FATED ENCOUNTER

Star Year 23, June 4th…

"Tarius, Fariz, do you hear me?!" A man asked in a worried voice.

"Sir, we couldn't contact Spaceship Alpha 002! Their communication devices seem likely to have been damaged from the enemy's attack! And they have gotten lost within the wormhole. Their coordinates are unknown!” A young woman looks at him with fear and anxiety in her eyes.

“Shit!” The man growled while slamming his hand on the electronic information board in front of him.

“All of you, do everything you can to locate them at once! Rasha, contact the mothership and explain to them about our situation! We need back up!” He quickly gives order.

“Yes, sir!”

Somewhere in the wormhole…

“Aaarrghhh!!!”

“Tarius, stop shouting and make a shield for us!” A young man orders his partner.

They were in a small spaceship, a size as big as a half football field. However, red alarms sounded everywhere inside the spaceship. Fariz, the one who ordered, feels like they would not be safe after seeing their spaceship damaged heavily by the enemy.

“The air is getting thin and none of this control works anymore.” He thought with slight nervousness.

Tarius, who finally snapped from his panic because their spaces were hit and rolling wildly toward somewhere unknown, finally used his hidden power to make two oval shields enclosing them in it.

“Fariz! If we don’t do something, this spaceship is going to explode!”

He could see their engines were on fire through the spaceship window. Fariz grit his teeth.

“Tarius, we only have one way. Could you use your power of teleportation?”

“Huh? Are you crazy?! My teleportation cannot reach our mother world! Did you forget we’re in space?!”

“Yes, I know that but we might have a slight chance to live. So, teleport us somewhere you could feel there’s a safe place to be transported to.”

“Shit! This won’t be easy. We’re in the wormhole. Who knows what place we’re going to be teleported to. Are you sure about this?”

Fariz nodded with serious expression. Seeing his unwavering eyes, Tarius finally summoned his inner power again. While at that he closed his eyes to concentrate. He searches through his senses outside the spaceship. At first, he was worried there was no place for them to go until something was found from his senses. It was another world they were going to pass by. Since the wormhole has no end, unless they can control their spaceship back and set a location, that world was their only chance to get out of it.

“Hang on!” He told Fariz before he bit a finger until it bled and drew something like a small rune in the air.

The rune stays in the air and glows yellow. After the last line connected to the other end, both him and Fariz’s body glowing slightly and they disappeared from the spaceship. If they were a minute late, they would die in the explosion that happened from the spaceship overheating.

As for in another place…

“Pegasus! You bastard!!!” Someone loudly yelled.

Some people who have a high sense of hearing heard it. And one of them was Kairi, the leader of the 32 Bright Star users and also the King of Syarantonia Kingdom. He, who was washing his face, was startled along with his wife, Aries, in the bathroom. Both look at each other with a helpless smile.

“Those two… Can’t they just stop making trouble? It’s morning!” Aries complains before she feels dizzy all of a sudden.

Her body that almost fell to the floor was caught by Kairi.

“My love, are you alright?” Kairi was anxious seeing her almost hit the floor.

Aries brushes her eyes. “I’m fine, my beloved. It’s just one of the symptoms of pregnancy.”

She then looks at him with a small smile.

Kairi looked guilty. “I wish I could have your symptoms so that you won’t have to go through any of this.”

Listening to his concern, she reached for his face and kissed his lips.

“I am fine. I’m happy to do this for you… And I’m doing this for our child as well.” She put her hand on her stomach.

Kairi's eyes went to it and slowly smiled at her. He lifted her up and didn’t allow her to move or walk on her own. He’s going to ensure that she wasn’t doing anything that harms herself. Aries scolds him for turning into a worrywart but she was happy for his careful attitude toward her and their baby.

The baby was only a month old inside of her. It was still a dangerous period for her. Kairi, who would become a father for the first time, truly worries about everything that involves her. If, according to his wish, he didn’t want her to walk a step out of their house.

Yes, a house. A house on top of a small mountain behind the palace building. He didn’t want to stay in the same room inside the palace skyscraper since he felt it was too high for her and too small for them since they would have a child now.

As for their new house, it was surrounded by a high gold fence and watched by the palace guards in and out of it. But, they weren’t allowed inside the house, only guards on the outside.

The area was wide and had a small fish pond on the left side while the right side had a big garden and a small playground. Kairi made the playground because he thinks his children and their friends would play with it in the future.

Behind the house, a children and adult pool was built there. It was suggested by Kage or his stellar name, Scorpio, for him to make the style look more modern. Kairi thought it was not needed and he worried that his children might accidentally fall into it.

However, he’s the one who let Kage build his house. Since the project was done before he could stop it, he could only add a steel fence around the pools and also around the pond. He hopes the fence will ensure his children and other children's safety.

