[Completed] Legend of the Five Knights III: Song of Divine Wrath

Episode 3: Ancient Evil

[Axis Mundi]

Once the others had left, Aquarina descended the white stone stairs with someone else in tow. It was a tall, silver haired, dark skinned angel.

"Who is that?" Eiichi asked.

"My other ancestor, Halim," Hyosetsu said, staring at the angel with cyan wings.

"Halim?" the Carlos Knight asked as his eyes shifted to the man's well-toned abdomen. "I... uh... expected him to be fat."

"Yeah, same here," Hideo said, putting his hands behind his head.

I snickered.

"You guys," Setsuko said, glaring at us.

Why is she mad? Oh wait, this guy is her ancestor too. Oh right, he's mine too...

"Well, aren't you folks rude," Halim said, crossing his arms over his exposed chest. His frown suddenly became a grin. "Though, I don't blame you. I am known for my eating habits. I am just blessed with a fast metabolism."

Aquarina placed a hand on his shoulder. "Halim, you best be going now. We might not have much time," she said. She turned her ocean blue eyes toward us. "You better be serious about your training. Now is not the time to horse around."

"We won't," I said.

Halim grinned. "That's the spirit, kid!" he said as he formed a portal. "Well, Rina, we're off!"

His wife stared at him with narrowed eyes. "You know, I was talking to you too."

Halim smirked. "I know when to get serious, dear," he said as he looked back at her. He turned his cyan eyes toward the portal. "You five, follow me."

The five of us followed him into the swirling gray portal. We gasped. The vortex had taken us to strange pure white space. The only visible thing was a small grey town with a futuristic-looking crystal spiral tower at its center, which was where we were.

"Where are we?" Hideo asked, blinking as he stared out the window.

"Ugh, this place reminds me of the Abyss," Eiichi said, rubbing his eyes. "Beyond this village, the world just seems to go on and on..."

"This is Munil, like Xeleria, Wynaga, and Abyssia, it is another realm. Though this appears to be all that exists in this one," Halim said as he turned his back to the windows and walked down a hall which shimmered like a multi-colored moonstone. "This is a timeless place where you'll be spending the next forty-eight hours, though they'll feel like days."

"Wait, if this place is 'timeless', then how can forty-eight hours pass?" Hideo asked, raising an eyebrow as we followed after Halim.

The Archangel of Metal snickered. "I meant when forty-eight hours have passed outside. Right now, time in the outside worlds have likely moved a little more than a fraction of a nano second since we arrived. I guess that it's not truly timeless in the true sense of the word, but the movement of it is so slow that one could live one's entire life in what in our world is a few days."