Lance was running away and yet the path he was walking was quite a long one.
“Ha….ha…ha….”
Lance stopped in the middle of the forest, breathing heavily slightly bends his body he put his hand to his knees like tired from a long run.
Lance was being chased by a creature like a half-human minotaur, he doesn’t know why those minotaur was chasing him, it was about 15 feet in tall and anyone who would saw like that will probably scared and tries to run away and that’s what Lance does.
“This is not good I need to hide somewhere.”
Lance look in the area where he was, turning around his head, Lance saw a cave and he thought that the cave would help him to hide from those Minotaur who was running to chase him down.
Running to go inside the cave, the Minotaur saw him and it was like the Minotaur will smash him with a long wood that was being held by those Minotaur if those Minotaur will caught him, he look at his back with eyes wide and fear as he saw that those Minotaur was chasing after him so he ran as fast as he can.
“Ah I can’t hold it I’m out of energy.”
Lance wants to give up on running but when he look again to the cave a bright shone of light he saw and he use his hands to cover his eyes from the light as he looked with a gap in his fingers he saw an elegant woman standing on the front of cave having a white dress and her hair was white her face was very bright that Lance can’t look so he took the energy left on his body to run towards the girl.
“Yahhhh!!”
The woman lend a hand to him before those minotaur smashed Lance into pieces, Lance successfully held the hand of the girl and it brightly shone as the girl pulled him inside the cave.
Lance shocked and has been awaken from his dream.
“Hah, another dream huh?” Lance sigh.
“Guess I should get to practice.”
Lance stands from where he slept down and he got his wooden sword again to continue to practice.
It was an afternoon and the sun was slightly going down hiding on the clouds, bringing red and orange color as the shine of the sun hits the clouds lightening it.
On a the place where they called training ground where it was near on the road there were mini hills or high grounds bush and trees on the top of the hills which serves like a forest.
In the middle of the silence only the wind is the source of some sounds, it blows through the leaves that have into the ground and dust that hits the feet of Lance.
Lance was a 17-year-old boy black-haired, fair white skin, tall, who have the Sword of Dreams or its well-known name "Rychome", he was undergoing on a training to elevate his skills. But now in his practice Lance didn’t have his sword for it was only a practice.
"Hiya ha."
The voice of Lance as he swings his wooden sword coming from top and then going down. Closing his dimming eyes, blurry eyesight, due to his tiredness Lance fell down, after giving his last strike with his energy left.
He was practicing with his wooden sword a whole day with only water was the source of his energy.
"Ah what is happening?"
"..."
Lying down on the ground, he opened his eyes he saw a beautiful cloud that has lighten by the shine of the sun. Raising his right hand spreading his fingers like he wants to hold the sky, he clenched his fist.
"Ha it`s beautiful, if I can only fly."
He hears a sound of footsteps coming to his place so he stood up after hearing his name.
"Lance Lance!" A loud female voice calls him.
"Yes?" He replied with a moderate voice.
"Lance you should go home, Mom had already prepared the food."
It appears that the girl was his cousin Joyce, she was a beautiful woman silver-haired and has a pale skin, her body was firm she has the same age of Lance but Lance was taller than her.
"Yeah I'm coming."
Using his hands he taps his clothes to free from dust after he laid down on the ground. While they were walking Lance was in the front and Joyce was behind him she turned to left side of the road and Lance did noticed as he looked behind.
"Ah wait you’re not coming with me Joyce?"
"I have a place that I needed to stop so go ahead first Lance."
"Ah so that’s it, okay I’m heading first."
Lance walk straight through the road and Joyce turns to the left and she wave to Lance.
“Tell mom that I will catch up there later.” Lance reply with a nod.
The sun sets and the stars starts to shone in the night, the street lights started to lit.
Walking into the sidewalk as the cars passed by on the road, a yellow-haired girl from the right side of a car gazed to Lance, she was quite beautiful and has a white pale skin her eyes was a color of blue, everything has been slow motion as they looked to each other in that short time, the glass of the car reflects the face of Lance as it passed by.
"Who was that now? I think she is from Academy somewhere here."
Judging from what Lance have seen her clothes that she wears, was a uniform from an academy but Lance doesn’t know yet about the academies in the City of Helterbern also he didn’t see the uniform of the academy that he enrolled.
Lance cheeks dyed red he was stunned a bit as he remembers the girl's face.
“Blond hair huh? No but I think that I have seen her before but I can`t remember it.”
Lance continued to walked, the girl from the car called up someone from her phone, tipping her fingers to her lips while having a call.
"I've found him." A soft sweet voice.
"Then that was good keep it up."
The replied from a phone revealed that it was a girl. She ended the call and the car fastened the speed.
Lance just got home after a long walk from the training ground. He untied his shoes and walks to the living room he goes to the kitchen and there he saw his aunt.
"I'm home."
"Oh welcome back."
His aunt Kate welcomes him home, she is the mother of Joyce and the wife of Max his uncle she is a bit like Joyce's face and has a long silver-haired too like his daughter though they were mother and daughter.
Lance was temporarily staying at his uncle Max's house in the City of Helterbern, it was near on the Academy where Lance will be in once the Academy will be open for the year.
"By the way Lance where is Joyce didn't she called you?" Asking as she does some dishes in the sink.
"Ah! she did, but apparently she needs to stop by somewhere so she said that I'll go back first."
"Ah so that's it then why don't you take a bath first let`s just wait for her to come home and we’ll eat together.” Her mouth curved to smile.
"Oh sure aunt." He replied too with a smile.
Lance leaved the kitchen and he took upstairs to put back his sword into his room, while he was in his room he pulled the curtains which covers the sliding door like window, from the transparent glass of the window Lance looked and he saw a car that was on the outside of their house.
“The car looks familiar.”
