Chapter 113 - Catching Up

"I wish I was there," Gem said with a faint smile.

"I wish you were there too, but you have things you need to do Gem, what's important is that we're fine and you're doing fine yourself, we'll get to experience a lot more things together soon," Fily said and patted Gem's head before hugging her.

"Let's go to sleep now, shall we?" Fily added before letting go of Gem.

"Okay, thank you for these again." Gem said and waved goodbye to Fily with the small bottles of different potions in her hands.

"Phew, good thing I was able to finish all those tasks in a flash. I hope this will continue until the last day of my evolution. If only I could find another way to endure this pain." Gem murmured while staring at the potions after Fily left her room alone.

She didn't want to keep taking the potions as much as she could avoid taking them or drinking Hot chocolate but it's just too painful for Gem to endure and get used to after just one night and one whole day..

"I have three to four more days to endure this, I just really hope using the potions Fily gave me won't cause some kind of malfunction, especially on the last days, please…" Gem prayed hard before putting another orange sedative potion in her orange juice and drinking it before going to bed.

[Combined sedative's effect on evolution: No effect.]

"Okay phew," Gem sighed in relief before proceeding to sleep.

***

[Venedette: Are you guys there? Please don't tell me you're still here on the island.]

Venedette sent the message frantically while flying directly to the castle.

Since Petunia, Fily, Von, and Lei were all riding the Zoomer, a speedy flying car that zooms directly to their destination without interruption which the guards of the Palace usually use when transporting troops, the four of them couldn't even dare open their stat-huts just to see Venedette's message.

But since the Zoomer is fast and they arrived in the castle like a flash, Fily was able to answer Venedette's inquiry first before proceeding to Gem's clinic room.

"Thank god so much you guys are safe," Venedette said while kissing Von's cheek and hugging him along with Lei.

"Mom please go away, you're dirty!" Von complained while shrugging off the black liquid from Venedette even though he's covered with dust himself from all that digging.

"Say that for yourself." Petunia said carelessly before remembering the fact that her relationship with either Von or Lei wasn't that good to be joking around anymore.

"What's with that look, Von?" Venedette asked when she noticed the glare that both Von and Lei were secretly giving to Petunia.

"She betrayed us, mom! She gave me a temporary sleeping potion and handed me to those old people-"

"Crones," Petunia interrupted, which made Von more annoyed.

"Crones and even let them escape from grandma's senses! She's a complete psycho along with Fily and I don't know why she thinks she's still safe going in and out of this castle! She should be banished, mother!" Von complained in a whole paragraph before taking a deep breath to fill his empty lungs from all those complaints.

"They gave us away to those old people purposely! She's a traitor-'' Lei added, which was immediately interrupted by Venedette.

"Okay, stop. Both of you." She said, which made Von's heart sink.

'But, she-"

"I know, I told them to make sure you both are in the hands of those Crones no matter what."

"But why?" Lei finally asked the million-dollar question.

"Because of the Prophecy," Venedette said and released her stress by exhaling loudly before showing them the tablet in Sir Grand's hands.

"What is that?" Von's eyebrows furrowed upon looking at the familiar scene in front of him. "You let them betray us because of a silly carving in a stone?" 

"No, it's a prophecy, Von" Venedette said, trying to defend their actions but Von only thought it was silly.

"And here I thought you actually cared about us," Von said with a pout before walking out of the room.

"Is this THE prophecy? That legendary invention that saved us from the Doom age?" Lei said, showing his awareness of the gadget, unlike Von.

"Yup," Petunia said, which made Lei less enthusiastic about it.

"Lei, let's go," Von said while peeking from up the stairs to the hallway where they were currently having a conversation.

"You still owe us an apology, both you and Fily." Lei said to Petunia before walking away with Von.

"He's so hard to reason with," Venedette complained to herself and flopped on the sofa.

"We'll talk to him again later." Sir Grand said and put down the Prophecy beside Venedette to pat her back, "You did great today." He said and kissed her forehead.

"Where did Fily go?" Petunia suddenly asked herself before taking off.

"Come on, let's clean you up." Sir Grand said and offered a hand for Venedette to take.

"Okay," Venedette said and took Sir Grand's hand before standing up with the Prophecy tablet in her other hand.

***

"Riveth!" Halma exclaimed while walking on her own along the dark hallways of this castle.

"I will go there, just you see," Riveth said and turned off the call she started just right after Halma left Fily to take care of Gem in the hospital wing.

"You're really stubborn," Halma muttered to herself before seeing Venedette walking along with Sir Grand on the other side of the castle.

"Now what kind of trip do I want to experience on this island?" Halma thought to herself before proceeding to fly towards Venedette.

"Ven," she started and was also startled when Venedette suddenly jumped to Sir Grand because of shock.

"Ma! Oh my gosh, I did not sense you there. What is it?" Venedette said and went straight to the point immediately.

"I want to go to a cloud beach."

"A cloud what?"

"A cloud beach, the one you guys saw down there at the edge of the island?"

"How did you-?"

"I'm the Queen, I know everything, so what do you say? I won't take no for an answer."

"But we just-"

"Okay, tell them to prepare for our trip there next week, see you," Halma said and proceeded to the throne room after another successful day of being a great Queen to her people whose island almost burned because of her silly plans.