Kahiro and Senya…
" Kahiro we must go search for Keya sooner or later, we can't stay in here forever" Senya said.
" We don't even know where we are, we can't go on a search like this" Kahiro replied.
" Also, Keya might be searching for us already so all we have to do is stay still and wait for her."
When I woke up I saw Kahiro unconscious besides me, I woke him up and we immediately started trying to find out what happened. The last thing we both remember is people collapsing on the airplane. Anyway, we found ourselves in a field of cobs, as we searched around for Keya or any other passenger we noticed a cave and i thought it would be a good idea to rest there and wait for everyone else to find us.
Back to Keya…
As we walked towards the cave we saw a demon-like person with wings flying towards the village.
"That could only mean bad news" the old man said.
"Who and what is that person" I asked the old man.
" It looked like a demonic seraph, the myths say they are unbelievably strong creatures who seek destruction by their nature, I must hurry back, my people are in danger. You should continue alone, the cave is straight up ahead." The old man said as he ran back to the village.
I was too close to turn back so I continued alone, when I reached the cave and saw Kahiro and Senya were fine I felt so relieved.
"Senya, Kahiro, Hi" I shout out to them while sobbing.
"Keya, there you are" Kahiro replied.
"Keya, what is happening? Where is the rest of the passengers, where is the airplane and where are we?" Senya said.
I then started explaining what happened to me and what I learned throughout the day. Not that it was easy to explain but both Kahiro and Senya took everything calmly.
"Now that u have caught up we should head back to the village before it gets dark guys, people there will help us find out what happened to us, also I am a little worried about the demon we saw, the old man seemed terrified." I said.
We then left the cave to head over to the village.
Once we came into a point of view where we could see the village everything seemed normal.
little did we know what awaited us…
When we reached the village we saw blood trails everywhere, I hurried to the old man's place just to find him sitting down on the floor with his back turned on me.
"What happened here? Where is everyone? Are u alright old man?" I said.
I got no responses, so I reached out to touch him, he then fell to the ground, his face was pale and his veins looked black.
"Old man are you ok?" I shout.
But it was too late. The old man was already dead.
Senya also entered the tent.
"Keya something is strange, there are clothes where there are blood trails. Its like people got compressed into thin air." Senya said.
How could that be possible I wondered, in what terrific world did we get sent to?
I tried to channel the remaining Ki in old man's body to use the apprehension technique so I could find out what happened, but as his Ki was fading away the only thing I could see were small glimpses.
"Everyone around me gets struggled into thin air, I can't, it HURTS." I screamed.
At that moment I relived the last moments of old man's memories. I felt his feelings and his pain.
Senya tried to calm me down.
"Your tears, they look black Keya, what is wrong?" Senya asked me.
"Let's leave this place, I want to leave immediately" I replied.
As we walked out the tent I looked around and saw Niro's clothes covered in blood.
"Even a helpless small kid?" I whispered.
When we got out of the tent we started running away from the village and once we reached a fair distance from the village I looked back to it.
"Goodbye Niro, Goodbye old man, goodbye kind people, I hope to see you again" I thought.
I didn't get to know them for long but for the first time I felt that I met a bunch of truly kind people. They didn't deserve whatever happened to them.
…
We ran back to the cave so we could pass the night, it was the safest place we knew at that time.
Previously while me and Senya were in the tent Kahiro grabbed whatever seemed useful like food and water.
"We should keep some for tomorrow, let's cut everything in half." Kahiro said.
I didn't sleep at all that night.
I went outside the cave for a bit and looked at the moon.
"You can't sleep?" I heard Senya say from behind me.
" No, I can't, when we were in the tent I used my apprehension technique to dive into old man's memories. I still repeatedly see these glimpses in my head." I replied with a calm voice.
"Hope I could help you with that, but I can't, I still can't believe this is all happening, it feels like we are trapped in a nightmare." Senya said.
"Our world wasn't better than this one Senya, the people I met here felt connected and kind to each other. In our world people live like parasites, trying to survive at the expense of others." I replied.
"You should go get some rest, I will stay here a little longer" I continued.
Senya hugged me from behind and said "I know, but it's the world we were born in, we shouldn't reject that my sweet Keya."
She then went inside again.
"What a calming breeze, what a calm night" I whispered as I looked at the sky.
..
The next day we took off, we walked the opposite direction of the village.
After walking for some time we found a city in ruins. Kahiro found us a somewhat safe building so we could pass the night and thus the rest of the day went smoothly.
