"there,there he is." a familiar voice spoke
Running over to an unconscious Damon was Jolly along with spade, flash,steel and old man butcher. there was also a pink skin cute female with green hair and eyes with them.
."it's ok Javalin we got him." old man butcher spoke while picking Damon up throwing him over his shoulder after the pink skin female who was blossom checked his vitals. all of Damon's clothes were gone except the old cloak shield had given him. luckily it was big enough and long enough to cover his most valuable parts.
"flash check the area, whatever he was fighting could still be here." spade says calmly while looking around.
"hmmmmm the state these trees are in seems eerily familiar. I don't sense anything as well." spade thought to himself walking around a bit when he came up on a severed arm with bite marks and chunks of flesh missing from it.
" no, It can't be, but how, did it follow us through the gate port as well. no it must be something else I can't jump to conclusions." spade told himself.
moments later flash returned with a corpse over his shoulders. they all quickly assessed the situation again and again before immediately moving out.
Just before Damon lost control earlier shield decided to contact jolly for him to bring help. along the way shield informed jolly of everything that happened.
Jolly informed miss grey who asked spade to take someone with him to help find Damon after she explained what jolly had told her. old man butcher was with miss grey at that time preparing for the election for the new city head and decided to accompany them.
steel was helping jolly with a task sir Hughes spoke to him about before they left and insisted he come along as well.
Steel kept glancing at the naked female body flash was carrying as something was bothering him. it was the female's long green hair that had his attention. it was hard to identify her by facial features because most of her face was mangled and missing.
he decided to ignore the pulling and weird feeling in his gut until he noticed the severed arm flash had in one of his hands.
spade had given it to him to carry as well.
Steel stopped in his tracks as his eyes became fixated on a mark and indention that clearly told him a bracelet or some kind of band was previously on the severed arm.
"wait, where did you find the arm of that girl. it was spade who found the arm a few meters away from Damon. I found the body a good distance away from the area we just left." flash said responding to steel's question.
"spade I have to go back, can you show me where you found the arm. yes of course."
"wait that's twenty minutes back the other way." jolly spoke.
"It's fine, this will only take a second." spade said as he raised an arm opening a milky white portal.
this portal will take us back to that area, the rest of you wait here and we will return shortly." he said as they both entered.
"ok so that dude can make portals and crap, you have some special Healing ability jolly says pointing at blossom so what can you do." he said looking at flash.
"oh I'm just pretty fast, nothing too special." flash responded casually.
seconds later steel and spade was coming back through the portal. steel had a sorrowful look on his face as he walked up to flash placing his hand on the corpse of the woman. "forever family." he whispered with his eyes closed.
seeing this everyone looked amongst each other with unsure face expressions except old man butcher and spade.
" everything okay. jolly asked "this is my cousin,at first I wasn't sure until I saw her arm and as you can tell by looking at the imprint on her wrist there was something she wore, which was this." he said holding up a silver bracelet that had multiple short chains dangling from it leading to multiple silver circles with a small picture on each one.
looking at it there was a picture of steel, copper, his mother and father. all of them had green hair besides his dad which hair was black.
"she wore this no matter what, it was a gift from my mother that was given to her years ago when she was accepted by the awakened soul recruiters the last time they came. she had come to visit us days ago and left four hours before the attack on village city. my mother and father helped see her off as well by traveling with her a few miles away from the city."
"I was sure my mom and dad had made it back to the city before the attack but now I'm not sure at all." steel said.
"but it was dark, why travel at night especially a great distance like that. because of her ability. she had an interesting ability dealing with shadows and the absence of light. she was training to be an assassin of some kind and at night she could travel at great speed within the shadows and so most times that's how she traveled."
with steel explanation they all understood the situation better. Steel glanced at Damon's unconscious body while making a fist.
"Jolly, what exactly did Damon say he was fighting when he contacted you, ugh I don't he was talking too fast I only made out a few things along with his location." Jolly said
when shield contacted jolly even though steel was with him they weren't next to each other and so steel assumed they spoke over a link crystal but it was actually through the system and it wasn't Damon, it was shield that contacted Jolly which steel knew nothing about.
"listen Damon has the answers, answers we will only get when he wakes up. so I think it's best if we continue to move." old man butcher says.
"well shoot spade, you just opened a portal taking steel back to that creepy forest. can you just open another taking us back to the city." jolly asked.
"the distance is too vast, and I can only make a portal to places I've been to or see within a certain radius."
"ok well can't we just piggyback our way back until we are within rage of the city, I mean you know the way we came. you can just open portal after portal that's within the radius of your power backtracking the way we came until we are close enough right." jolly says telling and asking spade at the same time.
"yes I can but unless Damon or any of our life were on the line I believe it's foolish to exert that much energy that could be saved. you never know what you may need to be fully charged for. spade responded to Jolly respectfully.
"he's right jolly now let's move." old man butcher says once again.
with that they all moved out and around two hours later they were Crossing a high grass field entering beast free forest. Javalin was resting on Damon's back as old man butcher carried them both as if it was nothing.
old man butcher said nothing when entering the forest and just watched Javalin actions soon as they entered. "hmmmmm it appears the magic of beast free forest to keep beasts and beasts summons out has no affect on Damon's beast summon. could it all be connected somehow." old man butcher thought to himself.
usually a unbreakable invisible barrier would appear if a beast tried entering the forest and if a awakened soul tried summoning a beast while inside nothing would happen,but seeing that Javalin had no issues at all entering made old man butcher believe she was connected with the forest and the city in someway. he was right because in reality she was apart of shield and the forest and the city was shields creation.
old man butcher was the only one that noticed. the others mind were elsewhere especially steel's as he would look at the bracelet and his cousins dead body every few minutes.
now that all of them were residents of obsidian city they didn't have to hold on to Damon or Jolly to enter. they all could see the hidden entrances and come and go as they wished once outside of the dome that was covering the city. to exit the dome covering the city they would need permission from Damon or jolly or the dome would not create an opening for them to leave. They all found this out while waiting for jolly at one of the entrances inside the dome before they left to find Damon.
After entering the city old man butcher told them he would look after Damon until he woke up. Jolly knew old man butcher and Damon were kinda close and had no doubts that Damon would be ok in his hands especially after what Damon had told him about old man butcher.
flash gave the corpse of the girl to steel knowing it was his family after jolly told everyone a respectful way to send her off. flash went on ahead to the part of city where his people were stationed while jolly wrapped the body of the girl up in his vines to hide her from people that were on the city streets. he agreed to meet steel at the castle after he went and got copper.
"Mr. butcher, once Damon is awake could you please inform me, I have a few questions I would like to ask him concerning his recent troubles. oh and what type of questions are these." old man butcher asked responding to spades request.
Spade let out a slight sigh. "I see you're protective over Damon, very well can we talk over a few drinks, when you were setting up your shop I saw you with a box full of things including alky. with what I have to share I'm going to need that drink." spade says in which old man butcher nodded and began walking.