The Calm Before the Storm

Saryuu Evan

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The sunset came and went as the trio went to check in the inn that night to relax after the brief traversing they did within the ambient yet somewhat gloomy forest on the outskirts of the large city of Arcadia. Of course, the city was bathed with a subtle orange light and with streetlights turning on to shift for the nightlife befalling the city, the once loud business of the day transitioned to the ambiance of the night as street traffic was becoming lite. Cerulean skies became alit with the dawn of twilight delivering a calming close with hues of red, purple, orange and other colors among the small pink clouds on the horizon.

While leading the way towards the inn, what Saryuu noticed about this city was the amount of unusual creatures he was seeing as well as the other sights. It was..different..than of the future, though judging by things, he's been seeing airships and other technology going around stirred a sense of wonder to him and the creatures that he's seen weren't just a regular dog or some cat but they had powers from the hottest of fire to the coolest of ice and beyond. In fact, on the way over, he saw that there a this small grey kitten-like creature with folded ears and big rounded eyes levitating itself as it was catching up with their human, of course the ones with psychic powers made him feel at home, judging that he, too, have the similar set.

Of course, animals are keen of their senses, none had displayed feats such as these before back in his world, well, the same world only 200 years far removed from Tenma's time. In fact, if any was capable of such feats, he hasn't seen it before and that is where he was particular about the evidence.

After noticing a sign on the outside that stated Arcadia's View, the trio walked inside the building. It would be sometime before Saryuu and the others took a look around the place and noticed the calm and yet homey atmosphere especially with the occasional nicnacs and other decorative items abound the wooden walls. To be frank, it wasn't bad for a place and while it was kinda oldfashioned in a sense, he didn't pay much mind about it.

In general, it was nothing super fancy.

“Oh hello there. May I help you boys?” asked a calm voice as the others would take notice to the individual behind the counter with various drawers, namely a slender ginger woman, looking to be around her thirties, standing at 5'6", with blue eyes and slightly tan skin. She wore with a colorful yellow sleeved shirt alongside with a flowing white and green dress and heels, standing over from behind the counter with an small brunette fox-like creature with a pink hairbow to one of it's long ears, waving their tail as it sat next to her.

After sometime, Saryuu would the first to walk over towards the counter alongside with Tenma, Pixie and and Fei following not far behind him.

“Yeah, I heard that you handle free stays and meals.” he replied as the woman nodded her head. “Yes that's true, well next to several other services we have. Do you happen to be travelers to Arcadia?”

“That's right.” he nodded before the woman replied, ”We had been getting a lot of travel as of recently. People seem to be popping in and out so it's nothing too new. It's actually nice thinking about it.”

“We were told earlier by the guards.” Fei nodded as the woman perked up as she mused, ”Oh. What planet are you from? Cevanti? Governmore? Kraw? Opealon? Inverxe? Nos’Talgia? Mesa Roja? By the looks of things, you would look like you are from Ceventi, maybe from Governmorne. We've seen plenty of faces around here after all.”

That's a lot of planets and that's new information that they have to consider in the future though Saryuu did a shrug with a nervous smile before looking to the little creature next to the woman, hoping to switch the topic.

“Say, what is that creature next to you?” he asked curiously before the woman replied,”That's my Eevee. I named her Vivi and she's my little Pokemon helper. Oh and I'm Ms. Oathwell, the innkeeper.”

“Eva!” mused Vivi as she wagged her tail excitedly before Saryuu asked, “Pokemon? Is that what they are called?”

“Yeah, it's short for pocket monsters. The reason why is they can fit in your pocket as long as you have a Pokeball with you.” the woman smiled before she brought out a red and white metallic ball with a button in the middle. “Pokemon are used to do all sorts of various things such as battling and other things, some people have them as pets. They're very loyal once you really get to know them.”

“That's something.” Fei replied before Tenma added,”I wonder if there's people that play soccer with them?”

With a surly smile, Saryuu chuckled as he looked back to Tenma. “Y'know, probably there is.”

