~Twilight Vale(6)

In the beautiful flower field, there was a dark blue creature slowly walked through the field. As Blue walked, a gorgeous dark blue owl landed on Blue's hand, Blue patted its head and let it fly away. From the owl's wings, bright blue particles fell to the ground where Ariys lay sleeping, slowly it revealed something hidden beside Ariys. The owl then miraculously disappeared into the air after a brown blue tea table and a chair appeared.

Blue came to Ariys to look at her swelled eye. Blue then rubbed Ariys' swelled eye gently. Suddenly Ariys' body slowly began to disappear making Blue a little bit sad before it moved to sit at the chair. Blue grabbed a cup of tea that appeared out of nowhere on the tea table and took a sip. After done Blue looked upward where a tremendous big creepy unknown monster was sealed at a floated sphere. The monster emitted a powerful, evil aura. The aura was so bright that it became the main light source for that place, which had never had a sun to begin with. Blue then disappeared together with all the furniture in that dark purple atmosphere.

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Back at the grass field near the river, Anish was cleaning dishes at the river while he put Ariys lay near the bonfire. Anish was then startled when he heard Ariys scream. He immediately went to Ariys, grabbing a cup of water beside him.

As soon as he arrived he asked her "What's wrong, Ariys?" and gave her the water. Ariys took it and drank before spoke. "I'm fine, It just I had a weird dream just now" Ariys said and gave Anish back the empty cup.

"Oh, just a dream? You scared me. I thought you were hurt" Anish said made Ariys frowned as she doesn't realized that her beautiful face had a swelled in the right eyes, also she doesn't even remember that they were sparring earlier.

Anish then gave her a plate full of meat before went away to clean remained dishes. Ariys ate while daydreaming about the strange dream. "How can I'm dreaming about strange creature and an unknown monster?" She questioned as she never got a dream when slept before this. "Am I still effected with the dream realm?" She said while tried to pinch her cheek, "Aww, it's hurt" even when her cheek was hurt she kept chewed the meat like nothing happened.

"It can't be dream realm, maybe I'm just too tired from the training and journey I'm do today. I should get enough rest now" she made conclusion and put the empty plate beside her and called out for Anish. When Anish arrived she told him about her condition and excuse herself for not be able to work as guard tonight.

"It's okay Ariys, just get enough rest. We still have a long journey before reach Innovara. I'm promise, I will take care of you like how you take care of me when I was injury tonight" Anish said, smiled at her while help her setup a simple tent made with woods and leaves and left a bottle water beside her before continued his own works.

Ariys thanked him and proceeded to lay on the softly leaf mattress, that night when she looked at the moon she couldn't admired the moon like she always does on the other nights. She was trembled as it got her remembered that creepy monster she saw on her dream, she forced her own eyes to closed and turned her body to face the bonfire. Even though her body was trembled she eventually fell asleep not long after closed her eyes long enough with her head tried to not remembered that thing.

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The next morning, Ariys got up and stretched out her body. She could felt her body was full with energy, she then did her morning routine. As a cute girl first thing first she did was washed her face, so she went to the river. She scooped river water used her hands and felt weird afterwards. She felt something was wrong with her right eye, she then faced the river to look herself on the water reflection and got surprised.

Meanwhile on the grass field, Anish was setup everything ready to be brought alone on their journey. As he lifted the last sack of the meat Ariys came in a hurried Infront of him. "Oh Ariys are you ready to go now" he said as he thought Ariys couldn't waited to begin the journey. "Yes, but first. Why my eyes swell up? What happen last night, Anish?" Ariys said in a quick.

At that moment, Anish had believed for sure that Ariys had forgotten everything about last night before she fainted, so instead of told her the truth he lied about what happened to her eyes. "Nothing happen last night. Your eye probably bitten by a bug. I've heard that wild bugs can do something like that" he said that to make Ariys mood doesn't got down because of him. Ariys looked at him in disbelief, she asked "then why did the bug bite my eye instead of my hands or other body parts?"

"Because your face are cute. The bug is jealous with your chubby face. Bugs can get jealous too if their see someone too beautiful" Anish said spontaneously. Ariys' eyes shrinked looked at him closely she doesn't got blushed at all from all the praises Anish threw. "Hmm, whatever. I don't care anymore since there's no one at here. There's no need to hide my ugly face, but you must promise me to not tell anyone how ugly my face are" she said right in his face.

