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Road to a Hero: Three Chances in Another World
Arc 4: Chapter 25.  On the way

Arc 4: Chapter 25.  On the way

Arc 4: What families entail

Road to a hero:

Three chances in another world

Chapter 25. On the way,

A few days pass and Gray's armor is finally done, so he retrieves it.

Gordon: “You can just sit in your house, I’ll just grab it for you.”

Gray: “Na. I wanna get it and go as fast as I can.”

Gordon: “Well then let’s pick up the pace.”

Gray jogs down the smithing shop, entering to see an old dwarf smoothing out some armor. Gordon walks in behind Gray and gets the old man's attention.

Gordon: “Rick, you got Gray's armor?”

Rick: “Yeah I got it, old on it’s in the back.”

Gray: “Who’s this guy?”

Gordon: “Rick here is our best blacksmith and the best in the country.”

Rick: “Ten times better than my brother…GET BACK HERE ALREADY!”

Gray walks into the back room to see swords and random pieces of armor on the walls. And in the middle, put up on a stand is white armor.

Rick: “Here it is! Chest piece, shoulder piece, arm guards, and leg guards. Oh and the mouth guard with those three black lines on it.”

Gray: “Nice… actually I got a mask already.”

Rick: “Whatever your sword is back up there.”

Gordon reaches up and grabs two swords, a broad sword, and a short sword.

Gray: “Nice, two swords.”

Rick: “What are you gonna name the broad sword?”

Gray: “Um…Chime!”

Rick: “Chime huh…original.”

Gordon: “Alright, Ryo is getting Dema for you. Put on the armor.”

Rick places the armor on Gray, fitting perfectly.

Gray: “Nice! The last gear I got made was kinda bland, this just fits me more. And it’s light and dense.”

Gray walks outside to see Ryo leading Dema to the shop. Gray pets Dema and then reaches for his mask attached to her saddle. He places the mask on his head, and at the same time flows the dark hooded cloak out of the cursed charm necklace.

Gordon: “You look like a wraith.”

Gray: “Cool.”

Gray removes the mask, placing it back on Demas's saddle.

Ryo: “I packed your clothes, food, and water. Also if you need me you can contact me through your astral form. Since I helped you connect to the astral realm we are always connected.”

Gordon: “If you fly full speed you should get to Athens in a day or two.”

Gray: “Nice, that’s a lot faster than Edwards group.”

Ryo: “Well they had to take a lot more things with them.”

Gray gets on Dema’s saddle, her wings spreading and preparing to take flight.

Gray: “Dema, FLY!”

Gordon: “STICK NEAR THE COAST AND MOVE NORTHWEST! I ALSO PACKED YOU A MAP!”

Dema launches off the ground, flying around sixty or seventy miles an hour. Gray holds on as tight as he can, attaching his cloak to Demas's body to hold on tighter.

Gray: “ATHENS HERE I COME!”

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Gray flies for hours looking at the land below. The vast flat land, with randomly placed houses and villages, streams of water, frozen ponds, and snow coating all of it like a soft white blanket.

Gray: “Lotta farmland, I guess that’s how they got their resources. Walgonia with land and strong fighters, Athens with their abundance of resources on their island, Ravoria and their connection to the spirits, and Valatrositce with…actually, I don’t know what made Valatrositce so great. I heard that they have a big army, and it’s behind a mountain range…so power in numbers and location. I should ask Julius about it.”

Gray gets into a meditation position, taking deep breaths, soothing his mind.

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Grunts and stomps can be heard in the Athens forest, and sweat drops off Edward's face as he carries a box of rocks above his head. And on top of the barrel of rocks sits Lincoln sipping on sale.

Edward: “HOW…MUCH…FARTHER!?”

Lincoln: “UM…one thousand more steps.”

Edward: “UGH!”

Lincoln: “You need to harden your body, your BONES! Now stop walking and do one hundred squats.”

Edward: “I spent most of my time with Musashi training my senses and focus, then my body. This is just mainly my body…I hate it.”

Lincoln: “Good, be more open with your opinions, be abrasive, don't hold in your emotions you gotta let it all out, and to do that you must do ONE HUNDRED SQUATS!”

Edward: “One…two…three…”

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In the Athens castle yard, a group of guards rushes at Rosemary all holding iron pikes with Calgary watching from the side. Rosemary activates her stages going all the way to stage three and rushes at the guards. Even if they are all skilled Rosemary is in another class, being able to dodge and weave them without issue. One of them tries to stab her from behind but she ducks and jumps back into the man knocking him down, flipping mid-air, and boosting her legs to the four-stage to kick the air into the man's stomach.

Calgary: “NICE ONE! I NEVER THOUGHT OF BOOSTING MY LIMBS LIKE THAT!”

Rosemary: “THANKS! I LEARNED IT FROM A FRIEND!”

Rosemary lands, boosting her entire body to the fourth stage, and bulldozes through the many armed men.

Calgary: “Alright! Rosemary wanna go eat lunch by the garden?”

Rosemary: “Oh, sure I guess. Let me go get a bath and get dressed.”

Calgary: “You don’t have to do that, I already got the food ready.”

Rosemary: “Okay then.”

Calgary leads Rosemary to an area with dozens of different colorful flowers and trees

Rosemary: “Woah, all these flowers in winter.”

