The Obsidian Tale
Episode 5
[Opening 1 music]
[Opening 1 music]
~ Kyrie – central district ~
It was like a reunion already. Rina
and Lydia appeared before Felix’s eyes, and Felix conveniently found Jess stuck
in a tree. At the same time, the mad scientist made his reappearance. He looked
slightly disturbed that Lydia now has one of the seven shards.
Lydia’s voice was still without
emotion. She said to both Rina and Felix, “We must hurry. Standing around is
dangerous.”
“What the heck kind of shard is
this?” Rina questioned Lydia’s new personality.
Felix grabbed Forrest’s arm. “Let’s
go. We have to get out of here.”
Forrest pushed him away. “No! Get
away from me!”
“Forrest…”
Jess jumped and crashed on top of
Felix. As he fell, Jess commanded Forrest to follow her. With their small
bodies, they were able to run off. Besides, at least Forrest was not an initial
target as compared to Jess.
Rina tossed a fireball straight into
the air to cause a distraction. The civilians screamed after the fireball
vibrated within the atmosphere. Their eardrums tinkered and the soldiers were
unable to fight back from the flames. Rina abruptly held onto Lydia’s wrist as
they ran together. Felix, having no other way out, followed along.
“I wouldn’t run if I were you.” The
scientist said calmly, taking out an indigo-colored shard. “I have already
found another shard from the Town of Igor. Now you come back to us, or we will
never hand it ov-“
Rina continued running away.
“Hey, I’m talking to you!”
Still, Rina knew it was best to see
the scientist again if it meant getting the next shard back. For sure, now was
not the time.
~ Kyrie – western uplands ~
Kyrie was not just a full-on city.
There are basically “two floors” landscaped on the whole lot. The bottom of the
city consisted between north to south, and there was an opening to the west
side of the city leading into more of a hill-like road. This was still a part
of Kyrie, but it was less populated and more peaceful compared to the central
portion of the city. Those who preferred a village atmosphere like Saradeli
would more likely be in the western uplands as compared to the lower city
districts. [Music 5.1]
Rina squinted her eyebrows in
discomfort. “Lydia, you used to love talking about beautiful landscapes with
passion. Why are you talking like that? Where is your enthusiasm?”
“Hey, at least now she’s talking,”
Felix said, realizing that Lydia barely talked at all while having zero shards.
“Oh shut it, Suspenders!” Rina
grabbed onto Lydia as she shook her, “Come on, you can’t tell me a big chunk of
your mind is still missing?!”
“Maybe she has the ‘talking’ shard?
Each shard could relate to the five senses and-“
“Then what are the remaining two?!”
“I don’t know! This doesn’t even
matter to me. All I wanted was to find a safe haven for the future, at least in
this city. I couldn’t even get that because of you two.”
Rina held Lydia against a pile of
old wooden wheels that were used for carriages. Lydia began talking about the
comfortability of sitting on wooden parts compared to cement.
Ignoring her rambling, Rina pointed
a finger at Felix, “Listen here, Suspenders. You decided to help little
children and the only thing you got out of it was more trouble. You don’t even
know how to live in the outside world.”
“What about you? You just barge in,
shooting a giant flame at a young girl who is totally defenseless.”
“She had what I needed and that was
all there was to it. If you have any more complaints about the things I
treasure most, then you should drop them off in a toilet – the only place where
your opinions actually matter.”
“What did you say?!”
“Don’t argue,” Lydia said bluntly.
The two teenagers stopped
complaining, and Felix spoke again, “I… wonder what shard she has?”
Rina turned around, “Lydia… this
must be some kind of shard of feelings that you can’t express physically,” She
grabbed Lydia’s arm, “We have no time to rest. We are finding that scientist
and I’ll cure you right away!”
“Are you crazy? That scientist
looked like he was a part of the Gammel military if he could casually walk
around a bunch of soldiers like that!”
