-Break-

  Φ “Sir, where should I put my sculpture?”

  “On the left, you will find a Zterytavis iion D to pce your sculpture on.”

  Walking away, the woman says, “Thank you.”

  “Hello young man, what is the drop-off py kids.”

  “We are loading the kids to ses based on the family names, so start from over there and tinue down the rows of Zterytavises till you find the corresponding one, and if your kids have any allergies there are special Zterytavis that they have to ride on.”

  “Thank you.”

  As I let out a sigh, I hear Iancu beside me say, “Are you ok Orb, isn’t all this anisation hard.”

  “No, it is alright, in fact, the more plex the rules and system are, the more I uand, and I definitely ’t lose to Elia,” I say looking at her. “Not only did she draw up this entire anisation system, but she is also making it run incredibly smooth, is she some sort of monster?”

  Φ “Don’t bother trying to keep up with Elia, she is like a human calcutor.”

  “What’s a calcutor?”

  “Sometimes the primitive teology of the world really shocks me, Elpída was so much better, Though I guess at least the people actually smile oside.”

  “You still haven’t answered my question.”

  “A calcutor is a mae that instantly does plex maths sums for you.”

  Looking over to Orb I see his hair turn Coral with a face of utter disgust; pretty sure I have never seen this colour before.

  “Who in god’s name would sully arithmetic by creating a mae that up-ends the process, have they no respect for the art form of arithmetic!” Orb says as he stomps towards me, causio walk backwards.

  “I don’t know, take it up with the person iion.”

  “I swear to god when I find the person who made such a thing, I will skin them alive, rip out their heart, then sughter all their children.”

  Under my breath a mumble, “The person is long since dead.”

  Grabbing me, Orb shakes me bad forth Orb while he says, “Hey stop pretending like this doesn’t have anything to do with you, I am your friend and I need moral support.”

  Φ Feeling a tapping on my back, I turn around to see Elia. When I face her, I instantly get spped on the face, “Stop making noise you idiot, you are stressing all of the people out.”

  “Sorry about that it won’t happen again.”

  “Good,” Elia says with a smile as she hits me with a baded sp.

  “What was that for!” Notig her hand has not returo her side after the sp, I look at it to see she is pointing towards Atanta.

  “She arrived just a moment ago.”

  Walking towards Atanta, I say, “Thank you!”

  Φ Getting up from the floor I say to Elia, “Here I thought you came here to protect me.”

  “Protect you, the one who should be protected is me I am just a frail girl.”

  “Whatever you say you demonic ogre.”

  Turning around she kicks me in my fad says, “Watch you, damn vampire, I ain’t sile where I ’t skin you alive!”

  “Try you troll!”

  Φ Standing in front of Elia I say, “I heard what happeo Dush this m, are you ok?”

  Turning to see me Atanta says, “Lanta is super ok, I have no time to be sad since burying my friend is my first priority.”

  “But still?”

  “Stop being a me worry wort Orb, Us died with quite a nice smile on her face so this isn’t the time to be sad about her life but to celebrate it in joy.”

  Despite having a bright smile on her face, I see tears f in her eyes so I say, “That’s good to hear then.”

  “And besides I got stinking rich off of Dush, I probably don’t have to work another day in my life, I just eat sleep and have sex all day long.”

  “You’re deplorable, and here I thought we could be friends.”

  “Don’t worry Orb me and you ever be friends, since from now till I die my only friend will be Dush.”

  “Well, whatever, it is not like I wao be your friend or anything.”

  Putting her arm around my neck, she says while pushing her finger into my cheek, “What, did you want to be my friend Orb, were you actually pying hard to get this eime? That’s some maroon hair you have could that indicate jealousy.”

  “No, it doesn’t I am just stipated.”

  “Oh, blue hair now looks like the little boy is embarrassed, how cute.”

  Throwing my hands up to break her grip I say, “Not in your wildest dreams, IDIOT!”

  Giving me an from my waist Atanta says, “She might be my only friend, but you are my little brother Orb.”

  “I might cat std by beied to you.”

  Squeeziight, she says, “Oh looks like my little brother needs some discipline.”

  “Lady Lanta.”

  Turnihe face the dire of the voice we see it is Elliot, “Elliot are you ok?”

  “Yes, dy Lanta I just came to inform you of something since we have finished pag.”

  “Pag?”

  “Yes, I and all of the Krik family staff will all be ing with you.”

  “Wait what. Are you sure about that, it is not like I wouldn’t want you guys, it is just that I thought you would all rather stay on Skydust?”

  “Well, that is what we pnned but I read this.”

  “That looks like.”

  “It is the sed letter that Dush wrote, and it is addressed. She apologized to us for how horrible a boss she was, and that she was thankful for us putting up with her.”

  Seeing Elliot shaken up, Orb says, “Are you ok?”

