Chapter 2. Reaching the Base Castle
The helicopter flew some time which seems like an hour, when Ki said: “Hang on to something, there gonna be some jounce.”
June and Bo grabbed the handle beside them tightly.
“Look out! There’s a tornado in front of us!” June suddenly realised the reason why Ki had asked them to hold something.
“It’ll be fine. Don’t worry, just hold on tight!” Ki said.
But it is easier to be said than done, June got really nervous as they flew towards it.
‘Why he’s flying towards it? There’s no turning back if we get too near! What’s he thinking about?’
The helicopter is still heading towards the tornado.
“Ki, we are flying into it!” June was so frightened, she’s shouted.
“Yes, just hold on tight, we’ll be there in a sec.” Ki said easily.
‘What is he talking about??? Is he mad? I must stop him.’ But there was a huge bounce. It was lucky for June did what Ki was told, otherwise she would be threw out of her seat. The Helicopter started to wobble as if somebody was shaking it.
“Uh, I always hated this part of the flight!” Bo said displeased.
‘I bet nobody like this at all! By the way where are we now, what had happened?’
“We are inside the tornado at the moment, and we’ll be home right away! Home, sweet home!” Ki said delightedly which had just answered June’s doubt.
“What are you talking about…”
“Yeah, I know, Ki is a weirdo, since he is the only one loves this part of the flight! Oh no, I think I gonna be sick!” Bo chimed in without letting June finish her question, June looked at her and saw her face turned a bit green.
The helicopter stopped shaking suddenly. June looked out of the window, the sight amazed her: they are right in the middle of the tornado, she can see the spiral clouds fighting around them.
“Prepare to land!” Ki announced.
The helicopter started to descent.
It looked really weird with the helicopter flying in the centre of the tornado with the spiraling clouds floating around it, and at the same time with Ki piloted the helicopter with a huge smile on his face.
‘What a strange person he is!’ June sighed with emotion.
The helicopter landed smoothly. Suddenly they were surrounded by strong lights, which glared out the surroundings, June couldn’t open her eyes.
“We are home Lan.” Bo said to June with a smile.
Bo dragged June out of the helicopter, and walked away from it.
As June was acclimatized herself to the light, she saw the helicopter had disappeared, what instead of it was a helicopter model with a 6- coloured light ball glittered outside it.
“What had happened to the helicopter?” June asked with a surprise.
“Well, of course you didn’t know this, since you were always in the battle front. This is what we use when the situation is not safe for naturalising, we always use the transport from the Entity World instead, and this is specially designed for us to use. It belongs to the Base Castle. And I’ve got to mention that it is my favorite transport!” Ki answered with pride.
“What…”
“Yeah, nobody will be stranger than you to enjoy that kind of wobbly travel.” Bo wasn’t approved by it.
“Wait…..”
“How can you say no to this lovely piece of genius creation? It feels really good when u had naturalised for a long time!” Ki objected.
“Excuse…”
“That’s only what you think, weirdo’s interest!” Bo said unhappily.
“Um…” ‘Why they don’t let me ask any questions? What are they talking about?’
“No, this is perfectly normal! Lan loves it too, don’t you Lan?” Ki turned the argument towards June.
“What? Oh, well, I do enjoy it most of the times but not including the journey we had today, I have to be honest in this, I do apologise for any uneasy feeling I brought to you. And I…” June said honestly and wanted to ask what was questioning her all the time, but Bo chimed in again.
“Ha ha ha! Did you hear what Lan said? Ha ha! The irony! You wanted Lan to support you, didn’t you?” Bo burst out laughing.
‘Uh, I give up! They never let me finish my sentences.’
“Oh stop it Bo, Lan said he does enjoy the flight most of the times!” Ki Justified.
“Hey what are you arguing about guys?” A boy asked from behind before Bo talked back.
“Hey Tsuchi, how are you doing? Finished?” Ki asked delightedly.
“Yeah, finally, it had been a long fight, but we managed to guard the Entity. I bet they won’t just give up like this.” Tsuchi said with a worrying expression.
“I just don’t understand. Why did he do that? Oh, I’m feeling terrible!” Bo said with sadness as if she hadn’t been joking a minute ago.
“Well, I think we’d better go back to the Base Castle first. I bet Lan is desperately wanting to hear everything as well. I’ll tell you what had happened in side.” Tsuchi turned around and lead them to the structure in front of them.
June was amazed when she realised what was sitting in front of her: a huge castle glowing with strong light. Now she realised the strong light appeared when the helicopter landed came from this castle. The scale of the castle is about the size of the House of Parliament in London! How come this castle is located in the centre of the tornado without a tiny damage? This is so unbelievable! And where is the light coming from? So strong! As if the castle itself is like the sun! And the form of it is so strange. It seems like it has 5 floors, and the shape of each floor is different as well! ‘Where am I?’ June asked herself.
