after breakfast faes sky and blake began their journey towards the nearest village called aquarin. the dragon kingdom was big but the population was small hence most dragons stay in capital city, but some like to stay away in forest with their family and friends.
the village aquarin was one of the dragon villages out there and it mostly contained habit water dragons. there were other dragons too but the majority was affiliated with water hence it was given name aquarin. there were about hundred dragons around in this village and it can easily pass as a town.
on the way blake and faes didnt talked much but it wasnt awkward. faes was taking her time to heal and blake was busy playing and hunting around with sky. they were lucky enough to avoid any other strong beast but now faes knew that she can take on tier 3 beast easily if she can hunt down the tier 3 legendary wild bear, but even then she didnt went to hunt around as she didnt wanted her injuries to get worse by moving around. back on earth a broken bone took weeks or months to heal, but this wasnt earth and her bone was already healed thanks to her healing spell and fast healing. still faes decided to take it easy for few days and not do some excessive exercises.
blake told faes and sky about the villages and capital city while they just listened. when they stopped for lunch blake turned to faes who was cooking the lunch for them after getting sky her milk.
"when uncle aiden called me he told me that you would have a letter for me?" blake asked watching faes, faes had forgotten about the letters and now that blake asked about it she remembered it now. aiden had indeed told her to give a letter to blake named for him.
"oh right i have a letter for you, i actually forgot about that i apologize" faes took out the letter box from her inventory that aiden had given her and she had yet to sort out. faes opened it and found that there was actually small boxes named for different people. the biggest boxes in there were her and sky's but there were smaller boxes with some names that she havent even heard yet.
"my god, what is this?" blake saw the box and went near faes to take a look along with sky. he saw the different names and smaller boxes inside and grinned. 'always prepared uncle aiden?' he even made letters for everyone and only god knows what was written in there.
faes took a small box named for blake and opened it, she found many envelopes inside with conditions written on them. faes almost laughed when she read a few titles, they were like 'when blake playes a prank on you and you want to take revenge, ideas to play pranks on blake, when blake needs help in cultivation, when blake gets beaten up by his father and mother' and many more. they were not only letters for blake but faes and sky too but they were related to blake hence in the box along with letters for blake. faes took an envelope titled 'for blake when you meet him halfway'
faes gave it to blake who had a blank look on his face as he too saw the other letters. 'must be quite a shock for him but it seemed normal to me, that's king aiden for you - always prepared for any situation'
when blake took the envelope faes turned to the box again.
'i really need to see and sort them out' faes sighed as she kept the box away.
"he really prepared for most of the conditions right sky?" faes asked rubbing sky's head as she finished her milk.
"i thought that it would be just a single letter of goodbye but it seems like he will be there in the future, enlighting the way" blake also sighed as he got over his shock and smiled sadly
"what can we expect? that's how papa is, he wants to be there even if he is not physically present to help us" faes also grinned at blake.
"now then lets eat, that smells delicious" blake put the letter away to read later as he noticed the lunch being cooked and it smelt really apetiting. 'i havent eaten dinner nicely yesterday either' he thought as he began eating along with faes.
after lunch they continued their journey until faes stopped suddenly. blake and sky who were behind her also stopped wanting to know what happened to faes.
blake was about to ask faes what's wrong when he saw her shivering. faes was focused on her book that she was reading while walking when she suddenly picked up a movement above her. she knew that there was a monster there but it was just a tier 2 beast so she had ignored it but now that she was right below it she saw its shadow on the ground and it had her stop dead in her track frightened.
normally faes was not afraid of anything but when it comes to the thing above her faes cant even move from her place due to fear! there was only one thing that she fears in the whole world and that had eight legs and eight eyes. faes shivered and then slowly looked up biting her lips and finally saw the spider that was right above her watching them from its web between trees.
'why does god have to create spiders?' faes wanted to cry but she just complained as she saw the spider moved. faes was afraid of spiders, and it was as if the spider above sensed her fear, it began moving downwards hanging on its thread.
faes saw the big spider moving down towards her and got a fright! it was just a tier 2 beast but it was about a meter tall and its legs were long and had sharp tips!
