The first half of the cart ride was awkward to say the least, I mean can you blame them. Zeke couldn't wrap his head around the fact that his enemy is casually sitting next to him, Alex was thinking about the time Iris's actions destroyed her shop's roof. 'I still want compensation.' Alex thought to herself but wouldn't dare say that out loud. Iris was near the back of the cart next to Hero trying to ignore the silent judging the other two held.
"Why is everyone so silent?" Hero asked, clueless to the current atmosphere everyone held.
"Don't worry about it kid." Zeke told Hero, trying not to bring to much attention on why everyone feels awkward.
"Okay, so um, Alex, why are you here." Hero asked, trying to start light conversation.
"Oh, Zeke asked me to join you guys. I also thought this would be a great idea to gather some ideas for a book."
"You're making a book!" Iris asked basically jumping out of her seat, she then backed away and awkwardly coughed in her hands,
"I wonder who said that?" she asked, as though no one just saw her public display of excitement.
"Yeah, I'm writing an adventure novel." Alex said, pulling out her manuscript from her bag.
"That's so cool!" Iris said crawling towards Alex really fast, sort of like a fast chipmunk,
"Can I read some?"
"U-um, S-sure." Alex stuttered shocked that the person whom she was afraid of is acting like a giddy child next to her. Iris and Alex were reading while Hero felt left out. Hero crawled to the front of the cart where Zeke was, "I'm getting off here."
Hero said, Zeke tried to stop him, but Hero jumped out of the cart and ran to the nearest trees. Zeke sighed at his friends action but didn't stop the cart.
While in the cart Hero felt a small disturbance in the forest around him, like too much energy was present in one area. Though this trip is for Hero to replenish his energy, it's also for him to expel the energy from the environment. "It's this way, I only have a short amount of time to destroy this." Achilles's whispered to himself. He then quickly moved through the branches until he landed in an area that exuded red energy,
"Red energy I haven't seen that in a long time."
Red energy signals that there is a beast that has too much energy.
Achilles summoned his sword and jumped down from the trees. Infront of his stood an eight-foot rabbit that stood on its hind legs. Tentacles was exuding from its stomach and its mouth held sharp teeth. Achilles held out his sword towards the beast, his swords green energy was beginning to merge with the red energy,
"Mamisarniq." he whispered; the sword glowed a brighter green pulling out some of Achilles energy while it engulfed the ugly beast soon leaving behind a small white bunny. Achilles then absorbed the red energy, though it quickly went to the sword, leaving Achilles with less energy than he already had. Achilles than sit down against a tree tired and clutching the sword before it emerged back inside him. "Any minute now." he whispered,
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Hero then reappeared back in the wagon where he was sitting the two girls jumped in shock to see him, and to how worn out he is. Zeke turned around to get a good look at his friend, "How much energy did you use."
"Enough to purify a rabbit." Hero said between deep breaths.
"Go rest, okay. Guys don't make no noise that will disturb Hero." Zeke instructed.
Hero woke up to the feeling of something soft underneath his chin, he suppressed the urge to push it away and got a good look at it at best as he can with the little bit of moon light that peeked its way into the wagon's canopy. 'Iris?' he thought to himself as he saw his girlfriend's face. During that night Iris was cold and because of how tired she was she snuggled her way into Hero's arms, finding it to be the warmest and safest thing in the cart. Hero hugged her a bit tighter and gently nuzzled his head in her hair. He felt as though this was what happiness truly is. Holding his girl while slowly dying.
"Guys I made some food." Hero said waking everyone up."
"How?"
"It's a cooking glitch." Hero said, no one understood what Hero said, neither does Hero, but that's alright. Hero then placed a bunch of food down for everyone, Zeke stopped the cart and joined them.
"These pancakes are amazing." Iris complimented, 'My minion finally knows how to cook more complex meals.'
"Yeah, this is great, I didn't know you know how to cook." Zeke said astonished, Hero placed a hand on his chin, you can basically see flowers flowing around him,
"Being married can sure change a man, Ahahahah." Iris basically choked on her food, 'MARRIED!' she thought; however, the words won't leave her mouth due to the amount of shock she's in, 'When did I say I would marry him?' Soon breakfast was filled with happy laughter and one very confused Iris.