Wrong Time, Wrong Place

Adventure

The Second Star Saviour looks around sky emporium, completely in awe. Cyalm notices this and his symbol flickered in amusement.

"Enjoying the place, Stefan?"

"I've never seen something like this before, I don't think buildings were this advance looking in mayt- my hometown"

"What were you going to say before that?"

"Nothing! So where do I start?"

"If you would like to, you can check out Naen and Solgon's places, Solgon has a tutorial center for teaching you how things work. Although it wasn't really necessary to even have such place, but don't discourage him. Though you might learn a thing or two, but if you don't want to do that, you can head into Adventure Grounds through the portal over there"

Cyalm pointed towards the entrance of Adventure Grounds.

"You'll find out what to do when you get there"

"Oh okay! Thank you Cyalm"

Cyalm nods and watched as the saviour went over towards Solgon's area, the saviour interacted with Solgon and learned about how things worked. Satisfied with the knowledge, he checks into Naen's shop above, taking a look around before leaving to enter Adventure Grounds. The world seemed to be a forest filled with machinery, robots and more. In front of him stood a point that had a gray gradient that faded to orange at the bottom, his symbol flickers and walks over to the Saviour.

"Oh hello there! My name's Shallare. Cyalm told me that you were going to be the next Star Savior. Collect at least one star and I might consider giving you my Symbol. There are plenty of stars around here, so finding one should be easy enough."

"Can I get more than one star?"

"Of course! The more the better, the other points usually take a lot more stars to convince them to hand their symbol over and trust you and your capabilities"

"Ohhh okay, I'm not sure where to start here, do you have any suggestion?"

"Try heading out towards the area at my left side, or if you'd like, get on that cannon behind me"

"Is that safe?"

"Of course it is! You'll land in the clouds, it's really soft so you won't get hurt"

"Okay"

"You trust that so easily? Have you been launched cannon before? I feel like humans like you wouldn't like or trust the idea of launching out of a cannon by someone-"

"Yes."

"Oh, okay. Do you need some assistance with the cannon?"

"If it spares me time from running back and forth, yes"

"Okay, get in the cannon"

Star Saviour nodded and climbed into the cannon, watching Shallare press a button and waited for a moment before getting launched all the way up to the skies. He remains calm as he falls and lands on a cloud, there were many beanstalks and rainbows around him.

"It's rather pretty up here, never seen this many rainbows before!"

His gaze caught a glimpse of a star from the distance and noticed the path going towards it, he takes the path, hopping from cloud to cloud, climbing a few beanstalks and getting launched from a cannon. He takes the star from above and goes all the way back to the cloud he landed on from the ground.

"How do I get down?" He shouted to Shallare, he looks up and sees the saviour.

"Oh, you got the star? Here, I'll catch you. Just let yourself fall!"

"Are you sure about that-"

"Don't worry I'm very accurate in catching things"

"I will make sure to haunt you as a spirit" without waiting for a response, the saviour falls from the clouds, landing directly into Shallare's arms.

"Now you don't need to haunt me"

"Well I didn't want to be dead this early in life, even if I'm halfway there"

"Heh, go out there and get other stars, if that's what you want to do" Shallare puts him down, allowing him to proceed gathering stars. After a while of climbing and swimming, he returns with stars in his arms, surprising Shallare.

"You're a natural at this aren't you? I can't believe you've gotten all of those already!"

"My best friend used to hide my stuff in places a lot, sometimes requiring me to do a little bit of parkour. He means well but sometimes he concerns me, other than that we're fine. Haven't seen him in ten years though"

"Oh... Do you plan to see him soon?"

"Eventually, I just hope things clear up between us, there was a reason why I didn't see him in that long" deep down, he didn't really knew if he'll see them. His heart aches a little but doesn't show it, hiding it behind a smile.

"Alright, I'm not going to ask what happened, to respect your privacy. Since you've gathered enough stars, though I only asked for one at the minimum, I will need to see how you do in a special challenge course I designed just for you. Are you up for a challenge?"

"Will this be something I'll see from the others?"

"Yes, they will need to test you a little bit more before they hand you their symbol, to see if you're really worthy for their trust"

"Oh okay, so is this going to be difficult?"

"As for my challenge course, it is rather simple. Though it gets progressively hard as you meet the others, it's no easy task and it will be tiring. I don't expect you to do things perfectly"

"You know, you remind me of a friend, he was a really a kind guy who seems to have interest in machinery, he doesn't live around people though. He prefers somewhere quiet, in a forest"

"Oddly specific but sure, I should teleport you to the challenge course"

The saviour nodded and Shallare teleports him into an altered version of Adventure Grounds, arrows point towards a direction, creating a path through the place as some areas are blocked off by barriers. He followed the arrows and slowly got through the challenge course, taking caution of not to trip over anything or get hurt. He somehow accidentally gets hit by something, knocking him over but still proceeded until the end of the course.

"Well done. You've completed my challenge course without a hitch. My symbol is all yours."

Star Saviour grabbed it and Shallare brought him back to the sky emporium where Cyalm seemed to be zoned out but quickly snaps out of it after seeing the Star Saviour.

"Welcome back. It seems that you were able to obtain Shallare's symbol. That symbol can be used to unlock the symbol door in this room, which will allow you to access new worlds with other Points inhabiting them."

"Ohh okay! So uh, why do I need to collect symbols?"

"They're a symbol of trust, which means that point trusts you, their trust will be important in the future. It also enhances your abilities by just a little, sort of like a buff to your physical capabilities"

"Oh cool!"

"The increase of strength is subtle, but you'll see it overtime, now go on ahead, Saviour."

The Saviour nods and heads over to the large door that had Shallare's symbol on it.