I did not expect that The Princess would actually run away from us. How did this happen under my nose? It's quite simple. The Princess told us that she's going to the toilet. The Prince and I waited outside but we soon realized that she was taking her time too long. It's more than 20 minutes and we figured something was not right. Out of my own volition, I decided to Pause the time and quickly check the ladies room and it looks like she wasn't there at all.
"She's gone." I told Prince Medley.
"How do you know that?"
I couldn't really tell him my ability in fact, he probably won't believe it. But I had to say something.
I ended up lying to him, "It's a special spell I learned a few months ago."
"I see." He nodded then quickly changed his pace, "But what now? Sonata is gone and this isn't going to give me any good image."
"I'll go get my leader and see if we can start searching for her."
"You guys better hurry it up." Prince Medley urges me so.
"What's the rush?" Suddenly an unfamiliar voice was heard.
A guy in red rags was approaching us.
"Who are you?" The Prince bravely asked the guy.
The unknown guy then replied, "You don't know me, but I know you, Prince."
"Prince?" As soon as I heard that I immediately pulled Prince Medley to stand behind me. "What do you want from him? Is this related to The Princess?"
He then laughed and shakes his head, "It's not like that. I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm not here for The Princess or The Prince. I just know him."
"Then what is it?" I urged him to tell his plan.
"As I said, this isn't related to whatever is going on with The Royalties that you are protecting right now. I'm looking for you, Cyclone White." He then crossed his arm.
To my surprise, I asked, "How do you know who am I? What do you want from me?"
"Oh...nothing much, White. In fact, you can give it to me now if you don't want to get yourself into more trouble."
"And that is?"
"Your life, that is!" He immediately ran toward me with a fist full of water energy.
I Paused the time just in time to react to what just happened. I pushed The Prince further back as I continued the time back and that's when I was able to dodge whatever the unknown guy was aiming to do at me. But as soon as I rolled myself out of the way, I was shocked to find out that I just stepped on some sort of a magic trap. It blows up but it wasn't shrapnel like any explosive that I experience before. It was a water bomb. Not just any splashing water bomb however. As soon as it blows up, it splashed at me normally. Except that the water was a mixture that made me unable to move.
"What the..." I struggled to move.
The guy then explained, "It's called Sticky Splash. An ability of mine that happens to coexist together with my water element mastery. It allows me to turn any water that I've touched become sticky. Now, you are slowing down thanks to that."
"You don't need to tell me the obvious." I try to be sassy to the situation.
"White! Are you alright?" The Prince was worried about me.
But then the unknown guy used his ability and threw a small parch of water to The Prince's mouth. The water then drenched and formed into a sticky pinkish gum. Prince Melody was silenced.
"I honestly don't like doing my job in the open..." The guy scratches his head.
Then I called at him, "Hey! Who are you exactly? Why do you want to kill me?"
"Kill you? Oh, I did say that." He slowly walked toward me, "I would kill you now but that's not what I was told."
"Who sent you?" I tried to waste some time. "Is it a Chaos Champion?"
He willingly answered, "I'll humor you for now...No. I don't know what is this Chaos Champion you are talking about, White. I am one of the four elite member of The Order of Stardust."
"Stardust?" That sounded too familiar.
"I am Aqua Liquid. Call me Liquid, and you have stolen something important from us."
"Stole? I never even know you guys." I told them so.
"Of course you don't know. That's because he handed it to you when he betrayed us!"
"He?" I wondered but there was only one answer for that... "My relative..."
"Yes. He is Cyclone Flash. He used to be one of the four elite member like I am. He is also the one that gave you that ability of yours to stop time!"
Months of wondering and here it was. I finally encounter with the ones responsible for my time stopping ability.
"Now stay right there and be a good boy..."
Just as Liquid was about to grab me, a sharp knife appeared out of nowhere. It alerted everyone including me. We looked at wherever the knife came from and saw two lovely girl fiercely looking at us.
"Hands away from White, whoever you are!" It was Diane.
"What kind of mess have you brought yourself here..." Lilith was with her as well.
Things was about to get messy as both Lilith and Diane was ready to fight.
TO BE CONTINUED