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WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 29
The ruined cathedral was dark, only giving form to unrecognizable shadows that played tricks on the eye as even the slightest bit of movement would give them life in the sight of caution. Alestra protested the idea to light up the path, as any lurking Molve would be able to plan an ambush on them from a mile away, so they were forced to stumble in the dark. The creepy and consistent dripping of water travelling through the dead halls like an ominous call.Phantom was a different story, he could coordinate his way in the dark like it was midday, and pointed out a number of concealed stones to Ronan, which was helpful, but also made him feel a twinge of cheating guilt as they racked up on points his group wasn't responsible for.The trio tip toed through the stone halls, cringing at the smallest sound they made, since it travelled further than a chunk of juicy gossip tossed to a hoard of famished valley girls. They had gone into a basement of sorts, where they found a small webbed room
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 30
The Molve ripped the air with a bellowing roar, bursting into bright orange flames with it's jagged canines bared and coated with thick saliva. It was a familiar sight to Ronan, who was scared enough given the circumstances.His defensive posture faltered for a split second as the Molve's murderous gaze burned a hole through his mind. He couldn't tell if it was staring at him, since its pupiless eyes were simply a swirly hurricane of thrashing orange magic. But he also didn't feel like the thing was going to stop at simply taking his ribbon."Run?" Phantom whispered, the surprise clear in his tone as he soaked in the mysterious bloodlust.Ronan slowly nodded, then twisted around on his heels, fleeing for his life. The Molve didn't spare a second in commencing its chase, leaping into a sprint and landing a few feet behind him.Digging its claws into the ground to prevent it from sliding into the wall, it used its momentum to propel itself forwards yet again, landing inches from Phantom
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 30.2
The Molve prowled through the dark, its keen claws clicking eagerly against the ground with every step. Veronica and Xander huddled out of its sight, pressed into the back of a small stone covered hole they were fortunate enough to find while holding their breath in fearful anticipation.The clicks grew louder in tune to their waning chances of escape, the small play of moving shadows giving them a foggy view as it circled them. Then the glowing orange eyes came into view, faint as it lowered its head in front of them, thankfully peering in the wrong direction.Veronica readied herself to let loose every explosion she knew on the creature, staring at it in fear as it slowly turned it's head, meticulously scanning the area. The Molve's breaths were cold and calm, it's mouth slightly ajar to display its rows of serrated fangs. Luckily, false life enchantments lacked a sense of smell, giving them the smallest chance at avoiding detection.But that chance was getting smaller and smaller,
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 30.3
"That was way too much!" Phantom yelled, still gripping his ears as he stood in a cringing squat. "What part of, you can stop now I don't need any more lumience did you not understand?!"Ronan sat on the ground, panting and coughing from the amount of dust and smoke surrounding them. "I told you I didn't know how to stop it." He snapped, coughing up a bit of hazy smoke as his voice dried out. "At least it worked.""Are you hurt?" Phantom questioned, watching him get to his feet dizzily.Ronan rubbed the burnt pebbles and dust out of his hair, looking around with a frown. "Don't think so, but I'm taking a nap after this.""No seriously..." Phantom said with a hint of concern."Seriously, I'm fine. Do I look injured to you?" Ronan insisted, displaying himself to Phantom."No, but you should've been, I wouldn't have been surprised if you died. Sad, but not surprised.""That's comforting." Ronan scooped the Molve's medallion off the ground. It was covered in black scorch marks, but still
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 31
Cinder chirped happily at the sight of her friend, swooping down onto Puff's head and massaging the scruff of his neck."Oh, whaddya know, Mudbrain is back," Phantom growled."Quiet," Ronan ordered, looking around the corner cautiously. "Is it coming this way?""No, it took a right," Phantom quickly replied, pretending to lean against the wall with a heavy sigh. "It's going to the explosion site, but there's another one that might come this way so we'll have to get out of here.""Got it."Ronan lifted his butt, preparing to bolt into another patch of shadows when a shrill call tacked the first nail in his coffin."Ronan!"Ronan shot his head around at the sound of his name, his snarling glare hardly masked fast enough when he saw his teammates running loudly towards him. He leapt to his feet and shushed them, but it was already too late.Phantom sighed, smacking the back of his head against the wall in defeat. "The Molve changed paths. It's coming for us."A roar echoed through the ha
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 31.2
Ronan tiresomely shushed the group, and explained the situation. His teammates didn't even question his statement, and stealthily started their escape, jumping over any stone slabs they saw, and trying their hardest to land on the soft dirt.Talli almost finished making her way across, and landed on a pile of dirt like everyone else had, unaware of the weak stone it was concealing. With a loud crack the ground gave away, and Jane grabbed Talli by the shoulder, pulling her to safety with Xander's assistance.Veronica froze where she was, halfway across the path while she dish eyed the wall, then back at Alestra and Ronan. They could hear the muffled growling coming from inside the building."Keep going," Phantom cooed. "It's in the building, not like the ghoul faced chalk sniffer can do anything from in there."The Molve barked, the ferocious twang showing it had heard Phantom's comment. With a scraping thud, everyone froze.It was attacking the wall."Nice one," Ronan muttered, watchi
