Talon felt his vision turn chaotically as his body was thrown completely off balance. In a split second, he lost all sense of direction and couldn't know left from right or up from down. The wind blew into his face as the scenery shifted greatly.
'Why is it this fast?!!!' Clenching his teeth, he tried to control the wings that were flapping at a ridiculously fast pace.
When he connected himself to the gears, he expected them to start slowly increasing their pace so that they could allow him to fly safely. But, instead, they instantly started flapping extremely fast and now he was flying chaotically in the sky.
"Help!!" Yelling for Emino to help him, the latter didn't move immediately.
"You need to order it to stop moving that way. You are the one that controls it!" He yelled back with a smile on his face.
The others watched with a rather knowing look as they expected this to happen.
"I don't know what Emino is expecting but he is clearly clueless about this. Isn't that true, Michi?" Kichi asked his twin brother as he watched Talon move left and right crazily.
"Of course, Kichi. Emino should've already known. He needs to help him. Or should we do that?" As one of the twin brothers was about to activate his wings and help Talon, Lefa lifted her hand and stopped him.
"No, let him be for a moment. I think I know what Emino is doing." She murmured with squinted eyes.
'So that's why you were that curious, huh?' She thought to herself as she watched Talon too. It didn't come to her that soon, but she now realized it.
"How do I even do th- Woah!!!" Feeling his head turning delirious from all the spinning, Talon decided to stop talking and instead focus on the gear. If the man didn't want to help him then so be it, he will have to do it himself like every other time when nobody helped him.
'Fuuh, ok let's calm down. I need to control it. It's just like a weapon so this shouldn't be hard.' Closing his eyes, Talon exhaled a long breath.
Almost instantly, he entered a very focused state without much effort. This was one of Talon's strongest sides, his ability to go from normal to extremely focused in a split second without much trying was impressive, to say the least.
While many wouldn't think much of it, this particular detail was one of the reasons why he was able to do everything he did so far. Because of his ability to put 100% of his mind into something, he was able to achieve things that were deemed almost impossible for everyone else.
This was nothing but another case of that. The wings kept moving all over the place as Talon went up and down, getting dangerously close to the ground and then rising up dozens of meters in the air.
'Stop moving!' Then, with a single thought, Talon put his entire intent into his order. His eyes shone with a faint light for a split second before they vanished before he could even realize it. Then, something totally unexpected happened.
The wings suddenly stopped flapping really fast and then adjusted Talon's body so that he could stop being upside down. The latter didn't stop there as he sent another thought quickly.
'Descend.'
With one single word, the wings followed the order instantly and the young man started descending slowly to the ground before he finally landed on his feet.
"Oh, don't worry about that. We will help you when we reach that place. We can also talk more there. Explaining things here isn't particularly ideal, is it? Our shift is over now." Emino said as he clapped his hands.
"No, no, let's go back!"
"Gather your stuff. Do you want to carry your own brother?" Emino asked Talon.
"Yeah, I would very much prefer that." Looking over his shoulder, Arryn was still sitting there, very hesitant about approaching the group. He didn't want to expose any parts of his body not to make them realize he wasn't human.
So, Talon decided to approach him on his own as he extended his hand. The latter looked up with an amazed expression. He looked like he had seen something mesmerizing. However, he still seemed to have a weird glint in his eyes as if he was displeased about something.
"That was... Amazing, Talon."
"Thank you. Now, let's get out of here. We have a lot of work to do once we reach the city."
The boy blinked silently before he smiled and nodded his head. Taking Talon's hand, Talon picked the boy up and looked at the group. Then, he took a deep breath and activated the wings again.
His body started floating slowly as he looked at the rest of the group. "Where is the direction?" He asked.
"That way." Saying that, Emino turned to his group. "Let's go."
Everyone nodded their heads except for the girl with the hood on her head. She simply activated her wings. The rest did the same and a few seconds later, everyone was floating in the air. Then, with Emino in the lead, they started flying forward at a rather fast pace.
Talon looked at them for a moment. "Can you keep up?" Kichi asked.
"Don't underestimate me." Talon shook his head before he focused on the wings again and soon enough, he was flying after the squad. His body was titled forward as he cut through the air at an impressive speed. The wind blew into his face with Arryn in his arms.
The scenery of the landscape around him made the flying all the more pleasant. Even though he barely learned it now, he already grew to like it a lot.
'Flying is really amazing... I can't wait to learn how to fly on my own in the future.' Just imagining a distant childhood dream turning into reality put a smile on his face.
"Who thought I was going to see you fly this soon? Fate is truly unexpected in all kinds of ways." Flying next to him, Acrypha said with an impressed look on her face.
"Hahaha, I always wanted to try and fly next to you. It was actually one of my goals, you know?" He replied as he tilted his body so that he could face Acrypha fully as he cut through the air.
The latter blinked, clearly taken by surprise before she sighed with a wry smile. "Is that so?" A soft expression appeared on her face. It was the expression that only Talon had seen so far.
'Tsk, this troublesome kid. Even a simple dream makes me feel happy. I guess it's not too simple after all.' She thought to herself. 'But... He will realize soon that flying next to him isn't the end of it. Perhaps the sky is his only limit.'
A//N: Sorry for the lack of updates in the past two days. My PC broke down and it took some time to fix it :) we are back to two chapters a day from now on.