“I don’t care where he’s from. I
need those shards. Sitting on these hills isn’t going to do anything. Now, stop
following me. I don’t even know why you keep coming out of nowhere.”
As Rina began dragging Lydia along,
Lydia said to them, “My feet burns. You drag me too harshly.”
“Yeah, yeah, you’ll get over it.”
Felix followed along. “Where are you
even going to go? They all know what you look like.”
“The Town of Igor, stupid! That’s
how the scientist found one of the shards. He might be heading back there. I
heard there is a waterfall and forest down south so I doubt he’s going through
it by foot. Anyway, leave me alone. I can do this myself.”
Felix sighed. “As much as I hate
being around you, I need to make a new life somewhere.
Why don’t I just help you until we get to the town?”
“I already said I don’t need your
help,” Rina hesitated as Lydia began sliding off Rina’s fingers. She fell flat
like paper. “If you can carry her, you have yourself a deal.” [End music]
~ Kyrie – entrance to central district ~
“My stomach feels weird,” Lydia
commented as an aggressive growl appeared from her stomach.
“It’s called hunger. We can deal
with that later,” Rina hid behind one of the furthest walls from the city.
Lydia then said without emotion, “I
feel like something is going to burst out from my frontal-“
“Damn it, Lydia! Stop talking!”
Felix whispered to her, “I think she
needs to go to the restroom?”
“Ugh! Okay, you better think of a
plan by the time I finish helping her. Come on, Lydia, it’s time to play nature.”
They both went into the bushes.
After a good minute, Rina returned
and then she examined the walls with Felix.
Immediately after, Lydia spoke again,
“Now I feel like something is going to burst out from behin-“
“LYDIA, WHAT THE F-“
“Who’s there?!” A soldier stuttered
from the loud cry.
Lydia suddenly punched Felix in the
face, revealing him in cold sight. Rina shrugged without a care at all.
“Well, looks like she hasn’t gotten
any moral shard or whatever,” she joked.
Felix panicked. “Uh, we have worse
matters here!”
“You! You’re the fugitive!”
Felix then pointed at the sky,
“Who’s that?”
Rina slapped her own forehead. “Who
would fall for that?!”
The soldier looked up at the sky
behind him and Felix ran back behind the walls. Lydia began walking out on her
own. [Music 4.2]
“L-Lydia, what are you doing?!”
Felix had a plan. “Hi-Hi!~” He made
a high-pitched voice to mock Lydia.
Lydia only stood with a blank smile.
The soldier began blushing at Lydia’s ‘voice’.
“Come over here behind this building
where no one can see us. We can have a lot of fun!~”
Rina slapped Felix on the face.
“Ow!~ Don’t hurt me,~” Felix added.
The soldier became confused. “Huh?
I-I won’t hurt you. I promise to be gentle.”
Rina began shaking Felix’s shoulders
to make him be quiet.
“Stop it!~ It hurts…~”
The soldier yelped. “O-Oh my!!! I
didn’t know you wanted to play that way!”
“Okay, that’s it,” Rina said in
frustration. She appeared beside the wall with a large rock as she threw it at
the soldier’s face. “Problem solved. Let’s go!”
Felix said with his usual voice. “I
can’t believe it worked!” Even leaving the village as a trickster, he still had
the ability within him. At least with soldiers like this man. [End music]
~ Kyrie – central district ~
Getting closer to the center, the
three teenagers made way to the eastern portion of the city which is on the way
to the Town of Igor.
“Where are all of these damn
soldiers coming from?”
“They’ve probably been following
since the village.” Felix made a gasp. “Wait a minute! Jess told me that there
is a giant bear or something in the cave. Where is it?”
“Who is Jess? Your new girlfriend?”
“No!”
“I know, I’m just teasing. Of course
you can never get a girlfriend,” Rina said.
It has been almost two hours after
the escape of Kyrie. This must be the first time the group travelled on an
insightful field filled with grass, dandelions, and plains of wind and breeze.