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 32
Ronan had a pleasant dream. He was back on Earth, eating pancakes, walking to school, and for some inexplicable reason, enthusiastically prancing through the field in front of his house.Then Red came along and it became a nightmare. Just before Red kicked him into a swimming pool full of sharks, Ronan sprang awake, disturbing Puff, who in response to the sudden movement dug his claws into Ronan's stomach and bristled his fur. He slowly leaned back down, a fissure of searing pain cracking through his skull in tune to his beating heart, and the newfound pricks Puff had provided him with dotting his stomach."Oh you're awake are you?" a familiar voice said. "Don't worry, you're fine, but I wouldn't recommend getting up for a bit."He squinted until his eyes adjusted to the light spattering the room, then looked to whoever was talking to him.Maria smiled as her shadow gave his eyes some relief, casually filling a small glass with water."If you're wondering where you are, this is the nu
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 32.2
Ronan dizzily climbed the swirling staircase, with Truvius leading him and constantly looking back to ensure his friend wasn't about to faint again. A couple acquaintances had hitched a ride during his short walk, Leon, Veronica, and Talli lingering at the lip of the carpeted stairs to chat. Completely deterred by it's exhaustive height.They finally stopped before the dragon carved doors in awkward silence, Truvius trying to mask his wheezing pants as he grabbed his knees. He finally straightened his back with a heavy sigh, poking at the smoothed metal with confusion."Are we supposed to knock... Or?"Ronan was too tired for formalities and shoved the door open, spooking a woman who was on the other side, standing on a scraggly ladder that screamed danger.Lady Samanthra hugged the shelf to steady her sudden imbalance, and looked to her guests like a deer in headlights, the ladder quickly stabilising in the thick carpet."Oh sorry dears, you scared me." She shakily climbed off the la
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After scaling a few levels of the roof, they found a cracked window and slipped into an empty guest room, the door to the hall barely ajar to show its lack of a guest.Veronica could see the sliver of a guard's shadow to the left, her hopes withering as she looked back to the window they had come through. But her gaze fell on the boy instead as he whispered a spell into his cupped hands, a small butterfly glowing with golden light fluttering from his palms and out the door.There was a small commotion as the guard to the left spoke with another one, two pairs of footsteps following the enchantment until they grew silent. The boy lead the mission, tiptoeing through the empty corridor until they rounded a corner to face two guards sitting at the end of the hall.Veronica swallowed her gasp, confused as the boy continued to lead her up to them. She heard a noise when they'd gotten close enough, one of the guards letting out a soft snore as his head drooped against the second guard using
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Chapter 119
Veronica sat on her bed, stuffed like a spring hen but still buzzing with birthday energy. She had only played with one of her gifts throughout the night, a dinged up wooden dagger that she'd managed to hold away from her mother until the gazes of the guests forced her to allow the gift to remain in her hands. She had looked for Mr. Bunny afterwards to show him her new prize, but Horus had informed her of his early departure.She knew that they had planned for today to be their last, but the disappointment lingered nonetheless. She still had one last gift she had hoped to give him.Veronica sighed, grabbing for a fairytale on her shelf instead of the books that had piled from Jackling's tutoring. She had gotten a few new stories to read Cinder before bed, but the phoenix had taken a particular liking to the golden lettering of one title."The Adventures of Locke Lanbrellhande..."She stopped at the small tap that met her ears, glancing at the side of her bed where Cinder was still per
- WAR PLANET: The Phantom
Chapter 118
It was all wrong.The corridor was too tight. The guards were too close. Too tall.It was too cold, suffocating.He was meant to be in the room to at least give him some time to think."Are you alright?"The boy snapped to the voice. What was a blink to him, was long enough to land him on the ground, palms to the floor to keep his entire body from shaking. He didn't know how long he had blanked out for, but the king had taken a knee to come closer to him, washed with concern as a few of the surrounding guards hovered over the scene to see where they could offer help."Come lad, can you stand?"His gut twisted at the way he tried to help him up, but with Vera bracing his other side he couldn't very well squirm away from the king. He doubted that he'd even have the energy if he decided to. But he knew now with the scene he'd caused that he would have to respond with more than a nod.Cilvren would have had his translational enchantments up to date, but there was a standing risk of a few
- WAR PLANET: The Phantom
Chapter 117.2
