*PART 4:
Fill in the blanks with the correct word AND circle the synonyms hidden
within the story.
Word Bank:
aroma fragrance saunter stroll
senseless meaningless accomplish
achieve
The Twins of
Fate (Part V)
by Teacher
Christine
**Kingdom of Enchantments, Palace**
The sweet, floral _________________
of the roses beckon Genei to take a walk in the castle gardens. As he approaches the marble fountain at
the center, Genei’s scarlet gaze returns to the stars, Vega and Altair, in the
night sky above. When he turns
back to look at the fountain, an image taking form on the water’s surface
catches his attention as he leans closer to the fountain’s edge. The image on the water’s surface begins to solidify into the shape of a young woman with long and wavy baby blue hair, and
skin as pale as the moonlight. Two
large, doe-like amethyst eyes set above a slender nose stare back into his
scarlet eyes as if in fear, and then in wonder.
Beautiful…
pretty… gorgeous… dazzling… bewitching… angelic… appealing… alluring…no words
seem to be able to capture her, Genei thinks to himself.
As he gets lost in the amethyst eyes
of the mysterious beauty, she suddenly flinches backwards and stares at
something in front of her that is unseen to Genei. He reaches out a pale hand to the water as if to grab onto
her arm, but as soon as his fingers touch her, the water’s surface ripples and
her image disappears in an instant.
“Princess…” he murmurs to himself, as
the gears in his mind starts to piece together the information he just received
from the water’s surface. He
ponders to himself: The princess and I
were able to see each other through a body of water as the medium. Based on the cave walls behind her, she
must be in the Sinister Caves, which houses the Lake of Desires. Only that lake could possibly
connect her to me, through my strong desire to see my fated one.
Genei suddenly heads for the Palace in
search of Tomo. He realizes that
if she is at the Lake of Desires, she could be in grave danger with the guardian
that lurks within the Sinister Caves.
~A few moments ago…~
Tomo
makes his way through the elegant halls of the palace, which would be a
nightmare to navigate through to anybody without a good sense of direction or
good memory, to reach the throne room.
Just as he was about to proceed with his Lord’s orders to search for the
Twins of Fate, sightings of them reached his ear. Honoo, leader of the small party of knights patrolling the
villages in the southern region, relayed a message a few minutes ago through
the Mahou of Silent Communication, stating that he had news on the Twins of
Fate. Tomo quickens his footsteps
and finally reaches the throne room.
As he passes through the gigantic marble doors, Tomo slows his steps and
strolls in to find the red-headed, big build of a man standing before the
throne with a large hand covering his eyes. At the sound of his footsteps, Honoo straightens up, pulls
his hand away from his black eyes, and salutes Tomo.
“Speak.” Tomo commands, as his icy
cerulean eyes demand Honoo to explain his message.
Honoo stands in the salute position as
he begins to retell his story of his pursuit of the thief, and his chance
encounter with two extremely beautiful people, who appear to mirror one
another. He explains how the boy
and the accompanying knight had supernatural strength compared to his own party
of ROYGBIV knights, and describes how the entrancing girl and the thief
separated from the boys and headed for the Sinister Caves. He then goes on to apologize for his and
his men’s failure to _________________ their missions of catching the thief and the
twins. “I believe these two
are the Twins of Fate that you mentioned,” sums up Honoo, as he finishes his
report. “I came to ask for
reinforcements to go into the caves to capture the thief and the twins,” he
continues.
“Permission grante-” begins Tomo, just
as his silver-haired Lord bursts into the throne room. Tomo and Honoo turn to gaze at their
Lord, who appears to be in a rush as he charges right at the two.
“Tomo, get ready to bring the Indigo
Knights to the Sinister Caves. We
are going to retrieve my princess.”
commands Genei with a stern voice.
Tomo’s and Honoo’s eyes widen in
surprise at their Lord’s command, but Tomo quickly understands his Lord’s
urgency and replies with a bow, “As my Lord commands, it shall be done.”
**Kingdom of Enchantments, Sinister
Caves**
Doro
paces a few feet away from the largest cave’s entrance and debates whether or
not to follow after Murasaki, who disappeared a few moments ago. It
would be _________________ to rush into
the caves without backup, she
thinks to herself. What can she possibly hope to achieve on her own, when she feared going into the caves by herself in
the first place, and thus approached Murasaki’s group for help. As her mind continues to debate, a
strong wind passes her by and steals the breath from her lungs. When she finally opens her eyes and
clears her pink hair from her face, her pink gaze falls upon Aoi, Naito, and a
small green-haired boy.
Doro sighs in relief, and then Aoi jogs up
to her and asks, “Where’s my sister?” He looks around Doro frantically.
“Ummm…well..you see…there was
thumping…and a force—” Doro begins as she shifts her weight from foot to foot,
when she is suddenly cut off by Naito.
