Notonalecapo!

James was slowly waking up. His mind was still foggy.

The first thing he saw, was that he was half naked after he looked under covers. He found himself well bandaged. He then looked where he was, he realized he was in the inside of big hut, it was decorated with different ornaments, small animal bones, stone carvings, wood inscriptions, there where many around him. At the end of the bed he saw a litte bear head, and little fingers, next to it was something barking, it sounded like barking.

"Ka kaktok Siuapilli! ( he is still sleeping, little princess) Ka kaktok Siuapilli! Ka ayemo kochka!(be quieter)"

It barked again, but this time softer!

James tilted his head, did she think he doesn't see her?

James cleared his throat, to grab her attention, but it startled her and the thing next to her.

She slowly raised her head at the bed end, so did the thing next to it, which looked like a little piglet with wings on its back and three tails.

"Ka istok! (He is awake)" her mouth opened wide, she was very cute thought James, which made him smile.

He waved at her, she didn't understand what he wanted and did the same. The winged piglet tried too, but couldn't fully raise her leg, which made her look silly!

"Uh, do you speak my tongue?" Asked James.

"Oo, yo speek mi tung!" Yo speek mi tung! Yo speek mi tung!" All her excitement infected the little piglet, the piglet was so excited it started to wag her tails, her wings was fluttering.

She then oinked like a piggy!

"Ah Siuapilli! Se teh itskuintli, ilnamictia!(remember you are a dog)" The girl with her bear pelt scolded the pig.

The piglet then stopped immediately with the oinking sound and started to bark again.

The little girl then gave her jerky from her pouch she was carrying and pat her.

The piglet got excited again and started to wag her tails again! This time she didn't forget to bark!

James didn't understand a single thing that just happened!

The little girl got then closer to james and offered a jerky to him, in her little hand she was holding a piece and looked at him smilingly.

"Is this for me?" James then pointed at the jerky then at him.

The little girl nodded and laughed.

"Chito!(meat)"

James smiled and took it. He ate it. He was still smiling, but not for long.

It was spicy, very much so!

He sweated buckets, his tongue was on fire.

He then saw how the little girl just ate it like nothing, she kept at it, like it was just some snack!

His eyes were wide open from shock!

After a while the spicy feeling was gone, afterwards came a very sweet flood of taste.

Too sweet!

She offered him another one, but he declined very fast!

The piglet was barking as to say 'give it to me!'.

The little girl gave happily the jerky to her little piglet!

After it ate, it just fell to the side and fell asleep instantly! Even in her sleep, the small black piglet didn't forget to bark!

"Keniwki motokah?(whats your name)"

The girl looked at James and asked him, waiting for an answer.

"Motokah?" James didn't stop what she was trying to say, until she tapped her chest and said,

"Notokah Yaretzi! Keniwki motokah?"

"Oh, so you want to know my name! Hm lets see, Notokah James, Notokah James." He pronounced his name very slowly and carefully!

"James! Yaretzi! James! Yaretzi!" She started doing her little happy dance as she was holding James two hands and tapping her feet!

Then light came in the hut, as the door opened, which was made from simple wood.

It was a Woman with beautiful brown skin, she wore a skirt and a blouse, her hair was in two braids. She had her necklaces with gold and shells decorated, her bangles had inscriptions on them. Her headdress was gold with blue green feathers.

"Piyalli!(hello)" She said as she walked in.

The small girl slowly turned around, she was pale like she has seen a ghost!

"P-p-piyalli.."

*sigh*

The woman rubbed her forhead.

"Titlahtoltiah kintepan(we will talk later)"

The little girl Yaretzi got hiccup from shock and ran as fast as she could away, of course she didn't forget her little piglet!

"So, I see you already got acquainted with Yaretzi" the woman took a chair and sat next to him.

"You speak my language? " James was caught off guard.

"You think, you are the only one adventurer who got here to this part of the tower?"

"So what happened to them?"

"Do you mean your friends? Your friends are fine. If you mean the lot that came before you, they are dead." Her voice at the end got icy cold.

James was relieved to hear that his companions were alright. The last sentence made him a bit uneasy.

"What do you mean with the lot, that came before us?"

"I mean the soldiers in red garments and their weapons. You and your friends are very lucky our village chief found you, or else you would be already dead."

"Red soldiers? Avarus malum? They got so far? I promise you, we have nothing to do with them I swear!"

"Of course you dont, otherwise you wouldn't be Alive anymore hahaha "

"T-thats reassuring to hear..."

"So, I see you don't even have manners huh" she smirked at him.

James was confused as to what she meant.

She pointed with her eyes to his bandaged injuries.

"I took care of your injuries, I cleaned them, gave you medicine. See, thats why men are dense, we take care of you, without you even noticing, in return we don't even get a thank you." The woman said in a playful tone.

"Oh right..., I am sorry it took so long, thank you. Wow, Thats the second time im saying my thanks to a woman today for taking care of me."

"Huhuhu, who is the first one?" She grinned, knowingly it was the woman that was with them.

