Kiana And Sal's Bizzare RomCom Drabble Collection

Space Pirate Captain Kiana Kaslana Side Stories: Robin Part 2

Honkai, Stellaron, and Whatever That Girl Is Doing With My Arm:

"Leo! Leo! What is this?" Robin now latched onto Leo and pointed at the humongous archaic clock tower, often dubbed Ghantaghar.

"It's a clock tower..." He sighed and tried to detach himself from her, but Robin's grip on him was tighter. "The King of Jorpur built it fifty millennia ago. Initially, it was a watch tower to keep a lookout against the Stellaron beasts and Honkai; they even say The Great Aeon Nous had blessed this creation."

"Wow." Her eyes widened as she placed her palms on the rugged surface of the tower. It was made of hand-cut red sandstone, carved in a cylindrical pattern with sculptures of Aeons at every level. On the top was a conical roof with an amethyst stone that acted as its power core. During the Aeonic-Honkai war fifty thousand years ago, Jorpur was regarded as Humanity's Final Bastion. As the planet was located on the periphery of the Andromeda Galaxy, it was the first city the extra-terrestrials would encounter when they made their way towards the cradle of Humanity's civilization, the Milky Way Galaxy. However, this star system bore a clan of Humanity that called themselves the Rajputs, a group of hot-blooded, stubborn and magnificent warriors who stood their ground despite the odds being stacked against them and repelled wave after wave of Honkai and Stellaron. However, even their bravery was nought when faced with Finality's ascension at the war's end. But that is a story for some other time.

"Leo, why are all the buildings in the old city painted blue?" Robin tilted her head, making her bangs fall on Leo's shoulder, who, still weary of the songstress's sudden affection, tried to make sense of her advances.

"Well, it is mostly for tourism." He shrugged as he held his chin. "Though it was not always the case."

"Hm?" She gave him a confused gaze as she let go of his right arm and walked in front.

"Remember how I said the King of Jorpur was involved in the Honkai-Aeonic war?"

"uhuh."

"So, during that war, there was superstition." He smiled as his amber eyes gazed at the seventy-thousand-year-old Nenagrah Fort. "Basically, that very same King had also performed a ritual, which gifted a chosen warrior of the planet immense power."

"Power?"

"Yep, well, I don't know how accurate that story is since it belongs to the era of myth, but if I remember correctly, the warrior who got that power was called a Herrsscher or something, and that stone on the clocktower is said to be what remained of her after she perished in the Battle Of Andromeda."

"Too much information." Robin held her head as she gave the boy a pout.

"I am not done yet." He gave her a smirk, only to see a ghastly expression on her face. "So that Hersscher was said to derive power from Blue Color, thus they painted the city blue, or at least they used to. Nowadays, it is only the old city."

As they walked through the maze-like alleyways and stone-cut walkaways, Leo's defences were lowered, and he, too, was slowly getting mesmerized by the songstress. Though even then, he wasn't ready to believe her. However, it was only a matter of time before things changed.