The Obsidian Tale
Episode 30
[Opening 3 music]
~ Village of Saradeli – north district ~
Forrest grabbed onto the greyish
fence. The rest of the group continued to examine the crisped harvest in
Felix’s backyard and Rina felt slightly disappointed that she ruined Mrs.
Wolfram’s hardworked garden.
“Umm, is there an entrance to this
thing??” Sydney rudely asked.
Forrest leaned over to check, but
the fence in front of him fell over. He took a step back. “Uh, I think I did.
Heehee…” He said to the group with a sudden frown, “It’s okay, right? I mean
the whole place is already messed up to begin with, so…”
“Forrest,” Jess interrupted him, “let’s
not talk about that.”
Hazel had her hand on her chin. “Hm,
so this is Felix’s natural habitat?”
“If you say it like that…” Lydia
sighed.
Felix and his mother appeared from
the back door.
Forrest ran up to him. “Mr. Felix!
Hi!”
Mrs. Wolfram was surprised to see
more than just Lydia and Rina. “Oh my, a whole party of friends. Felix, they
all traveled with you?”
Felix shook his head. “Yeah! I told
you everything about dad earlier, and the people involved in the story are all
here.” He noticed that Rina looked a little disappointed. “Hey Rina, you
alright?” [Music 2.2]
Lydia pointed at the burnt trees
nearby them. She tried to show Felix before he could speak any further.
He waved at Rina, “If you’re worried
about that, it’s fine! Although it sucks to have a ruined backyard, I’m just
glad to see my mom is alive and safe. I should thank you for stopping Lionel
back there.” Felix tried to cheer her up, but Rina still turned away.
“I would make a nice meal for
everybody, but it looks like I don’t have enough ingredients.”
Rina changed the subject, “Can I ask
you something?” Mrs. Wolfram waited for the question, but Rina stumbled a
little. “How did you get set free from that crazy guy? Lionel, right?”
“Oh, that boy! He is very precious
and kind.”
“What.” Felix and Rina said at the
same time with a disgusted taste in their mouths.
“After you two left the village, the
tree was collapsing from the fire. Instead of running for his life, he grabbed
onto my arm and forced me to run away from the tree with him. At first, I
thought he was going to take me hostage, but he checked if anybody was around
first. After no one was nearby, he let go of my arm and suddenly stormed off.
In a way, he protected me.”
Rina gasped. “No way. You mean he
set you free?”
Felix felt a little uncomfortable.
“How can someone so crazy like him act like that?”
Warren laughed. “Ah, it seems not
all Gammel lieutenants are bad.”
“You’re only saying that because you
used to be one,” Hazel slapped his head. Warren immediately gave a puppyish
frown.
Rina noticed that the tree and the
crops were somewhat interconnected. “So that collapsing tree was on fire, and
it fell on your crops… I apologize, Mrs. Wolfram.”
“It is fine, deary. The D’Alonzos
returned and are now probably fixating a nice amount of ingredients for the
surviving families. They have already completed a grave for those who have
fallen and our next goal now is to build a large crop field that is shared for
everyone instead of having our own individual fields.”
Forrest jumped. “Oh boy, those
people are here?! Leo, let’s go find them!”
He began tugging onto Leo’s coat
again. Leo waved to the group, “I guess we will be on our way for now.”
Sydney whined. “Aw, why do you two
get to go? I wanna go!”
“Me too, me too!” Spencer yelled.
Jess held onto Leo’s hand. “May I
join?”
“Of course! The D’Alonzo parents
would be glad to see you all!”
Hazel said to Warren, “Aw, it looks
like Leonardo is being a great father. Warren, aren’t you older than him? What
are you doing with your life?” She joked.
“Hazel, please!” Warren whined.
Felix scratched his head as he began
discussing a more important matter now that the children were gone. [End music]
“Hey everyone, I need to talk to you
all about the four kids traveling with us.” The group became serious as he
continued, “I’ve had a great time with them all, and it has been the best when
they were around. But, I feel that it won’t be safe for them if we take them
with us.” [Music 26.2]
Lydia remembered their conversation
back at the Grandine Hillage’s bridge. “So, this is where we part ways with
them…”
Felix nodded. “Yeah, and I think it
would be for the better. They originally didn’t have a home, and the Village of
Saradeli can be a safe place for them now that nobody would be here to
infiltrate. There is nothing to infiltrate after all. And, they’ll be protected
under the D’Alonzo parents. At the same time, they can do normal productive
things like helping the village instead of going on an army-war at such a young
age.”
