Chapter 125 - Speechless

"Fily!! Catch!" Petunia meowed as her ruined Gummy cloud was nearing the grassland of a hill near the amusement park where Venedette decided to park the Levi-yacht above.

"Coming!" Fily said and stood in a lunge position to use her Super Puff for Petunia's safe landing.

"Slowly," Venedette directed Von while carrying Lei as their feet touched down on the ground.

"Whooo! That was fun!"

"And scary," Lei added after being let go of Venedette.

While Gem was rolling around the hill to calm her senses down, Lei, on the other hand, chose to kneel and stay still while doing several breathing exercises to also calm down.

"I'm dizzy," Petunia said while hanging on Fily's shoulders like a handkerchief.

"Oh no, how about your Gummy cloud, Pet?" Fily exclaimed while looking at the ruined purple cloud around her.

"I'll fix it later," Petunia said and almost puked because of the winding ride.

"That's high." Gem said while spotting Levi-yacht every now and then when the clouds opened and comparing it to the Ferris wheel in the distance.

"Higher than the one you climbed?" Von asked while sitting in an Indian position between Lei and Gem.

"Waaaay higher! I think the Ferris wheel I climbed was half buried to the ground already while that one's just a giant!"

"Cool," Lei said and laid down on the grass too.

"Masuri-suri!" Petunia chanted and her Gummy cloud just suddenly fixed itself like magic.

"Let's go?" Venedette flew above them while offering a hand.

"Ahhh, let's go!" Gem grunted and stood energetically beside the boys.

"I wish I could fly," Lei muttered under her breath, which Petunia heard.

"I hope so too." 

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"Why are there no people?! They're missing out on all the fun!" Gem said while jumping around with her popcorn.

Somehow, people still work here even without having customers, and when they heard that the Princess of Yvandir will be coming, the amusement park's usual personnel suddenly tripled.

"This is yummy." Gem said while stopping every time she sees a foreign delicacy such as street food and bread that the castle doesn't serve during proper meal times.

"Ahh! Stuff toys!" Fily squeaked which grabbed Gem's attention.

"Why are they inside this box?" Gem said, protruding her fist for a punch to free her little friends inside which Fily immediately blocked.

"That's not how the game works, Gem," Fily said, carefully pushing Gem's fist away and positioning herself to the joysticks.

"Hack," Fily whispered and the transparent box suddenly lit up.

"Woah, what did you do?"

"I just made it work." Fily shrugged and started manipulating the joystick which also made the claw inside move.

"Eww, no." Petunia suddenly said while passing by.

"Why are you trying to get those disgusting cat toys?"

"Got ya!" Fily suddenly moved back and clapped her hands while the machine vibrated and threw out a cat stuff toy. "Yayy!"

"Is that supposed to be a cat?" Petunia emerged from the distance after hearing Fily celebrate.

"Doesn't look like you though." Gem remarked while moving her eyes back and forth from Petunia and the doll.

"This is Annyeong Kitty, you guys! Of course, it doesn't look like a real cat, that would be scary and less cute." Fily explained.

"What?! Are you saying I'm not cute?!" and there goes another bickering session with Petunia and Fily.

"Are we going to ride this?" Gem asked after walking away from the girls and closer to  Venedette who was standing in front of a tower.

"Do you want to? They said it had the same feeling of falling from the sky,"

"Like what we did just earlier?" Gem asked innocently with her eyes sparkling with just the thought of free-falling from the sky again.

"Maybe, let's see?" Venedette shrugged her shoulders and went inside the booth, followed by Gem, Lei, and Von who had also been following Venedette.

"I doubt it will feel the same though," Von remarked cynically.

"You haven't even tried it." Gem said and took the seat beside him while Lei took the other seat beside her.

"Why are you sitting there, Lei?" Von asked loudly which Lei only shrugged his shoulders on.

"I just want to," he said which made Von's face a little annoyed and Gem impressed.

"Now that's how you get over your bad habits." Gem remarked before buckling up.

From the top, the 'extreme' dropper dropped them back and forth to the ground, making both Lei and Gem nervous as if their souls were trying to escape their bodies, similar to the feelings they felt while dropping from the sky earlier.

But unlike the two of them, Venedette and Von were not having fun at all.

Not only did Von find the safety belts a nuisance and a bit painful, but the act of raising them slowly to the top and dropping them at 'full' speed made Von more irritated the more he thought about it.

He couldn't understand why Lei and Gem were both having fun while he's just there, stuck in a seat with a grimaced face.

"I used to do this as an exercise in kindergarten's flight lessons." Von ranted to himself that was immediately drowned by the other's screams.

"Can't we just go back and play VR, mom?" Von begged after the first ride they tried.

"Why? Aren't you having fun?" Gem interrupted him.

"No! What's so fun about riding those boring things? No wonder people don't come here anymore." Von shouted after losing his temper which he immediately regretted after seeing Gem's smile turn into a scowl.

"Let's just play VR in the yacht again, okay?" Von offered but Gem shook her head.

"You can go back and play by yourself. Flightless people like me and Gem will just stay here and enjoy the rides that you find boring." Lei suddenly spoke two sentences which caught Von by surprise.

"You also enjoyed the ride, Lei?" Gem said with a budding smile that satisfied Lei.

"Yup, I've never felt so free." 

"Me too! It was almost as if we're flying, right?!" Gem said as the sparkles returned in her eyes.

"Yes. I guess flightless people like us are the only ones who can actually enjoy this place, yeah?"

"I guess so." Gem shrugged and dragged Lei away from Von who was now just speechless.