After been healed and cleaned up, jonathan and his father went to the kitchen, to look for evelyn, they found her packing their lunch. "Evelyn, you are back!" thomas called out, she turned around and found them standing at the door to the kitchen.
She smiled and walked towards jonathan, she held him at shoulder. "are you okay" she asked while turning him around.
"Am fine mom, you don't need to worry" he said with a smile. "Are you sure!?, your dad went pretty hard on you". Evelyn said worriedly. Remembering the fight they had earlier in the name of training.
"Am sure mom, am already healed you know, it doesn't hurt anymore!. And dad went very easy on me, he said mumbling.
"what did you say honey i didn't quite get you there?.
evelyn asked, not hearing his last sentence clearly. Nothing important, where did you go,this morning, by the way. Jonathan asked trying to shift evelyn's attention.
"ummm, i actually went gardening with some friends"
"huh" jonathan said with a clueless expression on his face not quite understanding why his mother had to go gardening.
"actually it's a fun activity me and my friends do to
bond while hanging out. Instead of going shopping and stuff. It's actually fun you know. And it's very knowledgeable. You can join me next time if you want?. Evelyn elaborated seeing the clueless expression on his face.
No!, not interested. Jonathan half shouted immediately.
Evelyn chuckled seeing jonathan's horrored expression. You just can't stop cultivating, can you?. You even refused to go to school. Evelyn said while pinching his cheeks.
"Mom!, stop treating me like a child am all grown up now!; When will you stop pinching my cheeks". Jonathan asked with a pout.
"ahhh... you are so cute, i can't resist that ripe cheeks of yours!". evelyn said while pinching his face.
"mom!. He shouted in annoyance. "okay I will stop".
Evelyn said with a pout then turned around and picked up the packed food on the kitchen counter, and gave it to thomas.
"let's go have a picnic, before Mina comes later in the afternoon. Hurry up and get moving" evelyn said ushering them out of the kitchen.
.....
Few minutes later jonathan, his mom and dad where sitting on a pink cloth on a grass plane, on it was packs of food and a basket filled with water, juice and other stuff, outside their home.
Dishing out their food into their plate, they all ate in silence, it didn't seem awkward, instead it felt peace,
They ate while enjoying the scenery.
"Ahh" evelyn gasped remembering something. "You won't believe what happened to me today while we were gardening, evelyn said with enthusiasm to jonathan and thomas, while hitting her laps occasionally.
"why won't we believe it?". Jonathan asked innocently.
"because it was totally not expected even for me either" evelyn said with widen eye balls.
"why don't you just tell us already?" thomas said with curiosity filled in his voice.
"We were planting a firabirant when...".
"what's that?, it sounds weird" jonathan said cutting evelyn off. "It's a plant when grown to maturity can be processed to make essence, to boast one's cultivation speed. It is can only be used by fire ability users".
"Why?" jonathan asked curiously.
"because it's affiliated with fire attribute, it grows only in place with high temperature, like the desert for example. that's why if a person without the fire ability element ingests it, it hurts their cultivation core, since they are not compatible.
"but why would you plant it here in Astral, it's not hot here in the capital.
"We already got that under control, we made a farm house that meets the temperature required for it to grow. evelyn explained.
"but how does that got to do with something unbelievable happening to you this morning" jonathan asked not quite understanding why that was unbelievable.
"It's not that, but something else. Evelyn paused before continuing. "This plant can not just grow on it's own, it needs the faeces of a certain beast. It's called the defoucodrago. so, we captured some from the desert, so we could use it's faeces as manure...
"wait mom, you mean, you captured a beast from the desert and brought it to the capital. Jonathan said in horror, he had been told how strong and deadly the beasts were so....
"don't be scared, they were ordinary beast and they are still juveniles, so it's not that dangerous. Evelyn said with a chuckle seeing the expression on his face.
Evelyn cleared her throat before continuing, "I was assigned to feed one of them for today, but my bracelet fell on one of the tray of meat, meant to feed them. But i didn't notice then, when i did it was too late, so... It gulped it down along with the meat.
"so, what did you do about it". Thomas chirped in.
"I brought it home safely to extract the bracelet from it's belly"evelyn said with a smile.
"It's just a bracelet why do you have to do that?". Jonathan said wondering why she had to go through the trouble of killing it just to extract the bracelet.
"well the thing is jonathan, your dad actually gave it to me and i just can't give it up like that, especially since it's a birthday gift from your daddy" evelyn said solemnly.
Jonathan seeing the sad expression on his mom's face was not happy at all. since the bracelet was that important to her, he will get it back at all cost, even if it means killing that defoucodrago of a thing himself.
With a determined expression and a firm tone, that gave an unyielding feeling, he looked up at his mom and said. "Mom don't be sad, i will get your bracelet back for you".
Evelyn looked at her son surprised not expecting such words from his mouth. And seeing that determined expression on his face. Oh it seems as he was given an important mission to save planet Humberg and he was oh so ready for it.
"And how do you intend to do that?". Evelyn mentioned with a smile.
"I will kill it for you and bring the bracelet out of it's belly". Jonathan said with the same expression on his face.
Evelyn: ....!
Thomas: ....!