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Chapter 10: Falling Snow, Fabulous Flowers

~Half an hour later~

By now, our protagonists have reached the mountains, they're currently on a more flat surface, altough it was a short climb, it's snowing, HARD, leaving GoLem and Duone trapped in a cave.
"Damnit! What a great start to an adventure, i-i'm freezing..."
"It's your fault, kid, you wanted to hide in that cave because you're freezing, even though your Prozent should give you resistance to that."
"W-what?"
GoLem plops himself down on the ground and scrambles around in a bag, taking a small book out of it and opening a page.
"Look, this is a small notebook I wrote about Prozent, you can have it if you need it, anyways, if your Prozent is elemental based and trained enough, you should have a resistance to that element."
Duone thinks for a second, holding up his finger questionably when he's done thinking.
"Buuut... W-why am I cold then..?"
GoLem stands up and walks by him into the outside.
"Because you're still weak, now c'mon, it's just snow."
Duone sighs in annoyance as they walk outside the cave again, on their way they see several animals like wolves and goats, the normal mountainsfolk.
As they continue to walk, Duone asks GoLem a question.
"H-hey, can I ask you something?"
"What do you want, kid."
"When I was in your cave I n-noticed pictures of some blonde guy, reminded m-me of somebody..."
GoLem looked away from Duone for a few seconds, and then looks at him again with an annoyed expression.
"Don't ask about private things, you dolt."
Duone pouts and says:"Fine...".
They continue their wandering and could already see the cliff leading down from the mountain in the distance, until suddenly GoLem stops and Duone stares at him in confusion.
"Why are we sto-"
"We're not alone here, watch out."
They stood there, looking around the stony, snowy flat surface they were standing on, only the snow falling and the howling wind could be heard, suddenly, from the dark and clouded sky a man lands softly on the snow, nailing a fabulous and dainty landing.
He was tall with brown long hair, his clothes were very tight and mostly black and dark red, sporting a logo on his chest, he has a rose in his mouth and his eyes are covered with a bandage.
As GoLem signals Duone to get ready, the unknown man bows down and begins to talk.
"Greetings Gentlemen, I am Flayer, hired by the fifth and newest Commander of Contra-Zent, *Riptide*, nice to meet the both of you."
Both Duone and GoLem look at eachother in confusion, understandibly.
"You only told me there were four!"
"Whatever, focus on the fight for now, we'll punch the Information out of him after."
Duone steps forward, facing Flayer with a determined smile.
"And who are you? I only ever heard of the Golem Of Luck, what are you? The Stone Of Arrogance?"
Duone snarls at his comment and readies himself.
"Sorry! I'm no mirror."
"Let's see then."
Flayer immediately shoots multiple sets of rose stems at him, with lightning fast reflexes, Duone speeds by them, dodging them all, jumping and kicking where Flayer was, the masked mercenary dodged him and grabbed his leg, but Duone immediately froze his leg, freezing it to his arm, so the momentum keeps going, so Duone lands on his other leg, and smashes him on to the ground.
"Ha! Gotcha! H-huh?!"
Suddenly Duone notices that he can't move his legs anymore, they're tied up with vines that came up from the Ground!
As Duone struggles to get himself out, Flayer stands up again, flipping his long, silky hair back.
"Tsk, you dare dirty me with snow and dust, that calls for punishment."
Suddenly, the sky over them turns sunny and blue, countless roses sprout out of the ground and Flayer poses elegantly with his hand out.
"100 Years of Growth: Metabo."
The roses on the ground start growing faster than the eye can see and bind Duone's body completely.
"Yeowch!! That stings!"
As Duone wriggles around, GoLem watches from the back, thinking...
"Will his Prozent save him? He may be able to use it, just getting to use it at the right moment is difficult, don't dissapoint me, kid."
Flayer then closes his outstretched hand into a fist.
"100 Years of Growth: Lismus."
The roses hugging Duone tighten very strongly and begin pressing their thorns into Duone's flesh.
"AUUUGHH!! Crap!! This is BAAAAAD!!!!"
Duone tries to fight the vines and roses, but to no avail, they keep tightening and stabbing more into him.
"You are nothing but a tiny insect, in this world, Titles like The Golem of Luck, The Blue Flame soaked in Silence or the Blue Grand Glove are feared throughout the lands, but a single small vermin like you, without a title, seem like just a blow in the wind, you are not strong enough, you *won't* be strong enough, you simply lack a purpose. You-"
Duone begins growling angrily because of the pain, he tenses up all his muscles, he puts all his strength into his body, and with a mighty shout, he rips off all of the vines that were holding him tight.
He speaks up in a determined voice:
"Listen here, and listen well! My Name is Duone, and I don't give a crap if there's so many strong people out there, one day I'll be stronger than all of them! And screw a title, I'm Duone!! And I'll be the Hero to defeat all of the bad people! I'll defeat you! I'll defeat that Riptide guy!! I'll defeat The Blue Flame soaked in Silence!! I!! WILL!!! DEFEAT!!! CONTRA-ZENT!!!"

*END OF CHAPTER 10*