"Let's say, if you saw something too bright, what would you do?"
"Attack."
"And if the bright fought back?"
"Kill."
"Oh? Can you show me?"
By the snap of this guy's finger, bats began to open the room's windows, as soon as the blinds gets out of the way, a blinding light began to shine through the dark room.
*BOOM!*
"Very good..."
With the guy's trembling voice, he compliments the little girl who destroyed the room's wall. Because of her action, it caused for the light to enter the room even more, thus, making her tremble insanely.
"It's too fatal for you to be exposed to such a thing, let's go to another room."
After closing the girl's eyes with his palm, the guy gradually pulled the girl outside the room to avoid the light.
"Your Eyes can save the whole world from devastation. Amaya, rest for now, let's go to your room. Speak."
"Yes, Master Cecilio."
—
A day have passed after the team recovered from a long adventure. As Starlight opened the window she screamed.
"GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE!!!"
Everyone stopped what they're doing as they heard the scream, they looked where did the scream came from and saw a yellow haired girl in the hospital's window who's getting pulled back by a thing that seems to be Vlera's pan, the pan blocks her face as she get pulled by it and the window's blinds shuts.
...
"The Midnight Feather?"
"Yes."
Back from yesterday, when Vlera and Shaina was talking infront of Marco who's on recovery of his eye.
"You know that flower is no joke, yes?"
"We're very aware, that's why the flower became a must for the cure."
"May I ask, what's that 'cure' you're talking about?"
Vlera suddenly gazed at Marco in the means of being cautious to share the story behind his identity.
"Can I entrust my friend's secret to my best friend?"
"If you're comfortable... and will let him know."
Vlera rested her elbow on her legs and puts her head on her hand.
"Well..."
The story ended after half an hour, by the time being, Shaina was as concerned as she always does at everything she sees.
"That's... worrisome..."
"Could that story bring a permission to locate the flower?"
"Y-Yes... I would join you."
A smirk appeared to Vlera's face as she elaborates further.
"Great! So, where should we find the Flower? Is it in a hill? Is it difficult to climb? How hold would it take to get there?"
"W-W-Wait a minute, Vlera...!"
Because of her sudden burst of questions, it made Shaina to only have the choice to close her eyes and swing her hand.
"I'm going to answer all of it, okay??"
After taking deep breaths, Shaina finally spoke.
"It's in a cave... A very deep cave it is."
"Ohh, where is it?"
"It's somewhere not too far from village, it's name was...
The Forbidden Depths."
—
10AM
100 meters from Violet-Lumen Village
"That's... dark..."
Birds flew high up as they passed a cave surrounded with an unknown violet aura. The floor was rock, making it look like a mountain. The cave's entrance sits in the middle of the forest — the same forest Vlera, Marco, and Starlight came from.
"I knew you would say that, you came from this forest, right?"
With Marco and Starlight, Vlera came to the cave along with Shaina. Marco got an eye patch to his right eye due to yesterday's events, as of now, he was recovering from the damage. For Starlight, she has been as bright as ever with her two twin sisters, Re and Blu. Vlera turned her vision to Shaina and spoke.
"Yeah, we came from here, but we never stumbled upon this cave."
"I see."
Shaina led the way through the entrance, for the first minute of exploring the cave, the light was already gone. With Vlera being as alert and observing as always, her friend Shaina was doing the opposite.
"Ah... Are there monsters...? Don't kill me, please..."
She was trembling as she walks besides Vlera. Marco found something at the distance.
"Uhh, guys? Can you check what is this?"
!!!
"KYAAAA!!!"
*CLANG!!!*
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO HER, MARCO?!?!"
By tapping her shoulder, Marco startled Shaina that made her scream to the max, it made Starlight's ear in pain, but not as painful as Vlera's pan to Marco's face.
"Oww! What's that for?!"
"Can't you see? You scared her!"
Their shouts made echoes through the whole cave, as Starlight listened to the echoes that she first heard after forming as a human, she activated her echolocation without noticing.
"Oh?!"
