Chapter 244: Twins

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It was another day in the life of the young twins, Armonia and Ermenia were a girl and boy of the Saphibian race of the north of the planet of Amphibi, they were a peculiar pair of twins born from a single egg, due to this, the two were born sickly and underdeveloped as the nutrients ended being shared with one another.

Ermenia had been born bigger than his little sister, but the two were still weaker than kids their age, despite this, they were born with keen spiritual senses and powerful talents that put them above others in their tribe which lived near the area where Chaos had landed. This tribe of Saphibians mostly moved from one place to another looking for prey to hunt and better areas to be.

Of course that quickly ended that day when they meet a sudden group of peculiar people who all had landed in the gigantic frog which the tribe had sometimes seen sleeping inside the lake, the monstrous and gigantic frog some called Frog-Red, others Guardian of the Swamp, and many more, the Great Calamity.

This Frog was believed to be a sacred beast due to its enormous size and peaceful nature; it was enormous and said to have even eaten an entire civilization of people in the past. It was taught to the people of their tribe to never get too close to it, it was a dangerous monster that also protected these lands from the invaders from far away…

The Saphibians were a race of shamans and spiritualistic people, who believed in that the world was a living being of its own which took care of the life on it, being the mother of everyone. The space pirates that lived to the south region had already showed them that they were the incarnation of the Dark One, an entity believed to be the embodiment of pestilence, contamination, and darkness.

In their religion, the Grand Mother and the Dark One are two forces that continuously fight with one another, the Grand Mother is the planet itself, representing life and nature, while the Dark One represented what was mentioned already. However, the Dark One had become stronger now that the space pirates, who they call the Slaves of Darkness, people that has been brainwashed by the power of the tools they use and possess sickly and insane minds, had come to invade their planet.

Of course, these two little kids had no idea of any of that, they were merely 4 years of age and as always, they wandered off the village settlements looking for tasty bugs and little fish and amphibians to eat. Saphibians were not picky eaters, they would eat anything that could move, and they could stick inside their mouths. They had mouths that could expand as big as frogs, and long sticky tongues that could catch prey with ease.

They were hungry and caught anything they found, but ended catching something they couldn't properly handle, which ended bringing them in the middle of a whole fight against the calamity of the swamp who showcased its almighty power and defeated these invaders after eating two of them mercilessly!

The two still could remember it, as the gigantic frog looked at them with its enormous eyes…

"Ribbit…!"

"Uwah!"

"Gyah!"

However, when they woke up, they found themselves over lily pads, and surrounded by a freak show!

Abyss and Chaos allies had all been sent flying by the annoyed frog, who had almost killed them all if it wasn't because of Erebus abilities and his help!

Now, the magic ring of Abyss, which had a fragment of Chaos soul on it, guided Abyss into something that might offer a clue about the giant frog to them…

There were two Saphibian children floating in the water, recognizing them, Abyss almost lost herself, these were the children she and the others were tasked to protect and find out where they came from to know their civilizations and stuff, but she ended throwing them away and letting a flood take over them…

Now, she finally found them again and went for their rescue, bringing them to the lily pad everyone was sitting over, and slowly resuscitating them by pouring some oxygen into their mouths through special tentacles.

"Cough…! Agh…"

"Ungh… Huh?"

The two kids looked at the freak show around her, not only just Abyss but there were many weirdos around they had never seen before. The two kids felt a bit disgusted over these strange people and who they could possibly be, btu they had no power over them nor what they could do against them… however, they sensed a strangely motherly presence from Abyss, as she sighed in relief by seeing them.

"I am so glad you're fine…" she sighed, petting the two.

The two kids looked at Abyss in horror. Who was this woman?! Wait… she was…!

The two quickly remembered her a bit from before falling unconscious after being swallowed by the tsunami made up by the giant frog, she was one of the invaders that had come here and angered the guardian! She was to blame for this alongside these other freaks…!

"Y-You did this!" said Armonia.

"You angered the guardian… Why did you do such an awful thing? The guardian only sleeps peacefully… It must not be disturbed!" said Ermenia.

"Eh? Huh?! What are you talking about! Wait, is this what you were hinting at, Ring?" asked Abyss.

The ring gave her its thumbs up. It seemed to have predicted the kids would know aboutb the giant frog as they were the natives of this planet! Now the group finally had a connection to it and could pursue the origin of this frog and perhaps a way to make it throw up Chaos and Aruliel who were swallowed by it.

"K-Kids! Do you know a way to let the giant frog throw up the people it swallows?!" asked Belphegor, asking before Abyss.

"W-What?" asked Ermenia.

"The guardian… he never throws up anything it eats…" said Armonia.

"If they were eaten, they're as good as dead..." said Ermenia.

"…!"

Was there really no hope?

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