Chapter 9 – The Nest

“Neh, how long have we stayed here?”

“I don’t know, and Rika please stop asking me.”

Rika is making fun of Melisha while lying in the rolling around her bed.

“I think they won’t let us go out this room.”

I said while gazing at the white ceiling and the two of them went silent, and their expression becomes gloomy.

We noticed the door opened widely and we stood up and prepare our stance in hand-to-hand combat in case the Mr. Grays standing in the doorway will try to harm us.

Three Mr. Grays and two Mr. White are looking at us.

“What do you want!?” I said while covering Melisha who is trembling again with fear, and Rika who is ready to back me up.

The Mr. White on our left raised his hand to eye level and began gesturing us to follow him.

I looked and asked my friend for their opinion what are we supposed to do in this situation.

“What should we do?”

“I think, we should just follow them if we want to live longer.”

Rika is the only one who answered, and Melisha is still clinging to my arm.

I gave the Mr. White a nod. The Three Mr. Gray surrounded us and slightly pushed up to move.

“Are they going to kill us??”

“Don’t be a pessimist Mel, if they want to kill us they should have done it while we are still inside the room.”

I called Melisha her nickname Mel when I answered her question with a voice full of confident but deep inside I’m also afraid. Afraid of what will happen to us, or where are they going bring us.

I stopped walking when we arrive at the front door of the building because on the other side of glass door. 12 Mr. Gray is lined up leading to a black carriage and looking at us.

When we exited the build, aside from the black carriage, there are also several large carriages and two of those carriages have a great stout like Mammoth.

I gulped my saliva and one by one we entered the carriage.

It’s like a merchant caravan, but the only difference is that we are at the center being protected.

Melisha is looking out the window and said: “is there some kind of battle going on?”

“I think they are subjugating the monster that is residing in this place,” Rika answered her.

At a distance, the sound of explosions can be heard, but the on-going battle didn’t catch our attention because the one that truly catches our attention is this place.

While traveling, we saw several houses that I never have seen before, the healthy forest while living underground but the most truly fascinating is how bright this place.

When we arrive here first, the whole place is pitched black, because of Melisha Light magic we barely saw the structure in the distance.

I wonder if we didn’t go to that structure at the first place, maybe we are dead at this moment.

“Just how big is this place?” those words left my mouth because even in the fields we still cannot see the end.

“Maybe we are in a different world right now,”

Rika said half-joking while staring outside trying to grasp the distance with her eyes.

The carriage stop moving and the big wagon with a big stout started using explosion magic.

Why did it they stop?

We took a peek outside, and we are being surrounded lesser dragons and infant dragons.

“What the hell is wrong this place, is this place a breeding ground of the most dangerous monster!?”

“Please don’t shout like that my ear hurts and we are inside the carriage! I can hear drums beating inside my ears.”

Melisha’s loud voice resounded inside, but Rika reprimanded her because she is sitting beside her making it much worst.

The battle didn’t last long. I can't call that a battle because it’s a one-sided slaughter by the Mr. Grays.

Lesser dragons and infants dragon body is full of holes that instantly killed it. They started checking each one of the monsters if there still alive.

If the monster is still alive, they will blow head to smithereens, if not, they still blow the monster into the piece.

“They don’t’ really show mercy,” I muttered in whisper voice while looking at the carnage outside.

After checking there is no more threat to the caravan, the carriages started moving again.

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(Rika P.O.V)

The two seems fallen asleep. Melisha is using my lap as a pillow, and Chris' head is on my shoulder.

“haist, they are really pretty tired because they haven’t got much sleep lately.”

I made a small sigh seeing them sleeping like a log because when we arrive the building I told to get some sleep but they didn’t listen to me.

But I’m jubilant seeing them like this. We know each other since childhood, and they are very precious to me.

I thought that we are going to die in place when I saw the dragon emerges in the shadows but I guess the God doesn’t abandon us when the automatas helped us and even treated our wounds.

Looking outside the windows of the carriage, I can see a lot of building that looks like a house and growing trees and grasses and the bright light that illuminate the surrounding which will make you think you are not inside a cave.

“I feel like a noble being escorted like this” I whispered to myself not to wake them up.

I’m not a noble compared to Melisha and Christine, but I become friends with them because they don’t care about the social standing and the status of the family.

I remember the time that I met the two of them.

8 years ago

I became an orphan when my father and mother died during one of their expeditions.

They are renowned scouts that many groups of explorer are recruiting them to join their team.

It was a sunny day when I’m helping the clergies with the chores to maintain the orphanage.

The orphanage courtyard is filled with dried leaves, and I’m sweeping to the corner of the yard to be burned later.

When a scary man suddenly appeared and asks me “is the head clergy inside?”

“yee-yes!” I answered him with a stiffened voice.

He has a big sword on his back that signifies he is an explorer and being surrounded by several other armed men.

