"It's finally time ha?"
I ask in great sadness at the current situation before me, to which Alexander replied.
"Sadly so, it's time to say goodbye to our old life at Hale, it's been a good five years, but our time here is over, this is the start of our swashbuckling."
"It's a shame, but it's for the better."
Denzel commented.
"But look at the bright side my little ducklings, we all had fun, and that's all that matters.
Commented mother who was standing in the advent of partial dark, looking at the old cabin one last time, while at that moment she reached slowly inside her trench coat and took out one of her kong cigars confidently, her head calm thanks to the drug.
So for a couple of hours, she will be able to operate normally.
She then said.
"Light."
Denzel flicks his finger like a lighter, as his thumb releases a small flame at the tip of the cig, mother began to inhale igniting her large joint, and smoke fills the air.
"Well, boys, onwards to Camelot we go, the journey will be tiresome, and life-changing, but as long we got each other we are unbeatable, remember my little duckings we are a family, to mess with the bloodline is to mess with the entire family, one for all."
"& All for one."
We all commented as we recite our family motto
With this said Alexander finishes by saying.
"Starting now we shall head north, to reach the city by tomorrow morning early, and leave for the Dagon Archipelago in the evening, from there we will catch a boat back to the Mason Empire, and finally, once we are docked our final destination will be the fishermen's cargo, and all that shall remain is to cross the treacherous Kingu ocean, fill with a vicious giant sea monster, and our new life at Camelot shall begin."
"Good, Good... Well, then boys I believe that the carriage is ready."
"Yeah, I manage to buy this from the old merchant Hank, from there I went back to the farm and purchased four horses."
"In conclusion, we are now ready to leave at any time."
Denzel finished off Alexander's statement, to which I said.
"Well on we go now, I will meet you all in the carriage."
With that said, I took my and mother's luggage, and hoist it into the back of the carriage, ironically enough it wasn't a fancy carriage, instead a simple wooden one full of hay, but we manage, to fit everything inside regardless of tight-fitting.
But I didn't make that discourage me as I lay down on it; and compared it to the texture of other hay, this was mostly soft with a little bit of grittiness.
Moments later Denzel boarded the carriage, or it's better to refer to this thing as a used wagon on its last days, as he took a seat in the front preparing the ropes.
I peep out, to see mother whispering something to Alexander, from there Alexander began to pick up his luggage and toss it at the back where I lay, as he also went back, with a metal canister of gasoline, from there he walks down to the basement, only to emerge moments later with two more canisters in his hands, dripping close and further away from mother.
From there he walked into the house, and minutes later he emerge back, only this time, empty-handed, with that said he went to wash his hand in a bucket of water beside the door.
From there he taps mothers shoulder, only to walk towards the wagon as he hops on and lies down on the hay beside me, moments later Alexander took out a small piece of broken glass to look at himself, and adjusts his monocle properly on his face.
At this point, this has becomes a force of habit of his he couldn't help, the guy is just obsessed with monocles and canes.
Meanwhile, mother said.
"Ok my three fine ducklings let's be on our way now, I want to reach the city by dawn."
With that said mother slowly walked toward the wagon, as she took one last puff of her cigar and drop it on the ground, without turning around, which caused a blazing trail of fire to skid across the brown leaves into a straight line leading to our cabin.
Moments later, the entire house explodes behind her into large combustion of scorching hot flames, burning everything, not of use inside, and the house itself, drowning in a sea of flames.
We can only look on at her, even in madness mother still looks graceful in everything she does, it's kind of weird saying our mother is at her most beautiful when she does dramatic shit like this so naturally, then and again, she bought the house, so it's only right she chooses how to dispose of it.
If we are her cubs then she is the lioness of the pride, mother was of course dressed in long black trousers, with a long sleeve properly tucked in, and classy looking black tie, a simple but classy high-heels, with a long black trench coat, and unlike before, mother cut her hair yesterday, she is now boasting a well-done bob-cut, on her head was a wide-brimmed black hat with red roses and a single red feather tied around it, she also had white gloves on her hand.
Mother looks at us, as she hops to the front of the wagon with Denzel, as she said.
"Onwards my flaming ducking, stop dilly-dallying now, this wagon isn't going to move by itself you know."
Denzel sighed as he adjusts his top-hot, and grab the rope and whip it while saying.
"YAAA!"
At the signal, the four horses began to move in unison, as they slowly canter on the old dirt road going down the path to the main gate.
With this said Alexander began to talk.
"By the way, Sherlock are you interested in taking a shot at the crown?"
"Hmm... The crown, to be honest, I don't think I have the quality of a king."
"The quality of a king, pftt... please, don't make me laugh, with the way how our world is, I don't think anyone has the quality of a king, most kings these days, are man babies with too much power, and political influence, I think maybe woman should take the throne."
Mother said, with a mocking tone.
To which Denzel replied.
"Well as long as I can become stronger than I am now, it doesn't matter at all."
