11 Elven Kingdon pt. 3

It's been almost 2 years now, I will be going back home to my parents in 3 more months. My hair has also grown longer, with my hair long enough to reach below my ears. You could say my hair looked like those beachy hairstyles. I've grown to 48in (4ft) which is pretty tall for a 5 year old. My icey cold eyes have gotten more sharp and piercing just like my fathers, or you can describe it as monolid eyes.

But my height is mostly due to the training and mana cultivation I've done these past 2 years making me look different from the rest of the kids. Alan and Kayla have also grown quite a bit; Alan has grown out his hair just like me but in a quiff style, his hair being slicked back. Alan is only 1in apart from me, his upturned violet eyes gave off a warm feeling.

Kayla's hair has reached past her shoulders by now. With her silver hair touching her back, her eyes were deep set but big. Comparing her to me she was 4in shorter than me.

Since all of us were training a lot with Marek and Aldith it changed us quite a bit, not just in looks but in physical hand-to-hand combat and magic.

Did I also talk about how they awakened pretty early too? Actually Alan awakened a few months earlier then Kayla but they basically awakened in the same year.

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"Father…" I said in my dream, starting to tear up then my mother appeared in front of me and started laughing. "Monster! How could you do this to us?" I questioned my mother in my dream, feeling my anger boil up.

"August~ Wake. Up!" Kayla screamed while she slapped my stomach.

"Ugh...Monster…" I said while waking up from my nightmare.

"Hey! Who's the monster?!" She questioned looking me in my eyes.

"Hmmm? Ah, nothing." I said while rubbing my eyes. I had a dream about my previous life, again…

"Come on sleepyhead, grandpa Marek and brother are waiting for you." She said while crossing her hands over her chest and looked at me like I was some object that she wanted to throw away but couldn't.

"Fine, I will be there in a sec." I said back while yawning.

"You better be down fast, we will be going out into the city today to go shopping." She said happily.

"Okay, Okay, I will be there in a minute." I said.

"Fine." She said while pouting.

"..." I wonder why she is pouting...what did I say to make her so angry or annoyed that she pouted?

'Papa, you're so dense. You just called her a monster in your sleep and she thought you were for real.' Aria said while yawning.

"But I didn't mean it, it was just a dream I had." I was a bit irritated by her getting mad at me, it wasn't like it was my fault I said it when she was here. It wasn't on purpose.

'If it was not on purpose or not she thought you were talking to her. Even if it was just a joke you know her well enough now that she tempered.' Aria said with a sigh.

"When did you know how to speak so well? Aren't you just 1?" I said questionably.

'Well I got this from you talking all the time. I think your maturity has influenced my life, mentally of course.' She said matter-of-factly.

"Hahahaha, ok. I didn't know you were affected that much mentally by me." I smiled at her.

As we went downstairs I saw Marek, Alan, and Kayla in the carriage waiting for me so I ran to the carriage and went in.

"Finally, that took you long enough." Alan said, smirking.

"Yea, you take longer than Alan when getting ready and trust me, he takes a long time." Kayla said matter-of-factly.

"You say it like you don't take a long time, Kayla." Alan said glaring at Kayla.

"So what?" Kayla said mischievously while sticking her tongue out at him.

"Now, now kids, stop arguing we will be in the city shortly." Grandpa Marek said.

"Why are we going to the city anyways? Is it only for shopping or what?" I said, raising one eyebrow.

"We were thinking of shopping but also." Alan pauses for dramatic effects.

"We wanted to go to the weapons shop to find a weapon!" Alan said excitedly.

"Wow! Really?" I asked, facing Marek.

"Yea, hahaha." He chuckled.

"You guys will be needing your own weapon to be depending on so I thought why not take you to a weapon store?" He said facing us.

"We have arrived!" The driver said.

"Let's go." Alan said grinning.

As I stepped into the shop I felt like I saw endless supplies of weapons, there were about more than dozens of weapons of all kinds, swords, axes, hammers, bows, spears, e.t.c., there were some weapons covered in black sheets, 'maybe those swords are broken' I thought. As all 4 of us walked inside me, Alan, and Kayla were so amazed.

While Marek looked at us and chuckled a little, I guess he was amused by our faces.

Looking around I saw so many swords that looked amazing but didn't fit the weight of my body. I wanted a sword that was light so it could balance with my body.

As I looked around some more my eyes landed on Aria who was tugging on something that was under one of the balck sheets.

Stepping closer to Aria, I grabbed the thing that area was tugging on. 'Hm?' It looks like a sword, as I tried to unleash the sword from the handle it wouldn't budge and I didn't know why.

Inspecting the sword I saw some letter that was carved into the leather handle, the letters looked so familiar...wait! It was the letters of my previous worlds, I wonder who made this sword...As I read the letters 'Dawn's soul' I felt a painful sting on my hand and let go of the sword.

