DYSCHRONOMETRIA

CHAPTER 10 - Great People

"--nd something--Wah!" Lianna gasped at the sudden motion. She and Collins were swirling to the portal, Collins made weird noises that Lianna simply put aside, "I think I'm gonna puke." Collins covered his mouth and forced himself not to puke. "Just hang in there for a little longer." Lianna reassured, though Collins did not look reassured. He was still on the verge of fighting his puke.

After a few minutes of what seemed to be forever in that vortex, Lianna and Collins landed on land, Collins landing head-first. Both of them did not sustain any injuries though. Lianna scanned their surroundings-- green, soft grass, soft water droplets seemingly from a rain earlier, dark shadow of a fortress wall behind them--Lianna's eyes raised to the height of the wall. It was tall, large, wide, and intimidating. Collins stared at the wall beside her, the wind gently caressing their skin and hair.

"This kingdom..." she murmured.

"You know this?"

"Yes, I was here once." she answered

Collins was quiet. This was something Lianna didn't tell him. He looked at her hand, she was clutching the watch. Just then, he remembered whay happened before in the laboratory, "Lia, since when did this happen?" he asked. She simply disappeared that time, so this must be the reason.

The wind whistled gently at the plains.

"Well, remember that 34th time we tested the portal?" Collins simply nodded, "It was at that time--I searched for my phone and then-- I saw this watch," she raised her hand holding the watch. Collins listened to her carefully with a frown.

"Did this happen often?" he asked once again.

"I don't know well of its frequency, but maybe it did?" she sheepishly said. Lianna turned her eyes to the watch, "12:15... Its noon." she said. Collins walked around to see if there's a gate anywhere. He saw a similar wall at the far horizon, but it seemed unreachable. Collins knocked at the wall, it bugged him that he can do nothing other than this, especially that they're in a different and unfamiliar place.

From afar, they saw a group of people walking, Collins rejoiced. "Whoo hoo! Finally, people! Hey!" he ran towards them, Lianna tried to stop him but she was late. Lianna was petrified when she saw someone at the group.

"H-hey!" Collins panted at them. "I- my friend and I... Would like to..." a woman of armour and long yellow hair patted his shoulder, "Hey, I think you should rest first. Here, drink some water," she handed the water gourd to him and drank everything. When he realized this, he was scared, "Ah! I'm so sorry! I'm so so so sorry!" he apologized numerous times to them, it was definitely an embarrassing moment for him. "Oh, don't be. We can refill this anyway." the woman of short pale hair smiled. "Aw, you're too kind, [REDACTED] ."

"Oh don't be." she chuckled.

"Are you done? If so, we must go back to the kingdom." the woman of blue hair and cape said in authority.

"Pfft, you always act like a leader," yellow hair whispered. This made the child of the same hair color turn to her. "What?"

"Nothing." she said with no manners. Looks like someone has strong ears.

Collins followed them to the kingdom, but suddenly remembered Lianna. "Uh hey guys, can I excuse myself for a bit? I'm gonna go get my friend." he excused.

"Why sure! Always never leave a friend behind, right [REDACTED] ?!" the girl of orange hair holding a staff beamed and patted the blue haired woman in a not so-womanly-manner.

Collins ran to Lianna and found her looking at their surroundings. For a second, he thought she left."Hey Lianna! I've met some people that can help us get in here!" he pointed at the fortress. "Oh uh, sure! Why not." Lianna forced smiled on Collins. She followed him until they caught up with the group.

"Hey guys! This is my friend Lianna!"

Immediately, she was surrounded by girls, bombarding her with questions regarding her love life and her relationship with Collins.

Blue haired, red haired, two yellow haired, brown--ugh too many! Though she can't look at them in the eye... She was all too familiar to them. And that memory still haunts her.

For a second, she got chills down her spine as she recalled the terrifying chant of the red demon, the gore and blood everywhere. The presence of violence and bloodlust, the pressure of power-- it was all too strong like the stench of a fish.

"Hey! Hey!"

Lianna snapped at her thoughts. She didn't realize everyone was staring worried at her.

"What's happening to ya?" Collins asked, worried something is wrong with her.

"N-no... Nothing!" she tensed up as her eyes landed on The Witch. She can't speak. She can't move. She was chained on spot. She was in a tight situation. She was suffocating.

"I-I'm sorry. I-I need to-- I mean, we need to go... Collins." she stammered in fear.

"Can we stay with them just for this day?" he begged.

"N-no!" she shouted, "I-I mean, no. Please? Let's just go..." she looked drained.

The Witch simply looked at her without moving her eyes off of her.

"If you need to go, then go. We're just here, always." she reassuringly said.

Lianna looked at her, somehow her vision of the woman seemd to ease up a bit.

"C-come on, Collins." she grabbed his hand, still with a trembled body. Collins sighed and waved the group goodbye, and they waved back except for 3 persons -- The Witch, the priestess child, and the Fire Demon.

"I can't do this..."

"Why?"

"It's stressing me out..."

Collins didn't understand what she said.

"C'mon. Let's just... go..." and with that Lianna pressed the button of the watch and disappeared.

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                   BONUS SCENE

It was at night, there were lovers at the rock above the sea. They were shined by the moonlight. A siren woman of blue skin, green seaweed hair, purple tail and sea urchin headdress. Meanwhile her partner was of black tar-like substance, a yellow ribbon and left glove, horns and a tail swishing back and forth happily as he grasped the hand of his woman. He had a yellow face with an eternal smile, his eyes though, were covered, but his emotions were carved onto his face, full of joy, pleasure, adoration and love. The siren also had the same emotions as he had. Their faces were inching closer to each other... The Siren's eyes were slowly closing in each seconds... Until they...

"Ugh! Lianna where are we?" Collins exclaimed. "I told you we should've stayed with them! What's got ya troubled?" They both stepped out of the portal while not looking at their surroundings.

"Just--ugh! I'll tell you later when we get to--" Lianna looked at the couple bu the moonlight, Collins followed her sight and was wide-eyed. It was that at this moment they knew they fucked up. Though they can't see their face clearly as it was covered by shadows. "--a safe place..." she said softly but mostly awkwardly for disturbing a romantic moment between a couple.

Lianna took a quick glance behind them and saw that the portal wasn't gone yet, so they slowly back stepped to it...

"Sorry..." Lianna apologized softly as they stepped into the portal. Collins kept his mouth shut, even as their journey through that wormhole, he kept his mouth shut. There was awkward silence in the portal.

The demon amd siren looked bewildered. They didn't know what to say--except for the siren who spoke.

"Hm, looks like they're at it" she smirked while looking at the space like they're still there.

Her husband stared at her weirdly, he was confused by his wife's words,

"Wut--"

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A/n : bruh i enjoyed writing the bonus scene 😂