Chapter 5

“Big brother! You can talk now! What kind of soul weapon is that?” Minerva asked, her face looks puzzled while looking closely at my soul weapon.

“I don’t know too, but I think this should work similar to a bow weapon, this might be a long range type of weapon.” I said, after a long pause, “Yes! Yes! I really can talk now! ” I said in a loud voice, I laughed hard while still holding my new model weapon and test its sight scope.

“But big brother, you’re voice is not young, you’re voice is similar to our chief.” She said as her eyes squinting a bit as she looks at me.

“That’s right, big brother! your voice old and hoax.” Arsenio said while his lower eyelids are close more than the upper.

“I am old, No! I'm not old, I think it’s because there’s a problem in my voice.” I said while forcing my eyes to crinkle as I pointed out my throat.

Before my soul weapon is M12 Garand Rifle but now, I’m holding my favorite sniper rifle, Arctic Warfare Super Magnum. I immediately lay down and aim at the tree around five hundred meters away from us. After a few seconds, I fire my sniper rifle and it only generated a low noise gunshot.

I take a look at the target tree, Strange, my shot landed but the area is in light blue color instead of black. What is that blue thing? When I check out my magazine, even my bullets are made from this blue thing. I think, this is some kind of energy and I need more information about this type of energy.

“Stunning! Your arrow is so small than the arrows that I saw back in our tribe.” Minerva praised, after she mentioned our tribe, we got silent for a moment. They lift off to take a look at the direction where we came from, again.

My siblings are always looking at the direction of our tribe mountain when they wake up and before going to sleep. They’re hoping, no, we are hoping that our mother is still alive. I remember, back in the earth, my father is a soldier too and he died or rather he killed in the war when I was fifteen years old. He didn’t mention my mother even once, I don’t have any clue on who is my mother in the earth. When I woke up in this world, there's a happiness that I felt. I have given a chance to meet and get to know my caring mother.

After a few moments, my siblings came back, “Big brother let’s eat first, you told, that you will tell your plans after we got our soul weapons.” Arsenio said as they landed then fold their wide brown wings.

I look up to him and nodded. My brother is over 7 ft. height and my sister is almost 6 ft. height while I’m still stuck at 5 ft. height. There’s a bit discomfort feeling inside of me whenever they’re calling me big brother.

While flying towards our house, I’m trying to summon other weapons such as grenades, handguns and semi automatic rifle but my soul weapon didn’t change. I can only summon a different type of sniper type rifle that I had in my gun collection on the earth.

Inside of our house, after our dinner, “Even we train in over 50 years, I cannot assure you that we can avenge our parents.” I said to them while sitting cross legged at their front. Their heads move downwards as some of their veins are bulging.

“But we still have a chance, if we play smart, we can avenge our parents and maybe come out alive. We need other alliance or anyone that can help us. We can’t just go there and rampant. We need to carefully plan things out. We need to seek others that have a grudge on the eagle tribe and we need some information about this eagle tribe. This will take a very long time, are the two of you still willing to follow me?” I explained and asked, they lifted their heads and their eyes showing a glint.

“Yes, big brother!” Both of them stand up and saluted at me.

“Good! Prepare all the necessary things! We will set out tomorrow.” I said in a loud voice, both of them nodded their head and go towards their rooms.

After our quite serious meeting, We pack our important things. Tomorrow, we’re going to the continent where most of the elves reside. We will gather information about our enemy and the elves who is at top of the food chain may know the eagle tribe better than us.

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In the next day, as the sun rises, all are set and we’re ready.

“Let’s go!” I shouted, we take off simultaneously and look at our house for the last moment.

We are flying towards the massive land that is part of the continent of Icarus. After we enter the area, I see massive mountains everywhere, it’s full of trees and there’s a single curve wide river that seems to be endless.

“Let's just follow this river,” I said in a loud hoax voice and we increased our pace a bit.

After flying for more than five hours, there’s a sudden disturbance in the wind. The whistling of the wind became stronger and affecting our flight. I see the clouds are getting darker at a fast rate. I flutter my wings just stabilized my movement in the air.

“We need to rest, looks like there will be a storm,” I said, my index finger pointed out the thick tall tree nearby and we approach the tree as fast as possible.

At the top of the tree, my siblings and I are closing our eyes. We are standing as our feet are gripping on the trunk while our bodies or rather the trunk of the trees are boggling. We are waiting for this natural phenomenon to calm down and have a rest as much as we can.

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“Big Brother! Wake up, It’s morning already,” Minerva said in a soft voice, as I open my eyes, I caught her in the act, she’s flicking my beak.

My body here is quite strange, In the earth, I can set an alarm clock to my mind and I can wake up whenever I want to but it’s not working here.

“Big brother, I think, we need to leave now, there are no animals or monsters here, I’m, Arsenio and I are a bit hungry.” She said while hiding her right hand behind her back.

“Yes, yes, I’m personally going to hunt, I want to try my soul weapon,” I said to her and lift off. “Arsenio! Let’s go! What are you doing there?” I shouted at my brother, he’s kneeling and doing some sort of praying again on the ground.

