Sigils and Biffle have made it across Regulated Island and must now walk across the thin lightline. Below is the darkness of the Forgotten Weather Dump.
"We're gonna walk out there? On that?" Biffle asked, hesitantly.
"It's the quickest way back." Sigils stated.
"But it's right over the Forgotten Weather Dump. If we fall, we'll be forgotten forever!" Biffle stated, knowing the consequences if they fall.
"We have to do this. To make the weather better. Just follow my footsteps." Sigils said, looking at the lightline, contemplating his choice of doing this as he stepped on the lightline.
"It's not that high." Sigils reassured himself. "It's totally fiii... Whoa..."
Sigils loses his balance and almost drops the orb over the side. Biffle steps out onto the lightline and they inch along.
Meanwhile, at the headquarters, Henwy was still mad about Nico almost killing him. Even though Nico asked if he was doing better, he wasn't better, and Henwy said, "Why'd you try and kill me?"
"I didn't kill you. I had to do it." Nico stated, which made Henwy react strongly.
"I could have died, Nico! What were you thinking?! You could have just fed me expired food and get food poisoning and I could make it snow!" Henwy stated. "Or you could have just injure me!"
"Well even if I did do that, you don't trust me!" Nico exclaimed, and both of them instead inadvertently instigate a heated argument, and cause the Regulated Island to start shaking, making Sigils and Biffle recoil in shock.
"What the- what's going on?!" Sigils asked.
Regulated Island crumbles and breaks. Sigils sees the lightline breaking ahead.
"Ahhh! Go back! RUN! RUN! RUN!" Sigils demanded as they retreated and run back onto Regulated Island as the lightline crumbles. Sigils and Biffle frantically outrun collapsing debris. They leap across the buckling bridge, making it over to the cliff just in time to see Regulated Island fall into the dump.
"What--?" Sigils said, and watches the island sink into the Forgotten Weather Dump.
The two fighting stare out the back window in disbelief. "This is all our fault... our friendship ruined everything!" Henwy stated.
"Ohh, Sigils where are you?" Nico asked himself.
"What are Henwy and Nico doing?" Sigils asked. "Their arguments must have made the Regulated Island fall, and without the main island, our islands would slowly collapse too!"
Sigils watches, still in shock. "Oh, we lost Regulated Island. That means we could lose yours, and mine, and Nico's, and Henwy's...! You can fix this, right, Sigils?" Biffle asked.
"I-I...ah... I don't know. But we have to try. Okay, come on." Sigils stated as the sky darkens.
"It's night. Which is a good thing... When you think about it, because nothing else bad can happen while it's night. We'll be back to Headquarters before it turns day. We'll just go across Earthly Sun Island." Sigils suggested.
Shelves jut out over the cliff edge, making Earthly Sun Island inaccessible.
Biffle, having no faith, said, "We'll never make it, hoh... nooo..."
Sigils tried to reassure him, "No, no, no, don't obsess over the weight of life's problems! Remember the funny movie where the fish dies?!" But failed as Biffle face plants.
Sigils sighed. "Biffle, we don't have time for this." and looks to his side. Orb shelves wind into the distance. Sigils then heads off into the maze.
"We'll just have to go around! Take the scenic route." Sigils said, with Biffle declining, "Wait! Sigils, you could get lost in there!"
"Think positive!" Sigils exclaimed.
"Okay. I'm positive you will get lost in there. That's an endless warren of corridors and shelves. I read about it in the manuals..." Biffle explained.
"The manuals?" Sigils asked, but realised that Biffle had done the task Sigils ordered him to do back at the Headquarters. "The manuals! You read the manuals! So you know they way back to Headquarters!"
"Um, yeah I guess..." Biffle hesitantly said, making Sigils squeal that they could finally return back to Headquarters.
"You are my map! Let's go! Lead on, Mind Map! Show me where we're going!" Sigils declared, taking a step forward, hoping Biffle would lead the way.
"Okay! Only, I'm too sad to walk. Just give me a few... hours..." Biffle stated, and Sigils rolls his eyes, and grabs Biffle's leg and drags him into the shelves.
"Which way? Left?" Sigils asked.
"Right." Biffle replied, and Sigils turns right. "No. I mean, go left. I said left was right, like 'correct'." Biffle corrected.
"This actually feels kinda nice." Biffle added, while being dragged on the ground. Sigils heads off into the complicated labyrinth ahead of them.
"Okay! Here we go. We'll be back to Headquarters before morning. We can do it. This'll be easy. This is working!" Sigils said with confidence.
Except that it didn't go well...
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Tempest Tangle
General Fiction(Cover by me!) The Regulars. They were in charge of controlling the weather and are also blessed with elemental bending abilities. They have their own islands as well, just in case they weren't well so that the islands can control the weather for th...