We can almost hear the joy in Lydia’s words – just the words. Both Rina and
Felix had trouble understanding how Lydia felt as she still lacked the expression
to… express.
Honesty at its Finest
Through Felix’s eyes, there were
three-story buildings that would be high enough for the city view. Another way
was to locate the cavern that connected the village of Saradeli to the city of
Kyrie.
“Up there! If we can get to the top,
you can use that weird fire thing and blast the cavern. That will hopefully
disrupt the bear and the soldiers won’t be so focused on us.”
“Oh yeah, sure. Let’s go to the top
of the building when we might as well barge through the central area. Getting
to the third floor is even riskier.”
Felix pointed at a bunch of
apartments with fire escapes. “Let’s go inside that door under those ladder
step things.”
“They’re called fire escapes,
idiot.”
“I don’t know what stuff they have
outside the village! Let’s just go. Maybe there are steps leading up.”
~ Kyrie – central district - apartments ~
It was daylight in the city, and the
alleyways leading to the staircases were visible to anybody outside the narrow
halls. At this point, Felix sure hoped the children did not spot him while
rummaging through dumpsters. He used his crescent blade to break the locks and
the door barged open.
Rina turned to Lydia. “I can’t
believe we’re following this loser.”
Lydia walked in after Felix. “Pretty
sword.”
“Who cares?” She shrugged as she
followed.
Easily going up the three
staircases, they were able to reach the rooftop. While up there, they could
awkwardly see a couple French-kissing each other, but they stopped and stared
back once they saw the teenagers rise from the bottom floor. [Music 4.1]
“Dude,” the man said.
Rina blasted a fireball at them, “We
don’t have time for this.”
The couple avoided the fireball, but
they accidentally jumped off the building and fell down into the dumpster. Felix
sighed. With barely any time to waste, Felix didn’t bother to complain to Rina
at the moment. He only ordered her to aim for the cavern in the distance.
“Who do you think I am? I can’t
shoot a fireball that far, stupid!”
“Just try it!”
Rina purposely blasted a fireball
towards a tree furthest away from her, but closest to the cavern.
“Let’s
burn up this domino joint and hope it reaches the cave!”
“What?! But the city!”
“Oh well. If they really care about
the village, they’ll send immediate help to take out the flames,” she said
casually. “Look down there. People are already panicking. This is our moment!”
The couple appeared from the bottom
floor.
“Oh no you don’t!” The woman yelled.
“We’re getting you this time!”
Rina blasted another fireball at
them but the couple tried to duck this time. The woman’s hair was burnt off by
the edges of the flame.
The man stared at her. “What is
this?!”
“I’m almost bald!” She cried.
“Gross. We are so through.” The man abruptly
ran back down to the previous floor.
“B-Babe, no!”
After that dramatic scene, Rina went onward. “Anyways… Let’s go, Lydia.”
Felix still followed along. [End music]
~ Kyrie – eastern district ~
Compared to the northern, central,
and southern districts, the eastern district is rather short and to-the-point.
There is no area for the eastern side besides a large gate. One man from each
side of the gate was inside a tiny building with buttons, kind of like what you
would see in a cockpit.
The group of three barely hid behind
a boulder, with Lydia tripping and commenting on the pain without any
expression. It was rather difficult for them to pass through the central
district, and now they had to face a gate.
Well, the men in the cockpit were
panicking. The gates had to open up for the carriages to pass through with
buckets of water for the flames.
“Perfect timing!” Rina clenched her
fists in pride. “I’m out of here! Stupid scientist, I’m coming after you!”
She waited for the most opportune
time to rush in. In other words, once the carriages came in, Rina ran the
opposite direction where dust clouds formed from the ground. Felix was behind
the two girls until they left the city completely, now onto the plains towards
the Town of Igor…
~ Road to Town of Igor - Bridge ~
Their travel was somewhat quiet
throughout. Rina and Felix said nothing, but ever since Lydia gained her first
shard, she could not stop talking about how soothing the walk must have been.