"Please dont tease me too much, or else my injuries will get worse." James giggled slightly.

"*snort* fine, try to rest some more, if you are hungry, on the table there is still some food left. I dont know if you will like it or not, but your friends ate enough for a city, I couldn't believe my eyes how much they ate, as if they starved for years. Ah, that reminds me, all your gear were sold."

"What..., why?!"

"Do you think, food is free here? Do you think anything is free here? Haaah, even your medicine costs something"

"Sounds reasonable, fair enough..."

Soon afterwards the door opened again and Dan and Pete made their ways in, as well as Elpis.

They were all eating snacks, jerky and chicken drums. Their mouth were always full, they even had a small protruding belly from all the eating!

James just looked at them with a mouth wide open and shocked.

In the next second, his mouth was full with a chicken drum!

Elpis stuffed his mouth!

"Don't say anything and just eat"

James then listened to Elpis and slowly chew on the chicken.

His eyes opened wide in awe of the taste of the savory chicken drum! For a moment he was in heaven!

"Tasty?" Asked Elpis.

James just nodded like crazy.

"See, I told you two, he would forgive our crime if he joined the crime!" Elpis looked pretty proud of herself.

Dan and pete showed a thumbs up, even though they held all kind of food!

James upon hearing that stopped eating. He looked straight at the trouble trio before him.

"What did you do, you three troublemaker?!"

Like a dog being caught, they couldn't look him in the eyes.

"Uh we-Argh!" Pete got elbowed to his rips. Elpis made the hush sign, she pressed her fingers on her lips and shirked her nose, slightly frowning. Seeing that Dan was silenced before he could say anything, he looked at Pete for answers.

"Pete what did you do?"

Pete looked between James and Elpis, then to his big brother Dan.

"We have aAAAAAaah!" Elpis stomped her feet on Petes foot.

"Elpis!"

"Uh, fine..., we uhm, after all our stuff got sold, we still couldn't pay our bill soo..."

"So what?" James pressed on.

"Sooo, basically we sold you...." Elpis voice got smaller and smaller at the end.

"Hahaha sorry, can you repeat that, I couldn't quiet understand the last part you said, i think it was something outrageous like you sold me or something."

"..."

"Really?"

Elpis only nodded. James then looked at the others for reaffirmation.

Dan and Pete nodded to.

"YOU DID WHAT?"

Elpis knew he would scream, but failed to protect her ears.

"You didn't really thought a chicken drum would quell my anger, now do you?!"

"In my defense it was really tasty"

"Indeed it was very tasty"

"Absolutely "

James veins bulged upon hearing their answers.

"W-well calm down first and listen to us."

James tried to calm down so he could listen to their explanations.

"If it is again something outrageous again, I'll personally let you dig your grave and kill you all with this bone from the chicken drum...!"

The trio looked at the bone James held and gulped.

"We are sold too..." after Elpis said her piece, she braced herself for the violence to come, but there was nothing. It was scarier, there was silence. Only silence.

"Is that so..."

He began to smile, he looked at Elpis and made a gesture for her to come closer.

Like a shy deer she was coming closer and closer. Suddenly James got her head in a choke and tried to stick the bone in her face.

"Noo!!!! Have mercyyyy!" She tried everything to defend herself from the mighty chicken bone!

The woman cleared her throat.

They suddenly stopped.

"Can you flirt and play maybe when I'm not around? There are more important matters right now, don't you think so?"

Both of them got instantly red in their faces. Elpis jumped to the side like wild hare, she used tbe chance to escape from the mighty chicken bone!

Dan and pete looked in awe at James and showed a thumbs up, in return James threw his chicken bone at Dan's head!

Then he cleared his throat.

"Sorry, I got too caught up."

"This will be your hut for the time being, until you paid your debts, you have to take care of your own food from now on, work is from early morning till evening. Someone will com

Tomorrow and pick you up, show you your work and what you have to do. If you need anything, im Erendina, tell them my name and they will help you."

She then picked a feather from her headdress and gave it to James.

"Now then, keep that safe, I'll be then on my way, dont make anymore trouble or else, I'll let you pay your debts through the colosseum." She then went her way And closed the door behind her.

" big brother she didn't mean the last one right?"

"Hehehe im s-sure she was just joking.."

Outside the mountain entrance

There were more and more avarus malum ships landing, making the island their base.

Grisko's ship was camouflaged in a jungle.

"Sir Raven and Ms. Elisa are quiet taking their time, it seems my help is required!" C1El was patiently waiting until he decided, it was enough.

"First I have to create a body, good luck upon me that my previous owner, is a trashman, oh I mean a debris cleaner! In his cargo on the ship there should be enough material for a body to create!"

C1El then opened the cargo door and fused and melted various chips, wires, metal plates and more, he used the intercrucies of the ships engineering mechanism to build a body for himself!

after a while all was done.

*stomp* *stomp* *stomp*

With a mighty deep voice he said.

"See and be in awe! As I have the body of a mighty warrior!"