Lance remembers the black car from a while ago that he saw, so he was shocked thinking that someone was stalking him, a sound that coming from his cabinet taken his attention, Opening the cabinet he looked for it in the meantime but when he looked again into the window the car wasn`t there.
Into the bathroom, Lance laid down in the bath tub to take some refreshments the smoke from the hot water evaporates.
"Ah the hotness of the water relaxes my body, it feels good."
After the bath of Lance he goes out from the bathroom, walking to the kitchen Lance saw Joyce coming inside from the front door.
"I'm home." A loud voice she made. So her mother heard her loud voice from the kitchen.
“Welcome home!”
“Uh welcome home Joyce were waiting for you.”
“Okay then let`s go and eat.”
There in the table they gathered and ate the foods that has been prepared by his aunt.
"Thanks for the food." Altogether said.
"Hmm this rice was good." As he swallow up the rice that has made by her aunt.
"You're right." Alice agreed to Lance.
“Thank you for praising my food.” Kate smiles with closed eyes.
While they were eating Joyce asked something to Lance about going to the Academy.
“Lance when will you go to the Academy?”
“I think 2 days from now.” His eyes goes up in the corners as he thought.
“Eh so you will live there once you have transferred.” Kate joins the conversation of the two.
"Probably, I will live there for years." He nodded.
"Eh good luck on Grand Events."
Wanting to end the conversation but she didn’t know that Lance don’t know what she was talking about so Lance asked for further information, and it seems that his aunt also have joined the Gran Events when she was young to battle.
"Uh by the way aunt what it is…. the Grand Events?”
"Grand Events held every year to select the finest students from the three Academies."
"Do you mean by the way of fighting?"
"Yes.”
"I see."
Lance seemed to gathered information about the Academy but then there were lot of fighting activities on Academy that he was not familiar of after all Lance was new in the City and to the Academy.
A long conversation has taken some time to finish the food of Lance in the table after their conversation and after the dinner Lance goes outside, in the backyard of his aunt's house, he practice again with his wooden sword. Running into the backyard he targets the tree on his aunt`s backyard.
"Here I go."
"I need to focus, Burst!"
"Ha!" Striking the tree with a loud voice.
An aura emits from his right hand and he feels the strength as he used his burst. Burst is a power up strength usually used in battle it has a three stage and depends in level; burst or normal burst levels 1-5 it provides a strength of 10-50%, rage burst levels 6-9 provides a strength of 60-90%, and the max burst level 10 gives 100% max strength.
Burst is use to unlock the skill without the use of it a person cannot use his/her skill, also burst is use not to power up one’s self it can power up also the weapon that has been use by a person. In the case of Lance even he was only using a wooden sword he can cut of anything with the use of burst.
But there are some usable skills even if the burst was not activated.
"Fiery Wind!"
Hitting the tree by the wind from the strike of Lance, Lance successfully cut the tree, surprisingly as he saw the half of the tree fell down to the ground.
"I made it." Lance smiled.
The skill he was mastering the whole day was a success for him bringing a smile.
Seeing the bright shone of the full moon in the sky, his face created a wry, he don't know on how to explained of what happened after that he saw his uncle Max was sitting behind him.
Lance stared to his uncle thinking of words that he could talk.
"W-why didn't you speak uncle?!" Embarrass and a slightly angry voice.
After all it was his uncle who taught him some fighting skills to be used in the Academy, while Lance was in it he wants to take the time on practicing and learning some skills from his uncle.
"Uh I'm amaze of you-" His uncle replied but Lance was in a rushed to talk so he stopped.
"Just that?!"
His uncle continued of what he said to Lance.
“And besides I don`t want to bother you while having a training.”
“I’m not on a training, I’m just testing a skill.” Lance complained to what his uncle said.
“Okay okay I got it.”
Max accepted that he has defeated by Lance on their argument.
"Sorry for cutting the tree." Bowing down his head, Lance show his way of apologizing to his uncle.
"It's okay Lance, it is simple just this."
Max raises his right hand and targets the tree.
"Reverse!" Lance saw the cut of the tree has been back to normal after his uncle used the skill reverse.
"..! Woah so you have a skill like that uncle." At his amazement Lance eyes widened.
"It's just a simple skill."
Max waves his right hand up down like he was being boastful.
"I just simply put it back again on the tree, but it doesn't mean that it backs to normal."
Max means that it`s just like in the top of the half of tree but it doesn’t fully heal or back to normal.
"The skill reverse makes the things only back to its original position but it didn't healed anything."
"So you are saying that the tree..." Lance got it somehow.
"Yes but it will back to normal soon don't think about it too much. And also I'm a bit lazy to walk and put the tree back again so I did used the skill for that purpose."
"Ha.." Lance sighs.
"Haha…, Lance did you want to know about the reverse skill?” Max offers up something to Lance.
"I will gladly accept if you will."
Lance knows if his uncle Max was baiting him in this offer, like if Lance said “yes” he knows that his uncle will say “Then learn it on your own.” Something like that.
“Okay then, I guess I should teach you, also me and Joyce will be having a training for tomorrow you know that our training ground, if you would like to come then I`ll let you spar with her.”
“Yes uncle I`ll be there tomorrow.”
That night his uncle teach him about the skill reverse and Lance learn it, after that he goes to his room a nice and tidy room, only a bed and a few things can be seen like books.
"Ah I'm tired."
Lance feels the softness of the bed after lying down seeing the ceiling he closed his eyes to sleep.
A bright light coming from the sun, shone in the right part of the house where his room was. Lance wakes up and yawned and he stand to open the curtains & the light shines in his room.
“Ahhhhhhh….”
Lance remembers of what his uncle have said to him last night so he goes out to his room after doing some stretching.
Lance rushed down from the stairs walking to the kitchen he saw his aunt.
“Oh Lance Good morning, you were awaked sit there and eat some.”
