Eternal Grand Quest

Chapter 19: Truths and Answers

Things have taken a turn for the strange, as Arion's hero persona Tema, with Alise and Zophia have made to the reality of Green town. After confirming Zophia and Alise were real, as well as their powers, Tema came to the conclusion...the game and the reality...are merging. After meeting up with the bewildered Claire the threesome move on to Tema/ Arion's home. 

Alise, Zophia and Claire were with Tema has he arrived at his reality home. Just as Tema was about to through the front door Claire stopped him "Tema...Arion I don't know...how are you going to do this?"

"Like this" he opened the door "Mom it's me I'm back. I brought some friends"

"All right" Tema nodded and guided them all upstairs. They all went into Arion's room which seemed to look a tad small due to the four of them being in there...plus one other.

Alise looked round "so...this is your room?" he nodded

"it's very clean" said Zophia

"thanks...my mom gets at me if it's messy" Claire had noticed something else

"hmm...Tema..." said Claire "have a look at this" she gestured him to the bed...where a sleeping Arion laid peacefully.

The girls and Tema looked at Arion in the bed just sleeping. Tema just itched "Ooo...kay? I'm here...but also there. Question...how did I get here...so to speak?"

"After you were about to leave that orphanage..." said Claire "you fainted last night and I carried you home...which to say was a fair trip I have to add. But...how can there be two of you present?"

"No...I don't think there are two" said Alise "I think...there are the same person. This one existing as Arion on Earth...and this one existing as Tema in Fantasia"

"That...would explain why my bandages transferred through I suppose" Tema said as he crouched closer to his alter-ego Arion "it's so strange..." he reached out " seeing myself like this" as soon as he touched Arion's chest, Tema's body began to glow. It glowed a bright white as did Arion's body growing in intensity until the lights appeared to merge

When the light vanished, only one of two remained. It appeared to be Arion in appearance as he was stood and wearing the school clothes he still had on. Claire looked at him "hey...there's only one of you now"

"Yeah" said Zophia "the light radiated from both of them appeared to mix together. I think the two merged together"

"So...if the two are now one" said Alise "So...do we call you? I mean from now on?"

The fused being looked at his body "Just call me Arion. Tema was just a name I gave myself to sound more heroic. Both are me...it was just two bodies" he held out his left hand where the black mark was"and now...the two bodies are one"

"Right...can we not draw this out any longer?" said Claire "I'm itching for some answers"

"yeah" said Arion pulling out his memory stick "let's see" he turned his computer on and put in the memory stick in the correct place "what we've got"

Arion sat to his desk with the girls stood behind him. He opened up the memory stick "hmm...there's only a video here dated...three months ago. I only started about over four months ago"  he scrolled to the video "right" he clicked on it "here we go" the video showed a familiar large bedroom " this is the room from that house we looked at Claire" she nodded as a person came into the shot. The person was out of view so they could only see between the person's waist and mouth.