Chapter 51 - 51. The pearl and the pouch

After a long time Kendra felt like she hit another barrier, but this time it seems she will need more will to pass it. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Isaa staring at her.

"I was full, a long time ago, how comes you need more time? Maybe your energy sea is bigger than mine?" asked Isaa cleverly.

Kendra taught about it. It was easy for Isaa to grew her power faster than her, but it was harder to pass levels and she had less energy.

"It seems everything has its own advantages and disadvantages." She explained her thoughts and Isaa felt that it was reasonable.

They spoke about everything but heard a slight knocking from outside. Then they remembered that they were still in barrel and laughed.

When they came out they saw Fluffy jumping in fury. Then they realized. They have been in the barrel whole afternoon and it was almost night.

Suddenly they heard grumbling. Isaa held her stomach and laughed, but at that moment Kendra's stomach grumbled as well so she joins in the laughter.

It seems Fluffy is hungry as well so Kendra went out and wanted to leave but remembered the thing that happens in the morning.

She looked at Fluffy and bit her finger and showed it to Fluffy. He looked at blood and growled."Don't be a small baby. It's not going to harm you. If it works you can chat with me one day in time and its only one drop. "

He shook his head and growled and grunted, it seems he has a different opinion.

She has no reason to push him to do it. She licked her finger and shrugged. She turned to make something simple and fast as she really had no wish to do anything complicated.

"Isaa, go get me few potatoes. I'll make something simple. " She went into the pantry and took peace of butter, a jar of milk, few eggs, and leftover shredded cheese.

Isaa was already there, with clean and peeled potatoes, so the two of them started cutting it in round pieces. Then Kendra put some butter on the baking pot put the potatoes sideways and let it bake for a while.

After it was already halfway through, Kendra mixed rest of butter with milk and seasonings and put it all over potatoes and let it bake again.

While they went to water the plants in the greenhouse and the potatoes they planned to plant, the potatoes were almost done.

Kendra mixed eggs with salt beat it through and added over the potatoes. On top, she placed leftover cheese put back in oven and let it back just till it was all golden brown.

The moment the smell wafted at them, they felt even hungrier. This time they ate slowly and Kendra was satisfied. It went well as well.

They wanted to go to sleep but Kendra remembered the pouches. She let Isaa choose which one she liked more.

Actually, they both looked horrible so she chooses the one that Kendra had before. Kendra took the other and they went to sleep, but somewhere in mid of night a voice sounded whispering around Kendra.

"Come. Take one of those pearls you have and let's go to big mother oyster." said the...Fluffy.

Kendra looked up and saw through branches the round form of the Moon. Isaa woke up as well.

"Isaa wanna come this time with me. Let's see how much stronger you became."

Isaa jumped out of bed and run to the well's door. "Probably last time I didn't had enough energy. This time I'm stronger. I want to come."

Kendra went to the room and got the pearls as it felt unfair to give only one. After all, soon she will go for the oyster hunt. They will find more of them.

Fluffy saw her actions and became emotional. These children seemed to be ruthless, but are actually quite caring.

"No need for all those. She will feel uncomfortable like someone eating multiple eggs at the same time. Just bring one. She will appreciate it more."

She taught thoroughly about that and after careful consideration, she took only one.

She didn't want the Mother Oyster to feel uncomfortable. " By the way, why do you call it Mother Oyster? Because of the size of her body?"

"No, she lived thousands of years. She could be called even Queen. Unfortunately, even after so many years, she is still a simple creature. She has no consciousness. I hoped she would get after many years, but nothing happened." Fluffy shook his head while hopping down the stairs.

Trough the good door fell the moonlight but it was still not enough to make the water see trough. But they didn't care.

Kendra already knew that she could see in darkness. What surprised her, Isaa couldn't. So she held Isaa's hand and used the power of water to dive in faster.

They arrived at the oyster faster than she did last time. "It seems we can use the waterpower to get to other places faster."

'Brother, what a pretty big oyster, can we eat it?" said Isaa looking at all that pretty meat.

She could see the oyster as the big Pearl shone brightly.

