Numbered days.

Xadia slowly put the freshly grilled meat in his mouth and a rush of pleasure consumed him. The taste ignited a rainbow of tingles on his taste buds, his taste receptors sparked the nerve fibers and receptors, and his nucleus accumbens released a rush of dopamine with every bite he took.

The smell of the grilled meat added to the rush of pleasure he felt. The flesh was neatly grilled and all the collagen in the meat was broken down, and the umami-flavor was the haven of pleasure that was tasted. Xadia looked to his side, and the expression was the same, it was ecstasy paradise, they were sitting on footstools that were provided by Jasmine.

'It tastes like bacon, sush, seafood pizza and steak. I wasn't expecting this, if only this creature were on earth, although they are hard to deal with, it would make a good restaurant special'. Xadia thought.

"I can't believe I wasted all that meat, this is amazing, it's like nothing I have ever tasted before, it's like I'm in meatville". Jake commented, he then took another bite.

"Jasmine!, This is great, you really perfected it, you must have done this before". Tyson praised .

"Nope, it's my first try, the salt from the minerals helped too, it has a sweetening effect". Jasmine humbled.

"That's not an excuse, you really did it well, it's not burnt or undercook". Tyson complimented, and Jasmine blushed.

"You haven't collected the Currell pack you asked for". Xadia said.

"This tastes better, keep it, I'll ask later". Tyson replied.

"Can I have more". Jake asked.

"Really, it's two chopped slab each and you want more, we're kinda saving the meat since you ate alot of it raw," Tyson replied.

"I eat a lot you know, mutants do and Jasmine is not complaining about me eating any of the creature".

"That's because she doesn't know".

"Did you save for Ivy". Xadia asked Jasmine.

"Yes, here take it to her, I want to continue my experiments. She then gave the plastic food container to Xadia along with a pair of chopsticks.

"Jake!, you only get one more, and that's it". Jasmine informed.

"That's fine by me". Jake answered. She then gave it to him.

Xadia left the room for the first room of the dove. She was sitted and he bent to give it to her, her eyes still closed in concentration.

"We got some meat and grilled it, this one's for you," Xadia said, he placed the container on the floor. Ivy raised her hand and opened her palm, she stopped him from going, she then pointed to her mouth with her index finger.

'What does she mean, she's not saying anything' Xadia thought. She then repeated the action with her hand, she opened her mouth this time. 'Does she want me to feed her'. She nodded as if she knew what he was thinking, his cheeks turn red and he got in the same position as her, he then took the chopsticks and began to feed her bits by bits until she was done with the first row of the chopped slab, Ivy smiled and made a thumbs up to tell Xadia to stop.

He got up and went back to the second room.

'I can't believe she made me feed her, thank goodness no one saw that, especially Tyson, I wouldn't get enough of him if he did. She trusted me to feed her, I just broke a record Tom, I fed a girl'. Xadia smiled, his face flushed red.

"Why are you smiling," Tyson asked, he noticed.

"Uhm nothing," Xadia replied, and repressed his smile, but one could still see it.

'Hmm, he's at it again, he went to meet Ivy,' Tyson raised his eyebrows. 'I didn't catch the moment,' he thought, he smiled at Xadia and raised his eyebrows up and down at a fast rate; a tease.

"He-llo, you just cae back from loveville, did you admire the Ivy-plant". Tyson teased and winked at Xadia.

'Yep, that's Tyson,' Xadia shook his head, and placed his hand on his face.

"Is Ivy done with her chops," Jake asked.

"No, she only ate one chopped slab". Xadia replied.

"She's not going to give you, so don't think about it," Tyson warned.

"Since you're back, I'm going to be needing two containers of water from the lake like the size of these containers," Jasmine looked at the glass container containing the creature's corpse. "I'll be needing a lot, I'll purify some for drinking water, I also need for my experiments, I hope that's not too much," Jasmine asked

"No, it's okay, we'll get it done," Xadia replied

"Great, galaxy stars!!," Jasmine smiled, and handed over two glass containers to Xadia.

