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Death ends in loss of existence
Not in a moment’s fall of conscience
One wraith finds a lifeless giantess
Knelt before her standing as death’s princess
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Cold trickling and the sound of water streaming. Isaac groans himself awake, feeling someone nestled in his arms. Drowsy eyes look down to see who it is first and it is a girl with a darkened orange hair, naked—probably one of the children? No though in empty waking head. Around them is the familiar crooked bricks and a lone window. How and why, they got here again, Isaac cannot remember other than fainting by the sound of thunder. “Must have been a boom” He thinks before shaking the girl and see that it is Mira, who surprised him just now. “M-Mira!”
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“Hmm?” Mira wakes, scratching the back of her ears with her feet and yawning out, stretching like a cat. “Mira wakes~ wakey~”
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“Y-you are back in your…” finding the words but the boy cannot say anything before Mira suddenly cups her own chest,
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“Mira’s boobies are back! Kyaa, Mira is so happy!”
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What a strange situation to be in, how did Mira turn back into a girl and they had a task, they were a group but Isaac cannot remember it fully. Other than saying, “We have to go back”
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“We have to go where!?” Mira smiles wildly, “Mira~ Is fine being here with Isaac~”
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“No—we have to…” He tries to remember, “Find a journal.”
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Mira’s eyes almost went hollow but Isaac did not see the second shift in her smile. “Hehe, what do you mean journal~? Let’s just…” Mira crawls closer and whisper to his ear. “Get Out of Here”
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The lord magister immediately comes into Isaac’s head, knowing well that he has to get out of here, out of the tower, out of the mist. Both carefully climb down the tower and when their feet land on the wet ground, Isaac feels something missing. It is quiet, more silence that how his anxious body is remembering.
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“Follow Mira!” Mira gestures so, “Mira knows the way out now, because Mira is back to being a girl!”
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“Okay…” Unsure but still following, the worm like unease about the eeriness in the fog crawling up his skin. Something there? Something watching? Nothing. The murky pools remain undisturbed and, it only took them five minutes to step out onto a base of a mountain and into the crying night. A downpour that never seems to stop. “Mira! Do you know the way back to Kinguin?”
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“Mira has to!” She yells, “Wait for Mira down there Isaac! Mira will check for the road at high up!”
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It is great to see her enthusiastic, that’s for sure. Purrs a smile onto Isaac’s face too. The night sky covered in a vast grey blanket. No stars seen except that the sky is crying for him. A cold breeze chilling, whistling him to listen. Whistling and whistling, Isaac opens his eyes, enough of the relishing as he looks over his right shoulder, a girl with a pink hair stands in the nude. Her eyes hollow and the shadow from her bangs are as deep as night. Her pale skin glows for some reason unknown and Isaac cannot help but be drawn towards her. Whistling and whistling, almost as if she is saying, come closer, I will help you—
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“STOOOOP!” Mira lunges from the sky and rolls down the mountain together with Isaac. “Isaac, are you okay? Isaac—Hey…HEY!” Isaac is not responding, as if he is back in his deep sleep. She turns for the pink haired girl and roaring out a question “What did you do! Witch!”
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“No one leaves the mist, unless I permit so” Voicing in echoic divine before she disappears followed by the mountain and everything of Foggy Marsh. A blast of light blinds Mira before she wakes up again on the cold rotten floor of the tower.
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“I-ISAAC!” Turning around to see that Isaac is missing. “ISAAC!” She calls out louder and a boy’s voice respond back from below the tower.
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“Mira! I’m down here!”
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And Mira cannot contain her smile as she jumps down for his arms but then she passes through him. “W-what…”
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“Hallucinations” The pink haired girl stands behind her
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Mira raged out with her fingers open to a deadly claw. Her entire body morphing into that of a two tailed tiger. “Where is Isaac hag!”
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“You threaten my siblings, once more and I shall keep you here forever.”
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“Where is he!” Mira attacks slicing the girl but she ends up disappearing into the mist again,
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“You will never wake,” staring down, “Never”
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Meanwhile, Isaac finds himself in the middle of a quake. He did not know why he awoke in a murky pool, thank goodness there were no more wraiths in them. Quick steps frantically stepping and slipping as he rushes for wherever is safe. Nothing in this marsh feel safe now that most regions are ash, or mountains have suddenly started rising out of nowhere. The entire landscape is a mess. A vine pierces down where he was about to step and next thing, he knows is he is thrown in the air. Screaming and being tossed around like a ball before stopping, in the middle of the air!---Rather, he looks up and see the familiar verdant Peacock, took him a while as to how peacocks can fly but it is him, “Mr. Floral Knight!”
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“COCK!” Peacock says, “I finally found you so we are getting out of this chaos, goodness I did not know this place was like this at all.”
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“W-Wait! We have to help them!” Pointing at Ipos who is in the air cutting down large chunks of trees that gets in his way.