“Yeah thanks aunt.”
“Today Max and Joyce came on the training ground, Max said to me that you should go there.”
“Oh I nearly forgot about it aunt, thanks for reminding me.”
Rushing from his house to the training ground Lance takes the short route to the training ground, suddenly while he was taking a left turn he bumps to a girl.
"Ha I need to hurry."
Slightly tired from running but he did run as fast as he can.
“Ah!”
Lance shocked as he bumps to the girl, Lance head hit the girl’s head bringing him to force the girl to fall.
The girl appears a beautiful woman, long black hair, blue eyes, and she is a bit smaller than him but she is the same age of Lance, her white body makes her so soft and her face is kind of cute.
"...."
Lance was on the top of the girl, when he regained consciousness.
By not knowing, he touched the chest of the girl feeling the softness and fluffiness of it as he slightly squeezed it, his face was blushed a bright red that covers his face.
The girl woke up and Lance departed away from the girl.
"I'm s-sorry."
Lance bows down to the girl to apologize but the girl appeared angry so she slapped Lance, hitting Lance with the girl’s right hand to the left side of the face of Lance a red hand has been shaped to the face of Lance after the girl slap him.
"P-pervert!" A loud mad voice.
His apologize didn`t fixed the things instead he has been called a pervert, well when you are in the position of the girl probably the same result too will you got and that man who gropes you will be called a literally pervert for what he did to you.
But in the position of Lance it was not on purpose but a well clear accident and he really didn`t meant to do it to the girl, the wrong ones he did was she squeezed it with his bare hand, so in conclusion the acceptable part was that Lance bumps to the girl, while the other groping the girl`s chest was not.
"What!!!"
The girl runs away from Lance, Lance just didn't mind it like nothing was happened Lance needed to go where his uncle and cousin are. And his mind bugs him of what've happened.
"Anyway I have something to do, ahhh why my morning is this!!!"
Lance came to the training ground breathing heavily, he was tired after rushing from the home.
"Oh Lance you've come." Max greets him with a smile.
"Ha…ha…ha…"
"Yeah I…made it somehow."
Lance takes a break for a mean time to regain his lost stamina, Lance sits on a log and Joyce came to him and lends him his wooden sword.
"Here Lance…"
"Uh thanks for bringing it for me.” Lance takes a hold to the wooden sword.
"Then I guess I shall start my training, Okay then I will do my training here.”
Lance look for thing to practice his sword skill he saw a big tree and it was on the season where its leaves were falling down as the branches shook by the blow of the air.
As he swings his wooden sword with force the leaves on the trees fell so he targeted it of every leaf that was falling down, Lance slashed every leaf and it was a hundred percent to be hit no missed in his fast.
"Hup..Hiya….Ha!”
"Oh…he must be training hard, Joyce give a spar to Lance."
“Yes.”
Max calls his daughter with a soft voice that can only be heard by his daughter, but Max didn’t call Lance it was like a surprise attack from behind of Lance, while Lance was not paying attention to his surroundings and only continued to hit the fallen leaves.
“Can you notice me Lance?”
Joyce rush to attack Lance from behind pointing her wooden sword to Lance. It was only 10 meters away of Joyce from Lance while his uncle Max is sitting on the log near Joyce so Lance heard of what have his uncle Max said to Joyce.
“I can hear your footsteps.”
Lance was aware of the attack of Joyce from behind, when Joyce was approaching to hit Lance, Lance closed his eyes and he turned around to the front of Joyce to strike through the wooden sword of Joyce.
“….!!!”
Joyce eyes widened in her surprise, after all she knows that at last she could defeat Lance, by attacking from behind of Lance but it seems that she didn’t know what training has Lance go through when Lance was a kid.
“You're too aggressive Joyce.”
As their wooden sword hit each other Joyce teeth grits in anger.
“Be serious Lance!” A strong angered voice.
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Joyce thinks that Lance was holding back in their battle every time they spar, even when Joyce and Lance was a kid, Lance always won in their spar and this time yet probably Lance would win again without seriousness.
“Why don’t you use burst?”
Lance asked Joyce to used her burst it was like teasing her for being weak and needed a burst to stand and fight. They have paused for a second Joyce walks backwards a bit away from Lance and she stretch forth her fingers in her right hand Joyce clench her fist and calls-
“Burst!” Joyce used her burst.
Activating a burst is in their own way even if it is only calling it, actions in their hand or whatever part they want, it depends on the user on how he/she will activate his/her burst.
“Maybe I should give it a bit force…Burst!”
Lance has activated his burst by only holding the wooden sword with his two hands and calling it. Now the two has activated their burst and its obvious who will win in this spar.
“Oh this is interesting.” Max said while watching the spar of the two.
Lance and Joyce were not that mortal enemies, they were just a mortal sparer since they were kids well when they were kids Lance`s father have always visited his uncle Max and then Lance did know that Joyce also has practicing sword skills so that`s how they`ve started.
It was afternoon under 2 pm and yet the spar hasn`t ended.
“Don’t just stand there Lance come here and I will show you the fruit of my training.”
Joyce wants to force Lance to give it his best but Joyce didn’t know what strength Lance has.
Furthermore Lance won`t use his full power in terms of only spar, in Lance being spar with anyone was only for practicing or training Lance was not that serious.
“Okay here I go.”
Lance take his move and slightly speeding as he approaches to Joyce, Joyce made her stance holding her wooden sword and just standing to wait Lance to close combat to her. But Lance used a blink as Joyce eyes drop down.
“Huh?!! Where is h-!!”
As Joyce opens her eyes widened in shock that she didn’t caught Lance with her eye, Lance stab Joyce from behind making her to felt a bit pain on her back.
“Ahh!”
“The fruit of my training huh?”
