"Here. Take this."
Sambit ko kay Hiwaga.
Inabot ko sakanya ang Vhora, napatunayan ko nga na ito ang kailangan nila upang hindi mawala ang kanilang ala-ala. Buti nalang kumuha ako nito at nailagay ko sa maliit na lagayan ko ng cologne, buti nalang din at naitago ko pa ito sa loob ng aking bag.
"This will help." I said. Alam kong alam rin niya kung ano ang tinutukoy ko. Kahit hindi ko man sakaniya bangitin.
"Till we meet again." She said. Her eyes are still the color of the deep blue sea. It's one of the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen in my life.
Tumango naman saakin si Ayekkhi. Napatingin ako ulit sa sinapupunan ni Hiwaga. I can't believe that she is now carrying Lumos in her womb. I can't believe that I am capable of giving affection to someone I didn't even met...yet... I can't believe this is happening to me...
But when my heart knows... it knows... there's no way explaining it... I can only trust it.
I smiled and drink the chalice of befogging memories...
"By for now....
See you at the beginning...
My Lumos Incendio..."
...
It only took me a blink of an eye ng makarating ako sa isang hindi pamilyar na lugar. I'm in an emplacement where it's so dark and hallow. I can only hear a muffled sound of wind of the trees outside, the echoes, insects whirring, even the fluttering of wings of the bats... and the water dripping. I scan the surroundings... what I see is
this droop from the ceilings like icicles that emerge from the floor like mushrooms and it cover the sides like sheets of a waterfall.
Hindi pa rin mawala sa isip ko ang mga nangyari saakin sa Arcadian.
Ibig sabihin, totoo nga na hindi umepekto saakin ang chalice of befogging memories. So it's true then that the Vhora holds so much power that even the power of Arcadian or the guardians of the greatest filter can outdo them.
Tinulungan ko ang sarili ko na makatayo. My fingers grappled the jagging rocks and I frantically pulled myself up onto dry land.
May nakita akong liwanag papalabas kaya naman sinundan ko ito. The beam of the sun nudges through my skin. It's saying hi to me, even the winds saying hello.
The distinct change in atmosphere is immediately apparent.
The cave's cold, damp climate is an abrupt contradiction to the warm, dry air here outside.
This place is an opening of the gates of different realms.
At panigurado ako ito rin ang lugar para makabalik ako sa lugar na iyon.
Nakahinga naman ako ng malalim ng mabasa ko ang isang malaking sign board, na tila ba'y isang memorial board na nakaukit sa malaking bato.
"Yang'lu cave." Sambit ko. It also has a billboard on its side where all its narratives and history were written. Ito pala ay nagsilbing hiding place ng mga locals noong panahong Moro Raid in the early years of the 18th century. Nakahinga ako ng malalim ng napatunayan ko na nasa mortal realm na nga ako.
Agad ako kumilos. Hinawakan ko ng mahigpit ang aking bag at pumatungo dagli sa makitid na hagdan hangang sa nakarating ako sa taas at tuktok nito.
I breathe heavily and inhaled sharply. Napahanga naman ako sa ganda ng lugar. Wala akong makitang tao kaya naman ilang metro ang nalakad ko upang makarating sa kalapit na bayan.
BINABASA MO ANG
Guardians of Azthralz
FantasíaThere is balance among all things in the Universe. There is a shadow and light, right and wrong, integrity and wickedness, good and evil, and when that balance is broken, there come the architects of the Universe to restore the balance of all planes...
