Looking at her bow, I see she has a legacy acting on it. Annoyed I say, “What the hell is that?”
“Oh, my bow, I polished it a bit before I came here so it looked extra shiny.”
“WHY THE HELL WOULD I BE TALKING ABOUT THAT? I am talking about the legacy on your bow.” Squatting down I start to scratch my head and say, “THIS FREAKING IDIOT!!! Right now, tell me if you have any more secrets, I need to know them right this instant.”
Acting coy she says, “Orb a woman needs to have som sec-.”
“YOU’VE ALREADY USED THAT EXCUSE!”
Surprised she says, “Calm down Orb, anger isn’t a good look. Oh, crap I am sorry, it must be that time of the month.”
Grabbing her by the collar, I say, “I AM A BOY. You know you’re an annoying liability, so why don’t I do some pest control right now!”
“Ok, in truth, my worst secret is this,” She says gesturing me to come close. When I pull my ear close to her mouth, she whispers, “My underboob sweat smells pretty nice.”
Jumping up, I head butt her in the head, which causes her to scream in pain and turn around, “You really can’t take a joke!!”
As she turns around, I notice that Anto is wrapped up against her back, so I grab him and say, “Anto what happened to you?”
“I just got into a little fight,” he says coughing.
Turning to Atalanta, I say, “How could you let this happen to my son, you really can’t do anything right can you.”
Crying like a baby, she jumps me and says, “You’re really mean to me for no reason, I was trying my best to help you and all you’ve done is be mean. Don’t you see all the wounds on my body, why don’t you care about my injuries as well you bully.”
As she continues to complain like a baby, I click my tongue at her and say, “Grow up.”
This causes her to continue, and say, “You bully, you idiot, you dictator, you moron, idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot.”
Φ Seeing Orb and Atalanta fighting in front of me I send the chains of my legacy towards them, but the moment I do Orb stares at me then immediately after Atalanta shoots a volley of flaming arrows towards Orb.
Then as my chains approach the arrows curve arrow and break right throw my chains then continue towards me. Each of the arrows misses my body except for one which scratches my cheek.
Shocked I see that the both of them just go back to fighting like children in front of me. She didn’t even look at me, but managed to accurately know my exact location, did she guess it by that look Orb gave to me? She’s a monster.
Φ “Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot.”
“I get it, you think I am an idiot.”
“That wasn’t an I’m sorry.”
“I don’t think you should be asking me for an apology right now.”
In my arms, Anto says, “Both of you need to stop fighting each other and go after Ahmed. We don’t know how much time we have until his chains automatically kill Raqiue, and if any other soldiers show up we will be in trouble.”
Stopping our fight, the both of us face forward, as I say, “I guess Anto is right, but I am going to need an explanation later.”
With puffy checks, she says, “As long as I get a big hug and an I’m sorry.”
“You really are pushing it.”
Seeing the chains coming directly towards us again, I run forward as Atalanta shoots them with flaming arrows.
Φ While Orb runs towards me, I send chains all around him but each of the chains is shot out of the sky by Atalanta, so I clump my chains up into one giant spear and send them directly at Orb.
In response to this I see her shoot flaming arrows directly at Orb; is she insane? At that distance, she will most definitely hit him.
But to my surprise, as the arrows approach Orb, he just barely moves his body out of the way to allow the arrows to hit my chains breaking them apart.
Are they serious!? Not only did that take incredible reflexes to pull off without any form of coordination, but more importantly is that with the power of her arrows if a single one of them struck Orb in the back it would have blown a hole straight through him. What kind of trust must you have in each other’s skills to do such a thing?
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Orb immediately makes a dash toward my left; he is trying to get around all my chains. So just like before I send the shields which I wrapped my chains around to block him, but all of those shields are blown to pieces by the flaming arrows of Atalanta.
“IF YOU WANT TO BE SO ANNOYING, I WILL TAKE YOU DOWN FIRST!” I send 40% of my chains towards her while keeping the remaining chains on Orb.
Φ Seeing Ahmed's chains approach me, I start to rapidly shoot them down out of the sky, “If you wanted to take me down, you should have sent the majority over here.”
As I effortlessly shoot the last one down, I hear Orb Scream, “BELOW!”
Jumping backwards, I see chains burst out of the floor below and stab me. Turning my bow into a sword I cut the chains off, as Anto says, “Atalanta are you okay?”
“Down worry about me little man, you have taken quite a beating today so I should at least be able to take this, all I need is for you to hold on tight.”
Seeing more chains erupt from the ground I say, “You can have my legs you disgusting god.” Then immediately my legacy activates on my legs, and then I use the heat to fly up midair to dodge all the chains.
Propelling myself through the air I rain down countless arrows on Ahmed, while his chains continue to chase me. Eventually, one of my arrows breaks through his chains and hits him directly.
Φ The force of her arrow was explosive, if my chains hadn’t lightened the blow half of my body may be missing. I can’t take her down without using all my chains, nor can I slow down Orb’s approach with any fewer chains.
