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Chapter 2 - The Birth

Gonas was left with dismay seeing the blood, his face turned into a blank surface as if any one seeing his face would die instantly with the fear of this evil blank aura, which was so intense that could be controlled even by the supreme God himself. His steps are so heavy that, the land underneath his feet had gone down and its intensity was felt to few kilometres away. As he was walking towards the cave the stains of blood were increasing so as his evil aura. All the animals near the place were dying instantly with the intense aura, pressure, and fear as he was passing through.Once reaching at the entrance of the cave Gonas felt the presence of his wife along with another presence with almost equal to the Magician who has reached to the level of God's Mage also known as Arch Mage, but surprisingly a familiar aura. With this surprise his intense evil aura had been suppressed and ran towards its, upon reaching the place where he felt the intense aura he saw an old man with a familiar face and shape facing opposite side to Gonas was doing something. To another side of this old man his wife Maple was resting on several layers of animal's skin and also some fur placed on the Wooden bed making it a comfortable place to rest.After seeing his wife sleeping sound and safe, all his anger and the evil aura was totally suppressed down and he rushed towards her and was collapsed beside her and sobbed horribly sitting down on the floor, he stretching his hand towards his wife's hand, holding them to his forehead and cried like an innocent man with pure emotions.A voice which is weak, hoarse, and crackly but also pretty much familiar came from the side of the place where the old man was seen earlier. It said, "Hey Gonas, how are you?". Gonas was shocked hearing those words with that voice, he slowly turned to that side and seeing the old man's face Gonas was startled and moved backwards. The old man laughed and said "Is it really you Gonas! I am surprised to see you in such a pathetic situation." and started to burst out the laughter.Gonas took few seconds to recognize the familiar voice and then asked the Arch Mage "Is it really you Magus!". The old man nodded his head vertically indicating a yes for Gonas question along with laughter. Gonas said "Hey Magus," and looked towards Magus with eyes having their mixed emotions of happiness, sad, and teary, such that they were asking him to explain about the situation regarding his wife.Magus stopped his laughter, his face suddenly turned like an old man with a feeling of empathy for Gonas. Magus took slow and shaky steps towards Gonas, he put his hand on Gonas' head and smiled lightly and said "Be happy evil boy, you are going to be father." and started explaining the things that happened after Gonas left on with the job of guiding humans.The day when Gonas left Maple alone in the house and went to fulfil his job, Maple was doing her work as usual and went to the warehouse behind their house to store all the crafts for the further business. She was doing the rearranging work slowly, she felt a little dizzy, and fell on the floor in the warehouse, and her charm suddenly started glowing, a few seconds later an old man that is Magus came to the place and took her this cave.But Gonas was left with confusion and upmost blithe asked Magus, "But what was all the blood Magus?". Magus laughed again and said "Is it the reason for your emission of evil aura earlier. Huh, leave it aside it's all about the hunting for my pet Apep's food." While the conversation was going on by the sound of the Magus loud laughter, Maple gained consciousness, opened her eyes slowly and saw Gonas beside her and shed few tears from her eyes. Gonas comforted her and described the whole thing happened. Maple saw Magus after few second and then thanked him for helping her, but then she asked with confusion "How did you know that I was in such a place at that moment." Maple said it was her charm which was given by Magus to her was not only a lucky charm but also a magical device which showed him about the whereabouts of this couple.Gonas stopped Magus and asked, is it really true about what Magus was told him about Maple's condition or he just said that to calm down Gonas emotions. Magus again started laughing and said "Oh! poor Gonas, it is a bliss full time for you. Stop thinking stupid with your brain and help me with preparations. Let's celebrate our reunion and My dear little sweety's good news," Saying these words Magus put his hand on Maples forehead with a sweet smile on his face.Magus was doing all the decoration and while Gonas went to the forest and brought all the ingredients for the Food to prepare. And then Magus turned the ingredients into really very delicious food, all these were done before Maple woke up from her sleep. It was almost dark outside, Maple slowly sat upright on the bed and asked Gonas what was going on. Magus said "My evil boy and myself set a party for our little group. Come on sweety freshen up yourself and make yourself comfortable. Once you are ready let celebrate!"Maple smiled like a cute girl with teary eyes and went to take bath, after that all three of them had a great time together. At night Gonas sent Maple to bed early saying, she needs to take more care from now onwards for their little one. Once Maple is in sound sleep, Gonas asked Magus, "Hey Magus! How are things?" Magus said "Don't worry Gonas, until now everything is quite good." Gonas looked at the Magus and asked "Magus, will my little one be safe?" Magus said "During the war many may have not observed the things for prophecy, only very few noticed and they were trying to find the 'True King' in secret, for now better not to talk about it and stay here hidden".After few months spending in cave as their house, Magus said the couple to turn this cave into their house and made few spells on the cave and said "This should protect you from everything for the time being." Maple asked Magus to stay few more days with them and said "Please stay few more days Magus, let me feel safe for few more days without being considerate." Magus kept his hand gently on Maples head and said, "Dear, I will leave only after seeing the face of my little angle's baby, so don't make your brain to think more and be clam, that will be good for my new little angle and the baby too."As the days were going on smoothly suddenly Maple started to feel the rush of the baby birth, Gonas informed Magus. Magus rushed to Maples room and created an old lady with his magic and said Gonas to catch all the air that is being produced around Maple with His skills. Gonas was shocked and saw Magus face with confusion, Magus shouted at Gonas "Come on Evil boy be fast." With that Gonas rushed to the place and started collecting all the air with his Air Manipulation skills.All the surrounding were ambivalent with strong wind and sudden heavy rain and thunders, all the animals in the forest were making combined sounds of joy and fear. And all the people in all the three regions felt the chills in the air all at same time. Once the baby was born, the old lady creation of Arch Mage that is Magus was disappeared into thin air. Maple went to sleep right after giving birth. When Magus and Gonas saw the baby, it was entirely in different shape, seeing the baby, Gonas was shocked and could not move a limb, Magus shouted "Hey Gonas, release the air you have collected onto the boy once I have locked him in the box with Magic."Gonas was still shocked with terror, and said "Wh-wh-What?". Magus created a box around the infant with his magic and shouted "Gonas release the collected air into the box onto the child." Gonas brought himself together and done as he was told by Magus. Soon the climate started to come back to normal, after few hours when Maple opened her eyes, both the couple and Magus were in the actual house that belonged to Gonas and Maples, a cute little, fragile, looking baby was sleeping on the side of Maple. Maple was very happy upon seeing the baby, all healthy and having both the features of Gonas and Maple, except having the mixed hair colour of her white and Gonas's Black - a beautiful shade of light Grey.After few years, in spite of being the child of such a skilled parent the looked very fragile and introvert. He never went beyond the premises of the house, always played with his only old friend Magus. Despite his looks he was very powerful that all his physical, magic, and logical skills were out of bounds, so Magus had made a seal on the boy's powers only a very small fragment to be leashed out. When Gonas and Maple had asked Magus to name the boy, he name him 'Idris Asher', due to the over power he had and the grey hair. But mostly called him as 'Idash'.