"Is there anything you can't remember?"
"It's still hard to tell but... I won't forget what happened today Cinnabar didn't want to fight but saved me anyway"
"Of course, they are quite shrewd that one, however we won't be able to touch the grass, water, and animals in that area for a while"
"Phos, the truth is..."
"They have extraordinary amounts of talent and combat ability. But they ruin everything"
"He's too much for us to handle, so we lock them away in the night"
"Yes Rain is right"
"Isn't there anything else to be done?"
"A harsh but useful job is a good anesthetic to keep them from doubting themselves, we cannot do anything but endure until we find an alternative, since we cannot die no matter how long we delay"
"Or what? Will you find a way to make him useful? You did say you wanted to make a big discovery"
*Pat pat, Rain starts to apply powder to Phos*
"Th... There's no way! You and Sensei couldn't come up with anything right?"
"By the way where was Cinnabar during the day?"
"Um, when I was over by that cliff to the south, they just suddenly showed up"
"The Hollow Cape huh..."
"Ah ya it would be a perfect place for Cinnabar"
"Yeah that place they had really amazing timing"
"The Hollow Cape is an incredibly dangerous place, where even Heliodor was taken away, I don't think they'd be there all the time, but..."
-------Time skip-------
*Phos is back at the Hollow Cape looking at a plant they dug up*
"Hmm, I don't get it"
"Hey"
*Phos turns around with Cinnabar standing behind them*
"Didn't you learn your lesson last night?"
"Th, This is my job! I don't have a choice! It's the dangerous place where Helio got taken away right!?"
"That's right"
"I'm waiting here for them to take me away, I might have some value on the moon, I've been waiting all this time, but they won't come for me"
"And yet, the moment you appeared yesterday, there they were, you're so lucky, even the bad guys love you"
*Phos looks down in sadness*
*Cinnabar points towards the beach*
"There's two kinds on the sands to the south, Three on the Twin beach, One on the Plain of Interval, One on the Hill of White, I don't know if it's a great discovery, but I've seen nameless useless plants around"
"Rutile came to treat me this morning, you're done with me now right? Don't get in the way anymore"
*Phos stands up while Cinnabar starts walking away*
"I Want, you to help me out"
"No"
"Fi- Fine, then I'll find you a job that's more fun than night patrols!, A job only you can do! For sure! Just you watch!"
"Just don't say you'll go to the moon!"
"YOU HEAR ME?!"
-----Time skip back to the school-----
*Phos is sitting on a stool with their head down on the table while Morga and Goshe approach*
"Hey:
"My my"
"Where's those blank pages of yours?"
"Are you okay?"
"Did that mess with Cinnabar scare you? How unlike you"
"Ah, No, No"
"Those small pages could simply no longer contain my thoughts"
"Oh, looks like you haven't changed after all"
'now I can relax'
* Morga and Goshe start walking off*
"Ugh... What kind of thing is that... Something that only they can do... Stupid, Stupid"
"But I know for sure..."
-----Pov change to the Clipboard left in the field----
*Flap Flap Flap Flap*
----Pov change back to Phos----
"I don't want them to go away"
---- POV Cinnabar----
*Cinnabar walks towards the sound of paper flipping in the wind*
"I was wondering what was being so noisy and keeping me awake..."
*Flap Flap Flap Flap Flap Flap Flap Flap*
"Did they forget this? That airhead, not that it's any of my business"
"What sloppy handwriting. The pictures are awful too, the content..."
*Cinnabar bends over to pick up the clipboard but stops when they see their silver poison hand prints, and stands back up and covers their face and cries tears of silver poison*
'I want to leave the night'
'It's impossible'
'I can't trust Phos'
"Dammit!" *The silver poison tears blow away in the wind as Cinnabar puts on their gloves and picks up the clip board*
"This thing..."
-----Time skip/POV change Phos----
*Phos is on their knees at the school looking at their reflection in the pond as jade walks behind them*
"Observing the jellyfish are you?"
