Chapter 403 - Not Staying (1/2)

After seeing the group, Ray had climbed down from Noir to speak to the others just to see how the situation had become what it was. The last thing he had expected was to see his mother walking along with them.

He hadn't seen his mother in years and truthfully seeing her now he felt kind of bad. She had left when she was young, but he knew she cared for him. One of the few people that genuinely did.

Yet, he had never bothered to look into how she was or what she was doing. He was too focused on finding out the truth of his past life and not focusing on his current one.

”Don't look so sad,” Scarlett said as she walked over and started to pinch his cheeks outward.

”She's touching Ray like that!” Kyle whispered in shock.

”I don't think I've ever seen anyone approach him like that before without a fist to thier face,” Harry added.

”Oh, will you two calm down,” Martha said. ”It's his mother, of course, they can act like that.”

She then went in and gave Ray a big old hug and whispered.

”You've been through so much haven't you, I'm sorry I wasn't there to see you grow up.”

A scent wafted into Ray's nose, and a fuzzy feeling was felt in his stomach. The smell had reminded him of the time when he was a child and how much she used to look after him. As if out of instinct, a smile had appeared on his face.

Seeing this even caused Martha to drop her new beloved king tier Bow. There had been many times they had all seen Ray smile before, but it was one of joy, for beating someone. Or one of excitement. This smile was completely different; it was cosy almost.

”I guess Ray's a mama's boy,” Kyle commented quietly.

The two stopped thier hug and now all ready to climb up on Noir to take them to the city gates, but before that. Ray placed his hand on the floor.

[Ice bind]

A trail of ice on the floor quickly went on over across the floor until it eventually reached Kyle's legs and kept him in place there.

'Crap did he hear what I said?' Kyle thought as he tried to break free from the ice.

The rest were already on top of Noir, including Ray, and they all waved Kyle goodbye.

”We'll see in the city, Kyle!” Martha said with a big wave.”

”Wait, you're just going to leave me here! What about my legs. You can't just go, what if a beast or something comes and eats me!” Kyle shouted.

”Jack and a few others will be arriving soon. Ask them.” Ray said as the whole group left heading to the city gate.

It didn't take long with Noir's speed to reach the city gate, and when they did, Ray was about to ask Noir to jump over and carry on until they were at the main building. The city guards had been informed of Noir, and her description to let her in, so they knew she was a safe beast.

However, Scarlett had asked Ray to stop just at the city gate. As they all stopped and got down again, Ray decided maybe it would be best to just enter the city as usual, and allowed Noir to roam around near the stables. It wasn't fun for her to be kept inside his system the whole time, and there were no threats near the city. He could safely letter her explore.

When they got off, they noticed something else as well. There were crowds of people at the front gate of the city. Many of them had even chosen to camp outside pitching up tents, while the others directly at the gate were trying to gain entrance, but the guards refused.

”What is going on here?” Bliss said.

”I don't know,” Lenny replied. ”It wasn't like this when we left. We've only been gone for three days.”