The Adventures of Ace, Zeal and Candy

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Zeal was still at the bottom of the mountain curled up in a nap sack needing his rest before his trip back home but as he slept he couldn't believe what he had been through meeting the creator of all sykions living on the planet yet, he still wondered how many other sykions had met her before. He tossed and turned a bit in his sleep not really comfortable with his nap sack making one of his hands slip out with his palm touching the bare ground, he was currently dreaming about candy. The one he held dear and near to his heart and they had been together for several months and she had changed his life after they had gotten together, he remembered first moving to the region from Reverence, Reverence wasn't one of the best places to live for a happy life, his childhood didn't have the most pleasant memories but he did have few friends as a child. Around the age of 14 he ran away from his home back in Reverence ending up alone in Qevena, he remembered these memories well, he had almost starved when he left Reverence because he left with only the clothes on his back leaving his past behind. When he had gotten to Qevena he was offered a place to live and was taken in by the locals, all of them kind and eager to help those in need, the memories of his past still haunt him to this day but he has learned to cope with himself
He had been through so much in such a short time, leaving his home beginning a new life in Qevena meeting Candy around a year ago and becoming her boyfriend, it was a lot for the young wolf to take in but it was all so amazing how fast he had matured in his youth already planning to be united with her, and now he had met the creator of their race, he wished that his mother was kind like her but sadly she wasn't and which was what caused him to leave that day around two years ago, his dream was cut short as candy vanished from his arms "huh?" he stood and looked around as the scene in his head had shifted back to the cavern he had met Salana in. She appeared before him in his dream "hello child" he looked at her "h-hello, i-is this a dream" he asked baffled
"yes, i thought i should check in on you after you left the mountain, I can sense you are still near the bridge?" he nodded "I needed my rest so i fell asleep on the ground since all of what just happened was very exhausting" she walked over "I understand, I also wanted to tell you to please watch over ace" he took a step back "you know about him?" she nodded "he was one of the first children I created a long time ago before humans and neyatene arrived on Sykia" "woah..." "I sensed his presence fade shortly after his creation as the planet went into an ice age but it was not until recent that i sensed his presence reappear" "so that means he wasn't a neyatene experiment" she nodded "he is one of the original sykions that first roamed sykia but he was being used to create these other beings that were not born into this world naturally, at first i did not recognize these beings but it took me some time to realize that these were not my children but instead born from machines with no souls, a true tragedy....." Zeal looked down at the ground
"i hope that one day humans and sykions work together to get rid of the neyatene from this world but the neyatene have the humans wrapped around their little claw fingers" "precisely, many humans believe that the neyatene are here to help when in truth the neyatene would betray them at a moments notice, but there are humans that live with sykions that have come to realize the evil within most neyatene" "please tell me there arent any sykions in league with them...." Salana was silent "unfortunately there are....." Zeals expression darkened "traitors.... I have to keep ace safe, you never know who you can trust these days" Salana nodded "I'm afraid i must cut this conversation short child, i need to rest" "I understand, being the goddess of an entire planet must be exhausting" She put her hands on his temples again as she did earlier "before i return to my rest i will send you back home, just close your eyes and imagine yourself their as you did when i sent you to the bottom of the mountain" Zeal imagined himself back at home with Candy and ace, enjoying a freshly cooked meal by the fire "now open your eyes child"
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Zeal's eyes opened as he woke, he looked around and saw the front steps of the little house he shared with Candy, he looked down at the ground were he was laying down and saw the little blue chokio spirits sinking down into the ground as the morning sun was barely rising in the distance "thanks for the assist and making the trip easier salana" he felt as if the chokio in the ground had just answered with a hearty "your welcome" he looked at the spot he was still laying on and saw the nap sack was gone "guess i can only be transported when im touching the bare ground, wonder if the same goes for things like lakes and oceans" he stood up and stretched yawning a bit as he did so, he walked up to the door and walked inside using his spare key candy had given him, he opened the door slowly so it wouldn't creak loudly and wake the others, as he did so he stepped inside and closed the door slowly behind him setting the pack on his back down beside him.
