"Damnit Lachlan, you shouldn't have killed him," James said with a sigh. Although he also wouldn't have hesitated to kill, especially if that someone murders children, he has the position to do such as thing.
But Lachlan doesn't have a military position, meaning the higher-ups will think of him as a threat considering his overwhelming strength. Not to mention that more than half of the higher-ups have a similar opinion to Josh, as much as he hated it.
"And he shouldn't have killed them," All James received was a cold reply. Lachlan didn't care about the consequences, he only cares about doing what he feels like doing. And considering Josh's opinion put his sister and many other children in dangerous positions, Lachlan doesn't think they're qualified to be protecting the people.
"Listen, you need to leave quickly because I can't do much now. The most I can do is get my soldiers to let you through, obviously, those are my soldiers only which means all of Josh's soldiers might attack you," James informed Lachlan.
"That'll be plenty, I do hope we can continue to keep our friendly relationship, I don't want to fight you," Lachlan said as he hopped onto Calamity and shot into the sky. He really didn't want to fight against James as his Navy, there were many good people in the Navy, people that had a similar opinion to him.
"I do as well," James muttered under his breath as he watched Lachlan's figure slowly fade into the distance. James didn't want to fight Lachlan for the reason that they might not win. James knew about all the training they've probably done on that island and he knows it'll be enough for a normal person to compete against beasts.
That's saying something. No normal person can fight against a beast even if they put decades into training on the mainland.
Lachlan flew out of the city quickly. He wanted to get out as fast as possible, staying any longer will bring his sister into a battle that he doesn't know whether or not he'll be able to protect her.
*Bang*
Lachlan quickly ducked once he heard the sound. A bullet came flying past him, just barely scraping his back. Although it hurt, the pain could never compare to his eyes.
Although the bullet past Lachlan knew it wouldn't be the last one. He heard a volley of guns firing off in the distance. He could hear the bullets splitting the air apart as they came flying towards him. All with the intent of avenging their pathetic leader.
Lachlan continued to dodge, but there was only so much he could do. And although his stats allowed him to survive the hits. It didn't mean there wasn't any pain or damage. A few bullets shot through his shoulder making a bloody mess.
He had also been hit in the leg, the calm specifically. The bullet went straight through his muscle and between the bones. The bullets stopped firing as he managed to get further away, slowly reaching a distance at which the soldiers couldn't accurately shoot him.
Lachlan felt his strong vitality going to work. As his wounds healed the burning sensation made his ride back uncomfortable. Fortunately, it was only uncomfortable, he still managed to make it back in one piece.
The others saw what condition Lachlan was in, Chloe immediately sprinted over and ripped some of her clothes off, quickly wrapping it tightly around Lachlan's leg. For the shoulder, there wasn't much they could do for where they were.
They either needed to find a doctor willing to help or use the berries. Lachlan was rather hesitant and didn't use them. They were a one-use item that could bring someone from the brink of death. They shouldn't be used recklessly, even with his condition.
"What did you do?" Chloe asked as she wiped the blood off his skin. She could already tell Lachlan did something he shouldn't have, she saw it in his eyes as he left.
"Well we can no longer trust the military, although fortunately, we can still keep a relatively friendly relationship with the Sea Guardians," Lachlan explained as he squinted his eyes from the slight pain.
"Well isn't that just great, you just had to make a very large enemy didn't you?" Chloe felt her head spin when she heard what Lachlan said. She couldn't believe how relaxed he wasn, it was as though it didn't matter at all.
"Haha, yeah, sorry about that," Lachlan said as he scratched his head. He knew that the Land and Sky Guardians will cause problems for them later considering their group's opinions greatly differ from theirs.
But since James had a similar opinion that meant there might be more. Possibly some people in much higher positions have a similar opinion. Lachlan hoped that there were some anyway. But for now, they'll have to deal with their own problems.
"Bloodied Wings," Flynn suddenly said from behind Lachlan. Flynn was staring at Lachlan's back, it was covered in blood. But beyond that blood were the wing tattoos, he put the two together and boom, "That'll be the organisation's name."
"Bloodied Wings? Sounds like an odd name," Chloe said. She knew her husbands naming abilities were horrible considering he spent hours searching for a name for Sophie and all he could come up with was the name of a goddess he simply googled. She had to take control and give her a normal name.
"I quite like it, sounds slightly intimidating, it's also a name that represents our determination, I think it'll do great," Lachlan responded joyfully. He liked the name, he thought it could do great in the future.
"So, where do we go now?" Chloe said as she finished tying up Lachlan's bandaids. Since they were going to be treated as criminals it wouldn't make much sense to just waltz back into the city.
"Well, I suppose we can start migrating to the island now," Lachlan suggested. Since they were going there anyway, he didn't see an issue with going now. They'll just be slightly rushed, it didn't matter too much.
"Alright, I'll message the others to meet up and come back to the island while we go," Chloe said.
"Message the others?" Lachlan asked. He doesn't remember anyone ever trading numbers, or ever having phones for that matter.
