Barak squeezed his eyes together from the warm sensation he felt resting on his face, As the sun rose the next morning after a long night of partying, barak opened his eyes, and as he sat up he looked around, Polaris was still knocked out in the same spot where he passed out from the night before, and Levant was no where to be found in the training area, and his new friend zack was also no where to be found, besides them many other people were all over the training area passed out,

Barak walked over to the table where the drinks were and took up a bottle out of the container of ice they were kept in, and walked over to the wall, he stood at the foot of the wall and in a zap of lightning appeared on the top of the wall, he walked over to the side where the sun was rising and he took a seat on top of the wall, watching the sun rise,

Back inside the base

Levant made his way through the base, and as he walked through the endless corridors, he let out a very tiring yawn,

"that's the last time I'm letting a girl distract me for the entire night", he said out loud to himself,

'still though she was pretty nice and I felt a weird connection with her', he thought as he let out a deep sigh,

"ohh so she kept you distracted all night now did she", Aster said, throwing his arm around Levant's shoulders, and letting out a small chuckle,

Levant jumped at the sudden appearance of aster,

" you say that but where did you now appear from, you ducked out of the party last night", Levant questioned as he looked at aster,

Both boys began to laugh at each other,

as they walked down the corridor Aster felt something tug on his hoodie sleeve, both of them stopped and Aster looked behind him, there stood his old friend , that he met last night,

"ohh seems like we both had the same idea last night", levant said jokingly to aster,

"nope she's an old friend, she's actually from Arteva just like us", Aster explained,

"so what happened that you were looking for me", Aster asked her,

"well I finished what we were working on so I thought that you would like to see it", she said In a rather soft spoken voice,

" I swear skipping partying to work on a project what the hell is wrong with you Aster", Levant said to himself,

"hmm, okay lets go", Aster answered,

but before he could move levant loudly cleared his throat, stopping aster dead in his tracks,

"oh right Brie this is Levant, Levant this is Brie", Aster said quickly introducing them,

"well now that that's out of the way, what is it that you two were working on ​", levant asked,

"it's easier to show you rather than tell you", Aster said as he followed Brie back down the corridor that they now came,

"fine then" Levant said, shrugging his shoulders, following the other two down the corridor,

Back Outside

Barak stood up as the sun was now fully risen, he began to walk atop the wall, seemingly without a care in the world, then he began to remember, back to the night when the village had been raided, about twelve years ago, everything had seemed peaceful that night, it was completely normal, but then a group of mercenaries attacked the village, and in the midst of the chaos, an unspeakable act had been committed that night, Barak remembered that that was he moment in which a deep hatred had been born within himself, and due to that it was also the night when part of barak's humanity began to become sealed off, it was only a few years later when barak left the village, as he felt he couldn't take living there any more, he was quickly followed by the other three boys who had snuck out to follow him,

Barak had snapped out of his memory, and now with an annoyed look on his face, he headed inside of the base,

Back with Aster and Levant

The three made their way through the narrow pathway of metal boxes, eventually making it out,

"you really need to clean up in here", Levant commented,

"wasn't me that made the mess, it was yumi", Brie retorted,

"that actually makes a lot more sense now that I think about it", Aster chimed in,

"anyways lets get down to business", Brie stated,

the three of them walked to a large table that stood in middle of all of the mess of confusion, and on it laid a set of armor,

"okay so it's armor", Levant said in a sarcastic tone,

"nope it's not just armor, turns out that the giant I captured and had Kwanae analyze came in use, though I did tell him not to tell anyone", Aster said,

"what the hell are you talking about", Levant questioned,

Aster held up and let out a disappointed sigh,

" I had my friend kwanae analyze the giant I captured, and it turns out his body is extremely well made, naturally I mean of course, and he enlisted the help of Brie here", Aster explained,

"uh huh go on", Levant said,

"turns out the giants are able to live about five to six times longer than us humans, every last one of his cells are extremely dense and along with his bones and muscle, not only that but they can draw out one hundred per cent of all the nutrients from the food they eat not one shred is wasted, but the real prize was there blood the have such high levels of iron in their blood that we were able to figure out a way to bond it to metal, though I wonder how they process that much iron through their bodies", Aster continued on his rant,

"Aster get back on track", brie said,

"right so basically they couldn't figure out which metal the blood would bond to easily and for a long period of time but luckily with me there able to bend and mold the metal we were able to complete it", Aster concluded,

"okay so basically it blood armor", Levant said,

"yup but this armor is super durable and it shouldn't be able rust or corrode", Brie started to explain,

"anyways enough of all the science talk, we made it according to yumi's size so that she can back us up with fighting Aluric, plus its something he shouldn't be able to copy", brie stated,

"the only problem I have with this is that you experimented on a giant which is a living conscious intelligent being", Levant stated,

"oh come one Levant don't go growing a saintly conscience on me now", Aster stated,

"plus they tried to kill us first, and as they say all is fair in love and war", Aster pleaded,

" it's scary how twisted you sense of right and wrong become when it comes to you tinkering with shit like this", Levant said,

"dude you killed two of them, at least this one is still alive, I think", Aster said chuckling slightly,

" how the hell did they even get into contact with each other ?", Levant asked,

"i'm glad you asked, a while back yumi showed me these things called spirit crystals, you can send things through them and also communicate with them, but its not like they are sold any and every where, but I just so happened to run across Aster's friend one day about two months ago, as for how he got his you would have to ask him", Brie explained,

somewhere Else

Yumi opened her eyes to find Aluric sleeping in a chair across from her.