June followed Tsuchi, Ki and Bo walking towards the castle. When they nearly reached the castle, the light from the castle turned to seven colours and suddenly appeared in front of them formed what seems like a shield, blocked their way. It is so bright, it blurred June’s eyes. Tsuchi stopped and raised his hand touched the light shield, the light weakened suddenly, and the gate of the castle appeared before them.
It was a huge gate, it’s about fifteen metres tall and twenty metres wide. There was a big circle right in the middle of the rectangular gate, and what carved on it caught June’s eyes: right in the centre is the sun; what was around the sun is what seems like airflows, which is wind, though air should seems quite abstract when representing it, but June can tell it was airflows; the outer circle had been divided into 5 sections, each section presented a different picture: the one on the top was flames; the one on the centre left was drops of water; what on the centre right was trees; on the bottom left is earth; on the bottom right is gold.
Tsuchi raised his arm, and turned the back of his hand towards the gate: a light came out of the back of his hand and shone on the earth section of the circle of the gate. Then the light diffused onto the whole circle. At the same time seven coloured light beams shot out from the gap of the gate, and pushed the gate open. ‘Wow! How impressive! What amazed me most is that the light can actually push the gate! Wow! ’
“Welcome home, everybody had been waiting for your return.” Tsuchi said with a smile, and led them walked into the castle.
June started to observe the inside of the castle. What in front of her is a hexagon hall, each wall has a door and except the main gate each door has a sculpture was carved above it. The five figures looked like goddesses to June, and emitted senses of sublimity and holiness. In the centre of the hall was a big circle and there were 2 people standing inside it who were surrounded by different colours of lights.
“Hey Bo, Ki! Oh hi Lan, recovered yet?” One of them walked towards Tsuchi and his companions and said. ‘Do they know Ki and Bo as well? I only can tell from the voice that this person is a boy, the light is too strong, I couldn’t see their face clearly.’
“Welcome back! We’ve been waiting for you for a long time. Thanks Tsuchi.” The other person followed the boy and said. ‘Wow, what a sweet voice, she must be a lovely girl to have this kind of voice!’
“Hi Yan! Hi Jean!” Bo said happily and talked towards them.
“Uh, Bo starts complaining my precious heli again.” Ki grumbled about the argument he and Bo had when they landed in front of the castle.
Everybody laughed.
“Ki is the same as usual, isn’t he? Ha ha. Well, I see Lan’s back, so shall we begin then?” Tsuchi asked.
“Begin what?” I asked.
“Well, we are going to tell you what had happened when you were injured.” Yan said.
“What had happened to me? How come I woke up in the hospital?” June asked desperately.
“Well, as you know we were fighting with our enemies, and you were fighting with them in the front, and Hikaru was helping you. Although there were lots of enemies around, but with your two working together, there’ll be no worries at all. So we were doing back ups to reverting the Entity World which our enemies had damaged.” Tsuchi started to talk about what had happened.
“The damages are much more serious than we thought, although the battle is still going on, we had to use lots of Elementary Vigours to restore the damages We thought with your two, the situation couldn’t be too difficult. But just in this crucial situation, one thing had happened to everyone’s surprise.” Jean continued, “You were down. Nobody knows what happened, since everybody was doing their job restoring the Entity World’s state. The only thing we know is that the damages had suddenly increased, we felt really difficult when restoring them. When we turned around and saw the enemies besieged you, and Hikaru was gone.”
“So we hurried to rescue you first. But it was extremely difficult, since all of us had used more than half of our Elementary Vigours, and the enemy had only reduced less than a third. You were already out of conscious when we defeated most of the enemies who besieged you. We had never experienced this before, and we were really worried about your situation, so we asked Ki to send you to Dr. Nathan. Bo went to you when her job was done” Yan continued after Jean.
“Tsuchi, Yan and Jean, even our fairies came out of the Base Castle to join the fight in order to give Bo and I the chance to send you to Dr. Nathan. You were out of conscious for a whole day in the hospital, and then woke up today.” Ki conclude.
“Why? Why did he betray us? He was our leader wasn’t he? It was all because of his disappearance which made us fought with so much difficulty, and caused so much damage to Lan.” Bo cried again.
“Bo, things are not that easy. There are something worries me more, but I’m still trying to confirm that. I’ll tell everybody my doubt when I find the essential evidence.” Tsuchi said.
第三章待续： The Guardian of Wind
[ Last edited by JUNEYEAH on 2005-10-17 at 09:24 ]
