AN- Hey there! This is re-worked version of chapter-7, and hopefully it's better than before. For those who had read the chapter 7 before, i have only edited the parts where Aurora talks about her secrets, everything else is the same, so you can skip some parts of it if you want to.
------ POV- Marcus --------
*tuk* *tuk*
The sound of a knife hitting a plain wooden board reverberated in the silent room. A man was sitting on a low stool, as he cut the onions through swift motions with his remaining one hand.
Picking up another washed onion, he held it in his hand and stared at it in deep thought. It has been 4 days already, yet Aurora hadn’t moved a muscle since that calamity. He had asked his friend alchemist to take a look at Aurora, but in the end they found nothing wrong with her.
Scrunching up his face, he cursed in mind at his helplessness. Not only could he do anything against the King Bear before, but now his wife was going weaker by day, eating nothing and only looking at Aurora’s sleeping face, and in his attempt he could only speak a few words of reassurance.
He didn’t know who killed the monster, but was grateful for whoever did it. Grace was the person who was conscious at that time, but her whole focus was on Aurora, and he didn’t want to make the matters worse by questioning her.
Sighing again, he placed the onion on the board, but before he could pick up the knife, he heard Grace yelling out loudly.
The next second he was sprinting towards Aurora’s room, panic on his face, thinking if something happened to Aurora. Quickly pushing the door out of the way, he looked at the two sobbing members of his family hugging each other.
His face beamed a smile, eyes got a bit teary, as he made his way near them. Grace was sniffling his daughter’s name between her sobs, while he was surprised to see Aurora crying like this for the first time.
Aurora opened up her steel blue eyes, a little red from all the crying, to look at him. She smiled at him, but her her eyes became wide when she stared at his missing left arm.
Guessing as to what she was thinking, he pulled them into hug from behind, and said happily,
“I’m relieved to see you awake Aurora, and don’t worry about me, I'm still the best adventurer even with just one hand.”
He laughed at the end to lift up his daughter’s distress. At this, Aurora smiled a little with tears still in her eyes.
After sometime they got out of the emotional group hug, he asked Aurora as Grace wiped the tears off her face,
“Aurora, does it hurt anywhere?”
Aurora shook her head,
“No dad, I’m fine”, she then looked at her mother’s face. Grace had disheveled hair, and bags under her red swollen eyes.
“But I’m more worried about mom than myself.”
Sighing, Marcus just gazed at Grace, “Your mom hasn’t eaten much in 4 days while you were unconscious.”
“4 days….” Aurora whispered under her breath, but Marcus heard it just fine.
Grace placed her hands on Aurora’s, and said in sweet voice, “How about we eat together now? I’m sure you’re hungry.”
Nodding her head, Aurora smiled back at her mother. Marcus remembering that he was preparing the breakfast, quickly said,
“I’ll prepare the food, just wait minute.”
Turning around swiftly, he started moving out of the room, but Grace intercepted before he could reach the door,
“Let me help you with it”
He knew that she was now worrying about the difficulty he would face making the breakfast with just one hand.
“Don’t worry, I can handle it, and you should take a rest too”, Marcus pushed her softly back into the chair.
Getting into the kitchen, he picked up the again knife as he sat on the low stool, and started cutting the onions.
‘Sniff..sniff….god damn these onions.’
Blaming the onions for his tears, he smiled happily to see his family up and running again.
…..
After eating the breakfast in Aurora’s room, Marcus cleaned up the dishes, and came back.
As he sat down in a chair next to Grace, Aurora asked him,
“is Grandma, and Grandpa still in Jornmill?”
His father, and mother had gone to the capital city for their old friend’s funeral. They were fortunate enough not to be present at the time of attack, or what would have happened to them, Marcus didn’t dare to speculate.
“Yeah, they are still there, but I had sent a letter to them. Hopefully they will be back soon”, he answered.
After sometime of talking about other subjects unrelated to the incident, Grace stopped beating around the bush, and asked Aurora,
“Sweety, how did you kill the King Bear?”
Aurora froze at the question for a bit, as her right eye twitched, while Marcus just looked as dumbfounded as Aurora.
“What are you saying Grace?”, he asked looking back to Grace.
“After..after the attack, I was still conscious even if a little, but I clearly saw Aurora killing the bear,” Grace clarified, still uncomfortable as she reminisced the incident.
Marcus knew that Grace wasn’t lying, so he gave a questioning look to the sweating Aurora.
The couple waited in silence for their daughter to give some answers, and after sometime, Aurora whispered,
“Show War Cry Skill to Grace, and Marcus”
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:War CryS03%Doubles your attack speed, while slowing down the enemy movements by 50% for 30 seconds . Cost- 200 stamina points AOE-30 meters
A blue window popped up in front of his face, and after going over it for a couple of times, Marcus’s lower jaw threatened to hit the floor.
“A ‘S’ rank skill!!!! I had never seen one before in my life”, he yelled out loudly scaring Grace who was sitting close to him.
Calming himself down, he asked still sweating a bit, “Aurora, how did you get this skill?”
“I don’t know dad, but when I saw both of lying bloody all over the place,…I just..i just lost it, and somehow gained that skill.”
Aurora explained biting her lower lip, and clenching the sheets. Grace placed her hand over Aurora’s head, and caressed her silver platinum hair.
“It’s alright honey. Thank you for saving us. But don’t do something dangerous like that again,” Grace said reprimanding her actions a little.
Aurora only shook her head, “No need to thank me mom, it’s a given that I’ll save my family, but I can’t promise that I won’t do it again.”
Grace sighed as she looked into her daughter’s eyes filled with determination, while Marcus was using all his intelligence stat points to solve the mystery.
