The Obsidian Tale
Episode 7
[Opening 1 music]
[Opening 1 music]
~ Town of Igor – Eastern District – Talbot’s Lab ~
Rina threw a knife at Talbot but he
created a ricochet past her head. The knife released an explosion when it
landed against a wall, but Rina immediately commanded it to return into her
grip.
“Interesting that you can control
the aim of your knives,” Talbot chuckled.
Felix fell from the sudden
explosion. “H-How did you counter it?!”
“I study magic as well. Although my
magic may not be authentic like this young child here, I can still make use of
what I have.”
“Ergh…” Rina clenched her teeth.
“Don’t call me a child! You don’t seem that much older.”
“Is that a compliment?” He teased.
He then changed the subject. “Why don’t we make a deal? I will give you the
shard, and you should leave in one piece.”
Rina turned to Felix, giving him a
certain stare. Felix knew what she was thinking, and they began to make their
move. Felix ran towards Talbot first while Talbot’s knives were being thrown.
Felix covered himself with his crescent blade while Rina pushed Lydia off to
the side. Following the sequence, Rina ran past Talbot and she examined the
whole lab only to find another, yet shinier object on the table. It turns out
that the shard Talbot was holding was a fake bait in order for Rina and Felix
to turn themselves in.
“The real indigo shard!” She took off her backpack as quick as she
could when Felix and Talbot were busy fighting each other.
Talbot turned around. “Hey,
that’s…!”
Rina carried her bag onto her back
again after placing the shard inside. She threw another knife by surprise and
it cut Talbot’s hips, at least only lightly.
Rina ran past him and she grabbed
onto Lydia’s hand. “Let’s go!”
Felix turned around. “Y-You attacked
him!”
“He’s evil. It happens!”
Felix noticed a small amount of
blood dripping from him. “He’s… bleeding.”
Talbot tried to get up. “I know you,
young child!” He said to Rina. “I know exactly who you are!”
Felix turned to Rina, and then
Talbot simultaneously. “Huh?”
“Hurry the hell up, Suspenders! If
you’re planning to tag along, you might as well not fall behind!”
“F-Fine!” Felix followed her out of
the laboratory. [End music]
~ Road to Kyrie - Bridge ~
“How did you know he had a fake
shard?”
“He was being dumb,” Rina replied.
“Why would he give us the shard when he wants
the shard? That made no sense to me, and that’s when I thought things were
getting too easy. Now come on, hurry up and take the shard out of my backpack
so we can give it to Lydia!”
Felix paused at first. “Hey Rina?”
“What is it now?”
“He said he knew you. What was that
all about?”
“I don’t know what he meant. Maybe
he’s crazy.”
Felix took the shard out of Rina’s
backpack. “Oh, okay then. You know, didn’t the books at the library say
something about the indigo shard?”
Rina shrugged. “I don’t remember
what it was.”
“Me neither. What does the color
represent? We can guess.”
“We don’t have time for that. Let’s
just hand it over to Lydia so that the shard gets installed or whatever!”
“F-Fine!”
Lydia grabbed onto the shard and her
eyes widened. It was flashing in indigo, mixing with the blue colors of truth.
After about a good ten seconds of blue and indigo aura, she closed her eyes.
“Lydia?” Rina tilted her head. “So,
what did you get?”
Tears came out of Lydia’s eyes. Her
nose was clogging and she began to sniffle. [Music 6.1]
“Did that shard hurt you?!” Felix
panicked.
“Oh crap, we shouldn’t have
installed the shard yet! From those years, we must have given her the Fear
shard, which reminds me that there is a Courage shard. We should have installed
them both at the same time.”
“Uh oh…”
Rina suddenly yelled at Felix, “Why
did you give her the shard, Suspenders?!”
“Y-You told me to!”
Lydia fell to the ground. She rubbed
her eyes. “I… I’m a terrible person!”
“No you’re not, Lydia! You didn’t do
anything wrong!”
Lydia shook her head. “Yes, I did!”
“She did?” Felix asked.
“I did!” Lydia went on.
Rina tried to pull Lydia’s hands
away, “It’s okay. We can get through this, Lydia.”
Lydia screamed, “No! I can’t. I’m a
horrible human being! I… I killed…”
Felix took a step back. “She killed
who now?”