Warren thought about it carefully.
“I did like them around.”
“Tsk, tsk,” Hazel followed, “one
thing about having an orphan of children, I would have to agree with Felix.
They may brighten up the mood, but in the long run if they are not protected,
there will be no more of that.”
Lydia was disappointed. “It would
hurt to say goodbye, but I’m sure they would understand.”
Rina shrugged. “Bummer. Kinda wanted
at least that little runt to come along especially because he’s easy to pick on,
but I guess you’re all correct here.”
“When do you think we should tell
them?” Felix asked.
Mrs. Wolfram answered him
immediately, “I believe it would be best if they all got comfortable here first.
It is almost noon, so let’s give them a whole day to relax and see what’s
better for them. I would give them longer, but I know you have to leave as soon
as possible to find your best friend, Clyde.”
“Right, that would be a good idea,”
Felix said. “Thanks, mom. For now, I think we should all just wander around and
relax. I’m sure a day won’t hurt.”
“An entire day?” Hazel questioned
him.
“Erm, yeah… It seems a bit long and
hopefully the Gammel government doesn’t get much done, but this is for the childrens’
sake.”
“And the last shard?” Rina added.
“With that extra day wasted, it would be enough time for Clyde to give it to
whoever is next to do research on it. Furthermore, the shard will be used too
much, just like what happened to the sixth shard at Troiya’s laboratory.”
“What about the sixth shard? What
happened it?” Lydia wondered.
Rina jumped. “Oh- Uh, nothing!”
“That’s also true though…” Felix was
stumped now. “We need to hurry and get that shard.”
Lydia giggled. “It’s alright, Felix.
We can wait for that. I feel fine!”
“Are you sure, Lydia?” Rina began
examining Lydia’s facial expressions. “Are you sure you feel fine?”
Lydia blushed. “Um, yes?”
Hazel waved goodbye to them.
“Alright, let’s not make this anymore awkward than it is. I will check out the
village. From what I remember, it was very different, no?” [End music]
Warren followed her. “That’s right!
We traveled almost everywhere. It’s time to see what is new here.”
Hazel stopped. “Mrs. Wolfram, care
to join us?”
“That would be absolutely wonderful!
Having to wander the village with nice people my age - oh how I’ve missed
that.”
Lydia said to Rina and Felix, “Let’s
go our own way too. Just like the original trio!”
Rina pointed at Felix, “Since when
was he a part of our group?”
“Hey!” Felix pouted.
“Relax, Suspenders. I was only
joking.” [Music 5.2]
Lydia began to giggle. “I miss the
bickering between you two.”
“It’s all her fault!” Felix yelled.
“Oh quit your whining and let’s go,”
Rina concluded.
City Activities
The Enticing Woman
~ Village of Saradeli – central district ~
Remember the markets from the very
beginning? At the moment, the entire district was being renovated by only two
people, and those are the D’Alonzo parents. There were many wooden planks
sitting all over the ground from about a half to a full mile apart. Leo and the
four children finally made their way to the market district to find the
D’Alonzo parents working together to build a wooden rooftop that was halfway
finished.
“MISTERS!!!” Forrest called out.
Mr. D’Alonzo was astonished as he
fell from the rooftop. His face fell flat on the ground and Mrs. D’Alonzo
laughed without feeling any concern for his safety.
Forrest patted his head while the
poor middle-aged man was covered in dust.
“It’s nice to see you again,
mister!”
Mr. D’Alonzo looked upward and he saw
both Forrest and Leo, along with the three other children.
“Whoa there! Why are you two back so
soon?! I was hoping you would pay a visit after
we have finished.”
Ekaja was also there. She gave
Forrest a welcoming hug. “It is nice to see you, young one.”
Spencer and Sydney wandered off to
the side, admiring an unfinished fountain of a beautiful stone woman, almost
representing Lady Pria.
Mrs. D’Alonzo jumped from the
rooftop as she landed on her husband’s back.
“Agh!!” He shouted as Mrs. D’Alonzo
strutted her way to Forrest and Leo.
“You two seem healthy still,” She
complimented them. “So, where is Lydia?”
