Growing seeds
The early rays of morning sun befell-s the beautiful spring aired kingdom, early birds chirped their first song,more so melodic and beautiful in Halhazar.
"Hey!, Wake up brat!" a quiet, sleeping Al was poked with a stick by Wadu.
"Scraaam!! 5 more minutes!" Al, strong but yet a child in his teens, sleep-talked a bit, wailing his arms on the stick.
"BRIGHT AND SHINE!" Wadu suddenly release a strong barrage of gusts - leaning the sleeping boy left, right, the gusts further lifted him up and stood him proper, yet Al was still out, a snoozing lifeless body.
Attempt failed leaving Wadu surprised then he uses his wind to block his nose, within no time Al awoke - panicked - coughing.
"Good morning princess" Wadu greeted Al with the Un-friendliest of smile.
"Huh?! You? fuck let me go!" Said Al, caught in a trap, a wind generated force trap. "Very Brave, catching an opponent in their sleep" he taunted.
"You're still a 100 years early to be an opponent!" Wadu sneered at the boy, "I'll asked this again, tell me who this is?" Wadu showed him the poster of Szlick again - again- like they're first meeting, where Wadu asked the same question but his tone and demeanor ignited the fuse of Al's major hot temper.
"Don't know him" Al lied.
"Then why did you attack?" Wadu asked.
"You asked for it!".
'Aghh! Kids' Wadu thought and brushed off Al's fiery tongue
"People last saw him in Hotspur and he with another man was headed towards the west after, also do you know what else was in Hotspur?" Wadu asked, without a threat he himself thought but his whole go-to was textbook bad - a cold hard man.
"I told you already, lemme go" Al struggled in vain, his body won't budge an inch, he felt like some heavy harmless rocks were holding him in place.
"You see, the grounds were charred and do you know what they said?, A red headed, fire tongued kid fought with the other man but then they made out like a bunch of sissies and headed straight towards the west of Halhazar holding hands together and singing a fuucking princess song,, now tell me what I want to know" It was pure unintended comedy, Wadu Imitating in action about the -hows- of what he said, when he said it.
"You're the one who's singing it! Hahaha" Al cracked a laughter. "Okay shitty baldy!" he said.
"Who's a what now?" Wadu pissed off, the duo looked like, they're of a same kind but with different generations and powers.
Suddenly a massive explosion came from the far end of the west, the end of the border and the outer parts of Halhazar forest's north-west.
"Fuckk! Listen man, sir.... whatever... I don't know where they went but I've met them okay?, Now please, please let me goo?" Al begged, pleaded, out of character as Wadu also noticed, his immediate change in mood and the explosion the cause.
"Woah woah! What was that about?!" Wadu talked of the explosion, "Do you know where it came from?" He asked Al.
"Justtt hurry,,let me go.."
"Just tell me what and where that loud----" as Wadu spoke another loud explosion was heard, dusts from the ground lined vertically - like broken clouds, partly visible to Wadu and Al.
Seeing this Al lost all patience, he struggled, harder than prey from predator slightly movig around this time round. "Myy village, that may be my village, my parents, pleeeeasee I need to go, I'm not from here okay mister, I'm from sloan but please let me goo they need me" Begged Al featuring tears and mucus, anger and his pure looks of emotions summoned pity but not that of a pathetic but of pure innocent pity, the love so strong it engulfed Wadu, which cause him to reminisce about his war days - shortly, a flashback of tears, deaths and all.
'the mission can wait' Wadu appeased himself, unable to stood simply by, "a soldier is a soldier to all" a quote he heard in his younger days, which rang now, in the back of his head.
"Kid take me there with you" He said as he releases Al. Al without even a word of thanks, not even a look of acknowledgement, rushed fast towards the explosion, the direction of it was seemingly shared by Fuu'ue village. Wadu followed him without no orders from his officials, although he knew the risk involved in getting into troubles of a different kingdom, still he went, 'look at me Arad' his mind spoke to a certain figure in a certain place of white in all colours.
