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Welcome Home: The Forest of Cessation!!!
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2022-12-25 00:58:15Finishing their long and tiring journey towards their new home, Suzan, Sophia and Zack reached the "Forest of Cessation!!!!".
A forest where the trees were mangled, and jagged rocks were jutting out of the ground, it was dark even during the day, and very calm, they couldn't even hear birds chirping. Something seemed a bit off and there were no animals seen so far.
"Finally we're here" Suzan exhaled.
"This forest... it's so deep..not to mention eerie too" Sophia whimpered " just what exactly is this place.... it doesn't seem like our usual wilderness and I haven't seen any animals so far".
"This is the Forest of Cessation," Suzan told.
"Its name is perfectly accurate seeing how creepy it is, 'Forest of Cessation' huh... I haven't heard about it...and why you'd chose this of all places?" Sophia posed a question.
"This forest is at the base of the famous volcano. Past eruptions have created a rich layer of soil for the forest to thrive off of. But at the same time, the volcanic rocks and magma have hardened the soil so the tree roots can't penetrate the ground, causing them to twist and turn above ground. Also, since the area is volcanically active, there are many magma chambers and over 200 caves. Many of these caves are even covered with ice all year around.....in short this is no place for ordinary people to live... but of course, we're on an extraordinary mission so it's the perfect fit for us... also living at this place will replenish our aura and won't be anyone around to interfere with our training, so it'll give us an advantage of not being noticed" Suzan explained.
"I get it.....now that I'm looking closely, this place is kinda beautiful" Sophia muttered.
"There's a town nearby, almost at a distance of 300-350 km from here....for our daily needs we'll go to that town by feet to build physical strength and durability, also it'll help empower Zack's speed manipulation techniques.... there's also a school that he could join later on...." Suzan added.
"What about our home, are we gonna build it, you said that you haven't arranged that yet?" Sophia asked.
"Yeah about that haha I was kidding I've arranged it, it's behind that cave you can see straight ahead" Suzan replied.
They went into that cave.
It was a stunning house not matching with the forest at all, equipped with modern technology, and having a monitoring system that displays the whole forest with surveillance cameras. There was an underground facility with fuel tanks and an armory.
"This place, sister it's incredible...
who and how arranged it all?" Sophia asked.
"Guess who could....lemme tell ya, he's a great person". Suzan gave her a hint.
"Oh yeah really! Captain Seth arranged this place in the middle of a deadly forest, he is something" Sophia was shocked.
"hell yeah he is something...this property is worth millions and he just gave it all away....well good thing he trusts us so much" Suzan added.
"A great person indeed....but sister how we will contact Captain Seth, this place...I don't think we'll find any signals here..." Sophia showed her concerns about communication.
"Hahahaha my dear do not worry one bit...." Suzan said while throwing a cell phone at Sophia.
Sophia caught the cell phone and turned it on, to her surprise it displayed signals with full strength, she looked up and it was a tower on the roof of the hideout, she screamed out of excitement "What the hell is this?".
"Captain not only managed to provide us with this hideout but he also set up a tower for communication purposes and the most surprising part is that a satellite is tracking us from space too". Suzan revealed.
Sophia found it not credible and said: "I knew Captain was rich and all that but to arrange a satellite personally for us ah man this is just insane".
"No doubt about that". Suzan affirmed.
Suzan told Sophia to set up her room or do some changes and get comfortable asap.
After getting some rest and adjusting a little Sophia went to her favorite place first "the kitchen"..... after a long time of surviving on preserved food, she finally wanted to eat homemade cooking, if it wasn't for all this trouble the Devils of the red Moon caused she might have been working in a restaurant.... the kitchen had a gigantic refrigerator having food supplies for at least one month.....Chef Sophia cooked some roast lamb with crispy potatoes and stuffed cabbage with lemony rice and sumac.
They ate well and Suzan praised her sister's cooking "Ah I'm stuffed now I'll have to do some workout" Suzan headed towards the gymnasium while Sophia did the dishes.
On their first night at their new home,
They went to their bedrooms on the top floor, the ceiling had an option for switching to transparent glass, and they could see the sky full of stars and the moon shining bright...
Suzan looked at the sky and said "what a lovely sight... I'd have loved to see these stars with you Lucas but you were in a hurry I guess...so here I am.....alone trying to find you in the sky, how very foolish of me"
She fell asleep smiling.
While Sophia tried to sleep counting stars but she was a night owl who overthink all night, "how vast is this universe and its mysteries, I'd love to go myself and discover one day.... what's beyond this sky....peace maybe?" she kept staring at the ceiling.
About the little superhero, he didn't know anything but kept looking at the moon as if it was calling out for him.
The night passed, the sun shined bright, and they opened their eyes... after having breakfast they started their training with a 10km run, Zack as an infant couldn't run, but it was a training of his aura manipulation speed-enhancing technique....but this wasn't the end and this was the beginning of their new life and moving closer to their goals.
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