Closer Then You Would Think

Letting the Astral Zone take her with them for a little bit Felli got used to the feeling as she started to create some energy. "I think it's time.." injecting it into the rest of the energy she knew she couldn't control it but she could force it take her somewhere else instead. Combining them together she felt her body drift apart from everyone else as she watched the world appear back in her vision. Left in an open field all alone she made sure the others weren't there as she tried to figure out where she was.

"Looks like those are the mountains from the Astral Zone. Good not too far then so I should be able to get home sooner than I thought."

Touching her stomach she made sure she was okay to walk as began to walk leaving everything behind her. "The next step is now." Pushing Tearia out of her mind she repeated her Mother's words as she walked. With that old town far behind them Xelfia walked alongside Relia as they chatted together. At first it was a little hard for Xelfia to have a conversation with Relia but with some time she managed to get a better feel for her.

"Doing alright?"

"...Nnn."

"Good."

She had trouble speaking fluent words for some reason so in place of them she would make sounds to try and help convey her feelings. if she needed to she would say actual worlds but they were slower and took time. The few times she had more proper sentences from her were before they had fallen asleep together for a while. They had searched the inn where they had stayed together a couple days ago and found no trace of Xilo which meant he had left. It had saddened her a bit to not see him there however she had a pretty good idea where he ended up so that's where they were going.

"I wonder what kind of trouble he's caused without me."

"You..worry..too much."

Relia had heard Xelfia repeat the same thing for the past couple days now and her answer had never changed. "Though I'm worried about him too, of course." It was shocking though how much a strong girl like Xelfia really worried. She had thought Xelfia might have been too prideful for this but she was fairly open about it all. It left a pretty deep impression on her from her first thoughts on her. She had a very strong front, except for when it came to Xilo it seemed, then it broke completely leaving this.

"Continue..with story?"

"Ahh right where was I again, oh right that damn bear."

Listening to Xelfia's story they walked on the open road as a couple mountains came into view. On their right was an open field that travelled quite far and on their left was a forest not too far away from them. "Azalu should hopefully be awake soon." Though ever since her slumber she didn't know if things had changed which was her biggest worry. That was why she needed to talk to Azalu to help ease it a bit. Until then she was only left to her thoughts alone for this brief period of time. Eventually those voices would come back to haunt her.

*Ah*

"Hear...that?"

Stopping her story she listened to the world around her trying to find out what Relia meant.

"I don't hear anything, maybe it was just the wind?"

"..Nnnn.."

*Ahhh*

Shaking her head, Relia knew she wasn't just hearing things this time.

"Again."

Hearing it once more Relia was certain she heard something this time. Grabbing Xelfia's hand she took off towards the forest searching for the noises she had heard. Stomping on the bushes Xelfia let Relia drag her along still not hearing anything. "It doesn't hurt to check it out." It delayed their travel a little bit however she couldn't ignore Relia's words. As much as she wanted to leave whoever it was here to die she couldn't with Relia dragging her around.

"If it looks dangerous we're leaving. No if's or but's about it."

Xelfia knew of human's way more than Relia did and she wouldn't let them get entangled in something they couldn't handle. She had long lost that sense of compassion for other beings. "Oh, there was a shout." Hearing another shout in the distance Xelfia actually heard it this time around and they were getting closer by the second. It sounded like some people fighting something so she braced herself to run if need be. She also got Relia's reluctant agreement in this as well so they continued walking through the forest as they tried to blend in with the trees and bushes.

Coming into a little clearing Xelfia looked around as she spotted six different people in it. Crouching beside a bush she dragged Relia into hiding with her as she looked at them. They all seem to be injured somewhat from some kind of fight and there was a bigger man over top of another man as some flames covered his body. "Looks like that one's about to die." Not caring too much for the others, she assumed the one on the ground was the one she heard screaming as she tried to get a closer look at him. Moving around a little bit she tried to get a better look at him.

"What the..."

Feeling her emotions spike tremendously she accidently made a sound causing all of them to be alert as the red haired man turned around facing her.

"Who's there!?"

Knowing she was already detected Xelfia gave up hiding as she stood up and stared directly at the man in front of her. "That's..." Surprised and confused she looked at the man on the ground as his face was blocked by the red head's flames but his Astral Energy was something she recognized just fine. Charging up some power she got ready for a fight as Relia looked up at her slightly confused before joining her. She didn't think Xelfia after that would be so active to help but she wouldn't let her fight alone.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Shouting that at the red haired man she prepared for a fight.