"You sure are working hard on your Encyclopedia"
"No"
"I'm just thinking about how even my reflection in the water is cute"
"Just kidding! Can't you tell by looking! *Phos quickly turns around still on their knees and grabs onto Jade's legs*
"WHA!"
"STUPID!"
"That is dangerous"
"I'm sitting around at a loss!"
*Jade falls down with Phos still clinging to one of their legs*
"This is awful, I can't come up with anything Jade, Our Prolocutor! Please give me some ideas"
"For what?"
"If I told you I'd have to kill you"
"Then I can't help, can I?"
"AAAAH, Ugh, I feel like I'm gonna go crazy from overthinking, If this is how things are gonna go, I shouldn't have said I'd find something for sure..."
"About what we talked about before, could you just forget it?"
"What did I just say?"
"AGH, If I think about this anymore I'm gonna start hating it"
"The path to discovery," *Sensei slowly walks towards Jade and Phos as they turn around*
"Is ongoing"
""Sensei"" * Jade shoots up to their feet standing at attention while Phos is still on the ground*
"I will be in the inner temple for a while, if anything happens, let me know immediately"
"Alright!"
"HeHeh, are you gonna take a nap Sensei?"
"Call it "meditation" " *Sensei pats Phos on the head*
"Don't do anything reckless, do you understand me?"
*Rain and Rutile walk up while no one is paying attention*
"Kaaay"
*Sensei walks off towards the inner temple*
"now then get back to work"
"UGH"
"Ah, so basically, you couldn't come up with anything, so you were sitting around groaning? Hmm recently" *Rain sneaks the hammer up to Jade's arm*
*RIIIIIIIIIIIING* "KH!?"
"Rain...? What are you doing?"
"I'm performing our Centennial Toughness Examinations"
*Rutile Struggles against Jade to preform the rest of the examination, while rain waits for the next hammer strike*
"We can tell each other's solidity, by merely touching each other, however, toughness, which is how easily we break, is a more complicated matter, jade I want you to"
"Get permission first at least!"
"Huh, I don't really get it"
"Oh, Pardon me grant me your cooperation" * Rutile trips Jade and Rain strikes Jade's knee with the hammer, then Rutile flips them on their stomach and pulls their legs backwards*
"Oh, just what we'd expect from the unmovable jade you even sound different, you are most certainly top class"
"You Quack of a doctor"
"Truly, top class"
*Phos closes their eyes and sticks out their arm*
"We don't need to do you, you're at the very bottom of the list"
*Rain and Rutile walk off to see the next victim *ahem* patient*
"Dammit, What the hell..."
"Oh, I remember speaking of ideas... Recently Dia's been using a new fighting style, I don't know how they think of this stuff"
"Ooh! So it rang a bell!"
"That's not why I remembered"
"Yeah, come to think of it, it'd be better to ask a diamond than some jade, I was just talking to the wrong person thanks!"
"Hey I'm in second place when it comes to being hard to break!"
"But being stronger is cooler than being tough y'know"
"UGH...! Anyway the diamonds except for rain are out doing their patrol don't get in their way"
----Time skip to Dia's location----
"Dia"
*Phos grabs one of Dia's legs, and they fall to the ground, then that stand back up with Phos hugging both of their legs*
"That was dangerous you know?"
"Phos?
"Your very existence is blinding, I can't come up with any ideas and it's paining me so much I feel like I'm about to fall to pieces. Please grant me some direction"
"What kind of ideas?"
"I can't say, just tell me how to come up with one"
"My, how difficult"
"Why don't you try changing a whole lot? It might be good if you did something you normally don't"
"Or you could also ask Rain they are pretty smart too"
"I am always pondering the concept of change"
*Phos turns away from diamond and hugs their knees*
"Hey are you listening?"
"Buuut it's not that simple I'm asking you how to get ideas the easy way, how many years do you think I've been trying to that?"
"Ah..."
"Oh, you tens are just sooo above us, you're all the way up in the clouds, UGH it's just no use there's no listening to this great god"
"Yup, it's no use, I'm sorry"
"Look I've even gone and made you mad just now, see? I've got so many faults, forgive me?"
