Ray reached the meeting hall and stopped. He took a deep breath in front of the massive wood doors.
He calmed his nerves as much as he could and pushed open the door to walk in.
In front of him was a round table with seven chairs, six of which were full.
Staring at him with jealousy and anger these are his siblings.
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From left to right was Ren. He had bright red scruffy hair and dark red eyes that looked at Ray like he was a piece of trash.
He wore a red suit similar to Ray's with the same crest on his left breast pocket.
Next was Roy he had scruffy dark blonde hair and light red eyes which had the same look of his brother Ren.
he wore a red suit that was brighter than both Ray's and Ren's. This suit was also adorned with the crest in the same spot.
In the middle was Rebecca who had bright blonde hair with a red hue. Her eyes were blue and had yellow stars in them. The look in her eyes was calm with a clear air of superiority.
She had a beautiful slender figure and her suit which was red with more gold embroidery on the sleeves, and she also wore a white cape connected to two pauldrons with tassels on them, which had a larger version of the family crest on it.
On her right was rose, she was a smaller version of Rebecca without the stars in her eyes but she had the same look in her eyes.
She wore the same suit without a cape and instead the crest was on the right breast pocket.
Raven and Rose looked like twins, both had yellow eyes with a cheerful look in them. They both also had green hair tied into a ponytail with gold ribbons.
They also both dawned pink dresses with the family crest in the middle of the chest.
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Ray entered and sat down on the open seat.
'they have such cocky and disgusted looks toward ME' Arthur thought out of anger.
This anger was so strong it influenced Ray, making him anger too. Arthur noticed this and he quickly calmed and came up with a plan.
'If they want arrogance then I will give them arrogance' Arthur was deep in thought when he was refocused by Rebecca's words.
"So you are the boy my mother cares so much about. You are nothing impressive." Rebecca said coldly with a mocking grin.
Hearing this and noticing the anger getting pent up from Ray. He asked to take over.
Ray agreed without a second thought.
suddenly his demeanor became calm.
"Your right, In your eyes I am nothing. In my eyes I see you as less than me." Arthur as Ray said with a grin on his face. Hearing this all the other siblings eyes widened.
'What arrogant words from this little brat.' they all thought.
"Do you think you are not old enough to get beaten, you arrogant bug." Rebecca said with annoyed frown on her face.
"You think my claim is unfounded. You have a powerful and extremely rare element and potential. Yet you have only reached [rank-C]{advanced}, I can't tell if your just lazy or scared. Beasts are prevalent on this continent yet you have not used your so called amazing power to defeat them." Arthur said with a mocking tone and judgmental look.
Rebecca's face went from annoyed to furious.
"If you think my power is weak then I will show you it's strength." Rebecca stood up pointing a finger with star-fire in front of it.
"So that's what strength is. Using your powers against your 3 year old brother who doesn't even have an element. Now I know the reason your not a higher rank, it's because your scared." Arthur said interrupting her.
She couldn't argue without losing face and if she did attack him then she would be considered a weakling to attack her brother over petty words.
Her pride wouldn't allow this and it angered her to no end, but she put away her attack and sat down.
"You are either brave and cunning or arrogant and rash. I will test you to see which one it is." Rebecca said with a calm expression full of rage.
"May I speak to him, big sis?" Raven asked with a sweet smile.
"Go ahead." She snorted while crossing her arms.
"Little brother I have a proposition." Raven offered with a sinister smile in her eyes.
She looked toward Rebecca as if asking for permission to continue. Rebecca nodded and she went on talking.
"I am thinking of giving you 6 years to grow stronger, and after that you will go out and fight a rankless beast. If you manage to survive the fight, then you will earn our respect." raven offered calmly.
A look of surprise then anger flashes on Arthur's face.
Hahaha*
His laugh caught them off guard, but his next words were shocking.
"Your respect? why should I care about that? 6 years why should it take that long?" Arthur asked in a mocking and arrogant tone before continuing. "I don't want your respect. I want you to gather resources for me. I will also defeat a [rank-F]{basic} elemental beast in four years. After that I want you Rebecca to teach me to use my element, when I awaken it." Arthur said with absolute certainty in his voice.
These terms shocked and almost impressed Rebecca and Rose.
'He's so young and he's already thinking about the resources he'll need in the future.' Rebecca thought to herself while unconsciously raising her opinion of him.
Although impressed they easily hid it under anger.
This was not the only thing either, he stated that he would beat a ranked elemental beast as if it was already done. He stated that he would get a element as if fact.
'Was this insane arrogance or pure ignorance' Rebecca thought quickly to herself then came up with a decision.
"I agree with your deal, but if you fail to defeat the beast. You will be my dog of war. All you will know is how to fight and how to kill. You will rest when I say and die when I say. Do you agree to this term?" Rebecca laid out a term which any little boy no matter how arrogant would hesitate to agree to.
This was also to test his will, since to be strong she knew one needed a strong will.
Arthur however has had millenniums of experience of being a killing machine.
Without hesitation he agreed.