BD: The Pillars Of Creation (COMPLETE) Book 1

Chapter 28 - Teamwork and Communication

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* Radiant's POV *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

Oh, shitballs! "Radiant! Run!" They got Jamis, what do we do? "Just keep running." Kipper urges me to run.

"Jamis, don't let them beat you!" I shout thinking that he might have heard me.

(Earlier)

BANG!

"Calling upon the light, I seek for you to cast the shadows into disarray-"

"-shoot!" A water beam is coming after me. And I barely dodged it. "Damn, good reflexes," Torga replies.

"Romeqedegie!" A high-pitched sound invades everyone's ears. "Jamis! Kipper! Get back!" A ray of light rains down on our enemy.

Someone whispers behind me, "Good Spell, Wrong Timing." I didn't have time to turn around before-

"Ghk!-" Jamis jumps between me and Haro.

Haro is about to repeat his move. I cast a quick spell, "Nuaxel Nuaye!" Creating a water wall, rendered Haro's offense, useless.

I took this time to cover, Jamis's wounds. "Agh.." He's losing too much belief.

"Treat this as a life and death scenario, what can you do now?" Numtal taunts.

"Radiant... Run." Jamis whispers as he lost his consciousness.

Kipper grabs my arm, "You heard him, Run!" I obliged without a single thought.

"Leaving a man behind?" Torga says.

Haro follows us right behind. "Numtal: Illusion!" Kipper casts without much of an incantation. And this doesn't seem to work. "Fuck! What to do..!" He tries to cast a complex spell without incantations.

"Kipper! You need an incantation for those!" He looks at me, most likely realizing he's still gripping me tightly. "An incantation from your heart. Clear your head!"

He takes a deep breath, "I urge you to free us from the world of pain and bring it into a world we dream of." His aura is overwhelming wishful and playful. "Numtal: Illusion..." As his spell is cast, nature made of candies, started sprouting everywhere and we hid behind a tree.

"Oh, were playing hide and seek now?" Haro seemed amused. "Actually, how did you learn that spell without the help of any books? Pretty sure if this is your first time, it wouldn't affect the whole forest. Just who are you, kid?"

I whisper, 'Don't answer him.' Kipper nods and I can see his eyes glint with joy. I would be too, being able to control something like this. It looks so real. 'Jamis would be so shocked if he can see this.' Kipper created more illusions which we slowly walked through. It's getting harder to know which is real. But, our hopes were destroyed when the mirage all disappeared, "What?!"

"You think you can hide from the one that had the Creation spell originated from?" Its Numtal. "You did well fending us off. But, you lacked plans when things went bad."

Numtal helps us to our paws. "Sorry, I didn't think we could win against them," Jamis explained.

"You did well Jamis," I tell him. He shakes his head.

Then, King Denmark's booming voice was heard from afar. "OUR WINNERS ARE THE 7 BEINGS TEAM!" We ran back to where they were and talked about how to improve.

"My child, you lack courage but have the strength to worry about others." I nod. "Kipper, you may have a lot of tricks up your sleeves, but don't forget to face your enemies head-on." Kipper chuckles nervously. "And Jamis...-" we all look at him. "You doubt yourself too much." He grunts.

"I am certain that you Jamis would be great if you had never been scared of failure." Jamis caresses the skull on his face and retorts.

"You don't know the half of it, Numtal. Lay off." I thought that he was fine, but after the fight, his demeanor came back. "I don't need the opinions of others unless it's their lives we're talking about."

"Child.." Mom looks at me with worry. Then she tilts her head, hinting I comfort the troubled Jerboa. I slowly walk behind him and hugged him.

He flinches but doesn't do anything to leave. "You did fine, Jamis. That's all the things you need to know." He shifts to face me and looks me in the eyes.

After a long while of looking into my eyes, he looks away. "You're just saying that." He walks away quickly stunning all of us.

"Jamis, Boy!" Denmark attempts to stop him but he was pushed back by a low grunt from Jamis. And he teleports away. The King sighs. Everyone was left speechless.

The one to break the silence was Kipper. "So, what happens to the last trial?" He's right.

"Well, since Salinas is here, I'd make her replace Jamis." Mom stands beside me. "But, before we do that, let's take a break. Let's camp for the evening."

"Camping?" I say excitedly.

"Yes, Radiant." My mom pats me and I wag my tail, happy. "But, uh, we don't have tents." King Denmark grins.

"Oh, you thought we'd sleep in the grass?" Everyone mutters a yes followed by their displeased opinion of doing that. The King looks down in embarrassment. "Sorry for not telling any of you, but I brought tents with me. It's been a while since I had gone camping as well."

We prepared the tents to rest. The Dawn is in the middle of the sky, which means its the 4th day before Dusk, will we have a chance to actually be ready in the upcoming Dusk? "Radiant, are you okay? You're making a very worrisome expression." Kipper asks me. "Is it because of Jamis?"

I smile weakly. "Maybe? I'm not sure." I mean, I am worried about him. He just ran away again. "I do hope he's fine though, after all of the things troubling him."

"Its hard to tell if he will be fine." Numtal comments, "The kid's lost his Father recently and he was exiled from his position."

"Wait, what do you mean?" Kipper shares the same confusion as I do.

Numtal visibly sweats, "I... I ran my mouth more than intended... No returning what I already said, I guess. He's a... Being, just like me and your Mom."

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