The big day is getting closer, the wedding day. Well before it arrives we decided to take easy and relaxing requests from the adventure guild and this time we are going together with Tir and his girlfriend. You have not forgotten Tir Alarc right? my wood elf best/childhood friend remember, well he had asked a dark elf woman, that had joined our adventure group last year, to go on a date with him and as to help him we turned an easy dungeon quest into a double date.
I and Aine were waiting on the gathering spot that we had agreed on, she wore a purple dress that magicians usually are wearing, soon we saw the two silhouettes in the distance walking out of the forest and you could see that one was talking to the other. The one that kept talking was a male that was in his early twenties, he had a tousled, very, dark brown chin length hair that hang loose around his head with his elven long ears holding some of it behind. With a slim, athletic body with fair skin he was little shorter than the woman next to him. The woman, who looked to be in her middle twenties in human standards, has a flowing silver hair that reach down to her shoulder blades and with the skin colour being dark grey with a tone of blue she had also a slim and athletic body. While they got closer Tir was still looking at her face, with his dark brown eyes and was talking about something I could not discern what it was about. When they were close enough, he finally noticed that her black eyes were looking at me and Aine, he turned his head and started to wave towards us. “Hello, Shu and Aine, thanks for offering this double date.”
“No problem, we are your friends so of course we would help both of you.”
By reminding them we are their friends and if they were in problem we would always offer help, like I think they would do the same to us. To make us start moving towards the dungeon, the dark elf named Lune Brillante said with a serious tone. “Let’s go and clear this dungeon quest”
What the girls do not know is that when our adventure group still only consisted of three persons me, my friend and our third group member, who is male by the way, we did this dungeon quest and after completing the quest we found there was a romantic place innermost of the dungeon and we will use that today as a dating place. Well the only monsters that infest this dungeon are spiders and bull moths, which are moths that are big as a grown man.
After have entered the dungeon I noticed that I in some way did not fit in the appearance within the group, because Aine was in her magic form which also gives her the symbolic long ears of elves so I was the only one who did not have any ears that tilts backwards out from the head. Suddenly Aine asked me because what I discovered changed my expression. “Is everything alright Shu?”
“Yup, I only remembered something that isn’t important.”
As I answered her concern, I felt her hand release the tension in it. On her finger is the mana tool, I gave her when I proposed, which has shrunken down to fit on her smaller finger in this form than her wood form. When I requested it to be made, I also asked to give it some extra functions, one be able to change size to fit the wearer, another to know where a specific beings core is located, mine, and it can also only be worn by one person. Most mana tools is made by a compound of silver and mithril usual called manite or mana metal, as its properties are able to conduct the mana easy through it and that is why it can be controlled easily with mana when making tools, but it is also very durable maybe not as good as mithril though.
Hearing the hiss of a spider ahead of us, we take our stances and brandish our weapons. I use a double-edged longsword to fight, but the others in this group use different weapons. Tir is our archer, as he uses bow and arrow, but he also has some knowledge in nature magic that he use when it is needed, while Lune unsheathes her two daggers that are strapped on each side of her hip and run to the side or to the back of the enemies and stab them with her daggers. Aine has always almost her sword with her that I had given her when we first met, but most of her forms are more like a mage than a warrior and because of her race she also does not need a medium to make it easier to channel her mana to the element, although those forms that fights like a warrior then she will use the sword. The element of magic is very special, not only is it hereditary for the Elemental Shifters, because what it is, is the pure mana control in physical form, that would say it is purely mana that take shape. So you either need to be able to only manipulate the mana without to disturb other elements or have so much mana that it would not be disturbed while gathering it.
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With me in the forefront while Lune being close to me for assisting and Aine some steps behind that propels mana crystals against the enemies in front of me and arrows that sweeps to the enemies further back that were shot by Tir, is the formation we used throughout the dungeon and reached the innermost part of the dungeon pretty fast. Me and Tir before we entered the room/cave smirked at each other, while thinking what expressions they would make. When we two entered a small opening hidden in the dungeon wall, they followed after and when we got exposed to the beauty, even as the second time, was breathtaking. Inside were there a large field with flowers in every colour you could imagine and clear blue lake surrounded by the field, a small faint light that reminded of the moonlight, although it is day time and there were a ceiling, lit in this place. To traverse around the lake would take about a quarter of a day while going from one end of the field to the other side´s end would almost take a full day. I could hear the staggering noises the two made behind us, snapping out of my astonishment I make a small push with my elbow against Tir, snapping him out of it also. Then I turn around and say. “What do our ladies say that we take our date and picnic here? Would you have any objections?”
Both had not completely composed themselves and could only shake their head as they had no objections. This must have been the first time I have seen this expression on their faces.
After having composed ourselves we moved to the edge of the lake and settled down on the flower-covered ground. We chatted among ourselves a little while eating the picnic and absorbing the view around us. We picked some flowers to make wreaths of flowers with all of the rainbows colours. You could hear Tir talking to Lune about this place beside us and I had curled up together with Aine with flowers on our heads. We had apparently underestimated how big of an impact this place would give, because both women said this was the most beautiful place they had ever seen in their life and I would almost agree on that. Because I know something more beautiful and it is in my arms right now, looking at the same scenery as me.
Author Input: Well I finished this in the middle of the night and here are some info regarding some things. First is that request in the story are more or less quests for adventurers and dungeon quest is conquering of a dungeon. Second is that magic is what we would call arcane magic, that would say controlling only mana and you can replace the word magic to arcane during the last two chapters, if you didn´t understand his/mine explanation during the chapter. Now we have arrived to the point were this is the promised chapter I would post before going to my relatives, so if I´m lucky I maybe be able to post a chapter during summer but the odds are very low, well after summer I will begin writing/posting this story again and I hope you will look forward to it. I hope you enjoyed/liked this chapter and you to have a really good summer.