The sun was shining as Ellarya , spread her Butterflairy Wings and stretched out her leg. She had Giovanni’s Scorpio tail that she had tucked away curled up, while she had slept, she stretched it out and opened the end tail. Within the tail, she looked and saw his image. She blinked again and he was gone.
She closed her eyes and simply sent out the vibes , please don’t show up. Giovanni was proving to be very bad luck in Ellarya’s life. He was a walking disaster zone. Out in his other life, you wouldn’t know the absolute “rubbish” everyone had to put up from him, to keep him going. Thankfully, his other wife ,in that life had to deal with him. They would make their public appearances as the “shining ” couple! What she had to put up with , behind the scenes, was something else entirely!

He was going to show up, one way or another, he always did. She always forgave him. He just knew , how to get around her, everytime. Truth is, she often saw his “crap” coming a mile away,she put up with it ,because part of her always just , just did. She loved him, the idiot, stupid, being that he was. They just knew how to push each other’s buttons. Giovanni whispered and muttered in his sleep. Ellarya would sometimes , just sit and listen, in fact: she could take notes. She didn’t. She didn’t record him. She just let him be and rest.

He was such “fun” ! The times she had with him, despite it all, she wouldn’t want to see anything “horrible” happen to him. She was never sure, he felt the same, ever. Just a “power” grab. never meant a word of anything! It came a point, she no longer cared. The fallouts he left her with. The clean up. She had her memories when things came to an abrupt end for her, he shot his arrow through her heart and darkness. Ellarya remembers the fall and the darkness to this day. She was at a loss , why she ever trusted him , again.

She had fluttered down from the Sunflower that had been bright and yellow more than black with its shade that had allowed her to feel like she had a roof over her head to rest. She started on the next phase of her 7 steps to Ekuziel. She felt it again, the “Sangflow” call. It flooded and pumped through her and for her. She listened to its beat and heard him in her head. He was wooing her and enticing her. He could see and feel all around her. Ekuziel had seen what Alagron had done to Ellarya . He saw how she cut off his head and how Giovanni rushed to her ,to be by her side. Ekuziel recognized there was NO coming between those two. Not at the moment .He had to get around Giovanni to claim Ellarya as his Ryder. There was no way around Giovanni. None. He was true and absolute in his binding to Ellarya Ekuziel searched and went to both the Celestial and Diablo 7s to find away to break Ellarya from Giovanni. The only way ,was for Ellarya , to very simply: NOT LOVE GIOVANNI anymore. IF Giovanni could be removed from Elle’s heart , the bindings would dissolve. To dissolve there could be no love , nor hate.Elle’s feelings for Giovanni would have to go into the “void” zone.She would have to have no feelings at all for him: neither in day or night, nor through dusk or dawn ;her feelings would have to be completely extinguished ,in both dark and light entities. She would have to hold those thoughts and no man’s feelings for Giovanni until all the threads were dissolved, then , their bond would be broken. Ekuziel had seen , there was a possible way ,to make that happen.

Giovanni in his room snapped awake. He saw the thought and flew into a rage. He was going to have to find Stefano and the pair of them were going to have to follow Ellarya and see that Ekuziel’s plans were thwarted. He looked and decided the best thing was to back to Rosedrop World and find Araswati. He was worried, she had decided to be a hedge witch.

Ellarya should have let her be;but, they had all begged her not too! Yes, Ellarya was developing a lot of animosity for the way she has been treated by them all.!

Araswati , in fact , would be in THRC, where Elle had kept her safe!, despite her transgressions. Gio decided would use her Celestial Bowl to see the future. He was going to find away around Ekuziel. Giovanni was going to take on The Great Angeles Draconus. It was easy actually, Giovanni was bound to Devia , the Drakes other half. Ekuziel had missed that trick. They were all connected already. Gio could see and feel his thoughts through Devia. Gio went deep into trance before he left Orchaidia. He looked into Ekuziel had simply told him: ” NEVER” ! You will watch and see how and why.