  “Reading this note made my heart sink, Dush talks as if she gue brought upon us but in actuality, we all respected her so much, with very little education and no oo lean on she was able to keep the Kritz business operating for years, despite how she feels about herself not everyone could e close to doing this. I just wish I had more time to tell her how amazing she was.”

  Wiping the tears f in his eyes Elliot says, “But that’s in the past now we have to look forward. All of us w for Dush have lots of experience running the Kritz family business, so we should be able to set up a busio provide the kids with money if necessary.”

  With a smile, I say, “It is good to have you.”

  “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!” we hear someone scream.

  This erupting voice pulls the attention of all of those close by to see it, “Suddenly all us kids have to leave Skydust with all our possessions, and you adults won’t even tell us the reason why.”

  “Chris it isn’t that simple.”

  With tears in his eyes, the young boy Chris says, “Then expin it to me, expin it to us!”

  “It isn’t something you have to worry about.”

  “But I am worried, everyone keeps ag and talking as if I will never see any of them again, all of this has been making my mind go crazy as if it is about to burst. WHAT IS GOING ON, WHY DO WE ALL HAVE TO LEAVE, MOM, DAD, I AM WORRIED ABOUT YOU GUYS, AND UNTIL YOU TELL ME I AM GOING TO SIT RIGHT HERE!”

  As the boy sits down, all the kids in the area around us start to sit down as well, refusing to move.

  “Elliot, did you do what I asked you to this m?”

  “I prepared it all before I came here!”

  “Good. Orb, I am going to need your help.”

  -Break-

  Φ “Chris, please get u,p we need you to get oerytavis as soon as possible.”

  Crossing my arms I say, “I refuse! I won’t leave you two, not now, not ever.”

  With a demanding voice, my father says, “CHRIS GET UP FROM YOUR ASS AND DO WHAT YOUR MOTHER SAID THIS INSTANT!”

  Hearing my dad’s voice I shake and start to cry, but I say, “I refuse, if I get up and go now I feel like I will never see you two again, so NO!”

  Suddenly I feel something ed arouurning my back I see a beautiful woman with red hair, as she stares directly into my face I blush.

  “Little ohis scarf I just put around you will make sure you're ected to everyone else who wears it.”

  Walking over to my parents she puts a scarf on both of them and says, “So no matter how far you go from your parents, you will always be attached to them, and the same goes for all of you who have been giving a piece of this scarf. From this point on every one of you are ected no matter if you like it or not.”

  Looking around, I see all the people around us being handed a piece of the scarf as the dy says, “The lot of you all better keep those scarfs safe because the person who made this carried your creations all over the world, so I don’t want to see any g just joyful smiles over the presents you have all been given.”

  Getting down on their ko give me a hug, my parents say, “You see Chris.”

  “No matter how far we all are.”

  “The three of us will always be ected,” I say uo restrain my tears.

  -Break-

  Φ “Mime, where are we going?”

  “We o figure out a way out of Skydust.”

  “But don’t you want to stay with everyone?”

  “No, you idiot, don’t you remember our abiding principle? Thieves rule number 0; the only person you trust is-.”

  “Yourself.”

  “And since me and you are one body one soul, we only trust-.”

  “Each other.”

  “That’s right Anto, now we have to go!”

  “Mime.”

  “What is it Anto?”

  “If you don’t want to stay with them, why are y.”

  “Shut up idiot, your g as well.”

  “Because I don’t want to leave them.”

  “Well too bad, st time we trusted people they stole all our iand left us broke oreets, so we only trust each other.”

  “So that’s why such young thieves are kids.”

  “You idiotic brats.”

  Before me and Mime react to these voices we are both grabbed, then scarves are ed around us.

  Shaking her body Mime says, “Orb, Atanta let go of us!”

  “I refuse, you both lost to us.”

  “So, from this moment you are ours.”

  “And anything I choose to have, I will protect it with my life!”

  “I don’t believe you, Lanta over there hates us.”

  Letting out a sigh, Lanta says, “You are both annoying as hell, but I think I would like to have you both around.”

  “Hehe Mime, your g face is so ugly.”

  “So is your Anto!”

  -Break-

  Φ As everyone has been loaded onto the ship repare to take off. “Iancu.”

  “Already on it,” he says using his lega it.

  “NOW TAKE OFF!” I scream as the ship goes into the air.

  Wheake off I see Suzuka and Cyrus run to the deck where they scream, “You guys better win!”

  “D-D-Don’t lose!”

  Though their voices are overtaken by the kids screaming back at their parents. But with my hearing, I hear Jeter scream back, “Thank you both so much!”

  As Atanta es up beside me, I say, “Are you sure you wao break up Dush’s scarf like that?”

  “Dush wao be a part of the unity of Skydust so badly, and now I think she has bee an irrepceable part of it. So, I feel like this is the best option for it.”

  “That’s good to hear,” I say as we walk back to the trol room. While walking into the trol room I see Elia and say, “Hello there.”

