Soul Lovers

Reverberate.

Just as the final scrubbing of the princess's room were about to be done. Everyone in the room stopped to wondered. If truly it was the Revealer standing before them or not, on the other hand they were convinced by the words that came out from their mouths.

“I will simply say, my princess. The Revealer is an ancient being; uncovering of what is hidden.” Beth answered almost immediately. “I thought they were one but I see we're all mistaken by what we only heard about them.”

“You could call them oracles for the sake of the Humanes still living today.” June added.

“Or. The SEER.” Wren cut in.

“Still no one have seen their faces or figures by reason of existing only in their holy place at the summit of the eminence outside the walls.” Jane revealed.

“That?” Stare shook his head, “we were bored then decide to leave the place.”

All asudden, the commander turned as she yelled.

“Hey! Rookie! Where do you think you’re going? Without giving you an order to leave just yet!”

Everyone eyes turned to a certain person tiptoeing towards the exit then the person flinched with a stop.

“Huh, personal royal guard of the princess-2, leaving so soon?” Beth questioned.

Luna blinked, “Who is …?” she said slowly.

Skylark stopped without looking back.

“I—I need to go to… the restroom!” He shakily said.

“How dare you?! Talking why showing your back to the princess and the Ladies here! I should have your head for this!”

“Eek!” Lekan turned and Immediately prostrated. “Forgive me, my princess!”

Wren rubbed her forehead.

Luna eyes widened. Isn't that's the man, we fought at the... She rolled her eyes to the princess about asking what was he doing here and the capes on his back only means he was indeed a royal guard in blue cape... 'A Royal Guard!'

“Oh my bubbles, it’s getting noisy and cramping in my room—just let him go.” Wren ordered, waving her hand in gesture for Skylark to leave her room. That's enough fun for today. She said to herself.

The commander blinked and bowed.

“Yes, my princess.” Then she glared at Skylark, “You heard what the princess said, you may go.”

Skylark nodded as he staggeringly stood up about going outside.

“Wait!”

Not again, my life will be cut short with all these suspenseful movies? He mused over.

The four Humanes of short nature all looked at each other with the it’s–time–to–make–fun–of–him–once–more face.

“Oh. I think I remember your face~” Stare said.

“Yeah. Not think, we vividly remember~” Ensure said after,

“Do you think he still remember our faces~?” Eye said.

Regard shrugged his shoulder.

“Uhmm… The great Revealer what do you mean?” The commander asked.

Immediately, the four Humanes of short nature all pointed to Skylark.

“He once tried to kill us when we were having fun around the kingdom!”

“What?!” The commander and everyone in the room gasped.

Wren slightly slapped her forehead.

“Oh my bubbles, here we go again.”

“Royal Guards!” the commander shouted, immediately ten royal guards of blue cape entered inside the princess's room out of no where. “Give this man a cell to live in. That’s where you will spend the rest of your life… until further notice.”

“Finally. I said it. I said it, didn't I? This was all a dream. One can’t reap where one didn’t sow” Skylark whispered to himself as he was escorted by the ten blue caped royal guards to his new home, for now.

Then Luna moved closer to Wren as she whispered on her right ear.

"Uhmm... my princess what did Lady Beth meant calling that guy the personal royal guard of the princess-2? I don't get it, my princess."

Wren smiled.

"Let's wait and see. The truth will soon be unfold."

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At the Bounty Hunters' city, everywhere was windy, twisting a lot of debris such as gravels, sands and leaves flowing with the current of the wind as the sky dimmed a little. The surroundings was in disorder exposing behind the bounty collector’s huge shop nothing but torn down buildings making the resident in that area angered and in awe. What could they do? When it involved the king of the area—The Bounty Collector.

Jared walked back to the bounty collector’s domain through a hole on the wall surprisingly he has beaten the king of the area then with a sigh he looked up to the clouds, there were no ceiling since it got blown away while fighting. He glanced at not glowing Lazarus entering through another hole in the wall while scratching his eyes.

“It’s so windy outside, ouch! my eyes are starting to water.” He hissed.

“Please, like I said earlier. Shadow Inhumane, I need your help.” Jared said.

“And why should I accept the offer from a divine? Scar face.” Lazarus asked just as he scanned everywhere while scratching his untrimmed bushy hair in such a way it felt there were fleas in there. I could swore I saw some diamonds packed in a sack at that corner. Damn! As it being swept by the wind this scar face made?!

