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Chapter 5|| A New Start

[Trendale Village------------------] [Boar Foot Inn]

Sen's POV

"Screams, horrible screams but there, not mine, the abyss inside me is filled with these screams and as I try to concentrate on them my head feels as if it's being ripped apart and I quickly awaken I feel a cold sweat pouring down my back and i...........shit.... it's not sweat."

"Kai, sen peed himself again.Change him for me will ya."

" Didn't I change him last time?"

" What! no way. I changed him last time don't you remember.Now you change him while I go get us some breakfast."

As tara quickly left kai looked towards his speeding wife.

" Wait I did change him last time."

" haha "

Tara slams the door and as she does a wet diaper immediately hits it.]

Kai lets out a long low sigh.

Sen's POV

"as I look up into my father's eyes I try to speak, but as I do it simply comes out as whining, confused by this, I clearly understand everything he says, and yet I myself can't communicate. I try to use my mana and will it to once more move an object to get my father's attention, but even that fails me. Instantly I try to remember that same feeling I got a few nights ago when I defended my mother, I go over the variables in my head one at a time my first thought was anger,I was absolutely furious that night as well as a bit confused. Trying to gain that same feeling but nothing happens, as I recall other factors and I test other hypothesis none seem to work. For some reason or another I can't even feel my mana its like it doesn't even exist, as I contemplate my fate without mana in this world I start to only think of the worst when suddenly I begin to smell something delicious. Tara walks in thru the door carrying a big tray full of hot food, and as I look to see what it is, I see it. The glory of the gods them self's 2 thick fat slabs of BACON!!. Not just bacon also 2 big egg omelets stuffed with sauteed onions and spicy peppers, with a loaf of fresh pan bread and a spread of fresh prin prin berry jam, and a sweet-savory soup with little bits of different vegetables mixed in it. Truly a breakfast to behold. My mouth starts watering immediately and as I try to ask for some that dam gibberish of a whine leaves my lips."

" Aww I think he's hungry should I give him a nibble of bacon?"

Sen's POV

"yes yes yes yes"

" Kai don't be a fool you can't feed bacon to a baby."

Sen's POV

"nooo"

"Come on look at him he clearly wants it."

Sen's POV

"yes yes"

annoyed

" No, it's not good for him stop playing around already kai."

Sen's POV

"no, just a taste just a taste"

[As I think that I unconsciously start licking my lips, mother seeing this immediately whips a tit out and stuffs it in my mouth.]

[sigh]

Sen's POV

" Although the milk is good it simply cannot compare to bacon. How I know this I wish I knew but as I ingest the milk I feel something, a slow warmth gradually building up in my chest and lower stomach. It's my mana, of course without food my small body would not be able to replenish my power the more I drink the more I feel my mana reaching its capacity and when I'm finally full and my mana's all the way refilled I stop eating. My mother burps me and lays me down for a nap but I simply cannot sleep after making this discovery, so I simply lay there and listen to my parents conversation."

"Today's the last day we have the room, have you thought about where we should go. "

Kai still stuffing his face didn't even respond.

" Because I was thinking we could go to........"

In a hushed tone

" my mothers "

Kai hearing this immediately began to cough and choke on his food, taking a large hard swallow he gasped for air.

*cough cough cough cough*

" YOUR MOTHERS!!"

Sen's POV

" I guess father has a bad relationship with tara's mother."

"You know I have a bad relationship with your mother."

"But she's a noble she can protect us in Cordel."

" uh uh, no way your mother is quite vile."

"What!"

Kai realizing his mistake he quickly tries to fix the situation.

" I...uh..shes not vile she's just a little mean .....no ahh."

Seeing his wife starting to seethe with rage he decided to settle.

" I mean she's.... just ....... a...little....stubborn that's all."

Tara calming down after a moment of relaxed breathing.

" True she's a little stubborn but she's still family and I know she can protect us."

" But what about in nordem I have a friend in that city."

" What friend.?

" uh you know..."

In a hushed and quiet tone.

" dannie."

"DANNIE!!! and you said my mother was vile that man is the lowest of scum."

" He's not that bad."

"He tried to kill you."

" Only once."

" No, the answer is no."

"But, but my friend."

"No, and besides not only is nordem further away there's no guarantee that he'd help, and what help would an ex-adventurer do, he cant protect sen from the people.We need someone high up my mom is only 10 months away by horseback if we spend a little extra we may even get there in 8 months that's the plan got it."

Kai simply sighed and said.

" yes dear."

Sen's POV

pfff pathetic how can this man be my father.

As the two finalize their plans to seek refuge in Cordel they quickly gather supplies. They first buy a large cart with a cover over the top followed by a cheap horse, also a nice size chest to store food and another for tools and other miscellaneous items.

