Chapter 5 (10): Küpios Square and Relaxing Fun

Razé and I exchanged looks as we were pushed further up the staircases. The street lights flickered to life, casting a blue haze over us and the surroundings. Perhaps the council had someone with a drop of Liliana's blood, and had a seer at hand along with an Αίμα at hand and had seen that Liliana was in fact not dead as everyone had believed. Mana needs a living source after all, and Liliana was supposedly dead so the mana should have stopped running like it did. Or the council was attacked.

"Okay.....the elemental gathering. Where did that take place?" I ask to diffuse some of the tension.

"The elemental gathering? It took place in the main Kingdom, Owtiá. (O-hà-Theá) The day is was on the first day of spring. Owtiá was under siege by the demons and their beast mounts, that day Liliana was sick and the walls had weakened enough for them to come through. Thousands had invaded, every village was purged of all life, even the fairy's had lost great numbers, though they could still take off in the air with their wings back then, it happened in the year |12. Every village that stood in the borders of Owtiá instantly gathered in the Capital City, Nepø. (Neph-ho) Elderly were left behind due to the fact that they were simply to slow, the cities didn't have teleportation stations, therefore everyone needed to walk to get to their destination or use a carriage,mount or flying boat. The inner walls had closed but the beasts and demons still broke through. The city named for its never ending reserve of water was plunged in a sea of fire and blood. That is until the elements gathered. Viod,Fire,Water,Earth, Wind and Time and Space the main elements gathered at the front lines, forcing the demons and beasts back with every step they took. Sun and Moon crushed whatever stood behind the front lines that wanted to harm the innocent people of Owtiá. Metal and wood repaired the damage that was caused by the aftermath of the fight. The battle had taken a full day, the aftermath was hard to deal with, Cristina had lost more people than it has ever before on that day. Oh and here we are the main square, Küpios Square. This is where Liliana was buried, the stones play pranks and notes, the notes usually come after the pranks though, but sometimes they don't appear at all, so be careful, you might not like some of the pranks." Heru explained having made a face at the last part. I grin and dropped my bags right there. I crouched down and jumped landing on a stone with the patterns of wind on it. I held up my hands and as the bubbly blue liquid of the prank shot up I pushed the water within it straight towards Heru,who was frozen in shock because of my sudden movements. The blue liquid popped all over the squad turning their skin a soft blue, well Nadia's skin was already blue..... Notes of the violin began to flow out from the stone under my feet. Kina, Kristina, William and Nadia reacted first, they stood on stones a little ways away from me. Finally some fun time! Kina got a rotten stack of eggs and threw it at me, Kristen got tomato's, William got a red frost crystal, Nadia a horde of geeze, thankfully not alive. They each threw what they got at me. I grinned and jumped on to the next stone near by, fire. As the blue flames of the hellfire bridge danced to life around me,I twirled on the spot, the flames turning around along with me and incinerating everything they threw, the red crystal that would have stopped my movements for five minutes turned to dust and fell to the ground as the flames dispersed. Kristina and Nadia jumped on to the next stone.

"Nice one,Asher! But can you dodge this!" Nadia yells,pumped and playful, but she ended up coated in gory rotten food. I giggled.

"Yes I can! But apparently you can't!" I taunt as the sound of drums began to beat through the square, there was people on the edges watching our playful game of tag in amusement. I danced around a frisbee, taking it as I did so and threw it back at Kristina before it exploded in to powder of glitter scattering all over her and sticking due to the blue liquid. I stepped on to the next plate earth. As Kina, William and Razé who had joined jumped on to their next stones, each stone getting closer to me. Kina got a giant boulder, probably filled with something disgusting and bended it with his earth magic to fly towards me.

" Kina! Bend This!" William shouts as shards of muddy rocks rained down on him. Kina thrusted his arms up and the muddy rocks flew towards me. Razé got a whole litter of litter, which scattered around him like mice. A crystal of pure white jutted out like spikes, each one filled to the brim with a liquid that would make you sing until you dropped. By now there was a guitar playing, I jumped on to the wave symbol. A plate of pie popped out above me, I moved my arm and flicked my wrist towards Yuri, the pie landed on her face and she finally snapped out of her daze and so did Heru.

"HEY! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" Yuri yelled grinning as she jumped on to a stone. A storm of cotton fabric curled around her, but she used her air magic and made the storm come after me. The others threw their respective pranks at me at the same time. A piano. Stepping on to the symbol for void, a nasty tench rouse from the air around me as a liquidity substance of brown rised from the ground up. I made a face at the fowl stench and lifted my wrists up, twisting them backwards and then throwing them forward, the substance wrapped around the storm and made it plunge to the ground but I got hit by at least several other pranks,one of them being a liquid that smelled far fowler than the previous. Gross! But I laughed even though it was disgusting, it was still good fun,plus I'm the one who started this. I jumped on to the last symbol, Time and Space. Two sounds played at once no pranks came out,though. The flute and harp and as I touched the fountain that stood next to the stone the transparent water turned colourful, neon patterns danced around us, the mana veins in the ground rouse up and spread arrays of different elements all around us, whispers of a voice filled the suddenly silent square. Everyone to shocked to move. The instruments played in tune with one another the elements seemed to flow in hazy clouds of colour through the air, touching each and every person in the entire city, let alone square. Calming each and every mind and heart. Liliana's song played so loudly that every soul could hear it, even from beyond the walls of the city. I reached out and touched an electric blue array that burst in to water that turned in to ice and snow, creatures made of the ice began to run around us, Flying Monkey's, Unicorns, Pegasi, Rhy's and others. A person touched a grass green array, which spiralled out in pillars of flowers and leaves, twisting and turning as they reached for the sky. Soon everyone touched an array near them, castles of crystal and earth rouse higher and higher until every element mixed together and blew in to spectrums of gold and silver that came down from the sky like fireflies.