After about 15 minutes of waiting, the group of 6 finally started to get off the ship. Johan, carrying a small sack bag made of cotton, looked around the place. The area they had landed in was beautiful.
The runway was placed between a valley of high snowy mountains.
The sun rose in the west compared to the east like on earth, and its white color stained brightly across the deep bluish violet sky, though compared to the sun on earth it looked a little small. Similar to a desk rather than a ball of plasma.
The trees were silver and were both thicker and taller than the average being compared to the redwood trees of the Americas. He looked around and picked up a leaf out of the sky that the wind had blown near him. The leaves were orange and yellow like fall.
As he tried to pick apart the scaled leaf, he was picked by the collar of his grey shirt by Laureano and pulled back into the group. As he was placed back down, Johan saw Lucius in the right near a small military cabin. He was talking to a man wearing a white vest, grey tie, and white jacket with light blue accents.
"So um what now?"
Edward said as looked towards Laureano.
"Wait, for like—2 minutes."
Laureano said as he took out his phone and looked at the time before placing it back into his pocket.
Ryan said after a few seconds of silence:
"Um—anyone of y'all want french toast sticks?"
"Yes."
All but Johan said as they turned to Ryan.
"Yeah me too."
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"Why y'all looking at me like that? I never said I had any."
Ryan with a slight smile as he sat on a huge crate.
"Why are you like this?"
Ha-Yoon said as she looked at the man to her side, her face showing some discomfort and anger.
Johan simply questioned what 'french toast stick' means in Japanese.
After a few seconds, Lucius walked away from the man wearing formal clothing and yelled at his crew:
"Alright, fighters create the vehicles, pick your things, and get in. We're leaving this place.
Upon hearing this, Laureano placed out his left hand as a strain of blue appeared from it and turned into a shiny car.
The car was a Mercedes but Johan couldn't tell what generation, mostly because he has no clues about cars other than the company brand.
After creating it, Laureano opened the door and entered the driver's seat before popping the trunk. After the trunk was opened, Ryan sat up before picking up the crate and shoving it into the trunk.
"Hey be careful, some of that could explode!"
Laureano said as he turned back to look at Ryan in the glass of his car.
"Shotgun."
Edward said as he ran to the front set as Ha-Yoon soon followed.
Johan got in the back as Ryan shut the trunk and created a motorcycle and helmet before getting on it and driving off with a serious expression on his face.
Laureano looked at the two teens fighting for shotgun and smiled gently before starting the car.
Johan looked through the window as the car started to move.
Sophia suddenly pulled a cupcake from thin air and started eating as she started listening to music while Ha-yoon was grabbing on to Edward's arm for dear life as he grabbed the seat he was trying to sit in.
Johan looked at the 3 and then Laureano casually driving as if nothing was happening:
"Is this normal for controllers? Am I going to act like this."
"Yep".
"Oh ok.–—wait, how can you know my thoughts?"
"You're not thinking, you're saying everything out loud."
Sophia said as she continued to munch on her baked good.
After a while Edward finally managed to get into the seat while Ha-yoon needed to be grabbed by Sophia and pulled into the middle seat of the car.
Ha-yoon lad confused for a few seconds before coming to her senses:
"Can I at least get shotgun next time?"
"Sure"
Laureano said as he turned into a highway. As the car drove off, Johan saw Lucius suddenly look in his direction, no, he was looking at. Johan shuddered back and looked away as a cold sweat rushed down his head.
A few minutes passed before they reached a city, the skyscrapers, reached nearly the same as Tokyo though it was similar closer to Koba or Yokohama upon closer inspection.
Edward and Ha-yoon tried to get better looks while everyone else treated it as normal.
"Johan, isn't it beautiful?"
Ha-yoon said as she looked at the boy next to her.
"Yeah."
Johan replied back.
"Are we sure Johan is really seven, he acts more like a depressed teen."
Sophia said as she looked at the conversion between the only children in the car.
"Yeah, he's IQ higher, though it's clear once you really talk to him or talk about things he likes."
Laureano said as the background of Johan, Ha-Yoon, and Edward got quieter. Mostly Ha-yoon, Ed and Johan were already quiet.
A few more minutes passed and they arrived at a house.
The house was Victorian styled and its towers had domes at the top circling the pillar like a cup. The porch circled the building as its rails seemed like bars a small dog or cat could fit between.
After a few seconds, Laureano stopped the car on the grass right next to the building, before getting out.
As Laureano got out, the rest soon followed and walked towards the house. Laureano pulled open the door and walked into the building.
Johan, though wondering why they were entering the house, didn't say anything, clearly worried that they were breaking the law, and clearly didn't want to be here.
"Hey loosen up man, it's not like we're killing anyone."
