User blog:Meta07/Fanfic: Eternal Wars - Chapter 10

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Kasai-no-Omori (Fire Jungle), 10:00 PM
Sean: *Yawn* HEY! Are we there yet?

Miyu: Sadly... not yet, sir.

Sean: Then just why does it take so long just to get to her base?

Miyu: Umm... this jungle is pretty big, so... and we all walk so I suppose we haven't traveled that far.

Sean: Ugh... screw this... I want to go home.

Bill: Going home would be a much more difficult thing, idiot,... it's already this dark, so I guess we should settle for the night. Find a riverside and we'll sleep.

Sean: Hey! But we haven't had dinner yet!

Bill: Is this a time to care about dinner? Can't you ever skip a meal?-_-"

Sean: Urgh... while that Kohaku girl is probably having a royal party and a princess' bedroom at the palace right now, we have to starve here to death... NOOOO! SOMEONE GIVE ME SOME FOOD! I'll never sleep with you guys until I'm full!

Byzantine: Starve to death? Please,... my sister once skipped eating for days and she's still fine and powerful. >_>

Sean: I DON'T CARE! I'M HUNGRY! AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! *zombified* You.... you.... *comes closer to Byzantine, saliva pouring down* find me some food or... hmm.... you seems delicious... slurp...

Byzantine: *disgusted* Ugh... eekk... OK! Le...let's find some fruits, guys, it's... it's not safe to pass through the night being hungry, right? Aha,... ahahaha,....

Bill: >_< Ugh, fine... Ok, maybe we should split up. Kido and Byzantine, go this way. Douglas and Miyu, go this way. I and Sean will go this way because someone needs to calm this guy down. We'll use GPS to communicate and meet up later, ok? Oh, and go find a suitable place to sleep, too.

Miyu & Byzantine: Roger!

Douglas: Huh? If you girls all have GPS-enabled smartphones so why not just search for Peta's base there?

Miyu: It's no use. Peta's base is currently one of Japana's secret base, so we can't use GPS for that.

Douglas: Oh...

Sean: Huh? What are those little squary things?

Byzantine: Uh... a... smartphone? o_o

Sean: Just what's that? Can it make food? FOOOODD...

Byzantine: Eee~h?! Don't tell me you still don't have one in this age?!

Sean: FFOOOODD... *jumps on Byzantine to attempt to steal her phone*

Bill: *punches Sean, making him pass out then carries him on the back* Ahaha... well, let's go right away, guys...

Douglas: *whispers* Hey, Bill, why me with Miyu?

Bill: *whispers* Well, isn't it obvious? It's your chance, go!

The big group then split into 3 smaller ones, but we'll focus on Douglas and Miyu right now, because Douglas is the main character and this is obviously a sort of date, and I can't think of anything interesting to write about the other 2 groups, except that Bill has a literal heavy burden and a metaphorical one after Sean wakes up.

Byzantine & Bill: *look at camera* Jerk...

Hey, that's mean! Anyway,... Douglas and Miyu takes the route by the riverside (just for dramatic purposes), and found a row of peach trees along the way. Miyu then proceeds to collect some peaches so that Sean doesn't eat Byzantine the group can have some fruits as dinner. As she's collecting the fruits, Miyu tripped and fell because of a branch on the ground.

Miyu: Owww!!!

Douglas: Miyu! Are you ok?

Miyu: I'm fine, but... Huh? I think I've just found something...

Miyu then scratches the dust off the site, and finds a hidden metallic door.

Douglas: A secret basement? Why is it here?! Hey, is this Peta's base?

Miyu: No... Peta's base is overground, as far as I know it,...

Douglas: Ooh... so this must be a real secret! Let's see what's inside. Maybe this place can be good for an overnight shelter.

Miyu: Ok... but,... how can we open it?

Douglas: Well, let me just try lifting it up. Uhh.... it worked. -_-" It wasn't locked after all. Bu...but it's so dark inside... *trembles* let's... get outta here...

Miyu: Don't worry, I brought a flashlight. *turns on flashlight* *smile* Who knows what exciting secret lies behind? Do you want to explore it... with me?

Douglas: Sure! Miyu, you are the best!

And so Douglas enters the mysterious basement... while hiding behind Miyu's back. >_>"

Dark Room, 12:00 AM
Miyu: The room,... it's empty,... except for the one gate here...

Douglas: *shivers* Miyu... I... want to go back...

Miyu: Don't worry, Douglas-san, I think I've found the lights button here. *turns on the lights* These lights are even adjustable! If we dim those lights, I think,... it would make a perfect sleeping light, no?

Douglas: Ahh, it's so much better now! Hey, at the back of the room,... there's that gate, right?

Miyu: Yep, but it's locked...