Far from the border's unprecedented activities, far and safe as it descriptively could be, "Aree we done for today?" with a sigh of boredom and annoyance, a young well dressed boy themed in blue and white, a child of rich inheritance with an apparel of medieval princes, a child with brown hair. Laid his head on the table and lazily blinked his golden eyes in boredom. Besides him sat, a tall and lean, intelligent looking man complimenting it with his bulging Adam's apple, slight wrinkled like lines runs down the inner end of both his eyes down to his chin showing his innate deduction capability with a curly short black hair, he said "Prince Damien this is ---" interrupted by the boy prince "Yea -yeah an important knowledge for a King in the making".
" This is history, you love history"
"I love the fights, The colonel's deadly duel in Pilatun, stuff like that, not this migrate here there and stuff,, it's boringg. Mister Ahu".
"*Sigh*'although he's only 10' What about your maps?" the gentleman Ahu asked Prince Damien.
"So-so?!" slowly replied the Prince.
"Okay! A slight revision on the maps and we'll be done for the day" with a clap Ahu smiled at the boy , who excitedly popped up, "Okay !" he replied immediately.
"Here's the Atlas" A brown yellowish chart huge in size, wider and taller than the boy, "Now first of all, can you tell me who made this Atlas?" Ahu asked - tested the Prince.
"The prime Inventor Sir. Cervusred Elone" answered Damien.
"Very good and what's it's difference with it's map predecessors?" Another question from Ahu.
"This is the first and still the best map there is, It can zoom in and out with a pinch and a pull, other maps only shows one map, but Atlas can make you look at all places" Answered Damien.
"And how is it used?"
"First is this" Damien un-scrolled the huge Atlas in the ground.
"This round planet is Kansho and if I pinched my finger like this, it zoomed in - like---- so".
"Good, now where and what is that continent?"
"This is the Trânna Continent, from the center of Kansho this is the eastern continent"
"Right again, now zoom it in" Damien zoomed in on the huge landmass.
"Now what Kingdom is that?"
"The smallest Kingdom in the north of Trânna, Drûmkhisk, ruled by Veruna the overlord"
"And to the west?" Ahu asked questions after questions.
"Sloan, currently ruled by an evil overlord Veradun"
"And this?"
"Our Kingdom, Arienne, the second biggest in Trânna and it's directly in the center of Trânna" answered Damien, with right answers all the time.
"And what's the biggest Kingdom?"
Damien scrolled the Atlas towards the east of Trânna continent, "This! The Kingdom of Rebha".
"All correct so far!" said Ahu, pleased with the boy.
Then a knock on the door
"Minister Ahu?" a maid came knocking.
"Just a sec!" Ahu replied, "We'll make this the last question for today."
"Yess!" cheered Damien.
"How many Kingdoms are there in Trânna?"
"fourty three?"
"Wrong! it's fourty four!" Ahu smiled and replied.
"Very good, my Prince. we'll call it quits for today"." Now pack up and tidy up, it's part of your lessons" Said Ahu with a wide evil smile.
"And don't make the maid do it for you again, this time I'll tell your mother, the Queen" Ahu told Damien, leaving the Prince bummed out.
Ahu left with the maid. "Where am I called?" Ahu asked the maid.
"To the main hall!" the maid replied.
The high noon shone it's light in the town, and in a particular bar "Where'd you find him?" Silent asked Szlick partly woke and Lu still in slumber, "He's a beast, ain't he?" Szlick said, Silent nods - to agree. "Dude's literally a beast, like for real he grew up in the jungle he said".
" You mean the Halhazar forest?"
"He called it a jungle"
"It's pretty much now a jungle" Silent preaches.
"Yeaah! He confesses to that clumsy blue that he was a strangler in the dent?.... something like that" Szlick yawned in his speech.
"Struggler in the dent?!!!, Him?" Silent surprised.
"Yeahh!" Szlick grabbed a bottle of leftover joy and chucked it down, "What's the big deal?"
