Author Memo: Greetings! Sorry I lost track of the time! It was little difficult to stop reading and go to write! But I did it today! I finished what I was reading, so now I can write!

Yey! Chocolates for me!!! jokes aside, if someone spot a mistake, remind me.

Anyway. Here is your chapter of the day!

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The sun awakened me. I sat up fast and looked around, no one near… I stretchered my body because he was hard… ‘It’s not good to sleep on the ground.’ I drank water from the river. It was clean and cold. I had just slept for almost 4 hours, and I could see that I were tired.

I needed food and I did not have any with me now. So I would need to hunt, my bow was not with me, so I would use magic… it really take all the excitement out of it. I was walking looking for my prey. When I saw it. One silver fox, it was not that fat, but all had eaten one before and their meat is very tasty.

Without thinking, I jumped and tried to grab its tail but it jumped out of my way and for some reason started to look mad at me… ‘This animal is sentient?’ Then the fox released some magic and turned in a girl. She was angry with me. Her two golden pupils shone dangerously.

“You… do you know what you had done?” she asked me. She had silver long hair, she had fox ears and tail, she was smaller than me but not much, probably 15 cm or so.

“What did I do? I wanted to eat and I saw a fox, their meat is delicious so a thought that I could eat it… but it is a beastwoman…” I sighed and she punched me. I didn’t had time to understand what happened and when I saw I was in the ground.

“Do you know that I was hunting a rabbit and when you jumped at me you scared it? Now I have to look for another one! It’s a pain in the ass to do it…” I couldn’t talk, because she was slapping my face. It was hurting but I didn’t have power to defend myself. Her first punch had disarmed me.

It took her five minutes to leave me alone… how much stamina this girl have? She glared me once before turning back to her fox form and run into some bushes...

I wait for almost half hour to finish heal my injuries. I walked again looking for food. My stomach was rumbling so loud that all the forest could hear it… probably. It took me 10 minutes to find a rabbit and with a Wind Blade I cut his head off.

It is really easy to hunt with magic. I skinned and cleaned his meat before making a fire to cook it. When I was waiting I saw an apple tree and took two of them to use it to give some spice to the meat. I eat everything, it was good but I would like to have some real spice…

I run a little more to the north, but after one hour running I felt some people… it was different, it wasn’t human… probably one of the other races?

I put my hand on the hilt waiting for them to come closer. After a few minutes I could see them, 5 beastmen. A tiger, a wolf, a snake, a monkey and a… wait, the last one is a human?

I took out my blade and the five just looked at each other before nodding. ‘Something is strange… why is a human here?’ I wanted to voice my question, but the wolf was faster and talked something in a strange language. I just tilted my head. She tried a few more languages before starting to look depressed.

“Hum… what do you guys are doing here?” I asked when she stopped to breath. She looked surprised at me and them to her companions she nod.

“Well… we were just wondering why are you here… it is difficult to see any beastmen around the human territory, but as we can see you’re not a beastman. You have a different kind of smell.” The tiger observed. Therefore, he already had figured out…

“I don’t know what you are talking about…” I will fake that I don’t know…

“Hum…” The human looked at me… I want to kill him. He shrugged, and started talking with the monkey. Everyone had a different weapon, the tiger was using claws, the wolf a book. ‘Why would someone use a book as a weapon?’ The monkey a kind of staff, the snake had a bow, and the human… no he isn’t a human… he is a eagle? Oh, just his eyes and feet are different… he has a clawed feet I hadn’t saw it before because he was near a bush and he had a sword.

I stopped to try to kill them when I saw that no one were human. I released my breath and didn’t had noticed that I was doing this. They seemed to relax just like me. The snakeman was looking at my bag… when did he get it? It was near my feet!

“Nothhhing abnormal here. Jusssst clothessss.” He exclaimed.

“So, may I ask what are you doing so close to one of the human cities?” The monkey asked me. Hum… so I’m so close to them… I never had asked mother about it.

“I was just running. They were trying to kill me or capture me… I lived with my mother but one day they invaded and she ordered me to live.” I wouldn’t give them all the story, I think it is more than enough… for now.

They nodded. Therefore, it means that it happened a lot of times.

“So… what do we do with him?” Monkey asked. “We guide him to our boss?”

“Probably… he is always looking for strong people. He is a brat but he’s not common… I can’t explain it, I just have a feel about it.” Eagle as thinking. “But, kid. Can I see your sword?” What the hell?

I looked to everyone but they just had facepalmed themselves. ‘So this is normal?’

“You can look… but how I would know you’re not fooling me to get out with it?”

“It’s simple! Everyone will leave theirs weapons near you and you leave your sword near me. Ah, we leave first… I just want to have a look at your sword! I never had seen a ruby on a sword!” He really want to see it… they putted their weapons on the ground near me, the eagleman was the last because he would take the sword to see.

I put my sword near him and I had already prepared a chant, if they were to attack me I wouldn’t hold back. However… for some reason he couldn’t lift my sword, it is really that heavy? I can lift it with one hand.

“Ahaha! It is heavy! Hey, Amanda, give it a try!” The wolfwoman tried but she was not able. They all tried but no one obtained successes. “Oh! What a unique sword. It means that no one other than you can lift it… hey take her of the sheath, I want to see the blade.” I shrug and take her out. Its blade had a beautiful red. The color was deeper than before, it probably had happened because she had drank the blood of the bandits.

All their eyes focused on its blade. Their mouths were open and the eagleman’s eyes were shining. After a few moments I place her back and he asked its name but when I answered that it didn’t had a name yet he was excited because he wanted to give it a name but when I said I would give the name he had fallen in a orz position… maybe I needed to be more nice to him?

“Hey, kid. Put this on your eyes. Our base is hiding and we can’t believe that you will never sell its place.” The tigerman give a piece of cloth to me. I just shrugged and put it. it would not make any difference to me.

They guided for a while but they just walked on circles before we entered a cave, there once more we walked in and out of some rooms just to make it more difficult to make new people confused.

So after a while we entered a door and they permitted me to take the cloth out.

When I opened my eyes I was in front of a huge door. They knocked before announcing we could enter.

A half-dark room. It was really strange, a room with a table and half of it had lights up, but the other half was so dark that you could not see anything there.

“And this is the Kid… Guys, did you know that you make me lost half an hour waiting for you and that you could bring him here without using our distraction?” A voice came from the dark side of the room. (I almost used dark side of the force…)

They were dumbfounded. Moreover, when I explained that I knew they were trying to mess my direction’s sense they were sending flying to a corner of the room by a powerful windblast.

“Now kid. We can start.” A low hiss came from that side. “And please, don’t lie. I can detect it.”