Lance try to teased Joyce with these words that came out of Joyce mouth and so the unexpected happened Joyce became angry in the sight of Lance but only Joyce was acting to see if she can trigger the true strength of Lance.
Joyce makes a move and acting recklessly as she swings her wooden sword to Lance, sometimes Lance hit the wooden sword of Joyce and sometimes Lance dodge it by bending his body but this can’t keep for a long time so Lance decided to end their spar.
“Huh? How can he dodge my attacks? Did he know that I’m just acting?” A mixed doubt and surprised of Joyce.
“Then how about this Lance.”
Joyce got a bit too far from a spar and uses a skill.
A person has a two battling types either long range or short range (close combat), sometimes one can have a both, long range defines a person who uses a magical skill that has a casting like fireballs etc.,
However on short range can have a slash like or power ups his/her close combat abilities.
Joyce has both of those so she can do long and short ranges.
“First primary skill Dragon fire!!”
As Joyce said her skill a fire like or shapes dragon appear before her eyes targeting into Lance.
“Heh now you can’t just dodge this by not using a skill.”
The corners of her mouth goes up smiling with a little laughed. As the fire like dragon approaches to Lance, Joyce didn’t saw what happened after that she knows that her skill hits Lance.
“Yes that's the fruit of my training—“
From a smoke made by hitting Lance with the fire, Joyce saw Lance standing behind those smokes having a hexagon form of black like shield, the ground has been dug creating a medium pile that was broken when the skill of Joyce hit from where Lance stands.
“This is the end…..Black shackles.”
Lance used a skill it was a chain with a color of black only Lance can saw what he casted to Joyce.
Said by Lance as Joyce blink her eyes she saw Lance was in front of her holding his wooden sword by his right hand that was stretch and it points to the throat of Joyce meaning that she can`t move or her neck will be cut off she just have to surrendered.
“Okay you have won.”
Her eyes were sharp in irritation that Joyce has defeated but it was only an act, Lance lend his hand in a form of shake hands, the two were bathing on their sweats after a long spar and it was finally ended.
“You can quit your act now Joyce.”
“Huh how did you found out that it was only an act?!”
Thinking with a surprise her mouth can’t decide if it will makes a circle shape or whatever. Lance only laughs and also Joyce.
“Haha, just don’t mind it.”
“Yes yes that’s the end of the spar you can take a break you two, here.”
Max stands up from a log where he seated, Max gave a bottled water to the two.
“Thanks uncle.” Lance gets the bottled water from Max, Lance opens it and he drink.
“You were too strong Lance.” Shaping her mouth to a smile.
“Uh thanks, it`s been years too when you have a spar with me.”
“Yeah I see.”
Even Lance won in their spar he was not a full of pride person in fact Lance was kind and grateful that he could spar with Joyce again. As Joyce opens the bottled water and she drink it, the sweat from her hair near her ear drops down to her neck and goes to her chest.
“Ahh and now give a spar to me Lance.” Said by his uncle Max.
“Huh, I’m already at my energy limit I should save some.” Lance shocked for a bit when he heard what his uncle have said to him. When his uncle Max came to a joke Lance take it too seriously.
“Don’t take my joke seriously.”
“Ah okay, I thought you are serious cause I can see your face that you were serious to spar with me but I don’t mind if you want a spar.” Lance didn’t back down from the spar that his uncle wants.
“I think it was enough for you to spar with my daughter I have a work to do so I will be going for now, Uh Lance before I’ll leave I just want to say good luck for the opening of the Academy that’s all.”
A farewell greeting of his uncle Max cause Max will go to the South Island where he works.
“Uh okay thanks uncle.”
“Well then bye.”
“Then me too Lance I need to head back to home.” Joyce bows down her head showing her gratitude to Lance.
“Thanks for the fruit of your training I’ve been overwhelmed Joyce.”
“Oh I forgot to give you this… here.”
Joyce brought the Rychome to Lance.
“Oh I forgot to said to you by the way thanks.” Lance gets his sword from his cousin.
“Yeah, Dad I’m going too well then Lance good bye keep on practicing.” Said by Joyce while she smiles and wave her right hand to Lance.
“Yes, good bye.”
“Well I guess I should take a small break for a while.”
The girl from yesterday that keeps on monitoring to Lance was hiding on a tree, she sits in top of it that no one can see her, the girl also was clothed with black dress that has a hood.
"Just as expected of the new student of Gran Kreil Academy, He is very strong, I will be waiting Lance." Speaking as she puts her finger tips to her lips.
The sun was setting down and Lance continued to practice after his uncle and his cousin goes back to home.
"Hah I need to train hard so I can fulfill my promise."
Suddenly a girl appeared from the high ground where the trees are to attack Lance from the air, she was clothed with black dress and has a hood to unseen her face only the lower part of her face can be seen and her yellow hair can be seen too because it is long.
Lance was always aware when something is attacking from behind of him in air or ground, so he dodged the attack of the girl by bending his body and jumping backwards.
"Who are you?" A questioned by Lance.
The girl uses daggers the color of it was black measuring about 15 inches.
"Guess who." Speaking as she puts her fingertip to her lips while holding a dagger.
As Lance see that the daggers where sharp and can cut his wooden sword.
“Why don`t you use your sword there?” the girl look at the sword of Lance.
“Well then I`ve got no choice but to accept yours.”
When Lance was about to get the sword the battle starts the girl strikes first with her fast speed, Lance got his sword and immediately swing it to the girl who was behind to strike him.
“You`re reflexes were good Lance.”
Swinging his sword and her daggers to each other sounding like a metal as their swords hit.
“How do you know my name?” Lance energy drops down he was sweating a lot but he can handle it.
“I was here before you knew it and I heard from the people who are lately here.”
“So I have a stalker huh? I don`t know who are you but I know that I have to defeat you, HA!”
Lance strike hard as he talks with the girl.