Although he did have a phone he left it at Alice Springs because he thought it wouldn't be useful. And would just take up space and possibly distract him.
"Yeah, just after you left James gave us high tech phones that are well equipped for us to message or talk over long distances," Chloe explained as he took out her phone. It was entirely black, there wasn't anything flashy about it so it didn't stand out.
"Damn, do you think I could get one?" Lachlan felt like he missed out.
"Sometime later, but for now let's focus on getting to the island," Chloe said. She remembered that Lachlan had been fighting the military, there was a chance they tracked him here.
"Okay, everyone get on Aaron," Lachlan ordered as Aaron created a ramp with its wings. Everyone hopped on, they shot off into the distance away from the soldiers. Although it would take slightly longer for them to make it to the island Lachlan didn't see a problem in taking the safe route.
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Edit: Alright, so I didn't have any time to edit anything. I was either sleeping, driving or away from my computer.
The drive itself was 20 - 22 hours there and back, not to mention the graduation parade took ages (Although it looked fairly cool)
So yeah, no extra chapters and now school starts again, meaning there won't be a lot of edits a day. I'll try to do as many as possible during the weekend, but I do have things to finish.
They flew for a while before finally making it to the island. The small shack they built brought back a wave of nostalgia, even though they only just left the island. They felt as though they belonged here, as though this island was one that's been created for the sole purpose of training the strong.
The island condition was unchanged, the large trees extending into the sky providing a large amount of shade. They could see the centre tree from the sea, Lachlan felt excited as they discovered a way to get there easily.
The kids and Flynn were in awe at the island. Flynn was the only one that knew a bit about the island since his wife told him everything before she left. They didn't mention anything about the large centre tree.
Lachlan brought out the high ranked gravity stone and activated its fullest abilities. They flew towards the centre, above the mountain which surrounds the centre they saw a multitude of caves.
"Do you think there will be other special beasts in those caves?" Chloe asked enthusiastically. Since Aaron came from the cave whose to say there won't be other unique beasts or at least strong beasts within those caves.
"I don't think so, it might be rather rare for there to be beasts in them," Lachlan stated. He knew that the reason Aaron was in the cave was because of the water and berries, as for the others, seeing as how there wasn't a stream of water coming out there was a likely chance there wasn't any water in them, something essential for life.
As they descended from the sky Lachlan was happy to say that his theory was correct. The high ranked gravity stones gave them the ability to nullify the gravity at the centre of the island. Which if he wasn't wrong should be roughly 100 – 150 times Earth's gravity.
The centre tree even surprised Lachlan and Chloe. While although they knew it was large they didn't expect it to be so large. They only saw it from a distance which didn't help in determining the size of it. However, once they were up close they felt dizzy looking up.
The roots of the tree were reaching the height of a two-story building, they extended far and wide into the mountains. Meaning a majority of the ground was made of tree roots. Lachlan quickly remembered his eye's new ability and analysed the tree.
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Name: World Tree
Description: The Wold Tree is a tree that supports the life of everything around it. The life force emitting from it gives the surrounding area prosperity. Plants will grow many times bigger and stronger.
Location: There will only ever be a maximum of 7 world trees in the world at once, each one is located in the centre of the continent.
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Lachlan never thought he would discover another myth. He's heard about the world tree, granted there were many versions of it. Some say that it is at the centre of the universes and each leaf is a universe, while there were other versions which have the world tree at the centre of the universe or world.
He also realised how good of a choice their location was. Considering that everything grows better around it, should they go into the caves and grow things there, everything will grow amazingly.
'So that's why there are a bunch of plant stones' Lachlan suddenly realised why there were so many plant stones, each of varying rankings. If they search well enough they're bound to find some high ranked stones around the tree considering they absorb the life force directly from the world tree.
Once they reached the ground they all got off, but Lachlan and Chloe were still quite concerned, "Remember, don't go too far otherwise you'll have to deal with the real gravity," Chloe reminded them.
The kids didn't know too much about how it works, but they trusted what Lachlan said. All he said was that they'll have to deal with consequences they can't deal with right now. Flynn understood though, he knew the gravity around here would probably crush him into the ground.
Dylan, on the other hand, took that information and knew what he had to do. Although the children knew there would be consequences there are bound to be some that want to see if they can escape them. If they dragged Sarah into their scheme and they all died to the gravity, he knew Lachlan would blame himself.
"So what should we do now?" Chloe asked Lachlan. There wasn't much they could do here, they didn't even have any connection here due to the mountains and the tree. Which is why the military sent them, since they couldn't actually get into the island without their drones getting crushed due to the gravity or the connecting getting lost.
"Well I suppose we should make a quick shelter right now, just something that'll last us until tomorrow which is when we'll start building our real houses," Lachlan explained as he looked towards the setting sun. It was just about to reach night time.
