"Take care iris, I love you." I said to her with a calm and smoothing tone to ease her worries and to my surprise… it worked.
"I love you to dante kun." She said with tears coming down her face as we let go of the hug and I then took my bag and gave her a small nod and she returned it back to me as I just smiled to this and faced the open window.
'Are you ready… death?' I asked death with a serious tone in my voice
'OFCOURSE I AM BRAT. ARE YOU?' Death responded with a serious tone.
'Is that even a question?' I ran for the window and had jumped off the window to the ground and had started to make my way towards the forest close to my family's farm as I turned back to see iris waving at me from far as i took a look at my home… my new home.
"I promise… that I won't fail this time." I said as I vanished from sight.
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As I waved to dante good bye and safe travel with a bright smile on my face but I still felt sad about him leaving off to who knows where just because off this situation we are in, who knows the length he will go to find for a solution… in this cruel and corrupted world, though I don't know what is this feeling I am experiencing every time I'm with dante…. Like as if he has another person with him, even sometime I begin to question what he truly is, because it feels very weird and strange to me. Firstly He could speak right from birth, then he had loads of knowledge on basically everything magic, his even the one that start taking me on my magic tutoring.
But all in all his one of my most favorite person I know even though he doesn't get along with uncle suzoku, I can't even state everything that he had done for me.
I made my way to his bed and rested on it and just smile.
'Get back safe… okay dante.' I thought with a bright smile but then that smile got replaced with one of panic.
'Oh no how will I explain it to them, heck I don't even know where to start… I'm screwed.' I thought with a panicking expression.
"ugh… what I'm I going to do now." I continued to lay on his bed while grunting in stress.
"What I'm I now supposed to tell them when they ask me where is their seven years old son and my little bro." I sighed in despair as I could hear someone voice from downstairs.
"MIND IF I CRASH HERE FOR A WHILE, I CAN ASSIST AROUND THE HOUSE FOR THE MEAN TIME IF THAT'S OKAY WITH YOU." I said uncle suzoku voice from downstairs and from the looks of it he wanna crash to… oh great I don't want to sound rude but another pain in the neck.
'Please don't let him, please don't let him.' I prayed silently for them not to let him stay but instead.
"OFCOURSE, WHY NOT BROTHER, MY HOME IS YOUR HOME, JUST PLEASE DON'T FIGHT WITH DANTE… AGAIN" I heard my dad accepted for him to stay.
'Darn it' I cursed.
"WHERE IS THE LITTLE DEMON ANYWAYS HAHAHA?" My uncle request to know about the where a bouts of dante
"Oh his still asleep but I will call him down shortly." My mom answered, telling him that dante will be up soon and then I stopped listening to their conversation.
"Oh no and to top it all off, now uncle suzoku is around and to worsen it all, he get too suspicious around people and mostly dante." I said in a panicking tone and just covered my head with a pillow.
"ahh….. I'm so dead." I said closing my eyes.
Dante p.o.v:
As I was walking on the road leading to the main city my mind drifted off on how I will approach situation on finding a job when I'm still a kid…. Ugh.
"I need a plan." I was still thinking until death interrupted.
'HEY KID' death got my attention.
'Yeah what you need and why are you calling me.' I answered him as I continued to walk straight.
'OH NOTHING JUST TO TELL YOU THAT I GOT NO JOB IN MIND THAT WILL FIT MY POWER AND THAT NO ONE WILL HIRE A KID.' He was speaking facts… no one will give a kid a job at least from the way it looks.
'I seem that I didn't think this all through… but I'm guessing that you already have a plan, if I'm right.' I asked death guessing that he would have thought about the situation before hand.
'OF COURSE I HAVE, BRAT I WILL LIKE YOU TO MEET SOMEONE.' Death said as I was already confused as to who he had brought.
'Hhheellllooo little reaper, my name is proteus or you can call pro, the god of shape shift and sorry for almost killing you during your trail hahahaha.' Pro said with a nervous laugh that I didn't find amusing.
'Oh you're the one that turned into the 11th executioner and almost kill by stomping on my head….. it still hurts by the way.' I mentioned to him while feeling the back of my head.