That night I managed to sleep for some time, not much, but it helped me regain some of my energy.
….
Senya:
That night in the ruined city someone talked to me in my dreams. When I woke up I didn't remember what they said but I was sure I saw someone talking to me.
"Kahiro, Keya wake up. We got to go find something edible to eat" I said.
"Keya I know that you are tired but we got to continue if we want to find help" I continued.
"Good morning" Kahiro said
"We should head out as soon as possible, so we can take advantage of the whole daytime" I said
"Something looks weird on you" Keya said when she opened her eyes and looked at me.
"Keya there is no time for fooling around with me right now, get up, let's go" I replied.
We left the village soon after we ate the remaining food we had. During the journey we saw many plant and animal species that didn't exist back on earth, although there still were some that existed on earth too.
After walking in a forest for half the day we finally found a road, which of course we followed. It led us to a small wooden house and outside of it we saw gardening tools.
"Someone might be here" Kahiro said
"let's hurry there" I said
When we knocked the door we heard a voice saying something that we couldn't understand.
"We can't communicate without the natural communication technique" Keya said
An old woman opened the door, she kept talking but we didn't understand a thing.
"Let me use the technique of apprehension, it might help somehow" Keya said.
Keya tried to use it with no signal of it activating.
Keya looked around as she said.
"I need more Ki"
Then the old lady who seemed to know what was happening touched Keya to channel her Ki in her.
Me and Kahiro touched her too.
We heard a voice in our heads saying that Keya now had acquired and shared with us the natural communication technique through the apprehension technique.
The old lady took her hand off and so did Kahiro but at that moment I couldn't move mine, it felt like something was holding my hand on Keya.
"Keya what is happening, I can't take my hand off of you"
"I don't know, I see my Ki levels rising too high"
Keya then looked at me and said:
"Your Ki levels are vastly bigger than mine, why do you have that much Ki"
At that moment I heard a voice saying "Pact with me, if you want you and your friends to survive, pact with me."
All of the sudden Keya collapsed and at that time I was able to take my hand off of her.
I ignored the voice at that time and asked Keya if she was alright.
"I am fine, my Ki has reached my capacity, this might be the reason I collapsed. The strange thing is that whenever I try to check your Ki numbers it looks like its unlimited." Keya replied.
"How is that possible" I replied.
Keya couldn't answer either.
"Can you understand me now?" The old lady interrupted us.
The trick worked as we clearly understood the old woman.
"Yes we can" Kahiro said.
"You are lucky that the trick you tried worked" she said.
"So are you alone here? Is there any villages nearby that we could visit? We are out of food and water." Keya said.
"I live alone yes, are you travelers?" The woman asked.
"Well, I wouldn't call us travelers, we are kind of lost, it's a big story" Kahiro replied.
"Never mind, its none of my business I guess. There is a town nearby, I could escort you there if u want me to" the old woman said.
We immediately accepted.
The old lady swiftly grabbed a bag, locked her house and we took off for the town.
In the middle of the road, while Keya and Kahiro explained everything that happened to us to the old lady, I heard the voice again coming from the ground, the voice said " what I can give you is great power, I can give you all the things you desire. I am her, I am the demon queen, the name is lilitu, in other cosmos I am also called Lilith or Ita, you will need my power, on that moment call upon thy name and share your dark Ki with me, only then you will be able to use my power."
I didn't tell Kahiro or Keya at the moment, I thought it must be side effects from being tired.
After a short time we reached the town.
"That's a big town" Kahiro said.
"It sure is, it's one of the biggest towns in Clydea. The city of Sunosuperu" The old woman told us .
"Is Clydea the name of this continent should I assume?" Kahiro asked.
"Yes, there are 5 continents that I know of on Ashora. Clydea, Celinea, Fluavror, Inall and Eiqora. Every continent is ruled by 1 nation except Celinea which holds the union of 2 nations, thus being the strongest and largest of them all." The old woman replied.
"Interesting" Kahiro said.
"Indeed" I continued.
"I will take my leave now, the town is generally safe, just avoid any contact with any suspicious looking person."
"Ok miss, thank you very much for the help, we were really lucky to meet you." Kahiro said.
And thus we left to discover the town.
Just after the gate of the town, we found a marketplace where we were able to buy some food, water and a map, thanks to the old lady since she was kind enough to lend us some money before she left.
We then went on to find a place to stay for the night.
That night we slept peacefully for the first time after days.