Friday, 24th of January.
Dean took a child from a woman's arms, and carried it towards a man. Then, he took the woman's hand, and pulled her up from a crumbling cliff. He quickly ran towards the man, and handed her off to him.
"Oh, thank you… thank you, stranger…!" The woman, as well as the man, greatly expressed their gratitude to him. They were both husband and wife.
Dean nodded without saying a word. Then, he watched as the husband carried his wife and their child towards the horse.
Then, Dean watched as they rode off into the distance.
The cliff behind him crumbled. He turned around, once again met with the scene he had seen when he first arrived on this planet. His grip on his umbrella tightened.
A kingdom was in flames. Screams resounded across the trembling air. Ash riddled the sky, smoke rose up, and meteors in green flames were descending down from the sky.
It was a dreadful, terrifying sight. Dean was quite literally watching the fall of a planet, not just a kingdom.
His mission given to him was simple—retrieve a valuable artifact deep inside the kingdom's treasure chamber.
The higher-ups definitely knew that this planet was hopeless. Unsavable. It was a full-scale Annihilith invasion. Therefore, the higher-ups' plan was to send Visitors into each of the planet's kingdoms, and retrieve… or rather, steal "something" of great interest to Umbrellas. Tiero's words to Dean was, quote on quote, "Retrieve something very valuable from the kingdom you are assigned to. You'll know which one you're supposed to take when you see it."
The planet was going to die anyway. This planet had fifteen kingdoms in total. Hence, fifteen Visitors were sent.
Dean sighed. Using his incredible speed, he ran towards the kingdom's gates in a full minute. He went past villagers, knights, Annihiliths… and finally reached the castle.
Upon entering the trembling castle, he heard screams coming from above, below, everywhere. He once again used his super speed to quickly blitz through the entire castle, all to find the treasure chamber.
During this, Dean suddenly stopped. He was hearing someone calling for help.
He hesitated for a moment, but after a second, he immediately went towards the source of the scream.
It was behind a large door.
He heard the voice more clearly now, but it was in a different language that he couldn't understand. It was the voice of a girl. Suddenly, he heard a beeping noise in his watch.
The beeping noise meant that one of the fourteen Visitors that came with Dean had already retrieved a valuable artifact, and had already returned to Umbrellas. The next second, another beep. And another. And another…
With a sigh and a tsk, Dean kicked the door open.
He saw a young girl on the corner of the room, throwing vases, chairs, and anything of the like towards a Drone-type Annihilith. The girl was wearing what seemed to be a long, white nightgown, and she had pure silver hair and dark eyes.
Sensing something behind it, the Annihilith turned around, but the next second, it was met with a dagger about to stab its neck.
The Annihilith's head slowly disappeared, and its body fell to the floor.
Dean walked towards the terrified, weeping young girl.
Extending a hand, the girl slowly and hesitantly reached out for it with her shaking hand.
With a sigh, he turned around.
Even he himself has no idea why he just went to the trouble of saving this girl. At that moment, he heard another beeping noise.
He was about to walk away, but he heard the girl's voice from behind him. Although he couldn't understand her language, he was certain that she just said something along the lines of "Please wait!" and so, Dean turned around.
The girl spoke again.
But Dean was only confused. He couldn't understand a single thing.
Instead, Dean made a simple gesture with his hands and ear that he couldn't hear her.
The girl was smart enough to understand what that meant.
Dean was about to turn around when the girl grabbed his arm.
She had a face with an expression that screamed "help me," and Dean wasn't immune to that. Her cheeks were still wet with tears, and her lower lip was shaking. Her arms were also shaking. In fact, her entire body was trembling.
Another beeping noise. If he doesn't hurry up, he'd be the last Visitor left.
With a groan, he gestured with his head to follow him. The girl's expression slightly and obviously lit up.
Dean ran, and the girl tried hard to catch up. Since someone was following him now, he can't use his super speed.