“Stop your meaningless rambling and get
to the point!” Naito commands, with his jade-green narrowing on her like
daggers.
“Murasaki flew into the caves all of a
sudden, like something was pulling her in.” Doro corrects herself.
“We’re going in.” Aoi replies without
missing a heartbeat, as he turns and heads straight for the cave. He slows to a stop after a few paces
and turns back to question, “Which entrance was it?”
“And that is my new master,” Sui
groans, as he makes his way past Aoi and heads right for the largest cave
entrance. “I picked up your
sister’s scent from you earlier and can faintly detect traces of her path
through the caves,” he continues as he enters the cave. He pauses to look back at them and
points into the depths of the cave and warns, “However, there is a sickeningly
sweet fragrance coating the entire place, so keep up and watch out for the
Jorougumo. None of her victims
have made it out to tell the tale, but based on my sources, the Jorougumo keeps
any adventurers seeking the Mahou of Alternate Dimensions captive in her web of
deceptions and feeds off of their energy for an eternity.” “Whatever you do,” Sui emphasizes, “DO
NOT GET BITTEN BY HER.”
Sui faces forward again, satisfied by
the tense look on the others’ faces, as they nodded in agreement and follow him
in.
**Kingdom of Enchantments, Sinister
Caves, Lake of Desires**
Murasaki tears her eyes away from the
silver-haired gentleman with scarlet eyes reflected on the lake’s surface to
gaze across the lake. Giggling
sounds emerge as three little balls of white light flit about the surface of
the water and draw nearer to her. Murasaki freezes in fright, as her heart
thumps quicker and quicker in her chest.
Mofu ruffles its feathers and lets out a low sound in warning at the
balls of light, in response to Murasaki’s fear.
“We have a
visitor!” tinkles a tiny voice, like bells chiming in the wind.
“We have a
visitor!” echoes another tiny voice, like a wind chime, in agreement.
“How long has it been since we
had one!?” questions yet another voice from one of the balls of white light.
When the three balls of light reach
Murasaki, she is able to make out the outline of three tiny fairies fluttering
about, glowing from within like little fireflies.
“We are the Mahou of Alternate
Dimensions!” the three identical golden-haired fairies proclaim in unison.
**Kingdom of Enchantments, Sinister
Caves**
After walking through the dark caves
for a seemingly long time, Aoi asks Sui, “How much further do we need to
go? Is there any way we go any
faster?” His face looks drained as
he states, “I’m worried about my sister.”
Sui retorts, “Your sister seems to be
really deep within these caves, so it’ll still be awhile until we reach
her. Also, if we go any faster,
one of you will twist an ankle on this uneven, damp ground.”
Doro chimes in, “Maybe we can ride on
my Mahou of Witch’s Broomstick to go faster?”
Naito responds from behind Sui, with
his flame lighting the way, “It is too dark and narrow to navigate through
these dark passages safely on your broom.
Our fastest and safest bet is on foot.”
Doro sighs and remarks, “I really do
hope nothing happened to her.
Let’s think positively.
Maybe she bypassed all the dangers and reached the Mahou of Alternate
Dimensions?”
Aoi turns back to her from behind
Naito and fixes his ice blue gaze on her, saying with a small, strained smile, “You
are so optimistic. I can only pray
that she’s safe and that we’ll find her soon.”
After passing through many passages
that forked off into multiple passages, Aoi’s group finally makes it to a large
chamber in the cave, with the cave ceiling reaching at least 30 feet high. Sui stops in the chamber and stares at
the dark passage leading onward into the darkness. “Shhhh,” he whispers in warning.”
Click…swish…
click…swish…
click…swish…
click…swish…
click…swish…
The silhouette of a
woman appears from the darkness beyond and _________________ s closer to the
group. Only the sound of the
swishing of her dress and the clinking of her heels can be heard throughout the
caves. At the snap of her fingers,
the torches lining the cave walls light up and illuminate the chamber. A gorgeous, black-haired woman,
appearing to be in her early thirties and clothed in an elegant whitish-gray,
floor-length ball gown, stops a few feet away from the group. As her gaze roams over the faces in the
group, her large black eyes seem to lock onto Aoi, and she licks her ruby red
lips.
“It is such a pleasure
to welcome you to my home,” hisses the gorgeous creature in a husky voice. She then blinks her large eyes slowly
and offers her hand out to Aoi with a smile, “Please come join me for dinner.” Aoi makes no movement to grab her hand,
so she lowers her arm down. She
looks at the rest of the group and continues with a chilling smile, “You’re all just in time for it.”
So Honoo is 'Pork Chops'?
ReplyDeleteHonoo is the Leader of the party of knights seen on the Grassy Hills. Although he is a Yellow Knight just like Pork Chops, Honoo has red hair and black eyes with a big build, while Pork Chops is chubby with dark brown hair and eyes. Hope this helps :)
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