"What'd you mean what's the big deal, it's the struggler, a mere kid fighting the behemoth, killed it too from the looks of it".
"Never seen a behemoth before!" Szlick giving out not a shred of notice to the achievement.
"Times like this makes me wonder whether you're actually born an adult" Silent remarked his ignorance.
"Ohh! That hurts man, like deep deep deeeep down!".
" It should, cause every kid today knows what a behemoth is, you know you're more big brained than what you let off "
With a deep sigh Szlick said lazily "Lemme guess, big strong beasts?!"
"The biggest and strongest, you ignorant shit!".
"Well I'm not surprised, my partner's a strong beast too, ya know!", " But I gotta teach him some manners though, did you see what he did to those bandits? hahaha, he scared the shit out of people, that Lucy too, the man simply swatted them dead in the spot, he didn't even talked about it, like its all natural to him, a total beast but man is it fun with him around" , "Look at him, innocent like he didn't do any wrong" Szlick looking at Lu who was passed out - his face down in a bench and body on the table.
"Thought he don't need sleep and shit like we do" Silent asked.
"He says it's fun, It's just my speculations but I think he wants to feel human" said Szlick.
"How old is he anyway, Is he a minor?".
" Nah!! he looked eighteen"
"LOOKED?" Silent mad - thudded - the table, grabbing Szlick on the shirt shaking him up professionally like one of his cocktails, the latter just took the ride laughing without care.
The Capital, The palace a huge, beholding architecture, a top a small hill, made of gold with a mix of white and grey cobblestones. The way towards the main door was paved with road blocks leading down to the capital, a distance of exactly 144 foot from the Capital to the Palace, a one way road with two large pillars each with knights of old inscribed- different knights in each pillars, stood firm in every 12 foot and each with a knight/soldier stationed as guards, the pillars and the wide pathway were all detailed perfectly and approximated in design.
Inside this magnificence.
Ahu arrived in the main hall.
"Ahh! Minister join us" A tall, youth fading yet well built- muscled, with ashen brown hair, with eyes that shines like gold, spoke aloud.
"As you are, your majesty! your crown sits on the chair yet the knight buffoon-ed with his subjects!" said Ahu with a straight face.
The King with his battle hardened yet kind and commanding appearance, a slight scar in the right cheek looked dead straight at the minister, the gathered ministers and a smiling old man , from the Mid-infirmary sat in silence.
"So? I have a bright little nanny to protect" The King spoke with a tone of richness - begotten only to Kings.
The short introduction speech puts the meeting in an awkward silence but soon erupted into laughter, old - senile laughter, Ahu the youngest of them all, yet the smartest although casually outwitted by his more experienced ministers before him.
"Sit, sit, Ahu" they all sat in the Hall, in the center.
"We were just wondering about the new chart Sir. Elone introduced!" an old minister said, his grey balding head outshined his long outgrown beard and mustache.
"What about?, I crave that creativity his mind achieves!" Ahu remarked, praising their world's first high tech innovative inventor.
"It's a thing, a device he called peropero, it allows you to reach or as he puts it 'call' to people, even at long distance" Said another minister, cue-headed, finally balding man, with round spectacles of giant proportions.
"So? Isn't it beneficial? my lords?" Ahu respectably ushered his thought.
"Very much so, our topic is production" said a Luxuriously dressed, shining skin with the most hair among the old ministers present, he felt pride in this.
"What's his Majesty's mind?" Ahu asked the King.
"It's very useful I'd say, Elone is famous world wide, he shows his loyalty time and time again but a great mind is the most sought after, un-matched by even strength. This particular invention?.... "
The king looked around and with a doubt he asked, "inventions orr--?"
The old official reassures he's right and only then the King continues, "invention has the extreme capability in relaying information, place to place instantly. This will not be a secret to the other lands. So a problem rises in trade again, like that time with his Atlas, so our topic is whether we gave Elone a go in mass production? or keep it strictly private to us and our sworn allies"
"So our problems rests with two weights, if we mass produce this Peropero, the kingdom will benefit so will Elone, if we keep it private it may spark some skirmish from neutral lands to us or our allies but still we benefit from it"." It'll be much easier if Sir. Elone was here, but he's a workaholic".
