I can still hear the screams and shrieks of the fantasians behind the wall where we are currently hiding.
'Would the others be alright?' I worriedly asked him with my mind.
He tilted his head to face me.
'Don't worry. They'll be fine.' He said and gave me an assuring smile before peeking once again on whatever was happening behind the wall.
I was pinned against the wall, Cool's body against mine, I can feel his hands on my waist.
I didn't know how long it takes before the disturbing screams of terror started to die down until there was nothing left but silence.
A dreading and eerie silence.
'Stay here.' He ordered as he tried to check the area before he came back to get me.
I felt my stomach turned upside-down, I instantly felt the urge to vomit.
The lively and crowded Kabisera was now filled with dead fantasians on the ground. The disgusting scent of blood lingers on the air.
I immediately thought of my friends and hurriedly scanned the place for any sign of life.
My eyes glowed when I saw a small flame coming from one of the remaining food stalls on the side.
I immediately rushed towards it with Cool tailing behind me.
My mind was filled with concern when I saw Ignis behind the stall. She was panting heavily as she puts pressure on her bleeding waist.
"Are you alright?" I asked as I immediately joined her on the ground as Cool checked on her wounds.
"I can stop the bleeding for a while, but we need to find Hailec immediately. This was no ordinary wound." Cool said as he placed his hand on her waist and it started to glow and small ice-like particles appeared on it, stopping the bleeding.
I helped him put Ignis on his back when he was done tending to her wounds.
My worry keeps on increasing every second. Ignis is getting paler and paler, she was also sweating bullets and panting so hard.
"Everything would be alright." Cool said as I felt him held my hand and hold it tightly while we were walking.
I gave him a nod and went back to finding Sassy and Hailec.
"Cool! Fhyra!" My eyes immediately darted towards the direction where the voice comes from.
"That was Sassy," I said after recognizing my friend's voice.
We walked faster towards that direction and we finally saw them, they were also searching for us.
"Oh my god? What happened to Ignis?" Sassy asked as she saw the unconscious girl on Cool's back.
"She was hit by the darkess first attack." Cool informed Hailec as the latter checks on Ignis.
"Let's hurry back home," Hailec said and asked Sassy and me to get closer to them.
We complied to his request with a confused expression.
And then I saw an illuminated dark green circle covered us and then in a blink of an eye, we were outside Hailec's house.
My mouth was still left hanging when my eyes met with Sassy, who had the same expression on her face.
Did we just teleported?
The guys immediately went inside and we followed behind them.
Hailec went through a white room with a single bed in the middle.
"Place her here." He instructed Cool, who carefully lay Ignis down on the bed.
"Fhyra, please don't use any energy or control it. I needed all the energy I could get now." He said and I nodded earnestly.
He inhaled a deep breath, closed his eyes, and put both of his hands above Ignis's waist.
"Sanitatem et occidit plurimos. Et benedicat bonum. Per cogitationes ex eminenti periculo liberare." We heard him whispered as if chanting.
I saw how a tiny bit of light coming from his hands becomes almost blinding. I suddenly have the urge to have that light.
I want that light.
I didn't know what's happening but I saw Hailec gave Cool a meaningful look before I felt a hand squeeze mine, getting me out of my reverie.
'Stop looking at the light. Your persona's coveting the energy.' I immediately look away after hearing what he said.
But I was starting to feel weak. And my mind keeps on wandering back to that bright light.
"Hang on there, Princess. Just a little more. Give your muranda a little more." I swallowed hard when I heard Hailec talked while still in the middle of curing Ignis.
I closed my eyes and turned around. I saw another light coming from Sassy's back.
She was positioned in an angle that I could see her back and there, the moving mark on the back of her shoulder was glowing.
"S-sassy," I called out before I lost the tiny bit of energy left in me.
"Fhyra!" I heard Cool called out before my body went limp and the darkness consumed me.
"I think that was Sassy's ability as a guardian." I heard Hailec's voice from the background.