'Galaxy stars?, is that a slang, sounds cool, it's good to know we haven't completely lost our culture as humans, that's great,' Xadia thought.

"Tyson you're up," Xadia said.

"Huh, not again, can't you and Jake go," Tyson complained.

"We all know you're currently the fastest hill climber among us, your spider form makes it easier and less stressful, it also saves time". Xadia said.

"I know, it's annoying, I'm the new delivery guy, I'm only doing this because she needs it urgently, so don't make it a habit," Tyson uttered.

Xadia smiled, "I won't promise you that". He replied.

"Are you coming?" Xadia asked Jake.

"It's two containers, you got this". Jake cheered.

Xadia and Tyson then proceeded with their new task.

'Ivy's cultivating she won't notice if I take some chops, she's concentrating on refining her energy she won't notice,' Jake thought.

He then alighted from the footstool and went out of the second room for his plan.

He entered the first room, and he could see Ivy's remaining stabs in the container on the floor, he surreptitiously moved towards Ivy, making sure there wasn't even a sound from his body; he halved his breathing and bent.

He was soon in front of Ivy, she didn't notice him, he picked up the chop sticks and took a meat chop from one of Ivy's rows of chopped slab meat. He was about to consume the meat, when a punch was delivered to his face, and he was knocked to the floor; it came from Ivy.

'I deserved that, what a strong punch' Jake thought in his mind, he held his chin and went to sit on the scorpion shaped pod chair.

Xadia and Tyson soon arrived with the container and they could see Jake nursing his chin with a mineral.

"What's that," Tyson asked

"It's a cold mineral we took from the lake, didn't mess with her," He pointed at Ivy.

'Did she do that, I wonder what he did to make her do that,' Xadia wondered.

"You tried to take some meat chops didn't you,' Tyson figured, Jake looked away confirming the latter, and Tyson began to laugh.

"Next time, heed to my warnings," Tyson smirked.

Xadia and Tyson took the glass container that was now containing lake water to the second room, they then placed it on the floor.

"Who would have thought the lake water would clean itself, it was filled with creature blood the other time, but now it's not, the lake in this planet must be different to ours, I understand that, but to get rid of the blood, that's very different," Tyson acknowledged.

"We saw that tree when we got here, and it was alive, what if the lake is also alive, maybe that's why the blood was cleaned,' Xadia let his mind play with the scenery of what he just said.

"That's impossible, right?" Tyson asked.

"Science says nothing is impossible, we're currently in another world beyond our solar system, we use powers created from energies of siphon beasts, is there anything that's impossible?" He asked a rhetorical question.

Jasmine soon noticed the presence of Xadia and Tyson. "You're back, please don't drop it yet, oh you already did, can you pour it here, hold on a bit," Jasmine pleaded, and began to type on her holowatch, a cylinder compartment soon opened and out came a cylinder pipe glass.

"Can you pour it here," She pleaded.

They poured the water into the glass, and the cylindrical pipe soon closed.

"I wanted to ask, how did you manage to create this dome?, the equipment to build this isn't something one could do with one hundred daily credits," Xadia asked.

"I improvised, I made the dome's structure and inserted all the settings to a prototype I made, it was toy sized, but it could do everything here. And when I was creating the rune system I programmed the dome to embiggen when it was summoned to come out, after that I just kept filling the dome with the materials I'd need, it would shrink with the dome and that's how the dome was made," Jasmine shared.

This wasn't just an improvisation, it was a solution to many problems of industrial materialization, this was another idea that could change the world, of course she'd be the one to reason in that direction, what a precocious mind.

A sound resonated through the dome, along with was a blinking red light, and Jasmine knew what the alarm was for, it meant that their days on this planet were numbered.

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We will warm the Herd

And shake the Stars