"I'm on Denzel on that one, I have one goal at the academy, and that is to reach new heights of power, I don't want to be the strongest, but I do want to be the best at what I do."
Alexander said nothing, instead, he remained silent.
But mother replied once more.
"Then you boys are the wisest of them all, being a king is a lot of work, and it can also be boring as hell, take your mother's foolish advice and aim high, but never let another stand too close to your level, or one of two things could happen, someone might bring you down, or the one closest to you might be taken down, neither of which is a desired scenario."
"Is that so, well I shall take your advice to heart then mother."
I said to her as I watch onward at the gate in front of us.
"Truer words can never be said."
Alexander whispers to himself.
Denzel was the one that remained silent, and it was so it would be; till five minutes later when a large gate came before us, and at the edge of it, two men with shotguns were guarding it.
And if I remember correctly, these guys were the Dumbel twins, Carter, and Karner Dumbel, were the leaders of the village gangsters, or as a mother like to call them wannabee gangsters, they work for lady Hale.
And were responsible, for extorting the villagers of the monthly tax, and also charging for both entry and departure.
"Yowza, slow down Eh."
The clear skin man in grey trousers, and an untucked blue work shirt, said from afar as he took out his gun and did a silly ass walk towards us as if he was setting his dominance, ironically enough he looked up at us and said.
"Y'all know the drill, the departure fee, must be paid in full if naught turnza yo-self around... Yowza."
Mother didn't pay them any mind, and neither did I, we had no patience or interest in these circus gangsters, however, the blue shirt, walk up to us and said.
"Oi, I y'all here me eh."
But at the same time, another identical twin came, this time however, he wore the same thing but he had a red shirt.
"What is is'd probwelm?"
"Oi big brothers, we have wi self some tight pockets."
"Iz dat so, hmm. Well, tern dem around den."
But at the same time, mother sigh and said.
"Look here boys, we don't want trouble, tell us the price then we will pay."
Mother said with a smile on her face, however just looking at her Alexander, Denzel, and I began to do a mental sign of the cross in our heads, as we know what's going to happen to these poor souls.
Meanwhile, the two cocky twins began to discuss among themselves, and the red shirt says cranking his gun and raising his chest high like a prideful peacock.
"Two silver."
He said.
But even after hearing such a high price, our mother's face remained unfazed, if anything the departure fee is two bronze, and the entry fee is nine bronze.
Instead, mother just took off her hat while saying.
"Two silver ha? Not bad at all, as a matter of fact, let me give you personally."
The two twins smile as if thinking they achieve some sort of profit.
"Here boys."
They both look back at mother, however, their face lights up in surprise and fear, as mother pulled out a Smithy & Wendy Model 19 revolver from her hat, and aimed it at the twin, however before they can react.
Four gunshots went off.
Pow!
Pow!
Pow!
Pow!
As mother shot two of the twins in the head, and two times each nonetheless, instantly falling to the ground on top of each other.
The smoke exits from the revolver barrel to which said.
"You can keep the change, four silvers instead of two aren't I a generous lady?"
"Either way, Denzel blow that lock bitch sky high, and full force to the big city."
"Right away mother."
With those orders said, Denzel, stand up and raise his right hand toward the gate, while his left hand picked up a piece of dry coal from the hay behind him, which he put there in advance, with that said he began to eat it whole.
It wasn't long before his hand ignite into a hot scorching flame, as a large fireball about a meter wide manifested above the horses, as the large fireball began to compress until it was the size of a marble.
From there he fix his hand to form a gun sign as he pulls the imaginary trigger, and with a loud bang, it fly towards the lock gate at a fast speed, and upon impact, it exploded, causing the large wooden gate to scatter into hundreds of pieces while catching on fire.
"Full speed ahead De...
But before mother said that she just recalled something, "oh that's right." I almost forgot my trusty partner.
Mother then place her finger to her lips as she began to whistle lightly.
We waited and look around until a familiar red scarf could be seen in the distance, hovering in the wind of the sky, white feathers drop down, as the silent flyer gracefully landed on mother's fancy hat, and before we were another member of the Prelati family, our eyes in the sky, and our messenger in disguised.
Nesta the Albino Barn Owl.
Mother messenger bird, this cute little demon of the sky is also a part of mothers magic, so a couple of years back mother found a way to link her eye with Nesta's two eyes giving her, 360° vision if they both stay together.
This also means that mother's vision can even be taken to the sky as well.
But apart from that, Nesta Prelati is also like our family mascot, and as such, she is part of the bloodline, if she dies lord have mercy I feel sorry for the person that would kill her, we look at her as a cute little sister.
But apart from that with everyone now here, we were now ready to leave, so mother said once more to Dezel.
"Full speed ahead Denzel."
"Gotcha."
"¡YAAA, YAAA!"
Denzel shouted as he give leverage to the rope, and moments later all four horses began to run at full speed through the gate and running through the village junction, as dusk scattered on the dusty dirt road.
November 20th, 5:58 pm we left Hale Village to reach the big city in time to board the Lilian-9, this was the beginning of the new path.