The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 21: The little unicorn.

Mela didn't follow him, she just stood there. "what's wrong?" he asked, looking at her blankly. 

"Mom says I shouldn't leave home, because I'm sick!" she said hesitantly, fidgeting with her silky long brown hair. 

Adam approached her abruptly, he touched her forehead making her flinch. 

[Data discovered… 

Scanning… 

Analyzing…

Human, data updated. 

Inferior physical condition. 

Myotonia Congenita detected. 

Treatment in progress, efficiency 20%.

Target's current condition, 78% muscle function. 

Low blood sugar detected. Sugar consumption advised.

Dehydration detected.

…] 

"ouch!! Why did you zap me?!" Mela shouted as The symbiote reported the scan based on Adam's concerns. It also transmitted to his mind all he needs to know about the myotonia Congenita. 

Myotonia congenita is a rare genetic disorder that causes muscle stiffness and muscle growth. Symptoms can also include clumsiness, muscle cramps and weakness. 

"You are not sick. Lets go." Adam grabbed her hand and dragged her along towards the elevator. She found his hand too stiff to struggle out of his grasp, so she silently followed him.

Adam ordered 10% of the cluster fabric to form an invisible exoskeleton on Mela's body.

The fabric slowly turned into a soft clear material, crawling on his hand towards Mela's hand. The moment it touched her she felt a tingling sensation on her skin. Her imagination interpreted this tingling as feeling love according to one of her idols. 

Crawling on her skin gently, The fabric soon reached her entire body, making a thin layer on Mela's skin supporting her joint movements, it didn't make her stronger nor faster, it just supported her. 

"Adam!" Mela whispered, her blushing face almost completely red. "what are you going to show me?!" the moment she said those words, she hoped he didn't hear them. 

Not bothering to answer her, Adam walked into the elevator, which was a platform with a round seat and a table in the middle, surrounded by a glass dome, always ready to be stepped on, located in the end of each hallway. 

The moment they took a seat on the round platform, it started smoothly moving left, getting replaced with another platform looking the same. 

Adam let go of Mela's hand when the fabric transfer completed. 

"Look at this!" Adam put his hand on the table making a small amount of fabric turn into a little unicorn. He always knows to distract her while the platform is in the dark short tunnel, because of her claustrophobia. 

Mela screamed of joy, she loves unicorns and always dreamed of meeting one. Mela is an 8 year old, white skinned, tall girl, with a long silky brown hair, a light hazel eyes with gray flecks, her facial features are simple and kind, the short blue dress she wears on top of a black leggings makes her seem taller than she is. 

She tried to touch the little statue of the unicorn, as it suddenly moved and started jumping around her hand. Mela laughed and played with it as Adam said. "to the park." When the platform they were riding on stopped at the edge of the building. 

The platform took a route on the outside of the building, joining a line of platforms heading in the same direction. 

hundreds of buildings surrounding the park forming a circle around it, the captivating view from the floating elevator always makes Mela happy, Adam silently stared at the grassy land, the tall trees that looked small from this height, the rivers and bridges, the wooden benches, fish ponds. It reminded him of the dangerous woods around the orphanage.

Unlike the woods, this park is fully protected and maintained by human hands, it has small animals, insects, birds, rodents. all contained by a barrier surrounding the park from all sides. 

"where did you buy this from?! I want one!" Mela said as she played with the little unicorn. She had a toy core before but it was an old model, it couldn't make something this realistic. 

The little white unicorn had a pink mane hair extending from its long blue shiny horn to its pink tail, the slender legs on it emitting a blueish glow. 

"that's not a toy core Mela!" Adam said with his expressionless face, looking at her playing with the unicorn. 

Mela stopped and looked at him, her face showing an array of emotions. "is it a real unicorn!?" she said while hugging the little unicorn, her eyes watering and her smile getting bigger by the second. 

"No you idiot! Unicorns are extinct!" Adam said extending his hand to the unicorn that suddenly turned into a dragon and escaped her grasp. 

"Hey!! They are not!" Mela firmly said while staring at the dragon that now became as big as a house cat, it made a low growl and jumped into the air, extended its wings and glided around their heads. 

"whatever! This isn't a toy core, toy cores cant do this." Adam casually said while touching the small dragon, as it disappeared into Adam's hand. 

"Where did it go?" Mela panicked, she tried to look for the dragon inside Adam's sleeves, and she found nothing as Adam stood up. 

"Lets go get an ice-cream!" Adam said with a hint of enthusiasm in his eyes, getting out of the platform the moment it landed on a metallic base, with many other platforms making a tall tower. 

"if that's not a toy core! Then how did you do that?" Mela grumbled. She knew that all cores either are voice activated, or gesture activated. Toy cores with gesture activation are very expensive, especially if they have a gene scanner. 

"I have super powers now!" Adam said with a mocking smile, they walked together on the tile road surrounded by trees, towards the gaming area. 

"you are a liar!!" Mela looked at him suspiciously, she watches romantic series and movies, she doesn't like superhero stuff, so she didn't believe him. 

"Remember the toy fights you lost your toy core in!? Well! I will prove it there." Adam said with a slight smile on his face. 

They arrived at a crowded area filled with cabins selling all kinds of food and desserts, with many tables in the middle of the cabin circle, and some small robots serving foods all around. 

Adam held her hand to not lose her and waste time looking for her, which made Mela turn red once more. They headed to the ice-cream area. 

"what do you need all that ice-cream for?!" Mela gazed in surprise at the amount of ice-cream Adam bought, he held five big boxes of ice cream in his hands, a robot spotted him and speedily approached him. 

"may I help y..." Adam didn't wait for the robot to finish its polite greeting, he put all the ice-cream boxes on the flat head of the small robot. The small robots head extended to fit the boxes as it Balanced itself on one big wheel. 

"what! I get hungry allot these days!" he answered her gazing, while opening one for him and another for her. 

"If you get fat I wont hang out with you anymore." She firmly said crossing her hand.

"I can't get fat, lets go to the arena." Adam walked towards an area with multiple screens around it showing little robots fighting and breaking each other apart. 

"why do you want to fight in that stupid contest any way? I stopped playing with toy cores a while ago." Mela said trying to sound like an adult, she was happy she finally got to leave the apartment, it's been a long time since she got out, and her mother is either busy or not in the mood to take her out.