Exelirus slowly opened his eyes and was greeted by the warmth of the sun's ray escaping from the window. He then tried getting up from the bed and upon doing so felt how sour every muscle in his body was. Then along with the sourness, memories of what happened the previous began flashing his head, recalling how he snuck out from the house to the forest to run. His memories of the time he spent while running were a bit of blur and haze, feeling more like an odd mix of a dream, no, more of nightmare, and reality but his final memories were as clear as day. Recalling the overwhelming feelings the plagued his heart the moment he stopped running, feelings of loss, dread, sadness, and despair. It felt suffocating and he just wanted it all to end, and that was when he heard her voice calling out to him from the abyss that surrounded and was about to consume him. Then, with eyes overflowing with tears of pain and sorrow, he dashed straight to the person that called out for him, and then embraced her tightly. Exelirus recalled that during that moment, the young little innocent little blue haired boy needed someone to hold on to, anyone, just to remind him that he was not alone, and she was right there. Then he heard the most beautiful melody from an angelic voice, tune so sweet and pure, it touched his soul and took him to place where he could find some semblance of peace and allow him finally race past the pain and agonizing trauma of his past.
Placing his hand on heart and feeling it beat from within, Exelirus could still feel it ache with each beat it made but at the same time, he felt something he had not felt it too long. Exelirus then got up from the bed and looked out the window. Seeing the vastness of the green stretching in the horizon as far as the eye could see, he took a deep breath in and then let it all out. Then, for a moment, the entire world began to slow down as though time itself stood still. Exelirus then placed his hands on his chest once more and then noticed that it wasn't pounding but rather beating calmly and gently like a slow drum, and its rhythm felt peaceful. Exelirus then looked out to the world outside, with a glint in his eyes and allow, for the first time in too long, his childlike wonder and curiosity take hold of him, and was now ready to find his in the strange new world he would have call his home.
Time then resumed, and once it did Exelirus heard something come from outside his room. Exelirus then left his room and, following the sounds, made his way to the kitchen. There he spotted a blur racing about all over the kitchen, moving too fast for the naked eyes to see. Then once Exelirus stepped in to the kitchen, the blur spotted, revealing itself to be none other than Daniela a red apron that had a flaming chill on it and a beater on hand.
"Oh, you're awake", said Daniela upon seeing Exelirus standing in front of her.
The blue hair boy looked at her with a puzzled and confused expression on his face before shifting his gaze to the dirty pans and bowls on the kitchen sink behind her, wondering what exactly Daniela was doing. He's thoughts how ever came to an abrupt end upon hearing a ding come from the oven.
"Oh, it's ready", Daniela said as she raced off using her super speed, grabbed a pair of oven mints to the oven and brought out a freshly baked cake. Sniffing it and taking its delectable aroma before saying, "Yep, its ready".
She then raced to the dining room and placed on the dining table along with what looked an endless buffet of pastries and sugary of all kinds. Exelirus, upon seeing the towering mountain of cakes, pies, tarts, bagels, cookies and doughnuts, just looked at it all with a look of awe and amazement.
"Did you make all of this", asked Exelirus with his eyes still fixed on the dinner table.
"I'm pressed. What can I say, baking is kinda a hobby of mine that I picked up after getting sick and tired of stares I got whenever I when cleared out all the food in an all you can eat buffet", said Daniela.
"What's a buffet?" asked Exelirus, curious and wanting to what exactly a buffet was.
"It's a place of lies", said Daniela in a dark and serious tone.
Exelirus then looked at with a look of fear, not ensure he wanted to know what a buffet was.
"Enough talk, let's dig in", said Daniela before racing to the dining at super speed and began to scoff down the food as even fast speeds.
Exelirus, realizing that at rate Daniela was eating it she would most like finish all before he ever got a chance to try any for hi, raced to the dining table and joined her. With the both them stuffing their face with food at super human speeds, mere seconds the mountain of sweet baked pastries was gone.
Daniela let out a loud burp before while robbing her satisfied stomach, "men that hit the spot".
Exelirus then let out a burp of his own causing to blush a little out of embarrassment as he did.
Daniela just smiled at him before, "I guess you've got a really sweet tooth huh kid".
Daniela's words made Exelirus's cheeks grow redder with embarrassment though he couldn't deny the fact that the meal was feeling, though it was still nothing compared to the food on Kinerix, the taste wasn't half bad and if he was being honest, it was a taste he could get used to.