Kendra pocked her forehead," Why kill it? Such an old oyster, it deserves to live as it's so tenacious to survive. It should be protected and not eaten. I'd prefer to become someone that eats only vegetables then kill something that we should highly respect."

Isaa did not understand why the oyster needs to live but accepted it because Kendra said so.

Suddenly an old voice could be heard. " After so many years, finally someone worthy of inheritance. "

All three of them got stunned and looked closer. Fluffy got angry."You old thing. I was lonely for so long, why didn't you speak with me? "

"Trying to save energy. It's hard to speak even now. Quickly take the pear and put inside that pouch, if you do that something good will happen. It's my gift to you, little one."

They both had pouches so they looked at each other. "Which one do you mean, esteemed Mother?" asked Kendra politely.

"You. You got the bag of thousand feet and I'll give you pearl of dark matter. If you find two more things and put them in the bag you will get a huge space you can hide in. For now, you can only hide many things, but can't enter yourself. Find water of dragon blood and the plant called internal fire. If you put them inside the bag it will make it into living space. After that, you can find more things but I got old, and can't remember anymore. Exchange, now."

It seems that oyster started breathing heavier, so Kendra exchanged the pearls in a hurry. The old oyster took energy pearly into her mouth and closed it.

At that moment she started shrinking and turned into small stone. Kendra felt sorrow for that oyster. She tried picking it up but it was stuck on the ground and she understood.

Oyster wanted to stay where she is. She bowed to the oyster and took Fluffy and Isaa in her hands and floated up in silence.

They didn't speak as they knew her. She felt affected by the care of the Mother oyster.

When they went up Kendra strode to the moonlight and looked at the pearl she got.

In the water, she tried putting the pearl into the bag but it didn't work. So she tried under the moonlight.

The pearl was bigger than bah so she didn't know what to do. But suddenly the pearl shone under the light and just flew out her hand.

It floated in the moonlight for a while waiting for something.

Kendra looked at Fluffy and got an idea. She gathered and compressed lots of energy and sent it to the pearl. She shone but it seemed that it was not enough.

So she sends, again and again, the wisps of energy at the pearl. Even Isaa started doing it.

But it seemed that it was still not enough. They exhausted themselves while doing that. Kendra already stopped Isaa and continued to use the energy to fill the pearl. She already turned red and white from hard work. But still nothing.

She felt tired and exhausted but was stubbornly sending the energy to the pearl. Finally, when she was about to faint, the pearl started shining like a rainbow and floated and merged with the bag herself.

Fluffy was silent the whole time. Isaa put the little pouch next to him so she could gather energy to send to the pearl.

Somehow he felt something was there he should remember, but what is it? Maybe later...no now.

"Kendra you need to give it some of your blood so it can recognize you as its owner. Quickly," he remembered. Luckily.

Kendra bit at her finger even without thinking and drop of blood hit the pearl just before entered the pouch. It gave bigger l.u.s.ter and suddenly both pouch and pearl disappeared.

Kendra looked at Fluffy and saw him flabbergasted. "I am definitely sure that it is the right thing to do." he tried to explain.

Kendra shook her head and taught about the pouch. At that moment she saw in her mind small space. She blinked and saw it was true.

"Do you see that?" she asked them as space appeared in front of her. They shook their heads and became happy.

"What do you see?" asked Isaa.

"Something like a big room. The size of the meadow where we saw strawberries." That's a huge space.

Isaa and Fluffy started jumping around and Kendra was indeed happy. She put inside the silver and gold from before. She put multiple jars with potatoes. Then the leftover pearls, hammocks, blankets, cloth, jars with some food and with dried vegetables, her precious seeds and was stunned that all that took an only a tiny corner of her space. She put out one jar of potatoes and the food.

"We still have many empty jars. Let's put half of it inside the space. The flour and oil as well half. Later I'll buy more things so we can carry it with us."

Isaa nodded. Now they can relaxed walk around and don't have to carry many things.

"Brother it seems our days here will be more comfortable in the future." Kendra happily nodded.

If she can find the other two things...