Chapter 18: New Member

Lucian

I’d live to see another day… Once the smoke cleared, I was able to see my path before me, and it was… breathtaking. The storm had tapered off into a reasonable state, my body absorbing the aftermath of the impact. I was strong enough to get up on my feet, drenched with heat, but booming with crazy power.

I turned around, both mother spirit and Cai looking at me marveled.

“A job well done, Lucian,” Shinra congratulated, clasping her happy hands together.

“Lucian…” Cai whispered, her eyes soaked with tears.

“Looks like you toned out as well. An added bonus!”

Toned out? Shinra’s words made me look down at my arms, and while they seemed slightly bulkier, they were covered with blood.

“Ah, no worries. I will take care of that for you,” she announced, swinging her finger up in the air, where her light not only cleaned my skin, by stitched up my clothes as well.

I looked brand new, a smile finally catching my face before I rushed to the water near her, looking at my own reflection.

“Holy hell, my chest is huge!”

“All right, huge is pushing it,” Shinra teased.

“If I’d known I’d get a buff boost by coming here, I would have paid you a visit sooner!” While it was quick for me to put the tremendous pain behind me once my body adjusted, Cai still appeared heart broken. She tossed me a face smile as she disengaged her weapon, my feet moving forward to comfort her. “Hey, look at me, I’m all right. No worries, okay?”

She nodded, while I wiped the tears off her soft cheeks.

“Oh?” Shinra commented, the both of us wrapping up the touchy moment to address her.

“Thank you, Shinra,” I bowed. “Though, I would have liked a little warning!”

She snickered. “If I told you how gruesome it would have been, then you wouldn’t have gone along with it.”

“I am sorry, mother spirit, for doubting you,” Cai broke.

“No worries, light warrior.” She nodded. “Well, it seems as if my work here is done. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to get back to my endless hibernation phase. I trust you will mend this broken world to the best of your now wieldable abilities.” She winked.

“Wait, Shinra. There is one more thing we needed your help with,” I said, my hand reaching for my necklace that I expected to be dangling around my neck. When I couldn’t feel it, I jerked my head south, patting down my chest frantically. “What the hell? Where did it go?”

“Lucian, what’s wrong?” Cai asked.

“My necklace, the one my father gave me! It’s gone! I don’t understand, I just had it.”

“Your father’s necklace?” Shinra asked. “You mean the one that was gifted by the sun spirit?”

Cai turned to her. “We were hoping that you can unlock its powers.”

“Well, you don’t need me to do that for you. Kiran was able to use its powers without me. And Lucian should be able to do the same, now that he has triggered his light. But in order for you to do that, you actually need the necklace to be at your possession.”

“Shit, I must have dropped it in the fight yesterday!”

“Then we need to go back to that sight. I pray that it’s still there where you left it.” The both of us faced Liger’s mother spirit for a proper farewell, bowing to her before we left. “Thank you again, Shinra, for all of your help,” Cai finished, Shinra’s milky eyes turning to me sternly.

“Please do tread through our lands, carefully, demi-god. While I have faith in your ability to mend this broken world, you need to understand that now that I have awakened you, you are more visible to the shadow elps that had infested our lands. Be very careful, use good judgment, and wield your weapon wisely.”

I took Shinra’s words to heart. She believed in me, and I appreciated everything she stood for. I wasn’t going to let her down, my determination stronger now than ever. I felt my own light running through me. I felt unstoppable, fearless! And as Cai and I ascended on that stone coin back to the surface, I understood more clearly where this heroic path was taking me.

But, I had to find my necklace first.

“I am disappointed in myself as well, for not noticing sooner,” Caid said as she looked up to me. “I was the one who brought you to the hotel. I should have been more alert.”

“Don’t blame yourself, Cai. I didn’t notice it either,” I replied, walking right next to her while we headed back to that same site.

She smiled at me, like she was impressed or something. “You look… nice?”

“Nice? Just nice?” I teased.

“Really… nice.” She giggled. “Your face didn’t really change much. You merely gained a bit of mass.”

“Where it counts.”

“I am happy that you made it out of there alive.”

“Shit, were you really going to snipe down the mother spirit to save me, butterfly?”