My hand was now a bit burned, I picked up the sword and tried to unleash the sword again and it came out! The sword was well balanced, light, and it looked cool with its curved tip like a katana and some symbols on the sword, it also seems like it has shrunk to the perfect size so I can use it. So this sword shrinks or grows depending on its wielder? Damn that's pretty cool. 'This sword is perfect!' I said to myself, feeling satisfied with Aria's discovery of this sword.

"How did you find this sword Aria." I asked her out of curiosity.

'I just felt a familiar sensation from somewhere in the back of the store in the balck sheets, it was like telling me to give it to you the closer I got to it.' She said.

"Hmm…" Was it something that was connected to Aria? Or was it just fate that Aria found it...Maybe it has something to do with Alora…

If it was something that had to do with Alora then this sword might be a big help in the future. Maybe I shouldn't fuss over this too much, I'll just buy this right now and inspect it later on.

As I walked towards where Kayla and Alan was I saw that they already picked their weapons, Kayla was a seer so she picked a while and blue wand, Alan picked a sword that looked like a rapier, with a gold hilt and a hint of red on it.

"Hey Aug! Did you pick your sword yet?" He asked

"Yep, here it is." I said holding it up to show him.

"Woah, that looks pretty cool." He said amazed.

My sword was basically a katana, the scabbard was made out of wood but painted in black, the hilt was colored red, it had a braid on the hilt and was made out of black silk. The guard of the katana was white and gold, the katana itself had a little curve to it which made it look pretty cool. When I unleashed the katana which was made of tamahagane (a traditional way of smelting that results in several layers of steel being melted with different carbon concentrations), the best type of steel for a katana by far. The steel itself was like glowing the color cyan.

"This is a rare find you have there." Marek said from behind me, which made me jump a little.

"Ah, yea. Aria found it for me. It seems like it was a perfect fit for me." I said.

"I've never seen that kind of sword before, it must be special." He smirked.

"You guys are finished?" Kayla said with a wide grin.

"Yep, let's buy these and get out of here." I smiled back.

We headed back to the castle to try out our weapons, and let me tell you, I was as excited as a little kid getting a new toy. But instead of a toy it's a weapon.

We went into the training ground, Me and Alan started sparring with grandpa Marek using our new swords when Kayla is in the archery range using her bow.

I unleashed Dawn's Soul from its scabbard and tried some few strikes on the dummy.

"Let's fight a real battle little brat." Marek grinned.

"What do you mean by 'real battle' grandpa?" I asked, questioning his intentions.

"I will be using my beast will of course." He said it like it was normal. I was thinking for a second but then agreed because I know that I will have to fight people who are on a higher level than me.

"Fine, we will fight a real battle." I smirked.

As soon as I said that, he activated his will. Upon unleashing his will, I felt a strong force pushing me down. Looking up at him, he was covered in darkness only leaving two shining violet eyes looking at me.

Taking my stance he flickered from behind me without warning, good thing that I used my mana to enhance my body and senses even further that I could sense him in time, if I didn't enhance my senses I would've suffered an injury far worse then a bruise.

As he tried to punch me from behind I rolled to the side and faced him, we were circling around the training field, until I used my mana and leaped forward. Using the same trick on my father; as he prepared to block me I jumped up onto his shoulders and attempted to choke him using my legs.

It was as if he knew I was doing this and stepped towards the right, while grabbing my leg and swung me towards the ground.

I coughed a bit of blood out of my mouth, I could tell he wasn't holding even when throwing me. He used so much force to make some blood come out of my body. It felt as if my stomach were punched thousands of times over and over again.

"Do you give up, brat." Marek grinned from beneath the darkness of his black leopard will.

"Not yet, old man." I laughed trying to stand up from the pain in my leg. My joints in my arm were also killing me, I think I hit my arm on a rock or something.

Using force, I stood up gritting my teeth together from the pain waves in my legs.

I used mana to enhance my body, this time I put a bit more into my strength since I know that my speed can't match up to his even if I tried.

I dashed towards Marek and swung my sword at his waist, blocking it with ease, I kept swinging and he kept dodging and blocking. 'Damn it! By the time I run out of energy he would still be standing up.' I cursed to myself and felt that surrendering was the right thing, so that's just what I did.

"I surrender, I can't even land a scratch on you and I think I broke some bones in my legs and arms." I said letting out a shaky sigh.

Having no energy left I feel down on my knees. "August!" Kayla and Alan cried out.

Both of them hulled me up supporting me with their shoulders.

"Grandpa! I told you to go easy on Aug!" Kayla said clearly a bit angered.

"He said he was up for the challenge and I gave him a challenge." Marek said matter-of-factly.

"Bu-"

"It's fine Kayla, what grandpa said was right, I accepted his challenge so it's my own fault." I said, sighing.

"Still he could've been a bit more gentle." She said pouting while puffing her cheeks like a hamster.

We all laughed at the sight of her pouting and went back to the castle so I could heal my injuries.

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