  But she gives me the most disgusted face I have ever seen, and says, “Don’t talk to me, I might puke! And to think I trusted you.”

  “What the hell is her problem?”

  “Oh, it might be that the scarf I gave you was the se we used Elia tights to make.”

  “So, the scarf I have ed around my neck is-.”

  Φ “Yes, it is Elia tights, and actually some of your hair as well. I guess she got pissed because this teically ts as something perverted, though it was uional on your part.”

  Turning over to Orb I see his nose leaking blood like a waterfall. “How dirty-minded you are.”

  Φ “I am nothing of the sort.”

  “ORB!” I hear Iancu scream.

  Running over to him I say, “What is the issue.”

  “Look in front of us.”

  Looking in front of the ship, I see a group of gryphons f something of a blockade in our path. “It is Gevurah, tell everyoo get into battle positions.”

  “Wait Orb,” Atanta says. “Look at them they are parting in our dire.”

  “Are they letting us through?”

  As we fly through their enclosure, they immediately return to their positions pletely ign us. Letting out a sigh I say, “That was a close call.”

  Running into the room Cyrus and Suzuka, say “Orb e quickly.”

  “If you are talking about the gryphons, it seems that won’t be an issue.”

  “N-N-No not that, co-o-o-ome Orb.”

  Following both of them, I go to the deck of the ship and to the far, far, right of us, I see a giant winged wonderbeast, it is se that I think it is over twice the size of the bohemian whale on Elpída.

  “What the hell is that!”

  -Break-

  Φ “When the gryphohe kids through, tell them to scout over Skydust, we o make sure they have no more flying wonderbeasts left. Koa make sure the encirclement around Mount Lock is airtight, we ot let Percy escape no matter the cost.

  We are going to siege them out of food we will make this a bloodless war, I refuse to let any lives be taken because of this, DO YOU HEAR ME!”

  “YES SIR!”

  Hearing a g sound, I look over to see a man say, “That was a nice speech General Maria, you really are wonderful.”

  Looking at the man dressed in the robe I realize he is a cardinal; a high-ranking official in Gevurah who only ao the king who holds the title of pope.

  Koa says, “Cardinal Samson, we are in a wartime situation so would you please save anything you have for us ter.”

  “The reason I am here is regarding that. As of this moment, every single member of the Maria army is to return to Gevurah.”

  “We are in a wartime situation like this I outrank you, so unless you have a papal decree, I don’t have to take orders from you.”

  “You people really have no manners, but what I expect from a refugee. Gevurah happily took you people in after your try was destroyed, yet you show such disrespect towards officials.”

  Koa enraged says, “Unlike you Maria got her position through merit, not blood ties, so what right does scum like you have to insult her.”

  “Sorry, it was stupid of me to expect people like you to uand the meaning of family lineage. Sihe piece of crap kingdom that most of the Maria army was born in was pletely crushed”

  Koa shouts, “WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!”

  Holding him back I say, “You say whatever you want, but that doesn’t matter since I don’t see a decree on you anywhere. So e back when you have the authority of a 2nd seat.”

  Letting out a little ugh the cardinal says, “I might not have a papal decree, but otlefield, there is oher way to outcss a 2nd seat.”

  “No, it ’t be.”

  “By Order of one of our try's seven 1st seats; Soris the Dawn, as of this moment the war with Gevurah has ended and all parties are to return home.”

  -Break-

  Φ On the back of a giant flying wonderbeast a man with a gold mask on says, “Vedrfolnir, thank you fing me here.”

  Standing up on the back of Vedrfolnir I say, “So this is the foolish try Skydust. To think you would risk war over something like, this how pointless. But fret not, I will make your pointless existence worth something as I use you as a warning tevurah's future enemies.”

  Holding my spear in my hands up I say, “Heed the call of Soris the Dawn, now my legabsp;Advent.”

  Φ Suddenly while me Suzuka, Cyrus, Atanta, and Iancu, look out at the giant wonderbeast we see a giant light fall towards Skydust, which causes Suzuka to scream wildly.

  “THEY ARE ALL IN PAIN, THEY ARE ALL DYING, I ’T HAHIS!”

  As she starts to spasm, I try to hold her but she eventually colpses and falls unscious and when she does the light from the heavens stops. Looking at the top of Mount Lock, I see the area where Skydust was, has been pletely obliterated with only a crater remaining.

  “What the hell, did somebody do this?”

  Φ Seeing the light from the heavens stop, I hear the cardinal behind me say, “Looks like the vermin have been wiped out!”

  Walking towards the mountain I start to run, but am held back by Koa who says, “Calm down.”

  But in response, I just scream, “SOLARIS YOU BASTARD!!!”

  3rd cycle, year 2026: Oh day of the fifth month Gemini, the try of Skydust decred war on Gevurah, and was then obliterated by Gevurah ihan 24 hours.

  And in the library of , this tragedy was recorded as the Skyfall i.