Airalyn’s smile grew from being sparked up from the behavior Linella had displayed to her during the first moment between the two. The shy mattered blond shown such a genuine behavior that it caught the strange possessor of the Reqlac Cube to be favored compared to the rest of the strangers. At the moment, Airalyn’s goal is to find Jezebel Dawkins, the classmate who is somehow connected to these individuals. She held some kind of importance to her and it was critical to find her at any cost. However, she only trusted Linella to inform her about Jezebel only by a first impression alone. Delightful eyes invited the opposing young teenager who she trusted yet never met before to accept the encouragement she had given previously.
On the other hand, Linella had been putting her faith into this promising newcomer. She had the beliefs assuring Airalyn could be the key that could open the door to possibilities unlocking the mystery of what happened to her daring friend. There was not an evenly close bond that she and the missing friend had. However, she was concerned of what Jezebel could of have gone into to cause the disappearance. There was something suspicious about this stranger and the offer she had given. She takes in a deep inhaling breath and release a hard sigh tickling her full bottom lip. As she begins to speak her piece in the matter, the Relic Cube is grasped in a gentle squeeze in between delicate freshly manicured hands.
“Airalyn, is it? Can you promise me one thing if you are true to your word you speak for about Jezebel?”
“Best believe I speak no lies. I would not give you anything false just to receive your prized possession. A promise to a stranger?” Airalyn pauses to let the once present smile fade in a dull plain facial expression. “…How bold.”
Linella releases a chuckle from her parted lips and slips a lock of straightened blond hair behind both of her singularly pierced ears. “Expect more of that from me. Now, we must
get this started.”
“First what you need to do is to unlock it with a sequence of pattern movements. See these rune symbols?” Airalyn pointed out the mentioned markings over the Relic cube’s little squares. “They are ancient hints meant to guide or mislead you to the solution of the puzzle.” She pauses after her previous instruction. “That is strange… this kind of cube is not supposed to glow pink.”
Linella’s eyes wandered to the Relic Cube to Airalyn’s smothering hazel eyes in a shied matter and hesitantly asked. “What do you mean, ‘not supposed to’?” By holding the cube in cup hands, the sparkling object began to emit a hot pink glow from its surface. An unlocking noise sounded off the same a key would unlock a door. The pink glow around the cube came into contact with her peach colored hands, melting into the delicate skin. It took form of an aura bordering the outline of her petite physique. She felt a warm tingling in her body as if something awoken from a long awaited sleep.
Hawk and Kaoru yelled out for their beloved friend the moment Linella’s cerulean eyes turn to a piggy pink from being exposed to the girly color’s energy.
“Linella?!”
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She felt all that was circulating in her body; stronger energies strength her body. It is an enhanced boost to her humanly existence. A shuttering blink from her eyelids and the light pink stayed embedded into her once naturally blue irises for the time being. Wearing an eye widening shocked expression, she stuttered her phrased words out to Airalyn hoping she knew the answer.
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“What did this thing just do?”
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“Forgive me for not explaining the Relic Cube more thoroughly.” Airalyn said, blinking once herself. “My, my. This is interesting. Let’s see here… the Relic Cube can also unlock the inner potential or secrets in its user. In your case, it seems to be pure magical power. That cube was oozing with it the second, you was exposed to the runes. You must be from an ancestry of magicians if you have this reaction.”
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“Me? A sorceress? That is crazy talk, lady. My parents never showed a sign of being magic related to anything!”
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“Either your parents can hide things well or you are oblivious about your roots, kid. I know this thing on the back of my hand. Accept it, embrace it. Never deny the unknown until proven wrong otherwise.” Airalyn provided a small smile, crawling on her mouth’s creases.
“Okay, Linella?”
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Linella simply nodded her head gently, averting her pink eyes to the Relic Cube and blinked once more, astonished by what she sees. The runic symbols displayed on the cube could be understood by her. Scanning over them carefully, it took a first glance to notice the black, red and blue signs on each square. The black and blue deem to be instructive directions of where to move and their definitions. Red letters are errors meant to lead the user off the path of the solution.
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“Can anyone else read these symbols?”
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“Want me give it a try, Linella?” Niric offered his assistance. However, Airalyn responded after him.
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“No one will learn to do things for themselves if they always get help. Let her solve it. It shows already she have the potential.”
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She huffed at Airalyn’s response in irritation. Instead of giving a response, she began to do her attempt to solve the Relic cube. Turning the left and right far ends at the same time, she allowed the blue symbols to be her guides. Once they was turned a single time, another set of patterns are there: Full of blacks and red. Repeating the sequence to follow the black writing this time to turn the bottom to the left, a set of blues were in order to tell her to turn the top to the right and the left end towards her. She follows the instructions and a click sound could be heard, giving her the ‘okay’ that it was solved.
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The aura of the Relic cube switched from pink to blue instantly after the solving sound echoing out for nearly everyone in the nearing group to hear. Airalyn showed a smirk coming into play before she spoke her piece about what happened.
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“Congratulations. You solved your first Relic cube. All that is left is to enter the access code on the rune symbols. It allows three tries. If you miss all three, it will lock again. So, choose the right choice carefully.”
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Giving Airalyn, a switched glance of acknowledgement of her informative instructions, Linella steadily looked at the cube and chose the series of runes to press. Each rune meant something on the Relic Cube. In this one, it only has three defined positive ones: Promise, Protection and Power. These are details of the cube’s contents.
“Power… Protection… and Promise…? What could these mean?”
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“The message of the recorder.” Airalyn answered.
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Linella pressed the blue tinted Protection symbol, followed by the black Protection symbol and lastly the same colored Power sign.” The cube shrouded itself in its own aura, showing its most raw form of being a squared metallic object contained its effect by magic.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCnbJcbV6P
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“Relic Cube activation confirm. Do you wish to playback memories?” A mechanical voice spoke, desiring a command.329Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeFGIO4vSH
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Linella looked over Airalyn nervously from the new presence. The opposing female gave a small giggle and nodded silently in acceptance to follow the teenager’s lead. The nervous blond takes the hint without a word to her and replied to the Relic Cube, “Let’s do this!”
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