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WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 33.2
Just as Ronan was about to listen to Truvius' advice, a set of grating nails scraped at their door, coming from the wrong side to be Puff. Truvius went straight for the disconcerting noise, Ronan tailing his roommate to make sure the whack of a planet he lived in didn't do them in. With a slow clicked the door cracked open, and a pair of frosty blue eyes looked up at Ronan from the floor.The gasp lodged in his throat, his heart fluttering to pump out a fresh batch of energy and fuel his relief. One of his few pieces of home had returned, surviving the alien wilderness and learning there was no company like his."Jay!""This your Guardian too?" Sev boomed, popping into view and snatching Jeremy off the ground. "That door is polished winter tree, you'll freeze your butt off in the sandregian ice plains getting a new one. Doubt you got the sliv to replace it either, so keep this cute ball of fluff off the furniture."He suddenly registered Ronan's face, eyes widening with realisation at
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 34
Black pooled like ink throughout the tight room, shaming the ebony nest on Ronan's head as he leaned out of his covers with a stiff groan. Puff wasn't in his usual corner, the brilliant ball of white shirking his gaze completely, along with his nosy cat that had likely found it easier to slink through the blackened room with his charcoal coat.His throat wasn't as dry, but still smacked and rubbed with every swallow. He moved his tongue around, feeling the calcy stick lacing it with a sour tang and scrunching his nose as he cooked up the best place to find a cold glass of water.Truvius would probably know.His heart flattened when his eyes rested on the empty bed. Perfectly made and void of its typically snoring occupant.Ronan slid out of the bed and parted the curtains left of his bedside. It was late, the only thing to light the sky being the massive brush stroked planet.Where's Truvius? Ronan thought, looking around the empty room. He was nowhere to be found, and it had to be pa
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 34.2
Ronan swallowed, the fear dodging his pulled muscles and climbing into his mind. He was following a stranger to save a stranger, and now he was honestly doubting his logic as he came upon the side of the potentially dangerous person and flashed him a timid smile."This might sound weird... But can I have that rock back?"The man remained silent, his violet eyes focused ahead with an ease of comfort. Ronan wasn't even paid a glimpse as the man slowed his strides to match his, the grass only crunching under Ronan's soft and soggy socks. Every step drew closer to the wall of rich green, a mass of emerald shadows filled with death for those who rarely trod it. Ronan had already learned his lesson about crossing its threshold without permission, and didn't need seconds.His voice spiked with an involuntary crack. "Please, I know it might sound crazy, but my friend is in there. I need it back."The man finally stopped a foots-length from the first poking tree branch, the swaying grass aroun
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 34.3
Ronan stared at the librarian, a couple innocent blinks mere scratches upon her stern expression. He distracted his gaze with inspecting her braided nest of a bun, the brown curls poking from its base bouncing as she spoke."That's the list hun?"Ronan bit his cheek, his fingers still splayed across the black scratches of writing painting the crumpled paper. It was the list, a list of things he needed a little more information on. But he wasn't thinking too well when he wrote zodraic batteries clear as day on it."Yeah," Ronan muttered, the last of his parched throat invading his words. "I was just looking for some books on why zodraic batteries are illegal." He handed the slip to her, the warm smile on her face allowing his voice to steady. "I was curious about their history."The librarians eyes darted down the list. "I understand, Novan technology is quite popular, especially after Runas." Her lips twitched with a somber smile, and she tucked the paper under the lip of a stack of b
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 35
Truvius stared at the suitcase, crouched before the contraption with glittering eyes enchanted by curiousity. He'd been stuck in the action for a solid minute, turned from disturbing its contents out of a courtesy for privacy, yet pulled by its irresistible charm. Would Ronan mind? Truvius' fingers twitched, hovering over the lip of the shining zipper. If he could just understand its basics, that would be enough. It looked like the toothed clips Alta Staar had been refining for years, yet engineered to perfection and daily convenience. A smile warmed Truvius' cheeks. Ronan had been the best roommate he could have ever hoped for. So blind to the basics of Lumi and its lands he'd picked up a nomad dragon, and the only distaste he showed Truvius was when he yammered too much. A single flaw he was definitely trying to fix. His homeland made it hard to stand equally amongst what should have been peers. In reality, the only way he'd managed to score an affordable education was shining
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 35.2
Puff had gotten better after an hour, his mood still cast to the floor with a little bit of swelling under his eyes. Ronan was still carrying him while Truvius skimmed the halls for Alestra. He'd reasoned that the town wouldn't take kindly to a nomad pet, and the dragon hunter cuff hugging his wrist was a telltale sign of his origins, despite his friendly demeanor. With the way most of the school looked at Puff, Ronan couldn't help but believe his roommate's claims. After a lengthy trek through the halls, they turned to the outdoors, nearly hitting themselves when they immediately saw a chocolate haired girl sitting with a circle of friends in the grass. Most of the school's populace soaking in the breezy summer day around the vast clearing of grass. Puff rocketed out of Ronan's arms and bounded into the unsuspecting girl's lap, spooking her with a sudden fluffy package as her friends immediately glared at Ronan. He shrugged off the lack of welcoming, the sets of daggers aimed solel
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 36
The locksmith was a smaller shop, nameless, yet labelled with a simple lock painted on a plaque of hanging wood. It was tucked into a shaded corner only accessible via a tight alleyway. If Maria hadn't been there before, the group would have been aimlessly lost in the older patch of town, a portion piled with quaint hutted shops and houses infested by an unruly swath of flowering vines that snaked through the old stone walls.The crowds of shopping students was dead in the cracked streets, a few clean dressed loiterers that called the town their home barely paying the group the small price of a couple stares. Intrigued, yet ignoring the earthly fabrics Ronan was flaunting.As soon as they entered the shop, the muggy heat of the outdoors dried out, and the subtle smell of flowers lingered in the small space. The shopkeeper popped his head up at the faint jingle of bells, carefully sheathing the knife he'd been sharpening and placing it in a drawer behind his counter. With a wave of cal
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 37
Sonya snapped off the last ribbon of tape, completing her storm proof piece with an exhausted sigh. A set of steel grey eyes stared back at her through the window of sticky plastic, its awkward smile settling on thin lips to pull off your typical school photo.This particular picture had been blown up to a pixelated mess and stamped on a hundred sheets, 'MISSING' jumping in bold black letters to grab any passerby.She bit her lip, still lingering on the poor word choice.Missing was for cats and dogs.Missing was for things that didn't come back due to strange circumstances.Kidnapped was for her best friend.She squinted at the thick letters, skimming her phone number plastered at the bottom as a second punch at her idiocy. Now everybody in Iridis could blow up her phone. But she didn't exactly have a number for his uncle, and she had to sell her act.She slowly peeked over her shoulder. A couple was down the street loitering at the local cafe, one tall and lean built man rigidly hol
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
