Chapter 78 - Prophecy

"Would you stop playing with my seat?! For god's sake!" Petunia sighed and rolled her eyes at Von who was making her Gummy cloud his own personal toy on their way downstairs, poking and pushing it around like a floating ball of soccer just for fun, making Petunia's trip downstairs very turbulent and unsatisfactory.

"Don't wanna," Von answered abruptly before pushing and pulling it again between his hands.

And not only was Petunia the only one having a hard time dealing with what Von was doing, since Lei and Fily were both just walking along the stairs and relying on Petunia's Gummy cloud for light, having Von play with it made their trip much more dangerous and inefficient in comparison to the two of them who can just fly.

"Stop it Von, you're making me… dizzy," Fily said, catching her breath in between each word after arriving on the final step since she came down here totally unprepared and forgetful of the fact that Gem actually helped carry her down and up this flight the very first time they went in here.

And now that she's bedridden, all of Fily's thoughts were suddenly just focused on making Gem feel better, making herself miss such trivial details such as her own weakness into account upon planning to go down here.

"You sure you don't want my help?" Lei asked Fily again after seeing her tired and breathless.

"Yes." Fily smiled at her, keeping in mind the fact that Riveth is still watching her and she mustn't do something such as asking Lei for help since Riveth is strict with her with boys.

"Fayn! Suit yourself!" Von said, seemingly clowning Petunia who, on the other hand, was just staring at him blankly the whole time while sitting on her cloud.

"Tch. You're so boring." Von added before trying to play with Petunia's Gummy cloud once again, but since Petunia actually removed the protective layer off of her Gummy cloud while Von was busy mocking her, Von's hands sank directly inside the cloud, sparkling tiny ardents of pain around his skin that made him screech unintentionally before pulling it back outside with all of his might.

"Ouch! It hurts! Get it off! Get it off!" he shouted while flying around trying to shake the sticky gummy off of his hands.

"Serves you right, you disrespectful child," Petunia said, lowkey reminding them all about her position and authority in this party as the eldest before lighting the rest of the lamps using her magic wand shaped lighter.

"Will you tell us now why we're here?" Lei said, approaching Petunia who was still busy lighting the rest of the lamps beside the doors.

"Help me get rid of this first! Please?" Von said to Petunia, pushing Lei aside and changing his tone abruptly in the last sentence, finally succumbing to Petunia's authority even if it meant going against his most valuable pride… in front of Lei.

Petunia rolled her big cat eyes and raised her paw grouchily, retrieving the Gummies from Von's hand with just a simple movement using her Gummy manipulation skill. "There you go," she said before going back to Fily, leaving Von engrossed with the blots on his hand that the toxic Gummy left on him.

"Ahhh, how will I get rid of this!?" he thought to himself before following after them to the door where Fily was directing them to.

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"A crone? You mean one of those old witches from %^%$#?" Venedette asked Sir Grand like he just said something ridiculous.

"Yes! I saw… I saw a crone!" he said, seemingly overwhelmed about the whole situation before pulling Venedette into an empty room beside Gem's. 

"And then I found this! I remember seeing this in the library several years ago and I just thought nothing of it, but now… everything's starting to make sense! It's happening. It's starting!" 

"What? What's starting?"

"The prophecy!" Sir Grand whispered eagerly while shoving the clay tablet to Venedette's hands secretly as if they weren't the only people inside that empty room.

Venedette's eyebrows furrowed as soon as she held the clay tablet in her hands. It was a roughly cut brick-colored sliding puzzle that Sir Grand had already solved, revealing a portrait of a little girl floating in the middle of a star pattern above a grassy meadow where hooded people were seemingly gathered to watch her do some sort of a spell.

"I don't understand," Venedette said, giving the tablet back to Sir Grand and when Sir Grand saw the image that Venedette was looking at, he almost dropped the fragile tablet to the floor out of shock.

"What happened to this? Did I grab the wrong one?" he said and turned the tablet around, seemingly looking for something else so Venedette had to hold his hands to calm him down.

However, when Venedette made contact with Sir Grandoise's hands, the image on the tablet disappeared and changed into another one. This time it was an image of a little girl being blessed by what seemed to be a goddess judging from the image of a bright halo around her head while blessing the little girl.

This phenomenon made both Venedette and Sir Grand second guess what was happening with the tablet in their hands.

"This tablet is called Prophecy, it was a device made in the early three thousands which people could only use once for a particular Prophecy each. And although I know the history behind this thing, I don't exactly know how to make it work since there were only three versions of this in the whole world. Each with their own Prophecy which meant that there were only three Prophecies that we should look out for."

"And the first one was the 'Prophecy of the end of the world' which my great-great-grandfather used as an inspiration to create the legendary Super formula that spared our species from it." Venedette said, adding to Sir Grand's quick trivia about the fortune tablet called 'Prophecy' that was now in their hands.

"Wow! I thought that was just a myth! Who knew this thing could actually work?" Venedette said excitedly, covering up for the fact that she was actually scared on the inside for recognizing the girl in the images that they saw just earlier.

"This is Gem… right?" Sir Grand said carefully while pointing at the image of the little girl on the tablet.