Then at the moment, I saw two girls that are the same age as me in the center of the group.

“Maybe they are orphans too.” Muttered in a small voice, and followed the group who went inside.

The clergymen and the scary man are having a serious talk while the two girls are sitting silently on the bench outside.

I approached them and asked, “are you an orphan too?”

The silver haired girl looked at me with a scary face. I got scared and run away.

“I guess I won’t make any more friends.”

Yes, I approached them so we can be friends and to make them feel they are welcome, but I misunderstood everything.

That night in the dining hall, the two girls are introduced to us by the clergymen, when I heard that two of them are daughters of the new nobles family, I quickly approached them to beg their forgiveness about my rude remark earlier.

Since I know that majority of the nobles think that they are supreme, if someone offended the nobles. The offender’s choice is either death or becomes a slave.

The green haired girl squatted and pats my head with a smile on her face, while the black haired girl said: “Raise your head, and I’ll forgive you but on one condition!”

I feel like my face turned purple while in thoughts about her condition and in the corner of my eyes I saw the clergymen sweating hard.

I asked in broken voice “what is your condition.”

The black haired girl said while fidgeting “you will become my friend!”

“huh!?” I made a sound of disbelief when I heard her condition.

“I said become my friend since we are going to stay here for a while, isn’t it much better?”

There is no better option than this.

“Okay, I’ll be your friend; my name is Rika, how about you?”

“My name is Christine, and this girl is Melisha, pleased to meet you Rika!”

“Nice to meet you too, I hope we can be good friends.”

And from that moment, I never thought that we will become best friends that will share many hardships.

While looking at their sleeping face again inside the black carriage

“I hope our friendship last forever” I whispered while patting their heads gently.

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(Christine P.O.V)

Rika woke us up because we already arrive at our destination.

How did she know that we already arrive?

Well, it’s easy the carriages stop, and coachman opened the door for us.

Before we exit the carriage, Rika whispered to me “Christine, wipe our mouth, your drooling when your sleep,” I wiped my mouth instantly, and I saw Melisha giggling while looking at me.

After alighting the carried magnificent large black structure stood in front us, the structure is 10 times greater than the kingdom castle and we can weapons attached to the platform, like the mammoth carriage in the structures wall.

A new colored automaton can be seen approaching us that came from the structure. I’ll call him Mr. Black because the majority of the color of his clothing is black.

Even without making a gesture, we immediately understood what we should do.

We followed Mr. Black while being guarded by the Mr. Grays and Mr. Whites.

“What the hell is place!?” I said as soon as we entered.

The interior of the structure is larger compared to its outside appearance.

The whole place is made of horizontal and vertical pillars that are supporting large metal cocoons that are reaching the ceiling and deep underground.

I took a peek in the edge of railings to see how deep this place is. I become dizzy because of depth that is like reaching the hell.

The Mr. White grabbed my hand because I almost fell down, my knees began shaking, and cold bead sweat started to form on my forehead.

The worrywart Melisha approached me asked “Hey! are you alright?” and I answered her with half-smile “Yeah, I just got dizzy for a moment.”

“We’ll give you a hand, let’s go. If we are going to die here, there is no point making it longer right.”

“yeah.”

Melisha and Rika supported me by lending their shoulder, and our descent started, we thought that we are going to use the long staircase, but they have a particular device that brings you to upper or lower floors.

The place we are going is the deepest part of the structure.

We arrive at our destination and at this location. There is lone cocoon in the center of the room.

The automatas that guided us quickly left the area.

“WAIT! DON’T LEAVE US HERE!” Melisha pleaded, but to no avail, they left us here.

“Now what should we do?” I asked the two for their opinion because I cannot decide this matter all by myself because it is a life and death situation since we don’t know what kind of monster is inside the cocoon.

My father always telling me that if the situation is life at stake. It’s better to ask your companions opinion, and I did the same.

“Let’s approach the cocoon because we don’t have a choice here, I doubt the automatas will help us again.”

“I agree with Rika, even I don’t want to approach that thing there is no other choice left.”

I gulped my saliva and slowly approached the cocoon, even if I don’t have a weapon I’ll be cautious.

With only 10 step left the cocoon opened with a hissing sound.

The Three of us stiffen when someone emerges from the metal cocoon

It is a beautiful woman is now standing in front of us and making a dazzling smile that we kneeled down to pray.

I think she is about 175 celis (centimeter) which is taller than Melisha; Her long black hair with a slight curve at the tip that is reaching her hip is full of luster. Her thin Red lips, perfect nose shape, and her blue eyes make her face perfect. Her body will make the men ogle because of her slim waist, perfect round buttocks with the moderate size of breast.

She became flustered and stops us with gestures signaling not to kneel down.

I never saw anyone who’s beautiful as her, and her beauty can be matched to the depiction is Goddess of Beauty Vinx.

I feel like that there is something more to her.