Heaven- Oneus Fanfiction

Chapter Thirteen: Heritage

Orliander POV

Orliander follows the tracks the group made after taking care of his wound and taking off his shirt because it is completely soaked in blood and sweat. Luckily the dog left quite the odor behind because the footprints are not always visible anymore. The trail leads him to some houses in the middle of nowhere. He knocks on the door. A woman in her fourties opens. “Hello madame. Have you seen a group of six travelers?“ “Hello, hmm.., there are a lot of people, who come through this village. What do they look like?“
She is clearly lying but it would not be good to cause a stir. “Oh, they are quite recognizable. One is quite tall for a human, elegant and is a good speaker, there is a chubby blonde man who wears expensive clothes and always smiles, a wizard that looks like a cat, a nobleman that has a wolf-like charisma, a half blood that is about the same height as you and has weapons with jewels on them with him and an innocent little teenager.“ “Wow, I definitly would have known if they came through this village.“ “You would get a good reward for some information on them.“ “But I really don't know anything.“ “Oh come on woman, where are you hiding them?“ “Sorry but I don't tell that kind of information to assassins guild spies.“
Orliander looks down and realises that he took off his shirt earlier and that his assassins guild tattoo is on full display. “**** you, I let you live this time. I will get this teen somehow later.“ Orliander turns his back on the woman and hides somewhere to plan his next steps.

Seoho POV

Seoho gets woken up by Dongju. He puts his arm around him and pulls him close which makes the younger man stumble forward and fall onto Seoho. “Ah, what are doing?“, Dongju complains. “Big brother gives you lots of love, so you have more confidence.“, Seoho answers with a cute voice. He hears Geonhak giggle. “Do you want some love too?“, the angel asks with a cheeky grin on his face. “No.“
The blonde man lets go of Dongju and walks towards Geonhak with wide spread arms. But the werwolf runs away from him. He chases after him and they end up running in circles through the barn which wakes up the cat. Dongju laughs at their goofiness while Keonhee doesn't seem so amused. “Guys, could you help me wake this dwarf up?“, he asks. Ravn jumps on the sleeping body and changes into his human form. “If he could have heard what you just called him, he would kill you.“, the wizard says while giggling. Keonhee giggles too. “Whaaaat.. diiid.. heee.. caaaall.. meee?“, a very sleepy Hwanwoong asks slowly from underneath Ravn. Ravn stands up. “Nevermind.“, he says. “Can we get breakfast now?“, Seoho asks. “Yes, I'm starving.“, Keonhee replies. Seoho smiles brightly and runs out of the barn to Marthas house and knocks on the door. Martha opens up the door only a little bit and looks through the crack. “Oh, it you.“, she exclaims and opens the door fully. Seohos smile fades a little bit at her reaction. “Is everything ok?“, he asks. “I will tell you everything during breakfast. Come in.“
Once they all sit around the table with food on their plates, she begins speaking: “A man knocked on my door today. An elf. He was shirtless and I could see a tattoo of the assassins guild on his shoulder. He asked for you. I didn't tell him anything of course but he mumbled something about getting that teen somehow later. You should watch out when you leave later. He might be lurking around here somewhere.“ “Orliander..., thanks for the warning miss.“, Ravn says. “What should we do?“, Geonhak asks. “And why is he so obsessed with Dongju?“, Keonhee asks. “I don't know.“, Ravn replies and lets his head hang in dispair. “I think the best is to just continue normally but watch our surroundings. At night two people should be awake so the night guard can't be easily suprised.“, Hwanwoong explains. “That sounds like a plan.“, Seoho says and the others agree with him.
After their breakfast it is time to say goodbye to Martha and Bruno. “I don't think we have anything to repay you.“, Ravn says. “That's okay.“, Bruno says. “Oh, we could sing for you!“, Keonhee says. “I would love that.“, Martha exclaims.
Seoho, Keonhee and Dongju quickly agree on a song. They get a lot of applause from the others when they finish. “I have something for you too.“, Hwanwoong says. He searches for something in his backpack, then pulls out a ruby and places it on Marthas hand. “Oh, that's so pretty, thank you.“
They bid the two farewell and go. They leave the village behind and take a look on their map. “We are here, so next are a few smaller villages like the one where we just were. And then comes an oasis with a bigger village. When we are there it will take about the same time to get to the village of the royal family as it took us to get there.“, Ravn explains. “Aaah, so loong!! I can't see all this sand anylonger. By the way since when do you have jewels in your backpack?“, Keonhee ask. “I don't“, Hwanwoong answers. He lets a gold nugget appear in his hands. “Ah it's an illusion.“, Ravn says. “No it's real.“ Seoho grabs the nugget out of Hwanwoongs hand and takes a closer look at it. “This is really gold.“
He puts it in Keonhees backpack. “For the restaurant that you gonna open when I am back home.“ He giggles. “Can you read the future?“, Keonhee asks. “No, but you love food so you should open a restaurant someday.“
“That sounds like a good idea actually.“
“Why didn't you tell us?“, Dongju asks. “Oh, my parents told me not to tell anyone so people won't take advantage of me and because I thought you would think that I am weird. They found out when I first started developing my magic abilities. I have also other untypical elf abilities. I can smell if there is precious metals nearby. And I have a exceptional good eye for the quality of handcrafted goods. To earn some extra money the king would take me with him to choose the weapons for our soldiers. I also like caves, I mean I like plants too but caves are also great. I would like to have a cave full of flowers as my home someday.“ “Does that mean you are the richest man on Ayrum because you can limitless get precious metals and jewels with your magic spell?“, Dongju asks. “No, I feel like it would be unfair if didn't need to work for anything while the others do. That's why I almost never use it.“
They walk until the sun is almost setting. They arrive at a house that seems to be empty. “We could sleep inside of this house tonight.“, Dongju says. “Hide and wait. I will go inside and look if it's safe.“, Hwanwoong whispers. They do as he says. Seoho sees how Hwanwoong makes himself invisible. His tiny footprints lead towards the house.