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*sigh*
”care to explain why you five are supposedly children?” Welt sighs as he uses one hand to push his glasses up from falling, the other hand gripping his cane tightly as he leans on it.
In front of him stands five figures with oversized clothes, the clothes hang off them and drag amongst the floor for some of the smaller members currently, Sundays extra pairs of wings droop amongst the extra added weight of the clothes his head wings go to cover his face in embarrassment, Dan heng’s back scales are exposed due to the jacket and t-shirt being to baggy, March’s shoulder scar from the ice she was trapped in lay exposed, however the twins seem to be fine just a small height difference.
Amongst them stands a girl with pink hair scoring a sheepish expression, “well you see Mr Yang-“”March bought a memoria bubble and it exploded.” A boy with grey hair butts in before March has time to sneak out of trouble. “CAELUS!” March screams as she goes to kick the snitch that ratted her out!
”A memoria bubble exploded?” Himiko a woman with vibrant red hair asks as she has a hand on her hip, she appears to be deep in thought.
”that’s true Himiko, it seems to have had an effect on our ages, though there is nothing in the archives that said this could happen from a memoria bubble malfunction” Dan heng a boy standing in between Caelus and March with a blank expression.
”it doesn’t matter anyway, Sunny here is sure to fix this! Aren’t you sunny~” a girl with grey hair says with a grin plastered on her face, like there is no care in the world. “I would prefer you call me by my actual name not some childish nickname, stelle” Sunday says, his head wings twitching at the name being used to address him. “However, I’m afraid… I don’t know how to fix this problem, I suppose March may have bought a faulty bubble for cheap and the bubble had a past memory in it and it… some how converted us into the age of the original owner?… I am not to sure,” Sunday says as his head hangs low in defeat as he is completely stumped on what to do.
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“WHAT!?” March screams as she moves to grab onto Sunday’s arm and shake it as she begins to scream “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CANT FIX THIS, A GIRL AS PRETTY AS ME CANT REMAIN A KID” she complains, sending judging looks to the two twins snickering at this predicament.
”well then this seems to be a problem then doesn’t it?” Himiko says to Welt who looks as if he were to pass out from exhaustion, “you tell me, Himiko” welt sighs,
“well do we know atleast what age you five have de-aged to?”… Welt Is met with nothing but silence…”I believe we are around the age of 15-“.
”15?!, HOW JUST LOOK AT STELLE AND CAELUS THEY HAVE BEARLY CHANGED?!” March butts in before Dan heng can finish his sentence… “as I was saying March, stelle and caelus may not be as effected as us because they weren’t ever the age of 15 since the two have supposedly only been alive for a year or so…”.
”ohhh that makes sense! Or maybe they just don’t age because of the whole ‘my body is a stellaron thing’” March states looking at the twins, who do nothing but whistle and grin looking anywhere but at March. Before an idea hits them in the dense head they both seem to share.
”heh, well looks like me and Caelus are finally taller then you guys then~” Stelle snickers, with Caelus nodding in agreement. As he goes to rest his arm and lean on Sunday’s shoulder as an arm rest, “Yep, i mean look at Sunny! he is clearly the most effected! He’s so small!” Caelus states using his thumb to poke Sunday in the head, now feeling all the attention land onto himself and his wings constantly twitching due to caelus poking him, he covers his face with the sets of wings available to cover his embarrassment.
Himiko chuckles “back onto topic you guys, how are ment to fix this?”
“We can’t go back to penacony as Sunday is a fugitive there, would the Xianzhou be able to assist us as we are heading there to drop off fugue?” Welt directs this to Himiko, “possibly, we will have to notify general Jing yuan about the predicament before hand to diminish any confusion”.
”I can notify him of the issue!” A squeaky voice speaks up, “oh, Pom-Pom that would be much appreciated, thank you” welt replies to the conductor as he begins to trot off to notify the general.
”well I guess our stay at the Xianzhou is going to be longer than expected”.
“So, the younger members of the astral express have… de-aged to around 15 years old?” Jing yuan asks both Welt and Himiko who are standing in front of him, “Yes that’s true, we where wondering if the Xianzhou could assist us on reversing the issue, before we depart the Xianzhou and make way to our next location?” Welt asks as he leans on his cane with both hands.
Jing Yuan chuckles “quite the predicament you’re in?, but of course the Xianzhou would assist the astral express, it is the least we could do… though I must ask where are your younger member? I have not seen them”.
”ah, well Dan heng, March, Stelle and Caelus are showing our newest member Sunday around the Xianzhou, as it’s his first time outside of his home planet, though we did hope it wouldn’t be under such, odd circumstances” Himiko chimes in.