"Your Majesty, respected elders. Here is my take, We first use it on the Kingdom in the pretence of an experiment, from there it's pros and cons will show itself naturally" Ahu presented a smart idea. Which puts the general meeting in a moment of thoughts, which at the end they all nod, signifying their agreement.
"Ahu, you're a talent that holds the Kingdom in place, hell! sometimes I think you're the King himself and not me" said the King- jolly-. The old man agrees as well.
"I'm not worthy of your praise, your majesty" said Ahu, humble in his response.
Still high noon and inside O'hare's deep, Lu remained passed out, Szlick, Silent and the workers decked out for a bath in the Raizon two, "Should we just leave him behind?" asked a female employee.
"Ye-nah he'll be fine!" Szlick and Silent replied and sets off.
As the group heads to the Raizon two which was close but outside the gate - a group of individuals -robed up- with dark colours breaks in the bar. Inside a rock-a-bye baby Lu, still on his dreams,
"that's one of them! but the guy who beat up Genges ain't here" a short man said to a bigger man.
"I'll kill him too, how dare they fucked up my brother!" the big man said.
The break in had an audience, the assassin from before, who too - seemingly with a grudge against Lu slowly crept inside.
Inside the palace the merting was still in progress.
"On to the main problem! Veradun that piece of shit" said the King, he voiced it out with a tone of disappointment and anguish.
"Sire! However cruel he maybe, Sloan is not in our territory, so it's out of our hands" an old man with the needlessly facial haired addressed his plea.
"I agree" said the other two, silent remained Ahu and the old official.
"I don't" Ahu spoke out.
"Veradun is once a tyrant and always will be a tyrant, everyone knows of this, I cannot but feel the involvement of Veruna , his sister, as though it's a common sense, I fear they may be on a plot of a higher purpose" Ahu spoke a common truth.
"But a war will mean weakness from other kingdoms as well!" voiced out the old ministers.
"Which is why we--" . "Enough!" said the King with a soothing and loud command interrupting Ahu.
"We'll deal with this matter on further notice, take this time to think about it" The King gave out a command.
"But before that, I like to discuss the Guild system introduced by Sir. Mustang" the King said.
"I've read the proposal, your majesty and I am in favour" Ahu quickly responded.
"Aye!" said the rests.
"But something Is in my mind, Lu and Szlick? was it? Sir.Barrone?" the King asked the Old official.
This met Ahu with a slight surprise.
"Ho-hohoho, they're quite pleasing and wild but they're good kids, strong kids" Sir. Barrone the old official replied.
"I'd liked to officially meet them, also a reward and a little scolding for their actions!" said the King, fired up - especially when he said 'scolding'.
Ahu seemed a bit dumbfounded while the rest converge.
The sounds were livelier than usual said a bunch of passerby-s, as they pass O'hare's deep. Inside five men wrecked havoc, among them and who seemed to be the leader, thrashed the place with Lu as he weapon - grabbing him by the leg and beating him down splintering the tables, cabinets and chairs. Just above the door - inside - the previous assassin stealthy-ly watched.
"Fuck him up boss!"
"He's too weak" the minions cheered.
About a minute passed and the leader seemed troubled, he looked at his human weapon, and infuriated he was - when what he saw - Lu still fast asleep and snoring to add, a minute or so of thrashing and the dudes didn't even noticed.
Puzzled and stupid felt the break-in-s.
Anger consumed the boss.
His wild utmost trashing which left the bar to shook -
Couldn't beat the sound - to even that of a an alarm. He felt an anger of shyness caused.
Then a slightly loud snicker, alarmed the bandits inside, "Who's there?" they said and search but found no one, the assassin hid well.
They were put on guard, frustrated and agitated and with a bubble pop from the nose, Lu slowly awakens.