I am Dron

Two Meals, A Talk, and A Visit

Finally I awoke to the smell of something good. Some kind of...soup. With potorios and brokolee. Mmm, it smelled so good. I went outside of the sleeping room and into the kitchen. Surprisingly, I didn't feel sore from yesterday's workout. I hope I don't have to do it again. Starra, Crys, Naki, and Phina were cooking with the girl who looked like Phina. Turns out, her name was Zera and she was her older sister.

"Yes, you're awake!" Starra gleefully jumped up and down, practically slamming into my chest to hug me. She let go blushing and looking.

"It smells good." Starra perked up.

"Do you want to try some? It's almost lunch time, so if you want, you can just eat some!" She offered, pulling me to the spot where the soup lay.

"Sure. Why not? Looks like a good meal to have for breakfast." Zera poured some into a bowl and handed it to me.

"I hope you like it." She said. "Phina and Naki were the main makers. It's surprising how well you guys managed to get through the battle a few days back. Naki told me about it."

"Um...thanks?" I took the bowl and went outside. I saw Phil and Piku fighting about something. I sat next to them.

"Oh, hey Dron." Piku greeted. "I was just fighting with your designated 'son.' Is it true that Naki wanted Ravenfury from the beginning."

"Yep."

"See, I told you! She wasn't just waiting for the test!" Phil laughed at Piku.

"Stop laughing! Just because you are right, doesn't mean anything!"

"Hey guys, lunch's up!" Naki called.

"Cool! We will wait until someone makes it unburnt!"

"Actually," I said, "it isn't burnt. I'm eating her food. Phina helped."

They looked at each other then ran inside. I was left alone, probably because all of the other NPCs scattered, and most of the players were trying to make a hidden mole inside the castle.

After lunch, most of the students went to a briefing on what the final battle was going to be. We would have ariens and drenos as the aerial team, while the other came in through the land. We would cover me until I made it to the main chamber where I would attack Zaros with the sword and win.

"You do realize that if this is tonight, there is only about, let's see...zero chance of this working." Ren complained. "Most of your plan revolves around us actually getting inside the castle, for there to even BE a main chamber, and for us to be able to find it."

"Oh, there is one." Avaros said. She had been fighting off the shadow frost when I showed her the sword. The sword had healed her. So at least I can heal people...which isn't much of an improvement though at least It looks like I won't be doing any more training sessions. "Believe me, I have located one. And, being an AI, I can direct this plan towards it."

"Great. That helps." Elver said.

"I will be on the team that covers Dron personally." Naki said.

"You will be staying here." Piku told her sternly.

"Don't go all protective brother on me. We already have Phil healing from you talking to him, we don't need anything else to happen."

"And what if we all die? We can easily redo it if we have some people back here to fight back as a safety measure."

"And what if we had all of the soldiers held back and we could've won by putting them in the battle?"

"This is not up for debate."