The oldest kid as "That was really cool, but the rat is still burnt to a crisp" as he hold to show the dark brittle rat.
Rev takes the rat out of his hand, crushing it into ash. They sit there in silents as all four of their stomach rumble.
the middle child say "I spent all night trying to catch that thing"
"Yeah, if only we had some money to buy food," the youngest says sneaking a look over at Rev.
"Dont look at me kid, I don't have any," Rev says,
but he does remember what Cron said last night "the fighter makes money".
Rev eyes light up for a moment as he says "I might not have any but I do know where to get some".
Rev starts climbing to the roof
"where are you going mister" the kids call out to Rev
Rev reassures them"dont worry ill be back"
Rev makes his way back to where he saw the people fighting, jumping from rooftop, to roof top he spots the place. He carfuly climbs down and heads down the ally way. He comes to a stop as he sees 2 guys hanging out by the door.
"What do you want, kid?" one of the men asks
Rev clears his throat "am here to fight"
The silents thicken until it's broken by the laughter of the two men.
"Get out of here kid," the men say
Rev charges up his wind blast then leaps at the closet man and point blank blast him in the kid sending the man flying into a bunch of trash.
"What was that...hey kid, I don't want no trouble," the man raises his hands.
"let me in to fight" Rev says
The man looks confused. "I can't do that the next fight not until tomorrow"
Rev thinks to himself "I can't wait that long i need money now...wait".
A devilish smile emerges on Rev's face, obscured by his cloak, yet the man can still perceive malice emanating from him.
"give me your money" Rev demands
The man quickly reaches for his pocket, pulling out a knife and lunges at Rev. This was nothing new. The men at the farm had tried to stab him with homemade shanks before. Rev quickly creates distance between them as he jumps back.
"Get out of here," the man Yells voice trembling.
Rev needs time before he can wind blast again, but it doesn't seem like the man knows that. Rev extends his palm towards the man.
"Drop the knife now" Rev's voice is strong and unwavering.
The ally way is dark, but the knife shines in the small amount of sunlight that peers into the ally way and so does Rev's eyes. The man catches the glow coming from the otherwise cloaked body that Rev has.
The man thinks to himself, "What...what is th-"
"Times up" Rev says as the charges the man from the side wall running and jumping at him, covering the sunlight peering in leaving he only light being Rev's bright crimson eyes. The man does have time to fully take in what he's seeing as in an instant Rev wind blast sends his head flying back, striking the ground, leaving him unconscious. Rev lands on top the man looking down at him.
"Here" the man first he knocked back say handing him some money.
"it's all I have let him keep his money" the man's voice is soft
He then picks him up, straddling him on his back as he walks away. Rev looks at the money in his hand. It doesn't look like anything special, just some coins and paper with some elf's face on it. Either way, he walks off to try to buy some food.
"How much can I get for this" Rev says as he shows them the bundle of money.
The man laughs. "Just for you kid, ill give you a loaf of bread"
"ok" Rev says as hands the money over and receives his bread about half the length his arm.
Rev smiles as he takes a bite. His teeth sink into the warmth and fluff of the bread. He quickly hurries back to the kids from before.
"Am back," Rev says cheerfully as he climbs down into the closed off alley.
The kids look up at him with smiles on their face. Rev makes it down and splits the rest of the bread among them four of them.
"Thank you so much!" mister the youngest says
The oldest looks sceptical, but takes a bite and can't help but smile.
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"is it ok if i ask your name" the oldest says.
"My name...its Rev"
"Rev? that's a strange name mister, but i guess that means we should tell you our names. Am Reed" the youngest says.
"Am Randy" the middle child says.
"And am Rudy" the oldest says.
They finish eating their bread. Rev stands up looking at the kids.
"which one of you made the light? They made the rat turn to dust," Rev asks.
"the light?... oh you mean the fire" Rudy says
"Fire is that what it's called? Can you show me the power you used to make it?" Rev asks.
The kids look at each other, confused. "We didn't use any power to make it, we just rubbed some stick together" they say
"it did take all day though" Randy says
Rev looks confused. "How can rubbing sticks together create that light" he thinks to himself.
"show me" Rev says
They spend the rest of the day trying to start a fire, taking turn spinning the sticks. Now with Rev watching then eventually helping out, they mange to start one up. It's much smaller than what Rev says before, but soon enough it grows, consuming the scraps of wood and leaves and trash put into it. As it grows, so did its warmth. Rev couldn't hold back anymore and stuck his hand into the flame. Feeling the warmth in it. The kids looked at him like he was crazy, but they didn't question him this time. Rev being closer to the flame did show off more of his face and his hair that he would usually keep tugged back slipped, showing off its bright white color. The kids look at Rev not with fear but curiosity instead.
"Rev you're not human are you" Rudy says
"Human?...no am not, am an elf, but...am the worse kind it seems," Rev says
"AN ELF" the kids are stunned.
They take a better look at him, his ash colored skin and white hair along with those eyes. "No, no he could be an elf, there's no way" they thought.
