女神归来的夏天

~~~(Location: Traveling with the group)~~~

~~~(Time: 10:28 AM)~~~

My thoughts about my friends dying permanently really put me down in the decent fun energy that\'s happening right. Everyone is talking and learning more about each other. My hand reaches out for Cera\'s arm, and I pull on him. He turns his head, and his grin falls, seeing my worried look. "Can I talk to you about something..." Despite both of our flaws, we\'re always there for each other.

We fall to the back of the small group and create some distance between the people we\'re worried about and us. My hand is still gripping his wrist, and I let him go after he tilts his head in the same way he always did when I needed someone to talk to. The same look that he gives me when he\'d be the only one to support me. My baby brother...

My eyes harden on Sally and Jasmine. They\'re my main concerns. He looks towards where I\'m looking, and his body relaxes slightly, and I do the same. "I\'m worried about it too, Hailey... I\'m digging through so many possible ways to protect them, but I can\'t find an answer to all of them..." It\'s hard to hear that, I\'m not going to lie.

I\'m so used to him having some plan or idea prepared in case something goes wrong, but him saying that he doesn\'t have answers for some of the things that might happen causes a pit in my stomach. "Do you think we should even have them go into Elenahiers Dungeon with us? Won\'t that solve everything?" His eyes slowly shut, and a second later, his head shakes.

He folds his arms, and I see his muscles flex in frustration, seeing that he\'s having a hard time with this too. "The area the dungeon is located in is incredibly dangerous, and leaving them alone outside is more dangerous than taking them in with us..." Oh... I don\'t want to lose my friends... My new family... Sally and Jasmine are the sisters I\'ve never had...

Out of nowhere, I feel him sling an arm around my shoulder and bring me into a sideways hug. The same one that mom and dad would give us when times were going to get harder... "You and me... We\'re going to have to keep them safe, and if it comes down to it, take a death. Losing a level and item is more than cheap for their lives." He couldn\'t be more right. It\'s nice to hear him care...

I\'ve only died a few times, and I haven\'t died since I got my Legendary class. I doubt Cera has died a single time, given how much he knows and how strong he is. "I wonder what happens if they do die..." The words leave my lips before I can even think about stopping them. Cera hugs me tighter in his hug. I know he\'s thought of the same things.

He takes a deep breath, and for the first time in my life, I hear a shaking and nervous sigh from Cera... "Most people would say don\'t even think about that... I don\'t like that approach." His voice ends with a sharp tone, and his gaze is focused. "I think that the only way to be ready for the situation that causes that to happen is to think about it." He\'s always seen things differently...

My arms sling around his back, and I hug him tightly back. We can accomplish anything if we work together. That\'s how it\'s always been with us. While we\'ve been competing most of our lives, there have been an equal amount of times where we\'ve been on the same team helping each other. "Dad would tell you that it\'s wrong to think like that..." We both let out a small chuckle...

~~~(POV: Cera Adamo)~~~

~~~(Location: Traveling with the group)~~~

~~~(Time: 10:51 AM)~~~

Hailey lays her head on my shoulder as we walk, and these are the moments I act like the brother she needs. The times she vulnerable and weak, the same times that I\'ve found myself in the past, and she\'s helped me. "Mom would probably yell and hit us for even thinking such dark things... Never believing something so bad could happen..." Mom was always predictable...

She releases an unconscious groan at my words. Remembering all the times, she\'s taken shit from mom, not able to do anything about it. She\'d have left home a long time ago if she could\'ve afforded it. I\'m glad that her future has changed. My actions did work out in the end. "You don\'t know that half of it... She\'d always know just what to say..." Her growl in anger causes me to laugh.

She looks up at me from the side and wonders why I find that funny. "Where do you think we learned how to piss each other off? How we know what to do and what to say at the right times to make each other mad? Mom taught us that..." Not on purpose, of course, but behavioral traits of the parents fall to the children.

Hailey looks like she realizes something, and her reaction is funny to me. "I can\'t believe I didn\'t see that!! That\'s where I learned how to twist and turn things around!! Mom showed us!!" Hailey would know better than saying this in front of mom, but it\'s just us. "God!! Now I know why she and I always fought!! I\'m so much like her!!" Can\'t relate, but I can understand.

~~~(POV: Saliandra Orvello)~~~

~~~(Location: Traveling with the group)~~~

~~~(Time: 11:07 AM)~~~

Jasmine and I are both pulled from our conversation at the loud and anger-filled words of Hailey, but they\'re not directed at Cera. They\'re towards her mother. "What do you think that\'s all about?" Her whispers can only be heard by me, and I\'m just as clueless about the situation as she is. Cera has talked about his parents before, but not the way Hailey is right now.

She says words and phrases that shouldn\'t be directed towards one\'s mother, but Cera lets her vent, and he keeps one arm around her to make sure she\'s got someone to lean on. He steps up in major ways when things are serious. "Hailey hasn\'t talked about her mom a lot, mostly just her dad..." Jasmine implies something that I already know.

Cera has told me on occasions when we\'re talking about his family that his sister is a daddy\'s girl. The princess that was exalted in his eyes. He also told me that his mom and sister had differences, but nothing like this. "It\'s none of our business, and I think the reason we don\'t know is cause they don\'t want us to know..." Jasmine silently nods her head in agreement with me.

~~~(POV: Helda Vora)~~~

~~~(Location: Traveling with the group)~~~

~~~(Time: 11:16 AM)~~~

Family drama isn\'t something that I\'ve experienced before and based on the things I\'m hearing. I don\'t want to. Leila and I have had disagreements in the past before, but we\'re cousins, not close family. The family that Cera and Hailey come from must be a really complicated mess and has problems that I couldn\'t begin to relate to.

My focus shifts from the slowly quieting of the yells behind me and on the mission at hand. Elenahiers Dungeon is on an entirely different level when it comes to difficulty and danger, and we\'re going to be in that dungeon for at least a day, if not longer. Cera and Hailey\'s power will help, but even with them, it\'s not going to be easy.

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A/N: Below this line, I\'ll be keeping Cera\'s player information. That way, I won\'t have to place it into the story above anymore. It takes about 180 words up.

[Slayer (Zern) Lvl.193]

[Exp: 3/100%]

[Title: The Son of Arch-Angel Michael (Hidden)]

[Stats] [Strength - 7095][Endurance - 7045][Dexterity - 7215][Speed - 8240][Focus - 19,660]

[Mana aura control: 6/100%]

[Health: 76,560,000,000/76,560,000,000] [Mana: 216,600,000,000/216,600,000,000]

[Stat Points: 30] [Armor rating: 500]

[Inventory] [Dice of Wayland (Divine)] [Hardened Tree sap Armor (Very Rare)] [The Witness (Legendary Sword)] [Fenrir\'s Whistle (Divine)] [Sally\'s Dresses 5x] [Camping gear] [Food Rations 4x] [Dried meat 4x] [Fishing poles 2x] [Fish 8x] [Festival Garbs 2x]

[Passive Perks]

[Inheritor of the Sword] [Son of Heaven] [Slayer of Evil] [Holy Willow Trees Savior] [Finder of Legends] [The Divine who has Legend] [Destined for Greatness] [Dungeon Diver] [An Overachiever]

[Active Skills]

[Heavens light Lvl.59 325/5900] [Protected by Heaven Lvl.59 225/5900] [Slash Lvl..77 4600/130000] [Parry Lvl.53 80/5300] [Double Strike N/A] [Kingslayer N/A] [Raging Machine N/A] [Winged Glory] [Angelic Flight] [Divine Pressure Exertion] [Divinity Pulse] [Controled Fun]