Far away from Azuria, someone is flying towards the city. This person is Ragnar, king of the Cath Sith. He flies over mountains and trees, occasionally bumping into monsters but because he's a demi-god he easily repels them. He draws closer to Azuria and notices fewer monsters attacking him, rather they're hiding in fear.
NOTICE: PERSPECTIVE SWITCH TO RAGNAR
"That's odd." Ragnar muses, "It's not like them to stay and cower, they'd attack anyone who entered their territory no matter the gap in strength." He stops flying observing the monsters, hoping they attack but they don't. "Just what did they see to make them cower in fear so much?" He continues flying towards Azurian with the black road as a guide.
Ragnar sees a city in the distance, a city without walls. "No defenses?" He lands before the gates and walks towards it. 2 automata are at the gates but Ragnar thinks them as people, "Greetings." Ragnar walks before them with a smile. It's like a military checkpoint with only 3 guards and a bunch of poles and 30-meter metal statues….I think it's obvious what those are, the statues surround the city
1st automaton glances at Ragnar, "Greetings, what brings you here?" Ragnar stops before a yellow line but the 2nd automaton signals him to come closer.
"I'm here to see the king." Ragnar speaks with excitement, the city ahead of him looks like unlike any he has seen (Modern).
1st automaton's eyes glow a bit, "Do you have an appointment?" She goes through the Nexusphere for any schedules.
"Well, no" Ragnar speaks, "I'm the king of the Cath Sith." The 1st automaton looks at him, "So?"
Ragnar opens his eyes wide with surprise, "...So it's official business." He mumbles, "I thought my title is more than enough."
The 2nd automaton waves his hands, "We don't do that here, sir." Ragnar is surprised. The 2nd automaton continues speaking, "You can't meet the king without an appointment. You have to make one first."
Ragnar rubs his chin, "So how do I make one?" the 1st automaton brings a paper, "Just fill this form and we'll contact you when the king is ready to see you."
Ragnar takes a strange artifact that has ink(EP pen), "Strange, it can even leave ink in the air." He writes on the paper and hands it back to the guards. 2nd automaton takes it and 1st automaton opens the road, "You may enter." Ragnar walks into the city and he nods at the guards to show his respect. They nod back at him, "There's a bus to take you around the city if it's your first time."
Ragnar walks further about 50 meters before reaching a short wall around the entire city with fence gates. He enters and sees military buildings like barracks and a bus waiting at the end of this section. He sees a guard there and joins the bus since the buildings here are just military ones. The bus drives for half an hour before the full city comes into his sights. The bus enters the city and stops at a bus stop and he gets down.
Ragnar looks around with a smile but it soon fades, "Where's everybody else?" not a single person in sight, "He walks around the block but nothing. He wonders the streets looking at the modern buildings but with a mix of ancient feeling, "This is wonderful. Strange buildings and culture like none before."
The buildings are colorful and reaching about 10 floors at most but since the Azurians are taller than normal humans, the floors are 8. Beautiful street with trees and flowers growing along the road, the buildings have signs that have lights on them and some even move. He looks up and wonder, "Why is it so empty?" this emptiness starts to frighten him so he enters a shop.
"Finally," Ragnar sighs in relief, "A person." He walks up to the counter, "Greetings, would you mind telling me where everyone is?"
The person at the counter is an automaton, "Everyone is at the games. It's outside the city at Mist Ridge."
Ragnar looks at the automaton, "How do I get there and when will the games end?"
A screen appears before Ragnar and the automaton speaks, "The games is currently ongoing and it's the 2-way race. There is a bus stop just down the street, wait and a bus will come to pick you up." The automaton smiles.
Ragnar feels relieved, "Okay, I'll wait for the bus. Thank you." He walks outside the shop and walks down the street, he notices a part of the road extending out and sees a symbol like the vehicle he took. He remember them calling it a bus so he waits there, 3 minutes later and a bus arrives. He boards it and it takes him south for about 15 minutes and he hears cheers in the distance.
Ragnar gets excited listening, he arrives and sees a vast land with stands on the side facing the city. He walks to the stands and looks at what everyone is looking at with bright smiles. The excitement of the spectators get to him so he's excited without knowing why. A big screen is before them showing a race between super small buses(In Ragnar's minds).
He notices a yellow small bus in 2nd place driving at full speed and a small bus behind it fires a fireball but a shield protects the yellow small bus. He has no idea what's going on, he notices then a man beside him.
"Kind sir," Ragnar speaks, "Would you please tell me what's going on?" Ragnar smiles.
"Sir," the man looks at Ragnar, "I'm only a little kid!" the kid blushes at being called a sir. Ragnar's eyes open wide and recalls that the Azurians are taller than average humans. The boy explains, "You see, it's a race and they can use powerups. Some are fireballs, lightening and shield!" the boy is giddy with excitement, "This is the final lap, watch watch watch."
Ragnar looks at the screen unsure of what to make of the race but he kind of enjoys it. He sees people going around with snacks and he takes a few of them eating in delight, "YEEEAAAHHHH!" Ragnar jumps in excitement with the crowd, the yellow bus passed the first at that one turn. "OH COME ON!!" the 1st car hit the yellow car with a fireball and takes first position back. The boy smiles at Ragnar's excitement.
Ragnar notices 19 more screens showing other small buses too, "So each bus has a mirror watching them."
The boy looks at him, "Buses? These are cars, mister. And the mirrors are screens, it's tagged to every racer so we can choose to watch whichever we want or use the general screen. How do you not know this?"
"Well, I just got here." Ragnar speaks with a smug grin.
"Whooaa," The boy exclaims then tilts his head looking at him, "So, why do you have cat paws and feet?"
"I'm a Cath Sith," Ragnar speaks, "I can make it go away." His hands become human.
"Waaoow," The boy exclaims, "I can do this." ARMORED SHELL covers his hands.
"Hahahahaha." Ragnar laughs, "That is pretty impressive." He glances at the screen, "So which car do you support?"
The boy points at a screen to his right, "That one, racer Thirtty. The thirty series are the 3rd fastest." Ragnar thinks it's a type of car but the boy actually means the range of Xenos.
Ragnar smiles, "Maybe I'll buy a Thirtty series and show it off." The boy looks at him with a strange look of confusion but he focuses back on the race. The race goes on for 3 more minutes and they finish it. Ragnar sticks around for more even thought that's the last of the games, the people there are chatting but he thinks another game might be coming since some are waiting and some are probably getting snacks.
[AU:INFO
- Yeah, I know I didn't bring the ending of the Monster ball. Green team won with Yellow team in second place. You could try imagining what happened, I couldn't since I support all sides.
- Ragnar is new to Azurian lifestyle so tried showing it, not sure if it's enough since this felt short.
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