Writer' condition who put a lot of information into my head, or because of the 'Writer' who directly interfering with this 'story'.
Since the 'Writer' is the one who has the authority upon this story and also the one who told the flow, I supposed he's some kind of omnipotent being of sort, but to think it has come to this...
Anyway, this is a place called the 'Void'. The place where I stood and also the place where those pest that I have said before invaded.
For now let me tell you about another story about me, I apologize to hear your disappointment. Since that 'Writer' could also changed the draft, so let me just get on with it and told you about this 'Side Story', Stranger.
Oh yeah, in case some of you forgot about me, my name is Cera
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Zeimachi was always and will yearn for something that he couldn't reach. That thing which couldn't be reached by his own hand no matter how hard he struggled.
At the beginning of our time I'm nothing more than another spectator like others, but this time I'm not. I'm not really sure about what's going on either, but I know much about this 'Story' and the 'Writer'.
How the original works and then how its supposed to end, neither are important. In this world of sentences, I'm nothing but a speck of dirt. I've always prepared to face my end, but not the same to see how his journey will end.
'Stranger', for you this is just another futile and meaningless effort to put a mark of my existence. I'll agree with you for that.
But the thing is...Who cares? The words has already been written after all.
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Let me tell you about one of my Valentine day. The day where I deliver chocolate to others so I can watch them eat it up with fulfillment.
The 'World' that works in the 'Void' are kinda bit different than how a 'World' supposed to be. But the thing is, I can also enter those 'World' and sometimes took my holiday from watching his spotlight.
This is the world that has been created from his 'Copy', so I could do anything since it wouldn't effect the original. Zeimachi could noticed it if I'm not careful enough, so I just 'Copy' things that are fine or already discussed with him.
This is my story when I was at Zinkestill, one of floating island housed by many strong skydwellers.
What was it now...About this little red dragon yeah. The first one is this little red dragon, Vyrn. I like his loyalty to his partner. Especially to those two who have no parents since they're kid. When I stood up and looked at the young man's back, the snoring sound of this little dragon filled my waiting.
I could see that youth, Gran who was also doing his best by training in this place. Looking at how he's right now, he's like a sixteen years old with a bright soul for his dream. That youth who put his focus in his sword sometimes wiped his sweat by using his blue shirt beneath those light armor.
Leaving his partner to learning the way of the sword, this little red dragon can be found sleeping soundly on top of a branches with an apple on its belly. Although I could poke this Vyrn to wake him up, seeing this little creature's comfortable face made me hold back the urge.
Its a really nice place to have a picnic and laze around all day in the nature where trees and sunlight balanced with each other accompanied with cold, dark shade of those trees.
Looking at this training ground, it was the area used by them whenever they trained in the forest. There're less monsters because of villagers who also act as the hunter in this forest, though there's also a mysterious blessing that coated this island.
I know it because it's not my first time in this place, as for how, don't expect me to tell you about it. There's a good reason for this, that was his story in the past before he created his crew and the him right now has already went far beyond that.
So there's no need to dwell into my past.
"Got you!!!"
While standing idly by the side of a tree, I could hear rustling behind the bushes so I thought of them as little monsters curiously passing by, but to think how wrong I was.
"Wh-whaaaa??!!"
"What happ-ouch!"
My voice is not the best, but still good nonetheless. Well...Even then, hearing the screams of a girl in this forest alone might not be too pleasant to hear.
Even though Gran was a formidable warrior right now, he was still able to trip over his feet and knocked his head at that dummy. As for Vyrn, the little red dragon was only slightly surprised and dropped the apple along with himself from the branch where he was sleeping.
Thankfully he could fly.
"Hehehe, how do you think Cera-nee? Even I could surprise you again this year."
From my back emerged a girl similar to Gran and wearing a pink dress with a sword behind her hips. She jumped on my back and drape her arms around my neck cheerfully like how a high schooler girl is.