“Why don`t you use your burst Lance?” She ask Lance.
“I`m not using a burst to a mere girl like you, Ha!”
Lance tries not to lose with the girl even though he has only a bit energy left.
“Ah I just need to unhood her.” Lance came up on a plan to know who the girl is.
“So that`s it, are you the girl from the car yesterday?”
Lance asked the girl as he catches his breath due to tiredness of his body. The girl didn`t reply to Lance`s question. They have paused for a while standing and facing at each other.
“Now is my chance huup.” Lance used his energy left to run to the girl, Lance drops down his sword.
“What are you doing Lance? I can just hit you if you are unarmed.” The girl position to attack Lance.
The girl can see from the eyes of Lance that Lance has a plan but she doesn`t know what kind of plan Lance has, as Lance approached towards the girl he fasten his speed and in the blink of an eye of the girl, before she stab Lance by her dagger, Lance already unhood the girl making it to expose the face of it to know who is the girl.
“Just as I thought you are that girl.” Lance saw the face of the girl.
After Lance found out that the girl was the one she saw on the other day their battle has ended and they sit on a log the girl undress her black clothed and Lance saw that she was wearing the Academy's uniform the girl starts to introduced herself.
“Ah you found me out by the way I am Alice Yveteryn vice president from Gran Kreil Academy nice to meet you Lance.” Alice smiles to Lance.
“Uh,.. so do I need to introduced myself? Ms. Vice president?” Lance asked Alice as if he was joking.
“Yes since I`m interested on you also I`d start to like you.” Alice starts to change her tone of voice to a sweet soft girl like voice.
“Then I`m Lance Grey nice to meet you Alice.”
Lance held out his hand to shake their hands and so Alice got the hand of Lance and they shake their hands, Lance eyes can`t clearly look to the elegant face of Alice, his cheeks reddened a bit when their eyes met each other.
“I`m sorry for a bad opening to you Lance.”
Alice apologize for being rude to Lance since she attack Lance with a stranger look because of her clothes that has a hood.
“Why did you do something like that Alice?"
Lance starts to ask for a few reasons that what made Alice to attack Lance without introducing herself first and next to spar with him this kind bothers Lance.
“Ah I`m testing out your skills on battle and of course if I seem like a girl you wouldn`t battle me so I've decided to wear that hood black cloth you`ve said earlier that you wouldn`t use a burst to me.”
“Uh sorry for saying such words to you.”
Lance bows down his head showing his apologize too of what he have said to Alice.
“Do you know Lance I`ve gotten an interest to you so I want to know more about you.”
Alice seems a bit like Lance because of his strength or for her Lance was special.
“W-what?! We have only met now and-“ Lance was about to say something but Alice talks.
“Don`t you like me Lance?” Asking as her mouth turns to a little sad making her face a bit cute sad.
“It`s not that I hate you let`s not rush things.”
Scratching his head with a wry smile and he don`t know of what will he do next to understand Alice.
The sun goes down and it went dark the red-orange sky turns to dark and it seems that it will rain cause the clouds were creating noises, the street lamps besides the training ground started to lit, Lance stands and he says goodbye to Alice.
“I`m going home now it is dangerous to go late, how about you Alice?”
“Ah me? I guess I will get a car.”
The cellphone of Lance ring while they were talking. Answering his phone it sounds that it was his aunt.
“Hello hello?”
“Oh Lance me and Joyce decided to go with your uncle Max so sorry for tonight cause you will be alone but don`t worry I have already prepare food for you and for tomorrow too I made too much so eat well then that`s all I have to say good luck for tomorrow.”
“Yes thanks Aunt Kate and be careful on your way.”
After the call he puts his cellphone to his pocket and Lance starts to walk while bringing his wooden sword and his Rychome.
“Who calls to you Lance?” Alice asked.
“Ah my aunt she says that I will be alone for tonight cause they have gone to somewhere, then see you tomorrow Alice.”
Lance waves to Alice while he was walking apart from Alice.
“Ah okay see you too.”
It was night-time when Lance started to walk.
While Lance was walking to the house, Lance notice that someone was following behind him so at first Lance didn`t mind it but he was alert thinking that someone may attack him again, as he reaches his house someone was following him hiding on every pole, Lance then make a turn to right side and he stop by to see if he will find if there is someone following him.
“Hah, let`s see.” Lance deeply sighs.
As Lance hear a footsteps coming to turn the right side where Lance stands, Lance heart; beats hard in his nervousness Lance sweats after a long walk because he choose the long path towards the house.
“A surprise attack again?” Lance thought of it while standing alertly.
Lance notice that the footsteps that he heard was gone, Lance takes a look at the left side of the road and the clouds thunder making it to rain in the area where Lance is, as he take a look he saw that it was a girl.
“Huh?! What are you doing here?!”
Lance, with a slight open of mouth surprised of what he have seen because the one who was following him through the house was Alice.
“Ah uhm a while ago you said that there is no one in your house right?”
“Ah I think I know what you mean then let’s go you'll catch a cold Alice.”
Lance had no choice but to accept the fact that Alice will stay on his uncle's house due to the rain that made wet the clothes of them.
“Yeah thanks.”
Alice nodded and she bows down a little showing her gratefulness to Lance.
Lance got to the home and he let Alice to come inside, the rain continues to fall on that night.
“Come inside.”
Lance and Alice goes to the living room of the house it was nice and neat in the living room of his uncle’s house.
Even they have been poured out of water from the rain the wet uniform of Alice was not fit to seen her inner depths because she wears a shirt under her uniform, well it is important into the Academy to be modest and be a model cause Alice was a vice president after all.
“So do you want to bath first Alice?” Lance asked Alice standing in front of him.
“Thanks but you can go first Lance.”
Alice appreciated what Lance offered to her but she declined on it, perhaps because the house was entrusted to Lance so that is why Lance must go first.
