It's been three years since Zach and Zodia met and formed a party, and it goes as follows.
(1 year)
The first year was mainly Zach and Zodia completing missions that ranged from D rank to C rank like collecting Magni-pies which is a natural grown fruit in the shape of a pie, which helps boost people with a magnet affinity.
Funny enough, since Magni-pies have a magnetic field and are grown in metal bamboo forests, they have a high magnetic attraction to other specific metals and because of Zach's ademantium skeleton, the moment he steps foot in that metal bamboo forest he sets off a chain reaction as a bullet hell of Magni-pies shot off their branches towards Zach like heat seeking missiles.
Zach surprised by this pulled out his inner neo and continuously dodged the torrent of Magni-pies, and he could've sworn he heard someone say bring that ass here boi. While weaving through the Magni-pie bullet hell, Zach tries to find Zodia and see if she's ok, only to find her at a safe distance laughing her ass off. Seeing this he sighed in relief but was slightly irked at Zodia still laughing on the floor.
Being a little petty, he takes out left over pie that he made for him and Zodia from his inventory and yeets it at Zodia getting a bolseye straight to her face. Of course Zodia got pissed and started barking at Zach but completely ignored her as he sent an electric burst throughout the metal bamboo forest. He then proceeds to run on his own lightning straight towards the Magni-pies while quickly putting them in his inventory.
3 minutes later, Zach walks out the forest with three stacks of Magni-pies in his inventory, while making his way back to his still pissed partner. The rest of the first year was Zach and Zodia training and constantly leveling up but it started to stagnant and they reached level 87. After becoming gold rank Adventurer's Zach and Zodia celebrate by cooking some steam zulu buns with roasted shadow panther meat and a side salad.
(2 year)
To start off the second year Zach intensified his training and slowly but surely taught Zodia how to basically fire bend and even partially lightning bend but it's very limited and their relationship was that of siblings. Zach continued to train himself and Zodia in their free time, and learn more about the world from her. One fun fact Zach learned is that due to the past heros influence, they combined magic and technology together which resulted in a lot of things like literal space ships, fire arms, weapons, and etc.
Finding this out awakened something within Zach and he spent at least three months in his workshop without coming out, which both worried and confused Zodia to the point she tried to bust in but focus on the keyword tried as Zach literally sealed his door shut by welding it's lock shut. Three months later, Zach busts through his door with the biggest shit eating grin on his face before he gets Zodia to give her a customized hoverboard that can clock out in 350mph.
After that self inclusion, Zach and Zodia continued to train for most of the time, even making new techniques like [Beast king style: death wheel], [Chidori], [Lightning shift], [lightning step], and more. At the end of the second year, Zodia started to examine Zach's ademantium claws usually trying to test it's durability or sharpness. Being shocked almost every time she would compare his claws to that of celestial steel.
(3 year)
The start of year three was Zach and Zodia were taking on B to A rank missions like it was caffeine monday, basically speed running half of them. Hell, one time Zach went on a solo mission and literally had to fight a sentient volcano. He won of course but it was a wierd experience. Unfortunately he lost crimson shadow in the battle, which he bummed for at least two weeks. However he bounced back and did more missions with Zodia.
Since Zach and Zodia weren't lacking in the money department, Zach would usually fund the local orphanage in town and even play around with the kids who see him as a big brother. They even called him sensei Zach as he would teach them self defense, even the kind middle aged lady who takes care of them. This actually became a life saver because like three weeks later a typical snobbish noble tried to literally rape the caretaker only to get the dog shit beaten out of em by both the caretaker and kids using Zach's teachings.
This snobby noble runs with his tail behind his legs while shouting that he would be back.
The kids soon tell Zach what happened which immediately makes him watch over the kids, caretaker, and orphanage since he knows that bitchy nobles like them don't know when to take the hint even when they get their ass beat. Just as expected the prick wodeld his way back with his goons. Zach actually had to pinch his nose as the fat prick only smelled of sex, ass, and alcohol.
This little issue was quickly resolved as Zach straight up crippled the noble and took all of their welth. Then proceeded to give all that money to the orphanage which the caretaker wanted to refute but Zach insisted. The rest of the year was Zach doing more missions, bonding with the Zodia and the kids at the orphanage. Hell the townspeople even started calling Zach the beast king and Zodia the cyan speedster which confused Zach as he was actually the speedster but didn't bother as he continued his training, reaching the end of the third year.
"You ready Z?" Zach asked Zodia who puts the rest of her gear in her inventory. "Yes Zach and you know I hate that nickname" Zodia said annoyed with a stern expression on her face.
"Alright alright. Let's get moving and try to keep up" Zach told Zodia with a confident grin as he blasted off into the forest. "Oh you're on!" Zodia thought as hopped on her hoverboard and blasted off in Zach's direction.
(a/n: okay Imma keep it blunt with y'all. Zodia is not a love interest. Zach sees her as a friend or sister. Also Zach is mentally older so he ain't gonna try that.)