it took him a few seconds to realize that his dustboard was missing from his pack, he held a hand to his head brushing his bangs out of his face "oh man..... that board was a gift from the entire crew...." he realized it must have fallen out of his pack when he fell of that ledge back on the mountain "how long have i been gone...." he walked over to a small calendar on the wall and saw that he marked the day he left with a blue marker, there was a total of nine days marked off after that with a red marker he began to wonder how long he had been out for when he first crawled into the cave to escape the avalanche, he did remember that when he woke after that he was extremely hungry and thirsty but that had subsided when Salana tended to his wounds "oh jeez Candy and the crew must be worried sick"
He was about to walk into the room he and candy shared before realizing the musk his body was giving off "ugh.... gross, I smell like week old fish...." he walked over to the bathroom and undressed turning on the hot water in the shower letting it warm up before stepping inside, as he stepped inside. He felt the water run down his body as he grabbed the soap and conditioner, he had always picked out a certain conditioner for his fur that candy absolutely loved since it would make him as soft and fuzzy as dandelion, he finished scrubbing his fur and his tail and rinsed off, he stepped out and grabbed a towel wrapping it around his waist picking up his toothbrush and toothpaste brushing his teeth and topping it off with some mouth wash, he finished that and dried off heading into his room making sure candy was still asleep, he put on some of his lazy morning clothes, it was usually a pair of shorts a plain sykion t-shirt, he finished dressing himself and turned around, he gave candy a kiss on the cheek "guess who's back" he spoke in a soft tone of voice "wha...." she said groggily opening her eyes, he came into her hazy vision as it cleared and she tackled him into a hug "Oh my gosh your back!" she gave him kisses all over his face
"i was so worried! after your week ended and you didnt come back i thought...." "hey its okay.... its okay...." he wiped a few of her tears away and held her in his arms, she immediately bonked him on the nose lightly "dont scare me like that!" "Its okay it wont happen again, i promise" "good" she snuggled into him "so what happened on your trip" Ace had walked in "hes okay! yay!" he hugged them both "oof! tight hug" ace loosened his grip "sorry, so where were you?" they both looked at him waiting for him to tell them how his journey went "well first we had to journey all the way to Briarsain then from there we found this old bridge that got us to the island, then we rested for the night before going up the mountain, then as we climbed the mountain there was an avalanche and i fell and got separated from the others, then i found this cave that i crawled into and i" he caught himself just before giving away that he had met the goddess of their world Salana
"i-i..... i got hit on the head with by a falling rock and was out for a day at the most, when i went back outside the others..... they didn't make it..." Candy gave him a worried look at the mention that he had gotten hurt "but I made it back here this morning not knowing how much time had passed since i had left" Candy hugged him again "you poor baby..." she kissed his forehead "that had to be a lot that you went through" ace remarked, He remembered that Salana had told him all about ace but decided to stay silent and wait until ace was ready to tell him and candy that he had escaped the Neyatene facility "all this story tellin is making me hungry" he got up and went to the kitchen and cooked them all a hearty breakfast meal as they sat around the table relieved that Zeal had returned
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Later on in the afternoon Zeal left to carbon, this time on foot since he had lost his board back on the mountain, Rhaena was the first to great him "Gadget, were ya been?" she hugged him as the other crew members joined in all worried about their favorite engineer "well i'll tell ya later when im not being hugged to death" Ember was hugging him the tightest of them all, she loosened her grip "o-oops" she smiled nervously "anyways... I-i lost my board..."
they were all a bit surprised "how?" asked Rhaena "well let me tell you the story" he briefly explained what had happened giving the same story to them that he had told candy and ace leaving out the cavern and Salana "thats a bummer dude... but the important thing is that your alive and well right?" "yeah, or else i wouldnt have the pleasure of working with you guys" one of the teams other engineer had brought him a bag full of parts and Rhaena spoke "we actually wanted to have you make your own board with parts we found" He looked at the parts "Aw really?" they all nodded "come on guys lets leave the guy to his work" Rhaena went back to practicing with the others as Zeal grabbed his tools and started to work on his board
several hours later Zeal had finished the board and was ready to show it off to the others "guys check it out" he showed them the board as a few oos and ahs were uttered, the board had a bit of a sleeker design than standard dustboards meant to be fast and precise with handling perfect for his raids on the neyatene transports "thats one of the coolest boards ive seen made from scratch!" exclaimed ember "other racers just tweak their boards and fix them when its needed but this looks pretty cool" "thanks" Zeal replied, it was late out and the racers were going back to their homes, Zeal was a bit too tired to partake in the neyatene transport raids today so he decided to head straight home, he hopped on his new board and sped off, on his way home he stopped at the store nearby for a soda, he paid the cashier and left bacl home, once he had entered his house he got back into his lazy clothes "Im home candy!" he called out "yay!" she said from the next room over, he walked over to their bedroom and laid down with her "hows ace been" "ace's been good, he's finally unwinding and relaxing now that he trusts us" Zeal smiled "thats good, he asleep right now?" she nodded "i tucked him in myself" she curled up beside him in there bed "Love you candy" "love you too Zeal" he gave her a kiss and fell asleep shortly after holding her close in his arms purring lightly