Juroo offered his hand to help Aren accomplish his goal and that is to bring Drinia home back to the Spirit Kingdom.
Their fierce battle has now come to an end while Drinia, Pyten and Trofinn haven't woken up yet because of their injuries.
Dozens of monsters are now chasing both of them while Juroo carries Pyten and Trofinn using both of his arms. Aren carries Drina on his back.
Aren: "AHHHHHHHH!!!! "
Juroo: "RUN AREN!!! RUNNNNN!!!"
Aren: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL M-"!!
At the distance Aren finally saw the trail of bread he made
Aren: "THERE IT IS!! WE'LL JUST HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT TRAIL!"
They followed the trail as fast as they can the monsters are not done with them yet.
Especially on this time that most of their prey aren't active. The one who was being hunted or now the predators of the hunters.
Juroo: ""Hey! Aren! Do you live nearby?"
Aren: "Yes,sir!"
Juroo: "We'll have to take a rest there and plan our way to help her..."
Aren: "You don't need to help us! I can handle this alone!. I mean... its not hard to just bring her home right?"
Juroo: "The headhunters are coming for her..."
Aren was shocked to hear those words
Aren: "What do you mean?"
Juroo: "I'll explain it to you later. For now...
Run for your life!"
Aren suddenly felt dizziness while carrying her and all those injuries he took made a great burden on his body. This is the limit of his stamina.
When Aren was about to go down Juroo didn't hesitate to carry them on his back. Since he was carrying his two friends on each side of his arm. He can carry Aren and Drinia on his back.
Juroo: "Hold tight Aren!"
(Just a little more! I can do this!!)
"AHHHHH!! GET OUT OF MY WAY YOU MONSTERS"
Juroo finally saw the end of the forest. He jump as high as he can as the monsters gets close to him. They got outside the forest successfully and escaped from the monsters but even juroo passed out.
They remain lying on the ground hoping someone could help them.
After some time, Aren had woken up. The place he was sleeping in was somewhat familiar.
Aren: "Wha... What happened... Whrere am I...?"
Aren's looks around and realized that it was his room
Aren: "Oh? So all of that was... just a dream?
That was a realistic dream though"
Aren stood up from his bed.
The moment he get out of the room he saw Juroo, Typen , Trofinn and Drinia having a meal in his house.
And that's not all... he saw vines all over the place.
Aren: AM I STILL DREAMING!!!!!
All: NO YOUR NOT!!!
Aren suddenly worried about her mother if she's alright
Aren: "Mom? Where are you?"
Her mother came out from the kitchen
Mother: "Aren! Your finally awake."
Aren: "Mom what happened here..."
Mother: "Here take a seat and I'll explain everything to you"
Aren: "Sounds like a long stor- "
Aren just realised that Drinia and the other hunters are really inside their house
Aren: "DRINIA!! THE HUNTERSS!! THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"
Juroo: "Can you please let you mother explain".
Typen: "Yeah Aren listen to her. She'll explain everything to you."
Trofinn: "We owe our life to her if she haven't find us lying on the ground something bad might've happened."
Drinia: "Umm... Where did you get the "Swamp fruit" thing... Aren."
Drinia feels embarrassed while asking that question.
Aren: "Ok stop!! Mom explain everything"
Mother: "So it began when I ate the fruit you bought at the marketplace suddenly i felt vines coming out of my body.
I thought I was going to die at that time but I didn't then I just saw our house full vines. Then I went out to get some fresh air as I hear a man voice at the distance I saw all of you guys stumble on the ground. I brought you all inside to heal your wounds and prepared a meal."
Aren: This is... ALL MY FAULT!
All: EXACTLY!!
Aren: "If I didn't bought that swamp fruit thing at the marketplace my mother will never experience all of this and if I haven't talked to Drinia at the forest the hunters will never find her.
I always make mistake... I'm really sorry."
Drinia: "But... That mistake brought us all together. Isn't that good?"
Aren smiles
Aren: "Yeah... Your right about that Drinia!"
Trofinn: "Anyways... Since were done at explaining things we'll proceed to what we will gonna do from now on."