The woman put away her Pokeball as she nodded, ”Oh certainly yes, people play sports with Pokemon as well so I wouldn't be surprised if there is a league involved with them in someway. Though, if you are looking for a Pokemon that plays good with soccer, a Scorbunny would be your best bet. They're especially fast with their feet and love a good challenge.”

She looked down as she began to look in her drawer close to her and pulled out a picture of Scorbunny and pass it to Tenma. “Take this photo with you. I have plenty of copies so don't worry about giving it back to me, in fact, keep it.”

Before long, Tenma, along with Pixie, looked to the picture of the small rabbit-like creature to which Fei eventually looked to it for a bit. Pixie didn't know what to make of it but with Fei, the greenette's eyes lowered as he was reminded of Robin for a bit though even though it was the past, it still hurts as it was a painful ping that tugged at his chest. However, he had to remind himself that he is stronger than this and to just shake it off.

“Now, if you have plans to catch one, you're going have to need some Pokeballs and a Pokemon to which I'm sure people would be glad to help out with. In fact, there is a daycare center to the suburbs of the city which an elderly couple are looking for people to do some work and they provide.” suggested the woman as Saryuu replied, ”We'll keep that in mind, thanks.”

Before long, the woman nodded,”No problem and another thing, how long do you plan to stay?”

Oh, that is a good question. Honestly, the albino haven't thought into it that far so his plan was a tad bit undercooked but it didn't matter as he's going to take it and run.

“Several days.” he answered before he continued. “I hope that isn't a problem.”

The woman shook her head, ”Not really. People usually stay here more than just several days anyways, though, you boys look like the type that should really be in school. In fact, be with a guardian of sorts.”

That's what the guards asked before. Why are they concerned? The mere thought to Saryuu caused the albino to grip his fist in secret but he had to keep a cool-head about it. Of course, while keeping a position, he was internally grumbling about adults, not wanting for it to be known with a few choice words in his own thoughts: stop treating me like a child.

“I am their guardian.” he replied as calmly as possible. “These are my brothers, Tenma and Fei.”

Surely, he was lying about the relationship with the two others, but when the woman looked to Tenma and him, she saw a sort of a close resemblance, but with Fei, none at all. In fact, Fei was the oddity of the group and after she looked to Saryuu for awhile, eventually she handed the keys over to him. “It's nice to meet you and your room is up the stairs, second floor, first one on the right. Room B-4. Have a nice stay.”

“Thank you very much.” the albino replied before the group would go down the hallway and take the stairs up to their room. While sore from the adults patronizing him in his own perspective, thankfully the hallways weren't as crowded as there was a stray person and Pokemon here and there but otherwise, the ambience helps out. Noting that while Ms. Oathwell was friendly, a part of her seems to be condescending in a sense and if that was going to be a running theme, Saryuu felt a inch or so closer to the point that he was going to snap and that does not go well especially with someone having psychic powers in any extent.

He was experiencing adrenaline even as he walked along silently, notably with going faster than of the other two, drawing the attention of any Pokemon and individual, especially with the resident psychic types abound.

The following duo were a mix of concern and worry alongside other feelings about how Saryuu was feeling since this was occurring twice something like this happened, except for Fei to which it was thrice already, however Saryuu took it as is and bottled away this anger that bugged him. In his mind, he wanted nothing to do with the adults and more on something else entirely hinting at how stubborn if not flatout selfish he is but he didn't believe that, he believes that he was justified.

Once the trio got to their own room, they entered in and were treated with a very nice looking room with three beds, each with some clean pajamas set out, made up with a maroon colored blankets and white sheets underneath, along with a pillow and all, evenly spaced out, windows to the view of the outdoors with curtains flowing down to the side, adorned with miniature ribbons. To the center of the room against the wall sat a television, a mini-refridgator and other choice electronic appliances against a drawer with multiple shelves. There were two doors on each side with one that lead to the bathroom and another to a closet.

Judging by this, it looks like a special suite for those who stayed within the confines of the inn and before long, Saryuu set his sights on a bed, he walked over and sat on it while Fei would go to the window only to see a view of the city that they had came from, looking to the stars and moon coming out, seeing the planetary rings outside being more visible to the darkened and peaceful skies.

