Chapter 6 The sun keeper

Rico saw King Seres from Eris' memory, they were having a meeting with his evil soldiers and red-eyed sorcerers.

"Are you saying that the forest near Aldon was burned with the bright light?!" asked Maru the strongest red-eyed sorcerer and also Seres' right hand.

"Yes sir… the town people saw it some said that heavy rains poured down as it happened intentionally to kill the fire" one of the soldier said.

"What do you think about it Your highness?" Maru asked to Seres who was just calm in his seat.

"I killed the royalties of Aldon, and only Luize can control the rain so how are you sure about what the town people had said" Seres said with his husky voice.

The soldier trembled in fear as the others stared on him.

"But your highness, they claimed that the bright light was so powerful as it covers the entire forest! They said it was powerful than yours!" He said as King Seres suddenly widened his eyes.

"Maru"

"Yes your highness?"

"Execute that soldier"

"Yes sir"

"No! Please spare me my king!"

The soldier beg for his life while Maru grab his face as he create red fire on his hand and without hesitation he burned the soldier's face as it cries in pain, the other soldiers trembled as well.

"That's what you get when you underestimate the king's power!" Maru shouted as they all keep their heads down in fear.

"Well then, let's begin our search for whoever did that light and fire in the forest, I know it has something to do with that damn sorcerer" Seres said as his eyes sparks in red.

Eris' memories cut off as Rico tried to seek for more information but it was gone. He quickly opened his eyes and free Eris for a while.

"No… I need to find a new place for us" he said to himself, then he was surprise to feel the rain pouring again as he remembered Niffa who was still in the river. He snap his finger and in just a second he was in the river, he saw Niffa sitting in the cliff while she was playing with the fish.

"Niffa!"

"Rico?" she quickly look behind her.

"Look! I can control the rain!"

"I know! I need to tell you something just… ugh this girl she keeps on playing with the fish" Rico claimed then he quickly raised her two fingers as he controlled the water and grab Niffa. The water put her down on the ground beside Rico who seems to be in his curious-face mode.

"What's with that face?" she ask.

"I need you to listen carefully, we have to move far away from this place"

"What? You mean now? But why?"

"Seres knows about me, he knows I'm here"

"That evil brat! Then we just have to fight him!"

"No Niffa! You don't know how strong King Seres was, right now we have to be patient in killing him we need to hide first"

"I want to kill him with my own hands!"

"Niffa not now! You have to trust me on this… I already have my plan on how to kill him and I hope it will work."

"How?"

"I don't have time to discuss that right now, let's go we have to move"

They teleport back in the house as they pack some of the important things. Rico pulled a huge old box beneath,

"Rico what was that? Is it a treasure?"

"Nope" he said as he slowly opened it, Niffa was surprise to see a bunch of swords from the kingdom of Aldon and she saw a piece of red clothe with a logo on it same with Aldon's logo. She wanted to have a sword as she intend to touch it.

"Nope! You can't have one of this" he said as he quickly close the box.

"No way! It's not fair!"

"This will be reserve for later" he said as he carried them outside.

"Wait, you told me that Prado can carry the entire house right? Why don't we just use him to carry the house so that we will not carry this whole stuffs?"

"Nice idea Niffa, but I was planning to leave the house burned down and leave some corpses behind, pretending it was just a town people's house, don't worry it was not a real corpse I can create a fake one"

"I see, now I know why I can rely on you."

Niffa said as he smile towards her.

"Okay then, step back and I will start to burn the house now" Rico opened his right palm towards the house as it produce a violet raging fire. Niffa watch the house burned down slowly as some of the debris turned into ashes. Then Rico quickly snap his finger in concentration as two corpses suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"Where did those bodies came from?"

"In my mind, remember I'm a sorcerer it's my special ability" He said as he quickly tossed the bodies in the fire.

"Let's go"

"But Rico, how about the forest? Are we going to abandoned it?" she ask while looking back.

"I Rico the violet-eyed sorcerer and the protector of the forest will never abandoned the life of the living creatures in the woods… I prepare everything and I already assigned some of my men to protect the forest."

"Your men? You mean soldiers? Since when did you have soldiers?"

"Remember your first training where you use your father's strength?"

"Oh… those whom I just fought before yeah, so you still have them"

"Of course as long as my mind is still working, I can produce what I imagined"

"Wait… I just realized something, you mean all this time the cookies and the milk comes from your imagination?"

"Uhm… yeah sort of"

"No way!" she said as she covered her mouth in disgust.

"Don't worry I imagined it well-cooked and fresh, if you are hungry just tell me if you need some"

"Ugh no thanks! I already know where it came from I thought you baked them"

Rico just chuckled as they keeps on walking in an opposite direction away from the forest.

They came across the river, then down the slopes, and saw another forest as they entered it and rest behind the trees for a while.

"Why do we have to walk this far, we can always use your colossus or just snap your fingers like before." Niffa said as she pants and wipe her sweat.

"I can only use teleportation when I know the place were going. Besides you have to remind yourself that you should've rely on your powers that much, you also have to be strong in your way without using them."

"Fine… that's a lesson from you that I will remember for life, but right now I need water I'm so tired"

"Wait let me help you with that" Rico said as he create a bottle of water on his hand.

"Here"

"No, I don't know if it's clean or not"

"Geez you really don't trust me aren't you, of course this is clean I always thought about cleanliness when it comes to creating foods."

"Fine… I can resist it though" she said as she drink it. They rest for a while as Rico laid down the grass looking at the bright sky.

"By the way Niffa, you succeed in creating the rain so you are called the rain keeper."

"Rain keeper?"

"Yeah, it's your mother's term from her power."

"Okay, what about it?"

"There are more weather you need to find in order to complete Queen Luize's full power"

Niffa widened her eyes upon hearing it as he look at Rico pointing the sky.

"See the sun? It doesn't actually shine as bright like before."

"Sun keeper?"

"You guess right Niffa, the day you were born Queen Luize lost her power that the sun only shines in a glimmer way until now."

"So you knew me since the day I was born"

"Of course I'm a friend a of your mother."

"How can the sun retrieve its light then?"

"You are the chosen one to do it"

"I know… but how can I do it?"

"Well I guess you need more meditation to find it"

"So we meditate to find something we need right?"

"Yeah"

"Like the way you do? So tell me why you meditate sometimes?"

"To find my past"

"Of course you do, but did it help?"

"In some ways yes but the last time you dream about Samari 10 years ago actually helps me remember some of my past."

Niffa was shock to hear that, then suddenly they heard a sound of the horse far afar.

"How did they find out were in this direction?" Niffa asked as they quickly stands up.

"I'm sure the sorcerers know about it" Rico said as he quickly grab Niffa's hand.

"I don't have a choice but to be in this place" Rico said as he snap his finger and to their surprise they were inside an abandoned room. The place was burned and wreck while ashes thickened on the floor.

"Rico? I bet this is a castle"

"I know"

"Look! I saw a logo of this castle" Niffa said as they quickly run towards the huge dusty banner beside the wrecked chair of the royalties. Rico wipe the dust from the banner as he saw a rose, bow and arrow design on it.

"Wait… I know that logo, I've seen that before from my mother's book it was… Samari? How did you know about the kingdom of Samari?"

"I saw it… in my dream"

"In your dream? That means your past have to do here in Samari"

Rico look at Niffa in a confused way.