Juroo: "I already had a plan"
Typen: "What is it boss"
Juroo: "I just noticed it now... Drinia had a diamond dragon scale. One piece of that and we'll a thousand piece of gold"
Typen and Trofinn eyes were widen
Typen: "Seriously boss!? Then with that amount of money we don't have to hunt i a year or more!"
Trofinn: "Yeah yeah and we-"
Juroo: "STOP YOUR SELFISHNESS!"
Both: "Yes boss..."
The two shut their mouth
Juroo: "Aren..."
Aren: "Yes!?"
Juroo: "I did say to you that we'll bring Drinia back to Spirit Kingdom right?"
Drinia: "WHAT? YOU'LL BRING ME HOME!?
I didn't agreed to this Aren!"
Aren: "Calm down Drinia... You don't have to be afraid anymore. We'll protect you!
Mother: "Don't you miss your family,friends and all the things you left there?"
Drinia: "I... don't want to be a burden... I do miss them but you don't have to do this for me. I'll just stay at the forest until I get old and di-"
Aren: "YOUR SAYING THAT AGAIN!! Drinia!! If you really want to go home say it now!!"
Drinia: "But-"
Aren: "SAY IT!!"
Drinia: "I WANT TO GO HOME!! I WANT TO SEE MY MOTHER, FATHER AND EVERYONE IN THE KINGDOM... I miss them so much..."
Drinia's tears are full of loneliness and sadness
Aren's mother hugged Drinia
Mother:" There there... I'm sure they want to see you again. At first I thought of you as a dangerous creature but now I realised that your just a lost little girl who wants to home."
Juroo: "So her decision is final, the only thing left to do is execute our plan properly..."
{Trading Center}
-{Garin's Room}
Garin is the manager of Trading Center and the one who checks the quality of the treasure if it is real or a fake one.
Garin using a magnifying glass to look at the dragon scale carefully
While Juroo and the other hunters casually waiting for him.
Garin: "Thi-.. this is..."
Juroo: What do you think? Garin. This time its a real one....
Garin: But how did you get your filthy hands on this precious thing.
Pyten: Umm.. eh.. We just found it on the forest... On the ground... Pick it up and...
Trofinn: And! We want to show it you!
Garin sharpen his eyes staring at pyten and trofinn
Garin: "Hmmm... alright! Here a thousand piece of gold equivalent to one emerald dragon scale!"
Trofinn, Pyten and Juroo was delighted as even though they haven't hunted anything they found something more valuable.
They went out of the trading center to get back to Aren's house
Juroo: "You two... Are terrible liars!!"
Pyten: "Run Trofinn!! Boss will kill us!!"
Trofinn: "Ahhhh!!!!"
Back to the trading center Garin have already doubted them
Garin: "Those hunters are obviously lying... The only way a dragon's scale will take of from its body is by its own hand or own will and no dragon will ever do that unless they trust that human being..."
*Garin grins*
I know what to do... I now have a job for them...
Garin enters one of the Headhunters Guild
Garin: "Good afternoon, everyone."
The moment Garin enters the guild he saw five headhunters looking at him.
Furoo, Juroo's older brother and the chief of the Oleander Headhunters.
Furoo: "Welcome to Oleander Headhunters! what kind of head do you want us to hunt?"
Almost him and Juroo looks almost the same but wearing a different uniform. Juroo doesn't even recognise him as a brother.
Garin shows a devilish smile
Garin: "A dragon's head"
Helone, The second member of the guild. One of the dimenians who have an access to the modern world dimension. Especialised for summoning pistols, rifles etc.
He had an orange eyes and hair wearing a their headhunters guild uniform the same height as a normal teen ager.
Rula, Third member of the guild especialised in taking care of dangerous monsters. Her summoning dimensions store dozens of catastrophic creatures.
In the Dime Kingdom there are a few people who had an access to what we call dimensions its not only for summoning things from the modern world it can be a storage or collection of the things you've already summoned or collected
There are two types of dimenian techniques:
First is...
Summoning Replication: One person replicates an object from the modern world and use it for combat. They can use the object as long as they have the stamina for it.
