About an hour later, Arnos heard a knock. He rubbed his eyes and got out of bed. Then he went to check out who it was.
"Who is it?" He asked as he opened the door.
"Hey bro can we come in? Are you alright?"
Turned out it was Spyro, Colin and Nitro.
"Hey dude, that was really brave of you to try defeat the Queen Thorn Ant by yourself! How'd you do it!!! No way you're Standard. You must be a High Elite!!!" Spyro threw out some accusations.
"Hahaha, pure luck?"
"Uh huh, totally." Colin said. "I'm a High Elite and I wouldn't be confident enough to beat the Queen."
"Yeah, yeah it wasn't too bad anyways."
"Yeah right. Well we're glad you're okay."
"Anyhow there's no other Bounty Missions at the moment. So we thought maybe we could have like a boy's hang out thing. Like head into the city. Shop, maybe hunt some beasts or creature and have dinner!" Nitro said.
"Oh-oh, uhhhhh I've never had one before.."
"What a boy's day out?"
"No uhhh friends to hangout with, really."
"Bro that's just sad.. It's alright you have us! Get changed and meet as at the front entrance..." "In about, 10 minutes." He said after a pause.
Then they all left to get ready.
Arnos changed into his normal outfit. His Silent Gear. He had a bit of trouble finding where the entrance was but eventually found it.
When he saw them he felt very awkward. They were all wearing casual clothing while him on the other hand was wearing a hood and with his equipped tralent.
"Ehhhh..." Nitro started as Arnos made his way towards them.
"Silent, why are you not in casual clothing?"
Arnos thought about it before choosing to answer. Truth to be told, Master Romeus had warned him about showing his identity to other people. The more he thought about it, he realized it would probably be fine for him to take off his hood. He'd be more recognizable with his Silent Gear. Plus, he used to have spiked hair and now his hair was all straight and down on his face. His body had gone through a lot of changes too.
"Silent, Silent, Hello??" Spyro waved at his face. Arnos broke out of daze and said,
"One sec." He ran off and they just stood there wondering what just happened.
He came back with his dark hair down and some shorts and a t shirt. He was unrecognizable from what he looked like in the Silent Gear. His friends didn't even know it was him until he walked closer to them.
"WOAH! Dude. You look totally different form what I imagined!" Spyro exclaimed.
"Uh, hahaha, very funny man. Let's go now."
They went out and got into a carriage to the city. On the way there, Spyro discussed on what they would be doing. There was a carnival that was going on for 3 weeks and that they could go check it out. Many citizens and normal people will be there, the same with people from different guilds but they will probably dress up normally and be hard to identify.
Arnos found out that the City Master Romeus brought him to on the first night was, BlueLight City. It was one of the more known cities around the place. They arrived and got off, they thanked the driver and walked along the pavements.
The time was the afternoon. The sun was burning out and the trees were full of light. Everywhere around you could see people walking and talking. Socializing, really. There were different shops of all kinds.
"Hey." Colin spoke up.
"Can we head to that WeaponSmith Shop? I heard there's a lot of specially crafted and strong weapons. And also my two blades are a bit rusty and could use some improvement."
"Who knows, Silent you might find something too." Colin turned his head to him.
Arnos shook his head. "No, I don't think so but let's check it out anyways."
No one argued, Spyro was really excited to check if there were any bows that caught his interest. Nitro on the other hand was bored out of his wits. He was a Maginage, he didn't need a weapon. So he just went in and looked at all the weapons around without purchasing anything. Although there were also some good armor which Nitro at the end decided to buy a pair of armored gloves that were well made for spell users.
Surprisingly, it turned out that there were better tralents out there and he saw one that sold for a reasonable price. It was definitely a tralent and it was much better than the one he had now. Even though he had bonded with his tralent, he knew he would have to get a new one eventually.
At the end, Colin bought a pair of twin blades that were black, sturdy and sharp. Nitro bought a pair of Spell Enhanced Gloves. Spyro found a long, strong bow, attached with a very flexible bow string. Finally Arnos bought the tralent.
They all had void pouches and they hid their weapons in there after paying. Then they headed to a nearby place to buy some drinks. They sat down and drank.
"You know the carnival, starts at like 5:00pm and goes way past midnight. All the goods come out when night falls. So I think we should wait for night fall. Anyways we only need to wait for about 2 hours till sun sets. Right now it's 4:30pm. I know a nice place that we can go for a swim. There's a huge pool and a HUMONGOUS Spa place!"
"We should go there after drinking!"
"Yeah but we didn't bring our swimming stuff.."
"It's fine I'm sure there's a nearby place where we can buy some swimming trunks and towels. Let's go!!"
They finished up their drinks and the quartet bought the swimming supplies. They all didn't mind being shirtless.
As they were getting changed Spyro made a remark.
"Woahhh, Silent you're fit."
"Ahhhh, hahaha." He replied embarrassed by the remark.
"I hope there's some girls here.." Nitro mumbled but Spyro has heard it very clearly.
"Hahaha! I thought you had a thing for Lucy!"
"What! No-" Nitro said flustered.
"How bout let's head to the pools now."
There were indeed girls there at the pool but they were all in the shallow part of the big pool. Three out of the four wanted to go into the deep end so that's why they weren't near there. Colin and Arnos swam some laps. With Nitro complaining to Spyro about how they could've each gotten a girlfriend by now if they had gone to the shallow end.
"Stop complaining, dude, hahahaah." Spyro said while punching Nitro on the arm.
"Pffttttt, whatever. Once those two finish their laps, let's all have a race!"
Just as Colin and Arnos stopped, they were challenged into a race.
The outcome was simple Arnos obviously won because he was specially trained for this. Colin coming behind close and they weren't sure who was last. Spyro or Nitro. After the race they finally went to the spa areas.
The male and female ares were separated which made Nitro sad.
"Dude, cheer up! The Spa's so warm. And it's so big too, so we can have this whole section to ourselves."
"Yeah, yeah, we still have time to see some girls at the carnival anyways." Nitro spoke positively.
"Bro, all you care about is girls, hahaha." Arnos said.
"Let's just all enjoy this, this has been a lot of fun so far. This is probably the most fun I've had in ages." Colin said.
"Well that's because you're always so serious!"
"Shut up."
"Hahahahaahaha." Everyone laughed. The laughter sounded out.