House of the Serpent Bearer (On Hold)

Chapter 1: Heroes are born

Mission briefing..
Hellion Squad, you are to annihilate the Nymphs in the woods Northwest from the city. Advice: stay alive. Over and out.

We arrived in front of the deep dark woods. And I'm not surprised that there is a herd of Nymph getting ready to eat us.

Damon chuckled "This is gonna be fun."

"Damon, Amara.. Get the little ones over there. I'll get the big guy." Archi said as he summon his latency

"Game on leader." Damon's grin widening as he brought out his two double bladed swords.

"Ugh.. 'little ones' is an understatement. Trust me." I said as I drew out 2 of my daggers.

Hi my name is Amara. We just graduated from the Philia Academy 2 years ago. Well, except for Archimedes. He's the one we could all call a 'genius'. He was immediately pulled out from the academy and was brought to these kind of missions. While he was completely skilled, I am, in a word, a book worm. So much that I graduated from the academy BECAUSE AND ONLY BECAUSE of my high academic grade. Damon here is one of the hindrance inside my life. Since in the academy we were the best of the best when it comes to dog-cat fights. Good thing he's actually useful with these kind of things.

With Damon's infamous '10-slice attack' half of the 'little ones' lie down on the bloody grassfields.

"Haha and that girl is what you call being tough while being handsome"

He said with a joking look on his face.

"Shut up or I'll rip you into pieces" in a moment I swiftly cut the Nymphs in their weak spots. It took me only 5 minutes to cut down the rest. "Even if I'm this fragile I'm still fast you idiot" and so falls the last of my target.

"Hey where's-" just before I ask him where's Archi. He flew directly in the space between Damon and me.

"You bastard... Ugh.." Archi grunted as he got up from the shattered pieces of rocks.

"Looks like our leader's getting rusty." Damon commented with a mock.

"Shut it Damon. Something's wrong with them. It's like they got more tougher. Amara..."

"On it.."

Oh yes by the way.. I have this weird gift. Damon and Archimedes are the only people who knows about it. And that's...

Being able to pinpoint the bad in others. Most likely those things related to weaknesses, sickness, darkness etc.

"On it's tentacle, one o' clock and it's trunk on the side is injured. And... in there!" I darted my dagger across the grassfield towards the Giant Nymph. It hit the Nymph in the weak spot in it's trunk so that we can easily dispatch this guy.

"Now!"

Archimedes and Damon rushed to it and surprisingly Damon actually released his latency. I bet it has something to do with his cockiness.

"Nice! Two long blade swords huh?" he snickered like an idiot and together they attacked it from all sides.

"Huh, not bad. It's sharp like your cockiness." I said

"Heh.. You're just jealous. Hey leader! How about I try to fight it with you in our training."

"Shut it Damon. You still have a long way to go."  said Archi

Then Archi touched something in his ear.

This is Captain Archimedes. Mission successful. Over and out.

*****

As usual, it's a a sunny day here outside of the palace. And here we are practicing our combatic skills after our mission without even resting. Don't ask me why because I don't know either. But I do remember an annoying brat who requested to train and a man who's so strict that even the moon might shatter with his cold eyes.