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Chapter 5 - The Departure and the Cave Abide

As the day passed, they continued to prepare for their departure. Gonas and Fencer had built two carts for their journey while Gust, Ignite, Frigid brought the goods that required to build them. One for the ladies and other for the men. Maple, Nebula, and Terra had prepared food for few days for their journey. And Magus and the boy having fun looking at all of them work. The day had finally come to end, all of them were tired from their preparations thus, went to sleep soundly.The next day, the first one to wake up is the boy. After he woke up the boy with his small and cute feet taking small and quick steps went straight to his father, and tried to wake him. He kept his hands on Gonas chest and moved him saying "Dada dadaaa! wake up dada...! It's picnic time. I heard while you said it to mama, wake up dadaaaa!" Gonas slowly woke up and lifted the boy with his hands and made the boy sit on his stomach. He kept his hands on the boys cheeks and pulled him towards his face and kissed him gently on the forehead, and said "Really, my boy! You want to go to picnic." saying these words he rubbed his nose to the boys as gently as possible showing his love on the kid.Gonas had completely woken up and stood out of bed, kept his hand on the boy's hair and said "If you want to go to picnic, wake all your uncles and aunts quickly, dear." The boy smiled to his father and said "Yes dadaaa." And he ran to the room where the uncles were sleeping. The boy opened the door slightly and tried to watch them from that gap. His four uncles were still sleeping, the boy took small steps one by one with his hands placed to front as if he was shy and went to uncle Fencer. The boy called out to Fencer with a cute and sweet voice, "Uncle Fencer...! Dada told to wake you up. Uncle Fencer!" Hearing his voice Fencer as well as Ignite and Frigid woke up from their sleep.Fencer as he woke up, he saw the boy's face and felt sense some intense and powerful aura and was shocked. The next minute he saw a little boy calling him Uncle Fencer with a pure smile on his face. Fencer smiled to himself and talked to the boy "Your uncle woke up kiddo!" and smiled to the boy. Ignite kicked Gust's ass a bit hard that Gust had fallen from the bed on the ground. As Gust woke up and started to shout at him. Fencer stopped Gust saying "Keep your mouth shut with those words in front of kids, you idiot!" Then Gust had realized that the boy was there in that room. He stood up and went to the boy and lifted him up saying "oh boy! you came to wake up your uncles! such a good boy you are!" Leave the boy alone and get ready you fool!" said Ignite.The boy next went to the room where Nebula and Terra were sleeping, he slowly knocked the door before opening the door. "Come in," said Nebula. The boy opened the door with a shy look on his face, seeing the boy's gentleman behaviour of knocking the door before entering the women's room, Nebula and Terra found him cuter and more lifted the boy and hugged and kissed him saying "Such a cute gentleman you are!" "Dada said to wake uncles and aunts". "Go sown and wait in the living room your aunts are coming" said Nebula to the boy and sent him down.Within few minutes all of them were gathered at the front of the house everything was set ready. "Now it's my turn!" said Magus and created horses with his magic. They have decided to keep the boy near Magus so, that hiding his presence would be easier for him. All the men were in the first cart along with Magus and the boy, Fencer was raiding the horse. While the second cart was with the women and Gonas raiding the cart. They had their departure as planed quiet early in the morning. All their presence could be felt except the boy's which was concealed by Magus with his magic.Their journey was going smoothly. They were taking the breaks only once a day in the noon, preparing the food for dinner at the noon and storing them, at night time they took turn by Fencer with Frigid and Gonas with Ignite so the travel with be as planned. It had been a week, the journey was going well but all the worry is about the food, very much less remaining, so they decided to stay for a day to collect the food for the following journey. They searched and found a suitable cave to stay for the women and the kid.Magus tried to make it more comfortable but Fencer stopped him and said "keep it reserved to conceal the boy's presence. Let's make it human possible as much as they could." Everyone agreed to what Fencer said. Ignite and Frigid were kept at the cave to ensure extra safety for women and the Magus along with the kid. The remaining went for the hunt in the forest. Terra had created places to sit and sleep for the night using her Land manipulation skills. Ignite helped with fire so they could stay warm and Frigid had created water to drink, finally Nebula had kept the supply of oxygen study so that the fire will be in control. Magus was totally on the concealing work. The boy enjoyed seeing their magic. So, they created small figures of animals and humans with their magics.The people who went to the hunt, Fencer, Gonas, and Gust had good hunt and were returning with much food for dinner as well as for the next journey. Suddenly the felt someone's presence like they had been following them. After some time, Gonas told other to stop and look all the surroundings. "You can come out; we have found you!" said Fencer seeing up on to the tree behind them. The place where Fencer was looking was suddenly filled with smoke and a faint shape was being formed. It was the demon Tact. "You foul creature! Why is it you every time?" shouted Gust with anger. Fencer pulled him back signing him not to speak a word.Tact suddenly appeared in front of those three, he came so close to Gust and said "Good! keep your mouth shut and you will be spared," Gust was shivering with anger and his face was turning red but he did not speak a word as Fencer said so. Tact now came to Fencer "You are interesting but I sense some entertainment from him" saying these he went to Gonas. "I somewhat feel unease in your presence, you might be stronger than you look. You are making me curious, let's hear it from you what are you doing here at this time hmm seems like you have got good meal there hmmm."Gonas controlled his anger and told him that they were travelling to another city to make a living there and start a new life. Tact did not believe them, he asked them to take him to the remaining members to check if what they were telling him truth or not. Gonas could not tell anything; he was worried to be found out. Fencer kept his hand on Gonas and he signed it is ok on his face. All three of them walked towards the cave with so much worry and pressure. Finally reaching the cave Tact had made an evil laugh "hahahaa haaaahahaaaa! Sure, I smell so much magic there hmm hmmm haaahahahaha!"