127 The Meetings of The Minds (2/2)

”I ate too much...” Marek complained as her crumpled a burger wrapper and tossed it onto the table. ”Princess I'm sorry it was only a little bite... please don't cry any more. Look you can take a bite out of my fish burger.” Edmond said as he slowly brought a burger up to Olivia's face. ”No... it's not the same!” She wailed as she took another bite of her own double patty, crispy bacon, chicken burger. ”But it's fish! You love fish! Look it's even got tartar sauce on it.”

”Why did you take such a big bite from my burger...” She sniffed as she reached out and grabbed her strawberry milkshake. She brought the straw to her mouth and sucked. She was puzzled, all she got was little drops of shake and air. ”It's all done...” She said as she put it back on the table. ”Look you can have mine, so please forgive me?” Edmond pleaded as he past the shake over. Olivia looked at the shake then the burger. ”and two bites of the burger too?”

Edmond groaned. ”Sure two bites too.” Olivia's face completely lite up as she took two giant bites of the burger and snatched the shake away. ”What the hell is this?! You ate half my burger!” Edmond shouted as he pointed at his food. Olivia shrugged as she sucked bake some strawberry shake. ”Then don't steal my food.”

”You are nothing like Samantha. I can share anything with her and she would take the tiniest of bites!” Olivia rolled her eyes and happily drank her shake. ”Hey.” She said casually while Edmond shielded his food and stuffed the rest of the burger into his mouth.”Wut?!”

”I think Marek got the itis.” Edmond moved his gaze towards Marek and had seen that he had slide down part of the chair and his head slumped to one side. ”That's an understatement! I mean the guy ate two times faster then us! Where the f*ck does he put it all?!” Olivia let out a small chuckle then started to feel drowsy. ”I'm gonna rinse my mouth out before I take a nap too.” Olivia said as she rubbed her right eye.

”Okay, but don't blame me if the rest of the foods gone because you're both light weights.” Olivia waved her hand in indifference and dragged herself off the bed and towards the bathroom.

When she got back she saw that Edmond slipped off the bed and was sitting on the floor with his back against the bed. His head hung forward and soft snoring sounds could be heard. ”Champion!” She said lazily as she raised her arms in victory.

Since no one heard her, her victory was short lived. She dragged herself back towards the bed and slid under the covers. Sleep seemed like the best reward.

...

It was dark, she could only see herself and no one else. She started to run and the sounds of her feet hitting the floor echoed throughout the void.She didn't know where she needed to be but forward seemed to be the best option.

Olivia would zig zag, took a left then a right then tried running backwards but the abyss refused to let her go anywhere. ”Ah....vi... Oli... ah.... Olivia!” She faintly heard a familiar voice.

Olivia planted her feet, sucked in as much air as possible could and let out the loudest yell she could muster. ”EDMOND! EDMOND, WHERE ARE YOU!” She placed her hands on to her knees as she doubled over to catch her breath. ”Olivia!” He shouted this time, causing Olivia to look up in the direction she heard it come from.

Just ahead hairline lights started flickering on a wall and she raced over to it. As she approached it, she raised her hand towards it so to gently touch the lights but wall came crumbling down.

Infront of her was a busy street, people were walking in every direction as the sun beat down on her. ”Olivia!” She turned around and saw a young boy with bronze skin, black hair and copper eyes. ”Edmond?” She asked as the little boy crossed his scrawny arms over his chest. ”Ya!” Olivia couldn't help but ruffle his hair. ”You were a cutie when you were young.” She teased.

”What do you mean I was a cutie? I still am!” He said as he flashed her a toothy grin. ”Right.” She answered as she rolled her eyes. ”So where are we?” Edmond grabbed her hand and started dragging her away from their spot. ”Who knows, who cares but we gotta find Marek.”

”Marek? Wait, wait, wait already! Do you know what's going on?” Olivia said as she finally pulled her hand free from his grasp. Edmond shrugged then grabbed her hand again. ”Ya kind, sorta, maybe, okay I don't know but it's a feeling I have and my gut says find Marek!” Edmond dragged Olivia to a small shabby looking park, not too far from where they were. ”Slide!” Edmond shouted as he released Olivia and ran forward. ”Edmond wait!” She called out as she ran after the young, giggling boy.

”Slide, slide, slide! Let's go down the slide!” He said as he reached the tube slide. Olivia climbed up some shaky stairs and took a step onto the platform where the opening of the slide laid. ”Let's slide together!” He shouted merrily and waited for Olivia to sit down first. ”Alright, alright.” She said as she sat down and patted her thighs. Edmond carefully sat himself down and grabbed Olivia's arm. He wrapped it around his waist and started to laugh. ”On the count of three!”

”Okay, one...” Olivia started her count and noticed the tube slide started to rumble. ”Two...” A faint light started to glow from within the tube. ”Three!” Edmond shouted and the tube slide lifted upwards forcing Olivia and Edmond to slide down. Air rushed past the both of them as they twisted and turned within the slide. Olivia's hair whipped backwards while Edmond let out a delightful laugh.

The light started to glow brighter and soon enough, it engulfed the two. They soon found themselves tumbling into some dense moss. Olivia groaned as she sat up, she looked around and found herself completely submerged. With great difficulty she hauled herselfup and searched the surrounding area. She saw Edmond's feet sticking up while the rest of his body sunk into the moss. ”You okay?” She shouted as she tried pulling herself out of the whole.

She saw that the feet disappeared and two giant hands appeared. ”Ya I'm fine.” Edmond said as he pulled himself out. ”You've grown.” Edmond looked down at his body and smiled. ”That's more like it! But where are we?” Olivia kept her body close to the moss as she army crawled forward. ”No idea.”

”Finally, we can start our meeting.” A sweet voice said. Edmond and Olivia both looked at the direction it was coming from. There sat Sakura on a giant toadstool, happily watching the two struggling to get out. ”Marek?” Olivia called out and saw him sheepishly wave hello as he sat on a small toadstool next to Sakura. ”Congratulations you found Dhara but it does you no good. I already told you that you helped them, the final key is Vaidehi.” Sakura said as she called up another two small toadstool.

She is waited for Edmond and Olivia to finish crawling out of the moss before she continued. ”My sweet sisters and my beloved granddaughter. It is great to see you together but us meeting so soon is nothing but ominous.”