Leo shrugged. “Eh. Behind us
somewhere. The entire group stopped by to visit Felix’s house. We heard you
came here safely and decided to rehash the entire village.”
“Correct!” She shouted. “It’s going
to be wonderful. Look at our blueprint of the whole village.” She handed them a
rolled-up sheet. “Ekaja is also going to make a bunch of awesome tribal stuff
for us. As you can see, this village will be a free space for everyone.”
Forrest stole the blueprint as he
opened it, not knowing that it was going to be several feet long enough to
accidentally cover his whole body in paper wrapping.
“Uhm,” Leo stared at the blueprint,
“I had no idea it would be this long.”
“Oh please, this is nothing! The
both of us are well-known carpenters of the village. This is the exact reason
why we went out on a voyage! We wanted to find the most pure material we could
find, and somehow extract it and bring it back to the village. We had hoped to
build lots of great monuments with new material outside the village, but I
guess we have to start all over.” [End music]
Sydney tried to carry a ten-pound
slab of brick in front of her. “These are… so heavy!!”
Spencer began touching a few. “There
are so many different kinds!” [Music 4.2]
Mr. D’Alonzo finally stood up,
pampering his pants from the dirt. “As most of the brick is made of clay, we
have gathered different types of material from all over the world.” He carried
one and placed it close to both Spencer and Sydney’s face, “This one here is
considered the cream-city brick. It’s light-beige and works well for cities as
bright as Ouli Brye and a few temples far west from here.”
Sydney poked it a few times.
“Heehee, it looks a lot like the brick buildings from Ouli Brye!”
Jess knelt down as she tilted her
head closer to one of them. “This one looks as if it belongs to Kyrie.”
Mrs. D’Alonzo added to her
assumption, “Ah, yes. That is the classic Clinker brick.”
Mr. D’Alonzo carried another, dark
blue brick, “This is the Staffordshire Blue brick! It’s one of my favorites. I
think I will rebuild my home with it.”
Leo walked towards the wooden planks
that they first saw when entering the district, “How come you have these wooden
pieces after having such great material to build homes?”
Mrs. D’Alonzo answered him, “Well,
we wanted to keep parts of the village authentic and organic as possible while
bringing in new stuff.”
Forrest ran over to the female
figure by the new water fountain. “Who is in the middle? She looks familiar!”
Mrs. D’Alonzo laughed. “Oh really?
We do not know of her name, but she is this mysterious spirit that my husband
and I constantly saw throughout our journey. She is everywhere but only in
holy-like areas such as the Aria River and even when we toured to the Frolix
Volcano.”
Mr. D’Alonzo began jumping around.
“OH, I made her with copper material! Isn’t she beautiful?!”
Mrs. D’Alonzo ran towards him while
holding up her hand to slap him. They began running in circles. Ekaja held onto
a wooden piece, thinking about building a tipi. She was not concerned about the
D’Alonzo’s fighting as it was common and hysterical at this point.
Leo glanced closer at the statue.
“This quite resembles Lady Pria… I’ve seen her in a recent book.”
Forrest gasped. “Now that you
mention it, she looks the same as the lady I saw at the forest south of Kyrie!”
Mrs. D’Alonzo stopped and her
husband continued to run, thinking she was still chasing him.
“You two have met such a spirit as
well? And here I thought, she was rare to find. We wanted to make this statue
as a special gift to her. If she only appeared in holy areas of the world, then
she must be a spirit from above, giving Rhadessia hope for the future with
nature and love.”
Jess picked up the lightest brick
nearby. “Mr. and Mrs. D’Alonzo, may I request to try and help?”
Forrest grabbed a piece of wood and
the other two children followed. “I wanna make houses too! This looks cool!”
Spencer tried to carry the lightest
brick but it was too heavy for him. Even Sydney could carry one.
Leo carried a wooden slab. “We can
spare a few minutes. The rest of the group is probably still wandering around.”
Mrs. D’Alonzo was amazed. “Goodness,
you want to help a bunch of carpenters?! That would be marvelous!”
Jess bowed to them. “Anything for
amazing parents who vowed to recreate an entire village. You deserve a lot of
support and care.”
Mrs. D’Alonzo squealed. “Awww!!
