After Athreal had left and the flame died down back to a normal size, both of the men both started talking enthusiastically! They were obviously planning out my future as I am almost sure that Athreal told them I am the first of my kind, incidentally I had found out what my race was to be called. The Firebloods!!! A cool sounding name but it did lack a little imagination.
The pair only talked for a few minutes then left the shrine room. Sitting outside was the lady with the young demi human child on her lap, I would guess she is around 3-5 years old. From her ears and tail I would guess she is either a fox or a wolf, it is really hard to tell just by the ears and tail, but also because her hair, ears and tail are all white.
The short man starts talking and the woman who is holding the child on her lap starts listen. After he had finished talking she looked at me with a slight twinkle in her blown eyes. She stood up with the girl in her arms and handed her to the hunter.
‘I wonder what is going to happen now. Am I going to stay here or go with them?’
After the nun lady handed over they girl, who must be some sort of relation to the hunter man, or and adopted child, he started to walk towards the exit, the man holding me started to follow. As we left the temple place I managed to turn my head and get a good look at the building. It was a very simple building, but it had a sort of beauty to it. The whole building was surrounded by a beautiful garden full of flowers and plants I have never seen before.
It was starting to get dark and the two men mad their way through the streets at a slightly faster pace than I expected. The architecture of the houses we passed were all notably different it was obvious that each person build their own house the way the wanted to.
Some looked like a typical medieval village house, some had and eastern style to them, and the nicer ones were even made of stone. Anyway after five or so minutes we arrived at an average sized house with a nice sized front garden with some plants growing in it.
The house itself looked a bit better than some of the others, it used a combination of stone and wood. It had two floors and looked like a nice medieval family home. The hunter walked up to the door and took out a key and opened the door and walked in and the man holding me followed.
From what I could tell their seemed to be four rooms on the ground floor and I am assuming four on the top. The design reminded me of Br**zehome from the game S**rim but with a slightly more modern appeal to it. Firstly the furniture was much better than I thought it would be, almost rivalling modern furniture. Instead of candles or lanterns there seemed to be these orbs that give off light. They were really strange because they gave me a weird feeling like I could feel they were there.
But before I could think on it more they stared walking upstairs and then entered a room. The room had the same design as the rest of the house except this was obviously a bedroom, and judging by the pink teddy monster thing on the bead o guessed it was the girls. They girl was put into the bed and then the man holding me put me in a cot on the other side of the room. I did not see the cot but it looks like I am going to be sharing this room for now.
They man puts a blanket over men and then leaves the room. Well as there is nothing else to do I decide sleep is the best option, and so I start to drift off.
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(Athreal POV)(Just after giving instruction for training and looking after Thorin)
I have just finished giving my instructions to Oberon and Tura regarding Thorin’s education. I stand up and dismiss the throne I was sitting on and I started to wait, because I knew that Alair was sneaking about watching the exchange.
“Come out will you!” All his sneaking around was getting on my nerves, he may be a good friend and the only other god I trust but he does have some weird quirks. One of which is he can never just enter a room, he sneaks in and waits for you to notice him. If you don’t notice him he will leave.
“Haha I loved your little speech to the mortals, you really so like to show off!! Was it really necessary for your throne to be made of fire? And isn’t that dress slightly to revealing for your tastes?” He comes out from his hiding place laughing and teasing me.
Alair has long gold blonde hair reaching to his waist, sky blue eyes and pointed ears. He has a hansom face but you can see the sadness in it, ever since his race was wiped out he has been a shadow of his former self and puts up a front in public. On his back are ten wings, they are a whitish grey colour, during the time his race was at its peak they were a beautiful white. Apart from that he has a slim build and is wearing a blue suite that he copied from Thorin’s old world.
“Hmph I was not showing off!” I quickly change my dress back to a more conservative one. Then Alair starts to snigger so I throw a fire ball at him. It hit him strain in the face and he falls over but is still sniggering.
A vein pops on my head and I start to bombard him with fireballs. “OK ok I will stop ‘snigger’ I am sorry it was j..just your fa” I through another fireball at him before he could finish and he falls flat on his arse.
He stands up and brushes himself off, he has no damage whatsoever to him or his cloths, he is a god after all. He then walks over to the flaming mirror I use to keep an eye on Thorin, he watches him for a while with me standing next to him.
“Why didn’t you tell him his mission yet, he only has 100 years to prepare, he might not be strong enough.” Alair’s mood clearly changed and was not the cheerful self he put on in front of others.
“He needs to have some time to himself I don’t want to burden him with the responsibility just yet, but remember 100 years to mortals is a long time. And I think just suddenly saying ‘oh hey Thorin Just so you know you have to fine a safe place and people you trust so they can help you raise 200 infant Firebloods’ would be a little much for him. When he is stronger and has companions he trusts I will tell him.”
“Humm I suppose, but he might not be as driven to get stronger.” Alair trys to point this out but I know what he is like from his old world.
“Don’t worry he will be ok, I just hope that evil doesn’t find him, or slavers. Not that he can become a slave through a slave collar, but there are still other ways to enslave someone.” That is the one thing I am a bit worried about. If he is discovered he will be experimented on, tortured and then farmed for his blood, which could grant someone very high affinity with fire magic.
“That was one of the things that drove my race to extinction, but you have chosen a good place for him to grow up, there is no slavery there and no discrimination because the majority of the populous are mixed bloods, but he will have a shock when he leaves.”
“Yes I might warn him about that when he decides to leave.” What Alair has said has made me worry slightly as it could get him in trouble. Humans especially are one of the worst when it comes to greed.
“hum right I am off to annoy Durggh” with that Alair leaves and I am left standing staring at Thorin who is now sleeping in a cot at Oberon’s house.
