Someone To Have

39: To the North Continent

A happy family having their tea break in a garden, the red haired mother was giggling to her son's antic while the brown haired father stare at his wife lovingly then turning his head to his son, their child was playing around the tall boy, the child call the tall boy "Hyung", it was a sweet and lovely scenario.

The red haired mother still giggles as she disappear like bubbles in the air that made the father crying hard as he tried to collect the bubbles like the remains of his dear lovely wife, however that didn't made her come back.

The child also tried too but the father pushed him away that the child lay on the ground and cried on his own, feeling guilty the father ran away.

The child tried to comfort the father, however he isn't enough he became sad and miserable because of the burdens he was left, he silently cried on his own, that a couple of hands appeared and dried off his tears and hugged him from behind and whispered comforting word that he couldn't hear but he could feel, the hands helped him stand up and walk again and made him strong.

He became happy again with the hands that became his pillar, his strength and a couple of people around him made him alive and happy again.

But then the father came back, however the father just expected the child to be happy just with his unfamiliar presence, and he also bought another family for him.

The child is sad, however he is already strong and mighty person. That the hands that helped him didn't need to help him with every move. The child moved forward, very forward that he didn't looked back to his father. He left them and moved forward until he don't need his father and content of the hands who accompanied him in his journey.

And then he steps in a door with a different shade of light, and met others that accompanied him in the first step, he looked back and the hands pushed him forward and closed the door and stayed there and waved to him, and a voice whispered to him but he couldn't understand but he felt that they will meet again, if ever in the future, and the hands steadied his face forward and pushed them all to march with a protective barrier, the hands is outside the ball of barrier.

He and the people around him inside the barrier marched forward.

And forward.

And forward.

Cale woke up as he felt something. He knew there was something going on but he couldn't point out. He felt sleepy, but a presence made him fully awake.

"Good afternoon sleepyhead" Mel greeted

"Hmm"

Cale looked around and noticed that he has been moved. He fell asleep while they are looking after the tavern that Mira owned, and he wondered if it was Ken or Mel who moved him.

"You slept  for 2 hours, Aunt Mira moved you, and Ken also fell asleep so Aunt Mira moved us into different rooms to sleep"
"I see... Why did I got sleepy? We were full of energy when we got here" Cale murmured

"Ah! That's because Bean island is also protected by the Sloth Spirits, they make everyone (with pure energy) feel cozy so they will sleep, remember the coffee we drank before we got here?" Mel asked

Cale didn't feel any special as he drank the coffee the Captain gave them, it was just a normal coffee.

"Yes, but it was a normal coffee right?"

"Those coffee's beans were from here, so the moment we got here the power of the Sloth Spirit didn't effected on you immediately, so we have to drink coffee and get used to it, those beans are the only beans to be effective here" Mel answered

Meanwhile....

A group of black cloacked people tried to get inside the Bean island, but they are struggling even the fishermen are strong enough to flip the ship they are boarding, they couldn't understand what is happening but they knew they messed up the wrong Island.