Bright as Night [adopted book from 12ashlea]

Chapter 6 - Naif

'Thought'
"Speak"

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You watched as Fern climbed up your tail and onto your back, and lay down. "You even brought a stick with you, huh?" You said as he chewed on the large stick. You glared at him for a moment, before flying back down to drop him off. "You can't come with, it'll be dangerous." You said as he barked angrily. "I won't take that long." He stood up, and raised his head, only to bonk you with the stick. "Ow- really!? Fine..." You shook your head in annoyance as you went over to find somewhere that is not easily arsonable. The first place that came to mind was the ruins, but then you remembered you had an over energetic puppy who would probably end up getting squashed by debri.

You then thought of going to the thousand winds temple, but this seems to be really far back into the past. You haven't seen a single hilichurl for the entire time you've been here. So either the temple hasn't gone into ruin yet, and if it is, it was probably infested with monsters, and might even have the ruin guard vibing there. You turned west, because you were quite confident that that was where it was. As you floated above wolvendom, your body swerved right as you flew off into the direction of the temple with your kidnapped orphan.

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When you got to the location, you saw that it wasn't in ruin at all, but there weren't any people around. It was in good condition, not a single sign of eroding, just a bunch of dust everywhere. "Since no one's here... I can use this place as much as I want, right?" You asked no one as you landed. Fern excitedly jumped off your back with nothing but pure energy in his body. Your folded your wings back in as you looked around the place. The pillars weren't broken and stood tall above you. The floor was smooth and solid, while stone seats surrounded the edges of the temple. Even more stone pillars with intricate and detail patterns circled the temple and were connected to each other, sealing the temple up. Where was even an entrance to the inside that you didn't use because it was still not completely closed off. It reminded you of an arena.

"Let's hope I don't get put in jail for destruction of property..." You said as you looked for some targets. You could use the pillar, but you felt like that would get you in big trouble. You made your way to the entrance where Bennett was stuck during the windblume festival. You could see some unused and dusty training dummies that somewhat looked like a human behind rusty iron gates. It was just the upper body made out of wood with no arms on a wooden pole. "Is it decomposing? It's actually decomposing..." You used your tail to flip the lever on the right wall, and the gate slowly lifted up as it made a squeaky screeching noise that rust old machines tend to make. Fern rushed between your legs and tripped you over with his large stick. You stumbled a bit to the side, but regained balance and moved inside the temple.

When you were inside, you took a look at the decomposing dummy. It seemed unused, and was now left to rot. You backed up to put distance between you and the dummy as Fern dropped his stick in favour of biting a sword by the handle and dragging it around. "How do I do the plasma blast... No, but actually, how." You thought of ways to do this. What exactly did making a plasma blast feel like? You remembered what happened when you got isekaid. It looked like some real cult shit, but you remembered the feeling of energy coursing through your body, maybe you could try to remember the feeling... It felt like when your hands and feet feel static static. A dull prickly feeling that makes you feel numb, but you also felt as if you would burst.

You could actually feel the energy forming in your throat, and you opened your mouth as you tried to aim it as the dummy. Instead, it was far from the dummy, and now there was a hole in the wall. Great. You saw a stray sword fly past you, and when you turned around you saw Fern chewing on all of the weapons, all weaponry have been ripped from their stands and are now a chewed up pile on the floor. You could see half of Fern's body sticking out from one of the weapon stands, his tail up high and wagging vigorously. "Fern, what are you doing?" He poked his head out, a small chunk of fur visibly missing from his forehead, but no skin showing, and silver sword in hand. "No!" And with that, he fucking bolts out of the room.

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Y/n: Let me see what you have?
Fern holding a sword and a bow in his mouth: *muffled bork*
Y/n: No!

*meanwhile in sumeru*

My Xiao: What the fu-