23. About Our Pendants

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(Fifteen's POV)


I can see how dumb Greyson is doing.

I just told him to read his letter because I noticed that he keeps on looking at it. Well, it's from Leighn, and I don't know why he keeps on worrying about Leighn's death. I mean, yeah, he sacrificed himself to save Thirteen and all. If I can give anything just to give him gratitude of saving him, then I will. But now he's dead... (Well, I rather no to say it anymore)

What's the connection of Greyson with Leighn, anyway? He was supposed to write for his own Garde, and yet he wrote for someone he never met even before. Though, I can tell that his name sounds familiar with me before. Maybe from the Memories, if I'm not mistaken.

So I sat on the nearest deck in the quarterdeck. This is where Rex usually spends his time a lot with Jian and Night. I missed him more than anyone else will in this ship. I mean, he's the first person who helped me to find the other Garde, and he's been our father and our Cepan. He's good in fighting skills and battle plans.

But now that he's gone, and a battle ship follows us the next day, makes me think of what Greyson told me about him. I trust him and I know it could not be him. He will never do that. We've been together before I met Greyson so I know him well.

I open Greyson's laptop and activate my pocket Wi-Fi. I bought it from Philippines while we're solving Fourteen's cases. It's funny how to think, that until now, Greyson still wonders why we gain access on the internet at the ship. I rather not to tell him about that.

I try to search for any news about Fourteen and Twelve. Maybe another silly spiral crop circles. Really, how dumb is Fourteen. If I were him, I would never do what he did. He shares his crop circles to the world. It's just like telling the Mog, "Hey, I'm right here. Kill me now, will you?" And now his dot in the Device was missing.

I was a bit worried of him. I don't want to lose any from the member of the Garde. If he could just think before he acted... Well, he looks really like his brother.

Anyway, I tried to search for something but unfortunately, I found nothing.

I try to open the Device along with the radio Rex used. I keep on repeating the recording about the weird voice, though I don't really know why. The projected holographic version of Earth spins slowly, showing the dots. I realize the blue dots are gone again, leaving the four red dots for us. Oh, did I mention that Fourteen's dot was missing since Rex checked it yesterday?

As I listen to the recording, recorded by the Mogs, I keep on wondering about Rex's theory about Fourteen working with the Mogs. Oh, I mean my theory. Sorry.

It's just didn't seem right. I would like to believe he's actually working with them. But, I have to trust he's still one of us. Besides, even if I'm in his situation, I would never, ever, help the Mogs' cause and fight against my own people.

I stop the recording immediately because I don't think it's helping me. I shut the Device close, and just before I can even turn around to close Greyson's laptop, the screen buzz. When I look over the screen, the website changed back into the site I used to post using Loric language. Someone messaged me or something, so I look over at it.

"We are everywhere, and we will always find you."

I delete the message because it could be (first) some annoying people just trying to mess me up, or (second) the Mogs found my account and leave me a message.

I look over some of the posts, but all of them are already gone. That means someone's already deleted it. It could be the Mogs or maybe hackers.

I deleted my account immediately for safety. Just to be sure. I don't want to be caught just because I keep on using my account. I'm sure this laptop is not protected, and I'm not skilled enough to fix this laptop. Sometimes, human technologies are very hard to fix, though they are very similar to what we used back in Lorien.

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Suddenly, I remember back in a hotel when Greyson and I realize that we are secretly being recorded via our own laptop. I'm glad Greyson haven't destroyed the laptop yet, but it's safer if he did before it's too late.

I shut the laptop down and leave it at the table. I was about to get down to check if Eleven's fine, but suddenly someone behind me pat my back. When I turn back, it was Eleven.

"You scared me," I say.

"Did I?" she says. "I'm sorry, but I have to tell you something very important."

I raise my left eyebrow. "But you just woke up,"

"I'm fine," she says. "When I collapsed before, it wasn't because of the explosion. I don't know, but a vision shows up telling me we have to find out pendants."

I remember my pendant back in New York. I left it there, tucked under my pillow in the orphanage. I wonder if the nuns already saw it. If I just know that our pendant would play an important role better than us, I could have come back for it.

"So what's with our pendants?" I ask, as Eleven clutch her pendant slowly, showing two moons with nine dots. Her symbol.

"I think one pendant from the five of us is used to track and find another Garde. I'm not sure how, but each of our pendants has functions..."

"Like our Legacies," I mutter as Eleven nods.

But who would put something in our pendants? Maybe from the people who sent us here from Lorien, I remember. They have something to do with this. And I don't think in the other Garde from the first ten have also pendants with functions or something. I think it's only from the five of us.

I'm wondering if what my pendant has. Or Greyson's.

Eleven narrows her eyes as if to think why I don't have my pendant.

"So what does your pendant do?" I ask her.

"I'm still figuring it out," she says. "One time it glows with green lights faintly when I was in the Mog base. The Mogs keep on taking it away from me, but when I wake up the other day, it's just here the whole time, like it never been taken."

I think about my pendant's possible functions. But I got no luck. I remember I keep on putting it under my pillow and rarely put it around my neck. So I don't think I can guess what it can do.

"Where's your pendant?" Eleven finally noticed.

"I left it in New York," I say. "I'm not sure if I have to get it or what. We have so many places to go. Europe, Australia, New York, and even New Mexico. My Chest was sent there."

Eleven pats my back. "It'll be fine, don't worry," she says as I nodded. "We have to go to one place only. Together. I don't want us all to get separated again..."

"Yeah, me too," I agree.

I remember Greyson's plan about going in Europe to save his brother alone while me and Eleven will go to Twelve. It wasn't a great plan though, but I'm still hoping he'd change his mind. Eleven has her point.

I fix the area while Eleven helps me. After that, she asks if we can go training since Greyson is busy down there.

"I'm sure it's going to be easy," I assure her.

"I think so too," she says. I know she doesn't like training because of her weak Legacies, she calls it. And even if she didn't like it, I know her eyes tell me she had to train.

We went to a safer place for us in the quarter deck. I think it's already wide enough, so Eleven settled herself with stone at her hand. I guess that's Greyson's stone.

"So why do you want to train?" I ask. As soon as I said it, I regret. I think I'm mocking her a bit. "I'm sure you don't really like to train, right?"

She shrugs. "I just wanted to do it. In case I have to save someone during fights..."

Her face turn red, which makes her look like being burned under the hot sun. I can tell she's blushing.

I grin at her. My eyes are like that of a mad man but my lips are stretching, so I look more like an evil dwarf or something.

She frowns. "What?"

When she suddenly realizes what my eyes meant, she starts to laugh hard. "Oh, no. No, what you're thinking is wrong. No, you're wrong."

"Is this something to do with Twelve?"

Now she stops talking. She's turned silent and her face keeps on blushing, like anytime her head might explode.

"Alright, I'll stop," I decide. I know she's really doing this for Twelve. I mean, even she never met Twelve her on Earth before, I think she likes him already. I just thought that maybe she already saw him before. Maybe not here on Earth, but on Lorien most likely. "Let's just... we can start."

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