Chapter 28: Arthur Enters!
Anna and Ariel were floating in the sky after getting hit by the giant. Ariel tried to decrease the distance between him and Anna. He came closer and threw wind rope towards Anna. Anna caught it. He also threw another rope towards Anna's magical broom. Then they started going down. They came closer to the ground. Ariel threw another eind rope and tied it with a branch of a tree.
"Anna, can you get down?" Ariel said to Anna.
"I suppose I can," Anna said and grabbed her magical broom and landed on the ground. Ariel cancelled his wind ropes and jumped on the ground.
"Ariel, are you alright?" Anna said.
"I guess I am good but I have got a cut on my leg. Can you heal it?" Ariel said and sat down and showed Anna where he had got hurt. Anna healed him. Ariel became better. He stood up and looked here and there.
"Where are we?" Ariel said.
"I suppose we are at someone's garden," Anna said.
The place where they landed had a lot of trees and it was deep in the jungle. There were many trees and crops. There were beautiful flowers too. It looked like a garden. Ariel and Anna couldn't understand why a garden would be here in this deep jungle.
Suddenly Ariel felt a presence. It was rushing to Ariel. Ariel summoned Alice and pushed Anna away. Anna fell down. Her magical broom was separated from her.
That presence came closer at a higher speed and striked Ariel with an axe. Ariel couldn't see it's face because it was taller than him and sunlight was reflecting on its face. Ariel was pushed away and he clashed with several trees.
It looked at Anna. Anna was frightened. She used magma blast on it but nothing happened to it. She chanted Magma Balls and shot it towards that thing. It got hit and it stopped.
Anna got up. She looked carefully. It had a human body structure and it was tall. It's face was down. It had a big axe in his left hand. It had a muscular body and brown hair. Anna saw his face too. He had brown eyebrows. He had eyes which had a yellow touch in it. He had a handsome face. He had a moustache.
Anna wanted to defend herself and she chanted Magma Bla-. Ariel shouted and told her to stop. That guy turned his attention towards Ariel but Ariel was quicker and hit him with Wind Slash. That guy fell on the surface.
"Anna, heal him," Ariel said to Anna. Anna healed him. He was unconscious. Ariel tied him with a tree using wind rope. Noon passed. It regained consciousness. It tried to break the wind rope but failed. Then it got up with the tree. The tree lost its connection with the surface. Ariel and Anna came closer. It didn't move.
"Who are you guys?" it said with a deep voice.
"Just passersby, " Ariel said.
"What are you doing here then?"
"We got….. lost."
"How is that possible? "
"A giant made it possible."
"A giant?"
"Yes."
"Are you guys with the supreme general then?"
"Huh?"
"Yes or no?"
"No."
"It looks like you guys are not lying. If you did, then you wouldn't have healed me. "
"I guess you are intelligent. "
"What did you guys think?"
"What's a human like you living here in this Giant City?"
"Are you trying to say I am a human?"
"Yes, you are looking like one."
"I am not a human."
"What does that mean?"
"I am a giant."
"You are sure about it?"
"Why do you think so?"
"Judging by your height, it doesn't look like you are a giant."
"Huh?"
That giant was angry and used all of his strength and broke the wind rope. Anna got on her magical broom and got on the top of his head. Ariel backed down a little bit.
"You are humiliating me."
"Calm down."
"I cannot."
"What's your name?"
"Arthur Gigant."
"Look Arthur, first of all we are not with any kind of Zuch general. Secondly, we flew away from the Giant City to here because one giant punched us. That's the story. We mean no harm to you."
"Acceptable. "
"That's great."
"Come to my cottage."
Arthur started walking. Anna and Ariel followed him. After walking for some minutes, they saw a wooden cottage. It was taller than normal cottages. Arthur opened the door and stepped inside. Anna and Ariel did the same.
"Sit down anywhere you want to."
Anna and Ariel sat down on two big chairs. They were surprised to see a giant who looked more like a human.
"Why do you look like a human?" Anna said to Arthur.
"There's a story behind it," Arthur said.
"Tell us," Anna said.
"Heard of equivalent exchange? " Arthur said.
"Yes," Anna said.
"It happened to me. "
"How?"
"My father….he wanted fame and power. He begged for it to the God he believes in. On the day I was born, he won the title of giant king and I lost my giant height. It looked like coincidence but it was fate."
"Why do you live here?"
"My father is also the reason here. I didn't want to see him after knowing the death of my mother. I left him and I started living far from him."
"How did you survive all alone?"
"My body is compatible with the…...sun elemental core. I found a sun elemental core ten days before my mother's death. It was hidden in my father's old chests. He found out about the powers and so he asked a sun elemental user from the sun clan which is now gone to teach me how to control the powers. He taught me all the basics in ten days. Then my mother died. I came here. He found me after three months as it is deep in the jungle. He gave me several techniques and taught me how to manipulate my elemental powers. He told me about Nithius."
To be continued ~