"Huh? The chosen one?" Orpheus blinked his eyes in confusion "What's that?"
"I prefer you call me Orpheus, but yes" Orpheus nodded.
"Which is?" Orpheus asked.
"So, what y'all are trying to say is, I'm the one you are meant to assist for whatever you are saying?" Orpheus asked again.
[I told you special]
"What... the... hell!" Orpheus yelled "That is absolutely impossible. Really, look at me. I'm a weakling and a late bloomer. I cannot even defeat a low-level junior magus in a fight."
"I cannot process this kind of information!" Orpheus yelled back at him "How can someone who just acquired abilities by luck be the Chosen one in some kind of prophecy?"
the tiger said.
[Look boy, I suggest you try hard to accept this no matter what. If not, you'll have to accept it the hard way in the future]
"How the hell am I... Fine!" Orpheus grunted in frustration "What am I now supposed to do after this?"
"You can ask the universe if you do not know how to do it. I have to finish my quest and return to the academy" Orpheus suggested.
"Well, it's for us to collect as many elemental cores as possible and return immediately."
"Not what I'm saying, but yes" Orpheus nodded.
"How did you..." Orpheus asked in surprise.
~Hey, you heard them, right? ~
[…]
~Hey! ~
[Huh? Oh sorry, I was just startled at how they found me out so easily]
~Whatever, do you know how to do it? ~
[Hmm, I think I still remember the process]
"Uh, he says he still remembers the process" Orpheus answered. "Why are you all in such a hurry?"
"He asks if any of you can draw an array" Orpheus said.
Immediately he asked the question, they all raised their limbs.
"How come you all know how to draw an array, but don't know how to perform the contract process?" Orpheus asked in surprise.
"A'ight, cool" Orpheus nodded ~Hey, what's the next step~
[Tell them to draw the array on your back and around you with their blood as the paint. Afterwards, they should direct their energy to the arrays with you at the center. As for you, direct the energy from the array to the one at your back. Then, the contraction should begin]
~How do I direct the energy? ~
[When the time comes, you'll know how. Just tell them what I said. Also, no one should stop the energy fusion halfway no matter what. If not, it will harm you]
~Okay~
[One more thing. Mind you, the process is a little bit painful. I suggest you sit in the lotus position during the energy fusion]
~Sure, thanks~
[You're welcome]
Orpheus relays Costas' instructions to the four beasts as they began the process immediately. A while later, Orpheus sits at the center of four arrays while the other four began to fuse their energies.
[Start fusing your energy with theirs now]
~Okay~ Orpheus nodded as he began following Costas' instruction.
Sometime after Orpheus began directing the energy, his face began to twist in pain as he grunts out loudly.
~Is this what you call a little bit painful? ~
[Sorry man, just endure it]
"Arrgghhh!" He yelled.
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Somewhere else on planet Elektra, seven boys are fighting a horde of horned bats.
"I told you all that we cannot fight these guys. Now look at what we've put ourselves into" Ignatios, a skinny boy yelled.
"Just keep on using ranged spells. We'll get rid of them very soon" Alex yelled.
"That's what you have been saying since. I thought we are meant to be looking for the late bloomer" Fotis yelled.
"Fine! run along then!" Alex yelled "I'm going to get a many elemental cores as I can and sell it. Soon, I'll be stronger than Marios and free myself."
"Die then!" the rest of the six boys ran away and left Alex alone with the bats.
"Wait for me! Those pieces of shits!" Alex cursed and ran after them.
*Screech*
Seeing, their preys trying to escape, the bats let out a loud screech and flew after them. While the boys were running, one of them tripped on a stone and fell down.
"Help me!" he shouted.
"Shit! Cleon is in trouble" Fotis yelled.
"Leave him. He'll save himself" Alex said without staring back.
"But if Mr. Stylianos asks, what will we say?" Ignatios asked.
"Feign ignorance!" Proteus, another boy yelled.
"Help!! Don't leave me here!" Cleon yelled, seeing the boys leaving him.
"I'm sorry man, but we have to save our own lives!" Alex yelled back.
"Damn you... Arrgghh!" the bats caught up with Cleon and immediately began to attack him.
"I see a cave ahead! Head for it!" Ignatios gestured at a cave far away as the boys ran towards it, ignoring the screams from their friend behind them.
"Damn you all! I swear, I get back at you all for this even if it's in the afterlife" Cleon yelled from a distance at the retreating back of the six boys.
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"Aarrgh!" Orpheus grunts out as he feels a sharp pain in his back.
The pain continues to grow rapidly as the temperature around Orpheus rose drastically to the point that the ground around him began to char. All of a sudden, his shirt begins to burn to ashes as a strong gust of wind began to blow, creating a wind vortex around him.
the tortoise said.
"Shit!" Orpheus cursed as his back began to throb uncontrollably in pain.
A while later after the wind began to blow, the clouds turned dark as lightning bolts began to flash around Orpheus. In the midst of the storm, his body began to emit a purple mist, making the area around him darker by a large margin.
Azure yelled.
the tortoise muttered.
[Orpheus!! You must stay conscious]
"I... I... I'm trying" Orpheus tried to ignore the pain.
"Aaarrgh!!" Orpheus shouts in pain again as the pain in his back increases. A kite shape begins to form gradually on his back with the drawing of the four guardian beasts at its corners with the White tiger at the top, Phoenix at the bottom and the dragon and Tortoise at each side. While the image was forming, the arrays around him begins to glow in different colors with respect to the elements of the four guardian beasts.
the tortoise yelled.
The storm around Orpheus intensifies along with the strange feeling the beasts felt. After a while, the storm subsides as the arrays drawn around disintegrated into tiny particles that merged into the drawing on the back of Orpheus with the four beasts nowhere to be seen. After the contracting had finished, the pain on his back subsides as he fell unconscious.
[Well, it was not meant to turn out like this. He really is special]
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A/N:
Names of the guardian beasts
Crimson --> Phoenix {A.K.A Vermilion Bird}
White -----> White Tiger
Azure------> Azure Dragon
Black ------> Black Tortoise
I decided to name them this because putting tortoise, tiger said is stressful. I'll start calling them this from now on