The Double White Stone

"Okay, what the hell was that?! Your White Stone thing is gone, and now she has two? How did that girl die?!" Chi-Chi shouted while running back to the carriage. I was more than confused as well, and the quick bout of hatred I felt reminded me of nothing I'd experienced in my entire life. I truly lost control of myself.

While the four of us were running, Boo stopped dead in her tracks, causing Asoh, Chi-Chi, and I to turn around.

"Boo?" I asked, looking back at her. She was analyzing both of her hands, looking deep into the stones on her wrist. I also happened to notice that her eyes were stuck onto a shade of deep cerulean blue, and parts of the hair on the top of her head were starting to turn brown. Her appearance was changing once more.

"Are you using the SIM thing? Why are your eyes blue?" I asked her, walking next to her.

"West... we need to go west..." She said.

It took me a second to understand what was going on, but her White Stones were resonating with each other, and when she turned toward the western direction from our current position, they started to flash faster than usual.

"What the hell man... are those things gonna explode? Why are they flashing? What are they?" Asoh asked in an irritated mood. I couldn't blame her, nothing was being explained right now, and the White Stones aren't exactly easy to understand.

"I'm not even sure what these things are, but they resonate when you're close to another White Stone... now that Boo has two of them, maybe they blink because they're leading us to something else. It's basically a sign, to tell others who the powerful beings are on this planet. I wonder since you have two now if you're more powerful than before," I told Boo.

"I don't know... I don't know..." Boo started to mumble. I nodded and pushed her lightly toward the carriage. She could walk on her own, but it was like her brain was somewhere else right now.

"This is way too weird. There's no path even leading west... how confident are you that we should head west?" Asoh asked Boo, but her eyes were locked onto the floor, only slightly shifting back and forth as she continued with my helping hand toward the western direction.

"Chi-Chi, follow them with the carriage for as long as you can, I'll go on foot," Asoh said. Chi-Chi nodded and grabbed the carriage, following the rest of the group as we moved through thick bushes.

"When you died... what did you see?" I asked Boo. Her distant mumbling came to a close and she completely stopped, looking back at me with even brighter blue eyes than before.

"We're here," She ignored my question, showing off both of the White Stones, which were now a solid, bright light.

"Here? What do we do here? Do we wait?" Asoh asked, moving in closer with the two of us. Even Chi-Chi, who was attempting to park the carriage on her own, was confused, running in with her arms raised.

Boo stomped her foot on the ground, and as it connected with the grassy floor, dirt, grass, and several small bugs hiding within the dirt exploded into dust, and what it had revealed to us was... surprising.

A metallic trapdoor, now glimmering in the dull sunlight, Boo stepped off of it and pointed down.

"Here. Escape is here," She said. I nodded, looking down at the trap door, and holding it open.

"What the hell... your Stone things led you here? Chi, go cut those horses free and let's get out of here," Asoh told Chi-Chi... Chi... I liked that nickname.

While I was distracted by Chi's new nickname, I turned back to Boo, looking at her shoe.

Did she... use my ability right then? No, surely I didn't see that right... I was the only one who could use that...

Chi cut the horses free and jumped in the trapdoor as I opened it. Then, Boo went down, then Asoh, and then I followed right behind.

We jumped into a neat-looking room with darkened carpet, red velvet walls, and windows that showed us a view down to the city.

The walls were decorated with weird metal bars connected to big murals in the middle of each velvet wall. It was confusing at first, but by the time I saw all of them, I connected together whatever shrivel of evidence I could muster.

"Eternia? Isn't that Ultima's last name?" Asoh asked Chi.

I continued to look at the murals... noticing the ripped photographs, bloody handprints, locks of hair, and tattered clothing near each one.

It wasn't until I started walking closer to the back wall that I started to see familiar names.

"Achamo..." I mumbled. Why were all of these names here?

I picked up the tattered cloth next to the Achamo mural and looked at it. Right under the piece of ripped cloth, there was a note.

"HE KILLS ALL. NO ONE IS SAFE. PROVIDENCE," It read.

I dropped the note and slowly stepped backward. Providence... is she... here...?

"Leyndell...? Hey, isn't that the last name of the Lord of Air, Khalil?" Chi asked Asoh, to which she nodded.

"Danafall? Why are all of these here?" Boo asked, looking up and down near the next mural.

At the very front of the room, coated in dried blood, mud, rotten vegetables and fruit, and all sorts of indecent slurs and insults stood the Asterio Mural.

It was the biggest of the entire room, which meant that it could fit a ton of insults and ruined memories of the mural itself. It had been blocked off with yellow and black tape, bright orange cones, and signs of resistance put into the carpet underneath it.

"Asterio..." Chi mumbled, walking up next to me, and picking up a black coat beside scorched clothing and black dust where hair should've been if it followed the pattern of all other murals.

"Death to All Asterios, known as the Generation who murdered the world. DO NOT LET SKY ASTERIO ROAM THIS EARTH, it says," Chi explained to me, before briefly continuing.

"Hey, it has a list of names underneath it... Shike Asterio, Belle Asterio, Alexia Asterio, Ali Asterio, and Lucas Asterio... right next to those, it says 'SEALED', but right beside that, I have more... Avie Asterio, Umbra Asterio, Hikari Asterio... right next to them, it says 'CONTAINED' so... what does that mean?" Chi asked again.