BOOK 1 - Destiny (Shonen Anime Style)

Chapter 12: Old Array

Just as they had planned; Ravi, Leah, Wire and Cybel went to complete some patrol missions on Earth.

Patrol missions are really simple. They basically consist of some material collecting, area scans, and small scouting missions. All of these help keep the Vanguard updated with what's going on around: what enemies like the Fallen are planning, or where they are gathering.

Ravi and Leah's actual mission was very easy. They just had to gather and deliver 2 loads of spinmetal leaves to a near guardian outpost somewhere on the west side of a zone called The Cosmodrome in Old Russia. A very big landscape which was basically a giant ship graveyard.

They stepped out to collect the leaves. And this time, both of them were using their guardian outfits. Leah was wearing her skin-tight black suit with the white chest piece of armor, her white hood, her white cloak, and the few white pieces of armor covering her wrists.

On the other hand, Ravi was wearing a warlock outfit designed by himself: a gray shirt of long sleeves with a long black coat covering it, some even darker pants, black boots and gloves, and a few dark blue pieces of armor on his wrists.

"You know? I still can't get used to seeing you in that outfit" Leah said to Ravi with a grin.

"Huh? Why?" Ravi asked. "Is it too weird?"

"Of course not! It's really cool! And that coat certainly suits you! It's only that I still can't get your desertic scavenger costume out of my head... hehe... That was certainly a mess"

The blue-haired boy laughed a bit in return. "Well, don't forget you wore a similar outfit for a couple of days. So, I believe we were both a mess"

"Maybe, but at least I looked better on it"

They both began chatting and laughing. But after 3 consecutive hours of boring searching and collecting, they were starting to get very tired of it.

Leah especially wasn't gonna be able to take much more. "I'll only tell you that the next time, I'll choose the quest" the human girl muttered while complaining in an annoyed tone.

"Oh, come on! This isn't so bad" the blue-haired boy replied, only to then pick up a bunch of the materials they were gathering. "Look. Don't you think these spinmetal leaves we are collecting are quite interesting?"

"They certainly are" Wire claimed out of nowhere. "It's strange for a natural material like this to grow in such a decadent environment after all"

"And still, they're really useful as manufacturing material for spaceships" Cybel added this time.

At any rate, after some time carrying the materials in 2 separate boxes, both trainees found another apparent guardian outpost different than the one in which they were supposed to deliver the materials. However, when they approached the building with tiredness, they also noticed it was in fact just an old structure with some stairways heading into what seemed to be an old dark basement.

Leah took a long sigh of disappointment. "Oh jeez... I thought we could rest here, but it's just and old-looking building"

"Well, it's old, but we can still rest inside. Come on let's head in" Ravi proposed with confidence.

"Hey wait! You can't be serious. You wanna go in there?" the young huntress added with fear.

"Yeah, I really need a rest, and so do you. We've been collecting leaves for almost 4 hours after all"

"W-well... Yeah, but..."

"It'll be okay! We can rest inside for a couple of minutes and then come out again"