The next day around noon I was walking back to my room the check on Jack. He hadn't left it this morning and I was getting worried.
While I was on my way I noticed that Michael was standing outside my room with the door open and Jack was standing in it.
I hid trying to hear what they were saying and figure out what.
Michael said "I know this must be hard for you but if you come and stay with me I can ensure that it will never happen again. The Orcs will be purged from this land and you will have anything you want."
'Mom was right this man is trying to take Jack away from us!' I thought to myself.
"All I ask in return is that you take one of my daughter's hands in marriage when you are old enough and that if you become the next head of the house my family will be the ones on top." he continued with a smile and reached out his hand towards the jack.
Jack stood there with a black expression on his face staring at this man.
Jack inhaled slowly and said, "You are pathetic."
I saw Michael flinch and take a step back. "W-what!?"
Jack smiled and stared at him "You are pathetic. You came to an 8-year-old in probably one of the worst moments of their life, and tried to manipulate them into joining your faction in the hope it would give you power over the rest of the family without knowing who you are talking to."
Both me and Michael stood there slack-jawed.
"wait no that's not wh..." he tried to say
"Save it, dumbass! You tried to manipulate me a child you have never met or know anything about with things that you want and didn't even think to check what I want."
"But I am nice so I will tell you. Like Mom I hate being a noble and politics it's all so boring. Having everything I want served to me on a silver platter is boring and worthless to me."
"I like working hard to achieve my goals and facing strife and learning how to deal with the problem head-on, something most noble children never face."
At this point Michael has been backed up to the opposite wall with Jack stepping forward with him, holding a finger pointing up at him.
Other people heard Jack yelling and came over to see what was happening and the scene was shocking for everyone.
An 8-year-old child verbally destroyed a 60-year-old man who was notorious for never losing his composure.
"Mom told me about you and your hatred of us and want to take over the main family so I know this was not done out of concern for me, just your greed and want for power. People who think only about money and power will never have my respect"
Michael tried to most back some more but was standing against the wall. He tried to move to the side but tripped and fell over.
Jack grabbed his collar, pulled him in close and said. "Now let me warn you of one last thing if you give me a single reason to move against you or harm me or those I care about I will hit you back twice as hard."
"and don't even think about using that charm magic to try and hypnotize me, it won't work," Jack said and let go of his collar and turned to walk away.
"Bastard!" Michael shouted in anger, pulled a sword hidden inside of his cane and made a downward swing at Jack.
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Jacks POV
Even though I was looking the other way I could sense the sword moving towards me. I moved out of the way dodging it and let the sword hit the ground.
Then I stepped on Michael's hand, the one holding the sword, to keep it there. Then pulled out my dagger and placed it under his throat
"Nice try but an amateur can't do anything against someone who has been training since they were little," I said, mocking him.
I stepped away and watched him.
"Lucky brat!" Michael said still in anger as he tried to stab me with the sword.
I sighed and said one word "Volt."
Suddenly a magic circle appeared on the wall next to Michael, crackling with lightning as The Lightning Tiger jumped out of the Circle and bit His Arm, but not hard enough to cause Michael any physical harm.
*Crackle* *Clash* Michael then went rigged as he got hit with lightning from the Tiger and passed out on the floor.
"He isn't dead, just unconscious," I said aloud to the servants and guards who gathered around to watch what was happening.
"The tiger is a spirit and he is with me. Sorry for disturbing you." I finished and started to walk down the hall to find Terra as The Tiger disappeared into another magic circle that appeared.
Some guards came over picked up Michael and brought him back to his room
'I have gotten this powerful already, wow!' I thought to myself as I remembered what happened this morning.
While I was walking I noticed Terra was standing around a corner and I quickly realized that she was watching everything that just happened.
"Oh hi, Terra... you saw all that didn't you?" I asked to confirm.
"Um... yeah" She was still looking past me to where I basically just handed our great uncle's ass to himself.
"Um how did you do that?" she said slowly, probably not believing what she saw.
"A pathetic man tried to manipulate a child who just lost their parents into becoming a pawn for his greedy schemes and that same child beat the crap out of him with the help of a spirit. What else is there."
"I was raised by adventurers and learned how to fight since I was like 5. I'm not stupid or a pushover."I said with a smile knowing that what I just said was crazy.
"Ah..." she just stood there confused.
I put a hand on her shoulder and shook her a little bit, snapping her back to reality and saying to her "Can we go somewhere outside I need to relax." I said calmly
now that Terra was woken up from her shock she could think properly. She nodded and we went outside. We didn't worry about telling Terra's parents the servants would do it and if not we can explain what happened later.
When we got outside we headed toward the forest. Thankfully it was still warm enough to wear we didn't need any extra clothing. After a few minutes of walking down a familiar path, we soon found ourselves in a small clearing.
This was a place we would go to play together when I visited with my parents or to just get away from all the fancy stuff.
The clearing was around 20 meters wide and 30 meters long with a large Oak Tree on the northern end atop a small hill. Against the tree, you could see a fort we made from rocks and tree branches. Inside were wooden swords and shields, rope, toy wands and other things we could play with out here.
Up in the tree, hidden in the branches was a small treehouse. Both our Dads helped make it for us a few years ago and we love it.
When we got there I walked over to the Oak tree and lay down next to it looking up at the sky through its Branches.
Terra walked over and sat nearby leaning against the tree.
We both sat there for a while. I was enjoying the quiet and open feeling while Terra was worried about me but tried to relax.
After a few minutes, I spoke up "I know Miranda and Erik want you to keep an eye on me... thank you."
Terra was surprised by that but chuckled and said back to me "You know it's always weird hearing you talk like a grown-up sometimes, or how you know these things that you shouldn't. You know that right."
I raised one of my hands to the sky and just stared at it "I am both smart and weird, I won't deny that." I said
"I am still a child but I tend to act 5 years older than I actually am. Besides I read a lot and Mom and Dad taught me a bunch of stuff."
Terra laughed but turned to me and asked "Do you miss them?"
I sat up and looked at her and thought for a second, then shook my head. "I don't think it has fully sunken in yet that they are gone, but yes I do. It will hit me again eventually."
Silence fell on us again, then she asked "How did the Lightning Tiger get in there and is it the same one that led us to you."
I turned to her again. "It is the same one. I recently learned that I am a spirit summoner, so I summoned a spirit and made a contract with them." I lied
Thankfully Terra doesn't know much about spirits other than that some people can make contracts with them.
"And the spirit you made a contract with was the Lightning Tiger?" she asked.
I nodded and said, "Yes he is and when I signed the contract he told me his name was Volt."
She seemed to accept the answer I gave her. Thankfully she knew that summoning a spirit was very taxing on the summoner, (well not I'm my case but still) so she didn't ask for me to summon him again.
We sat there in silence again while I thought to myself 'The last few days have been eventful. Some good and some bad but this morning was definitely one of the good ones' and I started to remember what happened before I was confronted by Michael.