The Town of Igor is seen as a
peaceful yet underdeveloped land where new tenants would appear from time to
time. This town was created only several years prior in order to gain new
prosperity, and most of all, to have a nice view of Lake City Prima, the most
beautiful watering city in the world. The lake branched all the way to several
waterways around the town in the most convenient matter for said townspeople.
Just Like Rina's Hair
Once Lydia ran out of things to say,
Felix said to Rina, “Say, you didn’t tell me how Jess got onto that tree and
how you knew she had it.”
Rina didn’t bother to look at his
face. She continued walking, but she decided to explain to him, “After I left
you at that alleyway, I continued down the pavement and I eventually saw that
scientist guy talking to some city people. I snuck behind a wall and overheard
some of them saying they saw some shiny thing fall into the city. Nobody knew
where it fell. Then I thought, hey – if it’s a shiny object, I could find it
easily during the first nightfall after the orb shattered. This was last night
when it was JUST about sunset.”
“You’ve been searching all night,
then?”
“Well duh. Why would I rest when I
know Lydia’s shards are on the line? Someone could be snatching the rest up by
now or using it for something stupid. Anyway, that stupid little girl was out
looking for food apparently. She was already holding the shard by the time I
saw her. She told me she found it lying behind a dumpster as she was looking
for food.”
Felix chuckled. He now knew that
Jess only disappeared last night in order to find more food while the other
children were asleep. Instead, she found a shiny, blue shard behind a sack of
garbage.
“What’s so funny?! I chased after
her but she wanted to sell it for some big money or something. I tried to tell
her how important that shard was, but that little demon child ran off and
disappeared. The next morning, apparently people barely started seeing her
sleep in the tree near the central area of the city. And, that’s when the
commotion started.”
“Oh, I see! Well, she didn’t know
how special it was to you. I’m sure she would understand.”
“Whatever.”
“I’m surprised you actually
explained that much to me.”
“I figured it was better to educate
your stupid little mind before you keep asking me in the future. Now, stop
talking to me. We’re only traveling together in case of soldiers finding us
along the way. Once I get to the town, you better stay out of my sight for
good.”
“I will, I will,” Felix said,
rolling his eyes.
~ Town of Igor – Western waterway ~
“So,” Rina first examined the town
from the outside while Felix took a punch in the face from Lydia. “the
scientist guy must be around here. That idiot must be sneaking in some
battleship in the town’s port, so we should head there.”
Felix caressed his bruised forehead.
“Er, are you just going to barge in?”
“I probably am. You can either go or
leave. I’ll give you that option, but don’t get in my way if you do follow
along.”
“I thought about it for a while
since we’ve been walking, and I figured the people here will eventually find
out I’m some kind of fugitive.”
“Suspenders, you’re a mess now. You
have no choice but to keep running.”
“Isn’t that what you’re doing too?”
“Leave us out of this. I have
another mission of my own to carry – and that is to return all the shards back
for Lydia.”
Felix stood in front of her,
blocking the way to the town entrance.
“You still haven’t told me the
reason why you two have been running from the Gammel army,” Felix could see
Rina squint her eyes in discomfort. “What does the whole army want with two
teenage girls?”
Rina tried to walk around him. “What
do you care? Let’s go Lyd-“
Felix took a step to the side. “You
have to tell me.”
“Why should I? I’m in a hurry here,
idiot!”
As Rina pushed him aside, Felix only
stood at the same spot, not following her this time. He knew there was no point
in following her if she only wanted him to stay away from them for good.
Felix was alone now, and this time
compared to Kyrie, he had even less hope of finding a place to live in peace.
He wanted to be near lively neighborhoods without having to be judged as the
boy who infiltrated the battleship. He wanted to be known as the boy who braved
his way through soldiers in order to speak to his father about important matters
such as Saradeli’s economic condition. No one will spend their time, sitting
around listening to Felix tell them the truth.