“No wonder why the inn got it's name. Look at the view.” the greenette mused as Saryuu looked up for a bit as he sighed,”It is nice but to be honest, I can't get over the fact that we're in some weird part of the universe or something.”

Fei did turn his head and looked to Saryuu sitting on his own bed as he replied, “Well, you did touch that Parallel Stone.”

Among the group, Tenma knitted a brow after he settled down his soccerball next to his own bed. “Parallel Stone? What is that?”

“It's a stone that is caused by space-time rifts. I believe that all that timetravel between El Dorado and us had a ripple effect.” the greenette nodded. “Anyways, one of those stones popped in the M.U.G.E.N. Facility and essentially sent us here. In fact, that's how we got into this in the first place.”

“A good thing counting that atleast El Dorado isn't breathing down our necks.” Saryuu answered in an annoyed tone before Fei shook his head, ”For now that is. I wonder if they're gonna send someone over, they'd probably will since we fell off from our world's time-space to another and ended up here.”

“Don't jinx it.” Saryuu answered back with a solemn but calm tone before he would get up and walked to one of the doors in the room, opening it up to see that it was the bathroom. “We have a big day ahead, best to get some shuteye and turn in for the night. It's late."

In truth, he rather avoid discussing the situation and after he shut the door, Fei can't help to feel as that was another sign with Saryuu: shutting the door to the likes of Tenma and more importantly him. He knows that Saryuu is conflicted about these things but refuses to let his emotions to be seen to the likes of the others and pretends everything is alright but bottling away his emotions, well, the fact that he has adults already concerned for him, seem to had worsen the ordeal by prying for answers recently.

Sometimes he doesn't know what to do but at the same time, they've both been traumatized. He can't give up on his friends but at the same time, it was almost tempting to let it all go as much as he doesn't want to wish that. However, he wasn't aware what the future would have for them here, but for one thing, he would have to be ready for anything.

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The following day, Saryuu and the others were asleep in their perspective beds even as the sun's rays lighting up the window curtains, it would be a sign that it is morning once more. With Tenma at the window-side bed and Saryuu at the wall-side bed, it was him that would be first to get up. Of course, his hair was noticeably all over the place and he would have to actively have his hair back to it's usual form with some format of brushing and if Tenma or Fei saw him like this, it's almost if they are looking at an entirely different person.

Last night was rough to say the most. Nightmares made it hard to sleep peacefully and with so much going on, he wished that he could simply erase his problems and forget but no matter what, it will still haunt his mind. It was a deep scar, a unhealed tear in his mind and in a sense, that is one thing that would refuse to go away.


Eventually, he sighed before he would be the first to get out of bed as he went towards the window and opened the curtains to see the streets below. He needed sometime to wake up and get his day started as in the silence, while everything is peaceful and beautiful, the birds are chirping, the sounds of footsteps are abound and life goes on as it should be.

He had to remind himself that It's a new day and a new start. Yesterday is done, today is now and while he's calmed down from the events of last night still haunts him. A sense of regret seem to wash over him as he thought that maybe, no, it's just a waste of time but he isn't used to being around adults, though a part of him dreads that he's endangering his friendship with Tenma and Fei and he doesn't know what to do next.

Deep down, he felt lost and only lying to himself with a constant denial masked to hide his true pain.

However, his silent time was interrupted as there was a knocking on his door that was tapping causing him to go and answer it, only to see a round oval pink and white creature in the inn's hallway. Was it another one of those Pokemon?

"Bliss, bliss." the Pokemon mused as Saryuu looked around the hallways before he looked to the other and asked, "Huh. How'd you get here?"

Eventually, the Pokemon took her egg out of her little pouch and gave it to the other to hold. "Blissey!"

He didn't know what to say but for some reason, the kindhearted nature of the creature seemed to had him wondering for a bit but there was a hesitation as if he couldn't accept it though at the same time, a part of him wanted to accept it. Before long, he looked down to the other as he whispered, "I..think you have the wrong room.. Thanks..though."