“Okay wait here I will get a towel for you.” Lance took upstairs to get a towel.
“Hmm this house was so simple but pretty.”
Alice judge the house of the uncle of Lance based on what she have seen, in the living room where she was, was a table sofa and a television can only be seen with some flowers on the near of the window.
Lance footsteps gradually increases as he walks down from the stairs.
“Here, your towel, use that to dry yourself for a while.”
Lance tossed the towel towards Alice and it drops down to Alice's head making it to cover her face.
“Oops sorry it landed on your head.” A bit apologized of what happened to Alice.
“Uh!.. thanks for this, don’t apologize it is a small thing Lance.”
Alice grabbed the towel and she starts to wipe her wet hair.
“Then I’m going to bath first if you want to do something just turn on the television.”
“Yes thanks again.”
Lance walks to go to the bathroom while Alice sits on the sofa and continues to dry up her wet hair and she unbuttoned her uniform to make it dry.
It seems that the heart of Alice was slightly fallen for Lance because of the sudden change of the air, Alice remembers of what have happened on their battle between her and Lance, thinking that they have resemble on a person that has to be trusted.
And even though that Alice was being mean to Lance in the first were they’ve been battle, despite of that Lance still accept her as a friend and let her to stay in the house.
Alice looks at the sliding window like door seeing the water that keeps falling down from the window.
“It sure rains a lot tonight.” Alice sighed.
On the other hand Lance was still on the bathroom lying down on the bath tub close eyes that if it likes Lance was asleep but he smile as he remembers on what have happened on the morning, Lance cheeks slightly dyed red in blush.
“Its soft huh?” Lance eyes where close while fondling the soft sponge.
“It`s been a while since I bath like this, it`s like this is my first time that I’m so excited.”
Lance recall on what happened to him when he fought Alice at first, Lance look back on the personality of Alice that she was being quite like a sadist person who puts her fingertip to her lips but after they’ve fight her personality change from being mean to good person.
“Hah, just as I know I can’t understand girls.” Lance sighs.
From the transparent blurry glass of the door in the bathroom where Lance was lying down in the bath tub, Lance saw a figure of a girl with a long hair, from that blurry glass Lance saw that the girl was striping his clothes so Lance think of what will do.
“This is bad...why you`re coming in a sudden Alice?!” A muttered voice he made.
Well it was obvious that the girl was Alice because his uncle cousin and aunt where out to go somewhere so only the girl he has with was without a mistake, Alice.
“Lance I’m in the point that I couldn’t resist the bath so I’m coming.”
Alice opens the door that divides between them.
“Wai-!!”
Lance use his hands to cover his eyes with a slightly open of a finger, from there Lance saw Alice has wearing a towel to cover her own body, without it Lance will blushed but even the towel only was Alice using to cover her body Lance still blushed and his cheeks dyed in red.
Lance turns around facing the wall while he was in the bath tub.
“What are you doing Alice?!”
“Don’t you want to wash your body by me? I just want to return the gratitude for letting me stay.”
Alice starts to ask some questions that turns on to Lance and she unclothed herself from the towel that covers her body.
“Of course, it was embarrassing, also I can wash myself.” A mighty confidence replied of Lance.
Alice takes the soap and the cloth for washing a body and then she goes to the bath tub where Lance was. The waters sounds as Alice starts to dip herself into the bath tub filled with water.
“Now don’t be shy Lance face here.” A soft sweet voice she made.
“N—no I can’t!” A strong refuse of Lance dyed of red in his cheeks.
“Then I should wash you first from back, don’t worry I’ll take care of you because...Because you were only mine, L-a-n-c-e.”
Alice starts to wash the back of Lance having felt Lance that the body of Alice touches him as she hugged Lance from back.
“Huh-?”
“T-they’re touching me can you please stop this thing?” His face continues to blush.
In a good bad situation will test the strength of a man either Lance will give up or not, it is his choice, how can Lance handle this kind of situation?, that he has been trapped in the corner of the ring nothing to do but to still hold of himself.
A voice was reaching out from afar off hearing it will do, but finding where the voice came from was not quite easy but Lance still continues to try hard and believe to that voice. “Lance stop it” Echoing in Lance’s ears.
He reached out his hands in a dark place still trying to find where that voice was coming and a sudden light with a pretty white pinkish hands that holds Lance’s hands as he take a look from that direction a light from little starts to shine bright until it flashes like when you look at the sun.
As Lance carefully look at that it focus and a blurry sight he has seen.
“Ah huh?.. where am I?”
A questioned to himself that he didn’t take a look from the sides but only focusing to stared at a light.
EventuallyLance notice that the light he was seeing was a light from the bathroom. Lance didn’t realize at first he was still lying down on the bath tub it's just minutes before he goes to take a bath.
“What happened…..a dream?”
At last he recalls of what have happened real to him, it is hard to forget something that he only see in a dream with a high-definition images that goes to his mind, still he can’t just forget about it after all that it lasts from his memories because of that dream.
“Darn! Why didn’t I take the offer, It was just a dream!!” Lance shouts with a bit loud.
After a few minutes Lance review again of what happened and he is just unlucky that he didn’t accept the offer of Alice from his dream.
It seems that when Lance says “stop this thing” it came really to stop by.
“Lance Lance?”
Alice called him from the close door of the bathroom while she was knocking at it. Probably what Lance heard in his dream that someone was calling him was Alice that was not on his dream and knocking on the door.
“Yes I’m done.”
Lance shouts to hear by Alice, Lance stand’s up and gets the towel to cover his body while Alice walks to the living room to wait for Lance to get out.
In the living room where Alice is she looks again at the window and the rain on that time stops and Lance call him and Alice turns around her face toward Lance.
“Alice you’re next I’m done.” Alice just nod and she goes to the bathroom.
