Recently
on Fires of the sky, lots of things have changed after 365 days. Almost every
student had to separate and disconnect with each other due to self-anger and
terrible memories of the first two years. As the main students rejoiced, they
find that Jen can mysteriously read books with empty pages as if they did have
text and pictures. It only appears whenever she is reading. Further along the
Reunion, the main group finds that Winny has left to Temple City to start a new
life, but what is her reason? The students follow her into a new prophecy book
that leads into Temple City’s world, much like El Monte’s ‘Arkon’s Magic’. What
surprises will the students experience this time?
Episode 271 – Playing the Guessing Game, Meet Winny!
…Again!
So the feud finally begins. The
remaining group of seven, excluding Jen and Jaime, are now in a tough decision
to choose which entrance to go through. There are six doors, three on each side
to the left and right but they are not labeled as any of the seven deadly sins.
With a handicap, Winny’s codename ‘Winny Envy’ is in the center room, so the
person with the most envious personality among the El Monte students is asked
to go forth. However, Matt claims that Timothy only wants designated students
to match their doors and personalities only to be beat easily. In order to
counteract with this, Matt, claiming that he is least envious, will enter the
door to take on Winny and try to persuade her to come back.
“Are you sure this is a good idea,
Matt?” Shirley became worried with his inner well-being at this point. Although
he has been lucky to barge through the East Coasters, Grimm Gluttony, and the
guards at the front garden, he might not be lucky for long in doing the same
method against the seven deadly sin bearers.
“And what will happen then?” Alex
added. “Are you going to persuade her? Remember what we said earlier. It is
Winny’s choice to stay or not.”
“Something tells me she was lying
half the time.” Matt said as he opened the door. “Just pick a damn door
already.” He slammed the door shut.
“You know, we really didn’t have to
participate in this and just let Winny be if it weren’t for Jen and Jaime…” Van
suggested. “We could have easily backed out of this but now we have to find a
way to get them back.”
Yessenia had her thinking face on.
“What bothers me is that Timothy Wrath mentioned that this building is only
half of what we see. We really need
that book to interpret this better.”
Phoenix was already at the upper
left entrance. “Do you think these rooms connect to each other?”
“Yes.” William said bluntly.
“How would you know?” Shirley
questioned him.
“I can make them connect.” Darkness
suddenly filled in between his closed eyes. Van and Alex began to walk away
from him. Because William took the upper-right door, Van and Alex took the
lower left and lower right doors respectively. Shirley took the door to the
middle right and Yessenia felt it was fine for her to take the middle left
room.
Van said to the rest of the students
before parting ways, “I can’t believe I’m finally doing something dangerous on
my own. I also can’t believe we’re even playing Temple City’s game. I hope I
don’t get someone in the highest rank…” Alex agreed with her as they finally
split apart.
~~~
Phoenix was the first to reach a
strange examination. In front of him was a dusty old room that was mixed in a
pigsty. There was a pizza box on the floor and two flies were having a feast
all around it. The window was lazily plastered in two wood pieces in the shape
of an imperfect ‘X’, so the light was shining a bit into the room. To the right
was a door that led to an unknown room but Phoenix was too afraid to open the
door. He tried to stay as quiet as he could but the wooden floors kept
creaking. Suddenly, his stomach growled.
“Damn it!” He whispered to himself
as he turned into Nix. “Maybe then I won’t feel hungry.” In front of him, but
on the other end of the little room was an old, dusty bookcase. “Weren’t we
looking for a book?” He thought. “Um, what was it called again…”
With strategy, Nix could simply fly
to the other side of the room without making any noise but a slight sound of
flapping wings. There were old books about the history of Temple City. Nix made
small baby flames appear from his little wings because the room was dark and
the only light that came into the room was from the moon. Unfortunately, all of
the books had either the word ‘Temple’ or ‘City’ in it, so it was difficult for
Nix to remember which kind of book it was. “Maybe if I turned into a human for
just a second… I could have a better memory capacity.”
He transformed into Phoenix but he
made a loud thump with his feet. Suddenly, the door to the right propped open.
“Who’s there?!”
The same tall man who caught Jen and
Jaime looked confused as he saw nobody in his presence. He sneered and then he
took a slice of old pizza from the box. Phoenix had already turned back into
Nix and hid under the bed. Nix watched him peacefully eat a slice of pizza, but
Nix was starting to feel a little sick from watching, even as a bird.
