Achlys and Cryo sitting next to each other looking at the fire that is fighting the air around it like the fire life depends on it
Achlys falls asleep and falls over but Lecia catches him and puts his head on her lap
"I am really gonna kill those people who wronged Achlys... He never deserved this..."
Cryo keeps looking at the fire and sees lisare asleep with the diming light touching her
"Some have wronged him... But others did for the safe of many... Sacrifice the one who is the most dangerous..." Cryo looks at Achlys and touches his hair
"Never since I met him did I doubt him... He always makes sure to put people above his own safety..." He added as lecia is petting Achlys
He hand gentle and warm with Achlys murmuring in his sleep
"He is cute isn't he... Even tho he has his problems he is always the first to know what's going on... I don't think you would see that Cryo... But I've noticed how he thinks"
She stops petting him and look up at the Stars and the moon's
"He is like the moon that float around trying to escape it's planet gravity, Achlys tries to outsmart himself every time to see what will happen..."
Cryo smiles slightly and looks down "but... His emotions and his urge to save people is troubling him..."
He looks at Lisare for a second and smiles "he was maybe mean to you lisare... But he didn't mean that... When something bad happens to him... He tense to be rude"
Lisare looks back barely keeping her eyes open and nods
She puts lays down and the time stone in het chest pulses slightly
"The timestone in her... Is dangerous... For her and us..." He thinks for a second
He looks at the fire and throws some wood on it as it's almost dying
The moon's look down on the surface with their breezing glow
The colours of the sun slowly fade away in the sky as the night approaches to an end
Cryo falls asleep slowly after the sky is fully darkened while Lecia staying awake to protect her group she sees as her own safe garden
The night sky flies by stars and the moon's slowly move across the sky as they slowly line up and only one is visible and the others hiding behind the others
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"Hmmm... What..."
"Good morning husband~ need a morning kiss from your beloved angel~"
Lecia holding Achlys he barely awake but sighing as she almost kisses Achlys
"Loyal to Tiabishi! You darn horny angel" Achlys shouts, he hits lecia under her jaw sending her flying in the trees and waking up the others
"Really... Lecia... Again you horny feathered thing" Cryo yawned awake he forms an annoyed sign above his head
Lisare grabs her swallow and spins it half asleep "DOP... DOP... Dop!"
Lecia stood up and walked back rubbing her jaw with blood streaming out her mouth "I'm sorry but me and Achlys made a little love"
"We did not you self-esteemed horny angel" he mumbled out softly sitting straight up dusting his ass off
"You know Achlys is still a child lecia... So this is pe-" Cryo said as Lecia interrupting him like always
"Age doesn't defy love... And I love him hmph" she interrupted Cryo with a smug expression
"C'mon... I don't have time for this.. are we gonna train or not?" Achlys finally broke the tension as they look at him and remembered
"That's right... Give your sword to me master..." Achlys did as Cryo asked and he formed a other sword of dark blue ice
"This... This sword can't handle pressure of an order... If you use the order it will vanish in your hand" Cryo explained giving it to Achlys
Achlys took it and looked at it "are you certain... That this sword can't handle orders..." Achlys asked, he looks up to Cryo and smiles as he formes another sword
"Try it, if it can handle it I need to make it weaker"
Achlys nodded and he held the sword sideways and readied himself to use horizons
"First order! Blue horizons" the words flew across the Jungle and canyon but the sword broke before it could finish its full swing
A powerful gust of wind exploded from it pushing back Achlys back a little
"Like I told you, it's not made for orders so..." He threw the second sword to him and smiles
"You can't destroy or magic only parry, deflect or dodge it"
Cryo smile widened as he starts to form a few ice rocks around him
"Let's start easy... Shall we?" He asked throwing some rocks already to Achlys at minimum speed that is clearly visible with human eye
Achlys suprised used his sword to block some attacks and deflect it back at Cryo who simple slaps it away without any effort
"Use your area Achlys... Standing in one place will not help your battle. " Cryo suggested
"How so? I can dodge when I can" Achlys talked back as if he said that he felt in ease behind his back
He turned and saw 3 pillars of ice not even meters away of him
"When did you-"
"Always use your area of footwork... Kill or be killed thats the world we live in..."
Cryo pointed out when he shattered the pillars and used its fragments to form a gaint ice rain
"What the!" Achlys lost beyond words jumped up and exploded into most
"Even if you are good or evil... Everyone gets killed one day, by old age or by getting stabbed through your heart" Cryo walked forward as Lecia and lisare are sitting next to each other staring at the fight
"Dop longet..? Sisi dop Sisi?"