"All right, now that were done eating, it's time to clean up", said Daniela as she got up from her seat and then, moving as quick as blur, gathered up all the empty plates and dishes, rushed over to the kitchen and washed them all.
Seeing what Daniela did, Exelirus couldn't help but think of his mother and how she was the exact opposite of Daniela, recalling how she would often yell at him and Sonikro to do dishes and it was during those moments that Sonikro would suddenly become the fastest Kinerixian on Kinerix, and vanish away, moving so fast that even his shadow couldn't even keep up with his speed, and leaving him with a mountain of dishes and horrifying beast of a mother to deal with.
"Alright all done. Come on kid let's go", said Daniela as she began to stretch.
"Er…go where?" Exelirus wondered out loud as he looked at Daniela with confused look on his face.
"For a walk, race you", said Daniela before darting out of the house at supersonic speeds.
Exelirus, though aback upon seeing Daniela just race off, simply smiled before racing after her at immense speeds, leaving being a sparking tail of blue behind him as he ran.
Exelirus managed to catch with Daniela as she raced through the forest at incredible speeds.
"What took you so long slow pock", said Daniela as she increased her speed, moving even faster ahead of her.
Exelirus, upon hearing what she said couldn't her but smirk a little, reminded of a moment in the past when he and Sonikro were busy racing through the open fields of Kinerix and Sonikro had the nerve to turn to him and say with smile and a grin on his face, "You move as fast as a Tultalku", before jetting of past him with a sonic boom at lightning fast speeds.
Back then Sonikro's words annoyed and enraged him to no end, so much so that he pushed himself to be faster just wipe that stupid grin off his face, but Sonikro still won that race and mad sure he never heard the end of it much to his annoyance. But that was all in the past and *sigh* Sonikro along with the rest of his people were long gone and all he had left of them were memories, though some of them were of annoying moments of the life he spent in Kinerix, they were all he had and he would cherish them an all, and since he can't go back, he might well keep running forward. But with all that said, there was no way he going lose another race.
Exelirus then increased his speed and Daniela jolted pass with his own thunderous boom with blue spark flowing out of his body as he ran. Daniela, upon seeing the way Exelirus raced past her, just smirked before saying, "Damn, this kids fast".
Daniela and Exelirus raced through the forest with Exelirus having an edge against Daniela in raw speed however since the terrain was unfamiliar to him Exelirus found it hard to maneuver through the dense trees that surrounded the forest, a disadvantage Daniela, having long be accustomed with the terrain and knew her way round the forest, lacked. So as they raced through the forest as nothing streaks and blurs, in the end the race was won by none other Daniela was stood triumphantly over the top of a great panting profusely as she wiped the sweat off her brow before shifting her gaze to Exelirus who didn't look as winded as she was before saying, "I win", and then proceeding to collapse on the floor out of exhaustion.
"That was a good race, I don't think I've had ran that fast in a very long time ", said Daniela as she continued panting profusely.
Exelirus then sat down at the floor next to her and just began stare off in to distant, looking at nothing in particular and just allow his eyes to wonder.
"Hey kid", Daniela could out to him, drawing his attention to her.
"Do your people believe in fate",
"Fate? What do you mean by that?" asked Exelirus, confused by her question.
Daniela then sighed before getting up.
"Listen kid, sometimes bad things happen and well you lose the things you love the most. The people you love and cherish the most, and sometimes if life really wants to mess with you, you lose your home as well", said Daniela.
Exelirus upon hearing what she just let out a deep sigh before bowing down his head and saying with a low voice, almost as though he was whispering, "Yeah".
"But sometimes there's twist in the grim tale life tells. Sometimes those tragedies give way to opportunities, a chance to start all over, to be something great", said Daniela.
Exelirus, upon hearing what Daniela said, raised his head up intrigue and glint in his eyes.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying what happened to you and your home was a good but just take a look at where you are now, a new world brim possibilities where you can be anything", said Daniela.
Exelirus then shifted his gaze back to the horizon before him, now taking it all it from the trees, green fields to the birds and the sky, he saw it all and felt his heart begin to pound with a warm and pleasant feeling.
Daniela then let out a deep sigh before continuing, "It's not all pretty and they are some pretty messed up stuff in this world but it's home and it can be yours as, that is if you want".
Exelirus upon hearing what Daniela continued staring of to distance.
"A new home", he thought to himself.
"That sounds kind of nice actually. Yeah, I think I might exactly like it here", Exelirus thought to himself as he stared in to his distance with a hopeful gaze, lookin Gat everything his new home had to offer.