“Good luck Thorin”
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(Thorin POV)
It has been two weeks since I was ‘born’. I can now speak the language like it is English and I am getting better at reading. Even though I can now speak I rarely do, I just don’t see the point in as most of the questions I want to ask I can find the answer in books, and I want to be able to read this language so I just read to get my answers.
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I have discovered a few things in these two weeks, the main being everyone’s names. I have also figured out I have to say ‘status’ for the stat screen to some up. I have decided not to tough anything until I start my lessons with Tura in a day or two. I have also managed to start walking normally and I noticed that I have had some status increases.
Status WindowName:ThorinLevel:1Age:0Gender:MaleRace:Fireblood (Sealed)Class:ChildTitles: Divine Blessing Of Athreal, First Of My Kind, Born Of Fire, UnboundHealth:130/130Mana:1200/1200Strength:9Vitality:13Agility:3Intelligence:120Dexterity:5Wisdom66Status Points:10
It seemed that both my dexterity, agility and intelligence have both increased quite a bit and all the others have just increased by one. I guess the intelligence and wisdom increased because I have learned a new language and been reading.
Anyway since my birth every day was more or less the same, we would wake up, have breakfast and then Oberon would drop Ellena and myself off at the temple and then go hunting or do his shift as one of the village guards. Bertha looked after us and a few other children. During the day the other children would play and have some very basic lessons from Bertha. Then the parents would come and get us and takes us home for dinner.
For the first few days Ellena would not stop staring at me but she kept her distance, I was not quite sure what to do, but that soon all stopped when I smiled at her during the second day at the temple. She ran off and I didn’t see her again until we were collected by Oberon.
The next day she was by my side all day talking nonstop while teaching me games. Even during the lessons she would come sit with me and play with my hair. I am guessing that my hair colour is very unusual.
It took me four days to get a decent enough grip of the language, after that I asked Bertha to read to me so I could get some knowledge of this world and learn to read. When I did ask her she was very shocked at me being able to speak but after a quick conversation with Tura she happily obliged.
While Bertha read to me I sat on her lap so I could read the book as well and learn the language. Ellena did not like this and tried to sit on her lap as well but that ended badly with the both of us falling off.
It only took me two days to completely learn to read and then the rest of the time up until now I have been reading. Ellena is usually near or next to me, at the moment she is playing close by with a few other children while I am reading a monster encyclopaedia under the big tree in the temple garden.
I have seen a lot of monster from old earth legends in the book like, monitors, hydra’s, hellhounds etc there are also a lot of the typical fantasy creatures like goblins, orcs, trolls etc and a few others that I have never heard of. As I am reading the page about the basilisk, and A rank monster Ellena make her way over.
“Thorin stop reading and come and play!” She says this while half picking me up. She is quite a bit bigger than me as she is 3 years old and my body is the size of a 9 month old baby.
“N..noo please put me down Ellena I was reading about a basilisk it’s a really cool monster” As I say this she stops. “Hey how about I read it to you then we both can enjoy it.” As this she puts me down.
“Ok!!!” she cheerfully says and sits down next to me. I start to read out loud to her, with her interjecting with a question every now and again. This carries on for another hour and then it is time for lunch and Bertha comes to get us.
While I am eating my lunch, and also trying to teach some table manners to Ellena Tura walks up to my table.
“Thorin come and see me once you have finished I will be in the shrine room.” He says this in a very serious tone and then walks off out of the room.
“Thorin what have you tone? Why is Mr Tura cross with you?” Ellena asks in a half concerned half annoyed voice. She is giving me a slight glare.
“I have not done anything wrong maybe he just wants to talk to me” I give her a smile and carry on eating. Ellena shrugs and carries on as well.
I finish my lunch and send Ellena of to play with the others while I make my way over to the shrine room. I knock on the door and enter.
“Excuse me, you wanted to see me”
“Thorin, good you’re here. From now on I am going to be your teacher, I will teach you magic and other things you need to know. Firstly I am guessing you know how to open your status screen?”
“Yes I do”
“Good right then do you know how to open your skill list?”
“Skill list?” I tilt me head to the side giving him a confused look.
“hmmmm ok you just need to say skill list and it will come up. Place your hand on this orb while saying it so I can see it as well.” Tura pulled out a small looking orb from his pocket and held it in front of me.
“Ok ‘skill list’” Just as I finish another screen appears infront of me.
Skill ListBone Gauntlets (Active)
Everflame Barrier (Active)
Fire Arrow (Beginer lvl 1)
Pyrokinesis (Beginer lvl 1)
Martial Arts of Another World (Master lvl 2)
Cooking (Novice lvl 7)
The first thing that I saw was the skill ‘Martial Arts of Another World’. This must come from my training in muay thai. I started taking classes when I was 8 and enjoyed it so much that I carried on. When I was twelve an old man came and observed one of our lessons. Afterwards he offered to train me in the traditional muay thai rather than the modern competition style. I accepted his offer and he trained me up until I died. He is the only person I miss from Earth.
“show skill ‘Martal Arts of Another World’”
Martial Arts of Another WorldA fighting style unknkown to this world, strong and deadly there are not many fighters who can match the masters of this style.
I realise that I am master level 2 in this skill, I am guessing that that is quite high, but if I am a low level master I can’t even imagine what my old master would be. He could still beat me in a spar in less than five seconds back on earth.
While I was reminiscing about my old master I realise that Tura was staring at one particular skill ‘Martial arts of Another World’.
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Hey guys sorry for such a long wait I have been very busy IRL but I have managed to get this out hopefully the story speed will pick up a bit now and get to the more action parts in the next few chapters.
Anyway thanks for reading
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