"No... Lisare... Cryo won't go full out. Even if i went full out against Cryo I wouldn't stand a chance. And for Achlys the way that he came so far is thanks to Bellona's will and mana"
Lisare looks confused as they look at Cryo sending ice fragments down into the mist with Achlys coming out under it barely dodging it
"Husband is far too weak, we knew that from the beggining, when I met husband he had lots to learn... Or he would´ve die fast"
Lisare listens before standing up and walking to Achlys
Her steps interrupted Achlys focus on Cryo and saw a swing of her swallow hurling towards him
He dodged and activated mist clones, yet when he used it only one other of him appeared, clearly visible as a clone
"Without mist stones... You can't control that power, the power you got gifted is something you can't learn without it."
Achlys grith his teeth and he swung his ice sword back to Lisare who dodged without effort
Cryo seems to notice what she is trying to do and join her idea
"smart of you lisare... She is right Achlys"
Achlys looks at Cryo shortly dodging lisares and Cryo's attacks
" Even if i only use magic right now you could defeat me with skills, but-"
" Bellona stated that magic could defeat skills but skills not magic" Cryo stops and sighs
"She is right, but forgot to mention of adaptability, even if I have ice magic that is more destructive then most magic, it doesn't mean that you can use your mist magic in ways to harm me"
Achlys realized it and thought for a second before the swallow hits his face and he flies back
"Ow that hurts..."
Achlys sees the swallow swinged upwards to swing down
He slams his right hand on the ground next to him and he explodes into most as he stood up and jumped back to send a mist slash towards Lisare
Cryo formed an ice pillar in the mist and then send it flying upwards taking all the mist upwards
"Exploding into mist is not the ideal strategy you will just run and keep running that way... If you really are intent to use it then perhaps attack while using the mist" Cryo explained
He launched himself forward to Cryo to form a sword
Achlys holds his sword up to block
Their swords collide and Cryo drops his swords mid clashing and kicks Achlys from the side
"Tch! Mist e- MIST CANNON" he draws a imaginary circle with his sword pointing Cryo
Mist forms slowly in that drawn circle and then propels himself in exploding but only in one way
Towards Cryo
"Hmm... A more directed attack... But you know mist can't-" he tries to find Achlys
But Achlys moved from his spot where he got kicked and appeared behind Cryo
The mist cannon hits Cryo in the face blinding him partly
"Hmph! Alright! Let's see you surviving this you damn bird" Achlys shouts as he strikes his blade to Cryo's neck
But Cryo forms a shield Infront of Achlys deflecting his attack to nothing
"No!" Achlys stabs the shield and threw it sideways with his weapon and forms a kick mid air
The kick hits Cryo face sending him to the ground but as Achlys landed Lisare appeared behind him
She punches his side and jumps towards where he is about to land
She appears Infront of him and slams him down to the ground with a little to much strength and Achlys cought up blood
"AUGH!!" Lisare stops her attacks and looks worried and stares at lecia
Lecia walks to her and hits her head "idiot!"
Lisare rubs her head and looks at Lecia with a teary eyes "it's Achlys! Don't go to hard on him! You sho- ugh never mind"
Lecia tried to lecture her but knowing the circumstances she just let it go and walked past Lisare to go to Achlys
"You oke husba-" she flies into the air by Achlys
"I'm fine thank you" he dusts himself off and rubs the blood off his face
Lecia lands back on the ground smiling "husband just hit me! I must be bad girl"
Achlys sighs deeply and stood up to look up seeing Ra and Surya hovering in the sky
"I promised to save people... I need to get stronger... With or without my order" he looked at his hands thinking that and clenched it
"That's right Achlys... Become stronger for yourself... No matter who is in your way, kill or be killed is this world they say! You will be the Apex predator of this world" Bellona shouted out in his mindscape. Achlys heard it and covered his ears
"Oi sword ghost i can hear you loud and clear" Achlys shouted back in his mind
Bellona hit the flaming ball in his mind
"OW!"
