Eli's appearance wasn't surprising for the four, as Rigo was keeping an eye over her all the ti. Once she showed the earliest sign of her intentions, Rigo gave the command for his droids to move and flank her from behind.
She was thinking she had the upper hand there, how naive she was! Just before her hands could touch the triggers, she was hit by a paralyzing ray that shot from a special old weapon of one of the droids.
He was like Rigo, a humanoid, who began to walk rapidly towards the fallen, without the ability to move, Eli. Once there, he extended his arm to take the cannon and guns from her possession.
The first and foremost important order he received from Rigo was to secure Eli, and make sure she wouldn't pose any threat to herself and others.
He gave these weapons to the droids with him, three others who ca all the way from the armory.
They were silently following Eli's footsteps, and without her knowing that they followed her to here. Their appearance was a surprise for the poor girl who didn't experience much in life yet.
Just as she watched them taking away the weapons, she tried to resist them in vain. The paralysis effect sustained for a minute, which was long enough for her attackers to strip her off any blade to fight with.
Once she regained her freedom, she didn't stand still on the floor as she tried to move, however she was t by the view of the four people she tried to attack earlier closing up fast on her.
One face she saw and froze her without the need of any ray, the face of Jas.
Her heart was leaning towards him, after all he was all what a girl like her would dream of, but that was only limited to her emotional heart.
For her mind, the situation was quite opposite, as she wasn't able to forget nor forgive the cris he did. this man who cloaked himself under an imposter veil of righteousness had the blood of her friends, brothers, and sisters staining all his fingers, hands, clothes, even his steps itself.
Dejected, she watched the four approaching her in silence, without the ability to make a decision. It was easier for her, much easier, when she was far away from him. Standing this close to him made her resolve waver, and her raging mind settled.
"What are you doing Eli?"
This soft voice ca smoothly from Jas' lips to turn into thunder inside her ears. She even took a step backward as her body shivered, she couldn't yet determine which one he was, a hero or a villain!
"Is this the thanks I get for saving you?"
Jas noticed her weird reaction, and he was prepared for this. He knew she was right now utterly confused, and trying to talk calmly with her wouldn't solve the problem, it would escalate it.
So, he tried to kill everything that could stain his picture in her mind, driving her either to fully trust him or to break down. Even breaking down was sothing better than keeping her mind hovering between faith and enmity.
"You-You killed them, killed them by your hands you have the audacity to say you saved ? you killed the mont you killed them, you monster!"
She thrashed him with her explosive livid words which fell down upon him without a warning. Jas just stood his place motionless, looking with calm eyes towards her, feeling much more bad inside the more she spoke.
But he never wavered or thought again about what he did, he had to survive and without this sacrifice, no one here would still be alive.
"I know you have the right to be upset, but that doesn't an you would grab a cannon and try to kill ."
"What if I did that? will you imprison like you did with the other two? c'mon, put in prison and show your true color!"
Jas gave a loud long irritated sniff followed by a sigh. He knew how painful Eli was feeling right now, but he also had no commitnt to her whatsoever.
He helped her before because he felt that was the right thing to do, she really needed his help and without him she would be dead.
However that didn't an he would be conditionally attached to her, obliged to help and take her fiery mood and temper.
"I won't imprison you, on condition you start behaving yourself and stop acting like a spoiled girl."
The tone and the way Jas said these words made Eli's eyes widened from shock with a tinge of regret. Her heart felt pain that overca the temper of her mind, and right now she began to understand, Jas was very special to her, but she wasn't that for him.
Pushing further would endanger the fragile picture of her in his mind, and that idea itself made her afraid. For the first ti since eting Jas, she felt fear, losing him was sothing far worse than losing everyone else.
"If you don't behave yourself, then I will have to take asures that might not please you. Of course I'm not threatening with prison, I'm just referring to the option of sending you away."
"Away?!" Eli's mind was pushed forcibly outside the struggle with her heart as she was shocked by the words of Jas. "Do you want to send away?!"
Her tone jerked like a weak last fla of the sumr facing the cold stormy winds of the autumn, she was about to be extinguished, her heart and life itself at this mont.
What she did and what Jas did started to circle around her like ghosts, without the ability to interfere or stop what was happening. She was mistaken, gravely mistaken, as this was what she concluded when she viewed what happened over and over again.
She wanted to apologize, say she was sorry and regretful, she wanted to and what she did, and try to ask for his forgiveness, but Jas just gave her his back as he added:
"Just don't forget what happened today and don't repeat these foolish acts ever again. I trusted you before, and yet still trust you even now, so please don't disappoint ."
She watched the four of them moving away from her while she kept herself standing, doing nothing for a couple of monts before her body trembled. Her clear beautiful eyes turned to be full of redness all of a sudden, with few, big, drops of tears flowing off her, soaking her two porcelain-like cheeks to leave a faint, unseen trace behind them.
Except for deep pain that she would never forget, as a great revelation presented itself to her at this mont- she loved Jas, love that she never experienced before and would never taste like ever again.
As for Jas, he was feeling nothing at the mont. He helped her and he felt he was sohow responsible for her actions, but that was before he realized what she planned to do.
He figured that she was thinking for her own interest, putting herself in front of his, and that wasn't wrong, but the right thing to do.
That made him realize he was over-caring about her for a long ti and that he began to mistake what the relationship between the two was.
It was only friendship, nothing more. If a friend wanted to be an enemy, then the least thing you could do was to push him away, at least for the old tis sake you wouldn't face him and turn him into an instant enemy.
For old tis sake, Jas gave the warning to Eli, hoping she would be a good girl and stop acting rash and reckless like she just did.
Solving one problem made him focus again on the bigger one, the two kept captives inside the prison.
The other three around Jas watched how he dealt firmly with Eli, and Dora was sohow feeling relieved without any obvious reasons. As for Rigo, he felt Jas dealt appropriately with the situation, and he also hoped for Eli to think rational and act calr.
The only who began to look in wary towards Jas was Charles, as he thought he could use this little girl in the future to play with Jas, but the latter had just killed all his plans simply like that.
"Have you figured out the identity of Islinda?" Jas suddenly asked as they were midway towards the prison's main gate.
"So far we had no clue over who she is and where she ca from, except for your words from before." Dora replied.
"That's disappointing, I hoped to know her true identity before going to speak with her," Jas muttered. Although he heard her before yelling the na and the status of herself, he wasn't that sure what she revealed was the truth.
Charles knew this was a chance for him to stir the upcoming trouble away from him. "I might know," he simply replied like this.
"Really?!" Jas asked with doubt.
"She is the princess of a famous and strong empire called Rodan."
Jas just glanced shortly at him before looking away as he replied:
"We already know that."
Charles didn't feel any offense. "Then you must be familiar with the exact location and the recent news coming from the empire, right?"
The words and the playful tone of Charles made Jas pause, rounded to face Charles as he said:
"Can you elaborate?"
Charles knew this was important info, but he wanted to buy it with more area of trust with Jas and the others. His fate wouldn't be settled safely without paying so price for that.
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