-Break-

Location: Abais castle

Φ Sitting in one room the five ministers of Nialathrú gather. “Cultúir, how did today go?” Amadán asks.

“It went far better than I had expected. As it stands the little girl seems like she would be very easy to control.”

“So should we move on with the next step of our plan?” Olc asks.

“Sadly, not yet, one thing I learned is that one of the people she is looking for seems to be the one who holds all the power among the humans who live above us.

This means our plan to use the girl to control the humans won’t work without killing this other human first. But to do that we are to go ahead with our plan, we now need a bit more info. Leisciúil did you do the inspection like I asked?”

“Yes, my people doubled checked and without at doubt falling from that height would have killed a normal person. So those people the human is looking for have legacies, well at least one has.”

“That causes a minor problem for us, but not one that we won’t be able to get past. Still we need to find them first.”

Dur says, “I think I might have an idea.”

“Please enlighten us.”

With his rage pouring out, Due says, “My son had a bad run-in with some Fanalis, and they not only embarrassed but physically dominated multiple guards and my son.”

Leisciúil says, “That has to be impossible, Fanalis know to take their beatings.”

“Yet they didn’t, they fought back and smeared my family name,” Dur says breaking a bunch of stones which he had been throwing until recently.

Amadán says, “There is only one reason the Fanalis would suddenly get big-headed.”

Olc panicking says, “Isn’t this bad, if the Fanalis have thrown in with the human leader, that could mean trouble for us.”

“Don’t panic Olc, we won’t be in any trouble, if anything this gives us an opportunity to kill two birds with a single stone.”

“Dur get your soldiers ready, and Leisciúil I you to prepare a hiding space for a few beastkin and fill it up with resources for the foreseeable future.”

Amadán says, “What are you going to do Cultúir?”

“Are you forgetting that despite being the leader of us all, I am still the minister of education, so I am simply going to educate all of those Fanalis.”

-Break-

-The next day-

Φ Opening my eyes, I see the Pixie is on top of my face so I grab it and say, “Thanks for comforting me last night.”

Looking to my left, I say, “Because he never came back last night.”

An unknown voice says, “He is still in the eternal garden enjoying himself.”

Getting up I grab my bow and point it at the source of the voice, and I see Dumnorix sitting in a chair at the right wall of my room reading a book.

“What the hell are you doing in my room!?”

“I have simply come here today to request you join me on an adventure.”

With a deep demonic voice, I say, “Get out you pervert.”

Closing his book he says, “DON’T FOOL YOURSELF, DO YOU TRULY BEILEVE A TINY CHILD SUCH AS YOURSELF COULD STAND BESIDE ME!”

Getting up, he reaches his hand towards the sky and says, “I am the one chosen by the heaven, the greatest in all creation. The only woman who will ever touch me is one who suppresses me!” As he speaks the pixies shine a light down upon him.

With a smile, I say, “So I am ugly then.”

Shaken he says, “Huh?”

With a make-speed arrow, I shoot him and then as it hits him the explosion sends him right into a wall. “That’s what you get scum.”

As he lays on the floor, I notice something. Under his right eye, just like me, Iancu, Mime, and Anto, he has the symbol ♏.

While I stare at his eye, he jumps up and says, “Now that you have sought your revenge let us go on an adventure.”

“No?”

“We are both blessed by legacies, so doesn’t that mean you should trust me!”

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“No, it doesn’t.”

“Not even a little bit?”

“Not even a tiny bit!”

With the same cherry yet confident, attitude he always has, he says, “I saved your life so you owe me this request!”

I have waited all my life for this! Remembering what Orb said to me back when I tried to do the same thing to him almost two years ago, “Maple, I mean Dumnorix I have recently learned that using the good deeds you committed to ask for favours is bad manners!”

“I see then I will run arrow the entire area and tell everyone that humans are ungrateful scum he can’t even value the help others give them with a small favour.”

“THAT’S JUST BLACKMAIL!”

“Blackmail is using threats to force someone to do something they don’t want to. I am using threats to force you to do something you really want to do, IT IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!”

“NO IT’S NOT!”

“I see then, you leave me no choice.” Running around me incredibly quickly he says, “Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time, Adventure time!”

This annoying onslaught continues until I say, “OK THEN I WILL HELP YOU!”

Stopping, he puts his hands up to the sky and says, “It seems the will of the heavens has made you listen to me,” As light from the pixies shines down on him.

Looking at him with disbelief, I say, “If you ever drop your guard I will shoot you in the head, NOW GET OUT AND LET ME CHANGE!”

Location: Abbán house

Φ Opening my eyes, I feel something incredibly soft like a cloud. It must be Suzuka’s tails again. Wanting to feel more softness I squeeze but as I do I feel something hard and open my eyes and see that Orb is holding onto both me and Suzuka.

“Good morning Iancu,” He says as he hugs both me and Suzuka.

Breaking his grip, I say, “What are you doing out here!?”

Like a child he says, “You guys got to have a lot of fun yesterday while I was left all alone!”