It was a silent night, the atmosphere was quiet in the house cause no one has there that became the house more livelier it makes it when his aunt Kate and uncle Max are there, in the bathroom a sound of water that drops down can only be heard where Alice was, while Lance in the guest room prepares the bed for Alice.
“I guess this should do it.” Lance used his right arm to wipe his forehead.
It was around only 7:30 pm on that night, 1 hour and 30 minutes from where they are before they’ve got home and rain. Thinking on the bath tub where Alice was lying down.
“Hmm... I need to get more closer to Lance, but how should I do it?”
Asking herself on how to get the feeling of Lance to fall for her, aside from being popular in the Academy because of her looks she doesn’t know on how to deal with guys to be loved and it is her first time though but even she found out other options on how can she get Lance, Alice was still okay the way she does from then and now.
“Huh!”
Lance in the room without knowing the lights suddenly turned off making him to shocked in that moment and he stood up from where he is and he start to find the switch of the light and Lance turn it on but..
“Huh why it doesn’t turn the lights on? Hmm probably it was a power outage.”
On the bathroom where Alice was lying down on the bath tub closed eyes she didn’t know that it has a power outage in their house when she open her eyes Alice tries to stand up and she finished her bath.
“Oh my power outage huh?”
“Oh there it is.”
Lance found the flash light from a cabinet in the guest room where he prepares for the bed of Alice and then he continued of what he was doing.
Alice was finished on her bath she wore the bath robe that Lance place on the top of washing machine, Alice only wears a bath robe that Lance borrow in the cabinet of clothes of his aunt, Alice didn’t wear any underwear because it was with her uniform in the laundry to dry.
“Oh there it is my phone… I think I should find Lance, hmmm where could he be?”
Alice started to find Lance with her flashlight on her phone, she goes to the kitchen, rooms and she took upstairs, walking in the stairs she saw a bright light coming from an opened door, Alice then walked and found out that Lance was there.
“Oh Lance what were you doing there?"
Lance looked to Alice with his flashlight lights Alice that was standing beside the door of the room.
“I`m preparing the bed for you and suddenly there was a power outage.”
“Oh thanks, I need to get back to the place where we have been before, I forgot to bring my things there was an important thing so…”
“Okay I got it but I will come with you, Is it okay to you too wear that clothes?”
“It totally fits to me what do you think Lance?”
Lance can`t helped it but to stare to Alice with a reddened cheeks.
“…..Uh that suits to you well.”
“Then let`s go Lance.”
“Yeah, I`ll bring my sword in case of something will happen.”
Lance took his sword from his room and he puts it to a weapon recall. Weapon recall it was a high-tech device designed for fast releasing of any weapons.
The moon shines brightly after the rain poured down the black sky in the night was calm and the roads were soaked with water, Lance and Alice goes outside and walks till they`ve reached the training ground where Alice left her things. While they were walking on the road Lance tells something to Alice.
“There was a tale here in this place did you know about that?”
“Oh I don`t know such thing but I will listen to it mind telling me?”
“Sure, it was called an “eight-pm tale” but I`m not sure about if it was real or not, uncle just told me that tale the eight-pm tale.”
“So what was about that, eight-pm tale?”
“It was about some monsters appearing on this place, but uncle said that it was mixed with animal`s body, face, or any part of an animal, I don`t know because I didn`t see one of them.”
“Oh monster ….? But how did it all started?”
“It was started on a magician who have experimented and kill some animals, uncle said that the magician took some experiments on the animals to became a familiar or a kind of like pet but it has skills, the experiment came to fail and the villains said that the magician always does that on time of eight so it was called the eight-pm tale.”
In ancient times magicians started to made their own familiar to fought for their desires and the magicians book which says that when creating a familiar must be on 8pm, well no one knows on where the book came it was just been passed from generation to generation.
Furthermore no one knows too on why it has to be 8pm even the uncle of Lance didn`t know either.
“Oh so that`s how it started.”
“But I`ve only heard that and I didn`t have experienced on that.”
“Oh so that`s why you`ve brought your sword, by the way where was your sword.”
“Yes to make sure that if it happens to appear…, ah I`ve put my sword here.”
Lance showed his weapon recall to Alice it appears a mini box measuring likely a key on a keyboard.
“It was called a weapon recall, my sword will appeared from here if I call it.”
“Oh so that`s it, were here Lance.”
They`ve reached the training ground Alice walks apart from Lance and goes to the log where she placed her things but her things were not there, Lance from a distance saw a long wood and will hit the defenseless Alice from behind.
“Oh why my things weren`t here I just put it here.”
“Alice, dangerous!...Rychome!”
Lance in fear draw out his sword from his weapon recall and immediately blinked from where Alice stood up and get here from the smash of long wood.
“Are you okay Alice?”
“Yes I`m okay Lance but what was that creature?”
Alice saw only a large creature with horns the creatures were three in total, as the creatures step out from the forest in the high ground of the training ground of Lance, Lance stunned in shocked after he saw that the creatures were a half-human Minotaur.
“Lance it looks like the eight-pm tale were true.”
“So it was for real…. And also my dreams were true, but it was different now from what I`ve dreamed I have a weapon and will surely beat up this monsters now.”
“Alice can you step back for a while I will beat up those Minotaur.”
Alice replied with a nod, she step back and Lance started to battle the half-human Minotaur, the Minotaur`s eyes turns to red as if it was like angry and it rages like a roaring of a lion, the two Minotaur attacked Lance with its long wood.
“Bring it on, Burst!”
“Dark dragon slashed!”
Running to the two half-human Minotaur Lance used his skill, as he chant the words moving fast like a dragon he took a slashed to the arms of the half-human Minotaur bringing It to scathe the arms, a black like thing came out of the scathe area, bursting out like a blood.
The half-human were strong and the scathe from their arms slowly heals and Lance was shocked of that.
