The Lost one's journey

Chapter 19: The midnight zone.

As Raphael and Pocu fall out of the bubble and into the depths of the sea, Raphael pops her fingers and gills appear on her neck as well as Pocus. "Alright you little one, hold on!" Pocu looks excited and holds tightly onto Raphael. Raphael doesn't pop her fingers this time. Instead she breaks a finger and after a second of pain, the surrounding water becomes a vortex with her in the center. 'I pray they don't follow. This takes way too much mana. I had to use a finger to even do this.' The vortex of water turns into a hurricane in the sea, spinning and turning Raphael and Pocu round and round. During the spinning Pocu happily shouts out in joy! While Raphael has her eyes closed and focusing. Raphael's eyes explode open and seem to dart to a specific point deep down, she then takes a deep breath and moves her hand around in a circling motion taking the hurricane and condensing it in her palms then letting go of it to send her launching in the direction she was looking towards at high speeds. Harishon and the priestess watch this happen. "I must say, if she had that much power now, I do wonder what she was like in the past." Harishon says to the priestess, who doesn't say anything and only turns to him. "Yeah, I understand what you mean, but in respect for my dear brother, we won't pursue them. But that's for us, not the others." He says as he puts his hand on her shoulder. Harishon's body morphs and turns into the Hermits. Then shadows cover the two of them and they sink into the shadow. Harishon and the priestess have poured out of a shadow in a large room which has a table in the center with twenty seats. Shadows cover Harishon again, returning him to his normal appearance. Harishon walks off from the priestess waving bye as he goes downs a flight of stairs. His calm, neutral face quivering as he walks down. He arrives to a cell lit only by a single torch, within in Galdur handcuffed. Galudr appears to be missing a finger. The cell is rather well tended to having a comfortable bed and a separate room for a restroom and even a dresser. It's more of a room rather than a cell. As Harishon approaches the cell, Galdur's eyes snap to him. Galdur tries saying something, but it turns into a bloody coughing fit. "Dear Brother-" Galdur growls out something as Harishon says brother, but it's again obscured by coughing. "... Rodet." Harishon says as he waves his hand and a chair appears out of thin air and he sits on it. Harishon's blue eyes meet with Galdurs enraged black eyes. "Elmar has no knowledge of your current location. You aren't in danger." He says in a caring voice. "Please, just relax here. You know this place." Rodet continues to glare at Harishon and doesn't move a single muscle. Harishon sighs then waves his hands again, Rodets' handcuffs dissolving. "I didn't want to handcuff you know? It was just a safety precaution. As for the finger... that was a mistake. Our tales are tied together, Rodet. You won't die until I die and I won't die until you die. Did all those years we spent mean nothing? Just because of a simple difference in opinion? Brother please, I just want to be happy and be with you again like we used to." Harishon says in a quivering voice as he extends his hand into the cell to Galdur. Rodet moves to the hand, keeping constant eye contact with Harishon. Harishon smiles as he approaches the hand but to his shock Rodet spits into his hand a tooth then grabs his wrist, pulling him into the cell bars. Harishon is easily able to resist Rodet's sudden pull and takes a step back, looking at the bloody tooth in his palm in shock. His faces darkens in sorrow. "I won't stop Rodet. It's not just me either, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Fortune, Justice, Hanged, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun and Judgement have all been waiting for you to come back." Harishon says before he leaves the room going back up the stairs. Back with Raphael and Pocu, they fly through the sea until they enter a cave that has a small air pocket, allowing them to enter and relax inside as Raphael pops her fingers to remove the gills.  "Augh!" Raphael groans out as she lies on the ground, exhausted. "That was so much fun!" Pocu cheers excitedly. "Hahaaaa... it was pretty fun, wasn't? Pretty exhausting for me though so we'll have to wait for a bit." Pocu then looks curious as she sits down beside Raphael. "What was in that bubble the man gave you? And why did you start speaking in a weird language? Where's Mr. Rodet?" As she speaks, an odd small red tint is seen in her eyes.  Raphael is looking at the roof as she speaks. "It... was just some gem they gave me for some reason." She says as she grabs a red jewel from her pocket, showing it to Pocu. The jewel seems to have a panther design etched into it. "I spoke the language cause I was trying to ask him something and didn't know how to word it in English." She says, slightly lying. The red in Pocus' eye disappears, and she nods. "Oh ok. What about Mr. Rodet?" Raphael nervously looks away from Pocu but then turns to her and gives a warm smile. "He's fine. He's just... taking the long way." Pocu smiles "oh ok! So what now?" She asks as she stands up and starts to walk around in a circle. "First, I rest. Then we see how much mana I have." She says as she stretches. After a while of rest, Raphael jumps up. "Ok, you have any injuries or feel sick?" She asks with a smile as she turns to Pocu, who is still walking in a circle. "Hmmmm. Nope!" "Ok good. Now me and you are gonna have a little talk about what's gonna come next, ok?" She says as she sits down in front of Pocu. "About what?" "About what we're gonna do next, ok?" Pocu nods as she meets Raphael's kind gaze. "So you're gonna have to trust me completely when we're in the sea, ok?" Pocu nods. "Yes miss!" She says with a small salute, "good. Now you also have to be completely quiet. I'm going to cast a spell that'll do that for you but if you scream or talk too loudly it'll break the spell, ok?" Pocu nods and covers her mouth with her hand. "Good. Now this is the most important step, ok?" Pocu listens closely. "No matter what you see or hear, don't trust it. The only thing you can trust is what you can touch, ok? In this case, you holding onto me." Raphael speaks in a stern yet calm voice to the young child. Pocu tilts her head to the side in confusion. "Trust me little one, it's better you don't know. Maybe I'll even give you a nice treat if you can do this," Raphael says with a smirk, much to the excitement of Pocu. Raphael then pops a couple fingers, which causes a white box to cover Pocus' mouth. Then gills pop onto their neck. Finally, Raphael's eye color changes from purple to blue. She sits on the edge of the cave and signals for Pocu to climb onto her back. Pocu does and then she gives one smile, then they fall into the sea.