‘It’s a powerful S rank skill, but still, it doesn’t explain how she could kill the king bear’
He watched the pair, and just smiled,
‘it looks like my daughter is more than just a beauty with brains, but I’ll wait till she’s ready to explain on her own’
A yawn escaped from Grace’s mouth, as she brought up her hand to cover it up.
“Grace, you should sleep now, you haven’t taken a wink in 4 days”, nodding to his advice, Grace got up, but not before kissing Aurora on the temple. Closing her eyes in satisfaction, Aurora laid back in her bed.
Marcus got out of the room with his happy weary wife, and left her in their bedroom to rest.
‘I should tell Errick, and his family that Aurora woke up…..Nova will be happy to hear that…’, he smiled as he remembered the child coming everyday to see Aurora, but she held her tears in after seeing Aurora like that, and only said,
“She’ll definitely wake up, cause she’s my big sis.”
Even thought they were only 6 months apart in age, it was surprising to see Nova, who was always clinging to Aurora, call her ‘big sis’.
Laughing at the thought at what she said came true, he started slowly making his way towards their home.
But not even halfway, he saw three figures coming his way. Errick was talking with Jane who held a basket, while Nova walked in front of them.
As they noticed Marcus standing there smiling at them, they knew something must have happened, as they quickly jogged to him.
“Haha, I knew you would be coming, but you guys don’t need to run”, Marcus laughed, but Nova quickly interrupted, asking in hesitating tone,
“Uncle, has..has Aurora woken up?”
Looking down towards the girl, and back at the anticipating gazes of his longtime friends, he smiled,
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“Yes, sh..” before he could start bantering, Nova started running towards the inn nearly bumping into some people.
“Nova!! Be careful”, Jane yelled loudly at the disappearing back of her daughter, while Errick, and Marcus just looked surprised.
Marcus and Errick looked back at Jane, who was smiling from ear to ear,
“What? Hehe.. men are so dense..”, she said while giggling, “she was holding herself back, she’s the one who cares the most about Aurora, I bet as much as her mother.….”
She walked past the men who were still trying to understand the nature of women.
‘hmmm…I don’t understand’, the carefree Marcus trotted to catch up to Jane, leaving behind an elf who was nodding his head thoughtfully.
------ POV- Aurora-----
‘Phew that was close’, Aurora thought as she stared at the ceiling of her room.
She was surprised when Grace had asked her about the slaying of the bear. Aurora didn’t know that Grace was still conscious at that time.
Racking her brain at full speed, she had come up with a lame excuse but it had somehow worked with a little bit of acting skills.
‘I can’t tell them about my origins or being Umbra’s champion’, she thought about the harm that could come their way in the future if she had tried to explain her situation. Not only that but she also didn’t want her parents to worry when she would be away from home on expeditions.
Sighing again, she rubbed her eyes again that stung from too much crying,
‘I never thought I would cry like that…but I’m truly blessed though, to have such a loving, and accepting family’
< Crying doesn’t make you weak; enduring it, doesn’t make you strong >, Umbra’s voice resonated in her mind.
Aurora got startled a bit, but calmed down after a few moments.
‘Then what about you?’, she wanted to ask Umbra as to why she holding herself back from crying when Aurora left the void, but kept the query to herself.
After some time, remembering that she must have gained some levels, she opened up her status.
“Show status”
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Status WindowName:Aurora WalkerLevel:38Class:BerserkerRace:ValkyrieGender:FemaleTitles
The Champion of Goddess Umbra
The One and Only Valkyrie
The Genius
The Silver Fairy
Void Elicitor
Unused Stat Points:65-Health:810/ 810Health Regen:1.3 / SecMana:- / -Mana Regen:- / SecStamina:430 / 430Stamina Regen:1.3 / Sec-Strength:93Agility:91Vitality:85Intelligence:43Wisdom:21Endurance:89Luck:5-Physical Resistances %24-Elemental Resistances %Fire:0Water:0Wind:0Earth:0Light:0Darkness:100
Void ElicitorCall forth the Void that lives in your soul, control it with your mind, and feed it with your anger.
Merges Skills* with Void energy, +100% Darkness resistance
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:Mind of Steel(Passive)A00%Immunity to Fear
???
???
‘Hmm I must have gained that title, and skill in the void…’, remembering the images, she shuddered a little.
Shaking her head, she started allocating her stat points that she had gained after killing the bear.
‘At least I leveled up to 38, but it’s still not enough. I must prepare to leave for the Crystal academy as soon as possible.’
Almost dying just fighting a King Bear, she had realized that she was nowhere near strong enough to protect her family or free Umbra.
But her future ambitions were stopped by a sudden tackle.
“Uwaahhh!! Aurora! Aurora!”
Looking at the perpetrator, she smiled as she brought her hand to stroke the silky mid-night black hair.
“Sshhh Nova, I’m totally fine now, you don’t have to cry”, she got up to sit on the bed, whispering pleasantly into Nova’s ears.
“*sob* I thought you would never wake up,” even though Nova was putting a tough exterior before, but deep inside, her heart was in turmoil.
“I’m sorry,” Aurora could only apologize as she gazed at her best friend’s face in a mess of tears and snot.
After some time of caressing and comforting, Nova fell asleep in a hug with her arms around Aurora’s neck.
“Please don’t leave me again….”, Aurora heard Nova murmur in her sleep as she laid down Nova down on the bed.
Aurora made a pained face as she left the room,
‘I’m sorry Nova……’
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PS
Next chapter will be out on this weekend. BTW can someone tell me how to make a poll? A link to a guide would be awesome, because i tried finding it everywhere in the forums on RRl but no luck.
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