Note: While I'm giving other writers a chance to add on to the Hydra and Possessed Needle fights, I'd thought I'd write a couple of side chapters for fun. They are just a few lose ends I wanted to clear up. They may or may not effect the battles currently in progress. So don't scrap any chapters-in-progress yet.
Also, to add on to my last note, while Dark Isaac is a Joker Card that I might have some ideas for, I'm really have no plans for the guardians. I'm just winging it for the guardians. One of the main points for the guardians is for them to be a blank slate for anyone who wants to pitch their ideas for. The guardians can be anything. Not knowing is part of the fun. I do have some plans for the Hydra, but I feel the need to leave that arc open for ideas too. I'm by no means in control of this story. I'm just a writer who likes adding to this story for fun and loves to read other writers's additions to this story. So don't be shy, feel free to add your ideas and we'll see what will happen.
Oh, and I forgot to give credit to the chapter, "Malbur The Grief Star" by an Anonymous writer for inspiring the version of the character, Malbur, in the chapter, "Innocence - Part 3 - The Consequences of Curiosity and Desire (Version 2)"
Thank you for reading and please enjoy the chapters.
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Mary was pacing around the front yard for about an hour.
What should she do? Should she leave Isaac and Nat to their fate and make her way to the cloud castle, or should she find a way to break into the mansion and save her friends?
Isaac wasn't even a factor in her plans before she met him. If he hadn't appeared, she would have left the village anyways. Her mission is for the sake cloudman kind... But having Isaac's absorption ability handy would have'd helped. He also provided her with an excuse to leave the village without anyone getting suspicious of her...
But she doesn't really need Isaac and Nat's help. The more time she wastes, the closer she is to her estimated maturity period...
...Yet...She couldn't stop thinking about her time traveling with Isaac, Ilivir and Nat... She'd felt something then... she felt companionship. The times she had to correct Nat when she misread a map, the times she watched Ilivir's silly masturbation sessions, and her time talking with Isaac... Isaac feels like an long lost brother. He's very similar to herself. It's going to be hard to hide secrets from someone who's share's the same traits as her and probably knows how she works... The memories she shared with her companions are very dear to her. Spending time with her friends are probably the happiest times she spent in her lonely life...
Amidst her pondering, a group of armed cloud men silently came out from behind the bushes and surrounded the pacing cloud woman.
"Alright girl. Give us the goods." One of them said.
Mary looked up to see herself surrounded by thugs.
How could she be so careless?! She let herself get surrounded by noisy thugs without her noticing!
"We are the Cloud Crawlers! We were on our way to raiding to expensive looking mansion when we stumbled upon you. A defenseless girl. Cough up you valuables if you know what's good for you." One of the men stated.
The Cloud Crawler Gang... Mary heard of them. They are a independent group of bandits. She heard they were made up of cloud people of all types. Thugs, professional mercenaries, assassins, ninjas, nurses, real bandits, merchants, scientists, magic users, ect. They are the closest to what the cloud kingdom has to a rebellion group. But that's only because they don't obey the king and are willing to defend themselves if the king's men were ever to attack any members of the gang. They are a huge and powerful group who are independent from the king. But they don't fight for the people. They fight for themselves.
Mary readied her fencing sword for battle. She noticed that some of the cloud crawlers are armed with air razors (cloud guns). That's not good. She's confidant that she is able to handle these bandits. But with how outnumbered she is, there is a chance that someone will get a lucky shot. She's unable to focus on all of them on this fight. Her back is exposed at all times while these men are circled around her.
What should she do? If she surrenders, she might get taken to their camp to be taken as hostage. Going to their camp is not necessarily a bad thing. At least she will know the location of their home base. That is if they don't blind fold her... or if the don't just rob her and leaver were she is... Maybe she can pretend to want to become a member of the Cloud Crawlers? That might increase her chances of going to their home base. If she goes to their home base, she might get an chance to speak with their leader... Perhaps she can convince them to fight the Sky King?... But then again, she doesn't know how long nor how far away their home camp is. She can't afford to waste time. She still needs to get to the cloud castle in a few days... With or without Isaac and Nat.