Chapter 5 : Birthday
As dust settles, time passes. 4 years already went by in a blink of an eye.
Arthur was on the streets. He was looking here and there for Eris and Shiro. But he couldn't find them in the castle so he came out.
As he was walking, he saw a girl almost resembling Eris.
"There she is." Arthur muttered to himself.
The girl was walking fast. Arthur followed her shouting "Eris!".
But she didn't listened. She then took a turn. Arthur was able to catch up to her on that turn. He tapped on her shoulder from behind.
The girl looked behind and it was someone else.
"Oh? You need something from me Lord Arthur?" said the girl as she turned her whole body towards Arthur.
"Oh no. I got the wrong person. Sorry." said Arthur while scratching the back of his head.
"Oh I see. Well I will excuse myself then."
As she walked away. Arthur released a sigh.
Arthur turned and as he was about to walk he heard something crash behind him. He turned his head behind. It was a monster. A brown colored monster with 8 legs and 6 red glowing eyes. It was a huge spider. Almost the size of a one story house. Arthur shivered from his spines.
He started walking backwards slowly. But the spider monster noticed him moving and it started to run towards him.
Arthur made a run towards the main road. But suddenly, a thick layer of spider webs was shot in front of him. The spider shot the webs and blocked the only exit Arthur had.
Arthur was cornered. The spider came closer to him slowly. His eyes became filled with fear.
Arthur didn't knew what to do.
"What should I do?" thought Arthur.
Arthur looked here and there for something. He found a stick laying beside him.
He ran towards the stick and grabbed it. He positioned himself in front of the spider. Feeling aggression from Arthur the spider jumped towards him. Arthur also jumped towards the spider.
*Bonk*
He hit the spider's head with the stick.
The spider didn't feel any pain. Arthur gave of an awkward smile. The spider rubbed with one of it's hands in the spot where Arthur hit him.
Arthur gave a nervous laugh. "Haha."
Arthur jumped back as the spider tried to attack Arthur.
Arthur didn't knew what to do. Suddenly he remembered one of the conversation between him and Shiro.
"Arthur. If you ever find yourself in a dangerous situation. Remember to use magic."
"But. I don't know how to use magic." replied Arthur.
"Don't worry. I will teach you it today. You have to do some stuff."
"What do I do?" said Arthur in an excited tone.
"To use magic, the key is focusing. If you focus enough mana to your body parts where you want the magic to come out from."
Arthur raised his hands. He started to focus. But nothing came out.
Arthur looked at Shiro in confusion.
"Why isn't it working?"
"Its not that easy. You have to focus more to cast of a spell."
Shiro circled his hands in a pattern from left to right. Suddenly a ball of flame lit on his palm. He then shot the ball of flame on a wall made of concrete.
"Wow!" expressed Arthur.
"If you practice enough you will be able to do it this fast."
Arthur remembered that after this conversation, he practiced hard to develop a spell.
Arthur focused on gathering mana to his left hand. He closed his eyes. The spider was looking at Arthur. It started to crawl towards Arthur.
Arthur focused enough to see some little black particles gathering at the palm of his left hand.
Arthur then raised his hand towards the spider. He did exactly what Shiro did when he demonstrated his magic to Arthur.
The spider jumped towards him. But as soon as the spider jumped. Arthur finished his casting. A black ball consumed by shadows appeared on his palm. Even though it was small in size. It emitted darkness all around the walls as if it turned night in that alley.
Arthur threw the black ball towards the flying spider. It hit the spider on it's underbelly. The spider tossed back. Suddenly black flames started to consume the spider. The spider tossed and turned on the ground on it's back to put the flame out. But it was in vain.
Soon enough the spider died as it turned charcoal black. The flames also put itself out after the spider died.
Arthur looked at the spider and then looked at his own hand.
Arthur gave of a smile.
"Shadow bomb." said Arthur while looking at his hand.
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After a few days. Jue 25th. Arthur again came out of the castle to look for Eris and Shiro. But he still couldn't find them.
He was roaming around the castle till the sun almost set.
Arthur was on a bench sitting beside the fountain.
He sighed. "I couldn't find them again."