“I killed… the ants that I’ve been
stepping on all this time! All my life, ants have died and it was my entire
fault!”
Felix’s heart dropped. “Excuse me?”
Lydia shook her head. “I don’t think
I can live with myself if this keeps happening!”
Rina rolled her eyes. “Great, a mix
of truth and fear at the same time. She would
apologize for killing ants…”
“Really?”
“Seems like her to do so. Whatever
though. She’s just going to have to shut up while we’re going to sneak through
Kyrie.”
“That’s such a mean thing to say to
me!” Lydia cried even louder.
“Cool, that sounds easy,” Felix said
to Rina sarcastically. [End music]
Remember the eastern gates? Yeah,
it’s still there. Well, half of it at least. Now, any outsiders can just come
in and take over, but Kyrie is in no condition for outsiders to actually want
the city. After seeing how “different” Kyrie has been since the last time Rina
and Felix left, things have changed drastically.
This was the strangest part of all.
The group of four seemed to have landed in an unoccupied and unknown area of
Kyrie; at least, hopefully it is still Kyrie. The only thing that could be
heard was water rushing through a river which led to a distant route. Forrest
slowly opened his eyes with the knife still in his hands. He noticed that Rina
was sitting with her hands locked together while Felix and Lydia were still out
cold. [Music 1.4]
A Terrible Joke
~ Kyrie – eastern district ~
“What happened here?” Felix asked
out loud.
An old man with a cart of fruit
walked up to them. “You might as well walk away now. There is no longer
anything to buy or sell around here.” He pointed at the hills, “Right now, the
only safe place is the western uplands. The whole city itself is in slight
destruction. Fifty percent of the buildings have collapsed rooftops and several
people are now casualties.”
“How is that possible?!”
“They say something caused the giant
bear monster to appear out of the cavern. It returned to its cave, but people
are now frightened that it could come back.”
Rina examined the whole city from
her angle. Families were outside their destructed homes. Slight flames still
existed on some houses and trees but they were minor, as right now, the smoke
around the city is the main focus. Cemented floors were crackled apart and you could
actually see dirt from below. There were loud commotions everywhere, so you
could barely pinpoint which parts have been saved and which parts were worse
off.
Lydia began to cry. She fell to the
floor dramatically. “I-It’s my fault! I didn’t stop Felix from making Rina
shoot a fireball at the cavern!”
The old man took a step back. “You
three are responsible for this?!”
Rina gasped. “Lydia, shut up!”
Felix looked away in shame. “(Even
Lydia is blaming me… That’s how she truly feels.)”
The man began revealing to the city
folk about the three teenagers being the cause of the bear monster in the
cavern.
Rina grabbed Lydia’s hand, “Alright,
we just got here and I was hoping they wouldn’t bother us anymore, but it seems
we are still the problem. We’re getting out of here!”
Felix followed them. “I need to go
to. I’m not staying around here!”
~ Kyrie – south district ~
The only unexplored district left is
the southern portion of Kyrie. This leads to a forest, however. Nobody would
dare to go through there for several reasons. Do Rina and Felix even know where
they were going and what they were going to put up with in the forest?
Felix complained. “Seriously, why
are we always running away? I’m tired of this.”
“You better get used to it.” [Music 4.3]
A high-pitched voice began yelling.
“I finally found them! The culprits! The fiends! The antagonists!”
Rina turned around and she could see
Forrest standing with his two friends, Sydney and Spencer, on a rooftop. The
wind past through all of their color-coded capes.
Forrest smiled. “Haha! You best look
down on me now that we’re on the rooftop!”
Well, the rooftop was actually on
the ground, due to household destructions.
“Impressive…” Rina lied. “You’re
like what? Five years old? You shouldn’t even know half the words you’re
saying,” she insulted him.
“Those are such treechoros words!”
“You mean ‘treacherous’? Damn it,
kid! You’re already annoying me,” Rina readied her knives.
Felix had his hand over Rina’s eyes.
“Wait, they’re just children.” He then spoke to Forrest, “Where is Jess?”
“Like you’d care! You two ran away
after being known as fugitives, huh! Get ‘em, squad!”
Sydney used a BB gun and shot Rina’s
right hand. She staggered and Spencer ran up to them. Felix didn’t react much
as they were just children, but Spencer surprised the three teenagers with a
rope. The two other children charged with ropes as well and the teenagers were
caught by surprise.