As for the part where he doesn't want Aries to step out of the house, well, it wasn’t approved. Aries, who had read his mind, hit his head and scolded him about it. If he really makes her do that, then he can sleep outside forever. So harsh…

After washing and changing their clothes, Kairi teleports them to the meeting hall in one of the palace's new buildings. Two weeks ago, their palace was destroyed along with the entire city by Revioryx’s attacks. After defeating him, Kairi along with the help of Orion and Kage rebuild the entire Antonia once again.

The city can finally be occupied again after everything was done a week ago and their residents who were in Econia have returned to back and check their new home. Although lots of merchandise and their stuff were destroyed, Kairi and all the power users involved compensated them with anything they needed for free.

Even the angels had come to Kairi, one at a time during the nighttime and given him lots of items and gold, hoping to help him to compensate for the destroyed city. Though, they could just use their power to create one but that would waste lots of their power and startle the residents. The residents didn't know angels existed and thought they were just mitos. The secrets of their existence must not be exposed or their world would turn into panic again.

“Hm… Where’s Agi and Pegasus? Wait, don’t tell me. Sigh… Those two…”

Kairi was going to start the meeting with everyone from the Bright Star users and some involved one. Yet, only two users were missing.

“Tsk! Your Majesty, just start it. We don’t need to wait for those two idiots.” Sethan, the stellar Monoceros user, spoke up.

“Sethan, be a little more polite with your words. You are in the presence of our king.” Hartina, the Hydra user, scowled at him.

“Whatever… Come on, I don’t want to be here for more than a minute! I want to go fight the seadragon now!” Sethan looked impatient.

Some rolled their eyes at this fighting maniac. Some sighed and then turned their head to attention on Kairi again when they heard him speak once more.

“Alright, let's just start without them. Don’t worry, Sethan, we will only have the meeting for half an hour. I do have another meeting with King Loar and other kings after this.”

Kairi smirked after seeing the excitement light in Sethan's eyes. He then looked at everyone.

“Today, as usual, you can go to the other kingdoms and help them eradicate the monsters there. But, I want you to be extra careful. I heard some monsters are able to infect some humans and turn them into a monster like them.”

“Huh? What the heck? This is like a zombie movie.” Ceilius chuckled after listening to it.

He was the stellar Lupus user.

“Zombie movie? What’s that?” Gemini asked.

Gemini was the only stellar user who had two children combine to become him. They wouldn’t always stay as Gemini and only appear when needed. The children were named Gem and Ini. Ceilius turned to him.

“It was a moving image shown only in the Eridan Kingdom’s theatre with humans turning into something wild. They still look human but they eat the flesh of another human and turn the one they ate into like them as well. There’s some who have lost their parts like eyes, hands and legs but still can move when they smell a living human. But the one infected, they were not a living being, they were already dead.” He explained with details.

Unbeknownst to him, everyone looked at him with surprised eyes. Ceilius, known by them, would never speak so patiently before or in detail.

Is this really Ceilius? Why can’t they believe it?

Even Kairi raised his eyes at him with bewilderment before he snapped out of it.

“Ehem! As mentioned and explained by our friend here… You will meet these kinds of monsters later. So, make sure you wear your thick armour or shield. This monster's appearance was said to be as small as a rat but don’t have much power. Still, it was one of the dangerous creatures created by Revioryx’s power.” He told them about the monster.

“Heh! Even though Revioryx was gone now, he was still able to create chaos for our world. Who knows what creatures you might see in the Eridan Kingdom. So, once again, please be extra careful and don’t lose your focus even a second once you are there or in another kingdom. Understand?”

“We understand, Your Majesty.” Leo said, for all of them.

He was the sub-leader for everyone if Kairi was busy with something. And before Kairi appeared, he was the one who handled the entire kingdom safety along with Auriga and his wife, Perseus. All three were the oldest Bright Star users.

“Well then…” Before Kairi could finish his word, the entrance door was open from outside.

“My apologies, Your Majesty, everyone. I was stuck with something annoying just now.” Agi finally appeared.

He was the stellar Sagittarius user and his expression looked very irritated.

“It’s fine… Where’s Pegasus?” Kairi doesn’t sense him nearby or anywhere in Antonia.

“Oh, him…” Agi moved his eyes away. “Ah, he had something to do. Don’t worry, Your Majesty. He is doing his duty as usual.”

Everyone stared at him and silently, they felt a little sympathy for Pegasus. But they think he deserves it. Agi probably had sent him somewhere where the latter would turn into an unusual self and might shriek like a woman.

Who told him to always tease and annoy the little guy. Yes, Agi was the smallest among them and shorter. They would think he was a kid if they passed him but no one dared to tease him like Pegasus did. His power… Well, he can overturn a city if he went really mad.