The Peaceful Village Of Cinder

7 years later

274 AD

"Hey Lark! you better get down now, lest you want your bottom spank!"

A woman with a raven hair nervously gave a warning to a kid who also had an identical black hair and dark eyes, who was climbing on a tree.

"Sorry miss Elena, we tried to stop him"

Apologetically said a 6 years old kid who had a bald head whose name was Dean, he had purple eyes as he stared at the kid who was trying to get the kite that was stuck from a tree branch.

"That's right Lark, get down now, or you'll get your arse spank by mommy, hahahahaha!"

"Don't worry ma'am, Lark knows what his doing"

Said two 5 years old twins with both the same blonde hair tied in a short ponytail. Leric the one who laughed at Lark had tied it to the left, and Meric who reassured Elena, tied it to the right. they both had brown eyes.

"Huuup"

Lark threw down the kite, which Dean caught, as he then jumped down in the two meters tall tree that have grown sideways, and did a roll to lessen the impact.

*clap clap clap* the three kids clapped

"What are you three brats clapping for?!"

Nervously said Elena as she hurriedly patted the dirt from her kid's clothes and hair, then proceeded to check his body for wounds, she gave a sigh of relief finding out there was none, then turned serious as she sternly gave Lark a warning not to do it again.

"Did you see that mom? my climbing has gotten much faster" The kid with a black hair proudly said as he stared at his mother and said with a laidback voice.

"What do you think you can accomplish with that, are you trying to become a monkey or something!?" angrily yelled Elena.

"Oh Lark the "monkey" hehehehe!" teasingly said Dean.

"Congratulations Lark you've finally made a name for youself hahahaha!"

"How envying" sarcastically remarked the twins as they as they laughed at Lark who was turning red from anger.

"Shut up you three!!""Mom you do know that as a man dreaming to become a knight, he must first have a strong body right?"

Hearing Lark's excuse, Elena rolled her eyes.

"Ahahahaha! a man he says, more like a man-key" Leric teased.

""Hahahahahaha the idiot's finally evolving!""

"Grrrrr"

Hearing his friends still laughing at him, Lark gnashed his teeth in anger.

"Mom!! say something to them!!"

"hehehehe"

"Why are you laughing too!! Mom!?!?!"

Seeing his mom laughing too, Lark stomped down his feet in the ground in humiliation, and thought how could his mother betray him.

"Alright that's enough you three, go and play tag or something"

Seeing Lark's cute reactions, Elena

smiled and decided to change the topic.

"Alright ma'am"

""Will do""

The three replied while holding down their stomaches.

"Alright!! let's go gu-argh!"

"I said three"

Seeing her child running away again, Elena pinched Lark's ear.

"As for you, you're grounded for the day"

"Argh! come on!"

And Dragged Lark away.

"Let's play again tommorrow Lark"

"Be careful for the spank! monkey man hehehe!"

"Bye Lark!"

The three children waved their hands and said their goodbyes to Lark, Who looked at them and clenched his fist in front him, while he was getting dragged away.

"Alright let's play the kite at the hill, the last to arrive will get farted in the face!" yelled Dean as he was already running.

""Hey!! that's cheating you bald head!"" the twin remarked, as they ran after Dean.

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The village of Cinder had a population of a hundred and a chief who was in his early sixties

The villagers called him Elder Grey, he had a pair of son and daughter. The son was already in his early middle aged and helped his father in the farms, as for the daughter she left with half of her father's asset as she ran away to the capital, which broke the old man's heart and the son cut off the their ties of her.

As the two parent and child, was going down the road of the village and going to their home.

"Looks like you've caught the lil devil this time eh? Elena?"

said an old woman as she butchered the meat of a pig, dried blood was stuck in her apron, as she skillfully used her cleaver to cut the meats into pieces.

"yuck~"

Seeing such a sight, Lark snorted disgustingly as he smelled the stench of the blood and raw meat.

"Mhm, my boy's trying to become a monkey by climbing trees"

"I'am NOT!!"

Hearing his mom still joking about the incident earlier, Lark yelled in embarassment.

"Oh by the way miss Veyne, the usual"

"Right, the ham and Loin part, a kilo each"

Miss Veyne handed a meat covered in salt and wrapped in banana leaves to Elena.

Seeing the two woman ignoring him, Lark pouted and kicked the pebble in the ground out of boredom.