A few days before I post this chapter~
Me, laying on my bed while looking at the ceiling : ...
Me : What planet the last test will take place..??
Me : ... *literally work my brain to the limit*
Me : Let's see... How about a rain forest type planet..? Nahh, it's boring..
Me : ...Something easy.. Waitâ That's too booorriiiinggggg~
Me : Come on, brain! I need something very chaotic!! *thinking really hard*
Me : *scrolling through pinterest*
Me : *gasp*ð¡ Ohoho~ Mwuahahaha!! Yess!! That's it! I LIKE IT! *start to laugh hysterically*
Narusyan and Kuro : *pass my room and look at me weirdly*
Kuro : *whispers* What's wrong with her?
Narusyan : *whispers back* I bet she accidently fried her brain since she was thinking to hard
Me : Hehehehe! Mwuahahahahahaha!
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"This is Planet Umbra, the planet where you will take your final test." Commander Kokoci explained.
"...Is it just me orr.. the planet kinda give me a horror vibe?" Blaze whispered as he laughed nervously.
"No, it's not just you, Laze." Taufan whispered back at him.
In front of everyone present in the control room is a hologram of a planet. The color was really dark, different from any other planet they knew. Instead, the planet seemed worse than Planet Volcania.
Since the planet looked like a dead planet, the elementals assumed that there are no living being lived in that planet. However, they are still hesitated to go there. Even Fang, Gopal, Yaya, Ying, and Ochobot stared at the planet in suspicion.
"Umm.. Commander, why does the planet look.. really dark?" Ying asked.
"Is it a dead planet?" Gempa frowned.
Commander Kokoci and Admiral Tarung looked at each other, unsure who will explain it to them. Seeing their hesitation, Fang decided to spoke up.
"Planet Umbra is not really a dead planet. Rather than dead, it's also alive. We don't know the exact reason what make the planet looks really dark despite their history."
Blaze asked in confusion, "History?"
"Planet Umbra was known as a crowded planet years ago. The aliens who resided there live according to their rank. They, who have money and wealth, lived a happy and peaceful life than the one who didn't have money and lived a bad life." Solar explained as he observed the planet closely.
"Gee, what a trashy aliens." Taufan muttered.
Halilintar growled, "What do you mean by bad life?"
"Being outcasted, thrown out from the planet, get sold, thrown into the jail, and the worst of all, executed in front of the public."
Ice frowned at Solar's explanation, "No one's helping them?"
Instead of answering, Solar only glanced at him from the side before darting his eyes back to the planet's hologram. However, it was a clear answer for all of them who's curious about the answer.
"Wait, that doesn't explain why the planet is abandoned." Blaze grumbled.
Taufan gasped, "Do you think it's because of the spirits of aliens who can't leave peacefuly and decided to haunt the planet?!"
Blaze and Thorn gasped in unison.
"Finally! A paranormal activity!" Blaze cheered.
"Thorn finally can meet ghost!" Thorn beamed.
Halilintar eyed them with exhausted epression.
"Ghosts are not real." He tried to put a common sense to their brains.
"They are real!" Blaze defended.
"No, they're not." Halilintar argued.
"Real!"
"No."
"They're real!"
"If I said no, then no."
"They're not real!" Taufan smirked.
"Yes, theyâ Wait no!" Halilintar sputtered, but he's too late as the trio already cheered happily in front of him.
Halilintar gaped at them in disbelief while Solar snickered far from him. He sent a sharp glare to the light elemental direction which Solar only ignored.
"For the last time, how can they be one of us?" Halilintar pinched the bridge of his nose. Ice shrugged from beside him.
Commander Kokoci typed something on his tablet before a hologram appeared on each of the elementals power watch.
"We detected a power sphere signal from this planet months ago, but none of our agents could go there. Your test is to retrieve the Power sphere safely to our station. If you all return safely with the power sphere less than one day, you will pass this last test and officially can join our rescue mission."
The elementals nodded their head in understanding with determined expression. No matter how dangerous the planet is, they will do their best and pass this test.
