chapter 8 a miraculous recovery

Damien slowly wakes up with a few light grunts and looks down to his chest and notices he's in a bed and Aria is sat beside him with her head on his chest sleeping peacefully she slowly gets up and rubs her eyes ,when she notices he's awake she jumps on him hugging him tightly and sobbing into his neck ,Damien holds her close and soothes her "it's okay...."says Damien as he rubs her back ,"I....I missed you...."says Aria as she continues to cry but less so than before.

She gets up quickly at the realisation the she could be hurting him ,she pulls the blankets off of him to check on his wound which had been bleeding heavily when she last checked it ,only now it was completely healed ,she looks in astonishment at the miracle Infront of her eyes his arm was in perfect condition not even a sign of the gapping hole which was there before. Damien had noticed that the tattoo from his soul blade had changed a bit but no one else would be able to notice it,"how long was I out for ?" he asked looking at Aria with his normal indifference ,she kept silent and didn't want to answer but eventually she did answer him "....4 days ...." she said as a look of sadness covered her face.

Damien calmly got up and got dressed ,"Aria what happened to the bandits ?" he asked,she answered quickly "They all left when they let the Minotaur loose ."

Damien sat down on a chair as he put his armour back on,he looked around and realised that he was in Arias house ,"I need you to take me to the place where silver is made from steel and a hammer beats night and day ,that sound familiar?" he asks to her with a tone of uncertainty. To which she laughs "you realise you're in a blacksmiths shop right? The forge obviously but did you have to word it like that "and she continued to laugh .Damien runs down to the forge and see's a huge anvil ,he thinks to himself 'this has to be it ' he tries pushing it but it wouldn't even budge "System please enable boost mode all power to strengthen please " and with a ting it's done and he again tries to push it but still it would not budge he then sat down trying to remember what the dragon said ,with a great realisation of how big a fool he'd made of himself he switched back to normal mode and called Aria to help move the anvil all she did was good be it a slight shove and it moved ,underneath seemed to be nothing so Damien had now been convinced that the dragon was lying to him .

That night of endlessly trying to figure out what to do next he found himself having supper with Aria to conversed on what to do next but to no avail they where completely lost as for what to do supper had ended and Damien decided he might aswell repair his armour while they where safe he grabbed some metal plates and began hammering trying to make armour

,Aria stood laughing at his attempt within a few hours there was a pile for useless failed attempts made by Damien ,Aria insisted on helping but he was all to proud but eventually he gave up and let her do it as she finished a strong set of iron armour the two realised that it was too heavy for practical use by the two if them and decided to just re-enforce the leather armour they currently use ,as Aria got up to fetch the armour she tripped as a floor board broke under her feet reaching for Damien to help her ,he fell aswell slamming his arm into the previous pile of unsuccessful attempts ,aria and Damien get up slowly and start by inspecting the broken floor board Damien notices a yellowish brown something under the floor boards and immediately tries to grab it ,pulling out an envelope