Ain’t she a sweetheart, hubby?!” She turned to her husband and he was still
running in circles with fear. “Er…” [End music]
Lack of Safety
Past an hour, the four children were
becoming exhausted from their labor work. Leo stopped halfway through the hour
and Forrest questioned his laziness, but Leo complained more about the
dirtiness that came with labor work. After all, he was used to royalty and
staying the most sanitary as he could back in Ouli Brye’s castle. [Music 5.1]
Sydney pulled onto her sticky
sleeves. “Aw… I’m getting sweaty all over. Is there a place to wash our
clothes??”
Mrs. D’Alonzo was on top of the roof
again with her husband. She continued to hammer in a nail to the wooden rooftop
while Mr. D’Alonzo held onto the plank nearby.
“You want to find a place to wash?”
She asked as she continued to hammer without looking.
“OW!” A voice yelled right next to
her.
“I have an idea,” She ignored the
voice. “how about I come down there and show you to what was left in the
marketplace? They have new clothes for you all, and it looks a little fancier
than those clothing sacks that you have on.”
“Honey, stop!”
“Right after I’m done hammerin’ this
stuff, I’ll come down right now!” As she stopped hammering, she turned to her
husband, “Whoa,” She noticed his red, bruised hand. “You need to stop messing
up on your job or else you’re going to hurt yourself even more.”
Mr. D’Alonzo clenched his teeth.
“Damn it! It wasn’t my fault!”
In the meantime, Jess was at the
edge of the market district to find more places to create new buildings. While
thinking carefully about what to do next, she heard a few steps from nearby.
Jess had her hand close behind her as if she had a weapon, but she never really
had one to begin with – or so it seemed. [End music]
“Who is there?”
The bushes began shaking and Jess
focused her eyes on it. “Come on out!”
A small rabbit began bouncing out.
Jess sighed. “Phew… Wait until
Warren sees this, heh.” [Music 30.1]
Suddenly, a larger figure flew out
of the bushes and Jess quickly pulled out her rapier from behind her cape. Both
the figure and Jess clashed swords with each other.
Jess almost fell on her back, but
she was leaning as far back as she could. “B-Bailey?! What are you doing?!”
Bailey was struggling with her.
Quickly, Bailey jumped away and the child tried to keep control. “I’m sorry.
I’m sorry…!”
Jess gasped. “Wait a minute. Did
you… consume Obsidian energy?!”
Bailey knelt down, coughing. “I
didn’t want to… but I was forced to take some while I was asleep.”
Jess tried to run up to the child,
but Bailey gave a slash with a sword in mid-air. “Don’t come any closer. I
don’t need your help!”
She noticed that Bailey was in more
pain than what was already shown back at Bafuul. That grim face was more
demented than usual, and you could almost see the darkness in between Bailey’s
eyes.
Bailey began to calm down. The poor
child began to smile awkwardly. “I’m fine, see? Nothing is happening to me, so
it doesn’t matter.”
“No… There was something in you just
now. You need to have your inner wounds mended, Bailey!”
“I said I don’t need any help!”
Tears ran down Bailey’s eyes but Bailey was laughing hysterically at the same time.
Jess gave the most disappointed face
she had ever given since leaving Kyrie. “It was my fault. I decided to respect
your boundaries by leaving you at Bafuul since you wanted to stay, but instead…
your body worsened with Obsidian energy. What have I done?”
Jess began walking closer to Bailey.
“Will you let me at least talk to you up close?”
“Wh-Why?”
“Because I prefer not to talk
several feet away if we’re going to have a normal conversation like this.”
Bailey looked away. “I-I didn’t come
here to talk.” Jess stopped. Bailey continued, “I was asked to spy on the
village. Master Magnus saw a ship flying northeast of Bafuul and he wanted
soldiers to check all the places that were northeast from the prison.”
Jess was getting really close to
Bailey. “So they asked you to spy on us?”
“Y-Yeah. Yeah they did, they did!” [End music]
Jess suddenly hugged Bailey, “I
appreciate that you are telling me the truth.”
Bailey gasped out loud. “A hug? What
are you doing?!”
“We are friends, and this is what
friends do. I am glad that you are alive.” Jess used her other hand to sheath
her rapier weapon. “There was no need for this weapon.”
Bailey frowned. “You had a weapon
with you this whole time while at Bafuul?”
“It is true. I never wanted to use
it in front of our friends because I didn’t want to be a bad influence. I
wanted them to grow up with a normal life as best as possible.”