"Would she be alright?" Cool asked before I felt hands gently caressing my face.
'Wake up, Princess.' my forehead creased as I tried to open my eyes.
"She's awake!" I heard Sassy's cheering voice as soon as I successfully opened my eyes.
"Are you okay?" I looked at the left side of the bed and saw Cool worriedly looking at me.
"Y-yeah. But I f-felt d-drained." I answered in a hoarse voice.
"What happened? How's Ignis?" I added.
"Ignis is already resting, she's okay now." Cool answered.
"Your energy had been suppressed," Hailec explained.
"Suppressed?" I asked and remembered what I heard him say that it was Sassy's ability.
My eyes darted towards my friend who was seated on the right side of my bed.
"Congratulations Sassy. Looks like you too, got some powers." I tried to joke around and then I saw her pouted.
"But I hurt you!" she blurted out guiltily.
"No, you didn't. You just suppressed her ability to absorbed more energy. You just stopped her persona from taking Ignis' energy." Hailec explained that made my brows furrowed because of confusion.
"You mean I can take someone else's energy?" I asked worriedly.
"Wasn't that dangerous? I could hurt others!" Cool immediately comforted me when I started to panic.
"No, you wouldn't. We'll train you on how to control that, okay? It would be alright." He said and made sure that I was facing him.
'I'm here. I'll help you.' He added inside my head.
"In the meantime, we needed Sassy to take over every time there is a situation like this. We will also need to train Sassy on using that ability to her advantage." Hailec instructed after a while of discussion on how this would work for all of us.
"Don't worry. Everything would be alright." Sassy assured me with a smile before she left the room with Hailec leaving me with Cool.
"Rest up. Don't worry about anything." He said and tucked me back to bed again.
"Good night princess." He whispered before my body gave in to fatigue and fell asleep once again.
The very next day, Queen Feu immediately sent Blaze and a few guardias to come and fetch Ignis and me at Hailec's house."The Queen is worried about Princess Fhyra's safety, since your home is quite near in the Kabisera. I hope the punong baylan won't take it negatively if we ask the Princess and her muranda to come back to the palace?" Blaze respectfully told Hailec who was seated on the couch on the receiving area of his house.It's a good thing that his house was huge. We were quite startled to see Blaze and the guardias early this morning.Seeing Cool here would be a little understandable but seeing a mundane like Sassy here?So we needed to mask her presence in case the others would notice and Hailec hid her somewhere inside the house.Ignis, on the other hand finally gained consciousness this morning as well and Hailec assured me that she was fine.So here we are, facing Blaze and the five guardias sent by Queen Feu."It's not that I held it against the Queen, since I do understa
"No! I'll be draining you if I do. No, I wouldn't do it." I said in a firm and determined voice."No, you won't. You won't let yourself drain me. You can do it." Cool said encouraging me.I tried to focus once again but every time I started to feel his energy creeping into my body, I immediately
I don't know if a one week stay at the punong baylan's house was too long, but stepping inside the Flamis Palace once again feels foreign now."Good morning, Princess Fhyra!" The murandas that lined up by the gate of the palace greeted in unison.I throw a glance at Ignis who was standing behind me and gave her a meaningful look. She suddenly nodded, curtly bowed, and left the place in a hurry to do what I ask her to do before we left Hailec's home.I faced the people confidently and made my way towards the Queen's quarters to give my greetings and let her know about my return.Although we're not in good terms she's still the queen and my grandmother, just like what Cool said.'Cool?' I called out in mind.It took him a few more minutes to respond.'I'm here.' I almost sigh in relief when I heard him talkback on my mind.'Just go to my room. He'll be there soon.' I told him pertaining to Blaze.Before we left Hailec's house, I asked Ignis to immediately find the count and told him to g