Being the Happiness Pokemon, Blissey was worried about the boy as she could sense that he had a lot of sadness judging by things and call it as a part of her caring, sympatheic nature but that's how she is when around People and Pokemon who had suffered much misfortune.

Another sign that even as he gave her the egg back, she was then promptly shut out of the room when Saryuu closed the door, retreating inside for the moment, and afterwards, she sighed. However, Blissey was stubborn as she perked up and so she decided to take note of the room as she rushed down the hallway to head downstairs. As other Pokemon watched her go in a rush, she would head in the direction of the kitchen as perhaps she could convince her Trainer, one of the inn's chefs to make a special order to room B-4.


After that instance, the albino wondered for a bit. When a chance of happiness showed up at the door, all he did was deny it, further adding fuel to the fire, before he would return to his bed and sit in it in silence, waiting for either Fei, Tenma or both to wake up. Eventually, he brought up his legs and wrapped his arms as he lowered his head, staring out from the inn with a long glaze.

The signs were becoming more obvious even now that one of them was trying to help him to the point that he refused to accept it and he was better off.

Intrusive flashbacks of the falling out with the organization, the betrayal and the aftermath haunted his mind causing the albino to close his eyes but that was interrupted as Fei would eventually awaken sometime afterwards as he would notice that the window curtains were already opened up. Before long, he would notice that Saryuu was awake and was being oddly silent..


"You're up awfully early." the greenette spoke softly as the albino turned his head in the direction of the voice as he chuckled, he replied, "Funny, I was wondering when you were going to be up."

Looking at Saryuu's eyes for a bit, he looks on the tired side and the greenette was noticeably concerned. "Saryuu, are you..okay.. this morning? You look a bit tired."

Eventually, the albino got up from his bed, stretching out his arms and legs, as he replied, "I was watching the sunrise this morning so of course I'll be tired."

Fei mentally sighed. He's doing it again and he's going to have to get Saryuu on point about his constant lying he has been doing recently as other things. Sure, he has his own issues but he would have to speak up and voice his opinions because this has to stop, better off sooner than later.


Before long, he sat up on his bed carefully as his long green hair was hanging down his shoulders, fully displayed from his usual ponytails that he has up before. Of course, Saryuu has seen Fei with his hair down several times before so, it wasn't a big thing.

Eventually, the greenette looked over to Tenma, who is still asleep and wondered how much longer it'll be before he awakens and, well, whenever that is because it's Tenma, there's no telling when he's going to start his day. In short, this could be awhile or simply as soon as in a few seconds, it's hard to tell without his telepathy and the sorts.
 

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{ Cutting off Tenma here since Tenma's RPer is AFK and let's say that he's still asleep in the inn's room for now. I'll just focus on doing Saryuu's side of the ordeal with Tenma doing his side later on a different topic when their RPer comes back. }

Since the group has arrived in Erde Nona, there has been tensions resurfacing especially with terms of Saryuu and his powers somehow resurfacing though much to Fei’s dismay, he had been experiencing a return of his own. In concerns of the vaccine being a failure, he was worried how on how it would turn out for him. Were they gonna die? Will they be okay? What of Tenma? He wasn't sure but he was, so to say, scared with the recent revelations. The morning light had came over the Kingdom of Arcadia and after promptly receiving a strong telepathic message about some threat named Darksied among other things playing out in their minds, getting cleaned up for the day, provided breakfast, which is courtesy of the inn staff, among other things, the duo were about to head out but Fei didn’t feel so certain on leaving Tenma behind so he voiced his concern to the other.

“...I’ll stay back with Tenma, you go ahead.”

The albino stopped and turned around after they had a nice breakfast as he was silent. For awhile, he had been feeling calm after the fact of having eggs for breakfast, almost a warmth overcoming him to which he was fine before, or so it seemed to be the definition of fine, but there seemed to be something, he understood as he could sense the other's thoughts being an indicator.

"Why the sudden change of mind?"

"Well, I wanted to make sure things are okay with Tenma."

