Best friends? kaveh x alhathiam <3

Chapter 18

Eremites

Kaveh felt scared. What was going on why was Alhaitham and Cyno here? Why was his client an eremite and why did he even get hired if it was all fake? Kaveh was scrambling through his thoughts. The cold blade right next to him. Kaveh was scared was he going to be beheaded.

"drop the blade." Cyno said calmly, yet Kaveh could tell he was scared for his friends sake.
"and what if I don't? General Matra, and the acting grand sage. Oh and the so called 'hero' of Sumeru!" said the man spitefully. Kaveh remembered what had happened to sumeru a few months ago. Why was this man even angry. Kaveh thought the eremites helped right. So why did the man not seem to happy to see the traveler, Alhaitham, and Cyno.

Kaveh realized he had Mehrak behind him so he started making signals to Mehrak to strike at the opportunity Kaveh knew it was risky however Mehrak was behind all the eremites so truthfully only Cyno, Alhaitham Lumine, and Paimon  could see what he was doing. He signaled to Mehrak to stay quiet since this could be a life or death situation for the both of them.

"if you don't I'll make sure to end you and your comrades. We made peace with eremites why can't we leave it like that?" Alhaitham spoke up. He was annoyed at the man.

"so you want to see your friend die? It's an easy trade right we kill him you kill tons of us! Ha!" the man laughed getting the blade closer to Kaveh. Kaveh was starting to get more scared but handled it.
"YOU'VE GOT SOME NERVE!" Paimon said annoyed and angrily. Lumine took out her sword in case of anything. "hah! You to! We helped you in the desert but you! You didn't help us people still think we're terrible human beings even though we helped you!" The man said inching the blade closer to Kaveh. " some of our men were persecuted! Killed! Even though we gave up fighting to help you! And to this day you guys still fight us! So I plan to end Sumeruns!" the man said angrily." starting with this blonde." the man laughed. Kaveh understood but why him, Damn it.

" we know you not only want revenge your here for a reason there's artifacts and weapons here. Youre power hungry! " Lumine shouted." so what if I am!" the man laughed insanely while shouting out.

Suddenly Kaveh felt the cold Blade on his neck. Kaveh suddenly signaled to Mehrak it was time. Quickly Mehrak took Kavehs weapon and had it between the Mans legs since they were in a position that had them split open. Alhaitham was confused what happened. Suddenly Kaveh turned around while holding the blade back from his neck. Kaveh whispered just to have a little bit of fun to turn the tables.

"want me to cut your precious ass in half?" Kaveh whispered. The man looked at him with pure anger but Kaveh quickly did a back flip out before the man had slit his neck open. He quickly called Mehrak. Mehrak took his weapon and came running. Kaveh smirked. "are you OK?" asked Alhaitham vetting near Kaveh. "MMHM!" Kaveh smiled happily smirking back at the eremites knowing what they were gonna do
now. "KILL THEM!!" Shouted the man. Quickly Alhaitham used dendro powers to hurt the eremites while Cyno started infusing his spear with electro creating aggravate. Kaveh started hitting them with his claymore as Lumine dashed in to slash them while using anemo, geo, electro, and dendro. Creating swirls of multiple elements. And making shields as well as doing aggravate.
Soon enough there were no more eremites. "I will confiscate the artifacts and weapons and take them to the Akademiya." Alhaitham said as he walked over to them. Alhaitham grabbed the items. "Kaveh let's go back home." Alhaitham said. Kaveh nodded still thinking about what had happened earlier even though he acted cocky near the end of it he was still definitely scared.

A few days later.

Kaveh and Alhaitham woke up to eat having a good time eating the delicious food Kaveh made. Suddenly a knock on their food appeared. As Alhaitham walked over to open it. He saw Faurzan looking at them angrily. "Lumine and Paimon are leaving!! You guys should say goodbye!" Faurzan said looking at Kaveh "HOW'D YOU KNOW I LIVE HERE!?!?" Kaveh screamed. "I just know! And don't yell at your seniors now come they're leaving to Fontaine!!" Faurzan said signaling her hands for them to come Alhaitham said sure while Kaveh for a second froze.

"Fontaine..." Kaveh thought. "ah! Yea sure!" Kaveh stumbled on his words while getting up quickly. Alhaitham was ready but Kaveh wasn't.

He quickly got ready. And left with Alhaitham to say goodbye to Lumine. They noticed that Nilou and Layla were saying their goodbyes to Lumine and Paimon. As Tighnari and Cyno watched Dehya and Candace also arrived as Katheryn arrived but truthfully it was Nahida saying bye. Kaveh and Alhaitham said goodbye but stayed. Kaveh realized the news was true since Layla said tiredly "safe travels to Fontaine!" Kaveh couldn't hold it anymore he walked back over to Lumine to ask her something important. Alhaitham was confused as Collei went up to him asking what was he going to do since Kaveh already said goodbye.

"is something wrong Kaveh?" asked Paimon confused at his sudden return "I have to ask it's been years." Kaveh thought he suddenly couldn't hold it in he trembled hoping Lumine would say yes. "I - I... I want to go to Fontaine with you!" Kaveh said tensed up scared. It had been years since he last saw his mom... So maybe, he could reunite and say hello. "..." Lumine looked shocked. Alhaitham had an idea of what was going on. Tighnari and Cyno were confused." please. " Kaveh added." sure. But why do you want to go?" asked Lumine curious. Kaveh didn't want to bring the mood down so he said quickly "oh! I just want to meet up with an old  friend of mine!" Kaveh hoped Lumine wouldn't think much since they were friends already anyways.

"okay!" Paimon said happily. "are you staying there Kaveh?" Collei asked hoping he didn't. "of course not! Don't worry I'll be back it's just a visit." Kaveh reassured her so she didn't feel sad. "well then, let's go Kaveh!" Paimon said they soon got ready and left.

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