Achlys shouts in pain holding his chest and grunts with a leaving sigh
Achlys walks to the dead campfire and picked up his cape and put it over his shoulders
"Why do you still keep this deadmena cape?" Lecia asked wiping blood from her lips
"Because those people tried to help you... But failed so in respect I hold the one thing they left behind"
The words of Achlys hung around Lecia's mind, she looks down and nods slightly
"Thank... You..." She whispered out but Cryo heard it
"A soft spot hmm?" Cryo mocked a little but with a soft smile
Lecia blushes and was about to talk back, she faced Cryo that now was watching Achlys walking between the sunbeams that are like waterfalls between the leaves
"Achlys is a person of respect... You respect something dearly, he will respect that with you"
Lecia looks at Achlys and also smiles softly
"I know... That's why I had chosen him"
Cryo looks at her confused with Lisare slowly shortening the distance between the 2 talking
"Thats a secret" she wings to Cryo with her pointing finger next to her face pointing up
"Sighs..." Cryo shakes his head and smiles after
"Longet Sisi!" Cryo jumps away in fear with Lecia staring shocked at him
She Burst into laughter, Lisare staring at them confused and Cryo stopped walking to turn around
"Cryo give me my sword back I forgot it!" Cryo slowly looks at Achlys and nods scared
"Catch master!" Cryo throws the sword in a bow
Achlys moves his hands to catch it
Then as like time slows down Achlys notices ice crystals form into a wall to the left of them
Cryo puts his hands out to form multiple walls and pillars as he jumped to Achlys
Achlys turns to the wall slowly as he sees a gaint brown shadow with wings
The trees gets destroyed as the shadow hits the ice defence and Cryo reaching Achlys to put a stronger ice ball around him in defence
The ice defence fails as the brown shadows flies thought the walls and but the swords implanting it in the back and flying past the group leaving a trail of destruction
"Achlys! Are you oke?" Cryo asks in a frenzy holding Achlys with Achlys statingt in shock
"Wha- what in the order was that!" He shouts in fear and terror
Cryo sees him shaking shortly but he calms down slowly
"Bellona you are keeping him calm aren't you..."
The ice ball melts and Lecia runs to them
"Cryo Achlys! You oke?" Cryo nods with Achlys not answering but eyes widened
Lisare holds her swallow tight slowly reaching the group looking at where the "thing" fly by
"Ough that hurts" a voice can be heard from the path of destruction as a huge creature looking like a dragon
A earth dragon slowly walking back to the path and huffing heavy
He sees the little group and stops for a second
"You need to get out of here... It's dragon territory" he said and continues to walk
No one said a word
"Dop... Longet... Longet..." Lisare said her guard lowered and turns to Cryo, Lecia and Achlys
She sees Lecia and Cryo shaking and not moving with Achlys shaking also but following the Dragon
"Do... Do not move Achlys..." Cryo demanded as the Dragon looks back at them and shortly takes a gaze at Achlys
He sees the mark and grunts annoyed at the sight of it and turned to run away
The sword still in his back not feeling any pain leaving it
"... That... Thats a dragon" achlys schakely spoke out scared but also interested at what he just saw
Never in his life did he see a dragon before
Even for Lecia and Lisare was it an spectical to behold
"Let's continue to the harbour guys... We can't be nearby Dragons" Cryo franticly trying to make a clear move to get away from there
"Yes... We shall go" Achlys nodded still stunned and scared
"A dragon... Jeez... Didn't seem to be a normal one at that" lecia explaimed before turning around with Lisare to walk away
Achlys looks down and tries to grab his sword to the side of his hip
But it isn't there he scans the ground and where the Dragon fell before
"Where's my sword?" His eyes widened and Cryo gasped at the realization
"It's in the back of the dragon..." He formed a dark blue ice sword and tossed it to Achlys
"Can't use your orders on it sadly but it can channel mana into it to use your mist magic"
Achlys catched it and looks at it, he nods and thanks Cryo for it
"Achlys one moment give me that sword" Lecia says and takes the sword out of his hands
Cryo twitches in annoyance but ignores it
Lisare stares at her intrigued
"I can throw gravity magic on it... That it's even more stronger... And heavy mana will be formed in the sword"
She puts her hand on it and starts doing it but Cryo hits her head
"You are stupid... If you do that and he uses the sword, it will explode" Cryo annoyingly stated with Achlys sighing outloud
"You can use heavy mana yourself, you should know that! You ugly angel!" Cryo shouts in her face
"Ugly?! Hah?Did you ever look in the water?!" She shouts back pointing the sword to Cryo who gulps for a second backing away
Lisare steps in between and hits both their heads and sighs
"Dop dop... Longet dop Sisi!" She said, the 2 slowly look up at her and look at each other
"Better listen... She punched me through a few mountains..." Lecia mocked Cryo
Cryo grits his teeth but sighed and nodded
"Let's go... Achlys has no time for this" Cryo spoke out and walked towards Achlys who just was looking up in the sky
"He is right, no time i do anything for Achlys!" Lecia clapped her cheeks on her face and shakes her head
"It's for Achlys... And Achlys is our leader" she spoke out and followed Cryo
Lisare looking confused and shrugged
They walked to the lightened horizon with the Ra and Surya still shining in the sky with some clouds defending the ground from their lights
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In the demon territory
"OI elf! Focus on attacking me!" Princess demanded with a smug expression
Tiabishi jumped towards the Princess and throws a kick against the left leg of the princess
The kick lands and Princess loses her balance and smiles
"You have been training havent you! Your ice magic!" She shouted and spins
Tiabishi blinks and sees a leg inches from her face
She dodges and jumps back
"What you mean? "Magic" ?" Tiabishi lands looking at her with a slight enjoying smile
"You shot a ice fragments against my left leg and kicked it afterwards" her left leg bleeds with a ice shard that have turned red
"Tch you seem to notice it!" She stands up straight and dusts herself
"Well... I haven't been able to start magic lessons since... You keep wanting my attention!" Tiabishi said in annoyance
Princess shrugs "not my fault you are weak..."
