19. This is abuse!

“This is abuse!” Samuel squealed and continued “Domestic violence!”

“Hm? But you just flew into the wall yourself?” Angel replied nonchalantly as Samuel’s body began to spin around the room as if caught up in an invisible tornado. The speed of the tornado continued to pick up as Samuel began to spin at a faster rate, sometimes his body was closer to the walls, other times he was spinning at the center. The feeling made him considerably nauseous.

“Enough!” Samuel dispersed the power before falling onto the ground. His eyes were spinning as Angel began to laugh. Her continuing laughter made Samuel embarrassingly say “What?” while trying to get back on his feet without falling over.

Wiping away the tears in her eyes she replied, “You’re not the same as you used to, you usually last much longer than that.”

Stumbling to his feet Samuel eventually managed to lean against a wall as he started to readjust his balance waiting for the entire room to stop spinning. However, he couldn’t maintain his balance much before his foot started to lift off the floor again. Panic showed in his eyes as he shouted. “Stop! Stop! I give up!”

His surrender worked as he fell flat onto the floor again. Depressed and a little embarrassed Samuel just sat on the floor as Angel walked over and tried to help him up. However, using his own physical weight he didn’t let Angel physically lift him up.

“Stop being such a baby. What if Arthur sees you like this?” Angel continued to try lifting him up.

“Hmph, let him. I don’t care.” Samuel continued to pout while sitting on the ground with his arms folded.

“Alright, I’m sorry, okay? I was a little too mean to you.” Angel tried apologizing.

“Hmph, won’t work, you’re too mean.” Samuel continued to protest.

His little tantrum started to irritate Angel as the air began to freeze in the room. Feeling the coldness enveloping the room Samuel realized he fudged up.

“Samuel, I’ll count to three.” Angel began to treat Samuel like a kid that was being disobedient.

“One…”

Samuel immediately stood up in attention and spilled everything to Angel about what he had read yesterday and why he made the decision. The temperature within the room fluctuated before returning to normal as Angel calmed down from Samuel’s confession.

“What are you going to do?” Angel asked.

“Nothing, I’ll just send Arthur and Shelly to Cheshire instead.”

“I don’t think King Baroque will like that.”

“What can he do about it? I’ll just say they wanted to go there so I allowed it. I’m not lying.”

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Angel asked in a serious manner. The repercussions of making a King angry wouldn’t just be a smack on the wrist.

“We’re not weak enough that Baroque can just bully us. Besides, if he goes too far, I’ll just use our new guest. Heh. Heh. Heh.”

Facepalming at Samuel’s mischievous attitude Angel could only shake her head and silently agree. Being a Galafray made it difficult for the King to excessively punish them even if they’re not part of the main branch. Also, she too wanted to see what would happen between a King and an alien.

“Should we go with them?” Angel asked, she wanted to at least follow the kids along to Cheshire for their enrollment.

“I think we should stay home, if we go with them then Baroque may not take it so well.

“Yeah, you’re right” Angel responded with a dejected tone. She sighed and continued “At least we get to send them off.”

Samuel silently nodded his head. “We should let them leave town soon, it’ll probably be better if they stayed at the neighboring village. He began to scratch his head “What did they call themselves again?”

“I don’t know anymore.” Angel shook her head “They’ve changed their name 3 times since we’ve got to know them. First was Pebbleville, then Cobbleville, and the last I remembered was Boulderville.” She continued “Knowing the schemes of things they’ll eventually call it Mountainville.”

“Ahaha, they’re quite eccentric, aren’t they? We shouldn’t be too worried right? Right?” Samuel asked his wife for assurance; he was a bit worried about the neighboring village. They were close in terms of relations and have met with them, but he didn’t know what to say about them.

“Mm, we should let the Village Chief know not to scare Arthur and them.” Shaking her head at their only option she continued “I think it’ll be good to inform Jacob and Dylan to keep an eye on them for us.”

Samuel nodded his head and replied, “I’ll go write them a letter.”

…

“Boss, when do you think they’ll let us go to school?” Arthur asked.

“I don’t know, whenever they want?” Boss replied.

“I hope it’ll be soon I wanna learn more about what my eyes can do.” Arthur began to wonder before he turned to Boss and hopefully asked “Wait, can’t you tell me?”

“Nope, I can’t.” Boss’ reply shattered Arthur’s hope of trying to know his powers beforehand.

“Darn.” Arthur then turned to Shelly who was currently petting Silver in her arm “Shelly! What can your eyes do? Can you only just see better is that it?”

“No Arthur it’s not just that, but I won’t tell you what it is.” Shelly replied leaving Arthur depressed. He wanted to ask why not but he held back, Shelly had her own secrets and he’ll see it in the future anyways.

Knock Knock

“Come in, doors not locked” Arthur replied as the door handle twisted open.

“How’re you, sweetie? Are you feeling okay? Hurt anywhere?” Angel walked in and looked at Arthur with a hint of worry.

“I’m fine mommy, look I’m perfectly healthy!” Arthur began to express how energetic he was by hopping on the bed and jumping around. A smile with a hint of sadness can be seen on her face as she looked at her son.

“Mommy?” Arthur asked, he can sense that something was wrong.

“Oh, it’s nothing sweetie.” Angel fixed her composure, eyeing the cases and clothes littered on the floor she continued “are you already packing up?”