As Arthur saw the sun was setting. The sky turned a bright orange color. It was as if a painting.
Arthur stood up and started to walk towards the castle. As he was going through an alleyway his vision turned black. Someone covered his eyes with a blindfold.
"Who!?!" shouted Arthur.
No one answered.
They carried Arthur to a dark room.
"Where are you taking me?!?" shouted Arthur again.
No one again replied.
They opened the blindfold on Arthur's eyes. Arthur looked around and it was dark to see anything.
"Where am I?"
Suddenly the room lit up with bright lights. Arthur found it hard to look through the lights.
"Happy 7th birthday Arthur!" shouted everyone.
Party poppers went of as they shout.
Arthur looked at a giant table and saw many delicious foods like roasted turkey, cakes and other stuff.
Arthur also saw Eris, Shiro as well as Eris' parents on front of the table.
They all had a big smile on their face.
Eris came towards Arthur with a bright smile on her face while she was hiding something as she had both her hands behind her back.
Arthur said to Eris, "You remembered?"
Eris nodded while giving Arthur a box wrapped in colorful papers. It was a gift.
Arthur took the box from Eris.
"Can I open it?"
"Sure!" said Eris.
Arthur unwrapped the present. It was a necklace made with black and white pearls in a pattern. Arthur smiled brightly while looking at the present.
Arthur grabbed Eris' arm and pulled her closer to his chest giving her a big warm hug.
Arthur's sudden action surprised Eris. Her face started to turn bright red.
"Aww. Look our little Eris is embarrassed." said Eris' mother while covering her smile with a hand.
Eris' mother was a young women in her 30s with brown long straight hair. Her eyes had a beautiful teal blue color. She was wearing a long pink dress.
"Sh.. Shut up mom!" said Eris while being embarrassed.
"Haha!" laughed Eris' father.
He was a middle aged man with a trimmed beard. His hair was black with a buzz cut. He was wearing a black coat with a white shirt inside and black pants.
Suddenly Shiro tapped Arthur's back. He also had a present in his hand.
"This is for you." smiled Shiro.
"Can I open it?" said Arthur while he was taking the present.
"Of course!" nodded Shiro.
Arthur again excitedly opened the long present. It was not only a sword but two swords. One was made from wood while the other made from a steel type material.. The steel type material had a silver color with a shining sharp tip...
"This sword is made from the strongest material in the world also known as Hira." said Shiro.
"Oh my god! Thank you so much!" said Arthur while he hugged Shiro.
Shiro also hugged Arthur back.
Afterwards Arthur cut the cake with a plastic knife while everyone sang a birthday song. Arthur fed Shiro and Eris with a piece of cake. They had a joyful night.
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It was the middle of the night. Everyone was asleep. Arthur suddenly woke up and he looked around. He saw that Shiro was sleeping on a chair while Eris was nowhere.
"Eris?"
Arthur got up from bed and went outside the house to look for Eris. The house was a two story old medieval building.
As soon as Arthur got out of the house. He saw Eris laying on the bench nearby looking at the beautiful starry night. Arthur went to Eris.
Eris saw Arthur and sat.
"Can't sleep?" said Arthur.
"You could say." said Eris.
Arthur sat beside Eris. He looked up and saw many beautiful stars covering the night sky.
"Wow!" said Arthur while gazing at the stars.
"Beautiful isn't it?" asked Eris.
"Yeah!"
Eris and Arthur both sat there not saying anything while looking at the stars.
Suddenly Arthur felt a gentle touch on his hand. He looked and saw Eris' hand on top of his hand. He turned his hand and held Eris' hands too while looking at the stars.
"Hey.." suddenly said Eris.
"Yeah?"
"Arthur. Would you do me a favor?" said Eris while looking at Arthur in a blushful face.
"Sure! What favor?"
"When we grow up..." Stopped Eris.
She took a deep breath and continued.
"Will you be my husba-"
*Smash*
Before Eris could finish her sentence. She was hit on the head with a wooden log.
She tumbled on the ground unconscious.
Arthur was shocked. He was speechless. He didn't knew what happened in that split moment.
Arthur looked behind and saw a man wearing a grey cloth with a hood covering his face standing with a log.
To be continued.....