So far, there were no signs of
soldiers. It was a typical, peaceful town with not that many bargainers on the
roadway like Saradeli. The only life Felix could see were a bunch of children
in the front yards of every house, playing together while parents were either
working at the mills or hanging clothes on the clotheslines. There were pets
and farm animals here and there as well.
~ Town of Igor – Southern park ~
Upon heading southeast after the
western waterways, Felix came to an extremely clean field named ‘Igor Park’.
Who would have figured anyway? He headed for the only statue in the center that
was named after Igor, the creator of the town and also known as one of the best
geologic professors in the world. [Music 5.2]
Felix finished reading the stone
plaque down below. “Hm, this Igor guy must have been really successful.”
He started thinking about Igor’s
successes as compared to Felix’s own successes so far – nothing much.
“Ah,” An old woman said from behind.
Felix turned around immediately by
surprise. The old woman had a brown cane on her right hand. There was a scarf
lamented over her neck and shoulder. This is a typical garment for townspeople
in Igor, supposedly. Her gray hair was strapped in one large pony tail and she
was shivering from elderly age.
“You seem to be a bit lost, no?” she
asked kindly.
“Oh, um, a little. I was just
reading about Igor’s history on this statue.”
“What a gentleman. Usually, children
don’t like studying the history of mankind,” she said slowly. “Even when I was
a child, I utterly disliked learning. I praise you, young child.”
Felix blushed. “Th-Thanks! What
happened to Igor anyway?”
“Igor? Oh, that sweet gentleman!
Yes, yes. He passed away several years ago from old age. Wait, was that the
tale? Lots of people in my life died, so I can’t tell the difference.” This
frightened Felix even if it didn’t seem to phase the woman at all. “He was
mostly known as a famous geologic professor. Because of this, every other
professor striving to learn about Rhadessia’s geology came here to study with
him. As he passed away, he left the lower professors to take his glory. What a
kind soul, he was.”
“Rhadessia’s geology…” Felix
repeated. “Rhadessia is what everyone calls our world.”
“That is quite correct. Right now,
another professor is in the lead of being the most known geologic hero. All the
children look up to him as Professor Talbot!”
Felix had an idea. If he could talk
to Professor Talbot, maybe that man could tell Felix about the safest places in
the world.
“Thank you so much!” He tried to
give a bow similar to Clyde. “I shall talk to the professor.”
“Sure thing, sonny. However, I will
have to warn you that the laboratory to the east is highly gated and protected.
We do not want any suspicious intruders going in now.”
Felix sighed. “More trouble, I
guess… How do commoners get in?”
“Through citizenship! You just have
to pass an exam at the local central passport building which is north from
here. All travelers must go through this normal procedure.”
Felix became frightened. “How do you
pass?”
“It is a traumatic exam if I do say
so myself! They…” She shivered even faster.
“M-Miss, are you okay?!”
“Yes, yes I am fine. Just thinking
about the exam has gotten me over the top. They…” She made the same frightening
shiver. “pat you down and touch you everywhere.”
Felix’s quick heartbeats sank and
loosened back to normal. “…That’s it?”
“Yes, yes! They touch you – everywhere. Quite frightening, I tell
you!”
“I-I’ll go take this examination
then. Thank you so much for telling me about this.”
“It is no problem, young man. Good
luck on your examination!”
“Thank you!”
As Felix was heading out of the
park, he knew what his next destination was going to be. As long as he gets to
speak to Professor Talbot, maybe then he will find a way to reach the safest
land where he can finally live in peace. He would go through examinations and
securities in order to seek the answer. He is now ready to take on his own
mission instead of following Rina around… [End music]
[Ending 1 music]
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Next on The Obsidian Tale, Felix is going to try and get a passport! Well, he has to take an exam. How can he take an exam about a town that he barely visited?! Meanwhile, what are Rina and Lydia doing in order to take the shards back? Are they simply going to barge into the laboratory and retrieve the shards? Find out on the next episode!
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