During the meeting with the king, Earths plan was agreed upon and the kingdom had started sending messengers to get the five best warriors in the entire kingdom. Any bigger than the five and they would have had problems added on, hiding their presence from the dragons would become much more difficult. They were to kill the leader of the dragons and after that pull out immediately.

After the meeting was over, Earth had decided to bring Zadias body back in front of her home. He then had left her body, which cause the control of the body to return to Zadia. The red plated armor that she had on, had disappear from her body along with the red sword that was created by Earth in armor form. Her form changed back to normal donning on her previous gear. Everything had return to normal, but oddly enough the worn-out gear she had worn when she fought the stone dragon was repaired. Her injuries also had disappeared no bumps or bruises, and her sword was even sharper than before.

-Zadias Pov-

“That’s really odd.” Zadia had a confused look, while scanning her entire body in search for wounds.

“Welcome back Master!” A cheery voice emerged from the direction of her home. Startle she glances upward to see where it came from.

“M-master?” Zadia responds with more confusion.

All her life no one has ever called her master only madam or mistress and so forth. She didn’t know any one that would call her that, but the voice sounded familiar.

“Prina?” Zadia calls out in a daze. She notices Prina in some brown rags bowing.

“Yes master?” Prina responds with a warm smile.

She remembers Julianne telling her she would train Prina on how to be a proper slave, but this isn’t what she had in mind. She was expected her to be more like a sarcastic maid at most, that didn’t like following orders or doing chores. The Prina standing before her seems completely different than before. She seems to now be the type of slave that wants to please her master. Which made this extremely awkward for Zadia who knew her before she became like this.

“What happen to you?” Zadia asks with a little worry in her tone.

“The Great One has taught me many things while you were away.” Prina smiles brightly

Zadia had only been away for two days. Two days ago Prina had started her slave training, Julianne had done too good of a job. Zadia began to wonder what kind of training would change a person so much.

“Prina. Would you sell me if given the chance to get away with it?” Zadia asks curiously, she was seriously thinking there was no way Prina would change that much.

“No. If you weren’t here there would be no point for my existence.”  Prina responded with a happy tone.

“R-really?” Zadia replied dumbfounded.

Zadia was shocked to see that Prina had change so much so fast. She had become even more scared of Julianne than before. Ignoring the new Prina, Zadia had continue past her heading towards the entrance. Prina had followed her behind closely like a little puppy. As she approached her room she ran across Julianne, who seemed to be worried about something.

“Is something wrong?” Zadia calls out to Julianne who had been waiting for her, for the past two days.

“Welcome back. Zadia.” Julianne smiles turning to the side to face Zadia. Prina had been following close behind Zadia but was ignored the entire time.

“I have something to tell you. I’m going to be gone for a week, so I won’t be able to teach you. Elda is also skilled in swordsmanship, she will teach you in my place.” Julianne replies with a sad smile.

Zadia had already knew about this, it was because of Earths plan. She knew full well that Julianne would had been selected to go kill the dragon hero. Zadia wanted to go but doubted Julianne would decide to bring her along. If she was old enough it wouldn’t be a problem, unfortunately she is only twelve, but she didn’t want to give but so easily.

“Can I go with you?” Zadia asks knowing the most likely answer.

“No. I can’t take you with me.” Julianne answers back sternly.

“I’ve gotten stronger though!” Zadia responds with seriously.

“Zadia…” Juliann lets out a deep sigh.

“If you can beat me in a duel. I’ll take you.” Julianne stated with a serious expression.

“Fine. I’ll prove it.”  Zadia stated as she marched towards the training hall. Prina followed behind happily.

Zadia had patiently awaited Julianne inside the training hall, Prina had hurried ahead of her to present her a sword. Julianne then came in moments later, with a serious look on her face. She wasn’t planning on going easy on Zadia this time. Since she knows full well that she won’t be able to protect her as much as she would like to on the battlefield. With this in mind Julianne had no intention of making it easy for Zadia.

“Lets’ begin.”

Julianne announces, when she suddenly appears in front of her Zadia slashing downwards. Zadia had just gotten off a parry, when Julianne vanishes appearing behind her. She launches a kick to Zadias back, sending her rocketing forward.

“eeRGGggGH!”

Zadia groans while she braces her legs for landing, Julianne emerge in the corner of her eye thrusting her sword forward when her legs hit the floor. Zadia dodges just in time, sending a counter to her ribcage. Julianne leans back dodging while firing her foot upward as she leaned. Zadia dodges leaping backwards with a speedy escaped. She gets back into a fighting stance when she notices Julianne putting away her sword with a smile.

“Ok. You can come.” Julianne shows a gentle expression as she pets Zadias head.

