-Break-
As the new morning begins, the pixies of Nialathrú awake and start flying down everywhere they can. Each of them searches for a human or beastkin and shines light in their face, waking them up.
But some are more loved than the others, and when the pixies reach a certain girl, they strap themselves onto her face, and blast light at full power, shocking her awake.
ΦJumping up, I try to remove the pressure hanging on my face, and when I do, I see a pixie in front of me and attached to my face, and I say, "Why do you guys do this every morning?"
Willow beside me says, "It seems they love you lots."
"I really wish that love didn't include nearly suffocating me!"
As the pixies try to fly into my face again, Willow stretches out his arms and says, "If you want hugs, come to me!"
They all run into his arms, and they start to hug him. And seeing all these little baby-like wonderbeasts so attached to my husband makes a series of thoughts fly through my head.
I quickly grab my head and smash it into the ground a few times. Willow panics and tries to stop me from hurting myself, and as he pulls me up, he says, "Maple?"
"Don't worry, I was just clearing my head."
Aea beside us says, "Don't worry, Willow, she was just thinking about how good a dad you would be."
My face instantly turns red, then I look around to see that the rest of the village of Aplos is staring at me.
Jute says, "Aww, our little love-struck couple."
Hazel says, "It seems the village won't have to worry about succession."
Cedar, "Have you decided on a name?"
Alis says, "So early in the morning with the flirting."
Maple, seeing them, moves to Buloke and puts him in a headlock, then says, "SHUT!"
"I didn't even say anything!" Buloke shouts.
"Looks like you're not the only one embarrassed," Aea says.
Turning around, I see Willow's face seems kind of flushed, so I run over to him and start to shake him and say, "You can't be embarrassed as well, otherwise they will win."
With a red face, he says, "But it is just that I think about it a lot sometimes."
Huh? Things about it! Thinks about what! You mean, you mean, you mean. Did you really just say that in front of everyone you didn't? I am going to bite you.
Those big red embarrassed cheeks look like they're moments away from popping, so I am going to bite them ontill it bursts, and then I will bite your mouth.
And when your lips quiver from my advances, I will laugh, Willow, I will laugh! And then do it again, and again, and again, and WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING!
Neem the child behind all of us says, "Looks like they are going to kiss."
And then all the kids who just woke up say, "EWWWWWW!!!!!!!!"
Both me and Willow look at them, and say, "We are not!"
Turning to him, I say, "I will deal with you later!"
Then I walk away with everyone else.
-Break-
ΦThroughout Nialathrú, there are a series of giant artificial lakes, which they used to store water for citizens' use, and for irrigation. The cursed yígantísoma has an ability that allows it to create water, which is used as the sole water source for all of Nialathrú.
They have a main pipeline system they use to send water from Anucroí to prosunfore, but for everywhere else, they have a series of artificial ponds and lakes to keep the rest of the land irrigated.
Within these lakes, they have a certain small yellow and blue artificial plant which can take in some of the pseudo sunlight made by the pixies and use it to create a small amount of water.
When you combine this with the pixies' ability to mimic natural phenomena and create rainclouds, enough water is created to keep all of these lakes functioning, but it is still a negative overall all and they must be refilled.
And within that lake, Maple splashes water over her face to calm herself down from the chaotic morning.
Jute, beside Maple, says, "What a lovely doovey married life you currently have."
"Be quiet!"
Looking into the distance, with saddened eyes, Jute says, "If only my man would have the guts to be like that as well."
As her eyes look at Buloke, he turns his head away, and Maple says, "Knowing you two. The moment you get married, there won't be a year you aren't pregnant."
Grabbing Maple's noise and swinging it around, Jute says, "I am not a perv like Orb. Don't pretend like I have no control over my base desires."
"I understand!" Maple says, getting her nose back. "But you're wrong about Orb, if he had any less control over his impulses, our lives would all be much, much scarier."
Laughing a little, Jute says, "You are right about that. Though speaking about Orb, are you two sure you don't want to stay in the mansion on the surface?"
Getting close to her ear, Jute says, "Now that everyone is down here, you would have it all but to yourselves."
Maple, pushing Jute's face away, says, "I won't be doing that. Everyone is down here, so I will be here with you all as the chef, not better than anyone else, just a member of the village."
Jute and all of the other members around have very intense smiles on their faces, and then, grabbing Maple wherever they can, they rub their cheeks against her while saying, "Cute!"
"Let go of me, you bastards!"
As Maple breaks free, she looks in the distance and sees a large group of Fanalis all heading in a straight line out towards the elevator.
"What's going on?"
Maple stands up to go and see, but then in front of her face appears Ganthrú. Seeing him, she reels back in disgust, and then some of the warriors in the village, including Willow, move over to Maple.