Collecting Replication: Is when a dimenian replicates an object came from the same world then use it later. The main difference is that when your collecting in your world you can replicates a creature too. Depends on what you can handle. Uses your stamina too.
Herald, The fourth and weakest member of the Oleander Headhunters. A novice one with lots of things yet to experience. He's the youngest one too.
With a light green and soft look.
He's best at gathering information about a certain person they were assigned to kill. That's the reason they recruited him.
Headhunters in this world are similar to assassination but they don't work hiddenly and they are not forbidden to kill someone because half of their profit will go to the Kingdom's treasure. This is like buying someone's life because you'll need to pay them a great amount of money good enough to kill that certain person. They can even kill the king himself.
Mr. Tilou, the oldest , veteran headhunter. He already hunted a hundred heads of a person for the past fifteen years.
Having a black eyes,long white beard and hair.
Mr. Tilou: "Hmm... Aren't you the manager of the trading center? Mr. Garin."
Garin: "Yes yes! And I have an enteresting job for all of you. I wan you to hunt a human dragon bring its body to me dead or alive."
Rula: How much can you afford to pay us?
Garin: "I think a hundred thousand piece of gold should be enough"
Helone: "That's not a bad deal its equivalent to a million piece of silver."
Juroo: "All right, We got a deal. Herald you know what to do."
Herald: "Understood, I'll find the target in three days"
Garin: ( This guild doesn't even had the slightest doubt in me. They do know that being a manager of the trading center I have a lot of money.)
"You'll get the payment once you bring her to me at my office at the trading center.
Have a nice day!"
The moment garins get out of the guild the headhunters started to celebrate.
Juroo: "FINALLY!! After six months someone offered a job to us!!"
Herald: "Haha yeah! I thought we'll gonna starve here to death."
Rula: "I can now buy more wines! Yohooo!!"
Tilou: "I can now buy new clothes and update my fashion!"
Helone: "I can now eat everything I want"
Juroo: "Not gonna lie though but the desires of this headhunter guild is something else."
*Everyone laughed*
Without a wasting a time Herald went out to find their target the first person he'll want ask is Garin
Herald: "Geez... I forgot to ask him for clues"
Herald saw Garin entering the trading center
Herald: "Mr. Garin! Wait for me!"
Garin: "Oh! Your a member of that headhunter guild. Don't tell me you've already found your target."
Herald: "Uhh no... I chased you to ask some clues you probably know."
Garin: "Oh yeah of course of course. The hunter who sold me that dragon scale is Juroo."
Herald's eyes widen
Herald: "Juroo!? Isn't that the younger brother of Chief Furoo."
Garin: "Yes, if you could find him maybe you'll find the target too."
Herald: "or... We could wait until they want to trade another dragon scale to you."
Garin: "Hey! Your not bad kid! All right stay inside of the trading center until they comeback."
Herald: "Thank you! Mr. Garin"
Garin: (This kid is too kind to be a headhunter... What is his reasons for doing this kind of job...)
Two days later...
Juroo and the other hunters came back on the trading center for another dragon scale to trade.
While receiving the payment herald is waiting outside of the room for them to follow
Juroo: "Thanks again for another good trade Garin!"
Garin: "I'm pretty surprised that you found two emerald dragon scale in a row. That was some good luck!"
Maybe... you could show me the area where you find these precious thing! What do you think?
Pyten: Uhh... Too bad Mr. Garin we usually forgot where the area is...
Trofinn: "Yeah Mr. Garin because we only see the same trees all over the place so we can't define the location."
Juroo: "Anyways, We gotta go and hunt more monsters."
Garin: "All right Understood. Have a nice day!
You guys should become treasure hunters because its just suits you all".
*They laughed*
After Juroo and the others went out of the trading center Herald followed them sneakily and slowly wearing a hood
{Marketplace}
They use some of the money to buy food at the marketplace, new weapons and materials they need to hunt like nets etc.
{Armory shop}
While they were inside the armory shop Herald eavesdropping on them
Trofinn: "Good thing they let us to spend some of the money for ourselves."
