Metanoia; The Hybrid
CHAPTER O4: TO THE NORTH ASTBOURNE.

The girl was like a noble, dressed in green and white with a beaded lace umbrella in her hands.

"The girl is crying" whispered Dylan.

We both approached Chairoz, and sure enough, this girl was crying. I couldn't even see his face, he was busy rubbing his eyes.

"Don't do that to your eyes, you can ruin them, and-" as I held her hand about to remove them from her face, there I saw two white beads, "your eyes are beautiful."

The girl stopped crying, surprised at what I just said. Dylan came closer, looking at his face that was as white as snow. I was confused as to why her hair, beads, and skin could be that white. Even the skin color of the Vampire nation is not as white as that.

Is he a hybrid?

"Wow~ your eyes are so beautiful. I've never seen him. You're a Vampire?" Dylan watched this daughter's face intently, he also rubbed the tear dots on her cheeks.

"You were never taught by your mother? What you're supposed to ask is his name" I said.

"I'm Cassandra" she said sobbing.

"Meet me, I'm Dylan and he's Gara" Dylan said.

After Chairoz spoke to some of the people earlier, he immediately told us to get into the ship.

We used a royal ship, which we only boarded in a horse-drawn carriage. Then we went inside and found a table full of food for us to eat. But my eyes prefer to see a lot of fresh bread on the table. They also serve chocolate jam in the form of glass jars.

"Are you hungry?" Ask Chairoz to us. Cassa spontaneously nodded, I did not know if she had eaten or not before. But about me and Dylan, we had breakfast this morning, and we weren't so hungry.

We sat there right away. Afterwards, Dylan and Cassa ate the bread despite the many other meals served.

We spent a few hours in the cabin, until we finally reached the port of Anchores, Danveurn. We got down to the dock and waited for our horse-drawn carriage to be unloaded. Then we left the harbor and entered the Dorforwyn region, the Capital of Danveurn Country where the supreme kingdom of Lycanthrope, Angkara Kingdom was established.

"Is Cassa also your student's son?" I was reminded of the question I wanted to ask Chairoz.

"Yes, he'll be my student too."

"Can you tell me a little bit about Cassa?" Dylan. After all, Cassa was asleep next to Uncle Lion. He looks so tired.

"Cassa was born and raised in Azaire, Aberrstwyth. People from the Kingdom of Isambard, an Angel of course" he explained.

"Wow~ I think Danveurn State Academy is a male-only school" Dylan marveled.

"Hahaha, many of the Angels signed up this year, and the Isambard Kingdom sent one boy who would become a student at the Danveurn State Academy. About Cassa, it surprised me a little" he said.

"What does that mean?"

"Cassandra is a different Angel. He was born with a gene differential, they called him an albino. No one knows anything about Cassandra's parents. People found him on the street, when he was a baby. Cassandra was raised in an orphanage. The other children no one wanted to approach him. Until finally he knew, his departure made him hated, because people assumed that Cassandra would have a bad impact on the Aberrstwyth Country. Cassandra was taken out of the orphanage. No one wants to accept it. Until Cassandra is taken by a group of foreigners to meet a conglomerate in the same territory, named Adolf Hazard Pavoleos. Pavoleos treated him like his own son. But on the other hand, Pavoleos taught Cassandra about the military of the Isambard kingdom until his current age. Hearing the news that the Academy was starting to open a new enrollment, Pavoleos sent a letter and wanted to include Cassandra in the Academy. So Cassandra sent it to me today."

"And why are you crying?" Ask Dylan.

"Of course he was sad to have to part with Pavoleos, and at the same time afraid that people outside of his Negee would also distinguish him."

"So so. It's worth it he's crying" I said, looking at Cassa at close range. I wanted to have a sister, so that I would become more mature like Allegro's sister.

"Cassa is a beautiful woman, how can those people hate her."

"That's how people judge. Forms of being are no longer excuses, but to what will happen someday." I wonder what the students in the Academy will be like.

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We arrived in the Astbourne region, the territory that was led over the Dalerine Kingdom. The region that in its history became the residence of the first Hybrid, or he who was named Aeolus.

We entered the city, and our arrival was noticed by many. They just don't know if the Vampires and Angels are on the train.

"The city in Astbourne is not what I imagined it to be. I think this town has little left, or the Dalerine Kingdom is closing down this town" I said.

"Because Astbourne has a dark history?" Guess Dylan.

"That's how."

We came to a road in the woods. I don't know why, it feels so familiar in my mind. It was as if I had set foot into this forest. I was familiar with the forest, but only the forest in the Dorforwyn region or the forest in the Aberrstwyth State Capital Territory, Alystra I had ever been to.

"It feels like I'm just going home" I suddenly muttered as I looked out the window and found tall, towering trees rubbing against each other making strange noises.

"You're a forest boy" said Dylan.

"Surely Brother Allegro told you that."

"Sir Allegro said the forest is your second home, you even have a tree house in the Alystra forest right?"

"He loved showing it off, it was a place where we used to spend a lot of time when he finished school."

It was a long journey until we arrived in the open forest. Chairman, we just entered the northern Astbourne region. We entered the small town that is here, this city is one that plays an important role in the economic system in the Land of Danveurn, because the city has a plateau that is suitable for gardening.

"We're entering the town of Northborne" Chairoz said.

This area is very large, but what makes me curious is the high cliffs that surround this place. The cliffs meet right in front of us.

