*~Chapter 7: Emergency gathering~*

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They arrived at the conference room in the realm. Soon as they arrived, they felt rather woozy from the ominous mist. Sunoco looked a little sympathetic between the two. She then thought it was best not to say anything to anger them.

Aoru managed to make it through in one piece “Ugh, my head. Jeez, Riga. This traveling thing sucks. My head is still spinning. Is it always feeling like this?”

“You’ll get used to it one of these days…I hope.” *Ugh, who am I kidding? I’m still not used to it …*

“There are an awful lot of guardians here aren’t there? But all I see are ordinary people. I would expect to see some demons or something at least...” They all looked around, but every inch of room is covered with the Guardian and unit. There were so many people, they couldn’t tell which way the exit was at. While Koru and Sunoco was busy sightseeing, Aoru looked around looking for his brother, Shissou.

"Bro! Over here!" Shissou was transformed from the way he used to look. He had more muscle around his arms and legs. He even managed to get a six pack. Aoru looked at him suspiciously. He then noticed his goofy smile he’d always give. His jaw then dropped to the ground

 "No way! Shissou? Is…that you? What the hell happened to you? You look…different. And what's with the collar?"

"Oh, man. There’s so much I want to tell you but this is sort of a bad time. The gathering they told me about wasn’t supposed to be for another 14 years.

“But it’s only been hour! How do you explain that?”

“Really?? It feels like a year has passed already! ...Um, I can’t really explain it all very well but I will later. Right now, we got trouble on our hands."

They saw many people in the room from different regions. They saw people from Asia to South Africa. They were all speaking different languages, which made it hard for Hemnos to give attention.

“Uh calm down. Excuse me? Beings, I command you to…. Ugh, this is getting nowhere.”

 They all chattered in complete panic which caused a lot of grief for Hemnos to handle as ruler. *I’m pretty sure grandfather had the same problem before when he was starting out…Time to get the easiest way out.*

 He read an ancient scripture from his wall. The result; everyone was able to understand each other, despite the fact they speak different languages. “Oh wow, this is quite a number of people here, my lord. However, this isn't the usual gathering. Did something occur?" asked a young girl.

"All Guardian and units, please accept my apologies for the sudden summoning. I understand you are all confused since the gathering isn’t due until another fourteen years, but we are in quite a predicament." Everyone in the room was puzzled. What predicament? Why are we here? There were so many questions aiming at Hemnos all at once.

He moved his hands to motion them to settle down. “Please, please speak one at a time. Even a sprite can only have two ears.”

"What is this predicament you mention? Is it really serious?”

"I’m afraid it is quite serious young one. The demons known as Slieks are currently running loose in your world. And I’m afraid I can’t bring them back alone.”

Some people gave nothing but blank stares, some panicked. “Slieks?! Just what the hell are those? It sounds seriously scary!”

Hemnos looked around frantically, as if he were searching for something. His mind didn’t seem to be in the reality they were in. His face became paler than usual and his hands became rather clammy. *Why now?? Of all the times, it has to be now?* Meiko saw his forlorn face high in the clouds. “My Lord? My lord?”  His conscience came back to him. “M-Meiko?”

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