Her green eyes lit up , he had been staring at all the details in her body the whole time and in an instant he compared her eyes to emeralds.
" I thought you couldn't speak " 12 asked 21 , who was staring closely at his compass as the men in uniform were in talks with the shady men out there.
" I don't speak because I don't want to, it's not like I have any disability" 21 answered as he looked away from 12 towards the door expecting something.
'He is one of them by the way , those rude bastards the orphanage had to offer …falling in love will be so hard'
12 thought but she didn't know she thought out loud and 21 heard , he turned to look at her with disappointed eyes .
Then a man in uniform walked in with another man , one they hadn't seen before.
21 tugged on 12 to relax as she almost screamed 'kidnapper', she apologized as she calmed down minutes later.
" As known to some of you, we're not passing the trade route , because there's a problem on that side of the road."
The man in uniform said.
"So we decided to pass through the makeshift exit , although we aren't going to be protected by the trade route's domes we can handle transport due to these men , Ascenders"
The children turned to look at each other's faces.
'Ascenders ; with a weird power system their reality got was an ability where some people get to awaken pathways to create linked contracts with dwellers - the human's natural enemies '
21 nodded as he made his calculations sink .
Then the next word that came out of the man in uniform's mouth;
" You won't be saved if you act restlessly I'm attempt to get away from this nightmare"
21's eyes widened, he turned over to look at 12 who was staring at him uncontrollably.
Shocked but not planning to pay attention to her staring eyes , he starts whispering some words into her ear .
12 nodded, the words rang in her memory.
21 was as smart as he looked , although lanky and frail looking - he was an ideal handsome boy.
The Ascenders, the men in uniform,about two of each groups joined the children in each cars of the convoy.
The night was still young and the stars had started filling up the sky , for those who knew it was arranged as a constellation.
After moving past the gates , the convoy started to move at a different speed , probably trying to avoid the horrors of the Dark Wilderness .
The children huddled up , as the lamps were lit again…The warm bright lights brought the sight of their scared faces across the cars .
A few minutes on the new route and everything was silent , the outsides were filled with only cricket noises and the frequent flutters of wings of night birds.
21 sat staring up into his compass , but then the polarities were messed up, the hands were moving around and fast.
He started to panic , what phenomenon was this ?
He asked .
Just as he was about to turn to speak to 12, his vision scrambled and this car of the convoy that was filled with cute scared faces was filled with bodies and pools of blood .
His eyes widened.
He turned to look beside him , he saw 12 gasping for her life with a monster breathing down her neck with its fangs buried in her body sucking her dry of her blood.
With fear stricken over his face , he almost shrieked knowing he wouldn't be alive again if the monster was done with 12.
Just then some scrolls opened before his eyes out of nowhere, the language on it was different but because he was taught star discipleship in earlier times he recognized the star language.
[DO YOU WISH TO SAVE YOURSELF ?]
21 stared at the scroll as the words magically disappeared and became a new set of messages .
[WELCOME TO YOUR PATHWAY, NICOLO MANCINI]
21's eyes opened , how did his real name appear here and why ?
Pathway?
So many questions wandered into his head .
[YOU ARE ABOUT TO MEET A DRASTIC FATE WHICH ONLY YOU CAN CHANGE, DO YOU ACCEPT THAT WE WELCOME YOU INTO THE WORLD OF PATHWAYS ?]
21 couldn't believe his eyes , he knew this was something Ascenders described to have happened to them before they got their powers .
But his mind told him one thing and one thing only
"Yes"
[WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PATHWAYS,WAYFINDER NICOLO MANCINI.
YOU MUST FIRST MAKE A CONTRACT WITH A DWELLER BEFORE YOU BECOME AN ASCENDER.]
21 couldn't believe it , of all people to become a possible Ascender it was him that was chosen .
[DO YOU WISH TO SEE YOUR STATUS ?]
Another 'yes' escaped 21's mouth .
[STATUS:
NAME: NICOLO MANCINI
ROLE: WAYFINDER>>ASCENDER
SKILLS: NONE
LINK: NONE
STEPS: NONE
FATE: LUCKY/GOD'S FAVOURED
FLAW: unlimited luck ;your luck often counters itself causing a ripple in the occurrences that happen around you , your luck attracts glory to you but at the expense of having the world around you suffer several events that weren't for them for you to get such glory.]
21's eyes widened, his flaw must have been the one that put them in such situations.
The orphanage was attracted to him by his luck, the men in uniform or traffickers were attracted to the orphanage by his luck , and the creation of this route was possible by his luck , and how they were moving through this route was by his luck since they weren't intercepted by any enforcement officers.
He held the fate of over a hundred to his , although these occurrences weren't totally good thing , but his luck was meant to attract him glory therefore despite a good possibility that he'd survive every of these occurrences he had to go through all these events despite it being deadly and dangerous, his luck was expected to bring him glory , therefore his luck may play a big role in his survival.