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No Celestial

The world was ending. At least, it was the beginning of the end. Mysterious oddities continued to make people hysteric with making no official announcements from authorities around the world to defer ominous theories. A new system from the American government implores the training of young individuals sixteen through twenty with high stakes and rewards at hand. With no answers, Felicity Clarke gets nominated to be one of the first drafted. Going in blind, she discovers how everything was not as it seemed. Through the burden of creating a safer world for her loved ones, she creates lifelong bonds, finding inner strength within her to connect with a mysterious partner that could hold the answer to it all.

Winter_Auden · Sci-fi
Peringkat tidak cukup
61 Chs

Rolling Esoteric Clouds

Diving into the ocean from high above, the jarring feeling of her skin hitting the waters was sharp along with the warm waters that had some high waves due to whatever the engyure was doing above with messing with the gravity and whatnot that she couldn't fathom at the moment about.

With the water above her head, she was swimming up trying to fight the current, and felt as though her limbs were useless in the great ocean. She felt weak with no energy, but she forced herself to carry on. It felt as though she was forcing her way out of the water, but after a while of a long and lonely fight, she did finally break through.

Felicity pushed up above the crest of the wave, gasping for air only to cough out the salt water after sputtering. Happy to be out of the engyure, Felicity breathed a sigh of relief only to realize that she was still in the vast ocean alone without no help or way to get the helicopter's help since she didn't have any flares on her.

She stared up to the pastel sky with the realization dawning on her, and she bit down on her lips knowing that every single hardship that was coming to her was by her own vocation. Not that it wouldn't matter in a moment like this thinking about what she could have done better when she was stuck out in the middle of the ocean.

Felicity coughed but managed a yell. "Hey! Help! Anyone out here?"

The suit was waterproof. Her hair? Not so much. Felicity pushed her hair that fanned out out of her face and smoothing it all down before fluttering her eyes open. 

"Medina!" Felicity yelled to no avail.

Felicity didn't know what her plan would be after she stopped treading water to keep herself above water and buy time for herself, but there seemed to only be one direction to go when she stopped. But it would have to be down. 

The waves flowed high once more, and Felicity closed her mouth and lifted her chin up trying to get over the crest while kicking her legs back and forth. The sun was beginning to come, but what was rolling in the distance wasn't as comforting as the baby blues and pinks above.

Instead, it was the rolling grey of a storm that wasn't lit up with the odd enygyure colors, but it may have been enhanced by it with the smell of rain and ocean. Felicity bit down on her lips in worry already knowing that the ocean was already a hard environment only for water to come join her.

Medina popped out of the water quite far away from Felicity's positioning in the water with a gasp, and Felicity screamed out in shock and sheer relief. 

"Oh my god, Medina!" Felicity cried. "We made it."

Medina seems to be in poor shape with her complexion quite pasty with her eyes seeming dull. Felicity pushed her way through the waters over to Medina who cocked her head over at her. 

"You're lucky to get out alive, Felicity," Medina said. "Next time, please move at my word."

"But if I wasn't there..." Felicity trailed off.

Medina sighed. "It's something that you shouldn't see. It would be best if you forgot about it."

Felicity frowned. "Isn't my job to kill the raures anyway?"

"If it's on main land."

"Then where is the engyure?"

"Drop it, Felicity."

Felicity shook her head in annoyance but kept her mind shut knowing that Medina was literally on hell's gate a while ago. There were many questions, but life was what was keeping her quiet. There were so many things on the line, and she didn't want to be dancing her way there.

"Only in emergency cases would you come. That is when I would have to call for affinity weapons. So, please be careful."

"I will be," Felicity whispered. 

She was so tired and happy that everything worked in the end. The engyure closed without any trace in the sky or the water. Felicity didn't know how much of a difference closing an engyure would cause to the land except for the part of raures coming out of them, but she assumed there would be if the government was stressing about closing them.

She was praying it did considering how much work they needed to do. It was crazy to think that Medina or other people had to go into an engyure like that every single to time to close them from the inside out. 

It was extremely dangerous, and Felicity still couldn't wrap her head around the mechanism that Medina used to close the engyure. A rune was important to break, but at the same time, could it be any rune or a specific rune? 

Felicity was about to ask Medina when Medina ripped an arrow out from under the water and reached forth to steady her bow and arrow up into the air before letting go with the arrow shooting high into the sky.

The brilliant green arrow spun in fast succession which looked like it was dancing as it suddenly unfolded into what looked like a tiny umbrella. The arrow spread out its flower petals only to burst into flames, and it later ignited into a blue light. 

It was a flare, but it was somehow different. Felicity couldn't put a finger as to what it was, but the blue light that emitted didn't just fall down, but it stayed there suspended in air and shimmering and twinkling. 

Pretty but somewhat scary in the sense that it definitely wasn't natural. Felicity turned over to look at Medina, but she shouldn't have even bothered since Medina could practically read the words on Felicity's face that she hadn't even voiced yet. 

"The helicopter should find us soon. I gave Tatum a scanner that finds the element above," Medina said. 

"Can I even ask?" Felicity voiced with a raised brow.

Medina answered with a paltry expression. "Be my guest."