Click!
Xen twisted the door's knob and the door opened. The first thing she saw is a point of silver sword facing her and the one holding it was her daughter who's now clothed in sleeveless white shirt and black shors.
It was obvious that she was training just now because of her sweat all over her body and face, she's also catching a breath slowly because of exhaustion. She watched as her mother chuckled and patted her head as she walked past her.
"Don't scared me like that Mom!" She shouted, by now her mother is walking upstairs to the kitchen there.
"What are you doing, training?" Her mother asked.
"Swinging my sword for the thousand times." She answered as she followed her mother to the kitchen.
The kitchen consist of dishwasher area and cooking area, the latter has a window just besides it to let the smoke escape and let light come to the inside. Aside from those, there are several necessities furniture inside.
"Isn't training earlier enough for you? I said that you should be reading than training right?" Xen questioned as she put the reindeer corpse in the table near the dishwasher area and went to pick up a butcher's knife down below the table.
"I want to master the 1st path immediately though." Xian answered by now, her mother is chopping the dead reindeer with skin still there.
"Well, you're right, but don't ignore reading okay. Knowledge is power too after all." Xen said and ordered. "Go, shower yourself and change clothes, you're gonna help me here."
Xian nodded as she turned around to the 2nd floor hallway and went to her bedroom. Her own room was like the rest of the house, is clean and boring because there are not so many furnitures. There are only bookshelves, study table with drawer below it, clothes cabinet and a bed that is red in color, there was also a window just besides the study table.
She brought a pair of clothes, a white t-shirt and black pants. She went downstairs and entered the bathroom. Inside of it consist of a wooden bathtub, a separate room for toilet, and a metal like structure at the corner. That metal structure is called 'shower' which sips water from the storage and sprinkled it there.
Her not so short body which is 1.5 meter tall was standing amidst the sprinkle of make-up shower. Her breast and private part in her not-fully grown body is being obstructed by bubbles as she wash herself in there.
After a while, she finished washing herself and went to picked up a towel to dry herself, after that she wore her pair of clothes and cleaned the bathroom as it used to be earlier before she showered herself.
She went to the kitchen after that and saw her mother besides the table which chopped parts of the dead reindeer is placed. Her mother was filling a big metal pot of water in the dishwasher area as she glanced at Xian.
"Feeling better? Now go bring some woods at the back." Xen ordered to her daughter simply.
With Xian not daring to refuse, she just nodded there and went outside the house. She walked to the back of the brown and red bricked house and glanced at the little storage there, it was a wooden structures with a couple of wooden rods stacks around it and inside the small building is the water storage that supplies the house.
Xian picked up several wooden rods besides the wooden building and glanced at the opened window above her. With a tall jump, she instantly vanished from her original spot and appeared at her room.
'I forgot to close the window earlier.' Xian thought as she sighed. She then closed the window of her room and with a wooden rods at her hand, she went outside to the kitchen. By now, her mother was finished filling the metal pot and placed it at the stone stove beside the window.
Inside of the metal pot is several meats of the dead reindeer and on the table where it was chopped placed several bloody organs of the dead reindeer. Her mother glanced at her and ordered her again. "Leave that here and pick up this organs to the fertilizer barrel outside."
'So tiring, training is better than this.' Xian complained in her mind as she sighed and nodded at her mother.
"What's with that sigh?" Her mother asked.
"Nothing mother, I'll go now." Xian answered immediately as she picked up the bloody organs and brought it into a small metal pot to not bring dirt to her newly changed clothes, she then hurriedly went outside again.
"Lazy child." Xen murmured.
Xian went to the small farmland and besides it was several wooden barrels. She came besides those barrels and instantly dropped the pot consisting of bloody organs as she pinched her nose with her hand.
'So smelly!' Xian complained again in her mind. She hurriedly opened the barrel and brought the bloody organs inside of it. Then she closed the barrel again and her body instantly vanished besides the barrel and appeared infront of the door.
With a sigh, she went inside again and headed towards the kitchen. She saw her mother cleaning the table where the reindeer was chopped and by now, the metal pot was being heated by the flames in the stone stove, smoke appeared at the back of the stove into the window.
"Anything?" Xian questioned.
Her mother glanced at her and said. "That's all Xian."
'Finnaly.' Xian thought and and said. "Mother, I'll go take a nap, can you wake me up before dinner?"
"Sure, sleep well." Xen simply answered.