However I pulled the perpetrator ear's after she make me letting out embarrassed sound as the older one. It doesn't matter how old I am, what important is this girl who dared enough to repeat this shocking experiences every year.
"Ow ow ow,s-stop Cera-nee a-ahahaha stop it."
Her name is Djeeta, a beautiful and bright teenager and also Gran's twins. Gran took the eldest spot, so she could also be called as his little sister of him, it's too sad she wouldn't accept that since she's only a few seconds late.
Even if she looks innocent and harmless, as a singularity of this 'World' her strength should not be underestimated. Not only a muscle strength, but also the ridiculous power involved with their fate.
When Gran almost died from the hit he took for Lyria, the girl in blue intended to save him by using her life link. However, because Gran's soul already linked to Djeeta as his twins, Lyria also linked her soul to Djeeta and made the three of them bounded.
And thus the two 'Singularities' were born. At least that's about their conflict-ridden birth, I won't say much because lore is a complicated thing for the 'Writer' to think about.
She looks happy even though I pulled her ears, maybe there's some screws loose in her head. At first I thought she was so eager to see me again after all this time, yet how wrong I'm to find the glint in her mischievous eyes for the second time.
"Chance! Counter!"
She move both of her hands to my waist and execute her numerous flurry strike on her full power. Kidding, she just tickle me furiously till I couldn't stand up anymore. Even though I said to her to stop, Djeeta didn't stopped until the other two reached us.
"Is she gonna be alright? Nee-chan looks bad with all her panting."
"You overdone it Djeeta, are you alright Cera-san."
Gran and Vyrn who have reached this place tried to lend me a hand so I could stand on my ground, they also helped me from Djeeta so I felt very thankful at this gentleman and gentle-dragon.
"Waittttt! Both of you Gran, Vyrn. You two can go back first to Grandcypher. I'll help Cera-nee and get her to the ship."
Very unlucky for me, the hand that I grabbed is not Gran's but Djeeta's instead. Apparently, she wanted to escort me to their air ship with her expectant look.
"Then we'll also help you out. It's not hard for me to help Cera-san to Grandcypher so we can go to ship together."
Unfortunately, it seems like their relationship is not as healthy as I thought. They keep arguing about who can what, while leaving me behind as if they have forgot about my existence. Could it be Gran has become a dense MF while Djeeta is a hero-like tomboy?
"Noo.... I'll bring her and why you think I can't bring her?!"
"Wa-wait it's not like that, what I mean is to help you bring her to the airship and that way all four of us can walk together to the ship."
Realizing about how long their banter won't going to end soon, I decided to walk away to the town while not minding about those two. Vyrn often bearing this responsibility, so I called him to join me towards the village's market.
"Me alone is enough to bring Cera-nee and I don't need your help *look away*."
Djeeta looked away with a pout which made Gran lost his abilities to fight back.
"Okay...But I think first you should chase after them, we're pretty far from their back."
"Eh?! Wait, don't just leave me here Cera-nee!"
Leaving those two away into the village, I can feel my time flown really fast in this world. Along with those twin and Vyrn, I continued my holiday with giving chocolate to other members of their crew.
Now that I think about it, whenever Zeimachi talked about Granblue he always telling me how cute Yggdrasil is and also how he wanted her poster for his collection book. Maybe I should've take one picture from her, and also some genuine painting of that world tree.
My vacation continues when Gran and Djeeta take me on their trip for the ingredients to make chocolate. Just like how a main character they're, there're hurdle and encounters that leads them to amusing scene together with their crew member.
There's also that time when we already precured our ingredients and returned back to the ship to find out if there's more special guest awaiting Gran's and Djeeta's arrival. Not only Archangels and such, there's also a great old knight, sword saint, and even primal beast.
Well, I already knew some of them but there's also some new face that I barely know. So I decided to greet the new people as a traveler passing by in search of my other twin.
