The Tale Of Varathia

The Soul Dragon

     The next day Araka was up early training harder than ever, pushing herself like she's gonna die from the attack of Jaskos dummies. Jasko himself was most likely out an about shopping for food and other goods.

Arilo walks out towards Araka trying not to startle her because he doesn't feel like getting sliced into a million meat chunks.

     "Workin' hard huh!" Arilo said as Araka quickly turned around and pointed her curved yet small assassin blade at Arilos throat, jokingly of course.

     "Hah yea gotta get stronger and smarter if I wanna match a multibonds strength!" she said teasingly towards Arilo as she placed her blade in its respected leather holster located on her lower back.

     "Hey, guys! I got some exciting news!" Jasko walks outside with the two looking at him anticipating the great news.

Jasko then opens a small bag full of Varathias currency, which is just simple gold and silver.

     "Woah! Jasko where'd you get all that!" Araka gasped with shock.

     "I worked my ass off while you two trained! so you better make me proud and conquer our leader!" He then hands Arilo and Araka the bag full of currency.

      "Wait wait wait, this is yours, not ours! spend it on things for your home!" Arilo retaliated

Jasko shook his head, "You two are ready, take it, it should be enough to get you to the central city."

The two teens stand there in complete shock, all this time they thought Jasko was saving up for new equipment, but they were so wrong.

     "w-wait, aren't you coming with us!"
jasko shook his head again, I can't, I'm too old to fight a king and his army haha!"

Arilo and Araka look at each other and then at Jasko Saddened.

"Don't give me those sad eyes. Oh! That reminds me, there's one more piece of advice I think you two should know. Keep control of your emotions when in battle, If you react off emotion you may end up hurting yourself or others by accident, And if you are able to control your emotion and think smarter when in battle, you may be able to look at your bond a completely different way. 

Arilo walked up to Jasko and tightly hugged him

leaving jasko is like leaving a childhood friend you've known for all your life. So many memories quite literally becoming memories.
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     It's been a week since they said their goodbyes And things have not gotten easier for the two teens.

every few hours they have to check for bandits, Robbers, and raccoons. guess raccoons need money too.

after a long and treacherous 3 week walk and camp, they finally make it, to a small village a few hundred miles from the central city. luckily the small village community welcomed Arilo and Araka with open arms.

     "Welcome young ones!" said the elder of the village. the village is very old school with almost every house owning farmland big or small, and no modern-looking medieval buildings, not even a wall around the village.

     "thank you!" Araka gratefully said as she bowed. Arilo not knowing what's considered respect was kicked in the leg by Araka.

     "ow ow alright, I didn't know!" he gasped as he bows with Araka. the elder gently smiled.

     "It's quite alright multibond, people in my village have been hoping for you two to visit."

"Wait how did you know I was a multibond?" Arilo questioned.