Reunion

--- Inner Ring, Bevelona City

"Alright. Everyone should split up now and let us meet at the outer gates in a week. Try to explore the city while getting used to your Spirit Power. We don't know where Jay is right now, so the best thing we could do is gather information in this city for a week." The Chicken Lord said to the group. A week may seem too long, but it was just actually a short span of time here in Ashnakara.

Just as everyone was about to move out...

"Everyone! I found Jay!" Nuggets suddenly shouted and jumped around the area, happily flapping her wings as she did so.

"You sensed him through your 'Life and Death Seal?'" The Chicken Lord asked.

"Yup. I keep seeing blue streaks of light emanating from some places. The streaks of light feels like Jay's magic. But... I do not know where he really is since there are too many areas the streaks of light all over the place."

"Okay. Everyone, change of plans. We will go to the areas where Nuggets see these streaks of light and bring Jay back home!" The Chicken Lord said and Nuggets started leading the group.

...

--- Bear Paw Guild Hall

"Huh? This feeling..."

Jay immediately stepped out of the Mind Room and stood up from the wooden bench. The reason was because he felt something he hadn't felt for a long time. His connection with Nuggets.

"Wait... don't tell me..."

Jay quickly tested something out. He used his summoning spell, 'Call Nuggets.' Just as he thought he was just dreaming, a bright light emanated from the room and Nuggets appeared in front of him.

"Huh? How did I..."

Nuggets spoke in human tongue as she looked around the place. She was just with the Chicken Lord and everyone else a while ago before getting sucked in some kind of portal.

"Nuggets? Is that really you?" Jay looked at Nuggets and almost wanted to cry.

"Huh? Who are you..." Nuggets did not immediately recognize Jay due to his female disguise, but the moment Jay hugged her, all of her doubts were removed and she knew it was Jay.

"JAY!!!"

"Nuggets!!!"

The two hugged each other with smiles on their faces.

"Hold on. Let me bring the others over." Nuggets said hurriedly and tried to communicate with the Chicken Lord through a chicken skill called 'Chicken's Call.' It was like a telepathic communication between chickens.

"Big bro! I found Jay!"

"Nice. We're heading where you are immediately. Stay put."

"Huh? Who else is with you?" Jay asked Nuggets.

"Big bro, Roasty, Angel, Bloody, and some wolves."

...

Jay decided to wait for everyone outside of the guild hall while Nuggets kept on telling him stories about what happened in the Fatelord Plane during his absence.

"You are now a Fatelord? Wow. It has only been a few weeks since I left!" Jay said excitedly and was surprised how much Nuggets improved.

"Yup. I am the Fatelord of Storms, Nuggets! Wahahaha!!!"

"Then how are you able to speak in human tongue?" Jay immediately asked.

"Big bro taught me." Nuggets replied happily while Jay gently caressed her back.

"What else did Chicken Lord taught you?"

"He taught me how to control my Thunderhawk Phoenix form, he taught me a lot of chicken skills, and he even taught me how to transform into something else! Watch this..."

Nuggets quickly jumped off from Jay's arms and her whole body suddenly got enveloped by a white light. After a split second, she turned into a little girl.

Nuggets was wearing a green shirt and a yellow dress. She had short blond hair and blue eyes. She looked really cute and Jay suppressed himself from hugging her.

"Hahaha... you look really cute in your human form. You kind of reminded me of Heda when she is in her human form." Jay said as he patted Nuggets on her head.

"Oh, they're here." Nuggets suddenly snapped out of her happy thoughts and looked at the distance. When Jay did the same, he saw a group of people heading towards them. The moment he saw who they were, he quickly waved his hands and shouted.

"Hey! Over here!"

...

--- Bear Paw Tavern

Jay and everyone else who were with the Chicken Lord were currently gathered around at a table.

"Jay, this isn't really necessary you know..." The Chicken Lord tried to talk Jay out of whatever he was planning.

"It has been too long since our last time together. As a celebration to this reunion, let's have a feast!" Jay said and suddenly shouted something else.

"Everyone, drink and eat as much as you want!"

And just like that, the whole tavern became noisy and turned into a joyful place. No matter who was in the tavern, may it be Jay and his friends, or the strangers in the tavern, everyone drank and ate to their fill.

