April Fools 2025: Future Awakened! (Part 1)< Elysia – The Nex galopolis >
< ??? PA >
*Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock…*
“Mn…?”
*Rinnnnng*
A hand slamd the stop button of an alarm clock. A figure squird beneath a mound of pillowy fluff as they groaned: “Already…?”.
Thin rays of the morning sun peered through parted blinds, painting the ssy room with warm light. The room was decorated with various trinkets and posters of Offices, Associations and the 26 Ateliers of the Nexus, each with distinct signatures and pictures of blurred out faces.
A teenage figure erged from the covers with a long yawn and an exaggerated stretch. Long, ssy, black hair tumbled down her shoulders as she kicked off the bed with surprising morning vigor.
“Hmhm. Hmm. Today’s the day!”
She tapped on a calendar marked for the 1st day of the 1st month of the year. The occasion was the new year’s, naturally. Or the Last Solstice. However, with the number of years she had lived through, such celebrations had beco rather dull.
Indeed. Her cosmic-colored eyes sparked with a hint of gold for a different reason.
She threw on a black dress, a belt buckle, dark thighhighs, and applied a coat of Luminal Moisturizer along her dark skin. This was from the Atelier Alkaderma – an Atelier specializing in skin products to replace the need for costic Healers.
Plus, it was a good way to passively accumulate Nex – since this was their primary use of technology after partnering with Oboros Infinitas.
That said, once she had finished brushing her hair, which remained ssy due no matter how many tis she tried to pat it down, she ran a finger along her razor-sharp teeth and smiled in the mirror.
“Heh. Off to pick her up from school~!”
She promptly left her cozy house and found herself in a suburban area with white-bricked pathways. Waiting for her was a large, red sli with a racoon tail and checkered stripes.
“Did ‘she’ leave a taxi for ?”
The sli nodded, urging her to hop on. Once she was sat atop its head, and its body had morphed to safely encase her, the sli began to drive along the shared streets of the Nex glalopolis.
There were no cars in the Nex galopolis. Though there were other Kingdoms who did employ magical combustion-engine-based vehicles to traverse their territories.
The Nex galopolis chose a thod that would balance the gauge of safety, affordability, accessibility and – above all else – the experience.
Dozens of slis road around, carrying families, Adventurer parties, long slis ferrying children to school and in so cases, patrolling Public Defenders – whose slis were pale, fluffy and had a ring of many eyes surround it.
The girl vividly rembered soone calling it a biblically accurate sli.
The Atelier who owned these slis was part of the ever-growing Head. And due to the nature of the Head, the Atelier was introduced as a civil service.
“But they can be scary sotis. Actually. All the ti.” The girl murmured, seeing a warning flash above her head as distant trumpets played.
//////// < WARNING > ////////
< BLACK WING INCURSION >
A one-kiloter machine in the sky fizzled into reality. It was an Eye.
Massive pale rods fell. These were colossal Isolation Spheres which engulfed anywhere between a few ters to a few hundred kiloters.
Then, a seemingly endless wave of black-wearing Healers entered the invisible do, no doubt to eradicate any and all signs of heresy to Head (typically Syndicates).
“Lucky she doesn’t have to see that.” The girl humd. “Nav. She’s finishing now, right?”
< Very soon. Be sure to let her know I said hello >
< She gets quite frightened when I speak to her like this >
“Like ! I used to be afraid too~!”
The girl rembered the first ti she heard Nav’s voice deep in ‘that’ place, far below the world of nothing but walls and monsters just like her.
“That said – To the Academy of Magic!”
* * *
There wasn’t one sole Academy of Magic, or a few lesser ones sprung between the Atelier cities.
Every Sector had their own Academy as part of the partnership between the Golden Index and the Golden Dawn.
It beca mandatory for children to attend these schools. Those who could not were able to attend classes at sections of a Guild that catered to those who did not live near a school.
“Hehe. Oh? Aren’t you quite the adorable thing?”
A decrepit laugh greeted the black-haired girl the mont she set foot into the glorious courtyard of the Nex galopolis’ largest Academy.
“After all these years you still look like a bundle of joy. Hehe. Get it?”
A certain green-hair and grey-haired duo were found roaming the gardens of the courtyard, hand in hand.
“Because that’s my na?” Joy said, pointing at herself with a wry, forced smile. “But – Miss Carpalis! You’re here to see her too!?”
She’d always force herself to laugh at Carpalis’ jokes, even after…
How many years has it been?
Joy began flicking her fingers up, counting them. She didn’t have enough fingers to count it all.
“Dear – Ahem, Carpalis! Don’t go scaring off children again. And don’t forget about too, little… numbskull.”
Evergreen, the Underboss of the Golden Thumb grumbled before her face morphed back into a pleased expression.
“We’re here to see her take her first steps. As a big girl, you should be ashad for coming two minutes late.”
“I had to get a sli-oil check along the way! My sli almost got a ticket by the smile police! Too.” Joy argued, drumming on the air as her face made (>_
< You should know that these Doves speak using the Collective Unconsciousness as a dium >
“… Even I didn’t hear that when I was a – uh… thingy.”
Joy shivered, but the smile they made lted her heart.
“Besides, they’re not the Enforcer of the Sovereign Star~ Our precious mom~!”
Indeed. Joy was the daughter of the Amalgam and Jury. She was widely greeted by known and brand-new faces as she went around.
Ber: “Long ti no see~ Perla! You never t Joy before have you?”
Pearla: “The Amalgam already had a daughter!? Two now!? So you’re the big sis… Congratulations!”
Perla clapped, all the while a tiny version of Ber peered from behind her dress.
Beryl: “Hello…”
“Beryl~ Are you here to see ‘her’ as well?” Joy crouched and gently patted her head, to which the little Beryl nuzzled and nodded cutely. “A She used to be so small.”
“Ti flies after going through back-to-back wars with the Stars. We’re just happy it’s all over.” Perla humd.
Ber wasn’t the only one who had a little version of them wandering around.
Even Res did! Although Joy couldn’t spot her partner’s face.
A trio of a fox-man, a human and a Puritas demon-looking girl had children – each one carrying the characteristics of their birth mother.
Aster had also managed to find love and had triplets of her own. A blue-eyed Stella held their hands and took them around for a leisurely stroll, as she had done in the past for Aster when she was just a small child.
Magus, and various Archetypes were also present, ready to greet the Amalgam’s child. His hands were ready to clap the loudest.
Amongst them she spotted a strange-looking red-haired girl with a stripe of golden hair. She was the only one allowed to openly carry a weapon.
“Grrr. I’m jealous Snow! When are we gonna have pups of our own!?”
“Y-you realize it’s not easy between girls Red! We’ve had this conversation before!”
“But the mutt Cer’s sisters got their own minions! And now the Amalgam’s getting her own again! I can’t keep losing her! Not to her! How many Stars did I shoot out with that Frost-looking guy too!?”
“I understand… I’ll ask Beholder Ignis if she has sothing. Lesson 999… I didn’t think it’d have to be ‘that’.”
“Grrr. Oh, that Ignis!? The Ignis who has the cool bone sword!? Who cut an entire Star in half!?”
“Haaah. Yes, yes. That Ignis.”
Many legends surrounded every mber that was present here. Those legends, if anything, were watered down versions of what really happened during the last war. They were all Awakened, which had given them a trendous advantage and the capabilities to fight the Stars.
Without it, they would have fallen.
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