Transcendence Volume 2: Awakening

Chapter 43: A Rogue and Firebrand

[Indorilian Canyon, Heavensgard]

"Did 4-Gren mention why he was here?" SolarHunter asked as they flew towards Heavensgard at near breakneck speed as they flew on his back in his thunderbird form.

"He only said to find you and get you to pick him up at this location!" Arash44 shouted as he was clinging to him in the back to prevent him from flying off from the speed they were going.

"Typical of him to keep us in the dark as usual," SolarHunter commented as Carin gazed off at the distance while they land.

"Hey what's that?" She pointed towards the new building off the distance, behind her SolarHunter turned back into his Myrken body but Minoka took the form of a crow as she remained perched atop of SolarHunter's head while Arash44 stretched his body for a bit. From what she remembered it was the ruins of Old Heavensgard, a massive old castle that is regarded as sacred ground but in its place was a patchwork fortress made of hardened ice.

While she wasn't certain especially since she lost contact with Revan a while back, she knew deep down that it was the work of Revan.

"That should have been Old Heavensgard." The three turned to find 4-Gren and, to Carin's surprise, Kry0z limping towards them both of which look way worse for wear.

4-Gren's clothes were torn up as he used a sword as a makeshift crutch all the while his left arm, which was implied to be his dominant hand, was hanging by the tendon.

Kry0z on the other hand had a spear impaled into his waist as the lower half of his body was twisted in a near one-eighty degree.

"What happened?" Carin asked worriedly, deciding not to question whether or not the two knew each other.

"We got into a fight with some drunk from Noxamir," Kry0z answered as Arash44 helped him onto the back of SolarHunter who had turned into his Thunderbird form again.

"We need to get you two healed up." SolarHunter pointed out.

"No." The two said in unison.

"We, no I need to stop someone from throwing a firebrand into Heavensgard." 4-Gren as he clenched his left fist as his flesh slowly regenerated back created from sparks of lightning.

"We can still stop him together!" Kry0z objected pulling the spear out of his waist causing his legs to realign themselves much to the visible discomfort of the three.

"No! You need to head to Atherion and find CL4DYA—" He pronounced it as Claudia, "—and help her in investigating the Breakout."

"I thought her and Kaede"

"Hold up!" SolarHunter interjected splitting himself from the Thunderbird causing the two to look at them. "As much as I'd love to know who the hell this Aquilan is, or who the hell Kaede and CL4DYA are, I'd like to know what the hell is going on and why are we here in the first place?!"

The two were silent as they exchange looks as if contemplating on actually telling them or not.

"Well we dropped a few names, no use hiding it," Kyr0z said in annoyance, Carin noted to be oddly out of character considering how laid back he was when they first met. Whatever is going on had made him take a personality shift.

"I'll explain to them go and help Jedidiah and Juno," 4-Gren said, the Aquilan had a reluctant look on his face but nodded. He just leapt and vanished leaving behind a mist of cold air.

"Alright, I'll tell you this but only if you swear to never say a word to anyone," 4-Gren told them. "What I am about to tell you, is a secret of this world that no one should know."