Xian nodded at her mother and headed outside the kitchen towards her bedroom. She went beside the bed and jump at it normally before closing her eyes as she lay there peacefully. And after a while, she went to sleep.
...
Xian woked up and saw her surroundings were fully dark that even light can't escape. She look at her surroundings and saw nothing but darkness engulfing the unknown world.
Silence ruled out the world and Xian's attemp to shout was being obstructed by something. But then, the surroundings change into a vast grass field, there are no trees or boulders, just an empty grass field. At the sky is nothing but just a gray clouds that surrounds the entire sky.
Then she glanced at her back, stood there is a wooden chair and a woman was sitting there. Shock was showed in Xian's face when she saw who was sitting there, it was woman with a black hair tied up into a high ponytail.
Its herself!
Then 'herself' stood from being sat at the chair and walked towards another figure laying in the ground with bloody mess on 'her'. The laying woman there have a tall figure and has a long black hair.
Feared engulfed Xian when she saw 'herself' suddenly hugging the laying woman there with bloody mess on her.
It was... Her mother.
Then suddenly, her view was shattered into tiny pieces of fragments as she woke up and stood straight where she was laying at. Sweats covered her forehead and she glanced at a woman who was waking her up earlier, she then hugged her tightly.
"Nightmares?" Her mother asked her and patted the child's back. She comforted her and said. "There, there, mother's here."
'Shen is still a child after all.' Xen said in her mind as she continued to comfort her daughter.
After a while, Xian calmed down and stare at her mother with her eyes being red. She then lowered her head and questioned. "Is... Is dinner's ready?"
Her mother smiled and answered. "Yes, let's eat."
With that being said, the two went to the the kitchen together and sat at the chair besides the table there. Placed in the table are several plates of foods consisting of meat soup, fried meat, and many specialities.
The looks of those meat will instantly make someone to be hungry and not to mention the smell of it. Xian fear instantly vanished as she saw the food, she touched her belly and thought. 'its just a nightmare after all.'
By now, the sun was already down and the pale moon was up in the sky. The window of the kitchen were closed as the light of the lamps in each corner of the house illuminates the two woman eating their fills in silent.
...
After they ate their fills, the two went to the living room which consist of a fireplace with two soft low chair called sofa in front of it and a table between the two. There was also a pair of drawer at the corner and a sword stand besides it.
They sat at the at their sofa as they felt the warm of the flame infront of them. The night was silent and the crisp of wood being burned is the only sound that can be heard.
Xen broked the silence as she asked. "What did you dream earlier to be scared like that?"
"N-nothing, I forgot it." Xian answered as she looked at the fireplace and not her mother's eyes.
'That is what she do when lying.' Xen thought and didn't asked for it anymore thinking that maybe it's the best for her daughter to not tell.
After a while, the two talked again and Xen told how she hunted the deer and Xian on the other hand told what she was reading yesterday. The two enjoyed the peaceful night with each other... Until.
Kkkkaaaaaa!
A shriek of unknown voice resounded the silent night, Xen stood up from their sit and she instantly thought about getting her sword at the corner but her movement was not that of a transendance, it was like moving when she was still a normal knight.
'What... Is this?' Even her thoughts became slow as it was in the past. But she didn't panick as she hurriedly came at the corner and brought the two silver sword with her human speed, she glanced at her daughter ready to give her the other sword, however, her daughter was not at the best condition.
Her daughter was holding her head as she trembled at the floor, probably by the sudden shriek or was the effect of something that made Xen weakened.
Xen hurriedly came to her daughter side as she placed the silver sword besides the trembling child.
"Get up!" Xen shouted at her daughter as she faced the window that leads to the outside. She continued. "Remember what I taught you!"
She glanced at the outside and saw a horrifying creature. It was a humanoid with gray colored skin, it have four arms instead of two and the most terrifying about the creature is it's neck which didn't have a head, instead, at it's neck was sharp yellow teeth around the hole on it.
The creature was 'staring' at Xen like statue and not moving. By now, Xian fought the effects of something that made the two weak as she stood up and hold the silver sword in her hands.
Suddenly, the creature outside dashed forward to the two as 'he' break the walls separating the outside and inside. But, the two woman already went to the hallway and with a crash, the living room exploded into smoke of dust.
With her hand holding the hand of her daughter, Xen led the way outside and came just infront of the house facing the destroyed walls of their house.
Xen frowned at the assailant now walking in the smoke of dust as it went outside in slow steps. Xen gripped the handle of the silver sword as she said:
"Demon."