“What the hell is this?!” Rina
shouted.
A few soldiers appeared from the
sides of the scene.
Forrest raised his hands. “Yes! I
caught the culprits. I caught the bad guys!!”
Felix tried to stand up even with
his arms tied together. Lydia suddenly kicked him without thinking, and then
she cried and apologized immediately after. [End music]
Sydney said to Forrest, “Are you
sure they’re the culprits?? They seem kinda weak to me.”
Rina pouted. “It’s just Suspenders
who is weak here.”
“I must thank these children for
their support.” A woman’s voice appeared in between the soldiers.
Sydney and Spencer took several
steps back, afraid of the woman. Forrest tried to stand without fear.
One soldier called out to her, “Lady
Floir, these are the culprits who snuck into the battleships and destroyed
Kyrie. They even have the Obsidian with them.”
“She has a name,” Rina snickered.
“What a group,” Floir chuckled.
“Leader’s orders though – we must take the children too.”
Forrest froze. “Wait, huh??”
Felix called out to Forrest, “Run
away!”
Rina said off to the side, “Why
would they want the children?”
Floir pointed her halberd weapon
towards Forrest’s face. “You heard me.”
“But he’s just a child! You can’t do
this!” Felix began panicking. He shuffled with the ropes and Lydia continued to
cry.
Both Spencer and Sydney made a run
for it, and the rest of the soldiers tried to chase after them. The only person
remaining from the Gammel army was Floir. She still pointed her halberd at
Forrest, ordering him to step closer to the three teenagers so that she could
group them together and easily ship them to prison.
“Hm. This is such a childish group.
I remember it only started out with this teenager boy here.” She glared at
Felix, remembering his face from when he snuck out of the battleship alone. “Now,
we got the childish boy, the sassy queen, and the Obsidian herself.”
Felix stomped his foot. “It’s Felix.
And where is Clyde?! What happened to my mom?!”
“Oh don’t you worry, she is safe.
Clyde on the other hand… He is held in custody. We might even force him on an
expedition to Ouli Brye.”
Forrest shivered. “O-Ouli Brye…
That’s when things started happening to my parents! That’s a suspicious desert
city south of here!”
“That is correct. It is occupied by
the Lennox army, but we are going to make truce with them because Ouli Brye is
on the edge and in between both governments: Gammel and Lennox. But enough
information, I need you all to come with me.”
Rina tried to position her palms
together but they were tightly sealed by the ropes. “Where are you taking us?”
“Bafuul, the largest prison in the
world.”
~ Kyrie – western uplands ~
“Ooh, this is a beautiful place,”
Lydia said as she suddenly cried, “I wish I could roam freely, but these ropes
– they’re too tight!” She fell to the ground, falling into tears.
“What in the world is the Obsidian
doing?” Floir asked in anger.
“I told you she has a name, damn it!”
Rina said without fear.
Although Forrest was free to run, he
hesitated to escape due to Floir’s threatening demeanor.
“I’m supposed to be the hero…”
Forrest was close to tears as well.
From the distance, the group could
see a small helicopter flying from above.
“Land it now!” Floir ordered. “We
are taking these children directly to Bafuul.”
“Sir, yes ma’am! Uh, I mean yes
ma’am sir! I mean…!” A soldier began to sweat.
“HURRY UP.”
As the group of four were making
their way towards the helicopter, they could feel a rumbling vibration below
them.
Rina turned around. “Damn it, Felix,
you and your hunger needs to stop!”
“W-What? I mean I’m hungry, but
that’s not my stomach!”
“Whatever it is, it’s pissing me off
so much right now. I’m not in the mood.”
Lydia cried again. “Rina is angry
and it’s all because I’m not able to make her happy!”
“Wow, even she blames herself on
things she didn’t do,” Felix commented.
“You have weird friends,” Forrest
said to Felix.
“Heh, they’re not really friends.”
Forrest blushed, forgetting that he
was supposed to hate Felix. “I-I mean, I’m not talking to you!” He turned away
and closed his eyes. [Music 7.2]
The rumbling was heavier this time,
and everyone could hear screaming from all over the city. Floir turned around
and noticed a large bear was coming closer.
“What in the world?!”
A young girl was on top of the bear,
trying her best to grip on.
“Forrest, now!” A young girl
screamed.
Forrest shot Floir with his BB gun.
