Ch. 8 " HISTORY BOOKS pt. 1"

"Why did he hide this useful information?!" 

Chase said as the three of them were scanning the files of Professor Charles. The three of them continued when a voice from a phone suddenly spoke. 

"Alert! Alert! you have a call"

The Professor immediately answered it and placed it on load speaker so that the others can hear, it was Commander Hugo who was calling.

"Professor is the Commander Rylee with you?" Commander Hugo asked.

"I'm here" Rylee answered.

"Hmm, how do I say this.... Some of your kids might be causing trouble"

"Trouble? explain"

"I am at their room right of this moment but it seems that there's only one kid here, you have an idea where the others are?"

"I see, so her answers where not clear to them"

"Answers?"

"Listen here Hugo, me, the professor and chase are in somewhat a difficult situation right now, I think they are at The Great Library, can you check them for me and if they have any questions you should answer them" Rylee explained.

"I see, I will answer what I can" Hugo said before the conversation ended.

Hugo was standing in front of the huge window at the room waiting for Rei to wake up and bring him along to the Great Library.

*30 minutes earlier*

"Yo! you guys alright?"

Kurt asked the other with him inside the room, a few minutes had already passed since the professor left but things haven't really sunk in with the others.

"I see, it's shocking huh? well I did really know much to begin with but you guys should hurry up and accept it, if you take too long you might die"

Kurt warned the other before standing up and walking towards the large window at the end of the room.

"Do you know where the library is?" 

Claire asked him.

"Of course, but both Cecilia and I know where it 's located but as for what knowledge is inside, we have no idea"

Kurt explained, the room was once again filled with silence. When Ashley suddenly made a suggestion.

"Then why don't we go there right now?, I mean that woman did give us permission, right?"

"You're awake?" 

Everyone was surprised that she was awake as they thought that she was still asleep.

"Eh?, I woke up when that woman entered the room, so I already heard her explanation"

She explained. The others accepted her suggestion and started to stand up. But Ken walked towards his brother and looked at his carefree drooling face. 

"Don't you want to wake him up so he could join us?" 

Cecilia said while standing at the door with the others. Ken looked at the and nodded a no, before walking towards them, they were all ready to leave when both Ken and Ashley took a glance at the sleeping Rei on the same time.

The five of them then proceeded towards The Great Library, and arrived at a sealed door and n front of it were two robotic guards which immediately blocked their way.

"Do you seek knowledge about the world?" 

One of the guards asked, it was a moment of silence, no one knew what they should answer. Kurt was about to answer when Ken suddenly approached the guards, he stood in front of it and stared at them they were a feet taller than him so he had to raise his head. After a few seconds of staring Ken gave an answer.

"I seek knowledge of this world"

The guards moved back a bit which made Ken lower his head, but before he could take a step one guard suddenly threw him back to his comrades which got him pissed off. He slowly stood up before forcefully charging towards the guards, he was only inches from them when he realized what he did was a mistake.

One of the guards suddenly grabbed Ken by the throat and lifted him up, Cecilia charged with the effort to save Ken but was also grabbed at the throat by the same guard who caught Ken. Claire seeing those to suffer suddenly walked over in front of the guard and with an angry look on her face she screamed.

"ACRUX!!"

And with a sudden flash of light her Star appeared on her left hand, she was about to attack when she felt her body become heavier. Kurt rushed to her aid saying that she shouldn't use it, she successfully sealed her Star, but her body was still heavy that she could not stand up.

So Kurt started pulling her backwards away from the one of the guards who was walking towards them. Ashley then walked towards it and stood in front of it, she was asked by the guard the same question.

"Do you seek knowledge about this world?"

Ashley just stood there and did not answer, she stared at the guard who was looking at her with a giant robotic eye. The guard was about to grab her when she answered.

