1. A Miraculous Life: Our First Step To Neverend~

Chapter 8: Snowfall Losses ~

Here I am again with another chapter! This time it's 5K+ words. A bit shorter than usual

Multimedia: Listen to the song in the end to add sad effects.

Dedicated to Hell-san, Akari-chan, and Sinichi-kun!

Enjoy:

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     The moon shone brightly as the teens moved on in their way. Bell, after waking up and getting choked from a death hug by Polly, fell asleep again from exhaustion and is being carried by Naruda, piggyback style. Warmy was holding onto the bag which held all sorts of equipment and materials for their little (yeah right) journey. While finally, Polly was marching ahead of the whole group trying to find some sort of shelter or building where they could all rest. Most of the time spent throughout their walk, passed away without an ounce of chit-chat or talk of any kind. Everyone was just way too tired and relieved and everything to even speak, so they decided to find a shelter first before speaking or asking anything, good or bad.

"Naruda, Naruda! Look! Over There! It's a good place, no?" Polly asked jumping up and down pointing towards a small shop downhill. Naruda looked over Polly's shoulder at the rundown but still standing building and nodded, "That tickles~" Polly laughed as Naruda jolted back, "Sorry, I forgot that I was looking over your shoulder." Naruda apologized laughing a bit himself. "Okay then let's go." Warmy said as she led the way downhill to the small shop.

"Excuse us~" Polly whispered as she slowly opened the door of the rundown shop. She looked left and right for any sign of people or enemies and only once she was sure that there were none, she turned back with a smile giving the others a big thumbs up. "Good work." Naruda praised Polly as he pat her head, much to Polly's pleasure, before entering. While Warmy entered the place wordlessly, dropping the bag on the floor before collapsing on the ground with it as she let out a tired sigh, closing her eyes.

Naruda went over to a seemingly clean corner and place Bell on it gently as to not wake her up. After that he sat down himself, finally getting some well deserved rest. Polly was roaming around the small store, trying to find interesting stuff. After a few minutes, Polly decided that it was time to ask, "So...what happened to the others?" Warmy opened one of her eyes while Naruda looked at her and then at Warmy, hoping for answers as well. After a few seconds of staring at Warmy and her staring back, she finally gave up, "Ugh, fine! Just wait a sec..." As she said that, she stood up and went over to her bag, rummaging through it.

The Renock siblings looked at each other weirdly then back at Warmy as she said, "Aha! There it is!" Warmy turned back to see the two redheads looking expectantly and curiously at her and the object in her hand. It was another weird apparatus much to the siblings' confusion, "So, umm...what's that?" Warmy looked disappointed at Naruda's question. "That's it? What boring reactions..." Warmy said frustrated while the siblings still kept on looking at her, waiting for her to get on to the explaining part.

Warmy sighed as she turned the apparatus around for the siblings to get a better view. It was metallic with a handle and circular head, with two antenna-like things sticking out. In the center of the circular head was some sort of green screen or scanner with several red and yellow dots. "So wha-" "Try to guess..." Warmy said cutting through Polly's question. Polly looked at her brother for answers, since he was the smarter of the two. Naruda stared hard at the screen with his hand holding his chin, trying to figure out what the dots meant.

Warmy laid back on the wall, a smug expression on her face, which served to get the siblings even more determined to figure out the apparatus's secret. Naruda looked again at the screen intensely and studied the dots. Apart from there being different colors to the dots, the red ones being the minority, most of the dots seemed to be moving around. They were all moving in different directions and all around in circles, as if chasing something. Naruda flinched, Polly looked at him worried and was about to ask him what's wrong when he put his index finger in front of her meaning that he needs a minute.