“….It`s tough.”
This time the two half-human Minotaur attacked Lance by their long wood, In anger of the two Minotaur their long wood slowly covered by a metal it was like transforming from wood to metal, Lance dodged the reckless attacks of the two Minotaur, they were big, tall and scary but their attacks were too slow, for Lance it`s was just so simple to dodged.
“I can`t make Alice to wait I need to end this.”
Lance jumped high from the tree targeting the one and so the other.
“Dark Slash!”
A black aura forming like a C shape came out from the sword of Lance hitting them to the chest, the two Minotaur didn`t dodged it for it was too fast and their body movements were slow too so the two Minotaur has been defeated and it broke into pieces like a grain of sand swaying on the air.
“Now the only left was you.”
Pointing his sword to the big boss Minotaur who has been the last one to be defeated, the last half-human Minotaur has an armor on its body and its weapon was a big long sword.
“Lance be careful!”
“Don`t worry I can beat this Minotaur, then let`s get started Minotaur.”
Alice can`t helped on battle for she has no weapons to be used the only choice was Lance, she was worrying that Lance might be loosed, but Lance then Lance replied with a smile on his face.
The Minotaur roars and it starts to attacked Lance the speed comparing to the other two was fast and its slashed to, but Lance fasten his speed so he can matched to the Minotaur.
“You`re too fast as well am.”
Striking down the sword, the ground has been cracked due to the force that the strike gave, the Minotaur`s defense was opened and it was the chance of Lance to attacked so Lance didn`t loosed his chance to attacked, using his sword Lance slashed the neck part of the Minotaur and the feet of it making the Minotaur to loosed it`s balance.
“Dark Slash!”
Once again, Lance used his skill to defeat the Minotaur and it successfully hits the Minotaur making it to disappeared and turn to christening dust that flew on the air.
Lance`s sword turned back to the weapon recall slightly fading from his hand.
A noise coming from a tree has caught the attention of Lance the leaves and branches of the tree moves as if it like someone was holding to it, as he looked up on the high ground where the tree was, he heard a sound of a closing book, but when he goes up he didn`t saw anyone there and he come back to Alice.
After the Minotaur has been defeated the items of Alice was turned back and she get it.
“It came back Lance, thank you.”
Alice, with eyes closed, and curved of lips into smile, thanks Lance.
“Uh your welcome.”
Lance eyes averted away, his index finger scratched his side hair near on his right ear making him to reddened his cheeks for a bit.
“Let`s go Alice… Ah I`m tired.”
Alice and Lance walks to go home, when they`ve reached the home Lance opened the door and they came in, as Lance walks through the living room he was finding the switch and he turned it on.
“Oh the light has back to normal.”
The dark place lightens as Lance turned on the switch of the light.
“Uh Alice if you want to lie down you can go to your room that I have prepared for you.”
“Can you… show me where it was?” Alice slightly pulled the clothes of Lance, with a slow shy voice.
“Uh… sure.”
Lance can`t refused but to helped Alice, Lance and Alice took upstairs, as Lance holds the door knob he opened the door, the room was dark the only source of light was the bright shone of the moon that hits the transparent window of the room, he entered first and also Alice.
Lance was searching the switch of the light using his right hand, and before he did it Alice took down the hand of Lance and she hugged him.
“Uh….”
“....Alice?”
“Uh Lance you know…”
As Alice hugs him she slightly move her feet one by one, left and right making Lance to be pushed to the bed, Alice head lays down on the chest of Lance as she hugs him and moves her feet. Lance seems to be a bit nervous with a reddened cheeks.
“W-what?”
“…I didn`t… properly thank you…”
“F-for w-what?”
“…For saving me from those Minotaur a while ago.”
“Uh….”
“That`s why…”
Lance fell to the bed as Alice slightly pushed him, Alice untied her bath robe, making Lance to blushed and cover his eyes with his hands, she was on the top of Lance, Alice`s chest were not that exposed but they were touching Lance`s body making him to turned on.
Furthermore, Alice used this opportunity to thank Lance from saving her from those Minotaur and to get Lance fall for her, It comes to her mind when Lance was saying about he prepared a room for Alice.
“...this is my way for thanking you, so don`t be shy.”
Lance`s muscles on throat move as if it like he was swallowing something, his sweat drops down from his hair thinking for something to make a way out of Alice, well Lance was that kind of person and not a pervert person however if Lance reached his limit, maybe he can do bad things, that`s why Lance was avoiding it to make it not happened.
Lance grabbed the shoulders of Alice while looking at a side so he couldn`t saw anything from Alice, he turns down Alice and now Lance was on the top of Alice, he bowed making his hairs to covered his eyes.
It was like Lance swapped to the position of Alice.
“Listen Alice this wasn`t right, thanking me like this will bring to bad, and I`m avoiding it.”
“Oh I see, you were a good person as always.”
Alice ties back her bath robe.
“Yes that`s why, you just need to take a rest… I`m going out good night.”
“Yeah good night too, Lance.”
Lance walks out and closed the door he was standing lying his back on the door, he inhaled and exhaled deep, Lance didn’t know that Alice was behind of the door hearing Lance for something.
“That was close… I don’t know what will happened if I came to bit her.”
“Oh what a shamed Lance.” A muttered voice so Lance couldn’t heard her from behind of the door.
Alice bit her fingertips and she stretch forth her arms yawning.
“I’m sleepy, guess that should do it for now.”
The silence occurs in the atmosphere inside the house after they’ve finished their conversations, It was a good night for Lance but remembering of what Alice have done to him makes him uncomfortable, he opened the door of his room and he straight to the bed, there he laid down spreading his arms in bed.
“Ah, I really don’t understand girls.” Lance sighed.
“It was tomorrow huh?”
Lance looking up onto the ceiling, falling down his eyes slightly in asleep.