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- butcherer of the mountains
We arrived after a few hours of walking, Dragons reach.
I was told by Rose that Dragons reach was native home of Dragons before being hunted down. Outside of the village was mountains and fields. closest near the village was a huge dragon skeleton that was now part of the village. The dragon skull was a tourist site for many and a has many businesses in it.
"Hera can you kill a dragon?" Rose asked curiously
"certainly but not to the extent of this one" she points to the huge skeleton, "those are the elder dragons much more stronger than angels, some are more powerful than Demi gods" she admits
"I wonder who killed it then..." I wondered out loud.
Hera smiles after hearing that, "That was the First hero who slayed it after gaining the divine sword, he rode on top of it and made it crash upon the earth, years later they made a village around the fallen dragon" she speak with such pride.
Tron thought for a moment "You loved him didn't you?" he spoke.
Hera flushed with such embarrassment, "Uh... no... maybe" she said quietly
"Did he know?" Rose asked, Hera look turn to sadness.
"No, he disappeared after this, even the goddess doesn't know where he went" she said sadly
"wooow, look at that" I was looking at a blade through the window ignoring Hera, Her mood quickens again to anger and she stomped towards me before noticing the blade in the window.
"wait, Wait!" she kicked open the door
"What is this!" the shopkeeper yelled" clearly startled. Hera grabbed the blade from the form the display.
"This is the blade of the first hero! where did you get it!?" she yelled
"That blade was found by my great great great grandpappy now lady hand it over!" he opened up his hands clearly waiting for the blade to return.
"No this blade was a gift by the great Goddess and as my right of the previous sword bearer I will claim this blade back!" she yelled.
The shopkeeper smirks "if you want it so badly then you must purchase it from me," he spoke
"Ridiculous! what is stopping me from taking it back?" she threaten.
The shopkeeper whistled and around the blade circles formed and it was then yanked out of her hand
"This piece of property is bound by me until I pass it to another by equal exchange" he said smugly
"You..., I don't carry mortal currency" she spoke defeated
"Well I don't have money, Stage Magicians don't make much" Tron spoke
"Me neither, I spent almost all of my gold on repairs"
they turned their heads to me
"I'm still new here! don't look at me" I said.
"well that's too bad" he said he's about to put away the blade before I got an idea
"Wait!, how about an equal exchange?" I asked, He looked back and scrunched his eyebrows
"hmm, yes... yes that could work, what do you got?" he asked
I checked my inventory, the godslayer, my duel pistols, my prototype hell bringer suit, my regular suit. a hah!
"How about this?" I pulled out the lightbulb.
"what is this?" he picked it up to examine it.
I took it from his hands and turned it on, making sure it was on constant light instead of blinding.
"Its a great light source that never runs out! this could revolutionize society as we know it! think of it, no longer do we need candles lamps to keep our homes bright! with just a simple push of a button it could turn the make it a simple home into a house of light!" I said trying to sell it to him
"hmm... this is... a good offer actually, I could patent this and make money off on this!" he said with excitement
he handed me a contract to which I signed right away.
"Now you are the rightful owner of this blade"
I took the blade, I examined it, it look relatively fine, actually it looked brand new. The blade has such an intricate design, iron sword laced with gold, the hilt was a beautiful design filled with laced gold and a white handle.
we headed out of the shop and down the street but Hera stepped in front of me.
"hand me the blade James" she demanded.
"sure" I gave her the blade,
"thank you, I shall repay you later" she tries to put it away in her inventory but can't, the same red rings appeared blocking her from claiming it.
"You dumbass! the contract now recognizes you as the wielder!" she yelled at me.
she made her way to me and pushed me against the wall, the others tried to stop her, thinking she was about to get physical but instead she shoved the forcefully handed me the blade.
"not in a million year you should ever had this blade" she spit with vile in her mouth
She walked off clearly pissed.
I stood there, nothing to say but silence, Rose stood there to comfort me while Tron run to catch up with Hera
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Hera Pov
My anger boiled, I couldn't I shouldn't... I want to kill him, but I can't...
"wait!" Tron was trying to catch up with me.
"What?" I demanded. Tron stopped and looked at me
"Please James didn't mean to, I know that blade means a lot but he was trying to do the right thing" he explained
"Doesn't change the fact that someone like him has the blade! someone that isn't even the same level as the first hero!" she shouted getting the attention of passerby's
"Why do you hate him so much?" Tron asked
"He's a pathetic mortal that doesn't deserve a single second with that blade, he's very greedy very selfish, he's comparable to a goblin without his stupid fucking inventions!" I yelled
"True, but what I see is someone who doesn't hasn't experience the entire world like we three have, he's like a baby bird, we need to show him how to properly fly" he said with a soothing voice.
I sigh
"I just can't see him like that, he's not special in any other way besides his inventions. I don't see him as hero material" I spoke calmly
"Then just see him as James? as his own person without a title?" He suggested
"I- your... right, I'm an angel yet I acted like a demon. I'm sorry" I apologized.
He looks directly into my eyes "Don't say it to me, say it to him"
We walked back but James wasn't there and so wasn't rose
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Rose's pov
"James wait up! please!" I tried to catch up to him. He was running, if it wasn't for this heavy armor I would've caught up to him.
He suddenly stops.
"Rose please just leave, go home return to your job please..." he spoke quietly
"but-" "Rose just please" he cut me off.
"just please talk to me..."
"she's right... she's right... I'm not special, I'm entirely useless. I have no social life, nothing... maybe that's why they left..." he spoke
"Who left?" I asked
"My parents... they left when I was young, always talking about exploring the outside always talking about leaving this boring life behind, I guess I was the boring life..." he said.