No, I have been thinking about this all wrong. Orb is the leader here, if I capture him, it would be the biggest advantage I can gain!
I take all the chains attacking Atalanta and redirect them towards Orb, as I do, she shoots some down but still, they reach Orb.
Orb continuing his advance towards me dodges my attacks, so to compensate I start making chains appear from other chains to increase my attack range. But skilfully he dodges each and every one of them.
His movements are just like old man Naji’s, how did he learn to move like this in such a short time!? Feeling another arrow break through my chains, I see that Atalanta has moved forward and continues to shoot volleys of arrows directly at me to grab my attention.
Activating my legacy on my right leg, I create chains from my leg and arm and attach them to the wall allowing myself to manoeuvre mid-air. With this, I am able to dodge Atalanta arrows while striking Orb.
Orb runs from wall to wall, then across my chains trying to reach me but by moving midair and constantly creating chains, I manage to push him back. Surrounded by my chains Orb jumps to the roof and starts to spin snow around his foot, but my chains completely surround and are closing in on him.
In my peripheral vision, I see that a large amount of ice has been made around Atalanta. Did Orb move all the snow in the room over there?
Then suddenly I see Atalanta’s bow rapidly create heat, melting the ice in seconds. If they rapidly cool and heat the air in an area, wouldn’t it cause a giant explosion!?
From Atalanta’s bow, a massive shot is fired off, and a ridiculous force blasts through every single one of my chains which were attacking Orb. Then with all the chains around him missing, Orb jumps directly towards me and says, “Spiral Storm! Then crashes his foot into me flowing rotational energy right through my body.
Φ After kicking Ahmed he gets sent straight down and through the floor of the room. Landing on my feet I fall to my knee and start breathing heavily, “I really pushed my legacy to the limit today, I didn’t even think I had enough power left for the last attack.”
Hearing a large stomp, I notice Cyrus’s sister is lunging towards me. But as she tries to strike me, she is shot by Atalanta’s arrows and is sent backwards.
Running up to me, Atalanta says, “Looks like I deserve a thank you!”
“We can save that for later.”
“WHY’S THAT!?”
“Because I need to make sure Ahmed is unconscious, if he is awake this is all for nought.”
18 years ago
Continent: Terrafide
Location: The Kingdom of Jedidah, City of Jedidah
Φ As my father holds me in his arms, I hear people in front of the palace screaming.
“WE NEED FOOD!”
“THIS DROUGHT IS KILLING US!!”
“ARE YOU NOT OUR RULERS?”
“I CAN’T FEED MY CHILDREN, DOES YOUR HEART NOT FEEL?”
“DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY HAVE TAKEN THEIR FAMILIES TO BE BURIED IN THE SAND?”
“PLEASE HELP US!!”
My father says, “Remember this truth, my son. Ahmed we are exalted beings on this planet, not a single person is as important as us, and the very fact that we allow the people of this country to breathe the same air as us is a blessing that they have no right to have.”
“THE KING IS UP THERE!!”
The people below start staring and shouting at us. “Don’t be afraid my son, such lesser beings will never reach us.”
“GIVE US FOOD!”
“GIVE US CLOTHES!”
“GIVE ME BACK MY FAMILY!!”
Sighing, my father says, “Even though we so humbly came to fill their stomach with our presence they still ask for more, ungrateful scum.”
As the people below me continue to yell at me and my father I repeat his words and expression, then say, “Ungrateful scum!”
“What a wondrous boy you are, unlike the first one you seem to understand your position.”
Walking away, my father says, “Viser Thueban, suppresses these ungrateful swine.”
“It would be the pleasure of your humble servant my king.”
As we leave, I swear I saw Thueban make a disagreeable face.
5 years later
Sitting at the dinner table eating with my parents, I engorge myself on the delicacy in front of me as my mother says, “Oh darling look at this ring I got custom made from Skydust. With this the amount of custom jewellery I have from that country is about 5000, thank you, my husband.”
“It is a pleasure to do such a thing for my lovely wife. If only those scum outside could be as appreciative as you my darling.”
“Well, isn’t it because of my giant understanding heart that you picked me to be your wife?”
As my parents continue to talk, I take a bite off a piece of meat on the table and then spit it out. Slamming my hands on the table, I scream, “THIS MEAT IS OVERCOOKED. Soldiers bring the chef to me.”
Walking into the room, the chef, says, “My young master I have cooked it the same as I do every single day to your exact specification.”
My father says, “Are you claiming that a member of my family is wrong swine?”
“No, I wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing.”
Sighing, I say, “I have wasted too many words on your insignificant life, soldiers bring me his head. The sight of it on my plate with make the meat taste good again.”
The soldiers freeze, so I say, “Do you also want your heads on a plate too?”
Walking up to him they hold the Chief down and bring out their swords, but then one of the soldiers is drop-kicked directly into the table, and moments later I hear, “Don’t go killing people you shitty scumbags.”
Looking at who said these words I see it is my older brother, Hussain.