Floir turned back to him.
“You ignoramus child!!”
Forrest jumped for joy. “Jess?! What are you
doing here?”
Jess, while struggling with the
bear, said to him, “I saw everything at the south district! I had to find a
better and most inevitable way to stop this woman, and I couldn’t do it alone.
So, I annoyed the bear.”
Forrest became frustrated. “You
what? You’re making the city get even more destroyed though!”
“This is not about the city. This is
about keeping that girl safe!” Jess pointed at Lydia. “I heard lots of stuff
from this Floir lieutenant. They plan to use Lydia over and over by taking all
the Obsidian energy out of her!”
Rina thought to herself, “For every
breathing moment, Lydia regains Obsidian energy, and as long as she lives, they
will keep torturing her.”
Felix tried to move out of the ropes
again. “Then why kill all the Obsidians if you needed their energy this much?”
Floir looked away. “For most of our
research, we have accidentally used too much of the energy. In order to combine
proper chemicals, we must delicately dip a small amount of Obsidian energy into
our research.”
Rina clenched her teeth. “So your
stupid government screwed up the research, and are now forcing Lydia’s torture
just so you can continue with the projects?!”
Suddenly, Jess fell about eight feet
from the giant bear (the bear, by the way, was actually three times taller than
eight feet). She was temporarily unable to get up at this point. Forrest tried
to shoot the giant bear with his BB gun, but nothing worked. [End music]
“Quickly, free your friends,
Forrest!”
“They’re not my friends!!”
“Friends or not, save them. Do it
for me!” [Music 3.3 - skip 45 seconds]
The giant bear roared and even Floir
fell to her knees. Forrest was already on the floor, crawling as he turned to
the group. Rina pointed at her pocket for a knife and Forrest quickly took the
knife before Floir could get back up. Forrest felt a little concern when he
partially freed the teenagers, but there was no time to think. The bear made
another roar and Forrest accidentally fell, tripping over the three teenagers. As
a result, the group of four were rolling down the hill. Next, the giant bear
scratched the helicopter into pieces and the men fell. Luckily, the helicopter
was not too far from the ground, so they were only slightly injured. Just then,
the helicopter itself exploded.
The group of four screamed as they
were falling down a long hill to who-knows-where. [End music]
~ Kyrie – southern portion - ??? ~
Forrest quickly sliced the last
remaining ropes out of all the teenagers and he handed the knife back to Rina.
Rina snatched it back and looked
away. “You’re an idiot.”
“Huh?” Forrest wanted to cry.
“You wanted to be a hero by joining
the Gammel army, yet you didn’t even stop to question their real motives?” Rina
scowled at him and Forrest still said nothing. “A hero has to know both sides
of the damn story. You know nothing, and you’re just a child.”
Forrest turned away. “I only wanted
to do what was right.”
“Well, did you ask us why we were considered fugitives? Did
you even consider our situation? Even your girlfriend back there was saving us
because at least she understood!”
“She’s not my girlfriend!! She’s our
leader. I just… didn’t know you guys were good. I’m sorry.”
“Sorry isn’t going to cut it. You
know what? You and Felix are both slowing me down.”
Rina grabbed Lydia who was still out
cold. “I’m going on this journey by myself because all you guys ever do is
cause more trouble when it’s not even needed.”
As Rina disappeared into the
distance, Forrest was only left with Felix who was unconscious through the
whole conversation. Forrest sat next to Felix, poking his cheeks with a twig.
“Mr. Felix? Are you awake?”
There was no answer.
“Hrmph…” Forrest groaned as he
became bored.
About ten minutes later, Felix
finally woke up and Forrest quickly grabbed him.
“You’re okay, Mr. Felix!!”
“Huh? Oh, yeah. I guess I am. Where
did the ropes go?”
“Don’t worry about that. I took them
away.”
Felix looked around. “And where’s
Lydia and Rina?”
“They left…”
“They what?!”
“That Rina girl said I was slowing
her down, so she took off without us. It’s okay… She doesn’t need someone weak
like me to help her anyway.”
Felix patted Forrest on the
shoulders. “No, don’t say that. You were just misunderstood.”
Forrest began hugging Felix in
tears, “I’m scared. I wanted to be a hero, but instead, I did the wrong thing
and became the bad guy. I don’t know where my friends are, and now someone
tells me I’m slowing her down. What do I do??”
