The Destined Odyssey - Volume 1

The First Friend

The three friends took Tact to the cave. As they came close the women feared the unknown evil aura hence stood back to Magus. Nebula was holding the kid as if she was refusing the kid to be taken, Terra was holding Maple tightly. Magus spread his hand in a way to show that those people were being protected by him. Ignite and Frigid took the attacking positions. Gonas, Fencer signed them not to do anything with their eyes to the other members making all of them to stand in defensive positions.

All of them were standing in the same place without moving from their places, Tact appeared in front of the women suddenly within a blink. He went close to each of the member at that place and said "This is a quite interesting group I have found till now." He found Nebula was hiding something and forced her to show him. Magus told her to believe in him and show the kid. Nebula slowly opened her hand, as she was opening the air near her hand got clear and the boy was seen. "Hmmm hmmmm Am I seeing what I was searching for haaaaa!" said Tact and made the boy come to him with his magic. He saw the boy quite close and said "You are good but your fragile look is making me doubt hmmmm" He suddenly got some signal in his brain.

"You people are making me curious, but now I have no time to get entertained from you. What a waste.... hahahahaaa hmmm. My senses tell me that we will meet again, Hope to see you soon... especially you my cutie boy hmm hahahahaaaa!" saying these words he disappeared into thin air. All the members signed with relief and sat down at their position without even taking a single step. The boy came to father and asked him "Dada... who is that uncle? He looked creepy!" Gonas hugged the kid for a minute and said "He is a bad uncle son, if you ever see him in future, run away from him ok!" The kid nodded his head and smiled and said "Yes, Dadaa!" Seeing his smile again everyone pulled themselves together. That night they made dinner and went to sleep early deciding to move from that place as soon as possible.

The next day on their journey, they decided to stop for taking food in the noon. Fencer said "There is a village nearby, I saw them when I was a mission few years back. Let us head there. Those people are quite skilled in combat and there are few friends of mine, it will be a bit safe too." Agreed to him they moved their carts in the direction of the village while Fencer was leading the path. As they got nearer to the village, they found that the place has been destroyed. Fencer was worried about his friends and could not wait longer, he ran with his foot as fast as possible and searched for his friends, but no one was found there. The remaining have arrived. They also tried to search for any of the people left. Kid found Fencer sobbing in front of a house, he went to him and pulled Fencer's shirt. Fencer turned around and saw the tears building up in the boy's eyes saying "Don't cry uncle! Uncle Fencer is cool, he never cries...huuuhh huuuhhh!" Fencer hugged the kid tightly and said "Yes your uncle is cool, he never cries"

Fencer took the boy on his back and started searching if there are any one left alive. After moving forward for three houses they hear a sound in a house on their left. Fencer told the boy to hold him tightly, and went inside the house. They searched all the rooms and found nothing. Fencer told the boy to stay at the door and run to other if he has not returned within five minutes and went upstairs slowly. It has been 2 minutes the boy hears a sound from the first room. The boy slowly walked into the room with curiousness and searched there "Is there anyone here? Do not worry uncle Fencer will save you please come out?" Hearing the kid's voice a small boy came out slowly from the closet. "Will he save me from the creepy guy?" asked the boy with a shivering tone. The boy said "Yes! He will" and took his hand and ran upstairs to Fencer and showed him the lost kid and shouted "Uncle Fencer, I have found a friend! He is my First Friend, uncle Fencer." and smiled broadly.

Fencer took the two boys to the others and said "That jerk! Tact had done this. Let us leave this place now itself. We will talk on the way." Hearing him they all left the place decided to eat fruits for the time as they could not waste any time in this forest any longer. Magus healed the boy; he ate some fruits. Both the kids made good friends of each other. They played and talked a lot and went to sleep in Fencer's laps holding each other's hands and other hand holding Fencers' arms. Seeing them Magus gave a closed-mouth smile. Fencer asked him, why he was smiling out of nowhere. Magus replied "You try to look cool always but seeing you now, you are actually a warm and emotional person." Fencer felt embarrassed and shy that his cheeks became red and his words stuck: N-o no. ..I.. I am am I am a person ...person ...... I am not an emotional fool! Yes! I am always cool." Hearing his troubled voice Gonas, Gust, Frigid and Magus bust out laughing.

Ignite was raiding the horse of the second cart, heard them all laughing so loud and felt curious and asked Gust about the reason for their laughter. Gust told the thing which happened making Ignite to bust to laugh. Hearing him laugh, the women in the back asked him when he was laughing out of blue. He narrated the whole thing leaving them also to bust to laughter. In this time Fencer noticed the pure innocent faces of the two boys and thought "One made his first friend in life and the other made a friend who made him friend in the worst situation. You became friends quite fast. These kids sure are quite a thing making me feel worried for them within the small time we met. Hope you kids and your friendship last for a long time." in his mind and gave a faint smile on his face. Seeing him giving out smile others teased him for being so attached to the kids. Gonas told them, "We will reach to the nearest town soon. Take some rest now, so that I can sleep when we reach the town and you people can handle the things there."