"Reality?!" Everyone gasped in disbelief and bewilderment.
"There is no fricken way!" Ryoji yelled, doing a double take.
"It's too extreme if it were that!" Kazemasa stated with a firm voice.
"Plus, it would be impossible for Artopians to exist in Reality anyway!" Ayaka agreed with him.
"But what else is there, huh?" Kat yelled loudly so she can be heard between the panicking people.
Nobody really knew. But, they still kept their reasonable thoughts.
"My child," Michiko walked next to her, setting her hand on the Nephalem's shoulder. "There's never been an Artopian, or a Fictional, that has ever set foot in Reality. It's near impossible."
"Yeah but-" Kat tried to contradict. But she couldn't find any words to support her claim...
"Wait!" She heard Ran yell, walking towards Kat and Michiko with his laptop. "Maybe Kat's right..."
"Ran?" Michiko crosses her arms, looking like she was gonna speak over him.
"Seriously! Look!" He showed his laptop screen to Kat and Michiko. The screen showed the whole map of Artopia. But it didn't show any coordinates of the runaway Hooded Figures.
"Okay, despite the fact that you managed to track them somehow..." Kat raised a brow. "I actually don't see the coordinates."
"First of all, I managed to track them because I found their phones," Ran explained with a small victorious smile. "And second of all, yes. Their coordinates are not there because their not actually anywhere in Artopia!"
"They couldn't be anywhere else in the world, so it would be kinda easier for them to... Teleport to Reality...?" Ran finished hesitantly.
"Yeah!" Kat then heard MC agreed and she turned her head towards her.
"I mean, 'A barrier that might kill them' does sound like Reality might be the barrier." MC twirled her bed hair unconsciously.
"Guys!" Kat turned to Kalaya, who suddenly piped up loudly. "Realms Join! Remember?! Maybe the Hooded Figures are trying to band Artopians and other Realities to overtake their bodies!"
"Or!" Allie interrupted. "Maybe they're kidnapping Artopians for their bodies and Realities for their Ethereals! That's why they took our families Ethereal rather than take their bodies!"
"And maybe they're getting our Ethereals because ours is stronger!" Kat snapped her fingers. "But why would they need Ethereals?" She asked herself aloud.
"Doesn't matter right now," Kat saw Dan walk up to her. "I'm still confused as to why they took Richy and Evan."
Everyone in the living room went silent.
"Bait." Ayaka said with a soft voice. "I'm guessing in order for them to get a hold of the Realities Squad's Ethereal, they need you guys to come by yourselves."
"Bait eh...?" Kat murmured.
Well, it made sense. Brianna and Emily even saw it happen long time ago with their first encounter with the Possessed Ochre and Ian.
"Well they're pretty smart then..." Kat admitted.
"But wouldn't you think that the boys deteriorate in Reality, because... they're not real?" Kat saw Bunny raise her hand to speak.
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The Realities Squad
Fantasy"It's nice to live. Right?" *** Kat lives in two worlds. Reality, where she lives her normal life as a human being and deals with only school and family. And Artopia, where she lives as a ruler for many races of people and deals with monsters, mythi...