“When did you get so strong? Two days ago, you wouldn’t have been able to dodge any of that. Ha. I guess you really are growing up fast.” Julianne gave slightly sad tone mixed in with pride.

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Zadia was still a little disappointed in her skills. She was supposed to be stronger than this but she still lacked any real experience, besides the stone dragon incident. That was the only real fight she had been in and she had lost. She decided to cheer herself up by reminding herself she did get stronger at the very least.

The next morning Zadia waited eagerly by the front door as Julianne came down the stairs. She had been excited to meet the other four members of the hunt for the dragon hero and was in a good mood.

Prina couldn’t come even though she had asked repeatedly, she had found a new passion that consisted of serving her new masters. It was all forced into her by Juliannes personal tutorship.

“You ready to go Zadia?”

“I am.” Zadia responded with a smile

The meeting place was the Adventurers ‘Guild, once they gathered there they would head out soon after. It was a place where they could get acquainted with each other, like many other adventurers have done so in the past. Upon arriving at the Guild they saw four distinct people that stood out from the rest of the adventurers in the guild. They all had strong presences, which would have explained why the usual rowdy adventurers’ guild was extra quiet on this particular day.

Three men and one woman, there were two men that had solid steel armor with steel swords. The two of them appear to have been the best of the White Knights Order. While the woman had green hood on with leather armor on .She had a strong looking short bow equip with a couple of sharp daggers to the sides. The man that stood next to her wore a mask that covered the bottom half of his face, with two longswords to his side and a long bow with arrows on his back. The two across from the knights seemed to have been Devil Rangers. Julianne began to approach them with Zadia close behind.

“What the? What is with the little girl?” One of the knights with brown hair stares towards Zadia.

“She is my daughter and your comrade.” Julianne declared clearly with a firm voice.

“Comrade? You mean we’re taking her with us? What do you think this is huh!?”

One of the knights blurted out in anger. The knights were furious while the rangers just stayed quiet. The two rangers didn’t seem bother it at all, instead they seemed to be welcoming her.

“…Let…her come…” The female ranger finally spoke up while staring intently at Zadia.

“Julianne is the strongest amongst us. Do you really think she would bring the girl along if she wasn’t at least strong?” The other ranger stated as he stared the knights down.

“S-still.”

“I’m… Dana.”  

Dana said clearly after approaching Zadia. She had already reach out her hand and started to pet Zadia. Zadia was confused not knowing what to do she responded.

“I-I’m Zadia.” Zadia responded in a hurry, which causes Dana to misunderstand her.

“Do…you hate it?” Dana responded in a sad voice while still petting her slowly.

“Not really…just a little shocked is all.” Zadia whisper, Dana hearing it continues petting her with happier motions.

The two knights were all completely speechless, the other ranger upon seeing this just lets out a deep sigh. It had seemed like he was use to this kind of behavior from Dana. Julianne who stood next to Zadia was glad to see Dana and Zadia already getting along. She lets out a small smile but she still wanted to start beating on the knights every time she glanced at them.

“I’m Ray, Danas partner. Those two over there are Eric and Nick.”

“Nice to meet you all.” Zadia greeted them, during the introductions Dana had walked behind her and hugged her out of nowhere.

“This…is mine.” Dana declared boldly causing Zadia to panic a little and Julianne to get Jealous. Dana had misinterpreted the introductions as them trying to take claim of Zadia. She had glared back at Ray in response.

“I’m sorry Dana, but I’m watching over her as her mother.” Julianne claims proudly

“Then…I can be… her sister…”

“I-impossible. I have to take care of her! She doesn’t like strangers that much.” Julianne stated smiling.

“We…are sisters…” Dana replies in an unwavering tone. Julianne stared at her with her hand on her sword.

“Umm…excuse me you two but why don’t you both take care of her?” Ray offered a compromise, trying to calm the two down before things get out of hand.

The knights had decided to stay quiet the entire time since Dana and Julianne were emitting a powerful aura. They were fearful of them and decided not to anger them. The entire guild had also been watching them in silence they had become even more scared of the group, as they averted their eyes.

“Okay. Now that every ones here lets head off.” Ray declared loudly as he marched off to the exit of the adventurers’ guild all alone. He turned around noticing that no one had even followed him.

“Dana?” Ray comes back to see a scene where Dana still clinging on Zadia and Julianne is trying to get Zadia out of her grasp.

“This group. Is going to save the kingdom? Well, I better start drinking again.” Ray rubs his head stressfully. He cried a little on the inside as well

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Authors Note:

I had been making another story called "Arla the forced hero."

It's still on chapter one though. That is why I was late with this.