A/N:
Just a few more chapters guys and W1 will end! I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow so we'll finally end the mass release (am so drained from it QAQ, especially since i have other novels to take care of)~ and then breeze into W2!!!
Stick along!
***
Jerry thought about the last scene and felt a chill down his back, a World Orb? Only a person with a contract with a World spirit could have that! But why would a World spirit collude with Melissa? Was it even possible to collude with one?!
A World spirit was like the will that guides a world, many external beings sometimes infiltrate a world, changing things they shouldn’t, disrupting certain things, and causing problems as the orderly flow of energy becomes disorderly and as time goes on more and more things ends up piling up leading to a breakage in energy and possible destruction of the world.
That was why a World spirit existed, to maintain balance in a world, it had limitless control of the world's energy as it is deemed the world’s guardian and given enough power to do its work.
Such an existence was barely seen as they were like busy bees always working and never liked communicating with others.
So why? Why was a World spirit colluding with Melissa?! Most especially to kill off Jack?! Why the hell?!
Either way, it didn’t matter, the one thing he had to do now was- protect his master at all costs!!
With this resolution Jerry who had been in a daze suddenly opened his eyes, somehow he had been ejected from his memories everything was still normal, even a second hadn’t passed when recalling his memories to his relief and he was still stuck in the situation where Melissa’s tentacles where crashing down on him.
With a fierce glare from his glowing purple eyes that even the contacts he wore couldn’t hide, he glared at Melissa who felt that something changed in him.
Something in Jerry did change, at first, he was fighting Melissa because he had to but now he was doing it at a personal level! He will make sure to ruin Melissa’s entire plan as revenge for what he did to him Orinda and his master, Favela.
His lips parted, his eyes calmer than usual and his voice with more strength and vigor, he chanted-
“Cursed is my foe, who dared to stand before my front, proclaiming hurt against the master, has thy sense been obscured? Let the heavens be disgusted at thy fiendful revolution, but worry they not for by its divine will shall I punish this misfit, and with the raging blossoming of my floral, I command- ‘A Thousand Years of Blossoming!’ ”
Chanting.
The process of calling out power from the soul is unique to only a few races like dragons, wolfs, foxes, multi-tailed cats, and peacocks.
Of course, it had a limit to it as one was using their very draining soul energy so it was rarely used unless in a serious situation. Chanting didn’t require any fancy words like the ones Jerry said, all one needed to do was direct a strong emotional turbulence to one’s soul to activate it which was why it was a bit difficult to use if you’re in a jolly, ‘good’ mood.
This was mostly why words were used as an illusionary substitution to activate the abilities, it was like provoking yourself with words, provoking your inner being to feel emotions, it didn’t make sense if you were a normal human since words aren’t THAT influencing but for beasts whose emotions were easily influenced it was the perfect substitute.
So according to what one thinks walks for them, you can enter in any extra bullshit you wanted how you wanted. Which was what Jerry did.
The tentacles paused a bit as if stunned but then the monster whose features seemed to have been obscured all the while finally cleared up, the undistinguishable female’s face was still blurry but the feeling of rage it portrayed wasn’t.
A vicious female voice was heard dipped in unconcealed rage as it declared….or rather, tried to.
“He is not my…..AH!!!!!!!” Melissa screamed as tens and hundreds and thousands of flowers suddenly flourished from her entire tentacles, white, yellow, purple, pink, red, gold, every single color seen and ones only ever imagined.
More and more they came out, their petals dyed with the color of red, their petals shaded with the beautiful color of blood, each one of them seemingly calling unto the other as more appeared out of thin air within the desire to fertilize themselves with the quality nutrients derived from the tentacles.
It was a blood-chilling but beautiful sight, the sight of flowers growing from the now carcass of tortured tentacles, the end of these tentacles becoming the birthing of these lovely organisms, each one of these flowers blushed with the adoring color of scarlet,
The dormant sea dyed with the blood it never shed, the flowers matching the color of the sea sang in delight as it fluttered its wings, as for the reason it rejoiced, may it be the nourishing manure it had obtained or the wind which caressed it softly like a lover to his lover’s cheek, this was unknown.
