The Eventful Expedition

Page 15 - The Arrival Of Another

It's 8/25, the same day that Benny has reunited with his brother's Devin and Alex. We're brought to the old man's house who's been taking care of Keifer and Daunte ever since they were saved from their last battle.

Daunte wakes up in a bed shirtless with his wounds all bandaged up. As he sits up he notices Keifer in pretty good condition compared to him with only his arm in a sling and a few face bandages. Looking around a bit the house isn't to much just enough space for a man living alone. The T.V is on and he see's his name along with Keifer's.

"Holy shit 15million?", he says "It's a good start but I need to aim higher if I'm gonna spread my name. Might be bad for Keifer though since he just wants to explore"

He gets up to explore the house. Most of his fractures have healed up due to his Zodiac spirit abilities.

As he's looking around a bald old white man with black shades wearing a white shirt with a turtle on it walks in. He has a grey moustache, a gold tooth, and a defined figure.

He says, "Oh good you're awake. Was afraid you boys would be out longer than necessary. Grab these watermelons would you?"

Daunte helps him and asks, "Where'd the other guy go? Why'd you help us?"

The man replies, "I'll explain it all later on over dinner but could you go get Joseph? He said he was gonna go train in the forest and hasn't been back in a couple days. He's a white boy about your height with blue eyes and a blonde undercut hairstyle. He's probably fighting some animals or something."

"Alright" Daunte says as he's leaving, "But I want answers when we comeback."

Daunte ventures through the forest for a couple hours thinking to himself *Damn this nigga is nowhere to be seen. Did he get eaten or something?*

After fighting a couple animals himself and looking high and low he finally comes across the boy he's looking for. Joseph is sitting at a makeshift fire eating the leg of a hog on a cliff with a view of the ocean.

"Damn man you really didn't want anyone to find you huh?" Daunte says.

Joseph turns toward him and asks, "Wait, who are you wanna fight?"

Daunte smiles, "Now that's an offer I can't turn down, but are you gonna finish that?" pointing at the hog.

Joe scoots over and says, "You can have some I was gonna throw most of it to the wolves anyways. We're gonna spar after though right?"

Daunte sits while grabbing a piece of the hog, "Of course we are why wouldn't we? I heard you been training for a while out here."

Joseph in a bit of shock says, "You know Old man Shu? How? Actually I've never even seen you before."

Daunte laughs, "Oh man do I got a story to tell you. It goes like this........."

Daunte tells Joe the story of Keifer and himself. We're then flashed back to the house where Keifer slumbers.

The camera zooms in on him into his mind to the middle of a dream. It's him as a child having a fun time with his Master Dou. He's being taught the basics of Aerobi, the principles of life and how to fully enjoy it. It's all nice and sunny until it wasn't.

The dream turns dark with blood splatters everywhere. Keifer is suddenly running through a forest to his Master's house where he's impaled by a shadow figure surrounded by 4 other's. They take off and fly away from the scene leaving Keifer crying over his master.