But as Buloke stands between the two of them, geared to strike the Marshal Bee in front of him, Maple grabs his arm and then walks forward while saying, "Ganthrú, is there any problems today?"
ΦHe stares at my body from top to bottom, then says, "Your wounds have healed nicely."
Frustrated as I remember all the horrible feelings he gave me when he nearly killed Willow, I give him the best smile I can manage, and say, "Haha, they have."
Willow stepping up, says, "So have you, I see. Good that we are all healthy and healed, no thanks to you."
"Willow, you don't have to."
He places his finger over my mouth and says, "Shush, honey."
Facing Ganthrú, he says, "What kind of man attacks two children, who later went on to save his people,e yet cannot apologize? Despite everyone working together, I still feel like you are bitter about our union?"
"I do not," Ganthrú says with a cold, unfeeling tone.
The rest of Aplos starts to get antagonistic towards him. What's going on with Willow? He should know that picking fights doesn't help anyone. That big idiot.
"You brought our leader and my beloved wife to tears, and you think those words would still be enough."
Is he still this mad about me being hurt? That big idiot!
"Then what would you like as an apology?"
"I want to rub my face against you!"
The rest of Aplos looks at Willow, and I say, "Huh?"
But Willow says, "From head to toe with my face cheeks planted everywhere they can reach."
Ganthrú nods his head, and I look to Willow to ask, "Aren't you ma-," but as I see the gleam in his eyes looking at Ganthrú, I realize this was all just some play for him to get to touch a beastkin.
So I grab him, and put him in a headlock, saying, "You would use your wife as a scapegoat to enjoy your hobbies!"
"Wife, please, you must understand all the beastkin have been avoiding me, this might be my only change."
"It's because they see the looks you give them!"
"My looks of passion?"
"Your looks of perversion!"
Ganthrú turns to Buloke and hands him a note saying, "These are your instructions for today."
Then he leaves.
Buloke struggles to read to note, and then says, "It seems we are going to die today?"
Grabbing the note from him, it says, "We are going to the surface, not the heavens. That must be why everyone is heading to the elevator."
Taking a deep breath, Maple says, "Everyone in Aplos, clean your bodies, and head off!"
-Break-
ΦOn the surface, all of those who would follow instructions are gathered in one place in front of Orb's mansion, and standing on top of the mansion is Orb himself looking down at them all.
Throughout the area, Red branch knights stand keeping a watch of everyone, and holding materials in their hands.
Though one thing everyone notices is the giant amount of space that exists on the surface now. Giant amounts of snow have been pushed so far away that one can't even see them in the distance.
And upon seeing this, a worried Maple says, "He didn't sleep last night."
Atalanta, hugging her from behind, says, "It must run in the family to do your best work at night."
"Huh?"
Willow, beside Maple, tries to signal her to stop asking questions, but she continues until Atalanta tells her something that makes her run and hide under the violent and naive purity of Cyrus and Suzuka.
Willow, staring at her, says, "If you were an animal, I am sure I would love to research you."
With her hand on her cheek, Atalanta says, "I can see why the only woman who likes you is Maple if you use compliments like that."
They both laugh, then Orb, with a shatter shell in front of everyone, says, "GOOD DAY MY PEOPLE!"
"It seems you have all rested and are rejuvenated today, and I would love to say that all of you have been trying your best, and I thank you for all of that. This new country wouldn't have come this far without you all. But we still have one major issue, and that is food production.
The land down bellowed is no longer fit to grow meals, and the food store you had has been run down by the war all those decades ago. So I aim to stop that today.
Using all of the land I have cleared, we are all going to start our first journey into our new union by all working to get the first crops of this new country. I have prepared all we need for this task, so let's all get started!"
Name: MatriAnt
Height: 1.5 cm
Type: Wonderbeast, Herbivore
Description: A white ant that has wings shaped like a cape, and a spike on its head shaped like a crown. It has the ability to use its mind as a server for all its kin within four generations of it to share their thoughts with each other, forming them all into a single unified hivemind, allowing them to work with each other perfectly.
Fact: MatriAnt's despite being bugs, are able to warp their reproductive parts to match that of any animal. Due to this, many have theorized that they were bigger in the past, and their small size might have just been an adaptation instead of their natural state.
Name: Fetch
Height: 500 cm
Type: Wonderbeast, Carnivore
Description: A large wonderbeast, with a giant serpent lower half and a humanoid upper half. Its bottom half has mirror-like scales that can reflect images to those who look at it, and its upper half has stretched translucent skin, and it releases white smoke that obscures its surroundings. When it gets close, it injects a condensed form of the smoke which increases the illusionary powers, which scales in proportion to its target's senses.
Fact: In the past has often been confused for Fanalis, which consistently got beastkin to lower their guards when facing it.