What Would You Do For Revenge?
Chapter 3-Arrival
Walking to the gates of the the city, it looked as bustling as always, the guards looked shocked seeing me and Cristina. I would be too, with how I look right now and am carrying a young girl.
"Halt, state your business traveler." Said a guard. I looked at him, and he flinched.
"I am here to rest with my daughter." I said. The guard looked me over once more and motioned me to come inside. I walked in the city and was met with a bunch of stares, some looked confused, others, scared, and some had sparkles in their eyes seeing Cristina. That made me giggle. Some even eyed me lustfully.
Cristina hugged my head and buried her face in my hair, obviously shy, and looking cute while doing it. I always carried with me 5 gold in my clothes and a pouch of money on my waist. Some robber tried to snatch my money, but I sidestepped and kicked him through a wall into a store. I spit on the ground and walked away, receiving more scared and lustful stares.
I walked to an inn while receiving many different stares. When I walked in, the entire place shut up and everyone looked at me. I just stared forward and walked the attendant, a middle-aged man with black hair and dark brown eyes. He looked me over, then he looked over Cristina, she hid her face again, and he smiled, not pervertedly, but a happy smile.
"You are too cute, it should be illegal. Now, what can I do for you today?" Said the man.
"I would like a room please." I said.
"It's 10 copper a day, and meals are an extra 5, you can also use the bath for free." He said.
"I'll take the room for 5 days and a meal please." I handed him 55 copper and he gave me a key. He told me my room number and I went upstairs. I unlocked my room and looked around, it was quite nice.
I locked the door back up, and went to the bath. I undressed Cristina and myself and started washing her. Soon, we were all clean, and we went upstairs to sleep. Since I don't feel exhaustion, I don't need to sleep. Cristina laid down next to me and fell fast asleep.
I sat awake and was feeling quite hot, so I was wishing that I would cool down, when a gust of a wind blew across my face.
'No way, don't tell me...' I think and will some air to swirl above my palm, and a few minutes later, a ball of swirling, compressed air, floated above my palm.
'Don't tell me I get increased physical abilities, a 'radar', a body that can't get tired, and I can manipulate elements?' I thought. To test this theory, I willed water to appear in my hand. Soon, a rotating ball of water was swirling above my palm. I also will a ball of earth in my and, soon enough, it appeared.
Suddenly, I had an idea, I made a ball of fire in my hand and started swirling the air around and in it, trying to fuse the two together. It worked, and I had a blue fire with white streams surrounding it. With this, my fire can't be put out with water alone.
I did this the entire night, finding different ways to fuse and use my four elements.
My fusions so far:
I fused fire-wind and created an invincible fire
I fused wind-water and made lightning
I fused earth-earth and created the ability to control wood and plants
I fused water-water and created the ability to control blood
It's not much, but I created a new element and made two variants while also increasing my fires potential. I can also use the water to act as a catalyst for the lightning, increasing its power. Using this too much made me really tired and I actually passed out. I think this session was rewarding.
I woke up with the sun shining on my face and went downstairs to wash myself. When I walked in, all the women blushed and looked away, while the men eyed me with envy. I was cleaning myself, when I 'felt' a man walk up to me, irritation all over his face.
'So he's looking for a fight huh? Just don't disappoint me.' I thought.
"Hey you,new guy, I want to have a word with you." He said. I ignored him and continued washing myself. Everyone knew what this man was going to do and sent him death stares.
"Hey, don't ignore me!" He yelled and grabbed my shoulder. I grabbed his hand, squeezing hard and heard a few cracks, and let him go. The man fell on his knees, holding his hand.
"Dont you dare touch me." I said, only putting a little menace in it and everyone shivered and looked away. I finish cleaning myself and went back to my room. Cristina woke up and we went downstairs to eat.
Everyone looked at us again while we ate, soon after they continued what they were doing and we left. I took Cristina to a clothing store and bought a black cloak, and a set of clothes for Cristina. With that settled, we took a tour of the city.
We went to famous landmarks and statues of heroes past, eating food at nearby stalls and I bought her two emerald earrings. They were in the shape of a star and she thanked me when I gave them to her, tears of happiness in her eyes. I put the earrings on her and we continued our tour.
It was nice and in a flash, it turned into night. To get to the inn faster, I decided to go into an alleyway. It was creepy and Cristina was holding my leg. I 'felt' three people behind us and two in front. One of them walked up to us made a very rude request.
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"Oi, hand over the girl and you get live, sounds like a good deal huh?" I got pissed at this and quickly closed Cristina's eyes with one hand, stood in front of the man and ripped out his throat with the other. He clasped his hands over his throat to stop the bleeding and fell to the floor.