In the market, they search for someone with a good map, and so they come upon an old merchant with a fat gut a short stature and beady eyes. This man was the epitome of shady but running out of options kai and tara decided to ask anyway.

"Excuse me, sir, would you happen to have a map for purchase."

"Of course of course I have maps, many many maps to many many locations, from the ends of Odren to the great Plains of Nightvale ,up down left right any place and any sight, dirty dungeons smelting dwarfs any place in the world is yours. "

*crickets*

"What no applause?"

Seeing this weird fat man kai and tara quickly turned to leave,

"Wait wait I was kidding, maps I have them, tell me your destination and I've got a map for it guarantee."

"sir me and my husband need a map to Cordell do you have one?"

"Why yes I do, that would be 10 silver, please ."

Tara handed over the money.

" Thank you for your purchase one moment, please."

As soon as he said that the fat merchant quickly disappeared into the back of his cart. As they listened closely they could hear the man inside and what sounded like someone walking downstairs, they quickly heard a crashing noise.

*BANG CRASH BOOM*

" WHO PUT THAT ON THE STEPS!"

" I don't know, was that you john."

"Not me it might have been lucy."

" Don't blame me for something you or mike probably did."

" For god's sake's SHUT UP!...... now where are the maps?"

....................

" Hello, where are the maps."

"you told us to shut up."

" GRRR!"

" tee hee hee."

" Check the basement that's where they were last time."

" ah right."

*thump bump thump*

The sound of more steps being walked upon.

*CREAK*------- [A door opens.]

"Maps maps maps, one to the dungeon of gordaron, one to the forest of no return, ah here it is one map to Cordell."

*whoosh*

"what the."

" OOOOOOoooo"

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

The merchant let out a wild scream followed by the sound of quick footsteps and a door being slammed.

"what's wrong."

" THERE'S A FUCKING GHOST DOWN THERE!!!"

" yeah right, probably just scared of the dark teehee."

"Old man you're losing your beans."

" a ghost really, shouldn't you be selling something."

The merchant was now seething with rage.

" you damn kids, there really was a ghost."

" yeah, right ghost aren't real."

"GRRRR!"

The merchant realizing this was going nowhere suddenly remembered the customers.he quickly flew up and out of the back of his cart, standing in front of kai and tara panting he said with a smile.

" Here you are...............by the way do either of you believe in ghost."

Tara and kai both utterly shocked, turned and simply walked away,

"kai, That was."

" Lets........let's not talk about it, ever."

After a while, they came upon a mana store where general mana devices were bought and sold. Usually consisting of fire stones and things of that nature. Where to use it, you simply insert some mana into the firestone and it will produce a flame. Entering the store they were greeted by a petite blonde elf shopkeeper with overwhelming melons that seemed to bust out of her top.

" Welcome is there something you're interested in purchasing today."

Tara noticing her husband's stupid gawking face, quickly pinched him in his side twisting his flesh ever so tightly. Talking thru her teeth she said.

"Yes, me and my lovely husband wish to purchase a flame stone and an ice stone please."

The elf noticing the wife pinching her husband merely smiled and said.

" 1 gold, please."

After buying the stones tara quickly stormed out Sen watching this thought(truly a pathetic man.) After buying the stones, they had one more stop to make, food they bought 10 kgs of meat and 12 kgs of fruit and vegetables. They'll have to hunt for the rest of their food along the way, as they finished their shopping they loaded everything up.

Placing the meat into the chest tara then laid the ice stone on top of the meat and applied a bit of mana, a dark blue light slowly emerged from the stone and then a small popping noise could be heard, then bang the chest and meat froze over instantly.

If they were gonna buy this much meat then they needed to freeze it lest it spoils after a few days in the heat, but with the ice stone on top, it would stay frozen until more mana was applied to it. Climbing on top of the cart the three finally set out for Cordel.

[Seedal Village]

A tall man wearing a set of black armor with short black hair and a thin narrow nose, looked down at this village of ash and as he did 5 other knights ran up to him and immediately took a knee one of the knights called out.

" Inspector Dreyer sir."

" Report now!"

" Sir after investigating it seems everyone has died. "

" Everyone died"

" yes sir"

" If so why did i get a report this morning, that stated that the night this village went up in flames, a man covered in blood and a women with a child both with paled expressions appeared at Trendale village located just 5 miles away. A farmers eyewitness testimony also claims that the following morning that same man that showed up at the inn the night before was spotted just outside the village early in the morning covered in blood. This man is our number 1 suspect and I want him. "

" Sir I'm sorry"

"Do not fail again, for now we must go to Trendale and find this man, woman, and child."

End of Chapter 5