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“No Way! Cancel it pretty to save someone for now, chivalric so? We will for surely die in there!”
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“Still, they are the children of the marsh! And, we have to help them remind them!”
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“Of what?”
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“Of who they are!” Remembering what Zephyr wanted that warm night, “Reminding them that they are siblings and that they should not fight each other!”
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“Woah, they were not like this when you got here?”
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“NO! They’re much more than this. Please Peacock, drop me!”
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“…” After pondering for a bit, Peacock decides to descend, “As if I will drop you this high up!”
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“YEAHHH! Let us go! Go! TO IPOS!”
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“COCK!” Peacock swerves just in time before he gets skewered by a root. “Good heavens, this scale is beyond me! Beyond Hemrea!”
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“It is almost like in the books right!?”
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“Don’t even get excited by this boy.”
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“But I am! It is scary but thrilling at the same time!”
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“You are starting to sound like that witch high princess” Peacock flies for the boy in the air and see that a spiraling spiky tree is rising from his blind spot. “Arrghh! HANG TIGHT!” Quickly flapping his wings, feathers glowing green before positioning himself just below Ipos. His tail fans open, enlarging it more than 10x his tiny body. “GAAAH!”
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Ipos turns to see Peacock blocking the entire tree from growing with his tail completely acting like a shield. Then in his talons, “Isaac!” He calls flying up to his friend, “G-Good to see you again!”
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“Good to see you too Ipos!”
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“Boys!” Peacock yells out for them, “No time for reunion! What are we going to do with these trees!”
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“I found Haures and we have to help him!”
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“B-Big bro is fighting sis Real?”
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“No, we have to bring him here. That is Zephyr, right?” Pointing at the overly gigantic tree with leaves that span over kingdoms.
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“She is inside, but I cannot get to her.” Ipos raises three giants. One made out of Earth, second made out of the murky waters and the third being able to fly and appear in the air as it wishes.
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“Which is why we need him to turn everything to ash”
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“Everything!? Isaac! What’s gotten to you boy” Peacock asks, “You’re way too enthusiastic for this”
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“Real told me something”
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“Real who?”
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“The eldest of the children and the one who made the marsh foggy!”
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“S-W-whoah…”
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“S-sis told you?” Ipos ask in disbelief, as the three flies for Haures in wherever Isaac points to
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The boy nods, “In a dream I think, I woke up in a different place when she told me that---”
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Ipos blocks thorns being fired at them, “S-save it when we are with brother!”
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“Hurry Peacock! Hurry!”
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“This is not you at all child!”
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The three flies for a giant ball of vines that suddenly turn into a giant pile of ash. On the ground is a silver haired boy, with veins around his eyes that glow and trail red because of how fast he is moving and turning everything to ash
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“HAURES!” Isaac calls and wave at him.
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“He did not hear you” Peacock descends closer, but then a fist suddenly is in front of him. The air around it turning to ash. At that moment, he saw all his life pass by him in a flash before suddenly he is back in the air where he was 5 seconds ago, saying the same words and---Isaac pushes him up,
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“Do not Peacock, he heard us already.”
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What happened? Peacock was certain that he died and turned to ash. Ipos comes next to them and raise a platform for Haures to fly towards them.
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“Haures!” Isaac calls again with a smile that Haures tells him that it is disgusting to be greeted with a smile
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“It is disgusting to see you smile,” clicking his tongue, “what?’
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“Brother Haures! I-I-I missh youuuu~!”
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Haures swerves away from his brother’s oncoming kiss before hearing what Isaac tells him,
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“We have to get Zephyr!”
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“Ah… I am still trying to find her”
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“No need b-bro. Y-you can follow us back.”
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“mmkay”
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And the group flies back like a group of sardines for Zephyr’s tree. With Haurus demanding Ipos to cannon throw him as first. “I only need to touch a branch.” He confidently says and Ipos does as what he is told. Throwing his brother straight into a giant crack in the tree. Haurus utters silent words causing everything 10 meters around him to turn to ask, nothing is stopping him before the he pats the tree bark and the entire magnificence as well as the vine tumors all explode in sparkles mix with ashes.
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Ipos quickly bends the air around Zephyr, slowing down his sister’s fall. They all settle around together. The veins around her eyes is similar to Haures but glowing green. Peacock asks why is that and Haures says that it is because of overwhelming flow of Mahna into them. “Beasts like us are made and blessed by Mahna”
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Zephyr later wakes up, apologizing to everyone about the mess she made in a sobbing disaster. Then Haures ask what Isaac has to tell which he replies, “Real says that if we all help each other and manage to convince the Real at the lake to help us, then she will tell us the reason why this is happening to all of us.”
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“Huh? Is not that because we l-lost all our journals?”
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“It is somehow in this book” Haures still has the book, “Somehow was able to fit in my pocket too.”
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“W-woah! Magic book!”
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“That is strange, and, I also find it strange how Mahna somehow flows eternally. I felt myself constantly being fed by Mahna and that made me lose control.”