“You're leaving to your home, right? Please, when you do there are few children I want you to take along with you and among them there’s one certain being, the only girl to be precise. She should by all means be protected until--” Jared said until Lazarus interrupted him.

“Wait. Wait. Wait. Hold on a little, Scar face. You are ordering me to do s**t for you? What are you feeling like? A god?” He turned to him as he was slightly taller than Jared without his armour worn.

“No. I’m just asking, if you could help. I promise I will come back to repay your good deeds until then--.”

“It doesn’t sound like you were asking... " His eyes bored into Jared's smoky eyes for some moments. "Whatever. Just to let you know I won’t be babysitting for a long time. Cause’ I have my own problems I need to face alone.” Lazarus said before walking away. Who I’m I kidding? I don’t know where they are. If they are alive or not with all this ruckus going on. Fair enough, I would do as if I looked for them then walk away from this s**t hole. In case I don’t see any of them, that’s their luck. I tried looking for them, didn’t I? He walked out through one of the broken doors behind the shattered throne of carcasses.

Later on, Dante and Gage with the two red-caped royal guards came in to the shattered bounty collector’s domain.

Dante whistled just as he looked around.

“What a mess. It reminds me of the good old days.” He said. “Cool! Jared gat another scar on his scarred face. Woops and you looked a little bit skinny.”

Gage looked up to the sky, noticed the thickness and the darkness of the sky.

“We should be expecting someone soon.” He added. Jared also noticed. Seconds later, bolt of lightnings gathered in one position beneath the clouds and struck the ground without warning. Behold, it was Abbey as lightning sparks overran his body.

“Yo. Abbey.” Dante greeted.

“Is there anything you are looking for, Abbey? I thought the king made it clear it was Dante and I with those two red-caped things to bring back Jared.” Gage said.

“Did he just called us ‘those two things’ huh?” One of the red-caped royal guards asked the other.

“I presumed you guys should be here is nothing new.” Abbey replied.

“Well, glad to see us?” Dante asked.

Abbey ignored Dante and turned to his old friend.

“Now let me this one question, Jared. Where have you been up to all this while?” Abbey asked.

“Uhm… Weren’t you the one who told us he was captured? I don’t get you, Abbey? Did you Gage?” Dante asked.

Jared looked at Dante and Gage then faced Abbey back.

“Is there anything you want from me?” He asked.

Abbey moved closer to Jared. “You should know your place in the kingdom and not swirling around like a lost fly getting his silly ass captured in a net.” Abbey said as Dante giggles.

“There’s sure are a lot of Beast Beings here before the wreckage but three are still here as I speak!” One of the red-caped royal guards said placing his hand on the floor.

"Is good we brought a snooper with us." Dante said.

Gage walks closer to him.

“Let's see.”

The royal guard rested his hand tightly on the floor as the ground beneath became transparent viewing Azra, Aquila and Aguda still chained down in Sheik’s and Frankenstein’s potency.

“Hmm. Nothing interesting from there.” Dante said before facing Jared. “Say, Jared. Why were you captured by the beasts at first?”

“Or there is more to your story that you weren’t telling us about.” Abbey added.

Jared knew what Abbey is trying to grab from his secret intensions as he looked at the snooper talking to his fellow royal guard, thinking he will sooner or later interrogates the royal guard in red cape about what happened today.

“They were all trying to sell me to the bounty collector, who before you came was fortunately defeated by me. Isn’t that’s an obvious answer to you, goon?”

“Guys, guys. Language please. We shouldn’t be stressing Jared out like this. Let’s just cut this scene and happily walk home, like we used to do back in the days.” Dante lied. “Since we successfully rescued the great Jared from the hand of the bounty hunters--”

“Correction. He was defeated by me.” Jared interrupted.

Dante smiled.

Suddenly, all the walls surrounding them collapsed showing the desolated city. Jared and the others observed the villagers evacuating without reasons while few of them stood staring at them with an evil look on their faces not until they heard a familiar voice before facing it direction seeing the bounty collector surprisingly still alive standing beyond the shattered bar house where he was knocked down.

“We ain’t done yet, you cockroaches!”

