the meaning of our journey|| Aether X Reader

chapter sixteen

"We thought he fell off the cliff with you two...he still hasn't shown up," paimon asks as I shake my head no "we've found Bennett and y/n here, so albedo can't be far away. Keep searching this area" I started to get a bit concerned as we began to search the area. 

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As we looked around the mountain, there was no luck. Everyone regrouped. I started to get more worry. Where the heck is Albedo, I thought to myself "well? any sign of him" amber asked.

"Not a trace."

"Nothing for me either."

"I look everywhere, and he nowhere to be found," I chime in as I look down at the ground "strange, we didn't have any luck either...where could he have gone," paimon said until we heard a voice. We turned our heads and saw Albedo walking towards us.

"albedo! are you okay."

"you're not hurt?"

"It was nothing serious."

"that's great to hear. I'm just glad you're not hurt or anything," I said, putting my hand together and smiling at him a bit "okay, everyone accounted for," eula said, crossing her arms together. Bennett spoke up and looked guilty, thinking the avalanche happened because of him. "I guess flipping a treasure hoarder insignia isn't gonna change my luck after all," he said, looking unhappy "don't say that, Bennett," I said as Eula chimed in. "I'm probably the hardly the lucky type myself, so I'm not about to go blaming every little thing that goes wrong on you," eula said as I agreed while trying to cheer him up 

"Bennett, dragonspine is dangerous avalanches come with the territory. Bad luck has nothing to do with it," I said, taking a quick glance at aether and noticing he looking at the mountains. It seemed like something was on his mind, but what was it? I looked back at Bennett and then back at aether "what the matter, aether," I said as everyone else looked at him.

"your face looks... oh no, did you get hit on the head?" paimon asked as he shook his head. No albedo spoke up and told us we should keep moving.

"Why do I feel that dragonspine has become more dangerous than it used to be? I hope it's just my imagination."

"I thought I was the only one who thought that," y/n nervously laughed as they started to walk "our top priority now is to get off the mountain and regroup with the adventurers," eula said 

"so whatever further danger this mountain has to throw at us, we must face them together," y/n said, looking at the distance while looking back at the group.

"agreed, guys. Keep your eyes peeled and watch your step. Carefully does it," amber said. We started to descend the mountain while albedo guided us. I looked over to albedo and noticed something, something not right, I thought to myself as I was lost in thought. Aether snapped me back into reality as everyone stopped by the snow cover docks.

"Are you okay?" paimon asked, worrying. "I'm fine. I'm just thinking about food. I'm kind of peckish," I chuckled to myself as I reassured them, "don't worry, y/n, we've been heading in the right direction for a good length of time now."

"that's great to hear, amber, so that means we must be getting close," I said as I got a bit excited "victory is in sight, hooray," paimon said as she clapped her tiny hands, "as soon as we get to base camp paimon wants a bowl of hot soup and some barbecued meat."

"I hope we can all get there safely. no more incidents, please"

I went over to albedo and started to chat with him again about food. Of course, just hearing paimon talk about food makes me just want to make a big meal for everyone. While y/n was talking, they looked at albedo's neck and noticed something "hey, aether, what on your mind? You seem a little distracted" I looked over to where paimon and aether were as I scooted over to where they were "with some things, I don't know where to begin," aether said "something's up, isn't it? Uh, are you hungry? Cold? shall paimon hug your head to warm you up."