Chapter Seventeen

The next day they continued on their journey through the forest with Miss Belinda in tow, Starblaze noticed the powerful tension between her teacher and her friend but she decided not to do anything for now and watch what happens next. They ate their leftovers as usual and started their journey early the next day, it seemed Starblaze had lost their path at first and now Viper was busy scolding her now .

"you actually lost the path?! How is that even remotely possible, you said you recognise the road didn't you?"

"ah!! I did but uh you know"

"I don't know!"

"the road disappeared yesterday so I depended on the straight path to continue the journey"

"wait a second the road vanished yesterday?! And you said nothing about it?!"

"I would have but you know"

"I still don't know"

"actually you do know"

"know what?"

"you know that if you stopped being a whinny baby we wouldn't have to shut you up all the time"

"well damn" both girls looked to Tatsuya who made the comment and they saw Karla and Belinda stifling giggles

"you little piece of, aaaarrrghhh!" Viper leaped and attacked Starblaze tackling her to the ground but was thrown straight to the trees, they all thought the fight would end but Starblaze got up and leaped for Viper the same time she came at her from the trees causing an explosion of light, when the other three could see next they only saw moving of hands and kicking at a very fast pace making it almost impossible to see, after a while Belinda asked them to stop the fight they didn't listen at first but separated

"finally you listened to me" she said looking at Starblaze who came out without a scratch but wasn't looking at them

"we didn't stop because of you" Viper said with a slightly strained voice before turning around , they all gasped looking at her, she had a huge slash on her arm, it wasn't deep and had already started to heal but it looked clean and was done without her noticing that need precise action, Viper herself looked shocked and in slight pain to say the least.

"gomen" they looked at Starblaze with a socked expression

"d- did you just speak Japanese" Belinda asked

"huh? Hai sorry Viper I d- didn't mean to really"

"you did it?" Tatsuya asked

"mm- hmm" she slowly turned around gaining more gasps from the group, her eyes had gone from their usual but exotic white eyes to blood red and her hands had changed to have knife like nails

"Starblaze are you okay?" Karla asked with a calm manner that was a bit shocking

"I'm doing just fine" she said looking at them with her ruby red eyes that seemed to hypnotis them all, she seemed to noticed and blinked a bit changing the colour back to its transparent white colour.

"well should we start?" she asked picking up her things

"but you don't remember the road"

"I do now" she started the journey but stopped on the way

"yah, are you coming or not" she asked looking back at them with a smile that seemed to reassure them that they had their Star with them and they finally followed her.

Through the journey Karla noticed something different about Starblaze, for one she hadn't even attempted a fake smile the whole way, she stayed at the front so no one really noticed, nut the one time she got to glance at her during the journey she could see the hints in her eyes, like she was dazed, like something else happened that she wasn't telling anyone and Karla was gonna find out what it was that she was hiding no matter what happened.

"oi Star are you sure we're headed the right way?" Viper asked

"off course why?" she answered in a quiet tone

"oh I dunno maybe the rapidly changing scene didn't give you a hint" Starblaze stopped and looked at her surroundings to see that she was no longer in the dark gloomy forest but she was now in a crystal forest

"oh" she turned to look at their previous location to see the same crystal forest

"the dark forest has disappeared too but the road is still there isn't it" with that she continued on the path not saying anything else

"Viper you aren't going to take that as normal are you?" Tatsuya asked

"off course not I just need to wrap my head round this

"well don't take your time at it" Belinda said

"miss Belinda?"

"just call me Belinda"

"what exactly could be wrong with her"

"I have a vague idea that she saw something after that fight but she's hiding it" Karla said coming to walk beside them

"you noticed too?" Viper asked

"her eyes, they aren't as they were before the fight" she said

"what? But I saw them go back to white"

"not really, her eyes are crystal white, right now they're milky"

"she's in a trans state" Belinda said

"a trans? Wait does that mean she might actually be going the wrong way?" Tatsuya asked looking at Strablaze who took another turn without checking the road

"no from what I can tell she knows where she's going, and if you're right and we're headed for Hazukis home then we're going the right way but she's definitely not completely herself" Tatsuya said in a serious tone

"guys" they turned abruptly to look at her

"why in such a position, as though you were about to fight someone, I was only going to say, that we're almost there" she said still in her soft tone that sent them signals but the many different signals had no meaning changing it to a feeling of heaviness giving them a sensation like they were also in a trans state

"oh okay then" they continued walking after her continuing their conversation

"yare, yare they really don't know I can hear their conversation, it's quite unfair to leave me out of it, oh well"

"oi what are you still doing in my head"

"waiting for the right moment"

"moment? For what?"

"you'll see"

"but"

"ah, keep watching it can't be done already"

"what is that? what am I looking at?"

"haha a story by yours truly enjoy Blaze- kun"

"she's so beautiful look at her"

"I couldn't agree with you more my queen, I couldn't be happier"

"mama, mama"

"oh my God she finally said it, she said my name"

"your name?"

"I mean she called me mommy for the first time"

"when is mine coming then"

"I guess a childs first friend really is her mother" the child reached out to the two before facing the man

"papa, papa!" he picked her up all the while smiling

"I guess you were wrong this time" the woman huffed and looked to the side with a pouty frown, the baby sneezed releasing sparks like fireworks

"kawaii!!!" the woman squealed looking at the laughing baby

"ah no fair she's so cute" she said going back to her pouty frown, the man looked at her before putting the baby down and going to hug her

"nani? Cuter than you?" he asked pulling her

"isn't she?"

"yes but" he started putting her in front of the mirror

"this is my type of cute"

"thank you"

" Miyuki"

"yes dad?"

"come here I need you to watch your sister while your mother and I check out the training grounds"

"definitely, AHHH!, she's so cute"

"sissy?"

"yay she knows who I am"

The couple left the sister for a while.

"are you enjoying the show?"

"it's a nice family, thanks for telling me how destroyed my family is"

"you still don't get it do you?"

"oh I get it, I get that you're a next level of crazy"

"lets skip to the interesting part then"

"search the whole kingdom, search everywhere, find my daughter"

"how did this happen" the woman cried

"don't cry my daughter will be found"

"what happened was the baby taken?"

"it's not done"

"did we really have to do this?"

"yes we had to we had orders"

"fine what are their names, if I'm going to parent beasts I should know what to call them"

"their names are…"