"Ochobot, prepare to teleported them!" Admiral Tarung shouted.
"Yes, admiral! KUASA TELEPORTASI!"
A teleportation gate appeared in front them. They waste no time to stepped inside the portal and were greeted with a dark sky and black forest.
The teleportation gate closed behind them not without a flying camera coming out before the gate closed. The camera flew high so it could recorded the elementals in retrieving the power sphere.
"Woah, it's even darker now that we take a closer look." Blaze's eyes sparkled as he looked around the burnt forest.
"It's feels like we're in a horor movie!" Taufan said excitedly as he called his hoverboard over and sat on it.
"...I don't like the chill this planet giving me." Solar mumbled.
Gempa observed his surrounding with serious eyes. A rustling bushes caught his attention and when he turned to it, the bushes stilled like it didn't move previously.
He looked down to his power watch, watching the red dot blinked not far from their location.
"It seems the location of the power sphere is in north, not far from our location." Gempa announced.
The other six looked at him before glancing at the dark forest in front of them. Bushes rustling from the corner of their eyes caught their attention. They even swore, they heard someone's soft chuckling from the rustling bushes.
"You mean.. we have to cross this forest?!" Ice's eyes widened as he pointed to the forest with disbelief.
Gempa only gave an unimpressed stare at him and Ice's hand, which was outstretched, fell to his side limply.
"Hey look! A warning sign!" Taufan flew with his hoverboard to the direction he pointed.
True to his word, there was something like a board covered with ash. Taufan wiped the ash aside at the same time the others arrived to see the warning board.
When he's done, he flew to fly beside his other brothers. The ash was still there since they didn't have wet rag to scrub the ash off. However, it's clean enough for them to see the sign.
"Don't enter this forest if you are 1 people." They all read the warning with confusion.
Blaze stood up from his crouching position with a grin, "Well, we are seven people so it's safe for us."
"I still think something is wrong with this forest." Ice muttered while staring at the sign.
Gempa sighed, "Then, let's go. The faster we end this test, the faster we can go back."
At Gempa's words, they quickly entered the dark forest, leaving the warning board behind them, not noticing another small streak covered under those black ash.
Small gust of wind wiped the remaining ash, showing words '7 people' rather than '1 people'.
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"Don't enter this forest if you are 1 people.
"Well, we are seven people so it's safe for us."
"It's suspicious. Don't you think so too, Ying?" Yaya asked.
"Yeah." Ying agreed as they watched the screen intently.
"What do you guys mean?" Fang watched them in confusion.
Ying turned to him, "Haiya Fang! Why would you write '1 people' when you can write 'Person', instead?"
Ying's answer immediately snapped some sense to their brain. Something really fishy is currently happening in this planet.
"Huh? Look! The words change to '7 people'!" Gopal pointed out in fear at the warning board.
They all turned so fast and read the warning board repeatedly. Yaya and Ying gasped while Fang tried to contact the elementals.
"Ugh! I can't contact them! What should we do, Commander? Admiral?" Fang asked, concerned for the seven elementals.
Admiral Tarung only stared at the screen quietly, hummed.
"We do not need to do anything, Fang. Just watch."
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"Woah, I literally can't see anything if you didn't lit up your flame, Blaze." Taufan awed as he tried to adjust his carribean blue eyes to the darkness beyond the trees.
"Heh! You guys are lucky to have me." Blaze puffed out his chest with pride smugly. His left hand lit up with small flame while his right hand gripped someone hand.
Solar sneered at his smug face, "Hey! How could you forget that I'm here too?!"
"I'm sure no one want to see someone with white attire and glowing white eyes or light orbs surrounding them in the middle of dark forest, strolling mindlessly." Halilintar hissed at him.
"Youâ"
"Shh! Keep it down. I told you not to fight with each other!" Gempa shushed them with frown on his face.
Halilintar and Solar turned away from each other with a clicked of their tongues. Thorn looked around curiously as if he was looking for something.
"Thorn didn't see any fireflies around. Aren't forests supposed to have fireflies?" Thorn glanced around him dejectedly.