It had been a little over an hour since the nosy boy named Horus had been dragged off. But the silence finally let him work without prying eyes. The size of the pants had allowed him to stitch pockets inside, just big enough for a dagger to hide beneath the folds on either side. Horus had likely thought he was being smart when he hid his old clothes and daggers from him, but the presence of magic in the air always escaped Lumer senses.He pulled them out of a pile of blankets, finding the rest of his trinkets and the invitation to shove in his pockets. With some hesitation, he bounced the black spool of string in his palm, staring at the shiny silver needle and pocketing the whole thing. He had to be preapred to use anything.Hopefully Veronica wouldn't miss the small thing, nor the black cloak he found in her wardrobe.Blue crystals twinkled at his fingertips as he traced his hand down the cloak. He just needed to be invisible from a distance for a few minutes. Most of the guards had
- WAR PLANET: The Phantom
Chapter 117
It was the end of the painfullest slumber party in history.Veronica had exorcised her birthday immunity to raid a closet of nearly all its bedsheets, and prop them up as a haphazard blanket fort in her room. It was the perfect mess for the boy to hide in when someone walked in without knocking, but also a tight fit when it came time for sleeping.Veronica had been ushered away at the crack of dawn for the maids to prepare her outfit, which left the boy in Horus' care. He had to get the two of them ready, and hope to the gods that the boy picked up at least half of the common Latos mannerisms he had taught him. But all of that was to the side as Horus stared at the boy tucked into a corner of the blanket fort.Horus didn't know what was weirder. The way he held a few flowered bauble pins out the side of his mouth as he sewed, or the fact that he looked like a seasoned seamstress as he cinched the waist on a pair of pants Veronica had swiped from Adrian. The cut was tall enough for him
- WAR PLANET: The Phantom
Chapter 116.3
The door opened, the boy squatting lower into the tub as Veronica peeked in. She flaunted the tiny beginner's book like a sack full of slivs, tiptoeing up to the tub with a devilish smile."I found it.""You don't have to whisper, we put up a sound block enchantment.""You guys have to teach me!" Veronica piped. She quickly landed on the bar of soap in Horus' hands, putting two and two together at the suds popping in the boy's hair. "Horus, that's soap.""Yeah...""That won't do, it makes your hair all icky." She grabbed a tray full of mysterious pots, smearing at least five of the creams together before her mysterious concoction was complete.No amount of dodging could save the boy from being her test dummy, but the smug way he simply let Veronica rub the bubbly concoction into his hair irked Horus to no end. She grabbed some more of the secret spread, only stopping when not a single black hair could be send through the froth of rose bubbles on his head."You're never going to smell
- WAR PLANET: The Phantom
Chapter 116.2
Veronica surged with confidence, a top and trousers that she had stolen from her brother's room, as well as one red envelope embellished with gold trimmings hiding between two books she had snatched from house Acadrius' library. She had the best idea to get Mr. Bunny safely out of the castle, and perhaps have him earn her parent's favour for a second visit.Her birthday celebration was in two nights. She had been lucky enough to find the spare invites before Ambelsine the records-keeper discarded them all. With the right clothes, he could easily blend with a room full of rich traders and nobility—and walk right out the front door.The guards paid her an odd look as she waved to them, the two at her door hesitating before allowing her into her room. She tried not to show a reaction. She had told Mr. Bunny not to make a sound, the guards would run in with a loud enough crash. But the room before her was empty, the small pile of books and food she had placed for him tidied up.She checke
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Chapter 116
Horus gazed up the hill of crimson steps to Veronica's room. He had counted to five hundred, and found Mr. Jackling well before he found Veronica. Apparently, while counting in a passage behind a closet, Horus had somehow climbed out a window. At least, that was Jackling's truth as he spent the better part of ten minutes going over the dangers of climbing onto roofs with himIt wasn't the first time Veronica had fed him an outlandish tale. But Horus ate up the blame every time. Veronica blabbered when she panicked, which meant she was hiding something. And that something was always better dealt with without the adults getting involved.Adrian would have more than a sharp word for him when he got back to that problem he'd up and abandoned. Things were simpler when the children of Acadrius weren't revulsed at the sight of one another.Horus made quick work of the stairs, fixing a lopsided shoelace and dusting his collar before gently knocking to call his presence. A muffled shuffle was
- WAR PLANET: The Phantom
Chapter 115.3
Veronica barreled through the halls, a shiny steel bowl tucked over her head as she carved a clear path to her destination.Adrian's room was so far from her own, privileged to the same hall as her mother and father's bedchambers, and nearly as grandois. When Horus and Adrian weren't scrapping in the courtyards, they were almost always doing something in there.Veronica confirmed her theory as she pressed her ear to the door, letting herself in at the sound of Horus' voice.Adrian was quick to call out her trespassing, stepping out of the hold he had Horus in to cross his arms and slap a sour glare on his face."Don't touch my door.""It's not yours," Veronica snipped back, clutching the bowl tighter as her brother took a challenging step. She quickly stole Horus' attention. "I need your help."Adrian scoffed at her caked shoes. "What's with all the mud? Mom's going to have a fit.""None of your business, I need Horus to help me.""We're practicing. Go get Maria or Jackling to help yo