One by one, figures in different attires landed near the bounty collector, appearing distinct from each other. Few held weapons of different kinds and an alphabetical markings written on different parts of their skins.

“Now you jinxed it, well we tried really hard not to blow our cover.” Gage said.

“Seriously?” Dante asked. “Well, we were not thinking we could go out of this city this easy.”

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Meanwhile at the bounty collector’s underground, Node, Pierce and Sniffia walked through the tunnel as it got darker and darker in ever turn they took.

“I can’t see anything?” Sniffia said.

She had the ability in her to see in the dark but due to the fact she was raised by Jared at the Humane Kingdom and losing part of her memory as well as many of her instincts when she was a little girl made her incapable as she was.

Suddenly a green glow illuminated against the darkness. Node nodded at Peirce as they passed by a large iron door on seeing a figure unclearly in a see-through glass through a small hole on the large iron door just as Peirce glowed on it and thinned through the hole.

“It’s Aguda!” Node spoke as he stopped.

“What if he’s the one?” Sniffia interrogated.

“Come on. They might be our invaders Or enemies but what would possibly go wrong if we provide some little-tiny help, you know, one absolutely loving my food. Is by far the greatest feeling I could get from a beast like them.”

He looked at Peirce’s face.

“I am going in.” He continued and entered the metal door. “oh, look at that. The door isn’t even locked.” He added.

Suddenly, the underground shook by something unexplainable causing debris and dusts falling off.

“We have to keep moving, Perce and I don’t want to be buried with you under here, Node.” Sniffia said before following him inside with Peirce still glowing.

It was a wide square-shaped chamber, enclosed with walls with no windows seen and crystals attached on each corner, Suddenly the crystals glowed in a dark purplish red color just as the three entered. Peirce turned off his green glows. Node gently walked around the room. In front of him was a large see-through glass taking quarter of the room, showing Aguda, Azra and Aquila still chained on the piles of dried bones as they struggled to breakout from the chains, they could not tell what was going on outside, also to them, inside was never a see-through glass.

“Wow! I've never seen a glass this big and mighty. They are so many weird things in this city, I tell you.” Node in search of an object to break open the glass. “Am coming.” He said then sighted a large metal ball with spikes all around it fixed with an handle, hung on the wall near one of the aglow crystals.

“Yes. That will do.” He said, rushed to the large weapon and tried lifting it but the weapon was far too heavy to be lifted, not a feeble yet growing teenaged boy like him could carry such weighted weapon as he groaned in vexation.

“Damn. It’s too heavy!”

“How did he noticed Aguda from this little hole?” Sniffia said looking at the small hole on the large iron door.

“I don’t know, maybe because he's too big for the eyes to miss.” Peirce Joked with a shrugged shoulders while walking around in the room.

Sniffia giggled.

“Is good to see you back to yourself, bubbles. I truly missed that.”

Peirce smiled with a nod. Before Node could make any further attempts, Peirce walked to the see-through glass held his fist to his side, Node stopped trying to lift what he could never carried then deep lines appeared on his forehead with a furrowed brows.

“Uhm. Mudlark, what are you doing?”

Peirce clenched his fist more tightly. He felt a urge like punching the glass in front of him will solve it all.

“Don’t just watch, witness.” Sniffia said as she folded her hand, having to see Peirce unleashing eccentric power of an Inhumane back at the woods before their a*******n was terrifying but this time what is he going to do?

Then he nudged his fist closer to the glass and stopped without touching it.

Node blinked, walked up to the glass.

“Witness what?” Node wondered. “Huh?”

Suddenly, he took noticed a green glowing semblance flowing from Peirce’s fist to every part of the glass. Node eyes widened then the glass suddenly pulverized into nothing including the chains leaving Azra, Aquila and Aguda wondering how was it possible, seeing the teenagers staring back at them back without being chained or with any of the bounty collector’s henchmen among them with a downslide of dried bones in their midst.

Peirce and Node took some steps back.

Slowly, without a word they came out of the piles of dried bones also dragging off few of the dried bones with them. They stood with a downward glance at the teenagers as the aglow crystals concentrated on their muscled bodies.

Azra with his loosened long dreadlocks resting on his shoulders down to his wrapped tight chest to his waist while at the middle putting Aguda and Aquila on both side.

They looked more bulkier than never before. Node drolling as he said to himself.