“ I see, well any member of the astral express new or old is a friend, shall we go find them? As there has been some anomalies currently appearing on the Xianzhou.” Jing yuan states with his expression being as stoic as ever.“Anomalies? What do you mean, has the Xianzhou been experiencing after effects of the stellaron?” Welt asks, Jing yuan face becoming serious at the possible threat the Xianzhou may be facing again.
”no, no, friend i do appreciate the concern but the anomalies are nothing to do with the stellaron, they seem to just be a rip between the space, possible caused by the excess essence the destruction has left behind, it seems that these small rifts act as a small black hole sucking objects in, thankfully no body has been caught in one yet, they are only small and tend to disperse as quick as they leave, but the Xianzhou would like to rid of them before any casualties.”
”I see, we’ll the astral express will be glad to assist you in your problem, as well” Himiko says as she begins to pick up her briefcase, “should we go find the others?” She asks making her way to the door of the office.
”Come on! There’s this great place I know that sells the best food!” Caelus yells as he runs off stelle right behind him, “they are the exact same… Wait!, slow down we are going to loose you two!” March yells dragging both Sunday and Dan heng behind her, the 3 of them being more effected than the twins are sporting new clothes, much like their old ones just adjusted to their new sizes, though Sunday being the smallest now had to change outfits entirely, the halovian now wears a cream coloured turtle neck sweater with holes cut out of the back to give his back wings movement if needed.
as the three finally catch up to the twins, they are met with a rather disturbing sight… standing before the two twins now holding a bat and spear (no way was the express letting them both have a bat and spear each) is a hole devoid of any light, “What is that?!” March screams getting her bow to the ready.
“Careful, March it looks to be some portal of some sort-“ Dan heng speaks but is interrupted by stelle “guys! I don’t know what this is but it’s getting bigger!”
the wind slowly starts to pick up and in the direction of the rift as it begins to grow bigger in size. “It’s trying to suck us in!” Sunday shouts over the whirling winds as they begin to get stronger and stronger, his halo beginning to shake as it fly’s off his head flying towards the rift.
”My halo!-“ Sunday shout in shock and horror as his halo fly’s away from him. “Don’t worry I’ll catch it!” Both twins shout before lunging to grab the halo, both succeed in grabbing the golden ring but inevitably crash into each other and land on the floor in a heap.
the wind begins to pick up even further slowly beginning to drag the twins towards the rift. “Stelle! Caelus!” Dan heng shouts trying to grab onto a nearby fence to stop slipping. March and Sunday trying to do the same.
”AAAA” a high pitched scream rings through the commotion as March begins to fall towards the rift as the pole she was holding onto snapped under the pressure. Stelle tries to reach and grab March’s hand in the panic but ends up loosing grip and slipping “CRAP!”
stelle and March both vanish into the rift.
the wind only picks up and begin to suck things in from behind the remaining trio, hitting them on the way into the rift. A box comes flying past Sundays face towards Caelus holding his halo in on hand and the other holding onto a fence for dear life, the box hits Caelus’ hand that is holding his halo, Sunday watches as his halo begins to fly towards the rift.
sunday let’s go and runs to try grab his halo before the rift took that as well, his bigger wings spread out to attempt to pull himself back once he had grabbed his halo, however flying debris knocked Sunday off balance, “Sunday!” Dan heng shouts out but to no vain Sunday looses balance and is sucked into the rift, joining March and stelle.
”DAN HENG!” Caelus screams over the winds “IM SLIPPING!” Is all that Dan heng before Caelus was sucked into the rift. The rift almost seemed satisfied and begins to close slowly as the winds begin to die down. Dan heng realises that the rift is closing and let’s go of his spear he planted into the ground to keep his footing and runs towards the rift, he can’t stay behind he needs to see his family friends safe!.
dan heng dives into the rift and is met with darkness.
The only thing left of the five young trailblazers is the spear wedged into the ground used by Dan heng.
”General, Jing yuan!” A gaurd shouts to catch the generals attention as he walks beside the senior trailblazers Welt Yang and Himiko.
”yes?” Is all Jing yuan replies with, noticing the serious expression the gaurd is holding, Welt and Himiko wait to see what’s to be addressed.”A rift as sucked in five people!” Time seems to have slowed down at the mention of the rifts that have taken five people. “Show me.” Is all Jing yuan says before the gaurd is running off with the general and two trailblazers behind.
The scene left behind was nothing short of chaos as debris lays spread across the ground, “this rift must of been bigger than what you described general” Himiko states looking around the scene, “indeed”.
the site has been sealed off by gaurds and is now being investigated, however what lay in the middle of the scene is what makes everyone’s blood run cold and Himikos and Welts face go pale.
Dan Hengs, spear stands without its owner amongst the debris.
”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, WHERE ARE WE!?” A girls voice is heard in the distance amongst the trees of a very lush forest, a weirdly shaped glass building in the distance looms over them.