After walking for an hour in the sun and only the grass field and mountains surrounding us, I thought for a moment if we were going to die of thirst instead of getting killed. Mejnis's tongue was out, but he still smiled while walking beside me. Never mind, he got up on my right shoulder to rest.
The valley was so quiet around us, but I saw a campfire burning with something sitting by it quite a distance from us. Hmm, I wonder if there is any food or water.
When we closed in, it looked like a human kid with big ears pointing upwards. It looked at us sadly while cooking some small animal thing over the fire with the stick.
“Eh! Hi! Do you have any food and water?” I asked, trying to catch up in a friendly conversation.
Suddenly, Stella showed up beside me, and the pointy kid ran to her and hugged her while crying. Well, this was awkward; what the hell is going on?
“It is okay, everything is OK. Don't cry, child!” Stella said while caressing the kid's hair.
Stella looked down on the kid like she knew who it was.
“The spirit told me to come here and wait in the valley.” The kid said, still weeping like a pussy.
The pointy kid turned towards Mejni and me, staring at us.
“Stella, who are they, and why can I not feel your soul?” The kid asked.
Stella went down on her knees and touched the kid's cheek, explaining:
“My soul now belongs to that stupid human. All of us live inside him now. You said something of a spirit telling you to come here?”
The kid stared at me with awe in his face. What the hell is wrong with these pointy kids? The eyes look like they want to kill me.
“Did he kill you and the others?” The kid asked, still with a gaze that could kill.
“No! Don't worry, child, he will help you. Tell me what happened.”
The kid had tears in his eyes again, which made me feel bad because I was hoping not to have a crybaby with me on the stages we were going to go through.
“Soldiers claiming they belong to the Heroes Kingdom took over our village and banned us further away. We moved to the outskirts and rebuilt again to live peacefully, but yesterday, they came in an army and took away my father, claiming he had murdered someone in The Bird Kingdom. There was nothing I could do, but a spirit looking like a child like me showed up and told me that I could find a Villain to help me get my father back. So I came to this valley and waited for two days.”
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“Owaow! Great story, but if, I mean a big IF, the Heroes Kingdom exists, what kingdom do you belong to? We are not stupid to believe in soap stories about Hero Kingdom and Bird Kingdom.” I told the kid.
“I belong to the Elfen Kingdom, which the Heroes today call their kingdom, but it belongs to The Elfs!”
Ah, right! That is going to make us help the crybaby. Yellow eyes covered in black color and hair looking like it was from some Drama series and pointy ears, with the weak-looking body of a ten-year-old.
“Well, why did you come here, and what do you want?” I asked in a sarcastic tone.
Stella's eyes turned red, and she approached, grabbed my shirt, and pulled me close to her face, uttering:
“You are going to help the child and get back his father. If you do this, I will later give up my powers even though you are not worthy.”
For some reason, that hurt; why am I not worthy of anything these days? In prison for life for murder, and now I have this shit to deal with. I grabbed her arm, pushed it to the side, and kept walking forward, noticing that Mejni didn’t follow me. My conscience told me to get right away from there, finish the assignment, and get the princess back, but my brain tried to stop me because it felt it was the right thing to do, helping citizens in need. The last time I wanted to help, I ended up in a curse with a lifetime prison sentence in a dark place.
“YOU STUPID HUMAN! YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE IF YOU GO ALONE,” Stella screamed at me from a distance.
“I DON'T CARE!” I yelled without turning around.
I am not going to risk a damn thing for this crazy assignment; I can do the shit without the help of them. Stella is stuck with me either way; to save herself, she must help. Suddenly, Stella showed up right in front of me, and she looked sad and not pissed off; that was a surprise.
“Please, listen to me Berk! I will give my powers to you, but you need to become worthy of the powers. I will tell you the truth about me.”
“Will you tell me how you ended up in your body?”
“No!”
“Well, why are we discussing?” I asked and walked past her.
It was quiet for a moment until she said:
“My home is here in Fallen Kingdoms; there is a kingdom where I was the ruler. It was once a peaceful place to live, but I can not turn away from the different kingdoms that need our help. When you were in Stockholm City, you got help from us to save your city and all the human life there. Please help me save the citizens' lives here in Valiant.”
Got damn it, did she have to bring that up. I turned around and noticed she was gone; did she pass her limited time?
The kid started to cry, and I shook my head, realizing she might be right. Leaving a child on the road is not what a responsible Meercat does, with Mejni staring at me, smiling like the biggest jerk I have seen. Seriously, maybe I should kill him or disfigure his face because he pisses me off every time I look at him.
“Hey, Pointy! What is your name?”
“L...Lolrath Magnorin,” he answered, making me think that the idiot doing the storytelling had no clue how to come up with names for this story.
“Well, LOL! Do you mind me calling you just LOL? Otherwise, it will sound like LOL-Rat or LOL-Wrath, which will sound weird.”
“Yes, you can!” LOL answered, and his eyes lit up suddenly, probably thinking we would save Dad. The obstacles on the way will probably kill us before we even reach the second Level.