The next day...
Atomu was sat sulking in his den...
Leo was looking around at all the books when he noticed him... He approached him, slowly crouching to fit in the den.
"Hi, Atomu..." he greeted him.
"Huh? Oh, hey, Leo. You're up pretty early," Atomu mentioned.
"I'm ten. I don't have time to sleep the day away. I have things to do," Leo replied.
"Uh... what kind of things??" Atomu wondered.
Leo pulled out a big piece of paper...
"This is a new level, so I made a map of it; otherwise, I'll get lost. We're here, in the palace of knowledge... if we enter through this portal, we'll find the corridor of transportation! This will lead us to the goblin's feast... but we're not powerful enough to face them yet! But, if we climb up the tiptoe tower, we can cross the lava bride to my secret laboratory! It has some gear we can use to get past the sleeping queen's room without awakening the mighty power within! If we make it all the way to the cloud domain... we can harness the power of the all-mighty sun goddess, who will grant us the key to the goblin's energy source. If we steal it, we'll have the strength of the mightiest of goblins!" Leo explained his adventure, translated as, "let's go ask Echo for the key to the chocolate cupboard."
"Whoa......" Atomu was lost for words, enamoured with Leo's imagination.
"I WANNA GO ON YOUR SECRET MISSION, LEO!!!" Atomu yelled in excitement.
"I'm not sure a kid like you is ready for such a dangerous mission," Leo claimed.
"I am so!!! You can count on me!! Together, we're more powerful than the king of the underworld himself!! We'll get that goblin key for sure!!!" Atomu beamed.
"Hm. Then let's go!" Leo smiled.
Leo and Atomu poked their heads around the concern of the library door into the corridor...
"Come on, Luna, if you want breakfast, we have to go get the ingredients," Yurio walked down the stairs to the ground floor, with Luna slumping behind.
"Can't we get breakfast in the afternoonnnn?" Luna yawned.
"Then it wouldn't be breakfast," Echo reminded her, waiting at the door.
"It's a shame that treasure hunting didn't work out; otherwise, we wouldn't gotta go," Aki mentioned, walking down the stairs past Luna.
"Even if you had found treasure, we would still have to go and exchange it for the food we require to survive," Eclipse pointed out, walking out of the kitchen with a cup of tea.
"Where did you find tea?!!" Echo ordered to know.
"I brought my own," Eclipse returned.
"WHAT?!!! Why??? You just carry tea everywhere ya go?!" Echo was baffled.
"The two most important things that I never let leave my side. My scythe.... and tea," Eclipse informed them.
"So you're an English jack the ripper??" Aki muttered.
"Who...?" Eclipse was confused.
"Jack the Ripper was English," Echo added.
"Unidentified, actually~" Galaxy corrected, holding up a book of historical Murder cases.
"I've never tried tea before... is it like coffee?? Cause I really don't like coffee. It tastes blah," Luna mentioned.
"Tea is much more milky than coffee. It can be sweeter, so I think you'd like it. You can have various flavours too! There's green tea, black tea, herbal tea, Oolong-" Eclipse listed.
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The Demons of Shadow Moon
FantasyAwake. But the nightmare has not ended. It's simply been forgotten. With her memories wiped, Luna wakes up on an island all alone. Scared and fragile, she clings to the kindness offered to her by two demons. They take her in, and teach her magic! B...
