Ghost and the Writer

Albus side - part 1 -

"Plaustribus," A low sounding voice called his attention back from listening to the transmission. Albusflores von Plaustribus was in shock, not only his fiancee had betrayed the military moments ago she was also now pointing the weapons of her vessel towards them, even before Hadeans did.

Albusflores white hair possessed a faint glow and there was a horn on his forehead just below his hairline. He had ears like a horse, yet they were downcast and mixing in with his hair, his tail was long, stopping only above his ankles. His eyes were changing colors like opals under a light. As a mythical grade contra, a unicorn, in humanoid shape, he possessed a strong presence and despite his ethereal appearance, there wouldn't be anyone questioning his authority. His aura was overpowered only by the man sitting next to him.

"Yes, sir?" Albusflores looked back towards Admiral Florentine. 

Differently to himself, Admiral was calm. He had a mature, alpha male appearance and black wolf ears and tail. The fact that Admiral, as an Aheal, could easily overpower a mythical grade contra, spoke of his centuries of relentless training. Admiral made a faint smile. "This ship won't hold long, escape."

What? There was no way a second in command could go before his superior does at a time like this. Even more surprising was the admiral's tone - it wasn't phrased like an order. There was something vulnerable in that smile. Admiral had ordered things before and Albusflores could speak back when he felt like it, but the way admiral had asked was hitting off Albusflores's pace completely. It felt like something he should not refuse.

Without waiting for a reply, the admiral got up, taking charge at a moment when despair had started to settle in. They were a battleship, but just a single one and everyone knew what kind of weaponry Hadeans were pointing at them. Their ship did not have strong enough defenses to withstand even a single blast. "Raise the shields! Set the ship on a collision course, evacuate right after!"

Albusflores let out a breath of relief. So all of them would be going. Admiral's order, though - Collision course with raised shields - what meaning did that have... No, it had meaning, if the ship was destroyed like that then there would be fireworks illuminating the sky and there would be no way it would escape surveillance regardless of what sort of interference Hadeans might put up. Rather than causing any damage to the other side it would merely be the flashiest way to go.

"What are you waiting for?" Admiral asked then, looking at Albusflores.

"Nothing, sir," Albusflores thought of the destination and broke the bracelet on his wrist - a teleportation artifact. He didn't feel happy to be the first to go, but there was probably a reason why Admiral insisted on it like this.

Yet something went wrong. The artifact spent all its energy, the course was right, but rather than landing in the royal training grounds, Albusflores stopped in midair above one of the uninhabited floating gardens. Something had dispersed the artifact's energy.

Before he could start falling, Albusflores shapeshifted into his origin form - a unicorn - his clothes dispersing and an earring forming on one of his ears, next to three others of the same kind. He formed aether footholds to reach land, jumping from one to another with grace only a unicorn could have.

When his hooves hit the land, Albsuflores shapeshifted again, his uniform reappearing. Just as he turned to look above - a bright blast filled the sky above and at the very same time more than half the crew materialized close to where he had before, their faces equally shocked about their location.

Admiral formed a huge aether platform in mid-air, big enough to give footing to all the remaining crew - a feat only very few could accomplish, and his expression didn't even make it seem like that was hard.