Rev slowly took his cloak off his pointy ears, now free. His ears were pointy but smaller than usual even for his young age, the kids still looked skeptical.
"what would an elf be doing in the lower city? Even for an elf, you still look too young to be an officer," Rudy says.
"My family was killed and I was thrown away" Rev's voice turns vengeful
The kid back off and Rev puts his cloak back on and climbs to the top of the ally way to cool off and look at the starts. He spends the rest of the night up there, eventually drifting off to sleep. In the morning Rev is waken up by rocks being thrown up to him.
"Rev,Rev, Rev" the kids below call out
"what is it" Rev says
"come down" Reed says
He gets up, his back a little sore, but he makes his way down. He sees the kids huddled up.
"here you go. We want to say sorry for last night and also a way of thanking you for the food," the kids say.
They hand him a new pair of cloth and a new cloak. It seems to be different pieces of cloth and old cloth stuck together.
"we don't have much to offer you but we are pretty good at making things," Reed says with an innocent smile on his face.
Rev takes the coth and cloak and tries it on there a little itchy but other than that they're nicer than what he had before.
"This is much better than what I had," Rev says, tone much warmer than last night.
The kids look happy that Rev likes it. Rev admires his new cloth as it fully covers.
"Am going out but ill be back," Rev says as he climbs his way out of the alley.
He then makes his way deeper into the city's, but the deeper he goes, the more and more elf officers he sees. He is forced into the cover of the crowds. This worked nicely with his new outfit. He cruised through the crowd of people. The crowds get thinner as he gets closer to the inner city. He sees large gates in the distances.
"you lost kid?" a smooth voice behind him says.
Rev didn't sense a thing. It's like he appeared out of now where. Rev looks back at an elf. This one was different from the other. He was dressed in white. Matter a fact he was a she as Rev looked up at her, his eyes lighting up. The light coming from her was brighter than he had seen in anything else.
"mother-" he stopped himself.
Her tone quickly changed to one of disgust. "I am not your mother child"
Elf officer starts to close in on Rev. before they do, he makes a run for it and the chase begins. Running through the city. The officer tries wind blasting Rev, but he is to quick...until. Wall appears in front of Rev, then behind him.
"This must have to be the elf's power at play," he thinks to himself.
Rev calms himself as he charges up a wind blast, this one being his biggest yet putting both his hands together, facing the ground below him. In an instant he sends self flying through the sky have him reach his hand towards the top of the roofs. He latches on, pulling himself up as the elf officers below are left speechless at what just happened.
"he just used an art...HE USED AN ART" one of the elfs yells out
Rev hears his shouts but none the less he keeps running jumping from roof top to roof top. Escaping down ally ways as he merges from crowed to crowed. His breath is heavy, the chase is endless, but as night begins to fall, they lose him. Rev once he makes sure there is no longer chasing on his tail, he makes his way to the fight club. Rev spots people flowing in and sneaks in himself, trying to act nature. Rev once again watched the fights and takes it as an opportunity to rest after the day of chase. The second fight starts. Rev pays close attention to their movements, his eyes locking on to the fighters. He can see the light in the faint be he used that light to better track them as they dashed around. The fight was then over as one fighter dashed straight into the other, bring him to the ground where he proceeds to pell-mell him with punch after punch.
"HES OUT" the announcer says
The announcer walks to the middle of the pit "am sorry to inform you that the third fight has been canceled due to one of the fighters being injured yesterday. This leaves his opponent with no one to fight. Your bets will be returned to you"
The crowd expresses its outrage as they shout. "WE WERE PROMISED THREE FIGHTS"
The announcer is in panic "Hey if any of you w"
The announcer is in panic "Hey if any of you want t"
The announcer is in panic "Hey if any of you want to be his opponent, be my guess"
The crowd comes to a dead silent.
Rev jumps over the edge into the pit "ill fight him".
The announcer looks skeptical "this is no place for a child"
The crowd falls the statement with laughter
Rev smiles and glaring up at the man "then bet against me if you're so confident"
People begin to throw money into the pit as they laugh.
"ok you win kid" the announcer smile. "Do we have any bets on his win?"
The room is silent until a familiar man steps forward.
"I thought I recognized that voice, ill put a 100 on the kid," Cron says.
The crowd is in disbelief as mudders fill the room.
"who is this kid any ways?"
"maybe he's strong"
"ill put 50 on the kid," another familiar voice says.
Rev looks up and sees it's the two men from last yesterday.
"brother what are you doing? That's are last 50-"
"that the kid from yesterday, there's no doubt trust me brother if he can beat me he can beat my him"
"hey that the guy that was supposed to fight" a man in the crowd yells
"yeah and he betting on the kid"another man in the crown say.
The atmosphere becomes more aggressive as more bets on Rev come in. All the while, the announcer sees the money to be made with this fight.
"BRING IN ARFEN" the announcer yells
The crowd cheers and "show the kid his place" the crowd yells
The announcer leaves the pit, climbing into his booth.
"BETS ARE CLOSED LET THE FIGHT BEGING IN 3...2...1!!!"