The Lunar Witch

Chapter 5: Escape From The Fortress

Finding the key was their top priority now. It didn't take them long to finally reached the control room. Only one problem, it was locked from the inside. The door was reinforced steel so Velvet's daemon claw wasn't going to break through just like the door that hold the control to the gate. So they went to search for another way in. Luckily they found it. By climbing some vines next to the door. It lead them to the roof of the building. There were more vines on the other side allowing the group to climbed down.

There was a window with few of the iron bars missing. Allowing them easy passage inside. There was nothing much of interest in the room they just entered just, from a single glance. There was a door leading to another room. This probably wasn't the control room, maybe it was the other room. Diana did spot a compass which they really needed. She had been using her location spell ever since they lost the compass.

"This seems to be the place. Let's split up and look for the key." Velvet said.

"We'll search the other room." Eizen nodded leaving with Rokurou.

"Well then, let's begin the search." Diana said as they looked around the desks under all the paper and other things.

Diana didn't have much luck on her side of the room and was about to help Velvet when she shifted her gaze to Number Two. The boy malak was staring at a shelf that held some books. On the top there was something very familiar, a compass. The witch blinked, Diana would have taken it otherwise when they left. She saw the boy taking an interest to it before it fell and hit his head. It looked painful knowing the compass was made of hard metal.

"Ow..."

Velvet found the key just in time to see what happened and went to the boy, picking up the compass on the way, "Don't get so worked up over a little thing like that. It's proof you're alive."

"The... The bump is..." The malak boy asked.

"No. I'm talking about the pain." Velvet replied and she smiled.

"But... But I'm... scared of pain." Number Two said a bit nervous.

"Well, kid, who isn't?" Velvet pointed out.

"Even you?" Number Two asked and Velvet smiled.

"Pain can be defined differently depending on their experience." Diana told the younger malak as she joined them. "It can either be physical like your pain, or emotional. Some of us have suffered and went through emotional pain. Point is, nobody is perfect. All of us can feel pain and we're scare of it. We don't want to feel it but at some point in our lives, we will eventually."

"You're afraid of pain too?" Number Two wondered.

"I am but it worries me when others feel it and there's nothing that I can do about it." Diana confessed. "But I know that pain can become personal strength one day."

"Anyway, boys sure are fascinated by the weirdest things." Velvet pointed out while looking at the compass.

"Fascinated...?"

"True. You like compasses?" Diana asked as she smiled and the malak gave a nod. "I don't see a problem if you can keep this one. Isn't that right, Velvet?"

"Sure. Just make sure you take care of it. We already lost one." The daemon woman agreed as she gave the compass to Number Two.

"I will!" The boy said, sounding happy.

"Hey, do you want me to heal that bump of yours?" Diana asked and Number Two nodded. "Well, hold still. I won't be able to get rid of the pain but it'll go over." The witch used her healing arte where the bump is until it was completely healed. "There you go!"