Oxfell Arton
"You were transported here through the '"Multi-Reality" gate? It's humorous to say that. That must mean that the hole we fell through was one of these rare occurrences in the skies."
"A "Multi-Reality" gate is a pure action when somebody triggers it from the deep's insides out. We were ordered by the clan leaders to enter its opening to locate the "devil" responsible for such cruel deeds, but by the time I already entered, something messed with the gate and I fell through a strange dimension, and then ended up falling through a blue-colored portal, and that's when I entered this ocean."
"I assume you can't return home without finding another portal. Does that mean you're stuck in this dimension without backup?"
"Yeah. Returning home will be difficult. The "Multi-Reality" gate opens up randomly, and nothing we can do to open it up ourselves. Our best option is to wait for something or someone to trigger it."
He fell into deep thoughts, and waited quietly for others' response, which could assist him to escape the "Vast Expanse". Elliott rose up to his feet and tensed his muscles, excited to come up with an idea of a possible way out of the "Vast Expanse".
"Then I might know how to leave this ocean. If the "Multi-Reality" gate opens up in the future, we should vault through it. It brought Ellie here without problems, right? It should take us back to our universe."
"That's an option, yes. However, what if we accidentally entered the wrong portal and ended up somewhere completely else. It's a risk we'd need to take, with a low percentage of success. It's viable, yes, but the "Outer-Sea Barrier" should be the safest option."
"I guess I threw out words without thinking. Sorry, Ayuka, my darling angel. You're very sexy and charming when you think through something so thoroughly."
"Whatever..."
The compliments reached her, but excluded Codey from the conversation, who barged in with a necessary question.
"We're all talking about this "Multi-Reality" gate, but is nobody going to ask him how he knew our names? You fell through a separate universe, and/or dimension, but you never explained how you knew our names? The only word I heard was that we looked like your friends, but that sounds excessive. It makes me want to think that your universe is populated by the same people like us with some exceptions and differences to their bodies."
"I don't know anything about that. Perhaps it's called "Multi-Reality" gate, because there are multiple realities with the same construction like the rest. I wouldn't say you or I are from the future or the past, since we're all of the same age. But it does sound similar to there being multiple reincarnations of our bodies."
"I don't think that counts as reincarnation. Our bodies and spirits are attached and separate, so there shouldn't be a reason to have multiple reincarnations. The best option would be to ask somebody who knows about this abnormal activity, don't you think so too, Codey?"
Karisa happened to be intrigued, and concentrated onto Codey's address since he seemed to have been extremely intelligence about spirituality, but even so, he couldn't come up with a proper solution.
"It would be wise, but we're unable to organize a meeting or anything on these oceanic floors. In addition, we would need to find an Expertee that is surrounded with that kind of knowledge. We can't really just ask a random person about it. There's no way a neutral human would know this sort of a subject."
"Yeah, but finding somebody this experience about the "Multi-Reality" gate will be hard. There's no nearby islands at the moment, so that's troubling..."
"If we keep heading in one direction from here on now, there should be an island close by. Just look, I'll show you."
They entered their ship's cabin where Codey taught them of their current position over the "Vast Expanse's" map. It showed a major position of several islands, and the sea surrounding it. As a gift for helping they managed to gain a map of the central "Vast Expanse" from the Grim Isle by Hiro who claimed to be very organized with navigating.
"At the moment we're on the South-East part of the "Vast Expanse", a bit far away from the Grim Isle. The center is located several kilometers, but the island to which we're sailing is small, and I'm pretty sure that there's no population on it. That's why, if we go off course it shouldn't be a problem. The closest one is 'Oxfell Arton', and it seems much bigger than the one we were supposed to sail too. I'm sure there are people there."
Tim, Elliott, and even Ellie kept staring at the map, perplexed, as if they didn't know anything about global directions. Their eyes were squinted together and sweat dripped down their brows as they listened intently to what Codey had to say.