Douglas: Let's see,... there're 5 suspicious holes on it. I suppose they're key slots...

The gate has 5 key slots, a gear-shaped hole, a sword-shaped hole, a wings-shaped hole, a book-shaped hole, and finally, a tiara-shaped hole.

Douglas: Huh? A gear-shaped hole? I wonder...

Douglas then takes out the gear-shaped badge Eldric gave him by mail back in Chapter 3, then inserts it into the key slot. The badge fitted perfectly, and suddenly two lines appeared above the key slots:

"Once all the five Seraphim are by your side,

The end will be revealed."

Douglas: What... is this?

Miyu: Whatever is it, I suppose this room must be something really important,... From the looks of it, I guess Master Eldric built this place!

Douglas: (Yeah,... who else,...) Well, but I've only got 1 of the 5 keys so there's really nothing much we can do now. Let's just skip it for now and call the others for the night.

Miyu: Ok... *calls Bill* Bill-san, we've found some fruits and a shelter, please tell the others to go to this place on the riverside and we'll instruct you  to the shelter, alright?

Bill: Ok, get it! *calls others*

Douglas: Ok then, let's drop those peaches here and go outside to wait for the others and enjoy nature a bit.

Douglas and Miyu then go outside and sit by the river side by side, looking at stars and stuff. You can imagine the scenery, and it's quite obvious what's going to happen here...

Kasai-no-Omori Riverside, 0:15 AM
Douglas: Say, Miyu,...

Miyu: Hm?

Douglas: Do you... hate weak guys like me? I mean,... I'm just a puny Dart Monkey, and I didn't even managed to do a single useful thing since the bloons started appearing again, and to top it off, I'm an obvious coward,... I,... I fainted on the Javelin, I used you as cover to enter that room when it should've been the other way around, and,... everything... *sigh* I'm a failure...

Miyu: *smiles* But you're good at other things, right?

Douglas: Huh?

Miyu: I mean,... everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, right? No one can be perfect, and you can't be a complete failure, right? I mean,... even our strongest troops have crucial weaknesses. Take Haruka-san and Mizuki-san for example, both of them are recognized geniuses, but Haruka-san tends to be over-aggressive when things go wrong and sometimes attack the wrong people because of that, and Mizuki-san can sometimes be too clumsy for Haruka-san to handle, but... despite those weaknesses, they're still considered some of the most powerful people around, isn't it? *smile*

Douglas: Mi... Miyu...

Miyu: You can be just like them. Perhaps you're a genius at something we've known yet, who knows? Plus, if you didn't notice those red bloons, then this group won't be gathered together, right? And to top it off, you're the main character,  you ought to become unbelievably powerful by the end of the story, no? Chu! *uses her finger to push Douglas' cheeks* *wink*

Douglas: M... Miyu,... I... *blushes* I...

Bill: Oi! We're here! Where's the place?

Miyu: Oh... Welcome, minna-san! Follow me, I'll lead you there,...

Bill: *whispers to Douglas* Hey, how's it going?

Douglas: *whispers* It's because of you that I failed to confess to her, jerk! Why such bad timing?! Urgh, I hate you! *follows Miyu back to the shelter*

Bill: Hey, but,... aw, man! ... Sean, follow us, there's food inside!

Sean: FFOOOOOOODD!!!

Byzantine: Urgh,... for some reasons I still think he's going to eat me like this!

Dark Room (not so dark anymore now that the lights are on), 0:40 AM
Douglas: So, what do you guys have?

Miyu: We've managed to collect some peaches...

Bill: Hah, I came across various fruits including apples, grapes, oranges and on top of all, BANANAS! Here they are! *drops heaps of bananas*

Douglas: Great! Byzantine and Kido, do you have anything?

Byzantine: Iya~... I collected some cool stuffs too, you know! Let's see... here's some ginseng, trauffles, 500-year-old grass, leaves-from-some-tree-I-don't-even-know-but-looks-healthy and... many thigns!

Douglas: Are those... herbs? What do we need them for?

Byzantine: Hey, at least I tried, ok?

Miyu: E..etou... arigatou gozaimasu (Translation for those who don't know: Uhm... thank you very much), Byzantine-san, I'd be glad to keep those herbs for healing later!

Kido: *silenly drops some watermelons*

Douglas: Ok then, we're all set! Now, let's PARTY!

Bill, Miyu & Byzantine: HOI!

Kido: H...hoi...

Sean: FFOOOOOODDD!!!

Byzantine: Oh here's some FOOD you ZOMBIE! *forces some bananas into Sean's mouth*

And just like that, the group spends the night partying and sleeping under the dimly lit light of the Dark Room peacefully, not knowing about the fierce battle next morning...

--TO BE CONTINUED--