Anish nodded and their made pinky promise, Ariys then went away to grabbed her things. "How can she say she is ugly?" Anish talked behind her back as for her Ariys still looked beautiful even with that injury.

After a minutes, they two had ready to go. Ariys got out the small circle device that she used as map, on its surface it showed arrow to where they should go as that arrow was their compass to go to Innovara. After made sure the arrow and her body straight with each other Ariys began to walked, she's followed by Anish on the back. Like yesterday they were walked in literal quietness like one of them wasn't existed, it just the animals and the sounds of nature that passed through their ears.

To fill his boredom, Anish started singing a song he heard somewhere before, while Ariys didn't care at all and kept walking. Anish were getting wild as he sang the song he even killed a Sanguivore in one punched while dance, but because of that Ariys need to keep checked on him as he sometimes goes the other way when she looked away. They were like that for an hours until they arrived Infront of a big cave. "It looks like we need to go through here" Ariys said after made sure that arrow was pointed into the entry big cave.

"Let's rest here for fifteen minutes before enter the cave" Ariys gave instruction, but Anish seemed to not heard it as he casually entered the cave while closed his eyes and kept dance and singing. Ariys got fed up with him, but she couldn't let that man entered the cave alone as she still needed his protection if they were threat she couldn't handle and because of the food supplies was with him. She chased Anish into the cave.

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Inside the cave it got darker as they went deeper into the cave, there were no light for them to see in the darkness. At that moment they were separated by fourteen paths in the darkness as they two entered a different path, Anish entered the last one meanwhile Ariys entered the eight path.

Ariys pulled out a light stone she had gotten from Fri a long time ago, the stone began to glow a soft yellow light illuminated the place she stood. Ariys was amazed with the drawings at the cave wall, it has a deluxe door key in the center while below the key there were many detailed drawings like a human shaped, short human shaped, and many more that she couldn't described. "What is this actually? It can't be at here without a reason" She wondered and touched the drawing.

Then she just remembered about Anish, she looked to the front with the glowing stone lifted a little further from her. There's nothing there not even his footsteps was there. "Seriously, we're about to arrive at Innovara. How could this happen? I don't want to stay here any longer than we should" she complained and ran to search him.

On the other hand, Anish just finished sang and kick a rock so hard that he crushed it unintentionally. He then opened his eyes, Anish didn't have a problem seeing at night, but his sight was limited to his surroundings. "Hmm, is it already night" he said, "Hey, Ariys why you don't say anything about the moon has already arise" he said while looked at below since his foothold was taller than the front. His mouth opened in disbelief, "Wait where's, Ariys? Don't tell me that I lost her" he ran around in searched for her.

After a minutes he stopped and believed that he had lost her. He became less calmed, "Already, I can't let this happen" he said as he knew he probably will lost control if he were separated with Ariys too long. Suddenly a big quake happened made drip stone fell to the ground. Anish who were getting serious destroyed all the stones that fell on him, he then went to the source of quake right away without thinking in hope to find Ariys there.

Return to Ariys, she emerged from a pile of rocks. Back then when the quake was occurred, Ariys didn't had a time to react as a big rock beside her immediately fell onto her, she was lucky that the rock didn't injured her too much. She only getting a scratched and several small bruises on his arms because she used it to cover her head.

"Is that man already involved in a fight" Ariys speculated while sweeping the dust off her body. Then the next seconds a second quake occurred, but it wasn't powerful like the first one. But because of the quake she now believed that Anish was in a fight with some creature, "What a drag. After disappear, now you're fighting. Just you wait Anish I will punch you when we meet" Ariys mumbled, furious with what happened just in seconds because of Anish.

While Ariys began to run to reach quake source there's two mountainous golem that was fighting at a big space inside the cave. One was made out of stone while the other one was purely earth, they followers also fight alongside them. It's such a big fight between two giants and all along they're the reason why all the quake happened. Just from collided of two giants fist could send a powerful shockwave through the battlefield and made the cave shook even their followers were sent flying from the impact.

At the one of the entrances where two smaller golems fight, they two was equal in term of strength. They kept exchange punches, not realized that Anish had stood beside them. He grabbed the stone golem and threw it into the earth golem, sending them far to the back. His action attracted other small golems while their boss still on their own world. Anish's eyes were completely white. He had lost control over his body since being separated from Ariys. In other word his personality had changed there will be no fun and laugh with this one, only violent would be his way. He then jump into the battlefield fighting against every small golems.