Felix tried to give him a smile.
“It’s fine, Forrest. I’m your friend too, and I’m here. I’m just surprised
you’re talking to me again, haha.”
“What? Oh… um…” Forrest blushed, pretending
to look away.
“Don’t worry about it. We’re in this
together! At least you’re nicer than Rina and not capable of beating me up like
Lydia does. Why don’t we find them?”
Forrest pointed towards a dark and
bushy area towards the trees. “They went that way, but why do you want to go
after them?”
Felix shrugged. “I dunno, to be
honest. I can’t find a place to live in peace because everywhere I go, I’m
considered a fugitive now. Instead, I might as well pass time and help the
girls out while I find a safe place to stay in. I’m also interested in going to
that Ouli Brye place to find my friend, Clyde. What are you going to do?”
Forrest sighed. “I don’t know… I
didn’t have anywhere else to go to anymore.”
“You can come with me and along the
way, we can figure something out for you. I know you want to see your friends
again, right?”
“Yeah, I really do! Can I do that
now?”
“Well, it might not be safe to go
back to Kyrie, as it’s not safe for me to go back to the village to see my
mom.”
Forrest shook his head. “I’ll just
have to deal with it, like a real grown up, right? I can always come back when
things calm down, or when I’m stronger!”
Felix agreed with him. “That’s the
spirit! Now you’re thinking about the right things in life. To me, you are a hero.”
“Really?”
“Yes. It’s the thought that counts.
Whether you make a mistake or not, as long as you want to be a hero, that’s all
that matters for true heroes.”
“Whooooooaaa… That’s so cool! Thanks
Mr. Felix!!”
“O-Oh, and, you can just call me
Felix from now on. You make me sound like I’m as old as my dad.”
“Okay, sorry, Mr. Felix! So, we’re
going into the dark patchy stuff, right?”
“Yeah. I think it could be a forest.
First off, you have to be extra careful because that BB gun isn’t going to do
much.”
Forrest chuckled and then he
snorted. “I know. Jess told me we’re not old enough for real weapons. But if I
were to get one, I’d get the giantest bazooka ever!”
“That’s a really strange choice of
weapon for someone as short as you, haha!”
“I’m not short! I’m only… um… Yeah
okay, let’s go.” [End music]
Friend Versus Enemy
~ ??? - Waterfall ~
It was an extremely short walk from
where the group of four split. Actually, it only took about five minutes of
walking to find a waterfall! Both Felix and Forrest took a step at the ledges
next to the waterway. Down below was a view of a large forest. There was one
patch of lake water and the rest were just covered in treetops. There was a
rainbow in the sky in front of them and they could see hawks flying past them.
Mountains were surrounding the wide forest from afar.
“Wow… how do we get down there?”
Rina appeared further from the side.
“Seriously? You two are still here?”
A Skilled Babysitter
“I like your hair,” Lydia commented
on Forrest’s blue hair.
“Huh? Um, thanks!”
She suddenly cried. “It reminds me
of what I used to hug to sleep with, but I left it at home!” She crouched down,
sniffling and covering her face in sadness.
Rina became angry. “Damn it. You
made her cry again!”
Felix stood in front of Forrest.
“Don’t yell at him. It wasn’t his fault.”
Lydia suddenly stopped crying. “It
wasn’t that boy’s fault. It was his hair!!” She cried again.
“Well, anyway… This is Forrest.”
Rina looked away. “I don’t care.”
Forrest frowned and they heard
snickering from behind the bushes.
Felix took out his crescent blade.
“What was that?”
Rina had her knives ready as well. A
mountain lion appeared from the bushes.
“Just one? Hah!” [Music 1.5]
About three more appeared from the
sides and they began charging at the group of four. Each mountain lion pounced
on a different person but before they could bite or scratch, they all fell over
and down into the waterfall!
As they were falling, Felix shouted
to the group, “Why do we keep faaaaaaalllliiiiiiiing!!!!!!!!?????”
His voice dispersed into the
distance. [End music]
[Ending 1 music]
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Next time on The Obsidian Tale, we are finally going to explore a natural habitat for the first time, AND with a full group of four. The group doesn't seem to get along at all, but we'll see how that will work out. The forest is much bigger than we think, so let's see how these teenagers are going to deal with an overnight adventure!
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