His heart clenched with sadness once he saw most part of the forest burnt to black while some die from lacked of nutrition. Not even a single of animals even crossed their path when they entered this forest. Gempa knew how hard this was for Thorn since his element involved with nature.
Gempa patted Thorn's head while smiling warmly, "Maybe, we'll find some."
Thorn looked up to him with his wide green before nodded his head. Solar, who saw that, immediately slung his arm around Thorn's neck and grinned at him.
"Don't worry! Once we're back, we can go to rain forest type planet so you can see the fireflies."
Thorn's eyes sparkled at Solar's statement. They continued to walk, keeping their voice low and dodging any branches that could possibly make a loud sound. Gempa occasionally peered down to his power watch to check their location.
Blaze suddenly stopped on his track, causing the others also stopped behind him. Halilintar almost shouted at him about why is he suddenly stop, when he saw how pale Blaze's complexion is. The other six also saw, and Gempa choosed to ask.
"What's wrong, Blaze?" He asked, alarmed.
Blaze's voice came out in a horrified whisper, "If.. if Thorn is... beside Solar, and... and you guys are behind me.. , then who... whose hand am I holding now?"
Realization dawned upon all of them. The remaining six elementals's eyes slowly traveled down with great hesitation at Blaze's right hand.
The sight they saw almost caused Ice to faint right on his spot because there, gripping tightly to his brother, who is the opposite of him, right hand is a hand.
A pale white hand with no other body parts. Just a hand.
"Holy shâ" Halilintar almost cursed aloud only if he didn't remember Gempa's earth gloved hands.
Solar was frozen stiff on his spot, his silver eyes behind his visor blankly stared at the hand before his brain completely shut down and he fainted.
The others was too afraid to move until the unexpected happened. The hand grew until it had an arm and full body part of a little girl, dresses with white gown and thick black hair.
They couldn't see the little girl face since her body was facing forward, the opposite direction of them.
"Play... with me..?" The little girl turned her neck 180 degree to faced them.
Her eyes socket was empty with mouth curled into a wide grinned, passed the limit of a normal human body could do. The mouth full of dried black blood and maggots crawling from the inside grinned at them awfully.
Honestly, they never ran that fast in their whole life without using their power.
"What on earth was that?!" Halilintar yelled as they ran through the dark forest.
"It's a ghost, Hali! They're real!" Taufan shouted back while laughing in joy.
"Now is not the time to be excited!" Ice panted as he also ran. His hoodie fell down to his shoulder from how fast he ran. He's sure he will lose weight 2-5 Kilograms if he ran for hours without stopping.
"The fact that I've been holding hand with a ghost since we entered this forest!" Blaze made a weird expression between disbelief and excitement as he dodged another fallen tree.
"Not only that! It was just a hand!" Hali screeched.
"I know right!" Blaze shouted.
This time Gempa decided to join, "How could you didn't feel it since the start?!"
"I thought I was holding Thorn's hand!"
"But, Thorn was beside Gemgem!" Thorn defended as he also ran along side his brothers.
"Ugh! Whatever! This lightbulb is really heavy right now! I almost left him behind so we can give him as a sacrifice to that ghost." To emphasize his meant, Hali fix Solar's position on his back.
"You shouldn't do that, Hali! By the way, our location is getting closer to the power sphere!" Gempa yelled as he checked his power watch.
"Good! The faster we retrieved the power sphere! The fasted we can leave this haunted planet!" Ice grumbled.
They ran faster only to stopped abruptly.
"Whe..re... are you going..?" The little girl tilted her head to the side in front of them.
"Damn it!" Halilintar cursed as they ran to the left.
"Language!"
"Not the time, Gempa!"
"Guys! Are ghost can fly?!" Ice screamed.
"Yes! Why?!" Blaze answered.
"Because the ghost is flying right behind us!" Ice screeched.
They all turned at the same time only to be met with the flying ghost almost reached their back while grinning widely at them.
"We don't have another choice! Let's split!" Gempa announced with harsh breath and they split up right away.
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