Jean was oblivious of what he thought at such a sight, but he for sure knew how much he wanted to adore such an atrocious view, he felt that sinful apple of Eden in him desiring to imprint this view in his heart….but that was cut off by a heavy body crashing unto him.
***
[Meanwhile]
Elen’s eyes boiled with rage as the phone in her hands crumbled into a million pieces, Danison took her hands within his while patting her back, trying to calm her down.
“What did they say?” Danison asked calmly.
“The IAC, they….Jerry is fighting that monster and they’re using him to gauge its strength and weaknesses they’re using a family member of mine as a scapegoat! And just to shut me up, they threatened to sue me for my crime of hiding a Pure…” Elen explained in anger.
“A Pure?!” The assistant exclaimed in shock, that soft pink and white boy that always seem to have a dove-like aura around him was a Pure? Not an ancient?!
“Yes, apparently he just transformed and at the same time used strange powers so they’re trying to kill two birds with one stone, literally,” Elen said with gritted teeth. They were trying to take care of the two possible threats at the same time!
Of course, keeping Jerry for themselves would be good, but with how he was holding his own against that master wasn’t he a threat? His strength was too strange, his race was an extinct one, and using him as a stimulation to know how to deal with the monster was the best option.
As a disposable tool.
The boy she had sworn to protect and seen as an official family…HOW DARE THEY?!?!?!
“You don’t have to be too hard on yourself Elen, I’ll deal with….” Danison started but just then a car came from nowhere and suddenly crashed onto theirs sending their car somersaulting through the air.
Elen crawled out of the car covered with filth and scarce bruises that was instantly healing, she almost couldn’t believe it, they were willing to go to such length just to stop her, her body shivered with unknown emotions, it wasn’t fear, anger, or rage it was something….something more.
‘HoW dArE tHeY?!’
Elen thought as she laughed in what seemed to be suppressed rage, all she did know was that something in her was tingling, something was snapping and she was ready to let it go, to let that thing snap.
She was fine after all, they had made sure to keep that in check as a minor accident can’t kill an ancient talk more of a Half-Pure. But her assistant wasn’t and Danison….Danison….Danison….how dare they? H-how….how dare th….?!
Just when she was on the verge of losing her mind and all filter, someone hugged her from behind to her surprise.
Those smooth, beautiful arms, those slender, pretty nails, and that built body with a certain sickly paleness to it…it was Danison.
“I’m here Elly, I’m here for you, am fine….am fine…so please, please don’t lose your mind” Danison pleaded softly whilst leaning into Elen. His gentle voice softly caressed her ears significantly calming her nerves down.
“Yeah….you’re here! You're here Danison….am so happy! T-th-hik…th-aha-hik.....!” Elen wept as she raised her face upwards.
Was it relief? Was it happiness? Was it thankfulness? What was it? She didn’t know, all she did was that he had finally said it- that which she had wanted to hear for so long.
I’m here, and I truly exist.
Yes, I am here for you….no matter what.
I won’t leave you anymore- Just like before.
Elen brought down her face her eyes filled with a fiery life within and even though tears ran down her face it only made her look more vicious. She would make them pay, all these suckers, she would! And when she did they would never see it coming.
But first, they had to make sure that Charlie- her assistant was safe, they had to find her a hospital.
But there was a minor thing Elen had missed.
Around the world were panic and restlessness as people who had heard the tale and seen pictures of the monster shriveled in fear.
The Pures made an official statement that this was being dealt with by them but people were still scared and streets and places had been deserted with most people scooping up at home as for the unlucky homeless, they had either gone bat shit crazy and started crazily clamoring for protection or others just staying where they were without giving a damn.
Rita and the others had been convicted as the people who came head to head with the encounter, Drake was filled with guilt about leaving Jerry and was so worried about him that John had to slip a sleeping pill in his water to send him to sleep.
Rita was deathly worried about Jean and Jerry, she had managed to inform Miss. Elen but she was still worried, what if she couldn’t do anything? Jean and jerry would be in so much trouble…she bit her lips in exasperation, and having her phone confiscated worsened her anxiety as she couldn't contact them.
