Chapter 5

 I looked towards the small creature and directed my gaze towards the other voice from before, but it looked much different from the smaller creature. This one was tall with gray skin, stone-spiked hair, 1 giant leaf for a hat, several leaves and vines for clothes, however it had spikes of stone piercing through the clothes, and stone-spiked hair that covered 1 of his gray eyes. Its body was covered in scuff marks, like cut stone but with no polishing. "Woah now lets just take it easy..- We won't hurt you.", the stone creature spoke. "My name is Cephas.. Ok..? and this is Brier.. She can be a little curious. What's your name?", He said with kindness in his eye. "U-Umm, I'm Aden.. Where am I..?", I said with a bit of a calmer tone. "You are home!~", Brier said with a bright smile, leaving Aden confused. "Sorry, she means you're at our home, this is Edyn", Cephas stated, ensuring Brier didn't race towards Aden with curiosity. "Is she your kid..?", I asked Cephas. "Oh no no, she's as old as me, her mind and body are just severely underdeveloped..", Cephas said while looking at the sweet innocent Brier playing with the butterflies. I stared at Brier with him, curious on her past, and what happened to her.

 "So umm..- what exactly.. Are you..? I don't mean to be rude, but I have never seen something like you", Cephas asked while looking at me and my attire. "Oh um, I am a human, do you not have humans here…?-", I asked. "Daiki said there no humans for almost 5,000 years!~", Brier said as she turned her attention to Aden. I looked at Brier with shock and looked back at Cephas for confirmation, to which he did not react. "What do you mean..?", I said with confusion. "You'll have to talk to Daiki for that…- He knows more about our history than anyone, We can take you if you'd like-", Cephas said. "Yeah!! Let's see Daiki!! Daiki Daki Daki!!", Brier said while jumping with glee and running to Cephas, holding his hand. Cephas, trying to hide redness from his stone cheeks, looks at Aden, waiting for a response. "Let's go see him I guess..~", I said with slight nervousness. The three head to the dense forest, Brier, excited to see Daiki, skips along the forest trail. Cephas on the other hand stays back a bit with Aden to answer a few questions he had roaming in his mind. How did he arrive? Who is Daiki? Where did the humans go?