“He's resting in our room Fei but I understand, however, I’ll be coming back. If he wakes up and if he asks about me, like I’m sure he will, tell him I’ll be back soon. All I request that you two stay out of trouble and if you need me-“


“How would I? The communicator -“



The albino’s voice would be heard inside the greenette’s communicator. 'I’m sure it is able to pick up psychic signatures.'

Fei perked up with a tilt of his head. “Wait, you have your telepathy back? How? I know you have your telekinesis back with what happened to the wolf in the forest and everything but-”

'Well, after receiving a massive telepathic outcry and overflow of information like that in my head, something like this returning would help out in the end.'

Fei paused before he lowered his head. He felt the same massive outcry ringing in his head, namely in their awakening hours, as the albino continued, ”There's a threat going on and it can't be ignored. Whenever or not you have your powers, it wouldn't matter if there's nothing left of the Crossroads. Though, you being self-critical of yourself, ashamed of your-"

The grenette snapped, interrupting Saryuu from completing his statement. “That’s not true! I’m not ashamed! I know who I am but I-I didn’t ask to be born with powers! I just want to be normal!”

A silence enveloped in the area where the two would be standing in the inn's hallways. After the outburst, the albino waited until Fei calmed down as he hit a sensitive spot before he would try again. "What I was trying to say that you are overreacting over this. You see having them as a curse and not as a part of you, don't you understand?"

The greenette's brows furrowed as he glared sharply. “You’ve used that against me before and look what it did to Tenma! To the others! If my dad didn’t interfered, they would had been killed because of me! Doesn’t that say to you about anything? If Tenma and the other weren’t around and something happens to us because of it, I-I’d-“


There was pain in his eyes. A signal visible sort of regret and remorse of past actions. Fei was trembling, even so slightly down to the tone of his voice, with his hands grasping to the sides of him. His eyes were watering and in the silence, the albino calmly shook his head as he was worried. “Fei, that was sometime ago and besides, Tenma’s here, he’s fine with that pixie friend he has around as well, it’s done and this is a new chapter that unveiled itself to us. We have to be prepared for anything and I was right to have that sort of mindset. You know how it is out there too.”

Fei was silent but he didn’t want to admit that Saryuu was right as he was in denial of the situation. A rush of thoughts plagued his mind with the most notable being topics of worry, uncertainty and lastly fear, more notably the fear of death, and being in distance of the other, Saryuu could hear them and it wouldn’t be long before the albino went over and hugged the greenette.

"Everything will be alright. We'll be fine."

The greenette's eyes narrowed with the tears eventually sliding down his cheeks as he tensed up for a bit while he was hugged. He'd never really got a hug from the likes of Saryuu and found it strange at first but in time, he started to calm down as his adrenaline would drop and the tears flowed more frequently before he would close his eyes and hugged back.

"Saryuu...I'm-"

'Shh, it's alright.'

"W-why?"

'It's because I can't stand it when you get yourself like this. We're friends Fei, almost like brothers. You're watching out for me, I'm watching out for you and we're both watching over Tenma.'

"Yeah, that is true but..sometimes I feel like..I don't know what to do anymore even after everything I've done.. Am..Am I the one being selfish? I..I.."

'It is not your fault and Fei, you're not selfish. In fact, you're the most selfless person I've ever known..'

The hug was genuine, something that Fei hasn't felt before from Saryuu. It was strange but he needed someone, anyone, to comfort him and ease him of his troubles, though he didn't expect Saryuu to be so kind when earlier, he was a downer, almost if he willingly separated from the others, shutting them out and he wondered what rekindled that light in his friend's heart? He didn't know but it was welcomed in a time like this and he'll gladly take it over what he has been undergoing as of late.


"We've been there alot. I've been there myself as well. Fei, I know that you are still mad at me for what I've done to you and are hesitant to forgive me and the same goes for me but we'll cross that bridge when we get there."

Fei nodded in silence before they would part from the hug as the greenette would wipe his eyes with the sleeve of his shirt as he calmly replied, almost stuttering, "Y-yeah, you..you are right. I-I want to forgive you even after what happened because I want us to get along and don't fight each other anymore. Sure, I know there's gonna be other fights but nothing this bad; everything is at stake and if we keep fighting, it'll only get worse for us in the end."

