And the next day after acknowledging from the reliable messengers that no enemy had the temerity to show up at Caracus, Gus stormed out towards the war field.
"Good Gracious , what do we do with this kid now? I hope he will be ok. You guys can go now and aid to Caracus and see if there are any signs of war today or tomorrow. If not; we will withdraw from Caracus in a week." Mars narrates the message of whole planning to the five messengers and sends them away on their way.
*In Caracus*
"General Gideon, a young boy has arrived claiming he is from Mindoro and wants to meet the villagers." One of the warriors of Caracus informed Gideon about the unusual arrival of Gus.
"Take him to wherever he wants to go. We're not confiscating anyone here. Moreover tell him to find his people, himself." Gideon roared agitated while Gus is standing near the door listening to all and at the same time despising him and Caracus.
Even though the villagers of Caracus changed. It doesn't mean anything for Gus, even if Caracus repents or mourn for the blood of the people they killed, his parents won't come back to life.
So he will keep hating them more and more, gradually bubbling the poison within him.
"Ares! I'm here. How have you guys been doing?" Gus casually strides up towards Ares and his friends and tries to initiate a talk with them like it is just another normal day in his village.
"Yo Gus! Did you sleep we.... You BASTARD! what the hell are you doing here?" Ares growled with half surprise and suppressed anger.
"Gus you stalker, pervert, pedo. I'm older to you why did you come all the way for me?" Tanya says with a grossed out expression.
"What? Why would I come for you? Wait and Eh how am I the pedo here? I'm the younger one among all of us. And no- I actually came for Ares." Gus replies explaining and defending himself gulping the insulting words.
"Ahhhh! I see forbidden love!" Alex chips giving a smirk.
"Ohhhhh Ares, how can you? Is this the reason you are not accepting my love all these years? Are you into boys, perhaps? That too younger ones?" Tanya questions Ares while her face becomes hot red as her imagination ran wild about boy love (her secret fantasy).
Gus and Ares are both astonished. "Knock it off guys, I'm not in a mood to laugh at your jokes."Ares says with an angry irritated tone.
"Hai hai let's leave them both for a while guys, they got mad that we're between them and disturbing them" Albert adds fuel to fire while him and Alex try hard to control their giggles. This is their chance of getting back at Ares who is ridiculously popular among girls.
"Ah Gus, did Tisha ask about me? Did she tell you anything to pass onto me? Did she give you anything for me?" Yang inquired breathlessly to Gus ,curiously while leaning forward.
"Umm.." Gus doesn't know what to say since he ran out of his village, without even informing anyone.
And everyone around Yang gives him an odd more likely grossed look.
*Spit* "We're going, thu thu blehhh." Albert spits on the ground before leaving. He used to look up to Yang with the way he deals with other girls.
Yang is the known cold blooded soldier, who rejects every girl that comes to talk to him, but now, the cold hearted Yang is whipped and madly in love with a girl?
*"All this time he acted like a tough rigid guy and that was just a bluff after all"* Albert convinces himself and walks away.
"Umm.. it's ok to love another man.. I also love men. If you guys have free time you can come to have a drink with me." Among all the chaos with everyone, thinking whatever comes to their minds, an old man from Caracus with a white tank top and pot belly offers to Ares and Gus while blushing.
*Ares and Gus dies internally*
*"Ah no I'm wasting time. I came here for a reason"* Gus thinks while disparaging himself.
"Ares, train me more in the way of unholy sword. I want to learn more and more. I'm still no good in sword arts."
"Isn't that the real reason why I was left behind in the village? If I had learned everything and if I was good at the art of sword, I would have been by your side in the war field. So- teach me more Ares. I want to learn -everything." Gus sounded like a warrior hungry for power.
Ares leaves a sigh in delightfulness seeing Gus with full energy, he also at the same time knows that lust for power sometimes leads you to a wrong path.
So Ares wanted to lead Gus in the right direction and make him strong."Ok let's go, I will train you more." Ares tells Gus and they both walks along the shore a little far from people, heading towards terrains.
Ares teaches Gus about the rule of strike and the basics. Getting inside of the defence against the opponent is the most important thing.
The unholy sword got the name from it's free style manner, the techniques are not fixed of any particular forms and stances.
It's all freestyle and hitting an opponent at the same time while defending a blow. The most important thing however, is having the sword closer to your body and feel the sword as if it's an extension of your hand, that has merged with you.
The sword that doesn't follow any sacred methods or forms, hence called unholy sword arts.
"My sword, Fukitsuna is a rare blade passed down to me by my elders. This sword has a soul of its own and chooses its masters. You need to keep training hard to be worthy and make the sword choose you."Ares says with a commanding voice.
"And.." He pauses for a while, sits on a large stone nearby to continue. "If this sword doesn't choose you, as it's master. Then it's going to get rusty and old, eventually fading away."
"This is because the sword needs to be wielded by a master when swinging it. So try and make up to the desired level on your guts and hard work." Ares advice Gus telling him the rules and the importance of the sword, making him aware of the long path he needed to travel in order to achieve his desired power.
Edited by - Aysel Inaraa.