"We could just use our little shelter left on the beach for now, it'll last us the night easily and there's plenty of room," Chloe suggested. Lachlan agreed with it, and although it was slightly dangerous since the military was after them. Since James said he won't get involved, Lachlan knew they should be safe from the sea for a while at least.
"Alright, we'll stay there the night and begin building," Lachlan agreed with a nod. But before that Lachlan searched around the area for some stones. He found a few high ranked stones, enough for Chloe, Flynn, and Dylan.
"Take them and put a drop of blood on them, they're high ranked stones which give you the ability to nullify the gravity here. We'll go somewhere else and find some medium ranked gravity stones for the children later," Lachlan didn't want the children to have too much power, but he also wanted them to be able to protect themselves and explore the island.
He was a child once and all he wanted to do was run around and have fun. Since he would give them medium ranked gravity stones, they'll last them until the mountains where they probably wouldn't be able to climb in normal gravity anyway.
Everyone dropped a bit of blood on the stones. Chloe wasn't expecting anything since she's already done this multiple time. The others, on the other hand, experienced the rush of knowledge, of commands and details of the stone.
Flynn and Dylan were shocked and felt a slight headache. Fortunately, it didn't last long, and they were able to quickly recover from the headache. They looked towards the stone in shock, they didn't realise there were so many things they could do.
"Damn this almost seems like a cheat," Flynn said in shock. There were so many ways someone could use the stones in battles, not to mention the ways someone could use these stones practically through life.
"Alright, let's go back to the beach and get some sleep. Tomorrow will be a big day of building," Lachlan said as Aaron bent down its wings. The children quickly ran up and sat down, everyone else followed.
The quickly made it to the beach and it was fairly dark, the tall trees cast a shadow across the surrounding ocean. The kids quickly noticed the coconuts in the trees as they descended onto the beach.
"Hey, can we have one of those?" The children asked. Due to their young age, they haven't experienced much in the world. Not to mention most of them stayed in Australia, specifically South Australia where there weren't any coconut trees.
"Sure," Lachlan nodded to Chloe who quickly activated her stone. Although the area would likely affect the beach Lachlan didn't want to take chances. He wanted for the children to slowly adjust to the increasing gravity, get them to train by slightly increasing the gravity.
Lachlan ran up to the tree and climb up it. He completely nullified the gravity and shot up, reaching the top quickly. He reached out and grabbed a few coconuts, crushing their stems before jumping down.
He rushed back to the beach where the children were waiting patiently, but inside they were extremely excited. It was something they've seen in movies and tv shows, but never experienced themselves.
Lachlan saw his large smiles and placed the coconuts on the ground. After taming Aaron his overall strength has increased drastically. Making these coconuts much easier to break, only taking a minute to open them.
He quickly passed them around, the kids joyfully drank down the contents. The sweetness was pleasant along with the refreshing feeling it gave. Lachlan looked towards the ocean and remembered something he couldn't believe he forgot.
The special abilities. He completely forgot about them since he hasn't used them in so long, there wasn't a need to. It wasn't like the beasts' levels would continue to increase, no matter how many beasts they killed.
He hasn't tested out Aaron's special ability, he felt as though he was an idiot. Forgetting something so important, something that can change the course of battle in an instant.
Everything passed by rather quickly, Chloe went out and caught a fish before bringing it back and slicing it up. They usually wouldn't be able to ever finish the fishes they catch due to their large size. But now they had quite a few mouths to feed.
Lachlan started up the fire with his fire control and Chloe placed the fishes on the side, letting it roast. The juices from the fat dripped onto the burning wood, causing it to sizzle from the heat. The kids were drooling at the smell, fish meat has really gone up in quality after the evolution, the same could be said with most meats.
Lachlan happily dug in, quickly followed by everyone else. After that they went to sleep, the group gave the big room to the children. Granted Sarah stayed with Lachlan, stuck to him like glue as she wrapped herself around Lachlan's legs.
However, once everyone was asleep Lachlan gently left Sarah's arm on the ground. He snuck away silently and ran away from the shelter, making it a few kilometres away before summoning Aaron.
Aaron looked around with confusing in his eyes, 'What's going on master?'
'Use your special abilities on the ocean, I want to see what you can do' Lachlan believed Aaron's abilities would be overwhelming considering he was a mythical beast. There was no way it couldn't be something underwhelming.
But that's exactly what it was.
Aaron spread its wings far and screeched loudly. The sound echoed across the waters, causing it to ripple wildly. But aside from that, there wasn't anything else, it was almost as though nothing happened.
'Did you do it?' Lachlan asked.
'Yes,' Aaron rapidly nodded its head. Even he didn't know what his special ability was, it only knew that he had one and how to activate it. Aside from that, he didn't know anything else.
'Well ain't this just great' Lachlan said as he scratched his head. Although he was greatly disappointed there wasn't much he could do about it. It wasn't as though he could just give Aaron another ability.
Lachlan unsummoned Aaron and went back. Still slightly disappointed from the fact that it didn't have an ability. He went back to sleep grumpily.
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