Radiant World: The Underworld

Chapter 14: Manor

Ildy sat outside of the hotel, admiring the view of the vast, cordial fields. It was something he wished he could have seen with his mother. He wished he could have seen her before she had become corrupted by her pain.

He smelled the breeze, although it seemed fake, his eyes watered in remembrance of a previous time. He wiped his eyes and stood up onto the stone path. Down the stone path laid Ranch, speaking with another god named BaggleDel. Ranch had said that he was the god of fields, and fruiting. His stomach was quite large, and he looked like a baby, with puffed out cheeks, and a bald head. He wore a long cloak that didn't seem to fit all the way around his body. He spoke like a connoisseur of fine dining, or whatever Ranch said.

Ildy had never really eaten well with his family, they were rich, but he was excluded from eating with them, of course by his mother. His sister, however, had many more privileges then himself. She now lived with her husband off in some castle, maybe in Moja, or somewhere else rich.

They had sent Ildy to the school to get a 'basic education' although he seemed to be well above his peers. He once had been offered to move off, but he felt a connection to the school, and Mya, who at the time was his friend. He thought about something else, but it wandered from his mind as he reached Ranch.

"Hello." Ildy introduced himself.

"Ah hello Ildy, what is it?" Ranch said politely.

"When are we leaving?"

"Oh, very soon." BaggleDel said.

"Good, I can't stand sitting here." Ildy had an itch on the back of his mind. Ranches eyes seemed to widen as he noticed something. "What is it?" Ildy asked.

"Sophia... Gooldara... Something has happened, quickly we must go to the seventh floor." Ranch stood up and began pacing over to the elevator.

"Wait- How do you know?" Ildy stopped him.

"I can sense the influx of Yin and Yang magic in the reactor- I really don't have time to explain." He continued to the elevator, Ildy and BaggleDel following behind. Ildy entered the elevator as Ranch slotted the red key in.

"Del, I want you to gather the forces." He stopped him before he could enter the elevator. Probably because he'd take up half of it.

"Oh, yes sir!" He tried to put his hand up to his forehead to salute but failed. He turned around and seemed to wobble back to the hotel.

The doors on the elevator closed and they were left together, that itch still in Ildys mind. "What is the seventh floor like?" Ildy asked.

"A large desert is most of it." Ranch seemed unsure.

"You seem concerned? What is it?" Ildy tried to be considerate.

"I feel..." he seemed be shaken, "I feel that Satan is coming." He spun to grab Ildy's shoulders. Surprisingly, Ildy was as tall as him. "I need you to listen closely."

"O-ok."

"Satan is about as strong as me, but there is someone stronger then him."

"Delora..."

"How do you know his name?" Ranch asked surprised, and still holding his shoulders.

"He came to me, while I was sleeping. Visions of a previous time, you were there aswell, fighting Azmodan."

"You had visions of the thousand-year demon war?" Ranch seemed to grip his shoulders tighter.

"You were in the war?"

"Yes... It was right before I came to the underworld."

"You can let go now..." Ildy said.

"Oh, sorry, that was rude." Ranch let go of his shoulders and sighed.