MERCIA
78. Fulfilled Promise.
Murcia Temple.
"It's so delicious, who's cooking this food?" ask Rafael.
"I cooked it" said Lyra.
"Hedya you should have learned to cook with your mother when you were off duty" Rafael said.
"I can cook a bullet stir-fry with cyanide toppings? you wanna try it?"
"It's so cruel."
"Ellias where's Leo? why don't you come here to eat together?" ask Lyra.
"Lady Lyra I've invited her, but she's embarrassed."
"Hedya you call Leo, he's very afraid of you" said Nora.
"I'll call him."
Hedya walked towards the open door, only to catch a glimpse of Leo speaking to someone in training.
"Leooo.. hurry here." cried Hedya greeted with laughter throughout the room.
Leo looked for the source of the voice that called out to him, when he found out Hedya was calling him he immediately ran.
"Carrol slide let Leo sit in our middle" Valery said.
"Hahaha Ellias looks like your men will be aniyaya by all of them" Rafael said.
"Leo is a loyal guy, but he's too stiff, I want him to relax a little so he can figure out how to find a girlfriend, he needs help."
"i just found out he's scared of women" Carrol said.
"Hey Ellias the person next to you needs help too, her love life is very sad" Nora said.
"Nora you don't talk nonsense" said Rafael.
"If you ever need help, call me, I can recommend you an exciting entertainment venue for all the expenses I'll bear" Ellias said.
"And you are as crazy as these women" said Rafael shaking his head.
"does I also include the mad woman Rafael" asked Lyra who kept laughing in the face of the silliness of them all.
"Lady Lyra is not included, because your cooking is delicious."
"haha."
"Can I help Miss Hedya?" ask Leo nervously.
Hedya pulled out the golden glock gun on her right thigh and pointed it at Leo's head.
"My mom asked Ellias to take you to a meal together, why did you refuse."
Glug.
Instantly a cold sweat appeared on Leo's forehead.
"a. a. I don't know lady Lyra who me. me."
"Ellias, did you really not say that?" ask Hedya.
"Hey Leo I told you that we'd eat together at Lady Lyra's, you want me to bring proof?" said Ellias covering her mouth holding back a laugh.
"Ti. don't need Mister, maybe I didn't clearly hear it, I'm sorry Miss Hedya, lady Lyra and mister Ellias." Leo bends.
"Hedya is enough, Leo come in. We'll all eat together."
After a long time getting to know each other the relationship between them all getting closer like a family even though each of them comes from a different background.
As Leo had planned to be the months of them all, his clothes were wet with his cold sweat, his face was as red as a boiled crab.
"Clara can you get me a bottle of cold soda for Leo?" carrol.
"Of course." Clara stood up and walked towards the refrigerator and picked up a few bottles of soda and then headed back to the dining table, her steps abruptly halted.
Prangs...
The broken bottles fell to the floor, all eyes staring at Clara full of question marks.
"Clara what's wrong?" ask Lyra.
"Mercia I hear you." Clara closed her eyes in her mind as she darted away from the earth beyond the speed of light, across the stars and planets of the Milky Way galaxy, his body is like being sucked into a solar system with two stars and several planets around it he entered into a planet that is three times larger than the earth, with a thin ring around, he falls in a dense forest, he looks around and finds August with a woman in a taper.
Clara felt the time stop, she saw the two unmoving.
"Mercia I hear you, I'll take you home." Clara touched her forehead with her right hand, while her left hand was placed on August's forehead.
Clara and August's bodies instantly glowed and then sped and disappeared. Violet could not see Clara's arrival she only briefly saw a flash of white light shot up into the sky and then August's body suddenly disappeared in front of her.
"Mercia.you're a special human being, now I understand why princess Sylvana likes you" said Clara looking up at the night sky where the light was going.
Braakk...
Clara opened her eyes. Lyra and the others were again shocked when they saw someone standing on the dining table.
"Mercia..!" all in unison.
August opened his eyes and looked around at the familiar faces.
"I'm sorry I didn't know I was gonna show up on this dinner table" August said, jumping off the table.
"I was wrong, I didn't think of the place where Mercia would appear, I just remembered the dinner table" Clara said.
"It doesn't matter, the important thing is that you brought Mercia back safely" Lyra said.
"Lady Lyra you're cured?" ask August.
"Mercia I'm sorry. I.."
"No need to apologize, I'm glad you're cured."
"Mercia I know the Moonheaven is gone, the flower is gone, but the Oracle asked me not to tell you, I don't know why she lied to you, I'm really sorry."
"Mercia me and the others only found out after you left, forgive us all" Hedya said.
August looked at all one by one, all bowed down feeling guilty.
"What's this for?"
"I don't get angry or feel lied to, Hedya one request you've fulfilled."
Lyra and Hedya were very surprised to hear that.
"Did you manage to get that flower?" ask Lyra who did know Hedya's request to August.
"Hedya, I fulfilled one of my promises to you" said Mercia and handed Hedya a black box.
With trembling hands Hedya received the box and opened it, the light of the flower could still illuminate her face as Hedya's eyes glazed over.
"After I'm healed, I don't care about this flower anymore, because I don't think you'll find it." Hedya gives the box to Lyra.
Carrol and the others one by one observed the flower, they felt lucky to see for themselves the majesty of the flower.
"Mercia how did you get it?" ask Lyra.
"Lady Lyra, the Moonheaven exists, but it's not what you know."
"You mean?"
"Moonheaven is not a place, but a world."
"A world?" Lyra and Carrol were shocked to hear that.
"Clara picked me up when I was in that world, Moonheaven was behind the little sun of Proxima.
"How did you get there?"
"i met a dark elf, and he was.."
"the daughter of the outcast..!" Lyra continued.
"Oracle told me, but I didn't think you'd meet her, maybe that was the point of asking you to go to Proxima."
"I met him at Enigma."
"What?" Lyra was surprised.
"Mercia you've visited three worlds, not even a Proxima can do it" Lyra said.
"Lady Lyra I need to get back to Proxima, I need all of you're help?"
"What can we do, what can we help you with?" ask Lyra.
"Hedya how many people have you found?"
"less than a hundred, but not all are fighters."
"Gather them you choose who's ready to go to Proxima."
"Mercia what's going on?" ask Lyra.
"We're headed for Galan's kingdom."
Silent.
The atmosphere of the room that previously felt very warm now turned tense.
"Well, I'll gather them all together, it might take a day for them to come here."
"All right."
One by one they left the room, only August, Raphael and Valery left. Valery glanced at Rafael. Rafael perfectly understood the meaning of his gaze, he let out a long sigh and then nodded.
"August is something we have to tell you, maybe it means nothing to you, but you still have to know the truth" Rafael said.
August turned his body. "Rafael.., what's up?"
"this. um. this.." Rafael hesitates to say it.
"Tell me, since when have you been so disinclined?"
Valery finally spoke up.
"It's about Julia."