"I seek the knowledge from the history books"

The guards stood still, the other guard released both Cecilia and Ken from his hold. The two guards then moved back to their old position. Claire's body became light that she could now stand but still had a hard time walking due to numbness on her feet so Kurt had to help her walk. The five of them stood in front of the sealed door.

"You may now enter" 

The guards spoke in sync, and with a loud screeching sound the door opened. AS they walked inside their eyes sparkled to the sight of a majestic library. It was a room filled with books that reached the second floor of the area, and at the center were five books sealed inside a glass box.

"So this is the great library" 

Ken said while walking beside the books, Kurt found a chair where he brought Claire to take a seat. Cecilia rushed towards her as she was worried about her friend.

"Are you okay Claire?"

Cecilia asked with a worried look.

"I'm fine, my body is quite numb though, how about you are you alright?"

Claire said with a bright smile on her face. Cecilia felt relieved to see her friend with a smile, all of them wandered around reading books they took. But none of those books gave any of them answers, what was written inside were memories of those who have lived inside of the dome. 

*At the room*

Ken sat down on the sofa and stared at Rei, he was surprised when Rei suddenly opened his eyes.

"Who are you?" 

Rei asked.

"I am Commander Hugo of Squadron IX, you must be the new subordinate of Commander Rylee"

Hugo said as he stood up and walked towards Rei, Rei sat down as Hugo offered his hand so Rei had no choice but to accept it with a hand shake.

"Do you know where the others are?"

Rei asked as he looked around the room but only the two of them were there.

"If Commander Rylee is correct they are at the Great Library at the moment, and we should follow them, they might get in trouble by the guards there"

Hugo explained, he then sat back at the sofa while waiting for Rei to fix himself. As Rei finished they immediately made their way out of the room and walked towards the library.

"Have you received a Star yet?"

Hugo asked Rei who was following behind him.

"Star? you mean that white weapon thing? nope haven't received anything since we got here"

"Good luck with that, hope you and your friends are lucky to receive one"

The two walked silently in the hallway towards the Great Library, Rei noticed multiple lab rooms as they were getting closer but hesitated to ask anything about it. On the other hand Hugo was ready to answer him that's why he would use detours on their way instead of using the same way Kurt and the others used that was faster on getting to the library.

"Do you not have any questions?"

Hugo asked, but Rei did not ask anything or did he even answer he just looked around while following Hugo. They were near the door when Hugo stopped Rei.

"Hey Kid, listen, I think your friends are already inside and I think they might not be that hurt, but here's the thing do not peep out a word once were near the door, got it?"

Rei nodded, as the two of them walked closer the two guards once again appeared. Hugo took out his Star and stood in front of the guards, the guards stared back at him the guards took a step back which means they are about to go hostile like earlier. Hugo lifted his right arm and pulled back the sleeves of his clothes revealing a Star.

The guards looked closer at his Star before moving back to their old position.

"Welcome, Commander Hugo"

Hugo and Rei then stood in front of the door, and with the same screeching sound the doors opened, once again revealing a majestic library which made Rei's eyes sparkle at its beauty. But as the door opened there was no one inside, Hugo noticed some books at the table and sensed some presence inside the room.

As they walked inside the door closed behind Rei and Hugo, Kurt and the others quickly made their move to tackle the ones who entered thinking it was the two guards to kick them out. Ken jumped towards Hugo along with Kurt thinking they could tackle him, Kurt realized who it was but it was to late, with sudden movement both Ken and Kurt were now pinned to the ground by commander Hugo.

"I'm sorry Commander Hugo, I thought you were the guards and was about to kick us out, We're really sorry"

Kurt explained as Hugo released them, the three others showed themselves to the commander and Rei who was now staring at them.

"So you three are the new subordinates huh?"

Hugo said, no one answered so Kurt stepped up and introduced who was the new subordinates.

