I watched as Tanex and Triskix turned toward the end of the chairs. Following their gaze down, I saw that RaXi and Marlex had finally returned along with Anamx and a puzzled and oddly dresses Kyxsha without the child, Lucinde, with her. Marlex held Anamx in his arms but Anamx looked so strange… as if he had a slight glow to him. I could feel RaXi’s energy drained so much, yet she stood as if nothing was wrong.
That act of her’s is going to get her killed one of these days if she doesn’t ease up and let someone help her then... Yet if anyone tries to help hold her up now it will only damage her pride. I just wished that sometimes she will swallow that pride and let someone help.
“I didn’t anticipate you taking this long RaXi,” Tanex said continuing to rap the tips of his fingers together.
“She’s hurt!” Kyxsha yelled at Tanex.
“Why don’t you show us your interesting new power Triskix,” Tanex smirked looking toward Triskix. “You certainly didn’t have it back when we were children.”
I watched as silently Triskix made a portal to the floor, and calmly walked over to RaXi. The same blue flames from before emerged and licked around his feet, but this time it was different Tris didn’t seem wore out after healing up RaXi. Did Triskix become stronger since the last time we saw him? It wasn’t that long ago but still, maybe that out burst of power from before and that talk he had with Lexian, woke something up inside of him.
After Aidex explained everything that was going on here Tanex started up where he left off.
“Back to business, if you haven’t sensed it yet, Xraktos is causing quiet a mess of things with his stress on time and his rush to bring back Martel, but no matter. As it seems, there is no better time but the present.”
“But…Tanex….Nii-san…..” I started again trying to think of an alternate way to do this. Once again Tanex dismissed it when I tried again, and came up with something else to say.
“Nyx,” Tanex started. “I could say that ‘the strong live the weak die’ but that is not my sentiment at this time. It is just a matter that must be done, and at the moment we must deal with Xraktos before he does something drastic. Also, Xerebus seems to be planning something of his own. There is a lot that is going on all at once, so this is what must be done.”
Then he listed off all the things that will happen. I tried to think of some way to do this better yet I couldn’t think of anything, I couldn’t wrap my mind around another possibility for this to wok out. ‘Maybe this is the only way for this to happen, and from the looks of it. This will happen whether anyone likes it or not.’ I felt like a hypocrite for the things that I was thinking of but if I wasn’t there and someone got hurt I would hate myself even more.
“Fine. Maybe… Maybe this is the only way to do this.” I said looking down at my clenching hands.
“I think we are going to need more help with this though then just us. If what you say is true Tanex, about Xraktos. Then we need whoever will help us. We don’t even know all of his powers or…”
Looking back up I thought about my words before I said them. That pulling feeling made its way back, sharp and strong it hooked onto what I think is my soul. Like a chain it lashed on and traveled away from this castle, with no end in sight.
“I don’t know what the rest of you think about this but… I think we need someone on our side that knows about Xraktos. That has been around him longer then any of us, someone that has fought him on equal ground. Maybe us elites have been on the wrong side from the start, I don’t know. But I think we need his help… ... Xerebus’s.”
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The perfect shade of blue awaits the right weather,
Like how I wait for you.
The moonlight smudged away the remnants of our ending,
Like legendary porcelain obsessed with itself.
Your eyes full of laughter.
~Nyx