Pyten: "Yeah... We need to save money from our trip to Spirit Kingdom"
Trofinn: "All right!! Spirit Kingdom here we go!"
Juroo: "Looks like your going for a vacation"
Both: "Hehe..."
They went out the shop after buying all the things they need
Pyten: "Well its one of a lifetime experience..."
While following them Herald was murmuring about all the information he heard.
Herald: (What!? Spirit Kingdom!? that's like literally in the other side of this continent.
(What kind of business they have in there...)
(Or maybe... they want to escape in that place with the target)
After some few minutes of walking and following them Juroo and the others finally arrived at Aren's house.
Herald: (This is it! The target must inside that house. It make more sense now because the house is outside of the kingdom and theres the forest nearby)
The night comes and the headhunters are now moving... They run as fast as a horse.
Juroo: "Herald! Are you sure about the targets location?"
Herald: "Yes sir! I'm pretty sure the target is hiding there!"
Helone: "Mr. Tilou! Use your vision to check the target!"
Mr. Tilou: "Understood!"
Mr. Tilou is a former Varinian and had an access to mana.
He's magic is called. Magic of Vision.He can transfer his vision to what's other people see.
He transfers his vision into Trofinn's eyes.
Eveything that was in Trofinn's vision he'll saw it too. Then Mr. Tilou saw drinia the human dragon that they need to kill.
Mr. Tilou: "I found the target! That house is the right location!"
"She's a human dragon with a bluish hair and the emerald scale around her body"
Furoo: "So that's why Garin's want us to kill her."
Helone: "You said that she's a human dragon right? She must be came from the Spirit Kingdom"
Rula: "She's like a living treasure in that case!"
Herald was running behind them because he's the slowest of them all.
Herald: (I see... so that's why they were planning to go to Spirit Kingdom they want to bring her back.)
{Aren's House}
-{Dinner table}
Juroo: "Our preparation is now complete Aren. Tomorrow will just have to rent a carriage to go to Vari kingdom then next is the Spirit kingdom."
Aren stopped eating and trembles because of his trauma and nightmares in that kingdom that haven't faded yet.
Drinia: "Aren? Are you alright?"
Aren: "Uhh no... I'm just worried about dad he hasn't comeback yet in more than three days now."
Aren's mother is in the kitchen slicing some fruit for dessert
Mother: "The moment he entered this house I'll gonna punch him in the guts!!"
Typen: (Scary...)
Mother: "I'm really worried about him now maybe theres something really bad happened to him."
While Aren's mother bringing the fruit to the dinner table a bullet pierce her right through her heart.
In the blink of an eye Aren and the others can't believe what just happened.
Aren: "Mo- mo- MOM!!!"
He rushed to her mother
"Hang in there!!"
Trofinn: "She's dead..."
Pyten and Drinia froze and trembles about Aren's mother and without saying anything.
Juroo rush outside the house to find the killer
Juroo: "WHO THE HELL DID THAT!!?"
Juroo saw the headhunters surrounding the house.
The one that fires the bullet is Helone using a double barrel shotgun from the modern world.
Helone: Looks like my random shot killed someone...
Then furoo saw juroo outside the house.
Furoo: "Juroo!! My little brother!! Nice to see you again!!"
Without a single word juroo entered the house.
Juroo: "The headhunters!! They tracked us down!"
Aren: WHAT SHOULD WE DO!? MOM IS BLEEDING!!
Juroo: "YOUR MOM IS DEAD OKAY!! We can't save her!! We need to escape right now!!"
Another bullet pierced the house good thing that no one was shot
Aren's realised that he can't grieve right now he needs to protect everyone.
Aren: "Understood!"
Pyten: "Trofinn, Drinia!! Move and pack the things we need!!"
Rula: "That's enough Helone! It's my time to shine!"
Collecting Replication: Mini Treenu!
Treenu is a white small fluffy creature that after seeing a human in five seconds it explodes like a grenade.
Rula can control the creature she collects so she throws treenu through the house.
Rula: "A small gift from the headbunters!!"
*BOOOOMM!!*
Everything were devastated and covered in smoke.