"I can see the village!" Abby shouted

She was standing on a boulder waving at Ramza with a huge grin on her face.

She was covered in sweat and her zipper was slightly pulled down revealing her cleavage.

Ramza is slowly walking towards her, his boots crushing the tall grass underneath him, and his face was slightly burnt from the sun.

He is desperately using his left hand to block the intense sunlight.

Few second later he joins Abby. The rock gave a good view of Eterna village.

Eterna village was small compared to the other villages of Riverglade but it is one of the richest because of it's crops and animal produce.

Thats because their land is rich and the river flows throught it so their crops were very bountiful.

The farm animal's was safe too, monster rarely attack's this village.

You can see a few guards her and there.

Smoke is starting to be seen rising up from the chimney's indicating that the people are now busy cooking lunch.

The delicious aroma can be smelled for miles even he and Abby can smell it.

Their rumbling stomach urged them to hurry up.

As they got closer to the village they cross paths with a wagon carrying barrels of wine, a few fruits and vegetables.

A farmer with a long grey beard wearing a straw hat greets Ramza.

When he caught sight of Abby a wrinkle form in his forehead.

He felt charmed by her beauty and toned body, but admiration turn to fear when he saw Abby carrying an unknown weapon.

After a few second of awkward stares the wagon then continue it's merry way with a confused farmer at the front.

"I think you should cover your weapon" Ramza said

"Yeah, but i don't have anything to cover it"

Ramza sighs, he then rummage around his robe packets.

Few minutes of rummaging he pulls out a roll of bandages.

"Woah, how did that fit in your pocket?"

"Oh, all of the high mages robes has this kinds of pockets. It distorts space so you can put a lot of stuff in there."

"Convenient, too convenient"

Abby wraps her weapon and then continue's walking. At the entrance they were stopped by two guards.

They are wearing heavy armor with cross helmet, there armor glistens in the sunlight.

"Stop! What's your business here?"

Ramza and Abby complies. The guards then slowly walks toward them.

"Here" Ramza said as he gets something from his robe.

This gesture made the guard grab their weapon and prepares to draw them.

Tension's rises.

"Relax" Ramza said as he show them some kind of badge.

The badge was circular and it was the size of his thumb. It was engraved with a sword and shield crossed together with a giant river as its background.

The guard relaxes and removes their hand from their weapon.

"Sorry about that sir" the guard with a deep voice said

"There are alot of weird rumor's going around about weird individuals with weird weapons" he added

"So we were ordered to tighten up the security" the other guard interrupted

As the guard get's a good look at Ramza he start's getting excited.

"Wait, are you Ramza?" the deep voiced guard asked.

"Yeah."

He suddenly grabs Ramza shoulder and gives him an ecstatic laugh that made him jolt.

"Im your biggest fan sir, the way you used smoked and sonicbooms to confuse the Noxin army on the battle of Shako bastion. That was a work of art"

"Thanks" Ramza said while laughing nervously.

He is not too fond of people who adore him too much so he gets awkward around them and just brushes them off.

"We, should get going" he said.

"Oh, ok. Hope you have fun with your lady " The guard said.

Abby and Ramza cheeks turn red.

"Uhm were not really-" Ramza said.

The guards ignores him and keep smiling at them.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say sir"

Ramza and Abby looks at each other and decides to continue walking towards the village.

The earlier comment made them awkard at each other so the villagers working their field was the only sound they hear.

As they got closer and closer to the heart of the village more and more houses and people starts appearing, varrying in sizes.

As they reached the center of the village they were welcome with dozens of stalls who were lined up on each side of the road

They are selling clothes, trinkets , foods and even weapons.

On the end of the road is a large wooden bridge connecting the other side.

On this side the road splits in half with a few building beside the road.

Below the bridge are dozens of farmer fetching water with wooden buckets for their crops.

The aroma of cooking food can be smelled from the inn who is located on the other side of it

The village chief's house was beside the inn, you can tell from the size of it and the few guards outside.

One of the woman who was selling clothes starts to call at Abby.