"Why is there such a high cliff that seems to lock this place up?" Ask Dylan who seems to have the same thoughts as me.

"This is a historic place. Once before the 3rd Lycanthrope threw away its granddaughter, this place was a valley that died without life. Until the war destroyed this place, and razed the north. All that remains are those cliffs and mountains. Therefore the soil here becomes fertile and can be lived in" explained Chairoz.

"The war seems to benefit the Danveurn Country as well" I murmured suddenly.

"How can you say that over the darkness of the past?" Dylan nudged my shoulder.

"What is said is true, not always the negative impact that can be obtained from an incident" Chairoz continued while looking at me.

"But horror once, talk like that!"

"Haha!"

Afterwards, we reached the end of the city with a goodbye gate that convinced me that the Academy was not here. Out of the city, I saw a plain covered in yellowish green grass along the corner of this place to a little forest near the high cliff.

If the cliff was created because of the war, it means that the war caused the land in the Astbourne region to collapse until the formation of this valley.

Aeolus did all this.

"Are we going to that cliff?" Cassandra asked who was awake.

"What if there's an unwritten name and it goes through that crack?" Ask Dylan.

"They will only find a forest that ends with the Odile sea" Chairoz said.

As we were about to arrive at a crack decorated with ancient archways that seemed to be covered with glowing waves as its entrance, I heard the sound of horses from the sky there. I just turned my head to look outside and found a horse carriage dominated with white flying among the clouds. Jumping around or gliding, the carriage with the winged horse came down then touched the ground. The train was running right behind my train.

"The horse-drawn carriage of the Kingdom of Isambard, from the Land of Aberrstwyth" Chairoz said.

"That must be Prince" Cassandra said suddenly.

"You know him?" Ask Dylan.

"I see it every once in a while during a rain parade, the Prince usually sits on a stopover and chooses the grains of rain to share on the land of mankind as a prosperity" Cassandra explained.

Shortly thereafter, a luminous pentagram appeared so intricately hovering above the ground. Inside the pentagram is not a land that was originally grassy yellow green again, but like a dark space.

From there came a carriage with black horses unraveling like lava liquid. The black horse-drawn carriage runs behind the Angel's chariot.

"The king of the Demon nation really drove away his son" Chairoz murmured.

"Excreate?" My toot.

"I don't know for sure. I only heard rumors from his people."

Not long after, two horse carriages appeared from different directions, it seemed like they were taking another road leading here. The first horse-drawn carriage clearly shows that the Mermaid kingdom also sent their children. However, I never knew which nation the second train came from.

"Who's behind that?" Ask Cassa.

"That's the Fairy chariot" replied Dylan.

"You know what?" My solute.

"Everyone knows who likes glowing flashes the most."

After arriving at the crack, there was someone standing in the way. That guy is like the guard of this place.

"Bring your things, and get down" Chairoz said, then get off first. I saw from the window, it turned out that there was a Hunter similar to Chairoz coming out of the trains. They wear the same clothes. Were they part of the medieval Hunter team?

"Why do we have to go downstairs and bring our own suitcases?" Oceh Dylan's.

"Because this place is so sacred, these horse-drawn carriages cannot enter the pass" I replied.

"What a pity, why is an Academy so closed? The Urcmoonth State Academy is not so."

"Different regions, different policies."

"Let's go down" asked Cassa.

The three of us, one by one got off the train with our suitcases each. So did Cassandra immediately open her beautiful umbrella because the sun is really hot on the top there.

I turned my head, deliberately to see those people coming out of their carriage. There I saw, they all stood staring at me and joined us.

"You're the famous one, aren't you?" Asked one of them who had two small horns on his forehead.

"Known?"

"Well, right! You're that famous boy" continued the boy who had a pretty face, he must be the Fairy Nation.

"Known how?" Ask Dylan.

"His black eyes shone like a lunar eclipse" replied he who was from the Angel Nation.

"It's an honor to meet you" someone walked up to me and stuck out his hand. He's from the Mermaid Nation, I can feel his aura.

I reached into his hand, "Sagara Hart Northcliff Andromeda, of the Angkara Kingdom, the Land of Danveurn."

"Iris Semele, of the Kingdom of Narmadia in the Land of Thralkeld."

Then the others went to work with me and Dylan.

"Castiel Evangelos, from the Kingdom of Isambard, Aberrstwyth" said the Angel.

"Xavier Damonous of the Damouncless Kingdom, I am from the Land of Narthford" said the two-horned Demon boy.

"I am Piers Macallister, I am of the Uva Kingdom, the Fysikossilian region of the Land of Irrinshire. I'm a Nature Fairy!" Said the beautiful Fairy who was very enthusiastic about introducing herself to it.

"I am Dylan Max Northcliff, of the Kingdom of Claverdon in the Land of Urcmoonth."

"Northcliff?"

"Me and the Dylan brothers."

"Ohh so."

As I listened to them, I saw Castiel greeting Cassandra.

"You're the girl, right, who was taken care of by Mr. Pavoleus."

Cassandra nodded and bowed respectfully, "My name is Cassandra. Nice to meet the Prince here."

"I'd be mad if you acted like that, here I'm just a Castiel."

"alright... Castiel..."

"I wonder how our dorm life is?" Dylan.

"Well, I guess it'll be just as fun as you falling asleep on a pillow" I said.

"A comfortable life?"

"Life we will not know when we are comfortable."

Dylan patted me on the shoulder, "You're right. You're always right."

...To Be Continue's...