She blushed. “I was worried about you, Lucian,” Cai said, and then we both stopped, the sound of crunching leaves in the woods bringing us on high alert.

Instantly Cai pulled out her bow and arrow, while I looked around, noticing the foliage ahead sashaying lightly, as if someone was brushing past it.

“Let me take care of it, Lucian,” Cai proposed, with my hand still hard on the grip of my sword I carried on my back. And just before we attacked, the intruder revealed itself.

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Or… herself?

“Elrie?” I was floored. It was that blond slave girl from before. The same girl we had left by that merchant’s old stand.

Only this time, she was wearing civilian clothes, and a bright smile between her rose cheeks.

Not to mention—

“My necklace!” I beamed, rushing right to her.

“Lucian, wait!” Cai begged.

She carried my necklace in her fist, its dangling beauty begging me to rush to it. She happily gave it to me, where I quickly wrapped it around my shoulders.

“I noticed you had it when you saved me,” her timid gentle voice admitted. “I found it a few miles from here and thought about you.”

“A few miles? How long have you been stalking us?” Cai prodded, her arrow still pointed at the innocent slave girl.

“Um, I’ve been following for a while. I am sorry. I have nowhere to go! And, I really wanted to s-say, thank you for helping me!” she said, Cai looking at her with visible hostility.

“You’ve said it, now please, let us be.”

“Come on, Cai, she came all this way to give this to me. I am indebted to you!”

“Let’s call it even,” Cai said, putting her weapon away. “We freed you, and you gave us back the necklace. We are done here, Elrie.”

“Please,” she whimpered, folding her hands over her raggedy civilian clothes she must have snatched from the pawn shop. She was a step up from looking like a slave, more like a beggar, which still wasn’t the greatest title in the world. Her eyes were pleading to me, and I couldn’t look away, that sorry and frightened look on her face making my heart heavy. “I won’t be of any trouble! I promise! I just want to feel safe. I have no place to live, no family. I am begging you. I will do whatever you want of me! I promise to make up for my worth, doing anything from hard labor, cooking, field working, anything!” she cried, bleeding her heart out!

I turned to Cai, who had that solid rejecting look on her face. I had my back facing Elrie while I tried to convince Cai that she was safe to travel with.

“Cai, listen—”

“She stalked us all the way here! She could be a shadow elp!”

“No she isn’t!” I protested, giving her the puppy eyes, the folded hands—if she wanted to, I’d go down on my knees! “Cai, come on, have a heart! She has no place to go! That nasty ol’ slave creep could find her again and then her torment would be on your hands!”

“I don’t think I would lose any sleep at night,” she said coldly.

“Cai!”

She grunted. “All right. But the first sign of her being a threat,” she whispered, “I am going to turn her into a target practice dummy.”

I grinned ear to ear, giving Cai a tight hug. “Thank you!”

“Does that mean I can hang out with you guys?” Elrie whispered, the both of us turning back to her and her gentle eyes.

“Yeah, Elrie! We will be happy to have you join us on our little adventure!”

“Only until we find a place for you to stay,” Cai confirmed.

“Shit, Cai, we don’t even have a place to stay! Unless, you’re considering the Raito palace!”

Cai snipped me a cold look. “Lucian—”

“What? We confirmed that we can trust her. There’s no reason we shouldn’t tell her who we are.” I turned to her with a friendly tone. “My name is Lucian, and this adorable bundle of happiness is Cai, Raito’s light warrior.”

“Ah! My name is Elrie!”

“We gauged that,” Cai said bitterly.

“You two live in the palace? How awesome!” She cheered.

“We are on a mission of peace, on a journey to purge Ligera of shadow elps,” I stated.

“Oh, okay. I will try not to get in the way while you take on some boss fights!”

She was so adorably enthusiastic!

“Elrie, Lucian here is very important. I need you to understand the differences in our stature.”

“Oh, yeah, I know. I’m used to being treated like an untouchable! I will try to keep my distance!”

“Cai?” I disagreed, but Cai didn’t budge on this one.

“Thank you again, Lu! You have no idea how much this means to me!” She bowed, the girl practically kissing my feet. “I am forever at your service...”

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