"Hey! The pretty lady over there, those clothes doesn't suit you darling, come buy some from me. You won't regret it"

"No thanks" she answered

"So, this is where we part ways" Ramza said

"Oh" Abby said as a slight frown appears on her face.

"Please don't leave me yet, I dont know where to go and I don't even have any money"

"Oh" Ramza thinks for a few second.

Ramza grabs something in his pocket and hands it over to her.

"Here"

Abby takes it and saw three shiny gold coins.

"Are you sure?"

"Take it, I may hate women but, my mom thought me to always help someone in need"

"That should give you a warm bed and meal for a couple of days."

Abby smiles and puts the gold coins in her pocket.

"Thank you" She said while swiftly giving Ramza a hug

The sudden hug caught him off guard so he was frozen stiff.

The bystanders who saw it gave the two of them a grin.

Abby's soft chest made Ramza's cheeks flush red.

Her sweet musky fragrance penetrates his nose making him more embarrassed and entranced.

The only thing Ramza could say was "Y-You're welcome".

Just realizes how embarrassing it was Abby let's go of him.

"Im sorry, I probably smell , from all the sweat"

"N-no, you're good"

They gave each other an awkward smile.

"We should probably go the Inn" Ramza said.

"Sure"

*

Thousand tons of metal passing through made the ground shake.

The sound of steel rubbing and striking each other echoes throughout the forest.

It's belted steel wheel running over and crushing rocks in it's way turning them into rubble.

The boots of a hundred of soldier stomping the ground following the large metallic beast almost syncing in rythm.

Heavilly stocked trucks follow them adjusting their speed to follow the machines and people ahead.

Lieutenant Gomez was at the first tank overseeing the whole army.

He was medium in build and height. He was wearing his dark tinted Aviatior sunglasses and was constantly stroking his moustache.

Everytime the tank crushes down a tree he let's go of his moustache and hold's tightly on the tank.

Few minutes later he command's the convoy to stop.The army halts kicking up dusts and shrubbery.

The sun in the distance slowly turning from bright yellow hue to orange signalling the end of the day.

Gomez grabs a megaphone inside the tank and points it towards the soldiers.

"Alright gang, the sun is almost setting and it will be hard for us to continue"

"So I say we stop here, this is a good place to hide. We got huge mountains and thick forest to hide our fat tanks"

"No offence tanks" he said while stroking the tank

"Uhm, yeah, that is all"

The soldiers starts readying and clearing the area. Some of them was chopping and cutting some shruberry to make room.

Other's scouts the area for threats, while a few of them takes and prepares the tents and other necessities.

While all of the soldiers are busy, Gomez takes of his sunglasses and started stretching.

After a while he starts to climb down out of the tank but was having difficulty in doing so.

Finally he decides to jump but his foot got stuck on something and fell down head first in the ground.

All of the other soldier snickered and tries to hold back their laughter.

Gomez immediately stands up and dust himself off.

"You think thats funny, huh?!"

"Get back to work!"

"Sir!"

A soldier calls out to Gomez.

"What is it?"

"Our scouts have found the two girls who were taken, along with the other three soldiers who were part of the rescue mission"

"Good! Send them here inmediately, and also give them food and water they deserved it."

"Oh wait, what about the captain?"

"They told me there going to be late , they are cleaning some stuff"

"Excellent, You can go now."

"Thank you Sir"

Gomez stars walking around making sure that everything is in order when the Captain arrives.

He may be clumsy at times but he makes sure that he is doing a good job.

After all this time he still can't believe that he was here in another world.

Gomez was a very religious person, when he was told that they found another world he was the first one to assume that the government had gone crazy.

As he was deep in his thought a roar echoes around them and a gust of violent wind blows

A shadow covers the camp. All of the soldiers looks up in horror.

It's red leathery wings summons a gale everytime it beats and its mouth filled with razor sharp teeths smokes everytime it breaths.

The last thing Gomez saw was it opening it's mouth and a huge fiery ball coming straight towards them.