Nix gasped. “Wait a minute. He’s not
watching his health and he’s eating whatever. He’s the Gluttony? I thought that
other fat guy was Gluttony…?”
He was staring at the moonlight from
the window, wondering how much time has left to spare before Matt starts to get
frustrated with their bad timing. Nix quickly made it back to the bookcase once
the tall man went back into his room to the right. “I wonder what he’s doing in
that room if he has a bed here. Does he have research or something?”
Nix headed back to the bookcase and
he forgot to humanize himself again. In frustration, Nix flew to the floor and
THEN he turned into Phoenix to make a clear, quiet landing. Once as Phoenix, he
could easily remember the book’s name: ‘The Temple in the City’.
“What?! There are three books with
the same exact name but different covers!” Phoenix was about to open the books
to find which one resembled what he saw earlier with Jen and Jaime, but he
heard footsteps again from the room to the right. “Damn it, I don’t have time.
I might as well take these three books and scream.”
The tall man opened the door again.
“I feel like someone is in here…” He told himself. Nix was hiding under the bed
as a bird, but with the little time he had left to transform, the three books
were crushing him from above. Nix gave a shrilling sigh to himself.
“This is going to be a long night…”
he thought.
~~~
Jen and Jaime were tied together
back-to-back under a dark platform but they couldn’t see much of anything else
around them. It was completely quiet, but there were a few footsteps heard from
above. Just exactly where are they?
“Matt told me a few prison stories
in his adventures… I can’t imagine how many times it has been up until now.”
Jen complained.
“Oh there has been a handful. But if
it’s any consolation, we’re not really in a prison.” Jaime said, examining the
room.
“There’s nobody else here. This is
just some sad storage room that was never used before.” Jen gave a sigh. “I
really wish I had my nunchucks. I miss it already even if it probably hates
me.” Jaime was awkwardly quiet as Jen continued, “My nunchuck has feelings
according to Kalpesh. I’m not the crazy one here.”
“What do you think they did to your
belongings and the book?”
“I-I don’t know. For the nunchucks,
I’m sure they don’t know that it has a special mind of its own. But, it’s not
going to do anything right now since it’s not close to me yet. This sucks. I
didn’t even get to use it.” She then thought about the book. “And the book… I’m
sure they’ve kept it somewhere safe. I mean, it has pictures of Temple City and
us in it. They should know it’s some kind of fortune telling novel. There is no
way they’re going to trash it somewhere.”
~~~
“Trash this crappy novel, guards!”
Timothy said in one of the rooms. “I have no use for it.”
“Sir, yes sir!” the golden armored
guard said as he saluted.
“Achoo!” a sneezing noise appeared
from far away.
Timothy turned around. “My, we
already got a visitor. I wonder which kid it is?” Out came Alex who was getting
drowsy. “The sloth?” He asked.
Alex took a step back. “G-Get away!”
He was frightened, not wanting to fight.
“Running away? You must be the greed
then.”
“N-No! I don’t know what I am!!
Ergh.” He became annoyed.
“Or I must have gotten the Wrath
wrong?”
Alex had an idea. He suddenly
smiled. “Or maybe I’m everything – or nothing?!”
“You seem very… prideful of your lies. You must be none of them then! We have no
use for you.”
Alex panicked. “Oh, damn it all!” He
suddenly casted a large bubble of water in front of him. In an instant, he made
a splash of water follow his other hand. “(Alright! The second wind by now
should be a piece of cake.)”
Timothy made his arms disperse like
mist. “I’m not sure if you know you’re messing with the wrong person, but I am number one on the seven deadly sin
bearer ranks.”
“Well, I’m number one at water-making
so you better watch it.” Alex tricked Timothy, knowing that he had the power to
manipulate mist. He quickly made the water in his hands go away and then he
used both hands to control the mist that Timothy had for his arms.
Timothy flinched for a second but he
reversed to his normal self. He turned more of his guards into mist to obscure
Alex’s vision. Alex’s glasses suddenly became moist.
“Augh!!” He screeched.
“You think you’re kind of saboteur?
A jester? A smart man? Hah. I am always one step ahead of my enemies. With that
little amount of movement that you’ve done, I could already tell what kind of
sin you are.”
“I’m actually something?” Alex said
in confusion.