Everyone stopped what they're doing as Starlight gasped all of a sudden, her sudden idea light up a bulb in her head. And by imagery, no, it's physical, her hair can glow.
"What? You can make your hair glow?"
...
Minutes after the two argued, they were following Starlight who has been their only source of light because of her hair. Because of her sudden ability over echolocation, she noticed a strange entity in the far distance because of their shouts, everyone agreed to check the entity and Starlight began to walk.
"Seriously, Starlight, how can your hair glow but not us?"
"I don't know, Blu, it also surprised me when it glowed!"
Blu kept brushing her big sister's glowing hair, she seemed to be jealous of her sister.
"Can you take this mission seriously, Starlight?"
"Relax, Vlera, Re's around us looking for that entity!"
As Starlight said, not only was Blu got out of her body, but Re as well, Starlight told her to locate the entity she sensed. They were walking in a straight cave until an explosion occured.
*Boom!*
Everyone got on their guards, especially Shaina who seems to knew the reason behind the explosion.
"S-Star...light, I think... you have to call your little sister..."
"Why?"
Right after she asked about Shaina's words, Re flew behind her and hit a rock.
"Re!"
Marco ran towards Re.
"What's wrong? What made you this?"
Re immediately pointed something in the darkness where she came from, because of the darkness, Marco didn't got to understand what she meant until it's eyes began to glow.
"Hihhh! Run!"
Marco immediately lifted Re and ran for safety, he yelled at the others.
"Vlera! There's a monster here!"
Right after shouting, Shaina in the distance ran and tapped Vlera's shoulder inviting her to go with her. Vlera nodded and ran towards Marco's destination and went passed him. Vlera and Shaina turned right from where Re came from and saw the monster with it's eyes glowing high in height. The darkness completely covered the monster's appearance but Shaina was confident to dive in as a native of the place.
"Red eyes, huh? Vlera, follow where I go."
Vlera nodded. Shaina ran towards the monster and jumped high in the monster's head. Vlera came to jump next and grabbed her hand, but out of a sudden, Shaina threw her even deeper from the cave that they just went, she got thrown so far behind the monster.
"Vlera! This monster has a tail! Cut it's tail at the very end of this path!"
Vlera ran towards the end of the monster's tail without hesitation while Shaina tried to stop the monster from stopping her.
"Ugh...! This monster... it's too strong...!"
As the monster keeps reaching her from it's head, Shaina kept kicking it by pure strength alone.
"Hngh! But don't stop! Give me all your attention!"
Shaina gabbed a knife out of her pocket and stabbed the monster's head.
*Shak!*
"AHHH!"
The monster screamed in pain, Shaina started to give a smug on her face.
"Heh, serves you right."
She let her guard down, before she even knew, the monster's hand caught her.
"Oh."
*Baggg!*
Like Re, Shaina flew a considerable meters before hitting a rock.
"Make sure to aid her, okay, Starlight?"
"Yes."
Marco was minding Re before he found out that Shaina got thrown as well, he ran immediately towards her.
"Are you okay?!"
"The monster... please take care of it for me..."
She was late, before she even gave Marco the word, the monster's hand was already infront of them ready to crush them down. The monster was about to crush them until a sudden cut from it's brain occured.
"Hrm?"
The monster even wondered what could that feeling be until it began to melt, Vlera successfully cut the monster's tail that leads to it's main brain.
"Did she... made it?"
The monster began to melt until it completely evaporated in the air, tear began to crawl in her face, not because of happiness, but of fear.
"Light... Light..."
The fight ended because of their fast movements, with that in place, Vlera killed the monster after Shaina and Re got thrown by it and hit a rock. Blu was on aid of her sister, and for Starlight...
"Light... Light...!"
The glow of her hair never fades as she trembles of what have happened to Re, and she was unaware... someone was behind her...
*BOOM!*
With the second explosion, it took everyone's attention. As Marco leaned at the direction of the explosion, he realized the sudden fact...
The Light Was Gone.
— End of Starl- Chapter 26