"These are the new subordinates Commander, they came from inside of the dome and has no idea about the outside world. First we have Ashley who is a girl and was able to hold a Zosma and managed to kill a Demon that got inside of the dome, next is Ken who is a very intelligent kid and his brother Rei, who was able to survive a full force slash from Star: Vega"

Hugo's eyes widened to what he heard.

"Kurt would you mind repeating your last sentence?"

Hugo asked, Kurt looked quite confused but follow the order of the commander.

"He was able to survive the full force slash of Star: Vega Commander Hugo"

Hugo was stunned by the answer, he thought he misheard it on the first time so he asked to repeat it, but what he heard the second time was clear.

"Someone survived a Slash from the spear type Star: Vega?"

He looked at Rei who was clueless in what was happening with the conversation between Kurt and Hugo.

Hugo knew that it was a miracle the Kurt survived after receiving Vega, where over 10 candidates had died before Kurt could obtain it. Vega was known as the strongest spear in all the Stars and is currently in the top 7 of the Strongest Star. Hugo also knew that no human would ever survive a full force slash from any of the Specially made Stars.

As Hugo was lost in his thoughts, a woman stood in front of him, she was looking at the floor when she asked a question.

"Commander, where are the books about the history of this world that the Professor mentioned?"

"It's nice that you're back Claire, those books that she mentioned are those sealed inside that glass"

Claire raised her head to look at the five book sealed inside of the glass box, she walked towards it and placed her hand on top looking if it had a opening which she did not find.

"If you think that you can open it by just staring at it, well none of you can open it"

Hugo said, as Claire looked at him with fierce eyes.

"Why?"

Ashley asked out of the blue, Hugo faced the other before answering.

"Only selected people are able to undo those seals, for the reason that those have books has only five copies each"

"Five? why five?"

Kurt asked, Hugo walked towards the books on the shelves which contained written memories of those who have lived inside of the dome.

"It was what the Directors told us, only five copies of each of those exists in the world, which means it has specified content which not everyone must know, because it may cause havoc inside domes"

Hugo explained. Rei stood beside Claire as both of them stared at the books inside the glass.

"So are you one of those few people, Commander?"

Cecilia asked.

"Yes, there were five people who had access to each books, which means we the five of us has access to only one of those books"

Hugo said as he walked towards the glass box, he waved his right hand hinting to the others that they should come to the glass box which they did.

"Well you see no one can process all these books in their brains, even the Directors are composed of multiple people which study these books created by our ancestors, each book contained a specific topic about the worlds history"

Hugo explained.

"What are the topics Commander?"

Ken asked as he stared at the letters written on the cover of the books, which he did not understand.

"The five topics are: Earth, Stars, Humans, War and lastly Demons"

"So which one is yours Commander?"

Claire asked.

"Mine is The Book of Earth, Commander Rylee has The Book of War, Chase has The Book of Stars and Professor Misty has The Book of Humans"

"You only said four Commander, who has access to the Book of Demons?"

Kurt asked him, Hugo hesitated to answer but remembered Rylee saying that he had to answer their questions.

"Well you see since there are many copies of these books, so the Directors created these box so that the only person to access it was the one they have chosen, but they made one exception, as I said the knowledge inside was hard to process. But one person had the ability to process it all, he was Professor Charles Fritz creator of a Star that can wipe out all the demons in this world..."

"Wait... if there was a weapon like that why did they not use it?"

Claire asked.

"Good question, the answer is simple, in exchange for the use of that Star, Earth will also be destroyed"

All of them felt a chill after hearing the words of the Commander. 

"Professor Charles had access to all of those books including the original copies that are hidden at the Capital where the Directors Resides, But after creating the strongest Star he decided to live inside The Dome of the East"

"Dome of the East? it's the first time I heard of that"

Kurt said.

"Yes, because it was purposely hidden from everyone under the Direct control of both Commander Rylee and Professor Misty"

Hugo knew that inside each of those books, part of it were missing, not because the Directors hid it, but because the one who had access to all of it had secrets.

[Chapter End]