"ahhh!" faes shrieked falling on ground in fear as she saw the spider closing the distance between them.
blake who was watching faes also followed her head movements and saw the spider above but he knew that if faes can kill the wild bear she can easily kill this one. he sensed she can also kill a spider which was much weaker in comparision but he saw her fall down screaming in fear. blake realised that faes was afraid of spiders and wont be able to fight it so he moved pulling his short sword out and wanted to kill the spider in one leap but just as he was about to kill the spider it vanished.
when he landed he turned towards faes was on the ground watching the spider with wide eyes. the spider which was originally above her slowly moving downwards had vanished from its halfway spot and had appeared right above her. now that it was standing above her looking at faes from its eight eyes and its fangs dangerously close to her.
faes was originally frightened into a stun unable to even scream still on the ground but when the system notification took her focus for a second faes turned to the spider again and pulled out her sword. her hands were slightly shaking from fear but she was not going to die just because of an insect!
the notification was of a new quest
[quest: kill the spider
rewards: space magic, spider silk, space magic dao concept comprihension
punishments: death]
faes was not stunned now and was planning to attack the spider but her fear was still present, making her unable to think straight.
"faes don't be afraid i am here!" blake said and it calmed down faes a little.
"elemental laser" faes murmered thrusting her sword towards the spider's head.
the spider jumped back dodging but blake was waiting there as he kicked the spider back towards faes sword. the attack hit its eyes blinding it successfully but just as it got blinded it vanished again appearing in its web high above.
blake came to faes and stood protectively in front of her with sky on his shoulder looking at faes worried.
"i- i am fine" faes told sky sensing her worry and slowly got up. she wasn't that afraid but the experience right now was traumatizing for her.
faes turned to look at the spider which was shrieking in pain and irritation of not being able to see. faes had managed to hit all its eight eyes blinding it.
"it should be easily killed now that it cant see where we are" blake said then turned his head towards faes grinning but worry was clear in his eyes.
"you want to kill it or should i?" he asked
faes took a look at blake before turning back to the spider thinking just then the system appeared in front of her
[the quest will only be completed if you or princess sky will kill the beast otherwise it will be dismissed] the system said
'will i get punished if it got dismissed?' faes asked
[no host once the quest is dismissed you wont get punishment given in the quest but you will have one new punishment depending on quest difficulty] the system replied.
faes sighed internally and put her sword away before pointing towards the spider using her hands as a gun and fired her qi bullets continuously.
the bullets hit the spider in its head and stomach making it shriek before finally dying and making faes turn away as green colored blood began to flow out from it s body falling on the ground. faes was still afraid and now disgusted too as she took a few steps away and tried not to puke.
"are you alright, little faes?" blake asked coming to where faes was.
faes nodded still her eyes closed as not to look back at the spider just as notification sound rang in her mind.
[quest complete
exp and rewards gained]
faes now had a headache because of sudden gain of space magic and its dao comprehension.
faes fell on her knees clutching her head and stayed like that until it went away. but the headache and the reward had taken her fear away and faes forgot about the spider.
"are you alright? feeling better?" blake asked giving faes a bottle of water which she took gladly.
faes smiled weakly at blake and drank the water before replying
"thank you brother blake, I'm fine just freaked out a little" faes said and got up with help of blake. sky also moved on blake's shoulder and blake handed her to faes who patted sky's head fondly
"i am fine don't worry" faes assured sky.
blake smiled "to think that my little sister is afraid of spider! i wonder if i can catch a few to leave them in your room later"
faes glared at blake hearing him 'if he tried that for real she was going to kill him herself even before he can think of word spider'
blake grinned at faes who was glaring at him, he cant read what she was thinking but it was a clear warning that he shouldn't try anything like that. 'but it will be fun that way!' blake giggled internally already planning to prank faes in the future.
"don't even think about it brother blake!" faes gritted her teeth as she stomped away.
"i think you are going in the wrong direction little faes, our destination is that way" blake reminded faes who blushed before changing the direction she was going in making blake laugh.
blake continued to tease faes on the way with sky and poor faes was unable to do anything about it! now she had a prankster who knew what she was afraid of with a constant fear of being pranked in the kingdom reptiliance.