The Adrift Oath

Chapter XXVII: A Job Well Done

Fae woke up with a gasp as she immediately got up to sit down

"Whoah there, easy sweetheart" She looked at the voice and found it to be Avalynn, though the sharp headache she felt barely could let her speak with her friend as she held her head and grunted

"What happened?" Fae muttered as she gave her devil friend a side look

"I don't know much" Avalynn shrugged

"Me and Yulia came here to find you knocked out, the core destroyed into pieces and that big chunk of metal sitting dead" She pointed at the giant knight that still didn't move from where once he was

Fae looked at it with saddened eyes before the rest of their group came on to check on her, it seemed that Avalynn and Yulia only arrived here a couple of minutes before Fae woke up, and so she was the one to tell them what happened in their battle with the giant knight

"And that's when Claude gave me enough time to cut the link between the core and the thing behind me" Fae gestured with her thumb over her shoulder to point at the giant knight that was now resting in peace behind her

"Please, don't give me too much credit, friend" Claude said as she scratched her scarred cheek nervously, Fae gave her a tiny smile as she crossed her arms

"Yeah, look at you" She told her

"Being talkative and all, ain't this a nice change" Fae said with a tiny smirk while Avalynn elbowed Claude in a sly way

"Like I said, I'm really sorry, Fae, I can explain it to you later on if you want to" She spoke to Fae

"I think you at least deserve that" With her tone being so sincere, how could Fae deny that

"Sure sure, as for now, I think we should be happy with our victory" Fae continued while both Claude and Yuna nodded with much content, a smile on each of their face

"Yay..." Yulia on the other hand, had quite the monotonous tone, bringing Avalynn to look at her with up-to-no-good eyes alongside a sly smirk

"What? I thought you enjoyed our little talk" She told the ex guild-master who didn't even bother to look at her as she kept murmuring something to herself, something that seemed to agitate Avalynn

"Hey are you reciting a prayer?!" She exclaimed at her with quite an angry and out-of-character expression, prompting Claude to chuckle and Yuna to merely smile

Fae smiled just as warmly as her blood-sister

Though something felt strange, Fae didn't know how to describe it, like a ball was being knitted, knitted out of pure energy

And something much more physical happened as Fae could feel the ground slightly shake, and all her friends in front of her stopped what they were doing as they looked behind Fae in shock and disbelief, their eyes then were raised as the ground shook further on

Fae with an arched eyebrow turned around, turning to find something standing tall in front of her, way too tall

"Oh you gotta be fucking with me" Fae exclaimed as she looked right at the much lively green eyes made out of energy that beamed out of the vision port of the once defeated cursed knight

But, the strangest out of all of that, was that the same knight got to one knee and looked at the ground

"Is it...?" Claude was seemingly speechless, in a not-so-in-character manner

"Bowing down to you?" Yuna spoke what all of them thought

Fae on the other hand didn't know what to do, as the thing that was trying to end her life mere moments ago was now bowing down to her