Romantic Fantasy
Sheet 29: Problems Keep Coming

Slate used her auditory sense ability to gather information. Ash also uses his sense of sight for the same purpose. The brothers aside from being an attacker and a protector, they did aim to gather useful information for Fable, the Logistics.

Slate heard the rustling of bushes caused by a rabbit. Sometimes hearing owls from a distance. Nothing is strange.

The border forest was too quiet, silent until the five children had to be extra careful. They knew that no sound was the most dangerous situation.

Ash glanced here and there. I don't know why he couldn't calm down. He's more sensitive than Fable and Slate. Usually, his instinct is never wrong in guessing something.

Slate heard strange and similar movements like the ‘serpentine’ movement of a snake. Only, he knew that the one who did it was not a snake at all. ‘Celaka! What is it?’ his inner.

Slate again communicates with Ash and Fable through their owl sign language.

Qerza of course knows what they are discussing. After all, he had been together with the three brothers since childhood. They also taught him the sign language of their owls.

“Nona Fiery, please hold on tight. We will ride fast,” Qerza whispered to Fiery.

Fiery nodded and tightened his grip onto the saddle of the horse.

Fable gave instructions to other children about the path they were going to take. He had reminded that in front of there are three paths that they can go, but of the three there is only one safe path.

Fable tells them that the safe path is on the far left and reminds them not to take the wrong path.

“Now!” fable Command.

They drive horses fast. Simultaneously, Slate could hear the creature chasing after them. Looks like the creature is not far behind them.

‘How can the creature be behind us without me noticing?’ inner Slate. He felt as if the creature had been in the forest for a long time just to wait for their arrival. ‘Is Ayahanda's guess right? Are any of us traitors? If true, shouldn't we get it done right away?’

Slate shook her head. ‘Come focus! Now is not the time to guess.’ He drove the horse hard and led the way.

As he approached the three paths that Fable had said, Slate could hear a small rumble caused by rocks falling from the cliff. Incidentally the leftmost path is next to a towering cliff.

“Be careful!” exclaim Slate while trying to stop the horse.

Huge rocks were falling right in front of Slate. If only he had not focused and he had not noticed it, he might have been hit by big stones and died.

“Slate!” exciting Fable. He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw his youngest sister was fine.

Slate again heard a strange sound. This time not only one, even in the air was heard the sound of flapping very foreign wings in the ears. He asked, “Fable, besides this path where else is the path that the dangerous level is low?”

Fable thought fast. “Follow me to the middle,” he replied. He spurred the horse vigorously, splitting the night wind.

“They deliberately didn't show themselves,” Ash said. “Be careful everything. Don't let your guard down. Or not, all that will be left of us is a name.”

‘It's great that here there is Mother.. She is very good at solving small tricks like this,’ Ash thought.

From a distance, Ash could see a shiny object ready to cut through someone's body. A transparent thread that is usually used as a trap. Ash immediately throws a needle to break the thread. However, he knew among the transparent threads, some had already pasted Explosion Magic.

“Don't go forward again, Fable,” said Ash giving instructions. “There is Explosion Magic Thread. If activated, we will all really die!”

Too late already, Fable was too focused so late digesting the instructions from Ash. He activated the Explosion Magic Thread and his horse leg split into two halves. Then, in the area there was an incredible explosion. Black smoke rose, covering most of the forest.

Slate closed his hands to get rid of the black smoke from before him.

The black smoke slowly dissipated. The situation there is very bad, maybe even... Fable was already a victim of the explosion.

Ash growls. He, Slate, and two others fell from the horse. Their horses ran away somewhere. Now, they can only walk to reach Ganache.

“Fable!” Ash exclaimed as the black fog began to thin. He suffered minor injuries caused by the explosion.

Slate who had just cleared her sight straight away helped Ash look for her second brother. “Fable! Fable!”

There was no response from Fable. It makes them panic. They can't live without Fable. If there are no fables, then they will not be complete.

Qerza shook his head. As he regained consciousness, he found no sign of Fiery there. She also panicked when her fiance disappeared.

“Nona Fiery!” exciting Qerza. “Nona Fiery!”

“Fable!” ash and Slate at the same time. They had already searched the entire blast area, but they did not find their brother at all.

“Fable! Please! Fable!” exciting Slate. Although he was the one who was most often cursed by Fable, but he was the one who knew that his second brother was a very caring person. “Fable! Fable!”

Slate roared loudly. The birds that lived around there flew away. Slate's eye bead turned a grayish-white that shone brightly. He's very angry now. He was snarling like a wolf.

Ash knows Slate's condition is now very dangerous. He immediately closed his youngest sister's eyes and hugged her. “Do not! Please... I can't lose one more person.”.

Because of Ash's persuasion, Slate was finally able to calm herself down.

Slate was crying in Ash's arms. “I'm not willing..,” said. “I'm not willing... Fable... Fable...” He kept calling Fable's name. Apparently, he was the one who was hardest hit by the incident.

“It's okay..,” entertain Ash. “It's okay. Don't keep on being sad. Let's find Fable slowly. We will definitely find his whereabouts.”

Ash helps Slate to stand up. “Do not panic. Let's find it again, huh?”

Slate nodded her head. He and Ash go back to find Fable.

Qerza himself tried to find his fiancee. ‘Any. How could Miss Fiery disappear? Come to think of it, if it wasn't for him, he wouldn't be far from me either. We sit on the same horse, his inner’.

Qerza then recalled Frost's words, “There was a traitor from one of you. Although I'm not sure who he is, but I already have my own assumptions.”

‘Can't be Miss Fiery, right? He's been with us the whole time!’ thought Qerza. 'There is no time for weird thoughts.'