Darren as the main owner of the beach was going through various Q&A sections with the police and the other kids were just randomly held to prevent them from spilling the news and causing chaos, as for the video that managed to get out, the country heads had made an official message that it was fake and had deleted the video.
They had contacted a few other national big giants for help in case things went south with Jerry and he well, died.
Because of how dire the situation was, all activities were shut and all hospitals were closed down temporarily, Elen had no choice but to drive back home to drop Charlie off for treatment. All this while with nerves boiling, she felt like she was minutes away from losing it, Jean and Jack could be dead for all she knew now but here was she….
“Drive faster Danison!” Elen screamed.
“You have to calm down Elen, if I go any faster the car won’ handle this and it’ll be another issue on its own” Danison explained at which Elen groaned.
“Fine, let’s hurry a bit up at least, I’ve called a servant, he’ll come to pick her up soon so we don’t have to reach home,” Elen said.
But there was one thing that bothered them, the attack they suffered was minor, obviously meant to slow them down and not stop them which could only mean that- if they didn’t hurry, it might soon be too late.
‘I wish I still had Helen with me then maybe she’d help, ah shit’ Danison muttered.
He felt like everything was too weird, how can something of the caliber of a sea monster appear in this tiny world of his? He was sure it was ranked around C~D when he had checked. Unless the target was so powerful he changed the entire world rating, and by connecting a few dots he could guess that either Jerry, Jack, or Jean were the target or the Transmigrator.
‘I can’t face him if so…’ Danison thought because if he did it would spark a reaction, awakening the dormant world and putting him and the Transmigrator in serious trouble.
‘But…I will help Elly with all my heart!’ Danison exclaimed as he drove back in a hurry.
***
“We’re finally safe,” Jean said with an exhausted sigh.
While exiting with an asleep Jack just like Jerry had told him, he had controlled his drone to check out for any near place to rest, and fortunately, there seemed to be a shortcut that led out of the beach, he decided to temporarily rest with Jack before continuing and also, he was very worried about jerry and wasn’t sure if his heart would allow him to ditch him just like that.
He had sneakily put a video recorder around the area Jerry and the monster were, he at least wanted to see what exactly was going on but the waves of the fight somehow destroyed the recorder to his regret.
He was so confused, who exactly was Jerry? How did he know that monster? Why was the monster after him and Jack?! What exactly was going on?
“Forget it, this whole matter has crossed the limit of any hypothesis I can make up,” Jean said with a sigh.
“Also…when the hell did he fall asleep?” Jean thought with a black face at the peaceful Jack sleeping like a kitten
‘Your boyfriend is fighting a monster with his life on the line and here you’re sleeping….what a treasure you are’ Jean thought with sarcasm.
He wondered how the others were doing especially Rita, she was supposed to have called Elen but no news yet.
“We’re supposed to be planning on a double date with Jerry and Jack now, she had always said that if she ever entered a relationship that she’d do so,” Jean thought with a smile.
In truth, he had always liked Rita and knew she liked him back, she was the only friend he had ever managed to make in middle school due to his stiff attitude back then, and the first time they met wasn’t that memorable,
He had lost his phone during sports time and went on looking for it in class when he saw Rita sleeping in there which meant that she had skipped class, with the spirit of duty he had determined to threaten her to go to class or he would report to the teacher.
Who would have known that Rita was feverish, he ended up carrying her on his back to the clinic, and that was their first meeting.
After that, Rita bugged him for days for him to accept her gift which he finally accepted in annoyance, and then she started trying her luck with him, eating on the same chair with him, which was annoying since he was used to being a loner,
Having his seatmate switch seats with her just to sit with him in class, drawing cute chibi characters, mostly one with poker-face and smiley face which signified him and her, and then played a story with it on a notebook, showing it to him during class and essentially distracting him, forcing him into small conversations with her AND lots more.
Sooner or later, they became very close and by the end of middle school they had become besties, and now a couple.
After thinking it over, he couldn’t stop his conscience from beating him for being an ass to Rita even to the extent of manipulating her.
“If there is still a chance, I want to confess and officially apologize to her, I hope that she’d forgive me” Jean muttered to himself dryly.
Unfortunately, this event might never give him the chance and would most probably change his life forever.