Kendra put a double s.h.i.+eld around her self and the cloud while slowly approaching the noise. Not far from entry to the fief were two strange mountains. One was black and on top had lots of ice and the other was totally empty if all life and had only bare stones.
Between the two was street so big that even two planes could land without a problem. But at the nearest part, only one carriage at the time could pa.s.s.
There stood a bunch of people on barricades and didn"t let anyone get in. But from other side stood hundreds of carriages that wanted to go to Celadon Valley.
One old man stood there shaking in anger and pointing at the barrier with Hus walking stick. " If I were younger, I would have stormed this thing." He turned around and looked at all those young people that started looking down in the floor."Really useless. My generation seems to be the last real fighters... Wimps!" He huffed and turned back to his carriage.
Even his son felt ashamed. He let him get into the carriage and stayed outside as he knew that his old father seems to be quite angry.
Kendra looked around and saw a few shady figures hiding in the background and stealing stuff while people"s attention was on the barrier. She gave a small chuckle and let one of those people loose footing and while he fell down all the stuff he stole fell as well making a loud noise.
Everyone looked around and saw a few more people still running away with their things. But Kendra tripped those as well. She turned around and saw those few people on barricades running away.
The old man saw that as well and started yelling. " Go fast and destroy the barrier. If they come back we will have a big problem again. Fast!" He started ordering them all around and this time they listened.
Kendra just sat on her cloud and saw one after another carriage going towards the fief. But the last carriage seemed to be strange. She smirked. She already changed the barrier around fief so no bugs or dirty stuff could even enter the Caledon Valley.
One after another, carriages entered the barrier under the watchful eyes of soldiers on clouds. But suddenly there was shriek in one of the carriages.
"My child, my child please help my child! But no matter how much she called not even one of the soldiers looked that way.
They lived through the war and even in the city, they got to see many weird situations. If her child were in danger she would have come out.
The old man opened the carriage window after he pa.s.sed the soldiers looking at the last three carriages with narrowed eyes. " It seems that some people hide more than we thought. " He closed the window and continued his way ignoring completely the screams from carriage outside the line.
Suddenly the carriages exploded and few people stood there in dark clothes. One man scrunched his face as he got near the barrier.
Kendra was still hiding and looking at the situation. She saw a man trying to walk the barrier but rebound like a ball. He got stunned and tried, again and again, repeating the same action like a puppet. After a while, another man stopped him and just tried to poke at the invisible barrier. This time something even worse happened. His finger started burning and it spread through his whole body.
Soon just heap of dust was left on the floor. Kendra, soldiers and even some of the pa.s.sengers that were curious saw the strange thing and were all stupefied by such reaction.
The other men in dark clothes turned around and were about to leave, but would Kendo let them?
She appeared in front of them on the cloud still sitting comfortably while her feet dangled down. She looked curiously at them as she didn"t feel any treat actually.
"Who are you, or better say what are you?" she asked while flying around them and searching for any sign of humanity on them.
They looked like humans but...are they zombies...ghouls...vampires? She already saw so many strange things that even that possibility became normal in this world.
They stared at her with empty minds and got creeps. "If you are not humans or any other living thing, there is only one more possibility. You are puppets. Looking like humans but not really being alive."
Suddenly a strange voice came out the mouth of one of the man. " Smart child. But being smart is never good." That man tried to grab her and she just rose her eyebrow and calmly looked at him, not even flinching.
The man had the same ending as the man that touched the barrier. Kendra looked at how he burned down and looked at the rest of those people. "Hm, I have no idea who you are, and why you are doing things like this, but one thing is sure, puppets without a soul is just that, puppets."
The man that bounced off the boundary turned his head and tried to jump at her but she waved her hand and used Cleansing to clear his body of anything odd.
Suddenly from his body jumped out a bug and tried to fly towards her. But when it touched the barrier on her body it turned into dust as well. "So, you use puppet bugs to control real humans...interesting."
The other man tried to run away but she made a bubble with her water powers and put him inside. Then she turned to the man on the floor that shook his head.
He looked around and saw a strange child looking at him curiously from the floating cloud. He heard that there is that thing, but he never saw it. "Who are you and where am I actually?"
"It"s not important who am I. But you are at Caledon Valley border. Who are you actually?" She had a hunch who he might be so she enclosed her barriers even tighter.
He shook his head as he tried to pry into her head. He looked at her in astonishment. " It seems you know something about us as you are guarded... Wait...the girls...Are the girls here?"
Just like she thought, he knew the girls. "Don"t worry. They are safe in Caledon city. But I have to warn you. Tyra is now under key as she used her powers to try to harm others among them even the Lord of the Caledon Valley. By the way, where is the rest of your people? Ada told us you will be coming soon."
He sighed. "I"m sorry about Tyra. Actually, our clan looked for a way to get rid of this ability for centuries. It is quite bothersome. The rest of our people are still in hand of that strange man. He uses their powers to control the puppets and humans. I really don"t know what to do to help them."
Kendra looked at him seriously. " Soon the things on the continent will change. I can help you get rid of your power. I plan to do the same to Tyra and Ada. Ada accepted that but Tyra... You are her elder, you can give her verdict. "
She made a cloud and heaved him on it. Then she flew fast back to the Caledon city. The other man was anyway puppet and she chose to just incarnate it.
The dust flew slowly to the floor while their backs were already far away at horizon looking like dots.
The soldiers continued to float around the fief as nothing strange happened and the sun was about to set, but on other side, if the country the screams could be heard from deep inside the huge cave.
What puppeteer didn"t know was that before she incarcerated the last puppet she sent some of the life energy through the incarnation that gave the puppeteer the rebound. Like that the pain he will have for a while won"t let him be able to concentrate enough to be able to control the people or puppets.
But Kendra taught about that. If she didn"t do that...Ada"s elders or clan could be used to the death. So she hurt his base as she, in time between his healing and restart of his doings, will try to find that tribe and rescue them somehow.
They were in town quite fast. The man didn"t even had time to see around she already went down in the palace gate where the commander waited for her.
"This is Tyra"s and Ada"s elder. I removed his ability on our way here. Take him to the girls." s.h.i.+l said while the cloud went down.
The commander ordered two soldiers to escort him to the girl"s rooms and thought for himself that it was about the time. That girl is getting more and more annoying.
She jumped down from her cloud patted it and then rose her head up. She chuckled while she thought about the two people"s vacations.
They were in war since childhood, then they have to run here and there since they came back home. She hopes they had a nice rest. After she leaves they have to take care about everything on their own. She already made new changes that will be helpful for them.
She sighed, she actually wanted to live freely of obligations. She wanted this to just enjoy the free life and travel here and there.
But on other hand, she is having a really nice life now. She has a loving family, enough money to not to worry for the rest of her life and will travel safely.
She shrugged and walked in she shaking her head. Why worry so much. If nothing else she will use her powers...
While contemplating, she walked up and heard yells and screams. She sighed. If they wake up Isaa...