“Heh, you don’t even know!” Timothy
pointed at Alex’s shaking legs and his waddling fingers, followed by a drip of
sweat running down his forehead. “Nervousness. Fear. Guilt. All you want to do
is run, you never wanted to be here but people forced you. You are the one who
constantly greeds to run away but nobody lets you!”
Alex was frozen in dismay. “Me?
…Greed? But h-how could you decipher it as Greed from just that?! I’m not even
af-f-fraid!!”
“A sloth keeps his laziness at full
potential. Lust, envy, and gluttony are obviously out of the picture. If I
already knocked out wrath and pride, then you are Greed. And surely, wrath
defeats greed.”
Alex remembered that Matt was chosen
as Wrath. The two of them also struggled in a battle against each other back at
the Druskane Continent on the way to Tigre Village. “Why is he always defeating
me even if disadvantages like fire?” He thought to himself.
“All you do is cry and run. Is that
who you want to be for the rest of your life? How long have you been like this?
Was there any chance for you to change before?”
Alex became annoyed. “I had a chance
to change after my friend was forced to stay in a dimension of the Elemental
Challenges. I had a choice, to become brave or something else. I chose to stay
the way I am.”
“Oh? And why is that? That sounds a
little miserable.”
“Because it’s fun being yourself. I am fear, I am greed, the one who wants
to run and hide and greed everybody else to do all of the harder work.
Sometimes I find it fun to be bullied around by my own friends because as you
don’t know, friends like to show their bond with you by insulting you. That’s
what friends are for!”
Timothy created mist again, but this
time it was not the substance of water. It was the substance of sand. “Ah, if
you’ve come to accept who you are, then it’s time for your doom. Prepare, young
man!” The blast of sand was flying towards Alex in an instant!
~~~
Matt found an almost empty room due
to Winny barely moving in to her new ‘Arkonic’ home, or in her case, a
‘Templed’ home. Matt could see a dark-skinned Winny with her bushy hair as
usual. She jumped around happily, putting one tennis ball on the shelf after
another.
“Hey.” Matt said.
“Blah!!” Winny said in surprise.
“Wh-What do you want? Oh my goodness, it is such a long time! I haven’t seen
you in a year.”
“What are you talking about? You
just saw me outside.”
“Oh? Come on. You look serious. It
has been so long.” She hugged him with tears coming out of her eyes.
Matt paused. “What…? Is this the
time when you start to push me away with your serious form and tell me to never
touch you again?”
“Hehe! Awww, you remember that!”
“What is going on here?”
Winny skipped away towards the
window. “Well, you see, I’m Winny’s giddy form!”
“Really?” Matt then thought to
himself, “That fat guy must have seen this
form ‘always smiling’. So that’s what he meant.”
“Yeah. I don’t know if you’ve seen
it, but the last time I’ve done this was with Mariel back in Edmund. I only
appear separate from her body when her mind gets weakened and becomes flawed by
her own actions. The serious Winny constantly blames herself.”
“When were you split apart from her
though?”
“It was the time when… Venus, you
know. A little over a year ago. The other Winny told me throughout Freshman
year that she liked Temple City more, so I decided to pay a visit, but they
kinda trapped me and didn’t tell the full Winny.”
Matt gasped. “Wait, is that why she
only talked about the negatives outside?”
“She did that? Aw, that sucks…”
“I need… to talk to her.” Matt had a
strand of tears run down each eye.
~~~
- Preview to the next episode! -
Matt:
On the next episode of Fires of the Sky…
Shirley:
Awesome! I’m up next. Hey… she’s kind of adorable.
???:
No I’m not! Don’t underestimate me and my parasol!
Shirley: What can a parasol do- HOLY CRAP! It just shot out a laser!!
Alex:
This is funny to watch! Too funny!
Shirley:
Shut up! Only I can laugh at you!
William:
And what do I have here?
Shirley:
Oh that’s great! You get the easiest one and I get this crazy little girl who
can easily be a serial killer and destroy the planet with a single laser. That’s
totally cool!
Alex:
Still funny to watch.
Shirley:
Shut up!!!!
Phoenix:
So the book… I have it!
Matt:
With Winny’s giddy personality, we have to find the paradox of her. Next time
on episode 272, What Terrible Fashion! Better Laser It Up!!
Shirley:
I’m so gonna win this one!
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