After I left that alley, I found what I was looking for, Fiona, who's fighting two barbarians and one guy who is holding that lighting spear, who is most probably the thief, or just a buyer who didn't have the slightest idea that spear was stolen last night. Fiona saw me coming and getting off the horse and she told me directly.
"Why are you here?"
"Long story. Watch out!" I shout to her before a guy was about to hit her with a mace.
Fiona hit the guy mace with her giant sword. Right when the sword has hit the mace, has started to break. The guy was shocked when that was happening and he was about to run away but Fiona grabbed him and she hit that guy with the pommel of the sword, who was probably way to painful than a hit in the face by a muscular reincarnated in a world where he got maximum damage. Fiona throws that guy who was in a faint state by that hit.
Fiona blocked the other one's attack, but the second one was about to hit her with the spear. I take the wand from the pocket, I aim at that guy, yelled "T.N.T." and the spell was hitting that guy and made him fly. After that, I used the spell called "Stunned" on the same because I have an idea. When the spell was hitting the guy, I took the spear and used a spell on that thing because I don't have enough strength to throw it into the sky and Fiona is fighting with the other guy, who is good as Fiona, even though his muscles are not that formed like Fiona's.
I put the wand on that spear and I was thinking what kind of spell I could use to make it fly... Then I realize something, there is one single spell that can do that. I looked at the spear and said to her "Run to You" and I pointed, after the sparks have hitting the spear, the clouds full of lighting and thunder. Then the spear goes "swoosh" right to the clouds and thunders. But when one of the spears left I forgot one thing.
"Good idea," says Fiona coming right to me after she beat that strong guy. "But where she will fell?"
"Yeah... About that..." I respond feeling nervous because she will probably beat me when we will arrive home. " I have no idea."
"Really? Then how are going to find when she will fell, but where did you send it?"
"At the clouds."
Fiona was about to hit me with the fist, but she hesitates and she told me to go and search for that spear, while she will take those three thieves to the King to decide their fate. I got on the horse and I started to ride around the city to be ready when the spear will fell from the sky. If the thunders and flashes of lightning hit the spear, then those clouds will immediately disappear because their energy will be stocked into the spear forever.
After a while, the clouds and thunders were about to disappear, but it takes quite a lot until I found the spear, who is stuck in a dry wood roof of an abandoned house into the nearest forest of this kingdom. I let my horse here and I decided to use a spell called "Come to me" to the spear, who was coming right to my hands in a few seconds. When I hold the spear I could feel the power she got when it was sent to the clouds. That power I was feeling could bring down an entire army or even one giant called "Titan" who got extinct a few thousand years ago.
I tried to put the spear somehow into my backpack but it couldn't work so I decided to hold until I will arrive at the place where that spear should be.
While I was riding the horse, I was thinking about Fiona because I saw some weird wounds I have never seen before on their skin. I could've healed her, but the healing spells require some of my energy, and right now, I don't think to have the energy to even use a spell so simple like the one who you could summon a weapon to attack alone for a few seconds.
Anyway, I arrived at the house of that guy, I lend the spear to him and then he thanked me for what I did. Before I was about to leave, I told him the lighting has struck the spear and he made more powerful than last time. The bald guy says it is okay because he will never use that weapon in the future. After he tells me that, I leave the place riding my horse and going to the Kingdom to see if Fiona is there. I hope the wounds she got at that battle aren't serious and easy to heal.
After a few minutes, I arrived in the Kingdom and I see Fiona leaving the palace with a big bag of coins. Fiona saw me coming with the horse and she told me to put the horse I ride back to their shelter. I go to the place where horses should stay and I escort the horse I own to that room where he is sleeping and waiting to be used as a ride.
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When I left the shelter, Fiona came to me and she handed a few coins for me. I counted those coins and they are three gold coins and eight silver ones.
"This is the payment for this mission," said Fiona to me.
"I see. Well... What does the King say?" I ask her after I put those coins into my pocket backpack.
"Nothing special. Our mission was successful and all."
"I understand. But... Can I see your wounds?"
"Wounds?" said Fiona surprised. "What wounds?"
