Chrono shift blade the resuming Legacy

Chapter 16: The Visions and the Danger

I opened the door leading out of the room. Immediately a headache suddenly caused me to halt.

Just then the girl I saw before was standing at a kitchen counter. Beside her was the masked figure along with the raccoon guy that attacked me sitting on a couch resting. His Crystal was restoring smoothly from the looks of it, although there were a few dents still present.

"Where am I!?" I shouted.

"Relax. You are safe. Your friends are in the other room resting. I gave them a false vision and Angel put them to sleep with her magic."

"Why'd you bring us here?"

"I understand you're puzzled and mad but my friend Angel, Rex, and I were hired by your adoptive mother Ruby to bring you here in the light of recent events."

The masked man pulled out an echo device.

A hologram of Ruby, my adoptive mother, appeared.

"It's good to see you, Macey."

"Mom!?"

"Sorry for this unorthodox method of meeting you. I heard you were in town by Nix but then I learned of something that could be dangerous to you and everyone who's with you, so I had them bring you here."

The masked man then set her down and turned the device, facing the hologram towards them.

"I'll explain the rest. You inform the director that they're safe."

"Ok."

"Mom, wait!"

The call ended.

Angel looked at me and smiled.

"Follow me over here."

I followed her up a set of stairs and into a room. Going inside, it was a bedroom with drawings all over the walls.

There were pictures of me and Lexus when I met Rift and everything that happened up to this point.

"I don't know how to explain it, really, but I was gifted with this in my dreams or even when I'm thinking hard. Images form and I draw them and you have been in all of them."

She looked at me straight in the eyes.

"Hold still."

Her eyes flashed.

"There. I've seen a fragment of your memory. Now I'll need Richard to assemble it."

"What?"

She smiled.

"I don't really understand it either, but he has power over visions. I can only harvest fragments and piece them together from people's irises after staring at them for a bit. Mostly the left one though."

She opened up her palm and a hologram appeared on it.

In the hologram I saw faded trees. They looked like pine trees.

"That's cool! I think that's the place I used to play with Lexus when we were little."

She smiled.

"I understand if this is strange, but you seem a lot calmer now that you know that your mom asked us to help you."

"Yeah."

Before I could say anymore, she embraced me.

After a bit we headed downstairs.

Everyone was down there from the looks of it. Richard, the masked man pointed out by Angel, had just finished explaining everything to everyone.

"So did I miss introductories?"

"Just now yeah."

Richard then reached for his mask.

"Before I discuss anything further, I'd like to show you my face. Tall wolf fox in the back, please keep your fists to yourself"

He looked toward Ava.

"You too."

They both had raised eyebrows.

She took off his mask and we immediately were taken aback by the sight of his face under the mask.

After taking it off, another pair of arms appeared, making him have two rows. He had the head of a wolf but the face of a spider and a pearl resting in his hand.

"I'm a rare case for a beta beast. I'm a pure pearl but I was blinded upon forge of birth, although I can still see through visions of the near future."

Although we had more questions, we were simply told that we had to stay the night and stay here for now. As strange as it was, I agreed and told everyone to relax the rest of the day.

After spending the night in the same bedroom, I got up early and went downstairs to find everyone together, getting along from the looks of it.

Angel was chatting with Altair while they both groomed Lexus.

Rift and Richard were cooking. Despite being blind, it looked like he knew his way around the kitchen, cooking several meats up.

Ava was chatting with that Rex fellow, the coon who fought me although I barely remembered it.

"Hey sweetie. Wanna wrestle?" Ava nodded. She then tried wrestling him to the ground. Although he said he had it, when everyone looked his way, he was definitely losing.

After he shook her off, he came over to me.

"Ey sorry for attacking you yesterday. When I meet new people I kind of want to spar with them. Angel talked a lot of you so I kind of got a little excited."

I told him it was okay and I shook his hand I told him I barely remembered yesterday for some reason it was all a bit hazy.

After we ate a bit Richard made everyone sit down.

"Now to explain properly to you all. It is that sword your friend Mason holds that has made him a target of a group wanted in the city called The Awakening Four."

The Awakening Four... that definitely ringed a bell.

A year ago I accidentally walked into dad's shed while he was talking on an echo device. He was muttering something about dangerous individuals under that name. When I asked him about it, he told me to not look into it and said that it would endanger everyone in the village.

Although I never told him, I did sneak in later and found a memo about it so I knew what this was about.

The Awakening Four were a terrorist group of four individuals - their identities hidden, but not their powers.

One of poison roses, one of speeding thunder, one of armor, and one of mind.

Is what the memo said.

"Me, Rex, and Angel, along with two other individuals currently not present, are part of the Crystal Stone Liberators. We are a group founded by your adopted father, Nix. Mason, we have been watching you for a few years now, ever since you were first left at Dragonrise Village by your parents who disappeared into the very isle where you found that blade you have with you, the Chrono Shiftblade.

That was a shock. I knew my parents went missing going treasure hunting, but they had gone to that isle?

"The Awakening Four, according to our records, have been trying to locate that blade and retrieve it for a long time and the moment you found it after the barrier seal was suddenly removed, you became a target for them. Luckily it seems you made it here without issue, but that doesn't mean they aren't here."

Suddenly the blade formed on Mason's hand.

"What are you?" Rex said

Before I could say anything, a huge blast of energy hit my body, twisting it painfully.

I heard everyone calling out to me as I fell down, blacking out.

Richard shot up.

"Outside! Now! Someone! Rift grab Mason!"

The loud sound of the window shattering echoed nearby.