"Cool!" I called out in irritation. He just couldn't take that smirk off on his face."Stop it!" I hissed and the lava flowing inside the fountain suddenly overflowed."Shit! Okay! Okay! I'll stop!" He said when he saw what happened.I willed myself to relax, a few moments later the lava stopped boiling and Cool's anxious face faded.I heard him gave out a sigh of relief before I felt the other side of my bed move a little."You know, we should do something about that temper of yours." He said as he lies beside me.I snorted and scolded him for teasing me about the count."Maybe he genuinely likes you?" I creased my head with his words."I don't think so. Maybe he just likes the idea of having a princess as his future wife.""But what if he really likes you?" I rolled my eyes with his persistence."That would be impossible. We barely knew each other, I've been nothing but rude to him so, no. Impossible."I thought he will have another set of his witty comebacks but I receive silence in
"We need to divert the attention of the whole kingdom." Cool answered with a very serious expression on his face."And how are we supposed to do that?" I asked eagerly."Kidnap the princess." He said nonchalantly.I was rendered speechless, I had to blink a lot of times to check if I heard him right.I was still in dazed when my eyes landed on Ignis' stunned expression.She cleared her throat for a while before she faced Cool with a serious face as well."You can't do that. The whole palace would be in chaos." She said."And that's the result we're actually aiming for. If the princess is missing all the trials at court would be halted. This would give the punong baylan enough time to look for more evidence." Cool explained.Ignis still looked hesitant about the plan. But I trust Cool, I know he wouldn't have this risky plan unless there is no other choice.I grasped Ignis' hands to assure her."I would be alright. If this would be the only way to save Sassy. We must do it." I said dete
"That's it. You're doing great!" Cool cheered while I was undergoing my training.Hailec lends us this device that releases energy, he said I should take this time and use this device to learn how to control this ability.So I'm here inside the training room of his invisible house.Cool was with me and he was cheering every time the scale of the device portrays a lower amount of energy released. It would mean that I was consuming less and less of energy from it.Both of our eyes widened when the scale showed zero.I looked up at him and jumped on him because of joy."I did it! I did it!" I cheered as we both fell on the ground.We were both giggling but was stopped when we realized how close our faces were.We were both panting from laughing as we silently stared at each other's eyes.I didn't realize how pretty his eyes were until now. It was cold. His eyes were cold but it somehow gives me warmth the longer I stared at it.I felt his fingers brushed off the strands of my hair that ha
"We can do something to get Sassy out of prison but it would be difficult to find her mom if she was really taken by the darkess." Hailec confided as we planned out what our next move would be after finishing our dinner."But we can't let a mundane stay within the grasp of the darkess. We don't know what they are thinking." Cool interjected.I was just silently watching them as I was trying to analyze and put my self on the situation of a Darkess.What would be my move if I were them?'Fhyra?' I was pulled away from my thoughts when I heard Cool called me.I easily found his and Hailec's eyes staring at me."What were you thinking about?" Hailec asked.I stood up from the wooden tall-chair where I was seated. I can feel their stares as I walked towards the middle of the room where a crystal board was placed.I used the first glaciers technique that Cool had taught me.Figures.I used the crystal board as the base and I produced water from my hand."Listen. We won't look for Tita Sally.
Cool and I were following Ignis and Hailec as we cautiously entered the Flamis prison.We were looking for Sassy's cell so that we can brief her a little before we start our plans.Cool immediately pulled me to hide beside a thick wall when a group of guardias, probably checking the vicinity came around.We accidentally lost track where Hailec and Ignis hid.So when the troop was gone Cool and I started our own search for Sassy's prison cell.'Stay here for a while.' Cool instructed.I suddenly found this telepathy between us quite useful.He hid me behind a huge torch and went ahead to check for any guardias around.I was waiting for him to come back when I suddenly felt Blaze's presence around.He was not aware of this plan and we're not planning to let him in on this.He hasn't gain everyonr's trust yet. So for now, we just left him out in the dark.I immediately hid myself and warned Cool about the latter's presence.'Be careful, Blaze is roaming around.' I warned him but I receive