Saryuu smiled. "Yeah, I can say the same honestly especially when Tenma is in the middle of it. Actually, we have alot to thank Tenma for and he shouldn't be dragged through the mud because of what happened in the past. He doesn't deserve this treatment at all when he is essentially risked everything for us, for the future. Without him, I'd honestly wouldn't know what friendship is and other things."

"You did know what friendship was but didn't understood what it meant. It's like that. When I went with Tenma, I saw what friendship really meant and it opened my eyes. That’s why I’ve wanted to help save everyone, it wasn’t just because of soccer either as much as I love it. We were..missing that part growing up because of our powers and people would be scared.”

This is true judging at how they were treated. As much as there was a calmness in the albino’s eyes, that pain still lingered on within him even if it didn’t seem like it.

"It isn't that way anymore as far as I've known. However, I've really got to get going but it was nice that we've had this chat." Saryuu continued. "We've really got to work on communication better in this group but I'm sure it'll work out in the end. Just watch over Tenma and his pixie friend, alright?"

Fei nodded and before long, the albino pat his shoulders before he would adventure outside to see what was going on in the streets as the greenette took his time to recover before he would think about what would happen before he would eventually softly smiled. In a sense, he felt like he was being listened to instead of ignored..maybe there's still hope for Saryuu..and that it'll work out in the end and it wouldn't be long before he would walk up to his room.

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Exiting to the outside of the streets of Arcadia, Saryuu had noticed that there was an abnormality in terms of an influx of visitors. Some were new compared to the normal population and he doesn’t even know that was going on. He hasn’t been here for long anyways.

Granted, the amount of voices that he has been hearing were one of worry and concern, even if they were strangers, he can’t help but to bat an eye to it. Normally, he wouldn’t care about these sorts of things, how could he? He was in a war for crying out loud and has undergone some hardcore trauma on top of other things. The nightmares, the flashbacks and other things? Yeah, he’s seen it all and this, well, this was a new event.

Why would anyone want to contact him? Moreso, them? It was only the three of them counting the half part with the small pixie-like creature that has a habit of getting into trouble. He needed time to think, just some silence, though at the same time, the more time that’s wasted, it grows worse. A forsaken infection that erodes away at the planets down until they are literally nothing but a literal entropy or as it was spoken to within his dream. He didn’t know about Arbiters, the worlds and everything else until as of recently.

Even as he was traversing in the streets on this peaceful day, there was one thing that was evident: fear. He can tell especially when as he passed by residents on the street, their minds revealed these issues and that’s the thing about being a telepath, you can hear what people are really thinking about. Such a power did help him out in terms of the past when he was a child. It protected him from harm and other things, it also assisted him with tampering with people’s minds to manipulate for his own means. However, if push comes to shove, it would seem that in this instance, he would have to use his powers for good, to help people, but he wasn’t a hero type. He did things on his own whims and if they align with his motives, that’s where he takes aim at to get what he wants.

Remembering the dream, there was a gaze in his purple eyes as he recalled the dream, it was right as his nightmare concluded as he was on the street with rubble and fire surrounding him as well as blood before it faded to black.


“No, make it stop. Please. It’s not my fault.” he would beg as a single tear strolled down his cheeks, arms trembling with all sorts of injuries on him and torn clothes. However, the dream was interrupted as a voice spoke, ”Saryuu..”

The voice would cause the youth to perk up, only to look around in silence, as he asked, ”Who said that? Who is there? Show yourself!

He was looking around more as the voice replied, ”Do not be scared. I insist no harm, however, from what I do know is that you have been through many trials that have tested you time after time again. I understand the fact of what war can do to a person all too well in my time as a warrior and while you think the world is against you, you have a resolve to keep going on no matter what, however, while you are an intelligent and determined child, you express difficulty in some spots, almost fearful of the unknown. You have your companions to lean on, am I right?”

