Rise of the Malactric Heir

While the ship was soaring in the air, Scott approached Adora and she looked at him.

"What's the matter?" she asked.

"Where are we headed next?" Scott asked.

"Home," Kyris responded.

"No, guys we will not be going back home just yet," Adora said and they looked at her as she looked at Kyris.

"Could you send someone back to the villa to retrieve our belongings and handle everything else while we wait here?" Adora inquired, and Kyris nodded.

"All of our things are in our rooms in our bags right guys?" Sarah asked and they nodded then Kyris smiled.

"All right, who's coming?" Kyris asked.

"I'll accompany you," Aerav replied.

"Me too," Serina said, and he smiled as a magical circle appeared beneath their feet and they vanished.

"So, where are we headed?" Alix inquired.

"Let's wait until the others return, then we can talk about it; I don't think we'll be going back for a while," Adora replied, taking her phone out of her pocket and smiling when she saw it was fine and not broken.

"Adora, I don't want to even bring this up right now but, I have to ask, are you certain you don't want to return home, Adora?" Ifrit inquired.

"Not yet, I have something to attend to first, then we will return," she replied, and they smiled at her as she held onto her arm, which was aching her more than she would admit, and Alix sighed, waiting for Kyris and the others to return.

While waiting, Adora closed her eyes and imagined her team members, recalling a smile on her mother's face before she died then she sighed.

After a short wait, Kyris and the others returned with everything, including extras from the villa such as sweets and other items.

"You sure work fast, and you brought things that aren't ours, that's a crime," Alix said and Kyris laughed.

"Yeah, but it's not like we care if it's a crime or not, I brought back the ice cream too, everything's fine, you guys can collect your things," Kyris replied, and Alix chuckled as they all stood up and collected their belongings.

"Where are we headed next?" Serina asked, and they all looked at her.

"Do you intend to stay, Serina?" Misran asked, and the girl looked at Adora.

"It's fine, you can stay if you want, and our destination is the main team base, where all the team members gather when I want them to or when they need to, but this time it will only be us there, no one else," Adora said as they smiled, then she gave Scott the direction and he decided to change their course.

The fact that the crystal was gone, bothered them, but they blamed no one and had already made up their minds to still stop the enemy.

"Well, we are looking forward to seeing the base, is it far from home?" Sarah asked.

"No, it's not far, you guys can relax there, and there is more than enough room for all of you, you guys can clear your mind on the beach and so on, also, I am still going after the enemy," she responded and they smiled.

"So are we, they have to pay for making out lives miserable and a lot more as well, right guys?" Alix inquired, and the others agreed with him, they all wanted revenge on the enemy.

They knew the enemy was up to no good and everything was on the line since they planned on destroying it all so they didn't mind risking their lives trying to stop him, but Alix had different things going on in his mind as well, he was changing rapidly.

Later that night, after Adora had finished freshening up, she changed her clothes, but her arm was still aching, and her ankle was fine because it had only been sprained.

After Adora changed, she looked at her arm in the mirror and noticed a black vine forming around it, and her eyes shook as she stared at it. Her eyes turned red, as did the palm of her hand, and she placed it against her wound, which began to give off a burning sensation as she attempted to rid herself of the darkness within the wound.

It was hurting her a lot, but she didn't care because all she wanted to do was get rid of it.

Adora was angrier than ever because she had lost the crystal, but since no one was blaming her, she tried to keep her cool and sighed when Alix and Kyris passed by and saw her tending to her arm, and Kyris' eyes widened.

"Adora," he yelled as he rushed into the room, pulling her hand away from the wound and looked at her.

"What?" she asked.

"What are you doing?" he asked, looking at her wound and seeing that the darkness had begun to fade, and she smiled.

"It's the only way, whatever it was, the darkness within it was strong," she said and Alix sighed, knowing she was hurting herself.

"I have a better way to do it; if you want me to help, come and find me and stop hurting yourself," Alix said before leaving, and Kyris looked at him. Adora sighed, and Kyris smiled before patting her on the shoulder and lowering her head.

"It'll be fine, Adora; do you want to talk about what's going on in your head right now?" he asked and she looked at him.

"Would you like to know why I'm not going home?" she inquired, his eyes narrowing as he looked at her.

"I have a bad feeling about this; will you tell the others as well?" he asked.

"Where are they?" she asked.

"They're in the upper deck, come on, you can tell them there," he responded as he walked away, and she sighed as she followed him to the upper deck.

"Guys, please pay attention now, Adora wants to tell us something that's been bothering her," Kyris said as he sat with them, and she sighed, then looked at them, and they looked at her, waiting for her to tell them.