Chapter 37: Recover the Materials

Everyone is placed in a large building that appears to be a hospital with advanced technology unlike anything seen before.

Guard 2: "They'll be fine."

Guard 1: "I just hope they have the ability to pay this off."

A doctor has just returned from a supply closet, with only a small test tube of a light blue liquid.

Doctor: "Sir, we're out of water."

Guard 3: "Dammit!"

Doctor: "Those plants need to be dispelled from the reservoir if we're going to save lives."

The guard thinks for a moment.

Guard 3: "How much time?"

Doctor: "They'll be long gone by dusk tomorrow."

One of the guards notices the weapons on the heroes.

Guard 2: "And these people look like capable fighters."

Guard 1: "Welp, I don't know about you people, but I'm going back to my job."

The guard leaves.

Guard 2: "Well, there is one person..."

Doctor: "Her?"

Guard 3: "We may not require a lot of water, but lately even were dropping like flies. She's all we've got."

Guard 2: "We're really desperate for someone who can't even look at someone without having a heart attack to save the lives of individuals."

The heroes are rushed to rooms upstairs.

Doctor: "Do what you need to, we need that water."

The doctor leaves.

Guard 3: "You need to return to your post, I'll deal with her."

Guard 2: "(deep breath) Good luck."

The guards leave and split up.

Half hour later...

Guard 3: "Please help us..."

He is standing in front of a small, run down hut a bit of a ways into the caverns.

Guard 3: "(knocking) Hello?"

No response...

Guard 3: "I'm coming in Xaena."

He slowly opens the door to find a large open room, with a small bed at the side, and beat up training dummies across the walls.

???: "(deep breath) One more try."

A woman with borderline snow white skin, light gray coat, snow white, braided hair, chain necklace, black pants, blue shirt, and brown goggles is holding two dagger and is practicing a technique.

Woman: "Here we go..."

She jumps up into the air and dives back down with the daggers first, straight through the dummy.

Woman: "I'm almost there..."

Guard 3: "Xaena?"

A the sound of the voice, Xaena immediately dives under the bed.

Xaena: "D-D-D-Don't scare me l-like th-that!"

Guard 3: "I did knock."

She slowly crawls out from beneath the bed

Xaena: "W-What did you want?"

Guard 3: "You're the last resort."

Xaena returns to beneath the bed.

Xaena: "W-Weren't you waiting for someone else who could fight those things to d-deal with it?"

Guard 3: "We did and they're going to die without your help, along with countless other people."

Xaena: "I-I can't do it!"

The guard kneels to the side of the bed and holds out his hand.

Guard 3: "You won't if you don't believe."

Xaena shakily holds out her hand.

Xaena: "F-Fine. I'll d-do it."

Xaena gets up.

Guard 3: "Glad to hear it."

Xaena picks up a dagger.

Xaena: "I'll go n-now, before I ch-change my mind."

Xaena walks towards the door.

Guard 3: "I'm counting on you."

Xaena darts out.

The final, light blue orb begins to glow.

However...

Guard 1: "(yawning) I'm going to take a nap."

The second guard hasn't returned yet and the other has fallen asleep.

A Flora child, with brown rags for it's clothes has snuck up to the side of the entrance.

Flora: "Can I really turn back after this?"

Roots sprout from it's arms.

Flora: "But I can't keep playing along with this sick game. They may have killed hundreds of my people, but it would've meant the extinction of theirs."

The roots dig themselves into the roof of the cave.

Flora: "I'm going to save them, and everyone else."

The child flies into the roof and uses this procedure to move across the roof of the cave.

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