"The bleeding ones."
Fiona shows her wounds, but they weren't that big and not even bleeding. Those wounds look like the others from the arms and around her skin. Probably was just my imagination back then, or someone else blood who got on Fiona old wounds. After I apologize to the behavior I got earlier, I and Fiona headed to our home to eat dinner. I hope Diana would cook tonight because her meals are always the best one, and the ones Fiona made are the ones who could put you in bed for a few days.
While we were walking on the streets of the night, Fiona decided to start talking to me to make the time flies faster.
"Judah... I know we have you at my house for a few days and I gotta ask a question who made me suspicious. Have you ever encounter a bounty hunter?"
"Um... No. I didn't." I respond to Fiona while we are still walking on our way to me.
"What is your opinion about them?"
"To be honest, I don't know if they are good or bad, but if the kingdom hates them so much, it concludes they are bad people. Why are you asking me that?"
"No reason. I just wanted to speak, to make the times fly faster."
"I understand. Um... Do you have a father, right?"
"Yeah."
"So. How is it to have one?"
"Well... Some times is trouble for his children, but I gotta say they are good and all. All fathers I have encountered so far are caring about their own children. What about you?"
"... I don't know. I have never met the creator."
"Creator?"
"You see. A wizard put me into an apple seed and he handed that apple to a lady, who is actually my mother, but she is dead because the seed had a curse. I don't know if my father is still alive, but I hope next time I will meet, I'm going to ask him something."
"What are you going to ask him?"
"Why he did that?"
"I think the reason could the money."
"No, they aren't. My mother couldn't afford a house, but we had an abandoned building where I and she could sleep peacefully."
"I see... I am sorry to ask that."
"It is okay," I responded to her while we take a turn and we headed straight to our house where we both of us and Diana lives.
When we arrived at the house gates, we saw Diana leaving the house equipped with a crossbow, a fishing rod, and a big fishing net. Fiona asked Diana where she is heading, and the big sister said she is heading to the river to catch some fishes. She also said she will come in the morning with the fish and she prepared our meals. When she said she prepares the meals I was relieved because for a second I thought I will have to eat one of the Fiona cooking.
We entered our home, both of us goes to our rooms and we change from our work clothes to our house clothes, which are almost like the ones we are wearing when we work, but that heavy armor that protects us from dangers like arrows, swords, spells and even bites from wild animals. After we changed our clothes, we goes int the kitchen and started to eat the food made by Diana, which is pretty good.
At the table, I and Fiona eat pork meat and we drink soup made of potatoes with paprika, which tastes quite good.
"My sister should have become a chef," says Fiona blushing while she eats a piece of crusty and delicious pork meat.
"Chef?" I ask Fiona because I have never heard about this job before. "What is that thing?"
"Chef? You have never visited a Restaurant before?"
"No."
"You never had a person in the Orphanage who is always on the kitchen making meals?"
"No. The nuns I had at the Orphanage are always making meals together because we were many more there."
"I see... Well... A chef is a person who owns a kitchen and prepares meals for customers. The meal he prepared for the customer needs to be delicious and to be served in a good way. If a meal smell good and taste good that means the chief earn some nice customer in the future and some coins."
"People paid to get meals?" I ask that question because I was shocked. "So... You say I was eating free at the Orphanage and I never paid the poor nuns who-
"That is different, Judah. The chef owns a restaurant or a bar, like that tavern you slept there."
"You mean that one who I saw you leaving?"
"Yeah. That one" says, Fiona. "Why you were there if you live in this house?"
"You see. I and Diana go there just to help my uncle, who owns that Tavern for almost twelve years. My uncle has started to get old and it is very hard for working a big Tavern like that one."
"What does your uncle do in that Tavern?"
"In the morning he serves the customers and the one who wanted to sleep there, and in the night, Alexander takes his place."
"You mean the one with a mustache?"
"Yeah. That guy."
After that, both of us, having no idea what to talk about, we decide to continue to eat until we finish. After our eating, I and Fiona are heading to our rooms, we say to each other "Good night!" after we entered our rooms where we are going to sleep until the morning.