"James can you look at me?" I asked, He slowly turned around, his eyes were red, tears flowing down like a waterfall.
before he can react I hugged him, he wasn't expecting this.
"James, I know we haven't known each other that long but I can tell you're not boring, not to me. you're the most interesting most goofiest guy I know. You are special you're the first person I seen that left the last order" I spoke
I then pull him into a headlock and ruffle his hair "besides were not even started training yet!" I said cheerfully
He chuckled "yeah... lets get back to the other"
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Tron pov
We were walking around when we seem them returning from the fields. James and Rose were walking back, I smiled and me and Hera quickly sped up to them before... before the whole world went still.
A blade was sticking out of his Chest, James was pierced from the back.
I was taken aback, Hera was in panic mode and rushed towards James, Rose was also frozen she didn't she this coming. Before Hera could've reached James he was Pulled back with such force it looked like he was a doll.
The perpetrator was an angel. This man was grinning at us.
"my oh my did I get your prized human Anahera?" he spoke
He threw back James letting him fall to the ground, he was coughing up blood.
I prepared a spell while Hera rushed towards this angel.
Rose rushed towards him, she took out a small hammer to which she extended it into a large war hammer.
"tch" he then threw his chain blade directly to Rose but her armor proven too durable to pierce, he then pulled back and threw another one.
The chain roped around her and he used it to throw her directly at Hera knocking her off course.
I was done with the spell and shot out a bolt of light that hit the shoulder off my target, he screamed in pain, his smug smile turned into hate when he spotted me.
"You're dead!" he ran at me at terrifying speeds, I tried quickly put up a barrier spell but he broke through. He grabbed me by the neck and pointed the blade to my chest slowly pushing it towards me, He was clearly enjoying this. A shot rang out piercing his back.
Hera was using her bow, the crystal arrow sticked out. he let go of me out of pain.
"Anahera, Anahera oh Anahera the first sword bearer... you protect a runt like this one? oh how the mighty have fallen..." he taunts her.
She laughs "he's not a runt" a quicky wisp of fire hit his left eye, he screamed out loud, I quickly saw who did that, James was still on the ground but he still had his broken stick with him.
His eye was now burnt, he then opened up his free arm before speaking to himself, he was casting a spell! I quickly tried to stop him by shooting out a fireball at him. Before the fireball landed he finished his cast and exploded with dark energy around the field. Energy surrounded him, his hair slowly floated up, He grew another pair of wings, and his once golden eyes turned into a bright red.
I know of this, its when an angel is in need of power and commits a sin, drawing the power of demon magic. we call this Valkyrie rage. He slices his chain across, Hera and rose managed to dodge but in the a bunch of trees in the tree line were chopped instantly. I was preparing for a powerful spell just try and stop him but in an instant her appeared before my eyes and almost stabbed a blade into my guy before Hera tackled him away, She was pummeling him into the ground but he managed to pull her down and grab onto her wings, he pushed his foot onto her chest while slowly pulling them, clearly focused on ripping them out.
Rose quickly hit his Jaw with the underhand swing of her Hammer, the force of impact threw him off but He quickly recovered, he focused his attention on rose and quickly tried to make her submit with force, he was pushing her down with both hands on each others. He was shocked when Hera didn't crumple she actually was matching his strength, to not get outmatched he knee her in the gut and threw her down but I was done with the spell. A ball of light was above me, he looked up seeing it too late before I shot out a laser of blue light, he go hit with it, his right side of his body was burnt off but he still stand,
Rose then pierced his burnt flesh easily with her sword while James still on the ground shot out a blast at his head while Hera Used her flame sword, and because he committed a sin he was incinerated.
He fell down, dead.
We rushed over to James Hera held him up in her arms while he laid on the grass. Coughing up blood, he tried weakly to use his pocket device.
"Heal..-Ing " he muttered out
Hera knowing what to do after seeing his constant machine pulling out items she used it. Quickly looking for the so called healing device she found it and pulled it out.
"Wait hold on just don't close you're eyes."
She quickly used it on his wound.
"please p-please don't die" she spoke quietly.
She look into the air, "Goddess please save him, I beg of you please..." she started to slowly tear up
James's breathing was shallow, each breath was a pain to him.
until it stopped.
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A bright light appeared on him. The light was on him before disappearing into the the clouds.
He started to cough, taking in air again.
"What happened?" He spoke, clearly shocked
Hera Pulled him into a hug,
"I'm, I'm glad you're safe James... I'm sorry for how I acted" she apologized.
He was shaken not by dying but by her sudden kindness.
"did someone die to make you so nice?" he asked, she chuckled
"yeah..." she muttered
she stayed like that before releasing herself.
"I know you're not the hero, or not that kind and relatively stupid at most times but you're fine, you're you and I'm ok with that." she spoke softly
he stayed quiet for a bit.
"I'm sorry, I should've let you signed the thing, I'm sorry for disrespecting when we met, I'm sorry for being an ass sometimes." he apologized
"its fine, I'm Just glad you're here."
I pulled out my pipe, I took a puff.
This is a good start.
A really good start
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Short tales
The twin Gods.
The twin gods are the son and daughter of the Goddess of light and the God of space.
This was the birth of two suns in the world.
These two god twins Sol and Solana were responsible of the suns, making sure it passes by making the cycle. These are also making sure the sun doesn't move.
The God Sol wanted to know his younger sister, Luna the goddess of the moon but couldn't really as his mother forbids. This was led to the creation of the Eclipse, every once in a while each god passes by creating the eclipse.
His twin sister Solana doesn't care about her sister so she stands on the side letting them do the eclipse.
During this brief moment Each sibling ask questions about each other before returning to their cycle.