*Dia pats Phos on the back then lifts them up while Phos is still hugging their knees*
"Please <3"
"Fine, just this once"
*Dia puts Phos down when they stand up*
"Thank you, by the way, have you seen Bortz?"
"Oh, come to think of it, it's weird to see you alone, did they go off somewhere on their own? Jeez that guy!"
"Hehe, I just can't keep up with them that's all"
"There you go spoiling them again! You're both diamonds there's no way that's the case"
"Should I tell them off for you?"
"I'll give it to them real good!"
*A sun spot appears behind Phos as they are talking to Dia, Dia starts to draw their sword*
"Hmm"
"I, isn't that overdoing it a bit?"
*Dia throws their scabbard on the ground and dashes past Phos, and gets into their new fighting position, right arm outstretched with their sword held horizontally feet spread apart. The Lunarians draw back their arrows and release them all of them going for Diamond. Dia bobs and weaves around the arrows while deflecting them back at the Lunarians all the while putting tremendous stress on their body* "HUH?! What are they doing...?" *Phos is watching Dia fight with great interest still on their knees as Dia deflects the last round of arrows, Phos gets up and starts running towards them but stop dead in their tracks as Dia signals for them to stop*
"Cool!"
"Cool! They tossed'em right back!"
"Just what I'd expect from Diamond!"
"No"
"It's not over yet"
*The Lunarians switch from bows and arrows to javelins, they toss them at Diamond, they deflect the javelins back at the Lunarians but at a cost, for each deflection Dia's wrist cracks*
*Snap* *Snap*
"HA!"
*Snap*
*Phos has a worried look as they hear the snaping sounds of Diamond*
*Snap*
"Just a little more"
"Dia...?"
"What's that"
"Sound"
*Snap*
"Don't you worry"
*Snap*
"The way I usually do it just isn't working that's all"
*The Lunarians throw another wave of Javilens at Diamond furthur increasing the stress on their body, as Dia keep deflecting them the cracks grow larger and larger in size*
*Snap* *Snap*
"There's nothing"
*Snap* *Snap* *Snap* *Snap*
"To be worried about"
*Snap* *Snap* *Sanp* *Sanp*
*SNAP!*
*Dia loses their grip on the sword as it goes flying behind them, Stunned Phos looks at the Sword sticking up from the dirt. Not wasting anytime Dia grabs and throws Phos to safty, Phos lands hard on their back as Dia turns to look at them while javilens are closing in on them*
"RUN!"
*Phos sits there mouth agape as a black streak flies over them towards Diamond, Bortz arrives just in time to deflect the incoming javilens, Borts lands infront of Dia with water splashing up around them*
"Bortz!"
*Dia looks away in shame as Bortz charges the Lunarian sunspot with anger on their face cutting the whole craft in two with one swing and dodging an arrow launched from the last remaining Lunarian*
*The Lunarian craft dissapates into smoke as Bortz lands on the ground*
"Isn't it amazing?"
"It's always like this"
"Recently, they just get stronger and stronger, they wont even let me have a chance to fight"
"Us Diamonds are the most solid, tens"
"But our toughness, how easily we break, we're only at second class"
"Even if we're hard, we shatter easily if struck in certain places"
"But Bortz is special, unlike me they are made up of micro crystals, even if they are hit on a weak point it wont spread to the rest of their body"
"So they are the only one of us who is at a "Special" class, they are the toughest of us all"
"Even tougher than Rain"
*Dia walks towards their sword *
"I'm the one who wants to change, I want to become like that"
"Like Bortz?!"
"Ew, NO! Even if they are strong I like our sweet little Dia way more than a scary guy like that"
*Ring* *Dia starts pulling the sword out of the ground*
"But"
"A weak Diamond is no Diamond at all"
"So Bortz and Rain, are the real diamonds here"
"Yes..."
"So"
"That's why"
"Sometimes just for a second..."
*Dia pulls out the shattered sword*
"If only Bortz and Rain weren't here"
"Huh?"
"I start having thoughts, like that"
"Even though I love them so much, I'm no good"
--------To Be Continued----------