Saryuu could remember the faces of Meia, Ghiris and the other Second Stage Children. Despite of what happened to them, they always stuck together in the end, supporting each other even if the odds were against them, a warmth of familiarity, however he also felt the pain as he sighed with his eyes closed. “I don’t need another person telling me that. I have heard of it multiple times from the likes of Fei and Tenma, even the adults as well..”

“Certainly but even though you have grown, there is still much to be done. Your friends are trying to help you and despite your past, you can change for the better. You have an opportunity for redemption and be true to yourself.” the voice continued as a sigh escaped the albino as he shook his head, looking down with a frown. “I know but it’s not easy. A part of me doesn’t really understand what is going on anymore and another wants me to follow that path of change. It’s almost if I’m being torn apart.”

It wouldn’t be long before another presence entered the dream, one in the form of a golden knight and as the albino would perk up to see who it was, he heard the steps, turned around and stood up on his feet looking over to see who it is. The fact was that Saryuu was silent as he was looking over to the direction of the other eventually standing in place.

“Who are you?” the albino asked before the Arbiter replied, ”My name is Terrance, the Arbiter of Erde Nona and the creator of the great Kingdom of Arcadia. I came into your dream because there is a grave threat to the Crossroads and it involves not only you but the lives of many are at hand including your friends.”

“What do you mean?” Saryuu asked as he was apprehensive before the Arbiter replied, ”There has been trouble in the format of Darkseid, the fallen Arbiter, one of abhorrant madness that craves total destruction. He was banished when I along with the other Arbiters had sealed him away in a far off portion of the universe, however he is back to wreak havoc to the Crossroads as revenge from long ago, able to control and possess Arbriters to use for his maddening puppetry. T'was the fate to the world of Governmore as its Arbiter has fallen into his corruption and stands as Unmade, however if this continues, the Crossroads will be destroyed, bathed in the darkness and the time for action is at the utmost importance.”

The stark news had Saryuu concerned as he looked down for a bit wondering before he asked, ”So, what can be done about it? What do I have to do about it?”

“Plenty, and not just you alone Saryuu. My world, Erde Nona, needs to be defended from the chaos that has spread out among his awakening. However, be aware that there are going to be denizens from other worlds, including Governmorne, that will follow in due time. Whatever you do, bring them hope, listen and help them, I beseech that for you to be a hero among them.”

“I’m not a hero. Tenma and Fei are more suited for that sort of stuff.” Saryuu admitted as he lowered his eyes as the Arbiter replied, ”I know you are at a crossroads in your life but if you value your friends, I’m sure that you have the capacity to value the lives of others as well including those that you don’t know of.”

He would show Saryuu a visage of Governmorne with it being Unmade, filled with darkness and chaos. “You can prevent this world from falling into his hands as well as the destruction of the Crossroads. I know you can do this and shift the tide of conflict. Do you understand?”

Saryuu stood there for a moment, frozen, before he would consider at what's been happening and laugh for a bit with tears following. “Heh, it’s an irony now that I think about it but something like this is happening to me? Times have changed but..yeah. I understand but how?”

“You already know the answer for it is deep with you.” the Arbiter replied as he pointed to Saryuu’s chest. “I believe that you will make the right choice for Erde Nona and the fate of the Crossroads.”

Eventually, just as everything was making sense for Saryuu, the strange vision eventually faded out in a flash of white.


Of course, it was a memory and while out in the streets, he apparently was standing there silently as the world around him went on before he was interrupted from his thoughts. At it was then and there, a small feline creature was rubbing up against his leg and when Saryuu took notice, it was a small grey and white bipedal kitten that seemed to have approached him while he was standing in the streets.

“Pur?” the creature asked the albino would look down, purple hues shifting to the creature below. “O-oh. Hey there, where did you come from?”

He knelt down as he would pet the small kitten softly on their head with his gloves with a smile as the young one would purr and as far as things are, he guess he's doing this, huh? While he still has questions, it wouldn't be long before he stood up upright again signalling his departure, but with the small one, they followed him in the form of levitation which surprised him but he eventually adjusted.

"Alright then, we'll go together." he chuckled before he walked along before the small kitten mused in excitement. "Espurr!"

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