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“Real says that it was all to help everyone.”
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“Ugh, Elder S-sis really likes hiding things from us.”
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“Let us go to the lake already!”
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“Not so fast” A group of wraiths appear around the children. Then the old wraith come up who has lost an entire arm from the last time Isaac saw him. “It is all because of you children that this happened to our marsh. All your fault that the village is gone! Kill them…KILL THEM ALL!” And the wraiths charges. Zephyr and Haures ready themselves but Ipos grabs them both with giant hands that glide along the muddy earth as they run away, following Isaac who also does not know where he is going other than thinking of only getting away from the wraiths. Then, without knowing, they arrive at the lake with a small land in the middle where Real is standing. Water droplets have hovered around the eldest child before fired as a barrage towards everything around her.
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Zephyr and Ipos bends together and create a wall of vine and Earth.
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The wraiths who wanted their revenge find themselves facing against the menacing bryals.
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“H-How are we going to convince her in all this noise!?”
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“I am useless here” Haures cowers behind his younger siblings,
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Meanwhile Zephyr tries to grow roots from Real’s foot and manage to hold her tight before once again getting an onslaught of water droplets. Suddenly, Ipos notices a giant’s shadow in the distance. He asks everyone to look at it and Isaac realizes that it is Amerie. He calls out for her and the wraiths all look at the same. Their actions in a sudden haste as a bryal managed to bite a portion of her neck.
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“Hey, hey, hey! Should not we help her?” Zephyr asks but knowing that all of their attacks are futile against bryle.
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Then Isaac comes up to Oldie Go, telling the old wraith that they should protect Amerie.
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“And why should we?”
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“She is who you worship right? The lady in the tower!”
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“Impossible…” saying in disbelief,
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“Truth!” Isaac yells, “Amerie is the one in the tower!”
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Then someone comes down from the hills whom Oldie Go recognize as his old friend.
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“H-How are you alive?” The old wraith asks then his friend says in elation,
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“I am physically not, but she made me alive!”
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Then, as if driven by instinict, some of the wraiths start protecting Amerie from the Bryals trying to eat her.
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“I…don’t understand…”
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“Don’t you recognize her!? Our princess, where every plain sprite also recognizes her name and the fifth daughter of our glorious high king of the glory days! Don’t you all remember? And have you all forgotten your deaths!? The lordess of most highs never made us undead for no reason, nor are we killed by any monsters. Every old wraith should remember, that we died protecting the princess. And now, she still lives to this day! Because of us! And of her loyal beasts!”
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Whatever that wraith is rambling, Haures does not like hearing anything from him except Ipos and Zephyr who looks absolutely smitten by what he just said.
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“I do not protect anyone” Haures says,
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“Look! She is going at it!” Peacock takes away everyone’s attention to Amerie who seems to be walking on the water surface!
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“It is elder S-sis! Ah…I can feel her” Ipos says,
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“We all can…” Haures too and they all look up but there is nothing except for the mist.
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“Comes the resolution, children. I am pleased” an echoic divine says as they all witness Amerie rush for the Real in the middle of the island. Hugging her and Real starts screaming and struggling, Amerie lets go but Real clutches her head before her eyes and veins around them glow bright purple and an unseen force pull everyone into Real.
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Then, once the marsh became silent. Real’s eyes glow brighter purple and she calmly dances as if she is bending the space around her. No one is left simply her. Dancing without an audience, dancing for her to raise the mist curtains. A bright blast of light explodes from her and expand all the way to the horizon. And where the foggy marsh once was, are great plains with beautiful lakes and ponds with the local purple amaranths growing in lines and bushes all over the unfamiliar plains.
“Ugh, where…” Haures try to ask but feel a strange sense of ease. Clutching his own chest and looking down at himself, wearing in garbs fo royalty and not anymore, a child, but in a full-grown man’s body. “Everyone!” His voice low and commanding with a sense of warmth that wakes a lady in wavy greens. Her white dress draped across her shoulder up to her chest.
“Question me…” She drowsily sits up, looking around and screaming at a haggard looking man on her lap. She slaps him awake
“G-GAHH!” He stutters, hair curly with a torso and head of a man but with the body of a goat. “W-Where are we…”
Peacock pecks at Isaac who is just as stunned as everyone else when he wakes. “Where are we…and,” he turns to the three unfamiliar faces yet familiar presence, “Who are you people?”
But then they hear someone’s voice coming from the tower and see that it is Amerie in a clean and princess look. She waves her hand at something—the group turn and it is a puppy. “Lochness!” She calls out and the puppy turns into a big puppy, barking and wagging its tail excitedly. Then Amerie throws a rat that can somehow fly! And Lochness run around, chasing after it.
Ipos, Zephyr, and Haures know what their sister Real is capable of and among them is Reality manipulation which probably happened to them and turned the entire marsh into this fantasy wonderland.
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