The Five Kings: First Step

Hopian 60 - Hopian Continent

Last chapter, after an odd encounter with King Metallica in the middle of the night, Seric goes outside onto his ships deck where he sees Karia. In a drunken but honest rage she tries to attack Seric and shoves her guilt onto him, until she passes out. Later, King Metallica discovers that Seric's chest is filled with the burning blue flames that he dripped out of his fingers in Birzion. And finally, the trio are about to arrive at their destination, the Hopian Continent.

Seric's P.O.V.

Of course I already had a strong feeling that we were here though, as the pillar Vega that we used as our sole navigation tool is looking even more massive than a few hours ago, and due to the seemingly ever expansive "shore" being in sight as well, which is quite the sight with it being purely made of smooth and clean pavement, but with no official docks to be seen for whatever reason.

There's also a load of solely silver futuristic cars driving just past the "shore" on roads with white metal tracks engraved into the pavement which the cars use like some sort of railways. On the opposite side of the road, a bunch of civilians of all ages are walking on a sidewalk with a streak of red light emitting from the ground leaving a lane for those who are handicapped to use.

Most importantly, right next to the people lie a bunch of high rise buildings, with some being rectangular, but some others far down from where we're heading have stunning glass architecture. They look like some complex geometric shape with their countless weird rainbow tinted sides and slanted metal roofs.

"Whoa... but wait!!" I think to myself in panic until I shout out "Hey, King Metallica we're pretty much here!"

"S.E.R.I.O.U.S.L.Y.?!" I hear him shout from inside of our living quarters, and after a few seconds of hearing his metal stomps he swings open the pure white door, stomps outside and leans on an insane angle to look over the side of the ship.

"Ah! The beauty of my true home, I certainly do miss seeing this scenery..." King Metallica reminisces to himself as he rests his chin on his open palm over the edge of the ship.

"Ah haha, yeah. But I was thinking we're wanted now right, so won't we have to wear disguises again? What about security to get into the place like the ID check at Magthera- orifanybountyhunterstrackedus-"

"B.O.Y. stop your blabbling your ruining my flashbacks! Just keep driving, yes we can just slap on the disguises we wore before and we'll be A OK! Regardless, no one on shore can even see us from here meaning we've got time to think, so Z.I.P. it!" King Metallica brushes off my concerns- as well as a major one I just thought about now considering how we're out in the open like this... how the hell wouldn't people see us from here...?

"You sure?" I ask uneasily.

He closes his eyes and leans back like he's about to scream, but before he can our boat crashes into the stone "shore" causing Metallica to flail his arms and almost fall off of the boat.

"Shit! Sorry." I say squinting my eyes.

"Shut up already for fucks sakes. Here." Karia spits as she hands King Metallica his simple disguise, but simply drops mine to the floor... at least she's talking to me now.

I sigh and shake my head, walking towards her and picking up the disguise where I head into the living quarters to change into.

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"Hm... alright, it still works the same. Good. I hope Karia was right with buying these so that we would specifically fit in with the Hopian Continents citizens though..." I think to myself as I pull the hood of my super baggy and thick black hoodie with a plain logo reading in thick letters " I Trust in the Hopian Army" being printed on it in white... yep. I didn't even get to buy a disguise, Karia just gave me her old hoodie from when she was a kid in the Hopian Army.