"I will never hand her over. You guys should leave, or do you want to do this the hard way?" I said, pointing to their buddy on the floor, still bleeding out.
"You bastard! Rahhh!" One of them said and rushed at me, sword drawn. I just stood there, still covering Cristina's eyes, wanting to test something. The man eventually reached me and thrusted his sword at me. It surprisingly shattered upon piercing my armor reaching my skin. I just noticed I put on my armor in the woods, how did I not notice this? My sword is missing, hmm. The man stared wide eyed and I grabbed him, thrusting him up against a wall by his neck.
"You see, I am really not in the mood for this right now. So if you would just die, that'd be great." I said with a frown on my face. He was clawing at my hands and struggling to breathe, when his friends finally saw me as a threat and all rushed at me. I tightened my grip, crushing his throat and cracking his neck, killing him, and threw him at his friends.
I hit one of them and they fell backwards, and the remaining two slashed at me, forgetting the fact that they can't cut me, and shattered their swords against my skin too. Wanting to test something else, I willed the first man's blood into a sword, and stabbed one in the chest, and thrusted my hand into the other guys chest, holding his heart in my hand on the other side. I dropped his heart and retracted my hand, making him cough out blood and fall limp on the floor. The last remaining guy got his friend off him, just in time to see what happened. He got up and tried to run away, and I used the grass to wrap around his ankles, tripping him.
"Daddy, what's happening?" Cristina said.
"Nothing, just playing around with some people, it's a secret game so I can't show you." I said and Cristina pouted, aww, she looks so cute.
I had enough of this and left leaving the other guy praying that I'm leaving. I turn into another alleyway, only to get stopped by another man.
'This is getting ridiculous, why won't they give up already?' I thought and stood still. The man in front of me looked to be old and had white hair with a long, white beard as well. He had a staff in his hand, and was wearing a blue, embroidered, robe.
"Well, after seeing that, would you like to be a teacher at my academy?" The old man said. I stared confused at him.
"No thanks, I'm busy." I said, and the old man smiled. Cristina looked excited and looked up at me with puppy dog eyes, tears building up on the corners of her eyes. No, my one weakness, gah! Fine, I yield.
"Hahh, alright I will teach, but you have to let my daughter join to, if not, then I'm out. Why do even want me to teach anyways, I have no experience, and who are you?" I said, the man looked confused. This man felt much more powerful than me.
"Your daughter can attend, I want you to teach because I saw you use plant magic against that man, that is a very rare variant of earth magic, mind you, and kill these people like they were nothing. I am very interested in you and think it would be better to have you close to me, in case you try to use that power for evil, and as for who I am well, I am the headmaster of Rork Academy, Bob Pennyworth. You have such unique skills that I could care less if have experience or not." Said the man.
I knew about Rork Academy, it was the greatest academy on the planet. I planned on having Cristina attend before everything happened, she had excellent magic potential.
'Wait, he said I used Plant Magic, but I have no magic potential, my wife had excellent magic potential and Cristina got hers from her mother.' I thought.
'It must have been the gray blob. After I touched the blob, I could control magic, maybe it increased my mana pool and affinities. Interesting.' I thought, I look back at Bob and ask the most important question.
"What were you doing here Bob?" And Bob smiled at me.
"In this city, we don't tolerate slavery, so when this slaver group started to appear in the city, the king tasked me with bringing them down. These men here, were part of this group and my only lead. I was tailing them when you suddenly showed up, and I was about to jump down there and save you, when you ripped that guys throat out, quite gruesomely I might add. Good thing you kept one alive, I need answers." Said Bob and he walked over to the last man alive, tangled in grass and was fumbling around everywhere. When he saw Bob, he paled and started crying, like a little girl might I add.
"Ha, so these wanted to put my little angel in slavery, you people disgust me. But that is better than what I thought, I thought they were child molesters." I said and spit on the floor. I stayed for a while, while Bob tortured the man to the brink of death a few times, then healed him. It was extremely brutal and I had to put Cristina to bed in our room at the inn.
The man endured unspeakable pain so many times and yet never told Bob anything. Quite a little iron tongued man we have here. If only he wasn't a criminal, I would respect this top-level of camaraderie, quite impressive, and I am sure I would've broke when Bob started ripping off his fingers and reattaching them, only to rip them off again. Bob cast a noise-cancellation spell so no one heard what was going on in this alley, and an illusion spell so no one saw either.
He broke soon enough and told Bob what he wanted, bloodied and battered. Bob put him out of his misery and acted like nothing happened, blood all over him, staining his skin and hair red.
'This man is scary, mental note: Never cross him.' I thought.
"So, in a few days, I will have someone pick you two up and take you to Rork Academy. Until then, ta-ta." He said and waved me goodbye. What have I got myself into?