The Special Outcast (COMPLETED)

Part 5 - Cover's Flower

A/N: Read the Author's Note at the end to find out this story's inspiration!

Careful's POV

We were in the centre of a thick, dense rainforest. I had to ask myself as to where we were currently located. I looked around, making a guess that we were in heart of the Amazon Rainforest. It was very dark at the time when we reached but a small glow suspended in the air provided some light. I tried to glance around at the TPs, wondering how they were feeling. I was also surprised when she sent Thomas back from our last mission. He was our leader and played a very important role.

All the TPs had a role to play, at least all the trained ones, and it felt off to be without the other 3. Thomas was the leader, of course, and I was the main source of ideas for our group. Diligent was the one who would always keep the group cheerful. Rainbow was the peacemaker and work really well with the trainees, she was also the communicator and translator – I hated her the most. Lithia and Nathan were the inventors of the group and made a couple of useful instruments.

It just felt awkward not to be together but we all know how we need to bear with changes in order to find the scroll and save Xigix. I found it weird that only one of us could see the scroll. Personally, I hoped it would be one of the trained TPs, since I didn't trust the rest very much and I could tell the other trained TPs were feeling the same way. I mean that this was an important thing...what if the trainee read the scroll wrongly?

"Hello, hello. I'm Cover," a young fairy on a flower spoke to us. I noticed they were all sitting on something, with the last one being cross-legged on a wave on upon meeting us. This fairy had brown hair and the deepest brown eyes I would I ever see. She wasn't beautiful though, at least not in my eyes. Right now, all I was feeling is frustration and anticipation to see the scroll's magic.

"What brings you to the heart of the Amazon rainforest?" she asked lighting up the place with her magic. I could see that we were floating about 15m of ground with about 15m above us. When she meant heart of the forest, she really meant heart of it. It was rather weird, even the Ocean girl was not that pathetically specific about being in the heart of something. It could be due to the vast Ocean that I had not realised though.

Coler, if I got her name right, was surrounded with a few outstretching flowers as well and above her was the dense canopy. Somehow the light that she was emitting did not change the livelihood of animals in the forest – I almost felt impressed. She was sitting, suspended in the air, almost as though she was meditating. You could say she was connecting with the nature even as she spoke.

"We are coming in search of the scroll's spell," I told her and she nodded, smiling – while she stayed in her weird position. I'm starting to hate the fact that these girls smiled so much. Who were they and why do the TPs have to listen to their rules and pass the test? We did it for the scroll but we were more powerful than them.

They were just normal girls guarding the scroll. The only thing more powerful than the TPs are the current evil attacking Xigix and the legendary nymphs who may not even exist! Why could we not just blast these girls and force them to tell us where the scroll is?

The answer was simply the image we had to uphold in front of the eyes of Xigix citizens. The TPs' image should not be broken, if not – the trust they placed in us and that pioneers of the TP worked hard for would be broken. I was going to criticise more about these wannabe girls when one of them broke my train of thoughts with her voice that sounded way too girly even for a girl.

"The scroll? Alright, ladies and gentlemen but first, you would have to catch that flower!" she winked, pointing at the flower before disappearing just like the fairy we met in the Ocean. I cringed when she spoke though – what bad grammar she had to use 'catch' when the flower was not even in movement. That thought was before I walked up to it though. The flower disappeared the moment I took a step towards it.