“Yeah! Mommy! When are going to school?”

“Soon honey, your father has to write some letters first and then you five will be ready to go to Cheshire.” Angel explanation made Arthur’s eyes beam with joy as he jumped on the bed even more energetically than before.

“Bark!” You stupid human, did you forget about me?

“Oh sorry Barkie, I forgot you were sitting there, you’re so light you know.” Arthur replied as he grabbed the dog above his head and placed it on the ground. The moment Barkie was on the ground Silver glanced in its direction and hopped down from Shelly’s arm.

“Bark! Bark!” Barkie pulled an aggressive stance towards the kitten as Silver continued to slowly walk towards it. However, the next second Barkie turned tail and ran straight for the door. Seeing this the kitten followed the puppy and another chase ensued.

The antics of the two pets eased the worry Angel was feeling as she watched both of them run about the house. Little did she notice that the speed of the pets was progressively increasing.

“Silver! Stop that!” Arthur tried to stop Silver from scaring Barkie. However, Silver paid him no mind as she continued chasing the poor labradoodle puppy. Arthur began to worry and could only ask Shelly for help “Shelly, can’t you do something? Silver is scaring Barkie!”

However, before Shelly could call Silver back, Boss interrupted “Don’t worry they’re not fighting or scaring each other, they’re just having fun.”

“Bark!” What do you mean having fun!? HELP!

“Oh is that true Barkie you’re just having fun?”

“Bark!” No you idiot! I’m gonna die!

“Oh that’s so great! I was worried Silver was gonna do anything bad to you.” Arthur sighed in relief before paying Barkie and Silver no mind.

Arthur then turned to his mom, “mommy will you be going with us?” His questioned made Angel slightly depressed inside because even though she wished she could go, she couldn’t. “I’m sorry sweetie, your daddy and I need to stay home and make sure the town safe.” She continued “But, I’ll send you letters often, and you just make sure you’re safe and healthy okay?”

Hearing her answer Arthur felt a little despondent, but he could only nod his head to question as he wanted to grow stronger. The near fatal experience he faced at the Church and the helplessness he felt in his nightmare made him realize if he wanted to keep his family safe, he’ll have to get stronger.

“Bark! Bark!” Barkie ran through the door and in front of Arthur and began tapping on his leg. Hurry up pick me up! Pick me up!!!

“Oh, are you done playing Barkie?” Arthur asked as he reached for the puppy.

“Bark! Bark!” Play!? You call that play!? Whatever just pick me up!

Immediately jumping into Arthur’s palm Barkie pointed upwards to Arthur’s head signifying he wanted to be back there. Panting exhaustedly ontop of Arthur’s head safe and away from the kitten Barkie was too tired to even regain composure as he laid there.

Moments later a little kitten walked in.

“Mew” Silver looked up at the puppy laying on Arthur’s head. “Silver” Shelly called for her kitten. Shelly’s single word drew its attention as it returned to its owner’s arms and began to purr.

Knock knock

“Am I intruding?” Samuel asked while still holding onto the door.

“Are you finished writing the letters?” Angel asked.

Samuel nodded his head and looked at the kids. “I sent a letter to the Chief of I think Boulderville that you kids will be staying there for a while before leaving for Cheshire.” His comment made Arthur confused, was he not going to Cheshire immediately? Why is he going to Boulderville?

“Mommy, daddy, why are we staying at Boulderville? I thought we were just going to go straight to Naturelle?”

Samuel shook his head before responding, “You can’t just go all the way there in one go, the ships for enrollment haven’t even arrived yet.” He continued. “You’ll be staying at Boulderville for the next month until the enrollment ships arrive in Asmar harbor. Once the ships are safely docked there, you guys may head out to Asmar since the ship won’t set sail again for another month.”

“Can’t we just stay home until then?” Arthur asked.

Sigh

“No, some things have come up and it’ll be better if you guys aren’t here while we deal with it.” Samuel replied.

“What is it?” Arthur asked, he wanted to know what was so urgent. However, Samuel could only shake his head whereas his mom continued to look at them with worry.

“What is it?” Arthur repeated after looking at their face.

“Young master, Arthur” Shelly called to him. He turned around to look at her only to see her shake her head telling him to not continue. Arthur turned around to look at his parents, the serious face that they showed prompted him not to continue.

“Boss” Angel looked at the little purple haired boy she barely knew. She paused, “Please just try your best to watch over them.” Seeing her serious plea Boss replied, “I’ll do my best.”

“Tomorrow morning after breakfast, there’ll be two horse carriage to take you guys to Boulderville.” Samuel continued “Go to bed early, it’ll be a long ride tomorrow.”

Samuel walked out of the room after saying that. Angel repeated what Samuel said in her own way before following Samuel out. Everyone eventually returned to their respective room in preparation for tomorrow.

Morning arrived and everything was normal, the breakfast was the same and so was the atmosphere. It didn’t feel like they were sending them off at all until the entrance of the estate opened for the two horse carriages.

One carriage carried all their cases while the other will be for them. The mother and father duo alongside Benjamin remained at the door as the house servants and maid all helped carried their belongings onto the carriage.

Thwack

Clip Clop Clip Clop

The sounds of horse whips could be heard as two horse drawn carriages started to move. By the time Arthur realized the reality of the situation he turned his head out of the window only to see the departing silhouette of his parents waving back at him.