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WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 81.2
"Ahh... yeah," Ronan replied, his voice drawn to think up more than a two word vocabulary. "I was—" "Running to Fairez Stella," Luki finished. "On stolen equaams, with no food or water..." His gaze shifted to Veronica, voice dead as the crusted leaves around him. "You've kidnapped the second daughter of his Majesty Cilvren, nearly had an arrow in her head too." "I-I didn't," Ronan moved his mouth to speak out an empty explanation, catching Veronica's unconvinced frown with a shred of relief. "She followed me." "I'm simply telling it how her father will see it," Luki replied, waving for Ronan to follow as he whistled out a trilling tune. Nel obediently joined his side, lowering her saddled back for Luki as he stopped to face Ronan and his bewildered group. "It is convenient that you used the whistle. Albeit, brashly. I've business with you." Ronan gulped, staring at the curved blade that peeked from his belt. "Business?" "Your uncle, as I will put it. He knew I was in the area dea
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 82
Ronan awoke to the gentle beams of dawnbreak, nestled into the wine red cushions of a polished oak carriage. He felt strange in the rocking wagon, the birds that sang upon Cobalt's roof at this hour nowhere to be heard with their lulling notes. It was a sound he'd found comfort in all these months, now replaced by a creaking grind as the strange parrot-ostriches pulling the cart kept to their pace. Truvius stirred as Ronan moved his arm, lifting his cheek off his shoulder with a bleary eyed squint and yawn. "Still early." Ronan shifted his gaze to Veronica and Talli, still passed out with an array of candied fruits and chocolates littering their cushions. She hadn't spoken to him since hopping in the carriage. Not even a grunt when he offered to pay her back for the carriage ride. With another twist of slithering guilt rocking his road-sickness, Ronan shifted his gaze to Luki. He'd taken the only seat facing the wagon's front, sat upright on the maroon cushion with his eyes gently
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 83
Earth or not, Ronan had never walked the streets of a city. He'd heard about them and seen them in movies. They never slept, filled with more shops and restaurants than you could ever try in a lifetime. Wondrous and strange in his imagination.Cramped and disgusting in his reality.There was still space to walk across the white stones of the main streets, but in the blur of lavish clothes, trinket stuffed shops, strange animals, and deal screaming merchants, Ronan felt there was so much of a fight to do anything even breathing the air was harder.It was only until the paths became ornate, and the towering piles of stacked shops shrank to singular boutiques, that some air and calm could be found. But where the screaming merchants running street side carts had vanished, the enticing lure of cooked meat and fresh flowers shifted to the pounding assault of the perfume clinging to the people they passed. Walking rainbows of fur and jewels, prim and proper down to the last toddler. Every ch
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 83.2
"My writing is common to the Revesti scribes and any sort of imperial assistants that work here," Ariabella said, slowly flipping the form before Ronan could read it, her voice no longer a request, but a stern order. "Please, have a seat while I arrange safe travel back to Cobalt."When Ronan cautiously took the seat closest to the door, Ariabella waved for Luki to follow her. But her fingers barely grazed the doorknob when it was tossed open. The lack of a knock nearly cost the side of her face, a sharp breeze only catching her bangs with her grace of quick reflexes.The man on the other side only announced his presence afterwards, unable to keep his strong voice from filling every crack of the small room."Bella, where are you at with the guest list? Memorised?"Oblivious to the world around him, he passed her, sumptuous golden fabric cascading from his body in droves to touch the floor. The shadow of serpentine dragons swimming in the shimmering robes as he moved.Ronan felt his bo
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 84
Veronica was surging with triumph. Her feet quick, side by side with Ariabella Augebelle, and one step behind Elisious Aeric—the most powerful man in the world.And she'd stuck him under her boot.Ronan didn't exist. The emperor had no successors, as did his sister, Mystral Aeric, who had worn the crown of Alta Staar till the end of the war. Formally unwed up until her death days after the march on Shakri'gurn. Since Ronan didn't exist, she knew he wanted to keep it that way.She wasn't going to be cheated of the treat. The labour of her efforts picking up the wreckage Ronan left in his ignorant strides. He was going to another freaking planet, and she was coming. Everyone that had to eat grass in blistering starlight was coming."What do you think their houses look like?" Truvius' whispered, his breath brushing her ear, spurring her lips to curve.Ugly. Obviously."You think they all dress like Ronan did?" Veronica snickered, catching the smallest snort from Elisious."Y-You think th
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 84.2
Dandelions.The first pop of colour Ronan saw when his eyes recovered from the blinding light. They were standing in a dandelion infested field.The dandelion infested field.He felt his knees drop, speechless.A beaming smile on his face as he breathed in the dry air of Iridis. So engrossed with nostalgia he didn't notice the loose dirt under his palms until he grabbed for grass. He jumped back up, turning to face a dipping crater, a deep chunk of the field dug away in a circle where the strange rock had been.Someone had stolen Iridis' UFO landing pad. And strangely enough, the singing hum he lived with was gone too.Truvius stepped away from the sight, panic in his face as he pointed. "We didn't do that... right?""No," Veronica muttered, more interested in the sky as she gawked at the sun with Talli. "It's so empty...""I guess." Ronan frowned. He'd gotten used to Lumi's cluttered sky. But he was back. Back to a home he'd almost lost hope in ever seeing again. So the rock was gone
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 84.3
The woman chuckled, unconvinced. "You should really come down before you hurt yourself.""Even more," the man added.Ronan kept a smile on the couple, feeling the shears hook around his chosen branch. Sucking in a sharp breath he squeezed, the soft woody flesh shearing clean off with a rubbing shriek. A branch half his height tumbled to the ground, Ronan eyeing the shears questionably to figure out if the sound had come from them."Jump, Ronan! Jump and run!"Ronan looked at Phantom, slipping his leg around to drop off the branch. But as he swung, something hooked his hands in place, legs hanging as he looked up at the slithering branch that pressed his hands down."Oh shit—"A branch swung out beneath him, slamming his stomach to rip him right off the tree and into the grass a few feet away. He let out a wheezing cough, the shears in his hand now sharpened into a toothed black mini-saw.He felt a root grab his ankle, paling as the tree shuddered with rage.He hadn't sawed a thing in
WAR PLANET: The Phantom Chapter 85
Truvius seized, feeling the silver eyes of his friend spear into him."Go!"One of the metal earth carriages rolled up to the pale stone walkway, it's skin a lustrous black that dazzled the light better than even dragon spit. He backed away as a blonde woman came out of it, her gaze anything but friendly as she stared at him while Ronan yelled.The strange man had saved Ronan from the winter tree. Was that a bad gesture?Earthlings really were strange.Truvius caught Veronica's nod. One of them just needed to be holding the branch, while another cast a big enough spell to kill the lumience crystal. The problem was dodging the tree's whipping branches to get a hold of it.Veronica passed him, diving away from a thick branch that tried at her ankle and scooping up the large branch. She scampered away from the tree's reach, too distracted signalling Truvius to notice the bulky man that had closed in behind her.She lobbed the branch in his direction before the bald man seized her arms, i
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Chapter 119.2
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
