The door opened..
CLICK!
CLICK!
The rustling sounds echoed everywhere.. As darkness greeted them with sharp, heavy scent of chemicals. The soul pushed her bare footsteps, strolling forward with her gaze stood.. Others sauntered their steps gracefully, without hurry..
The room was shrouded in darkness, filled with seals. She points her finger at the right corner aside the door, Leon who was standing there checked to find a lever, extending his arm muscles upwards to push the lever.. As the room began to unwrapped itself, revealing the mystery beneath its darkness..
Others eyes widened, Azon and Leon were quite surprised; startled as the soul lowered her glaze.. It seems like she couldn't hold her strength to witness the unknown..
Marble titles with dried blood stains engraved to the floor, rectangular limestone slabs with chemical test tubes, apparatus and other common lab equipment to the right side.. On the left there was series of huge capsule tubes big enough to contain lifeless bodies of Marums, some cut from everywhere, some parts ripped off while some had only organs floating in each of one capsule, with a werid jelly like green liquid substance within it..
"An illegal experiment chamber.. How preposterous.."
Leon spoke with a sigh, as Azon stepped forward with resolute determination.. His steps echoing everywhere, Leon amble his feet with him..
Ender and his group stood there, silence as if they're processing what was happening right now, thoughts flashing in their head; each of them having blank face with eyes wide open.. The soul before them turned around, titling her head slightly, as it she was puzzled..
BAM!
WHACK!
"You pervert!. What is this absurd behavior!?"
Ruis punched Ender's face making him lost conscious for a moment, off balance as Zack, with an undreadable punches his gut.. Lisa seeing them was surprised as if she was pondering how the hell Ender managed to hide this from her..
~ How foolish of mine.. I underestimate him..
While seeing Ender getting wrecked, the soul came towards them, flailing her arms up and down with a pleaded eyes; cute, funny; concerned expression.. Mumbling in a unknown language.. Seeing this, Ruis and Zack got flabbergasted, with Ender somehow standing, faint smile appeared over his cheeks.. They both shouted at the same time.
"Aghhh!."
THUMP!
They kicked him to the ground, just before the soul ankles.. He became unconscious with this blow..
"How can you do this!?. It doesn't mean if she's your type so you can have some kind of ship with her!."
Ruis spoke with adjusting his hair, while Zack cracked his fingers.. Lisa got surprised, stunned hearing his words as she asked.
"What!?.. Type!."
As Zack sighs before saying..
"Well, only we know about this.. He was fond of reading novels, comics, watching anime.. You know, sometimes we watched with him, even though we weren't interested in those things as him, he had quite an affection with them and it turns out that he grew influenced by this type."
Zack explained as the soul was startled hearing his words as she kneel over, placing his head over her lap..
"Oh you mean those animation like stories where the protagonist saves the world from monsters.."
Lisa said with unsure expression..
"No.. He ain't interested in those ones, more like mysterious psychological horror thriller with good plot twists.."
Ruis corrected her.. While she gives a lazy nod as if she had understand while things were going out of her head.. Meanwhile, the soul said something in an unknown language..
"What is she saying?."
Zack asked with confusion.. As Lisa sighs and said in a unknown language, undreadable expression.. Then the soul spoke after her, as if both were understanding their words.. Both started chatting with each other while Zack and Ruis looked at each other with surprised expressions. The language felt like ancient, mythical buried era..
"Hey!. We exist!."
Zack exclaimed. As Lisa looked at them with the soul, she giggled..
"Oh my bad.. You can't understand Marum.."
"What?. Marums have language?."
Zack asked a completely ridiculous question as Ruis was baffled hearing his words..
"So what do you think?. We have our entire unique culture. What I'm saying right now has frequency subconsciously being translate by your mind, the souls have special nature that makes them possess high frequencies more can your mind subconsciously grasped, thus displaying it in raw words.. I just increase my frequency output.. And of course, she can understand our words right now cause of higher frequency.."
She shrugged with her lips swirled to a faint smirked, the soul give a low chuckle.. Ruis and Zack looked at each other with unsure, baffled expression..
"What about the daily life words we see, like banner on stalls, other things?.."
Zack lips quivered as he asked..
"Well.."
She takes out a yurum note out of nowhere, as if it had teleported in her hand.. Handling it over to them. She mumbled..
"Can you read?."
"Yeah.."
They both answered at same time..
"What does it say?."
"Insignia of Riven family, 11 number with some turkish text at side about checking if it's real money or not.."
It had image of a steel-iron pyramid in the front.. Ruis and Zack glaze was still fixed upon it..
"Now look at me and tell me what text it says.."
As they looked at her.. And said firmly everything it said..
"You see, your mind creates an illusion to translate those words to your mother tongue, it is written in turkish because that's how your mind perceive it.. To me it says in Marum.. When you speak, your tongue translate your language to Marum by zon.. It would be pretty lame for you to think you can't do this.. Astran.."
Almost all of them were born in turkey except Ender and Zack, Ender was half German because of his father while Zack was pure German blood living with his elder cousin on turkey..
On the other hand, the soul watching them was scrubbing Ender's hair as he gently opened his eyes.. Startled by seeing the view as if it was a dream the soul titled her head down and smile..
~ Am I in heaven?..
A thought flashed upon his mind.
– Reality..
His inner voice corrected him.
Thoughts flashed before his eyes, in panic he gets up, sweat streaming from his forehead.. As the attention of others was drawned towards him.. All looked at him with undreadable expression.. The silence grew quite loud...
"Wait!. Wait!. It's not what you think!?. I was just trying to help!."
Extending his arms to front, trying to correct himself.. He dragged his legs back slightly, bumping his head to soul's forehead.. Lisa tone darkned as she mumbled..
"We're indeed cruel, sinners but we have our limits.. It's not your fault.. It's the history.. The story.."
The silence shrouded as a thought flashed over Zack's head, he asked.
"Wait hold on, Azon is 250 years older than Leon, that's not a big gap considering both are millions years old.."
He shifted the topic between them as everyone glaze startled over him, pondering.. While Lisa expression peeved..
"Who told you they're millions!?. Prof ( short for professor in informal terms ) has reached thousand only this March.. Wait.. He told you this didn't he?.."
Zack nods at her words like an obedient servant.. As Ender gets up to his knees with soul.. Finally, now they're getting serious to face the situation infront of them..
Meanwhile on the other side, Leon and Azon had now come to the end, standing before a huge metal gate infront of them, aside the door was number digits puzzle, maybe it was a key to lock the door. Nevertheless,
Azon mumbled..
"I can cut through this.."
He pulled out his sword, dazzling in blue flame..
"Nah, let me try it.."
Leon said with a smirked as Azon glanced at him, sighing as the flame disappeared with the sword resting on the sheath.. As Leon place his hand upon the cold, metal door which stood still like a mountain moments ago now was crumbled to dust..
They both move forward, with Azon behind him. The room was quite dusty as a faint light appeared in their sight, on front.. With a wave of Leon's arm, the dust flowed away, out of the room.. Now they could see the unknown infront of them..
Leon's face became serious for a moment along with Azon behind him, then Leon gives his usual smirked..
Stood before them, the whole room empty except a small corinthian black pillar.. On it, stood a sparkling, golden-silver-black jewel ruby crown; emitting light within from it.. It's shine dazzling the whole room.. Yet despite this, a werid unexplainable energy, aura shrouded the room.. As if it was coming from within it..
They covered their eyes, just enough to adjusted themselves to the light, then remove their arm, Azon had his usual undreadable expression, while Leon was grinning quite maliciously.
"-3.029."
Leon mumbled to himself..