Suddenly, Dean had an idea. He stopped, turning around to face the girl. The girl also came to a halt, panting heavily and out of breath.
Luckily, there was a painting of a mountain of gold right beside them on the wall. He pointed to it, and "tried" as best as he can to gesture to her to tell him where "it" is.
The "it" was the treasure chamber of this castle.
The girl, upon coming to a realization that the man in front of her wanted the castle's treasures, was about to shake her head when she realized that this man saved her, and it was only fair that he gets something in return.
She nodded her head, and walked ahead of him, expecting him to follow her.
After a few minutes, the trembling of the castle intensified. The walls were even starting to crack. Time was running out.
Dean and the young girl entered a large room.
They then arrived in front of a massive painting of a king. Probably this kingdom's king. The girl tried hard to move the painting, but she failed. Sighing, Dean moved the painting with one arm. The girl was embarrassed.
She then opened up a section of the wall, and stuck her hand inside. She spinned a small wheel inside. After a few seconds, Dean heard a "click."
A large section of the room opened up, revealing stairs that led down.
Dean let go of the painting, and walked towards the stairs. Suddenly, he heard the sound of footsteps. But he was too late.
A few knights burst the door open. One of them shouted something that Dean couldn't understand, but he was certain they were questioning him on what he was doing with the girl.
And in the next second, the knights charged at him as the young girl yelled at them.
With a sigh, he used his super speed to spin the small wheel where the girl stuck her hand in, and immediately destroyed the wheel. Then, he entered the treasure chamber.
The entrance immediately closed up. With the wheel broken, they can't get him. Dean heard another beeping noise.
Outside the treasure chamber, from the young girl's perspective.
"You fools! He saved my life! Now look at what you've done!" shouted the girl.
One of the knights in armor said to her, "Your Highness, there is no time for that! Your father has instructed us to find, protect, and escort you to him!"
"No, I'm gonna wait for my savior— Hey! Wait, put me down!" One of the knights, one with armor that differed from them, carried her on his shoulder. This knight was the captain.
"Hold on tight, princess! Move, you fools!" yelled the captain.
And with that, the knights ran away with the princess.
While being carried, she couldn't help but think about the mysterious stranger that saved her life.
Inside the treasure chamber.
Dean was met with the sight of a floating, yellow sphere with green flames and lightning of the same color surrounding it on top of a small pedestal.
Leaning closer, he saw that there was what seemed to be a mini-sized black hole inside.
Dean has never seen anything like this.
Another beeping sound, and a strong shake of the earth.
He quickly took out a small device. This was known in Umbrellas as the Portable Storage Device, where it can store… literally anything, just as long as the item being stored isn't as big as a person.
Holding it in his hand, he made the device face the floating yellow sphere, and it was immediately sucked into the device with a beeping noise.
A second after that, Dean activated the teleportation sequence. He then thought back to the young girl he saved earlier. And then, he disappeared on the spot.
***
"Oh, where have you been?! Come, let us hurry!" yelled an old, bearded man.
The girl from earlier was carried into a royal wagon. "Where can we even go, Father…?" asked the girl.
"I don't know yet. But anywhere is fine, just not here! We must seek help from the other kingdoms!" answered her father, the king.
The girl looked at the horrific, apocalyptic sight through the small window. This was the first time she was ever seeing something like this.
"Do not worry, Guinevere, we will get through this crisis." Her father's words did nothing to calm her down.
A tear slid down Guinevere's cheek.
Suddenly, there came the shaking of earth.
Then, a few seconds after that chaos, came utter destruction.
***
A large, passing ship out in space witnessed a planet being invaded by Annihiliths.
"Those poor souls…"
"Damn Annihiliths…!"
"May they find peace in the afterlife."
…But then, those voices were silenced as a magnificent, but utterly sorrowful sight happened in front of them.
At that moment, it was as if a star had been born. But in actuality, the same planet they were just watching had met its end in a blinding rupture.