9

During the two's training, three people were watching them, Elaine, Mary, and Theo. They were in Theo's room watching the brothers train by using two floating mirrors.

"The elders sure are going hard on these two, they even used our special training spaces," Mary commented.

"Well they do need to get strong fast," Elaine replied while watching someone through the mirror.

She was intrigued by the person. He was different from the rest, in this world, everyone had an aura, in which only she could see. But for him, he had no aura, there was not a single ounce of aura. She could not tell why he had no aura when his brother had one.

'He really is something,' She thought and smiled a bit.

"You know that you two have your own rooms right?" Theo interrupted while trying to make some medicine.

"Eh, your room feels better, my room just feels cold, it's no good to watch there," Mary said and Theo just shook his head and went back to making medicine.

"Well we could watch them in my room, we shouldn't bother Theo," Elaine offered and Theo gave her a thankful look.

"I'm too lazy to move though," Mary said and continued watching.

"Have you finished your training? If father heard that you skipped it, he would be mad," Theo reminded and Mary groaned.

"Training is boring, besides it's just for one day, father wouldn't mind,"

"I'm sure father would scold you once again if he found out," Elaine said and Theo and she both chuckled.

"Whatever, it's not anything new," After Mary's words, the sisters continued watching the training while Theo was still busy making medicine.

Hours later, it started getting late, the training was over. the siblings stopped watching and went to go greet the brothers.

When the siblings saw the brothers tiredly drag their bodies, they couldn't help but to feel tired as well, they knew how it felt, especially when they first started training. The siblings had been at the door waiting for the two, and when Luke and Adrian noticed them, they were a bit surprised.

"Greetings to your highnesses," They bowed but their bodies gave out and they fell over. The siblings could not help but secretly laugh.

"Are you two alright?" Elaine asked, concerned. Luke and Adrian both stood up rigidly and just nodded.

"We're fine, I think it's best if we talk tomorrow your highnesses," Luke said and the siblings nodded.

"Alright, we just wanted to check up on you guys, we'll leave now," Mary said and turned around to leave, Theo followed her while Elaine muttered some encouragement towards them and left.

The two then went into their room and immediately went to their beds, and just as they were about to sleep Adrian suddenly asked, "Luke, do you have the ring?"

"No why?"

"What do you mean why? I gave you the ring, don't tell me you lost it?" Adrian frowned and looked at Luke and Luke apologized.

"Sorry, I left it at the fairy queens palace," Adrian sighed and didn't feel like sleeping anymore. In his training, he realized that he didn't bring his ring with him, and because of that thought he couldn't focus the entire training.

"What do we do now?" Adrian asked.

"Do you like it that much? It's just a ring that I got from some old man at the market," Luke said passively, hearing Luke talk like that made Adrian annoyed.

"Of course I like it, it feels special and connected to me, you wouldn't understand," Adrian annoyedly said.

After that Luke didn't say anything but he understood Adrian's feelings pretty well, he felt the same thing when he laid eyes upon the ring. He thought he was crazy for having feeling connected to something he hasn't even seen before but now it didn't matter because the ring was Adrian's.

For a while there was a moment of silence until Luke's eyes caught sight of Adrian's hands, his eyes widened for a bit but then his eyes suddenly showed interest.

"Look at your hand," Luke mentioned and Adrian looked at his hand and his eyes immediately widened.

"H-how?!" He looked at his hands in shock and could not process what just happened. Adrian looked at Luke for an answer.

"It seems that I was right when I thought that the ring would follow you wherever you went so I purposefully left it under the pillow when we were staying at the fairy queens palace," Luke mentioned and the room suddenly became quiet.

Luke looked at Adrian and froze.

"Haha, I-I meant I left it accidentally, yes I left it on accident, not on purpose,"

"Oh I see," Adrian said with a smile but Luke only felt a chill go down his spine. After that Luke kept a mental note of never letting Adrian be mad ever again.

Unbeknownst to them, someone had watched them the entire time. that someone, ran off into the woods meeting up with someone else.

"How was it? Did you find it?" A young man spoke with a deathly aura around him.

"No, I couldn't find it nor detect it," A young woman's voice spoke this time.

The man frowned, "He won't be too happy once he hears about this,"

"I still don't understand why he needs it, we don't even know what it looks like," The young woman complained.

"It doesn't matter, our mission is to find it and bring it-"

"To enter my territory, you two are quite brave," A melodic voice interrupted the two's conversation making them startled a bit.

They both looked up to see the Fairy queen flying above them. The two immediately moved backwards from their position, putting a distance between them.

"It was our lack of consideration, we should've asked you first. Since we came in without permission, we'll leave," The young woman quickly replied, and both the two strangers turned around to leave but were stopped by the fairy queen.

"Since you two entered, you two might as well stay,"

Suddenly the ground shook violently like an earthquake. Roots from underground started appearing and coming towards them. The two started jumping up and tried moving around to avoid the roots but the roots followed them wherever they went and soon the roots grabbed a hold of their legs and trapped them in place. The roots also wrapped around their arms making them unable to move.

"Say it, what's your purpose in coming here?" The queen questioned, but the two only stayed silent.

The roots wrapping on the woman's legs and arms suddenly tightened almost as if digging into her flesh. Her face contorted with pain, but she didn't let a single scream out.

"Will you speak now?" The queen asked one more time, but there was no answer. The queen aimed her staff towards the woman but the staff stopped before the woman's chest. The queen looked at the man, thinking he would answer for her sake.