Elle had been zipping up the path towards Ekuziel’s Cave. She noticed that the array of Sunflowers were changing from predominantly from yellow more than black to black more than yellow. The aura of the path was growing dark and black. Ellarya heard a drumming . It was creeping and marching and stomping towards her. Thump, thump, thump. Thousands upon Thousands of marching feet. The path had grown slimey , and sludgy. She found that her feet would sink if she stood for too long. She saw them , they were on the Sunflower stems, and under the flower heads: the Spikey Caterpillars with a multitude of feet and appendages. The Caterpillars were dark and grey will luminous siding around their thick ring worm like long bodies. The spike stuck up out of the back like a long spine. They produced the slime that oozed down the Blacked Sunflowers. The slime gave out a variety of ode ours and changed the air. It smelt off and like disintegration of flesh . There was a foul stench in this part of the Ekuziel Trek. They hid camouflaged on the stems and underside of the flowerheads with the Sunflower Seeds. The seeds held both sunflower and Caterpillar Eggs. The eggs were green and red seeds darted throughout the blackened sunflower seeded flower heads. The Yellow Sunflower Seeds held Sunlight Butterflairies . The balance of dark and light creatures once again. Ellarya shivered and flew and couldn’t rest for too long , otherwise she would sink. She felt Giovanni’s rage and knew something was up. She loved it , when he felt all ” hot and bothered” ! She went on her way and was really annoyed with herself , at how , much , he was on her mind. Giovanni felt those thoughts and said to himself, she will NEVER be able to forget me! This he knew 99.999% , in himself. The 0.1 % part was negligible and would never happen. Ellarya not feeling anything for him. He went through back to Rosedrop World. He went to find the Kurghan, in her Hovel, as one now referred to her THRC.

Ellarya was fluttering around and through the Sunflower Forest that now dark and moldy and mildewy. It reeked of old eggs and swampy with slime and critters that had started to dart mucous balls at her. Splat. Splat. Splat. The heavens opened up and she looked for cover. She could not take any , the underneath had the Spikey Caterpillars. The spikes were venomous and like snails when alarmed or angry darted out their poison. Their poison was a stunner, not a killer. It caused wing paralysis which meant, if you could not fly, you would get stuck in the sludge. You would become one with the sludge and turn into mulch food for the Dark Flowers. Gifts would be divvied up by those who could absorb them. Unabsorbed gifts would pass into the ground to wait until the turn of the great wheel brought them a deserving soul.

Ellarya was drenched and smelt. She flew on. She was now darting around the Dark Sunflower Stems. She would weave between the big raindrops , avoid the underneath of the Venom of the Spikey Caterpillars and not rest more than 30 milliseconds to avoid being stuck and sucked and sunk down into dark icky mouldy slime and swampy surround.

She hesitated and felt a drip of venom hit her lower left wing. IT slumped and she had to use her Scorpio tail to hold it to be balanced to fly. She kept going. She was drained and sore and her Wings the ones that worked ached. She sent out a call to him. Gio had gone through to Arythenia. He missed her call. Stupid , moron of a man , where was he. She needed him and he had disappeared. Truth is she missed him at this precise moment. He was a strong fighter as well as lover and she could use his cunning and deciphering intellect. Giovanni had a very clever mindset.

She had a 1/2 paralysed wing. Fatigued and drenched. The Spikey Caterpillars kept dribbling their poison drops. Raindrops which would cause her wings to stop beating from wet and poison drops that paralyse. The mucous splats that would pin her against the stems of the Darkened Sunflowers. The debilitating stench of the swamp and grime.

3 sets of watery , deadly droplets. She looked up and saw the blackened Sunflowers were thinning. She was nearly through and splat. She got hit and pinned to a stem. The Spikey Catepillars swarmed her. She cocooned herself and pulled it out of her small leather bag. She pulled out a bomb bead. She embedded it into the stem at its base with her Scorpio tail . It darted out from her cocoon and darted back in. She waited until it blew and went off. The stems went in all directions. Slime plattered and there was an in pouring of fresh air that entered the vicinity of the bead bomb site. The fresh air reached Elle’s shell . It cracked open . She flew up and up and carried her damaged wing. She flew up and above and into and through the clouds. She could not sustain such height , the air was too thin. She looked down and saw that the Blackened Sunflowers were now behind her and the Grass was now shone off red, yellow and black with purple and green threads. The Green Strands Grassses were speckled throughout the next phase of the landscape on the Road to Ekuziel. She was going to take join with this Great Emperor Drake, unique in his kind. She was going to feel the power and strength of his ” Sangflow” within her. The “Sangflow” to mix with her star powered blood that flitted and sparkled silver and gold throughout her wings.

Ellarya had made it through the 2nd test. She was hurt and damaged but whole and quiet alone. NO Giovanni ! No Stefano to surround her aura and help her. She flew down and found a small pond with a friendly looking Mushroom Dwelling and rested.

Ekuziel sighed with relief. He was not sure if she would make it. He could only entice her with his “Sangflow” call. He could not help or assist her. Elle rested , fell asleep.

The Empress Prime,cherished child, beamed and felt the essence of the moon and its strength find her and with its healing forces combat and heal her poorly wing. Ellarta had used her lifeforce blessings to ask for healing and strength. The Celestial 7 heard and granted. The Celestial bell rang and the Jai ladder spilled out and the fall out was crystalized healing water droplets. They ran into the small pond that Elle was by and when she awoke and drank and ate some of the surrounding fruit. She was healed. She rested one day. The 3rd test awaited amongst the red, gold , black grass with its threads of purple and throughout each Green Grass that was NOT home.