"So, if you don't mind getting off course for a little, then we should go visit the 'Oxfell Arton'. It won't take for too long. We should be there tomorrow morning if we head to the South-West."
"Okay, crew! As your captain I have decided, that we'll do exactly what our navigator said! Proceed to the 'Oxfell Arton'!"
In sync they gazed at Tim with their unimpressed attitude toward his speech.
"Your impression of a pirate captain is poor... Work on that."
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The sunlight escaped the "Vast Expanse" for the moonlight to rise up, and the nighttime extended through the morning with everyone on board asleep, accompanied with Ellie whose goal to return to his universe happened sooner.
Codey woke from his night slumber to wake up to an orange sunrise in the distance, shining over the distant island that materialized in the view of the ship. Codey quickly shouted out his lungs for everyone to wake up almost instantly.
"Everyone! We arrived! 'Oxfell Arton' is right in front of us! Good morning!"
Like an ace, Tim leaped onto his feet to rush out of the cabin. He expressed greater excitement and moreover happiness that they finally reached another island that they could step foot on and scout around.
With careless attitude he screamed once again the word "island" and leaned over the ship's fence where he hurriedly gazed forward with a large town the first thing he noticed. The others followed out from the cabin, while Elliott rammed through each of them, knocking them aside like skittles past the door frame.
"Let me see, hurry! Come on, I want to see what gorgeous ladies will there be on this island now! Come on guys, let's sail faster! Codey, hurry up!"
"We can't go faster... The wind's not strong enough to sail quicker. Just be patient, we'll be there shortly, and don't even think about using your electricity to sped over. We don't want to get separated again..."
"But, I want to see some girls! The island looks big, so it has to be heavily populated by the girls, right? If that's the case, then I should be employed to the basics of hunting down some tasty prey!"
"Your wording disgusts me..."
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Their ship reached the docks and they landed simultaneously with Elliott's excitement for meeting the girls overtaking his brains. He couldn't wait after seeing that the docks were well built and larger with many other pirate's ship nearby.
The structures were quite fresh in their construction, built of smooth stones, with high number of plants growing on the balconies or around. The roofs were made out of different colored brick, and there was an entire party gathered around the 'Oxfell Arton' center, with a big fountain splashing out water, surrounded by wooden benches. In the distance, they managed to see bigger buildings that were most likely some sort of stores, with a church at the very back. The streets went into every direction possible, they were thin and crowded, with some merchants selling different objects based on their stalls or carriages
People seemed neutral, even after seeing them arrive as if it was some kind of a pirate meeting town, but they seemed friendly and gentle with their reactions. Some even greeted them on the streets, while some just smiled upon noticing them, with some instrumental music played all throughout the town, and many restaurants that instantly caught Tim's attention upon smelling it at the tip of his nose. It was pure, white and fresh meat. Greatly cooked with an amazing aroma.
"I smell meat, and it smells delicious! There's no way I'm letting it escape my teeth!"
Without hesitation, Tim gathered his wish to the tip of his brain, and rushed forward in the direction of the nice aroma, with others already throwing their attention to different buildings or objects, with Elliott running around, kneeling before the girls, asking them out while flirting with his terrible comparisons.
"There's a store for navigation purposes! I need to check it out!"
"Whoa! A hand-drawn map display! I'll be back with you momentarily!"
"I'm thirsty, so if you don't mind, I'll go buy something to drink,."
"I thought we came here to question people about how to open the "Multi-Reality" gate, but some fun can't be bad."
Everyone left to their decisive positions with Nina remaining behind, quite surprised to witness everybody go hunt down their favorite stuff.
"Just when we said not to split up. Well, it doesn't matter. At least you're here with me, Natan."
When she looked at Natan she immediately froze and screamed out in surprise, after witnessing Natan already in the distance looking at instruments and listening to songs that were playing around.
"You too?! You've got to be kidding me, right?! It's fine... I guess I'll go search for some stuff and possibly information by myself... Not like they will be in any help at the moment..."
To be continued...