LRAB Chapter 77 Cross your Fingers, Do a lil Dance, and Pray (2)
Chapter 77 Cross your Fingers, Do a lil Dance, and Pray (2)
POP! FWOOOSHHH!~~~~~
With a loud pop that seemed to shake the Cave, Aoni and Glacia were blasted by a fierce wind that shoved the fur ball deep into her Lord's embrace and pushed the lad back several feet.@@@@
That fact alone was more than enough for the pair of Lord and summon to understand they had hit the jackpot on the 10th and final summon.
Unfortunately, due to the strong wind buffering them, neither Glacia nor Aoni could open their eyes. If this were any other type of everyday wind, sure, it wouldn't have been much of a problem, but that wasn't the case because this wind was actually EXTREMELY Concentrated Energia being expelled from the Flume, and as such, was a good indicator of a High-Grade Summon emerging, even if it were in orb form.
Turning his back toward the incoming Energia wind and curling over Glacia in order to protect her, Aoni took the brunt of the windstorm, and although it didn't necessarily hurt, that by no means meant it was comfortable.
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To put it in more understandable terms, think about the blast of air you get hit by when opening an oven; now imagine THAT, but hurricane-force winds, and you have what the lad was getting hit by.
While it didn't hurt, it wasn't the best feeling in the world, and it actually made him a bit nauseous.
Luckily, this only occurred for all of 10 seconds before calming down, and the instant he noticed that was so, the lad spun around, and his jaw practically hit the floor.
"No...fucking...GAO!" Finding no other words, Aoni was so startled by the color of the new orb that he inadvertently defaulted to his unknown "Glacia-Setting" and mimicked her surprise sound, causing the ball of fluff to stare up at him in horror as if he had said the most unforgivable thing she'd ever heard.
"Yeah, that means we could get some new friends for you outta these, so don't look down on them because they aren't shiny like the others." Giving her one last pat on the head, Aoni's face suddenly grew solemn as he reached out and coaxed the first of seven grey orbs to his hand, and the moment it floated into his outstretched left hand, he crushed it in his palm, causing it to burst into motes of light and shoot back toward the Flume, then with a soft flash of muted light, there was a loud.
KLANG
Indicating something, clearly made of metal, crashed onto the hardwood floor.
"....g....gao?" Looking at the object lying by the Flume and then back to her Lord, Glacia seemed to be asking... "Friend?"
"Sigh, no, not a new friend, just a piece of rusty sheet metal; shoulda seen that one coming," Shrugging his shoulders, Aoni moved over, picked it up, and moved it near the mouth of the cave before returning and crushing the second grey orb.
And as before, his bad luck continued because, this time, he received a wooden yardstick.
When it came time for the third Grey orb to burst, it spat out something pretty useful: a comfortable-looking pillow.
"Oh, nice, that one is all yours, Glacia; it's a pillow, it's like a bed for your head, but with how big it is, im sure we can make you a bed from it." feeling generous and being the benevolent Lord he was, of course, Aoni would give her something comfortable to sleep on, especially since it was a full-sized body pillow which looked brand new.
Hearing that she was getting something, Glacia was quite happy, even more so once she understood it was made for sleeping on, so without wasting a second, she entered furry missile mode, grabbed the body pillow with her teeth, and brought it into the bedroom.
"That's three down, four more grey orbs to go," Crouching down, Aoni waited for Glacia to settle her new pillow into its place and come back before continuing to open the orbs.