280 Lucy (1/2)

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What welcomed the team was a scene that was completely out of their expectations.

All this time, the team was expecting a lot noise from constructions, many people running everywhere in the cave doing stuff while being observed by their supervisors and getting stuff done.

What they saw instead were the rest of the Black Curtain Guild's men floating in the air like they were ascending or something.

Those that the team dealt with earlier are only a fraction of their force, they didn't pass the 100 number count from Luna's estimations. They already guessed that the rest were here but they weren't expecting them to be in this state.

It appears that everyone from their group was in a similar state. All of them floated in the air with their eyes closed and had faces that showed myriad expressions.

Some appeared to be in pain while the rest appeared to be in bliss.

”What the fuck?” Paul exclaimed as what he saw finally sank in to his mind, ”What's going on here?”

”No idea.” Mark commented, ”For some reason, they are all suspended in the air. I don't know what caused them to end up like that, I can't feel anything from them either. How about you guys?”

”I can't feel anything either.” Anne replied, ”Nor see anything for that matter.”

Ellen didn't speak since she didn't know what was going on either. Raven was analyzing the scene before them when he noticed that Luna was acting rather strange.

She was absorbed in thought, so much so that she didn't even notice that Raven was already waving his hands on her face and calling her out, trying to wake her up from her stupor. She only came back to reality when she felt someone shook her body, causing her consciousness to return to reality.

”Luna! What's wrong!?”

”H-huh?” She replied, stuttering as she felt confused for a second. ”Oh! Sorry about that, I didn't know I became so engrossed on my thoughts.”

Raven frowned and asked: ”Can you feel anything from this?”

Luna wrinkled her brows and tried thinking, she replied by saying: ”Barely. I can feel something in them, but it's so faint that I can't quite make it out.”

Raven's face became stern, he was about to say something when Luna added: ”Strange. It feels…familiar? I don't get it. I'm pretty sure I've never encountered anything like this before, but why do I get some sort of a familiarity with it? What's going on here, Avi?”

Hearing that made Raven a bit surprised. He thought for a second and said: ”I'm not sure. So far, only you could feel something from these people. Even I don't know what's going on. Why don't we investigate first? Let's see if we could find something else before making assumptions.”

The team agreed with his plan and together, they resumed walking deeper into the cave while maintaining a close distance with each other. Raven made sure to remind them about alertness, no one had any idea when these people are going to wake up, and just in case they did, the team had to be alert.

As they got deeper into the cave, the more people they saw suspended in the air whilst unconscious. There is only one path inside the cave for them to follow which made their navigation easy.

Along the way, Luna would sometimes inform them that she could feel some wisps of energy distracting her. Whenever Raven consulted her about what that energy felt like to her, she could only reply that it was familiar and that it doesn't have any malicious intent.

What's even more stranger is that, Luna felt like this wisps of energies are telling them were to go even though there's only one path available inside the cave.

Raven felt a little bit of apprehension. He didn't understand why it was only Luna who could feel this 'wisps of energies', he tried using everything in his arsenal just so that he could capture even the faintest feel of what Luna could feel but nothing worked. In the end, he could only suggest moving forward and remain on guard for an unexpected development.

Out of nowhere, Raven felt Luna froze. Nervousness crept up to his heart and when he tried to ask her what's going on, she suddenly yelled: ”Incoming!!!”

*Boom!*