Edward said as he nearly lightly punched Johan before remembering that he was seven.
'Yeah we are sure this kid is seven, he knows how to use a blade and acts like an emo teen.'
Laureano, after walking a fair amount of distance, suddenly stopped, before creating his ocean-like messer, and got into a ready stance. Right hand ready to draw his blade at any second.
Sophia was the first to notice and immediately placed her hand up before pulling it back down:
"There's no one here."
Sophia said as she looked at Laureano.
"No, something is here. Lucius wouldn't have placed this on the lists of places we need to go if there wasn't."
After saying that, Laureano placed his ear against the wall, and heard a heartbeat.
As soon as the sound registered into his mind, he released his blade from its sheath and slashed right through the wall with a diagonal slash going from top right to bottom left, causing a bit of inside of the wall to show.
The wall oozed out blood, as the inside seemed to resemble muscle and flesh.
"Get out of the house."
Laureano said before dodging a spike that was aimed at his head.
Johan tried to unshelve his sword only to be grabbed by the collar by Edward. Ha-yoon ran right after them as Sophia stood there, yawning tiredly, before pulling her hands up and causing the enter house to shake violently.
Everyone but her and Laureano fell, while Laureano was dodging spikes left and right before grabbing the three minors and bringing them outside with him.
"Aren't you a rank 5, do something."
Ha-yoon yelled at Laureano.
"Fighter doesn't get that many ranged options and my only one would cause the local controllers to come after us."
He said as blocked another spike aimed at the group.
Finally the house stopped moving before it collapsed. Sophia walked calmly as if nothing had happened:
"We're done here, this was probably the best place for a rogue, just needed to turn one thing into a puppet and we're done."
"Why didn't we just stay in the car if we're going to be useless."
Johan said as he looked at the two sener controllers.
"That's a good question."
Laureano replied as he started to walk back to the car before stopping.
After stopping, he jumped backwards and avoided a swing to the neck by a ghostly figure.
The figure was transparent like glass and its only characteristics that Johan could see was its mask and dueling saber.
After getting back on his fighting posture, Laureano blocked an attack aimed towards the left side of his collar and slashed towards the upper part of the figure's body with horizontal slash going from left to right.
After that, he slashed at the ghost's left side going from top left to bottom right side of the monster's torso.
The figure blocked it though barely, before going a slash to the top of Laureno's head which the latter blocked.
Using the strength of the ghost's attack, Laureano weakened his sword and spun it over causing the ghost figure to stumble into his downward slash to its head.
After cutting it open, Laureano flicked his Messer back and used its false edge to cut the figure's face once more.
The ghostly figure disappeared, no rather it was transforming into something.
Laureano picked it up before recalling his sword and opening the trunk of his car. After shoving the thing in the trunk, Laureano got in the car and acted as if nothing had happened, everyone else but Johan was the same. Only he wondered one thing, why was Laureano's style so similar to his, his father's, and Lucius's.
Not only that, but how he was able to understand what happened, every swing was a blur. Not only that but the sound of it being swung was slower than the slash itself, meaning the attacks were faster than sound. But it didn't create a big sonic boom, instead it merely cut through the air like it normally would.
Johan thought about it, the whole way through as the two seniors went to random places and did the same thing.
Laureano had sword fights and just normal 1v1s with weapons, well, as normally as you can when the attacks at the speed of sound.
'It's just the attacks, the resort of their bodies were normallish, not blurry but still fast. Wait no, a swing is faster than the body even for a normal person. I could swing this sword faster than I can move so why can't they just do it at a bigger level.'
Johan thought as he looked at the fights Laureano had.
After about two hours, the group met a tunnel where multiple sets of vehicles were parked. One of them was Ryan's motorcycle, though it looked a lot worse than it had before.
The paint job was burnt off and its metal was rustling away.
After getting out and parking, the group followed Laureano into a part of the tunnel, where a door was placed.
Laureano knocked on the three times in a slow, slow, fast moment, before it opened.
"Name."
A voice from inside said.
"We're a part of Lucius's group."
Laureano replied to the voice.
After a second, the sound of clicking could be heard before the door was opened.
Once inside, Johan found a party room of sorts, everyone he had seen and even people who he didn't were here enjoying themselves.
In the middle, was a man with fiery bright red hair, he had a strong build and sharp facial features. His clothes were fancy and clean, more than that, they resembled that of a general.
He gave off the aura of someone strong yet somewhat gentle. Not nearly that of his father but close. Just like his father though, he seemed like a lit candle just waiting to become an inferno. Not in rage but rather something about the two men related to fire.
Johan stared at the man for a few seconds and right when he was midway through looking away, the man looked him in the eyes.