Part-III The strange Voice
As I reached the blast site, I found Aeric lying on the ground.
Despair settled over me when I saw him like that, 'Am I not good enough to even keep a promise?!, how can I let this happen! how can I now ever look at miss Resa's eyes now?' , all of these thoughts flooded my mind as I made my way towards Aeric who was still lying on the ground .
*Rose whose face was ashen with fear made her way towards Aeric, as she got near him she was overwhelmed with joy when she found out that he was just unconscious, but no one could have ever imagined what Aeric just witness and what he was about to witness*
Aeric Rifold POV:
"Finally after hundreds of years of this endless Solitude I've found someone..." , an empty voice stated as I opened my eyes to find myself inside of something like a Red Water as if I was inside a deep ocean but I can breath , "who are you" I asked still oblivious to the situation at hand and now with more trouble.
"Who am I ? ... I wonder that myself , who or what am I ? ..... but I know of one thing that only after someone enters this crimson ocean of solitude , I can pass on and thanks to you now I can freely pass on . Make sure young boy that now you are having the potential which allows you to get as stronger as your resolve goes on to be.. and If you find something with deep desire on which you can commit entirely on we shall then meet again.
" Waaait what do you mean ?!! resolve? stronger? desire? ... can you please explain ???" I asked with a gasp ,I mean he just dumped awful lot of information and I don't have a slightest clue of what he meant?
"Ah, apologies.... , I guess you are too young to understand what I am saying . Young boy can you tell me how old you are"
" I'm of whole 7 years, Aeric Rifold ! surely would've heard of me the future strongest of the entire multiverse! heh" I exclaimed with a smug....
There was a momentary pause before the voice went on to burst in laughter .." hahahaha! ... what a amusing child hahahaha! so tell me 'the future strongest of the entire multiverse' are you really a 'Rifold'?...."
"yeah , is there any problem with that?" this time the voice tone changed like it was getting farther but still audible but this time I heard it clearly without any problem..
"If so then ,that's reassuring ... so until we meet again make yourself mentally and physically strong because the way you are right now , not even in a million years you can even become the strongest in your universe itself . Ah I guess I spent longer than I should have , well then farewell young Rifold."
"Wait! WAIT!!---"
*clang-click-clang*
"wai-" I woke up , and found myself on the tree bark where I was sleeping before.' So It was all just a dream', suddenly, Rose suddenly appears out of no where and squeezed me tightly,
"I'm so Glad that you are alright Aeric , you seriously worried me."
I pushed her and asked "Hey ! do you want to choke me to death , what's up with you, what happened?"
"What happened, big words coming from you, it's me who should be one to ask what happened last night?"
"Ah... so all of that was real," I mused, realizing the gravity of the situation. I explained everything to her, except for the part where the strange voice had mentioned anything regarding powers. Revealing that detail might cause her to worry for me.
"So you're telling me that a weird leaf called out to you, and when you touched it, the leaf exploded, then a strange voice starts bullying and mocking you?"
with a reddened face I replied," yes..."
"Hehehaahaha," she chuckled, then burst into laughter. After wiping away a tear of laughter, she said, "Seriously, you are like a mirror image of your mother and just the polar opposite of your brother..."
"yeah -yeah , so how's work on your mobile going on ,Are we ever gonna leave this planet?"
"Hey , chill out , besides I have a good news and a bad news."
"just tell me both"
She turned away, taking a few steps before pointing towards her space mobile. "It's fully repaired!" she exclaimed. "The damage was minor, and we'll launch off in two hours from now. As for Melody, she's currently sleeping inside."
"And the bad news?" She gave me a narrow look, covering her nose as she said, "You stink. What exactly was that leaf made of? , well I spotted two waterfall during the landing, one is to the east from here and other one is west, the east is more open so it can be dangerous so I'll take the east one you can take the west one ,let's wash up and meet here in an hour, if it's alright with you."
"Yeah it's fine..."
We went to our opposite ends to wash ourselves, as I reached the waterfall, I was stunned to see such a marvelous scenery , the water was just as clear as it was in the river. The gentle descent of water from the mid-low height , the water was perfectly warm , it was in the best condition to take a bath, then the question struck my mind :
"Aside from randomly exploding leaf , it's such a nice place , it can even sustain life then why no one lives here?"
With the same question in my mind, I removed my t-shirt, only to notice bruises scattered across my chest. It was a result of the explosion, neither severe nor likely to last more than a week at most. Oddly enough, my clothes remained in perfectly fine condition...
"Argh...!! all this thinking is going to kill me!" I growled in frustration. "I'm still only seven years old, just give me a break!"
I then decided not to pay attention to anything on this planet or else I'll surely die due to thinking too hard, and started to concentrate on my bath.
after a while I returned , my hair all wet, I returned to the landing site , I was almost 10 minutes late , still I don't see Rose anywhere.
I sat the chair besides the couch where Melody was sleeping ,"Is she late.. geez girls take way too long to bath ,at least you aren't gonna be like that right melody."
My three year old sister tried to speak ""Big brubha, where mommy and daddy go?" , her saying this brought my mind back to the situation we're in, "Don't worry we'll meet mom and dad pretty soon", I assured her, though my heart felt an sudden ache when I said it, it's probably because even I want to know that myself. When I somehow gotten melody to sleep yet again I heard a blast.
*boom* there was a explosion from the east , just near the place where rose mentioned a waterfall.
"Ah , please don't tell me that it's another exploding leaf... "
I ran towards the blast site where I found Rose fighting with a creature with humanoid form with sleek, obsidian-black skin that seems to absorb the surrounding light, head is sharply angular, almost helmet-like, with no discernible facial features except for a faint, eerie glow where eyes might be.
"Rose!" I shouted hoping that she heard me , she looked at my direction and gave me a smirk ,she positioned her blade in a offensive angle and said "flower style sword skill , petal slash" ,her blade was covered with very rapidly spinning particles which looked like petals, she dashed towards that creature and slashes right through his abdomen , the creature disintegrated into dark particles as it vanishes.
She gave me a smirk as she said with a surprisingly calm reaction "Don't tell me you think I was gonna loose to a medium tier Umbranik?"
To be Continued....