“The reason any of us are still here is because of you, so just get better so we can leave!”

Throwing a tantrum like a brat, Orb says, “I want to have fun as well, I want to bet the beastkin as well, I want to go on an adventure as well, I want to eat tasty food as well! It’s not fair, it’s not fair, it’s not fair!”

As Orb continues to complain, a sinister aura appears behind him which catches both his and my’s attention. It is Suzuka who has woken up and is staring daggers at Orb with a rather frustrated expression.

“Orb what are you doing,” She says with a silent furry.

Sweating, Orb says, “I am trying to get Iancu to stop being a bully.”

“Shouldn’t you be in your bed?”

“I didn’t want to stay locked up in there any longe-,” Before Orb can finish his sentence his is struck in the face by Suzuka.

Then with her anger exploding she says, “What the hell is wrong with you, here I am worried for your health and now you are running around without a care in the world acting like a child.”

“But hitting me I also bad for my heal-.” She strikes Orb again silencing him.

“No back-talking.”

“Yes mam,” Orb says with the tone of docile animals.

Picking him up, she throws him out of our room then she walks and grabs him by his foot dragging him. “Iancu save me!”

I simply nod my head no. Even I know when and when not to pick a fight with her, and this definitely isn’t the right time.

“You traitor,” Orb says.

Stepping out of the door with them, I see Suzuka pick Orb up by the leg and then slam his body into the ground. “I said no talking didn’t I!?”

“SHE IS GOING TO KILL ME!” Orb says in fear.

Suzuka steps on Orb and says, “SO you now feel fear, but that’s something that I have had to experience over and over these last two days.”

Suzuka then throws Orb into his room, then using her tails she pins him down to his bed.

She sends her tails through the window and rips off some of the branches which are part of the house, then using them she ties Orb up, and as he is tightly confined to his bed she says, “If you move from there you will experience pain beyond any measure.”

Orb screams, “SOMEONE SAVE ME!”

But as he does Suzuka hits him right in the neck which knocks him completely unconscious, and then in her normal voice she says, “Get some sleep idiot.”

After this Suzuka looks out the window confused, and says, “Isn’t that Dillion sneaking over there?”

I walk up to the window and say, “That definitely is him.”

Me and Suzuka look at each other, then we dash out of the room and grab Dillion who says, “Suzuka,” Then with Malice he says, “Iancu!”

“Looks like someone is still not liked,” She says mocking me.

“Shut up!” I say falling prey to her mocking. Looking down at Dillion, I say, “What are you doing?”

“I was just going to go into Prosúnfore for the weekend market.”

“All by yourself with no transport.”

“I was planning to have the beetle brothers take me!”

Thinking about letting the only person watch Dillion be those two idiots makes a chill run down my spine, and looking at Suzuka’s expression I can tell she feels the same, so we both say, “We will come as well.”

-Break-

Location: Prosúnfore

Φ Standing in front of what looks to be a rundown building, I say to Dumnorix, “What are we doing here?”

“Just wait and see,” he says as he opens the door.

Inside the building, I see an old man running around lost, and a bunch of kids around fifty running around like animals.

Seeing us, the kids run towards us and say, “DUMNORIX!”

“We missed you.”

“Let’s fight again.”

“Make light appear out of nowhere again.”

“Don’t worry we will get to all of that later, but today I have brought a friend.”

All the kids look at me and then start to barrage me with questions.

“You have a legacy right.”

“Your face has made like Dumnorix.”

“Where are your ears and tail?”

“You’re face looks stupid.”

“You are pretty, marry me.”

“She doesn’t smell like a beastkin and doesn’t look like one of those Fanalis?”

Dumnorix says, “Because she is a human.”

“A HUMAN,” The kids say with excitement. Then one kid says, “What’s a human.”

Dumnorix replies, “A beastkin but without any animal abilities.”

The kids look at me with complete disinterest and one says, “So she is boring.”

“HEY YOU BRATS GO AWAY!”

The kids run away and go back to playing like animals, and then the old man says, “Hello my name is Aois, and I thank you for coming, I really appreciate the help.”

“The help?”

“You see Dumnorix comes and helps me out from time to time, and he said he would be bringing someone else to help me next time.”

While turning my head, I say, “So this is why you called me to help?”

But when I turned to where he was I saw Dumnorix had disappeared.

“Where did he go,” I say as I turn my head looking for him, but I see on the wall a note.

It reads, “I have gone to take care of other things fill in for me!”

Grabbing the paper, I crumple it and say, “NO WAY I AM LEAVING!”

Aois says, “That’s understandable, Dumnorix tends to try and rope people into things that don’t concern them.”

As Aois walks away he falls and says, “My back just gave out again, oh how am I going to serve out the food that the kids need? I am a failure of a man who can’t even do anything simple!”

Seeing Aois cry on the ground in a pathetic state, I walk over to him and say, “Don’t worry I will help!” And deep in my heart, I make the shoot where I am going to put an arrow in Dumnorix.