AN: I've changed one of the mc's powers, so it would make more sense.
as always if there is some criticism or advice please post a comment.
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3rd Point of view
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In a stone room, inside a castle, a bald and thin man is sitting behind a desk, with dozens of parchments on top of it, facing a door, he was writing on a parchment with a quill, when someone knocks the door. The man behind the door spoke:" Sir, I have brought the report about the pursuit", the man behind the desk grinned and replied in a joyful way "Excellent, come in and bring it to me" the servant opens the door, gives a small bow to the bald man, and gives some parchments to the bald man and leaves the room. After he left the room, the man who sat in behind the desk started to read the report in which was written:
"The men who we sent from the guild and the demon hunters of the church, were found, inside the black forest, dead."
The man frowned in annoyance as he read that, then he continued. "The gems that were enchanted with the tracking spell are now broken, we concur that the woman is certainly dead since we found scenes of battle in the area, the child was presumably killed by wild animals since we found the corpses of our men with bits missing and we weren't able to find neither the body of the woman or the child." The man crooked his eyebrow and started to think about the report "both gems were broken, the only way to do such thing is when the target is dead, or when someone with more capabilities than the caster uses a concealing spell, which, if she was able to she wouldn't wait to use when she was cornered, so the woman is presumably dead... and the boy is probably dead since he was abandoned in a forest, and his gem broke, but we need the corpses to be certain." The man gave a wry smile it wasn't his style to hunt weakened enemies and infants, even if they were from a race that could rival his liege and he wasn't a saint or an honourable man to be feeling guilty about this, but even though the woman was able to defeat those mercenaries and two demon hunters, she was still in a state which a battle wouldn't bring enjoyment to him.
The man started to prepare to go to his lord and give the report and counselling, he took the report and another tome of parchment and left the room.
In the throne room of the castle, there were a couple of guards beside the double door and a man who sat on a grey stone throne, he looked middle-aged was thin and pale, with golden hair and pointy ears, similar to the ones of the elves. He was wearing fine clothes made of furs dyed in red, and on his head, a crown made a dark metal with gems.
When there is a knock on the door, the bald counsellor enters the room, kneels and starts to speak, "My Lord, we've received the report about the pursuit of our enemy." The man who sat in the throne looks into the man and speaks to his guards. "Leave." and the guards follow the command. As soon as they were only in the room, the Lord spoke with an evil smile on his face:" Stand up and speak Erhard, tell me what the report says." Erhard stands and starts speaking " My liege, the woman is dead the gem enchanted with the tracking spell broke the same goes to the child, the men that we contracted died in combat with the woman, the corpses of our men had marks of being eaten by wild animals, we couldn't secure the corpses of the woman or the child." The man who sat on the throne started to laugh “ So, those men died because of a dying mutt, truly laughable, Well at least we now have less loose ends in this matter, and about the bitch and her spawn, she couldn't be able to conceal herself from the spell and both of them must've been eaten by the wolves in the forest, " he paused and laughed again "What a truly appropriated way of leaving this world, being eaten by her own kind, truly they weren't nothing more than beasts and that's how history will remember those animals". The counsellor started to speak “ My lord, if I may suggest, we didn't found the bodies yet, should we send men to try to find the whereabouts of the corpses?” the other man look at Erhard and spoke “Yes, yes, very well thought, send some of our men to search the forest and the surrounding woods and villages.”
In the next days Erhard gathered thirty of their elite men, in case of the woman being still alive, and sent them to search and secure the corpses or for signs of the woman and the kid, they would be separated into two general groups and would be sent to different directions of the Black forest, that those two could have run, each group would be then broken on a unit of three men and would stay at a maximum of six hours of distance between each other and would request for support from each other if necessary or if they objective was accomplished, this mission was of extreme importance for their lord and they were only permitted to fight if someone tried to cover the woman and the child because this could bring more enemies to their liege something they didn’t need at this moment, they would communicate between with each other of the groups by using a spell.
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Marifa Point of view
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In the morning after my husband brought the baby, he found in the woods, I was recalling what he told me, the way that he was induced to find him, I asked my husband, while carrying the boy "My dear, how was the force that was trying to call you?" He looked to me who was carrying our son; I've already started to think of him as mine and how cute he is with his round head and plump cheeks that were giggling at me; his silver thin hair and those two rounds twinkling eyes, one silvery and the other hazel, and gave us a foolish smile "Hmm, it was meek it wasn't trying to force me to go, but it was like if was asking for help? Firstly, when I've felt something probing my soul, I've thought that was trying to harm me, but seconds later I've realised that was just trying to find someone that wouldn't harm the child, well at least it's what I think"
I answer him as I was looking at our son, while playing with his tiny little hands with my finger, “What do you think it was? You said it didn’t try to harm you, so we can rule out ghosts and apparitions, and you also said it was meek, so it would only be a fairy or a lesser spirit, but fairies only exist in the elven forests and lesser spirits aren’t known to interact with mortals?”. He looks at me and makes his dumb face that I’ve known for years and replies “I don’t know, aren’t you supposed to be the smartass since you are the mage?” I think this will remain a mystery. I give him a meaningful glare and look back to our son and I speak “Look, little Rem don’t grow up as a dummy like your father.” and he giggles, I smile victoriously and look back at my husband who looks defeated “Look dear, even little Rem knows it too” he pouts and mutters thinking I can’t hear him “Just wait until he grows a little, he will be like me in no time” I speak in a slightly harsh tone “What did you said dear?” and he replies me “ Nothing my love”
I love our antics.