'sorry okay sheesh, besides it was death who told me to go all out and now look at me now, I'm free from my internal rest by helping you so I guess you have a new addition to your team. Right d-man?' pro asked death who just grunted and responded.
'I SHOULD HAVE JUST MET LOKI FOR HELP INSTEAD OF A MAD MAN WAIT I THINK THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE
'Hey! Don't compare me with that mad man, besides you do you know that I am the strongest shape shifter in the cosmos.' Pro boastfully said as this confused me though… why have death brought him, I need to know why.
'I don't understand death how is he going to help, I'm confused.' I asked in a curious voice.
'I BROUGHT HIM HEY TO HELP CHANGE YOU APPEARANCE AT WILL BY SEALING HIM INSIDE YOU, BECAUSE A NORMAL SHAPE SHIFTING SPELL IS QUIET USELESS SINCE MY MAGIC WILL JUST NULLIFY IT THEREFORE BLOWING YOUR COVER SO I THOUGHT THAT WHY NOT JUST USE THE ESSENCE OF A LATE GOD SINCE, THAT WILL NOT NULLIFY HIS…. AND I ALSO OWN HIM A FAVOR AND I AM STARTING TO REGRET IT.' Death responded, clearing all the confusion I had about the whole situation.
'Yep he owns me hahaha how ironic…. Wait why your mana feels so strange.' Pro said in confusion.
'Like how?' I asked, being confused on what he meant.
'Well it feels like your mana presence is low but at the same time your aura is too overwhelming… how is that possible?' pro asked me on how my mana is not like before.
'Oh, well it's because of the rings I wore to seal my power, each rings seal me mana flow and binds but this seals can be removed, that's if I'm not care.' I answered his question.
'So how do I change my form, it seem that we have already arrive at the intercostal gate of the empire.' I notified them that we had already reached.
'Okay so I want you to let my mana get into your mana flow and let it sync within you.' Pro instructed me on what to do as I stopped in my track.
"okay
'TRANSFORM!' I suddenly felt a huge burst of mana over flow throughout my body and my body had started to glow in a pure blue glow.
"Physical technique: alteration!" I exclaimed as my body had started to change its form: from a seven years boy to a 18 years old teenage, as my body had become more toned and built, my hair was now long than before as it covered my ears and was now silver white in color.
"Perfect… here goes nothing." I said being satisfied about the improvement and made my way to the attendant who was in a small booth collecting dues to from people; who seek to be given access to the capital, though the man started to shout.
"50000 jewels! Get in line for safe passage to the capitalll!" I saw a long line leading to the booth but I then noticed one flaw in my plan…..
'My money makes one-third that amount….. What was I think' I thought with a face palm as death and pro started to laugh at my unfortunate situation.
"I can't do this…. or wait, EHM EXCUSE ME IS THERE PRICING!" I tried to convince the goblin man about maybe negotiating a pricing…. But turns out that the capital is really full of cheap skates.
"oiy! Brat, does this place look like a loan bank… huh, so just cram, livestock." He shouted at me as I had the intent of blasting him into cinder and ash but I just decided to walk away from the intercostal gate.
'I guess I need a new alternative in getting to the capital… damn it.' I started to make my way towards a peculiar forest that was release some kind of…. Corrupted aura.
'I THINK I HAVE AN EASIER WAY OF GETTING INTO THE CAPITAL.' He told me as he explained that remembered about something very familiar about the surrounding.
'Then where do I have to pass to get to the capital?' I asked death in a curious tone.
'YOU WILL HAVE TO PASS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACES, THAT EVEN PEOPLE WON'T DARE TO SET FOOT UPON...… AND THAT IS THE DEVIL'S GARDEN' Death responded as I turned my head to the forest and gulped loudly as I could feel multiple presences and even the forest is releasing its own aura, coming from it….. And looking at the place the auras are come from, I know that they are not the friendly kind; in fact the auras feels too familiar to ignore…. that this forest is a beacon of pure.
"Blood lust." I stared at the forest for some while but then did something that will make me look like an insane person ….. I just smiled and walked towards the forest.