A Dragon Among The Stars

Teacher.

"hey... HEY!" bellowed jake, waving his hand at Kiel's daze face.

"Huh?.. ahhh!, sorry what?" woken up from his daze, he realized that the truck have completely stopped, the soldiers were already busy transfering loots of the battle.

"you okay?" jake asked concerned.

"yeah I'm fine, just need a little bit rest, were here already?"

"yeah! Come with me, I'll lead you to teacher, he would be pleased to see you" Kiel followed jake down the truck, what he was a rural village, he asked. "This your base?"

"not really, the village is just a front, our real base is up the mountains, inaccessible to vehicles, we can only travel by foot" Jake said while pointing to the mountains up ahead.

Kiel was dismayed. "travel by foot? How far?"

"Don't worry it's just a 30 mins trek, come on let's get going" he gestured Kiel to follow him through the village, in the middle, was a woman, with long black hair, wearing casual clothes, she was tending to a child, crying from a wound.

"Isabelle!" Jake approached her, and called out.

Hearing her name, she turned and saw Jake, her face grew a smile, she stood up and hugged Jake, Kiel turned his body away and stayed silent to let the couple enjoy their moment. He wasn't much surprised, he already guessed that she was the same as Jake.

"miss me?" jake teased in gentle manner.

"mm, I really missed you a lot!" she chuckled, with her hands on his neck.

Jake gestured his head to the direction of Kiel, Isabelle curious she shifted her gaze to where jake was gesturing, she saw Kiel, astounded, she waved her hand, shouting "KIELLL!"

"hey!" Kiel approached, he laughingly said. "I already have guessed that you might be here and I was actually right!"

"You're finally here! Teacher would be joyous when sees you." she lightly smiled

"say, who is this teacher you guys speak of? And why would he be happy seeing me?" he's been eager to know who he the teacher they were speaking of.

"We all call him Teacher, the one created this group, to us he is very much like a fatherly figure" she explained.

"I see..." noticing the child beside isabelle, he asked. "who's this kid?"

"oh! Him? He's one of the children who's living here." she stooped down child height, she said to the youngster. "now, now, its just a small wound, don't cry, go back playing"

After pacifying the child, she stood up and said to duo. "let's go, I'll come with you"

The three trekked along the mountain as they neared the base. It was deeply hidden inside the mountains, using the high trees and plants as cover, it was hard to for someone to notice it using their naked eyes.

It was also heavily guarded, there were a lot of bunkers built around the base, drones could also be spotten pratolling troughout the area.

"impressed?" Jake asked, seeing Kiel astonished.

"yeah, this is quite hidden, if you didn't showed me, I wouldn't have believed that there was a something built here. And not just the base, the view here is quite stunning, along with the environment." Looking around, amazed by the sight. He could see the whole village up here.

"yeah, even I still get amazed after all the years seeing it, you never get really tired of it." Jake said, looking through the view as he feel into a deep thought, he became nostalgic. His wife beside asked. "what are you thinking of?"