It's very funny every time Gran and Djeeta solved the misunderstanding for me. Not like they'll leave me alone though, those two dragged me into their small reunion and shared our tale together on the ship till time has passed and changed into a new day.
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*Omake*
As expected, it's not enough to end like that. SO, I asked the 'Writer' in case there's another revision of this section and I guessed it right.
In this section there's less action-heavy plot involved from the 'story'. So basically it's about cute and idiot things only, sometimes it'll just be a small corner at the last page though so it could be easily forgotten.
Oh, and since I'm still in charge of this section, I'll be the narrator this time.
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Once upon a time, there live a pitiful Orca who dream to be able to sing. The Orca who always wanted to sing brought a harp from the ocean and pick its string by using her fin. However it's really sad to found out if that Orca couldn't done it.
During a certain storm, the Orca who can't find the meaning of her life becomes increasingly depressed and leaves her family to find a way to sing.
That Orca found many creature that promised if they'll grant what it wanted, unfortunately for the Orca, they were nothing more than a swindler who wanted the power within the fish's body. Even so, the Orca travelled her way to many different water in the world.
Because of her journey in the ocean, the Orca becoming well known as the 'fish who dream as a bird' because of her courage and resolve to find the way for her to sing.
Halfway through her journey, a whirlpool appeared before her and informed the Orca that the tone she was looking for was not the same tone she would get in her fish form.
So the Orca asked the whirlpool what she had to do in order to hear the tune or song she was looking for. But not only did the whirlpool tell her to leave, it also created a huge vortex that engulfed the orca so that it would stop dreaming of meaningless things and return to being normal.
Surprisingly, the whirlpool was apparently trying to help the Orca to find her true purpose by acting cold. But the Orca who was swallowed by the vortex couldn't understand why it was doing this, she lost her consciousness and everything faded away.
"So...That Orca is me?"
"Shhh Singer! The story is not finished yet!"
The Orca got washed away by strong current and woke up in an unknown place. A place that turned out to be a human settlement where everything is alien for her.
"...I see, so it's a story of a lost child who know nothing about the world."
"Captain, why're you here?"
"Killing my time."
The orca that caught the attention of humans was immediately dragged to a fisherman and ready to be dissected as fresh meat, or that was how it's supposed to be.
The Orca who resisted her assailant then destroy the fisherman's house along with him inside of it. That fish then fluttered its tail and fin only to be stabbed by a harpoon of another fisherman that arrived to kill her.
"No! Don't kill the Orca! What a vile act you have done?!"
Thankfully, there appeared a young and naïve inquisitor who arrived to protect that Orca from being slain.
"Yes! Uhh...Could you at least remove the naïve part?"
That young and naïve inquisitor then asked those fisherman to release that Orca back to the ocean, only to find out if there's a huge famine that befall them.
If they release the Orca to the ocean then they'll lost the only source of food, yet if they didn't then they'll oppose the young and naïve inquisitor's order.
Taking this chance to runs away, that Orca flapped it's huge body to touch the sea water. It keeps flapping and jumping until one inch from her freedom.
"Then it got killed, the end. It's a good story for a bed time."
"Ehhh?!"
"Uhh...*Sigh* Just what's wrong with you Ægir."
"You destroyed their time."
There's four people in front of a magical book filled with fairy tales, this book was filled with many tales that have a resemblances to its founder. Since Skadi was the one who founds it, so this is a story about an Orca.
"To be able to read such future is what a hunter should do Skadi, you couldn't read your partner movement without it either."
"Alright that's it, no more messing around now you Ægirs. How about you? Do you want to stay here?"
It also has an automatic text-to-speech feature so they don't have to read it aloud and just put the book somewhere to let it speak. It's my voice obviously.
"I do, Singer still haven't told me about more of her song."
"...Do as you wish."
That's how it'll be. Now then, I've passed my word limit given from 'Writer', so bye bye.