That Blue Fire

Chapter 32: Aluxio

We saw our first signs of civilization a few hours later. It was beautiful, mysterious and of course, magical. 

It was a large gleaming white tower emitting a burst of light to all corners of Antion. That's when Chad said "So, Keira" I looked up at him handsome face and he continued "This, is the forge of light you're admiring here. That's where your star and your planet and your universe was made, impressive huh?".

"Wow... " I said, breathless, the others were not impressed, it was like it was just simply a dog walking past their window. Thats when I noticed a large thumping sound from afar, a few croaks and ribbits were heard from the distance by my ears.

"Ah yes," Said Chad "Watch out for the Yemboilants" "What!?" I responded back

"I mean I could just say frogs but, its sacred to call them only Yemboilants, tending for them to be so... large" he said, shrugging. "Oh my god, Chad, you scared me! I thought I was going to see the cousin of a Genrigana for a moment!" Chad chuckled and said "The only thing you have to do is act confident"

I puffed out my chest and put a large smile on my face, adjusting my mind to believing how cute the Yemboilants would be.

"Just not... too confident..." said Chad, giving me a confused look. I retracted my chest and simply smiling, I still kept the adorable image of what I believe a giant frog would look like. Hoping it would be enough not to be eaten, or worse...

We marched into the clearing, confidently, but as Chad said, not too confidently. I saw a flash of Orange and another loud thumping sound, that's when a shadow, a rather large shadow overcame us. Thats when I saw it.

A Yemboilant.

It looked like a large, angry mango, with legs. It thumped its tongue on the ground, that's when Chad said "It likes music, sing along with the beat of its tongue"

Due to the way its tongue whacked the ground, I had no idea what to do, I opted for a rap song. Beginning the song, the Yemboilant began to nod its head to my lyrics, continually slapping its tongue to the cold hard dirt below it.

Thats when I began to run out of lyrics, to keep the Yemboilant happy, I began making up words, even mentioning how Yemboilants were the best creatures in all of Antion, the creature's eyes began to tear up, I burst into what sounded more like Opera toward the end, but I noticed the creature's long pink tongue hit the ground after I had said the words, it was like my voice was controlling it. I began a short experiment to see if this Yemboilant would listen to my commands, by ending the song with "Now go and play with your friends in the forest"

Sure enough, it hopped away into the beautiful trees and out of sight.

Chad was actually tapping his foot to the rhythm of my song, just like the Yemboilant had done with its tongue. Thats when Thomas burst out the words "That was brilliant!" it seems to have been what had woken Chad from his daze. Maybe my voice could be a weapon, even more importantly against the Mythic Dawn. But I noticed small details that let the whole plan crumble, Thomas nor Alyssa had fallen to this daze, and Yemboilants like songs, so..., what else could give proof? Nothing.

I carefully shrugged off this theory of a voice weapon. We continued toward the Forge of Light. The journey seemed so long, yet the tower so close, we entered the vicinity of about 2 yards or so... and...

It disappeared,

The forge of light was gone. Gone, nothing stood there, we backed up from where we stood.

It was there again, we rushed toward it once again, then it disappeared again. Straight into thin air! After multiple attempts, we finally hit stone wall. All 4 of us, sprawled out on the grass.