"Oi sister!!! Its time for dinner" princess looks down and dobrota snaps his fingers
The spatial box they use to train in appear on the ground and break
Tiabishi walked past dobrota looking at the flying book next to him
"When that... So called Pillar of light... Appeared and the demon continent went slightly under... That... Book kept flying" Tiabishi thinks
She kept waking with the 2 arguing behind her
"Even its for protection... I feel like it's not even its full power... The bridge that I am at is not even build at what size his is" she looks at her hands and forms a Icicle
She clenches it and it breaks under slightly pressure
"I have improved using my magic... I thought I had ice fragments magic... But I can form all kinds of objects... At least objects of ice"
She opens her hands and forms a ball of ice magic then she morphs it into a little cube
"My control over it... Is saddening for an elf... I am useless if I was still with Achlys, BUT!" she looks up smiling
Her face lights up, the Princess and Dobrota stop arguing and look at Tiabishi
"i have been giving a second chance! That I never will throw away" she shouts out of nowhere
The siblings look at her and both smile
Princess punches the back of Tiabishi with a smile "no matter what you were thinking! I will be here by your side!"
Tiabishi forms a small smile and sighs "you are right..."
She gives the ice cube she formed to the Princess and walked away
The Princess looks at the Cube and gives it to her brother "I think she is ready to learn some magic..."
Dobrota look closely to the formed ice cube and examines it
"It's good... But" he uses a little mana and it breaks apart
He reforms it and gives it back to his sister "it's weak... She would go under tremendous training... To learn some basic forms of magic"
He walks away with the book following him In the sky
"Hm... So that elf..." She shakes her head and runs after her brother
The silhouet of dobrota and Princess vanish into the using gate of the demon castle
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4 hours later
Tiabishi asleep in Her own given room
Not really something special besides a big wooden bed frame with a soft white mattres, a desk with some papers and pens on it
A bookcase with alot of books about magic and the history, but between the books there is a small ice figure of Achlys detailed to the last hair he has
Some windows that view the forest of the demons and you can hear some demons talk outside
And a door on the other side of the room just your avarage wooden door
A maid enters with dark purple hair and one horn on her head
She holds a bucket of water and a broom
"Oh-" she loses balance, she drops the bucket and almost falls
But nothing hits, she opens her eyes and looks down to see a hand on her chest holding her up
She looks behind her to see Reayop the demon king holding her up
She blushes hard and apologizes but Reayop dismisses it and enters the room
He walks to Tiabishi stands besides her next to her bed
He looks closely at her ears her hair and her face
"it's such a pity that you are the last brown haired elf"
he clenches his fist and turns around
He nods to the maid and leaves the room
The maid still blushing looks confused but she starts cleaning the room nonetheless
"Hmm... What is that.. *yawns"* that noice?"
The maid looks at her and bows a little "good evening to you miss Tiabishi, I am cleaning your room, sorry if it's bothering you... I'll leave the room" she is about to grab her bucket that's half filed and broom to leave
"No... Continue I don't find it bothering, it's your duty I won't stop you" Tiabishi sits up straight and smiles at her
"Thank you! I shall be delighted to clean the room for you" the maid smiles back brightly
The maid returns to the place what she was cleaning
Tiabishi looks at the maid and then to the window
Looking at a pillar that stands tall and firm
She starts humming, closing her eyes and moving a little to the right and left
The maid stops for a second but she starts to hum also
A soft humming sounds leaves the room of Tiabishi with some of the demons and maids hearing it
Some join in while others ignore it and do what they were doing
The silence outside of the castle is only sometimes met with a gust of wind
But the inside is filled with a tone of humming a sad humming
"The call of the elves" one of the maids spoke out
"It's said, when elves do this humming they miss their partner and loved ones."
The maid explained to an other maid who looks confused
Princess walks by and listens to the humming and smiles a little
She slams Tiabishi's door open and enters without asking
The maid shocks and drops the broom
She picks it up fast seeing it's the Princess and leaves fast
"Again..." She looks at Tiabishi who has fallen asleep again but still sits up against the back side of the bed
"You miss him alot... Must feel nice to have that feeling" she ticks Tiabishi in slightly and leaves closing the door behind her