"So, who forced you in becoming a female?" The Chicken Lord said and laughed as he looked at Jay.

"Female disguise! I did not become a female and I still have my manhood between my legs!" Jay replied as he chugged down some beer.

"Besides, look at Roasted Boar and Bloody Harvest. They look more of a female than I am in this disguise!"

"Shut up. We were just forced by this crazy chicken." Bloody Harvest said with a grumbling voice as he ate some steak.

"Listen. This never happened and is just a dream. The moment we take you back to the Fatelord Plane, all of this NEVER happened." Roasted Boar said as he calmly drank some wine.

"So what's with the puppies?" Jay suddenly asked as he looked at the three 'puppies' eating some meat and slurping some wine from a bowl. He wasn't still informed about them actually being wolves.

"Huh? Is that how you talk to the one who saved your ass back then?" Aethelwulf said with a groggy voice. He was obviously drunk.

"Jay, these three are large sized wolves who are in disguise, for convenience." The Chicken Lord said.

"Ah! I remember you three!" Jay suddenly remembered the three wolves he met back then at the Shurym Plane. The white wolf was the one who almost killed him back then. The golden wolf was the one who saved him from Shurym. And the silver wolf was the one who saved him from the plane's destruction.

"Well, enough of that. The only reason why we all came here was to get you back before you create some unwanted changes." The Chicken Lord said and told everyone to enjoy the moment since they were heading back to the Fatelord Plane tomorrow.

"Wait, you know a way to return back to the Fatelord Plane?" Jay was surprised by how casual the Chicken Lord was acting right now.

"Yup. We just need to go and meet with the Planar Overseer of Ashnakara. If I remember correctly, she should be idling around at the Sacred Mountain. There is also another way, which is why we can already leave tomorrow."

"Sacred Mountain?!! You know where it is?" Jay almost spat out the stuff he was drinking. Even the city library did not have any information about it, then the Chicken Lord appears and says that he know about it.

"If Ashnakara's geographical state never changes these thousands of years, I may know where it is. But if a lot of things changed since then, I am afraid not."

"Oh, by the way, take a look at this." Jay suddenly remembered the book he got from the city library. The book 'Great Millennia: Our History so Far.' He gave it to the Chicken Lord and wanted him to verify if it was real or a fake.

"Huh? How did you manage to grab this book?" The Chicken Lord quickly stopped eating and drinking as he held the book in his hands. He quickly flipped through the pages and even his eyes moved in a weird way.

"This is a lot of detailed information. I can tell its real since most of the stuff I know is also written here. But how did you manage to obtain this book? As far as I remember, the only ones who are supposed to have a copy of this book in Ashnakara are the ones in the profound stages of their Spirit Power."

When Jay heard this, he did not know what to say. Was it just luck that he managed to grab this book?

"I got it from the city library yesterday." Jay said honestly and wondered how much there is yet to know about the Chicken Lord. It was as if the Chicken Lord was getting more and more mysterious to him as time flies.

"Strange. If we are still not banished from this plane tomorrow, then something big is happening in this plane."

Jay and the rest suddenly stopped whatever they were doing and got interested with whatever the Chicken Lord was about to say.

"The goddesses of this plane are supposed to banish all planar invaders, unless they permit them to stay here. Since Jay was here for a few weeks already, I think they permitted his stay. But for the rest of us, we came here in a group, uninvited. But if we are still not banished from the plane tomorrow, then something is absolutely wrong."

"Like what? You seem to know a lot of stuff, what are the possible things that went wrong?" Luna immediately asked.

"The Planar Overseer may be dead, the Sacred Mountain might have vanished from existence, someone is attacking Ashnakara, there is a civil war happening. As for the worse things that might have happened, the four goddesses may have lost control over the plane, something disturbed the worldly balance of the plane, and the worst thing that might have happened already, which is that the four goddesses are long gone."

"What?"

Everyone was surprised by this. If one of those possible outcomes that the Chicken Lord said is true, then how the hell would they leave Ashnakara?

"That's the reason why we got ourselves some Spirit Power earlier. We might have been dragged in a messy situation already. But as long as I'm here, you guys don't have to worry too much."