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
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Third Point of view
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Two months since Remus was adopted by Marifa and her husband, the winter was starting to fade and there were the firsts signs that spring soon would be upon the land, life went back to almost normality. Tane and Marifa started to change their routine, from going to the nearest city each three days to do quests, Tane started to hunt in the nearby woods and training the guards of the village while Marifa started to spend less time in her meditation sessions and was only going to the city each tenth day of the week for her tasks at the Magician Guild, and Tane went only on the fifth day of the week, to sell the mana cores acquired and to pick new quests, while both of them started to spend a lot of time with little Remus. The neighbours and the rest of the village noticed the new member of theirs family but both Marifa and Tane decided to conceal the real history of where and how he was found and decided to go that they saved the boy in some quest, since the spiritual matter of how he was found could lead to problems.
In the second week of the early spring a group of three horsemen came to the village and started to ask about if someone saw a tall woman, with silver hair and a baby a couple months old, they went from house to house and almost all villagers being dismissive saying that there weren't new inhabitants for at least the last six months, especially only a woman and her child, since they had sent a strange feeling as if those men would bring problems to the village. Until they went to the house an ex-mercenary who was known for quarreling with Tane since he started to train the village guardsmen a couple of months ago, the man like the villagers before also said that no woman with a child came to the village but he said that Tane and Marifa adopted a kid in the same period of time. The horsemen confirmed with another couple of villagers and went to Tane and Marifa house.
Two of three men positioned themselves as to be able to spot if someone try to escape the house and the last man went to the door and gave a knock and spoke with a loud and grave voice “Excuse me, we came from a faraway land and we need you to answer some questions”. Inside the house, the couple that was eating lunch while feeding some goat milk to little Remus, was startled, who was that man at the door and what he wanted? Tanes and Marifa both get up from the table and went to the door, he was a few of steps in front of her like when they went for quests, in a defensive manner, he opens the door halfway impeding the passage of anyone and using the door as a shield, he glances toward the man at the door and those further away, they were wearing a set of leather armor and chainmail and had longswords in their waists , Tanes with his left hand behind the door started to grip his weapon in his waist, and he asks “What do you want?” with a serious voice. The man without noticing his actions spoke with hints of rage since they spent a lot of time hunting the ghost of a dead woman and an infant; and this was the first actual clue to something “We are searching for woman with silver hair and her child, someone in your village spoke that maybe your kid is the child we are searching for.” with hints of hostility he continued “ You don’t need to worry, if your kid is the one we are searching for we can pay for the ‘trouble’ that you had with it, could you tell me where you found your kid?” when the man finished speaking this, both Tane and Marifa were enraged someone had the disrespect to treat their child as if he was some a wanted man, Marifa a couple steps behind her husband asked in a harsh voice “ And why are you searching for this woman and kid?” the man looked to Marifa and spoke with disdain “Ah my lady, She is a wanted woman that killed a dozen of innocent men and the child was her hostage.So where did you find your child?" he spoke with hints of anger and a demanding voice, Marifa stared in the eyes of the man as if challenging him and spoke with disgust in her voice towards the man “We found our son in the southern plains.” the man looked in her face then in her husband face as if looking for cracks in their openly enraged expressions and spoke “Would you mind if I look at your child.” Marifa and Tanes spoke together with rage “Yes, we would mind if you look at our child.” as she started to gather mana.
The mercenaries, begun to grip the handle of their longswords, since the 'diplomatic' way failed, as soon as the man who was speaking starts to advance a step, he keeps speaking “Why you have to make this hard for us, I just want to look the brat.” Marifa unleashes the power of the earth as she chants “ Power of the earth, hear my call, rise and engulf my foes.” Casting an intermediary power spell to probe her enemy strength and to not create a big scale battle at her doorstep, caging in a layer of earth the man from his feet to his chest as she says “Are you going to make this hard for us?” the man gave her an ugly look and he begins strengthening his body with a considerable amount of mana, and twisting his torso and waist to shatter the layer of rock that engulfs him, and says “ Mages ey… never liked that kind” as he was going to advance to attack Tane blocks the way, who was between him and his wife, with his sword already unsheathed and enters a defensive stance, both men stared at each other as they were leaking kill intent.
As this was happening one of the lookouts receives a message from the spell of one of the other groups telling them that they found two bodies that match the info they had, of a silver-haired woman and a boy a couple months old and since they’ve gotten instructions to not start trouble, he calls his superior and speaks in a loud voice “ Sir, we’ve just received a message from the other group, they’ve been found, remember our priorities.” The man who kept staring at Tane answered “Yes, Yes I remember it, well my good lady and sir” he spoke the second part with mockery and continued “I really was enjoying our little ‘pleasantry exchange’ here, but duty calls upon us,so until the next time, I think we will find it a lot more exciting, and then I will give the brat a good ‘looking’” as begun walking back as he kept staring at them.
As soon as the men were no longer visible, Tane and Marifa went back inside, still fuming with rage, and look at Remus who has got a scared face, as if he had sense that someone had just threatened him and his parents, starts to cry, bringing back both of them back from their thoughts.
They both look at him, inside them, they believe with certainty that he was the child those men were looking for, adding more questions without answers about who were his natural parents, if his parents were dead or alive. Even if those matters are important, it is of shadowed by the current pressing problem. Remus is scared and is calling them, not his blood relatives that are nowhere to be found, but to this couple who already saw him as their firstborn.
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AN: Well it took me longer than what I've expected to write for this second chapter, I'll probably try to speed a little for the next few chapters, the story will remain, in these first 3-4 chapters, with a slow pace.