“Our
friends?” Bailey repeated.
“My friends are your friends,
Bailey.”
Bailey had nothing more to say,
except the child returned a smile.
~ Village of Saradeli – east district ~
Minutes later, the two youngsters
sat by a water mill that helped flow water in between two broken buildings. The
two of them could see water soothingly flow down a stream, the same stream that
Lydia and Rina first saw atop a hill when they visited the village for the
first time. They were also nearby Felix’s secret abandoned stash room when he
first saw Rina. [Music 30.2]
“I saw one!” Bailey pointed at a
fish flop out of the water and back in.
The two children began to giggle
together.
“It’s nice that you chose to spend
time and sit with me, Bailey.”
Bailey turned to the village market
district, “Are you sure they won’t get mad at you for slacking off?”
Jess shook her head. “They never get
mad at me. They always think I’m doing something responsible, and I still am.”
“You are?”
“Talking to you is really important,
Bailey. I’m sure the group would understand if I wanted to get to know you
more.”
Bailey blushed. “Me? Why me?”
Jess turned her head upward to feel
the cool breeze pass her face. “Because, the group really likes you. Forrest is
concerned about you just as much as I am, but it’s different with him. He
constantly wants to take you with us, but you keep disagreeing.”
Bailey said slowly, “I need to serve
the Gammel army. No, I want to. They adopted me as their own when I had nowhere
to go.”
Jess grinned. “What was your life
like before meeting the army?”
“Not much. Every day, I wander
around and hope to find leftover food at Lake City Prima. It was a smart idea because
there are a lot of rich people there who just waste and waste! I never had
these things you call ‘parents’, so I had to do it all by myself.”
“Do you know what happened to these
parents of yours?” Jess kindly asked.
“Not really. I had trouble figuring
out how people are even born. I had to read children’s books at public
libraries just to find out. At first, I thought we were like chicken and that I
came out of an egg. Hehe!”
Jess laughed along. “That is so
funny.”
“I know. It’s even weirder that… I
couldn’t remember anything much seven years before today.”
Jess’s heart skipped a beat.
Somehow, she started sensing that Bailey could have been involved in the same
incident as herself and her friends’ group back in Ouli Brye.
Bailey turned to her, “Huh? Are you
okay?”
Jess coughed. “Oh, yeah. I’m fine.”
“There you are, Jess!” Forrest
called out from behind.
Bailey quickly stood up, noticing Forrest was standing in clear sight.
“B-Bailey?!” He shrieked. “Cool!!
You’re here too?!”
“N-No I’m not!” Bailey quickly
stormed off. “I have to go, Jess!” [End music]
Jess tried to reach out for Bailey.
“Wait a minute, Bailey!” As Bailey disappeared, Jess stood up in anger.
“Forrest!”
Forrest took a step back. “Wh-What?
I didn’t do anything!”
Jess clenched her fists, trying to
control herself. “Never mind. Next time when you see Bailey, make sure to greet
that child with kindness instead of surprise. You made a surprise big enough to
scare Bailey off.”
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to… But, what
was he doing here?”
“Bailey came here as a spy, but it’s
okay. We had a few talks and Bailey made sure to keep this a secret.”
“That doesn’t matter!” Forrest said.
“I have to think about the fortune of mine. It’s no fortune at all, but more of
a for-sure prediction on what will happen. I have to stop Bailey from staying
with the Gammel army!”
Jess remembered when Bailey told her
about consuming Obsidian energy. In time, Bailey could turn into a…
Jess shook the imagination out of
her head. “Felix can take care of Bailey. He will find Bailey. You can stay
here. It’s dangerous for you to go.”
Forrest stomped his foot. “NO! I’m going to save him! He’s the person
that I care about most. I realize that now!”
“Forr-“
“You just don’t understand!” He
suddenly ran off.
“Forrest, wait!” Jess stopped. She
made a panicking expression which she had never given before. At this point,
even she did not know what to do next in order to soften the situation…
[Ending 3 music]
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Rolling onto the next episode of The Obsidian Tale, Felix's plan is now beginning. As the adults along with the teenagers begin to talk about their next phase against the Gammel government, they decide it would be best to leave the children behind where it's safe in the village. Meanwhile, Forrest is constantly complaining about how he must save Bailey. Will Felix be able to pull through with the plan? Find out next week!
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