Calgary: “Athens doesn't get snow nor does it get that cold so most of these Bloom all year. Here I made a salad, a pie, and some pork.”

Rosemary: “Smells nice.”

Calgary: “It tastes good here too.”

Calgary feeds Rosemary a pick of the pork, and she awkwardly gives a thumbs up and backs off.

Calgary: “Your hair is the brightest gold I’ve ever seen, you are the daughter of the great Judge and Iris!.”

Rosemary: “Yeah…I am…”

Calgary: “Oh sorry…I forget you didn’t like your time with the Golden knights.”

Rosemary: “It’s not that I didn’t like it…it’s just like I didn’t agree with it.”

Calgary: “Yeah…OH! I saw your elf friend while I was out.”

Rosemary: “Really!? Was she doing okay?”

Calgary: “Okay would be a disservice, she beat some Athens guard asses. And she glided in on the cool…well on this cool glider.”

Rosemary: “A glider huh…she is progressing quickly.”

Calgary: “Yeah…is the food nice?”

Rosemary: “Yeah it’s good.”

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The day nears its end with cold winds blowing through the night sky. Gray wakes up hearing booms from beneath him. Gray looks down to see a ball of fire heading straight for him.

Gray: “Wah? AHH!”

Gray reaches for his sword but Dema turns to block the fireball, letting it hit her chest as well as things that look like bullets piercing her wings causing her to start to nosedive into the ground.

Gray: “SHIT, DEMA GET UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP!”

Gray rummages through his bag, grabs the cursed charm, and flows the cloak of darkness out of it, creating a pseudo parachute. He grabs onto Dema as well, trying his best to slow her fall, but his cloak gives way, causing them to fall a few feet off the ground. He looks at the assailants, dressed in the Walgnian knight's armor, standing in the middle of a small town.

Gray: “HEY I’M ON YOUR SIDE!”

Guard: “IGNUM!”

The biggest knight shoots another fireball at Gray, which he barley dodges. He gets low enough to jump off Dema and pounces on one of the five knights.

Gray: “WHAT’S THE DEAL!”

They hold up their swords at Gray, but he pays no attention to them and runs to Dema, feeling for her heartbeat. He feels a faint beat but his anger is intense. He feels his heart beating quickly, his mind begins to fade, and then all his emotions; all his feelings hit like a truck. He feels the same sense he felt in the astral world but this time in the physical realm. All the guards back up in fear as they see Gray's eyes start to flicker white over and over before they enter an intense white glow.

The biggest guard cast another fireball. But right before it hits Gray the flame dissipates. Whatever is flowing into Grays' body is disturbing the area, causing the elemental spirits within the fire ball to get confused, and do to how weak a base level fire ball is, it simply gives way. Gray looks at the guards in anger before he speeds toward them, and blitzes four of them in one fast quick motion, hitting them all with a palm strike to the chest. The biggest guard pulls out a sword, but before he could swing it Gray had him on the ground.

Guard: “DO IT! KILL ME! I LIVED MY PART, I WAS USEFUL IN CREATING A NEW WORLD!”

Gray starts to choke him out, but Dema squawks at him, snapping him out of the state and causing him to fall back. He begins to have a panic attack, pulling his hair and struggling to breathe. One of the guards gets back up, grabs something that looks similar to a musket, and aims it at Gray, getting his attention.

Gray: “CENIC!”

The black smoke of Cenic blinds the man, letting Gray charge him and take him down.

Gray: “WHY!? WHAT DID I DO!?”

Gray walks up to the big guard holding him down.

Gray: “WHY DID YOU SHOOT ME DOWN!?”

Guard: “Because…we were ordered…to shoot anyone…riding a flying animal…”

Gray: “WHY!? AND BY WHO!?”

Guard: “By…king…Arthur! You have a bounty on your head Kyojin!”

Gray: “Dammit…”

Gray hears footsteps behind him, looking to see a villager running up behind him.

Man: “Hey sir! Your animal here is badly hurt, and you took out those damn guards. I’ll help you out if you want, my wife's a healer!”

Gray: “Wait…really!?”

Man: “Yeah, come on help me get the earth-bound dragon to my barn.”

Gray gives the guards the stink eye, grabs one of the muskets and crushes the other one. He then starts running up to Dema, placing the gun and cloak in his satchel. Then he lifts her left side with the man lifting her right. Then Gray starts to walk with the man.

Gray: “So what’s your name?”

Chris: “Names Chris.”

Gray: “So…Chris…why are you helping me?”

Chris: “Those damn new guards attacked an Earth-bound dragon, and you stood up to them, and the fact you’re wearing Leviathan armor so I had to do something. You might need to stay at my place for the night.”

Gray: “Really? Thanks!”

Chris: “Alright we’re here.”

Gray looks to see a two-story wooden house with a small barn beside it.

Gray: “This village is pretty small, what do you do here?”

Chris: “This is a farming village. They’re crops all around the village.”

Gray: “Nice…I might be able to heal Dema here. I’ll come inside after.”

Chris: “Alright then, I’ll get my wife to make us some tea.”

Gray: “Oh you have a family in there, I don’t wanna intrude.”

Chris: “I told you it’s fine. And I want to tell you about something very, very important when you get in.”

END OF CHAPTER: Twenty-five.