“Sorry, I’m coming!” He said in a loud voice and fly fast toward at us.

After a few moments of flying, I see a huge red bull monster that has a long and bulky hands in a quite far distance from us.

“Big brother, I’m going to kill it.” My brother said as he fly towards the monster direction and I cut.

“Stop! I’m going to kill it, I want to test my soul weapon.” I shouted at my brother and he quickly came back. “I’m going to that tree over there, just stay here,” I said and fly towards the tall tree while Minerva is flying behind my back. “I told you that just stay there, why are you tailing me? ” I asked her while she squinted her eyes.

“Big brother, I’m just curious, don’t pay attention to me.” She said, I just ignore her and set up my sniper rifle at the top of the tree.

I look at the scope, my vision is better than in the earth, I can see my target more clearly. I aim the crosshair of my sniper rifle at the head of the huge red bull monster that walking at a slow pace. I pull the trigger and my body move a bit from the recoil. When I check my target, the forehead of the bull monster is squirting a lot of blood while falling down slowly. This is quite strange, the accuracy of my gun here is a lot better and I think, the recoil is much stronger.

“Stunning! You killed it with just one arrow at the forehead from this distance!” She praised at my back then go in front of me while checking out my soul weapon. “Big brother, you told us that you don’t know about your soul weapon but from the way I see it, you look expert on using that soul weapon.” She said, her eyes narrowed that giving me skeptical look.

“I don’t know, I just know how to use this weapon, I think, it’s my instinct,” I said to her while she’s still looking at me in a curious manner. I fly upwards and face towards my brother, “Arsenio! Get the body of that monster, were going to eat!” I shouted at him.

“Yes! Big Brother!” He said, he saluted at me and lift off towards the monster’s dead body.

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While eating on the ground, “Big brother, earlier I survey the area, I can’t see any signs of elves or any village, are you sure that our direction is correct?” Minerva asked.

“We need to follow this river, all living things need water to survive, this is our best bet to see an elven civilization,” I said to them and both of them nodded.

After resting for a few moments, we lift off and continue our journey to search for any signs of civilization.

“Big brother! Big brother, Look, a dragon!” Arsenio said in his stuttering voice, he pointed out the huge flying shadow in our east direction.

“Hide now! Behind that forest!” I said to them in a low voice, we all landed down to the ground and hide in the thick forest.

After a few moments, I see a massive body of a flying red dragon that passing at us, it has a similar appearance the way it described back in the earth. The dragon nose have thick streams that coming out in it and the dragon stopped in front of us. The shock waves that coming from the flapping of the dragon wings are affecting the large area of the forest. All trees are tilting sideways while I have beads of sweat running on my face. There’s someone telling me that this huge dragon can kill me without breaking a sweat. My eyes move to my siblings and both of them are also sweating furiously.

“Interesting human.” The dragon said in a slow and loud creepy voice. The dragon looks at us on the left side of his face with his black slit pupil for a few seconds and flies towards the west. I want to leave as soon as possible but I can't even move a muscle.

After I saw the dragon in a quite far distance, I finally take a breath of fresh air. That, that is an english word, the dragons can speak English and he said human, how did that dragon know?

“Big brother! Are you all right?” Arsenio said in worried voice while shaking my body.

“Yes, I’m ok, you can stop now. Sigh,” I said to him while still pondering things about what that dragon said.

“Its ok, big brother the dragons are always just passing by at this season. We are lucky that he's not hungry.” Minerva said, I think, she’s trying to cheer me.

“No, I’m all right, Let’s continue!” I said to them, we lift off and follow again the endless river.

While flying, “Big brother, I think the dragon say something earlier, do you understand it?” Minerva asked.

I need to be careful at my action, this Minerva is a good observant, “No, I’m just a bit scared earlier.” I said.

After the long hours of flying, I decide to rest at the top of the tree and our journey will continue tomorrow.

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In the next day, while flying, I see a plain land area in a far distance from us. At the middle of the plain land, there's a huge brown stone wall that encircles the different kind of stone or cemented structures that have similarities on the ancient Greece period. At the center of it, there’s azure color huge monolith stone that is glowing. While there's a long and wide dark green double door that made from sturdy kind of metal. Some caravans that pulling by different monsters are entering inside while some are going outside.

I summon my soul weapon and use the scope to check out the area in a more detail. While looking at my scope, I see the familiar humanoid that my son drew back in the earth. There's an elves that wearing silver light armor that checking the caravans goods. Most of them have a pale skin while their bodies are a bit thin, they have a have long hair and they're quite tall.

“We are going to enter in that city, prepare yourself if anything goes south, I mean If anything bad happens,” I said to them in a loud voice and both of them nodded their head.

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After a few moments, we landed in the front of the huge dark green gate. One of the elven soldiers immediately run toward us.

“....... ….. ……. ……..! ” The elven soldier said in a loud voice.

Looks like we have a serious problem.