"Where are you taking us, Goliath? We are running for like 3 hours." Luna said getting tired, "I am only 15 years old, please understand." She said pouting.
Alisa, Luna and Goliath bid farewell to everyone in the hideout and went in early morning, even without eating. And on the other side, Shadow and Blaze went somewhere, too, just bidding farewell and not informing everyone about their journey.
"I think we should get a little rest then, right Goliath?" Alisa suggested Goliath for it, which made Goliath chuckle a little.
"I am really sorry, your highness. But please try to run for 5 minutes more, we are here already." Goliath teases Luna, which makes Alisa laugh and Luna in pouting mode.
"Fine!!" Luna said and ran before both of them. "Now she got the strength, hehe." Alisa said.
"We should go too now, Alisa." Goliath said, and Alisa began after nodding yes.
After a few minutes, "Here we are, finally reached. This is my hometown, Timberland Haven." Goliath mentions the village.
"Ooh! You lived here, Goliath?" Luna asks. "Yes Luna, and we will train here. Not only Alisa but you too." Goliath said.
"I know, I know..." Luna said sighing.
"Hehe! You don't mind training with me, right Luna?" Alisa asks smiling. "Of course not." Luna said facepalming.
"So let's go in?" Goliath gestured for them to move inside the village.
A young man welcomed them, "After so long, you finally come back, Goliath." He said smiling.
"Yes, but not for too long, Hazel." Goliath said hugging that guy.
"And you even bring guests with you." Hazel said, smiling to Alisa and Luna, who then bowed in the thank you manner.
"Yeah, I am here to train both of them here." Goliath said.
"Training? Here? How?" Hazel asked.
"For that, leave it to me." Goliath said, grinning, which made Luna and Alisa look at each other.
"Ok, ok, fine, come inside now. Mr. Oakley wants to meet you for so long." Hazel said gesturing them to come in.
"Oh, Mr. Oakley. Is he ok?" Goliath asks with concern. "Yeah, don't worry, he is ok. You already know we Timberland people have strong willpower. We will be fine in every condition." Hazel said, being a proud member of this village.
After some time, they reached to an old cottage, "All of you come and meet our village's elder, Mr. Oakley Timberlake." Hazel said, "You guys sit and talk I will bring some tea for you all." Then he went.
All of them bowed in front of the elder, "Greetings, Mr. Oakley." Goliath said on behalf of all of them.
"Welcome, our guests. Goliath told me that you two are gonna come here, Alisa and Luna. And Goliath! You finally remembered this village. I thought I needed to come and meet you in person because you are so busy person." Oakley said in a teasy tone.
"I am really sorry, master. It's just nowadays, both demons and angels are getting wild and, as always, mainly demons." Goliath said with a weird smile.
"They were here again 2 years back." Oakley said in a serious tone.
"What!? Again? Why are they targeting this village so many times!?" Goliath got angry.
"For now don't engage in these talks, Goliath. You need to train the girls, right?" Oakley said calming Goliath.
"You are right, master. I am sorry, Alisa, Luna, let's go. I will show you our training ground." Goliath said while standing.
First, no one says anything. Just bow in front of the elder Oakley, and when they come out of his cottage then, Luna says, "Heh! We just arrived here. Why so sudden training." She said in a tired voice.
Yea, they forget the tea... Poor Hazel...
"He is just showing the place, Luna. Then we will go and take a rest, ok." Alisa said, knowing that right now Goliath is not in a funny mood at least.
"Let's go then." Goliath said.
After some moments walking inside the jungle, "Here... We gonna train here, you two." Goliath said showing a 'no space' place between many trees.
"Eh- where exactly the place is...?" Both Luna and Alisa got confused.
"Alisa, you too didn't understand?" Goliath asks for a positive answer.
"Yo- you want us to... cut these trees and make our own training ground!?" Alisa said, shockingly by which Luna got surprised.
"Huh! How can we cut these big trees!?" Luna asked, scared.
"Well, this village is famous for its timber and woodcutters. So if we are borrowing this place for training we need to help them too, not to be freeloaders, right? So we will kill two birds with one stone. Cutting these to make our training ground and give those timbers to the people living here. And cutting these trees will only make us stronger, right?" Goliath said so casually that Alisa and Luna began to blink repeatedly.
"But-" Alisa was about to say something, but Goliath told her the reason behind this tree-cutting training, "Listen, Alisa, I am not making you do some waste work... See this as the precap of your previous training." He said.
Alisa starts to think, "First Blaze, trained you physically, a power training. Second Luke trained you mentally, a relaxing training. Now, I will train you for your focus, a concentration training." Now Alisa gets what Goliath meant by recapping her previous training.
"And for you, Luna. You are too weak physically, so no need to push yourself, but I won't let you be a weaker one, so you will do this too." Goliath said to Luna, too, and after hearing what he said to Alisa, Luna said, "I understood, Goliath. I will try my best too."
"Good. At first Alisa, you trained with Blaze, fighting demons and stuff, right?" Goliath asks, to which Alisa nods, "And second, as it was a mental or relaxing training, Luke tried to make it normal, but an Angel ruined it, right? Even though you learned to control your powers now, well, no one can beat practical training, you know." Alisa again nods to Goliath's question.
"Now, here will be no demons, no angels. It's only trees and me. For my training of course. I don't know if Luna, too, has something to train you." He said looking at Luna.
"Yes, I have!" She said excitedly which made both Alisa and Goliath smile.
"Ok so because it is mine, let's come here from tomorrow and start our training. The faster you gonna cut these trees, the quickly you will get to train, Alisa. And yeah one more thing, I won't help in this... You two girls need to do this alone. Alisa has a sword, Luna, don't worry I will give you a light axe tomorrow. Ok, so everything is settled now. Come to the same place and start your work from-" Goliath got cut in between by Luna and Alisa, "Tomorrow...!!" Both of them said in unison.
"Good. Now come, Hazel will show you the way to your cottage." He patted both of them and then went from the jungle.
Author POV:-
So hey guys this is it for this chapter. Well from tomorrow poor Alisa and Luna are gonna train hard or I should say work hard for their living in Timberland Haven lol. I don't have much to say so... I hope you enjoyed it.
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