17 Arrival of Master Khush

"Chooooo"

An eagle carrying a human in it's claw can be seen descending on to top of a volcano.

The eagle descended on the edges of volcano where land is present.

As it reached the land,it threw Henry to one side.

"phat"

with a sound,Henry's silhouette landed on the ground.

"Chooooo"

The eagle roared as it began to be engulfed in black smoke.

"Aaaaa, it hurts"

Henry complained as he observed the smoke carefully.

the smoke began to dissipate slowly revealing black coloured dress, a white hand.

Slowly the air around was cleared,

A beauty stood in place of Eagle, everything she had on her body is black colored except her skin which is pale white but the most dangerous part on her body seems to be her face as Henry could not move his eyes away from her face, if looks could kill she could have killed Henry millions of times.

But all of a sudden she fainted.

Henry recovered his senses.

"Looks like,I'm free but where should I go"

As Henry thought, he tried to make himself comfortable with the surroundings while looking for a way to get away.

The land was hot, specially Henry felt his feet burning as he is not wearing any foot wear.

After moving here and there Henry decided to move in a certain direction to get away from volcano.

But when he decided to get away, his gaze moved towards the unconscious beauty.

"Fuck....I won't be a good man if I leave a woman alone in this forest"

The volcano was actually present in a thick forest indicating that it had not been erupted for a long time.

Henry approached the sleeping beauty,

"What a charming face"

Henry sat down near her like a statue, his heart did not want to move his eyes away from her face.

"Only if I had her as my wife" Henry's thoughts wandered.

After a while,

"grrr..."

Henry's stomach gave out signals for hunger.

"I have to go and find some food "

Henry stood up as he decided to find the food.

"But I can't leave her here alone"

Henry lifted her body and carried on his back

in search of food.

"She smells nice".

While at the Village

Village chief duku summoned all the elders to a meet in order to resolve a way of finding Henry.

Outside of village Chief Duku's residence a big table is laid and a bunch chairs were present around it.

On the chairs a few elderly people can be seen to be seated, village chief Duku sat at one of the corner, to his right March Butterfly sat, and to his left grandpa Luo while uncle Gen stood a little bit far away from chairs but for some reason holy lady Mantra was not here.

A maid came while carrying a tray of juices, and started to distribute them to everyone one by one.

" we should mobilize the villagers to find Henry"

Uncle Gen put up his opinion.

"I agree"

"I agree"

"Me too"

When series of acceptance followed

"I refuse "

An old man stood up shaking vigorously with a stick to support his feet.

"Elder Fua, what's the meaning of this?"

Uncle Gen asked for the explanation,but the next moment

"I refuse"

"Me too"

"Same here"

Series of refusals followed.

" Don't misunderstand me Little Gen, I just don't want to put to lives of villagers at stake for an unknown boy, who's roots are not clear."

Elder Fua justified.

"Elder Fua, he is not some nobody, he is a fellow villager and one of us "

Another Elder argued.

Elder Fua looked at the person who spoke

" Chi chu, everyone here knows your business of selling wooden goods in Palamuru city, you are speaking for that boy just because you want him to teach you to make that moving chair he made for Zia,don't you?"

Chi chu surprised as he never expected anyone to announce his intentions.

"Whatever motive Chi chu got is secondary thing, but what Chi chu said was right.Henry is not a nobody, he is one of us we should save him "

Uncle Gen demanded.

"Haha...little Gen, I know you got quite close with that kid if you want to save him, just go by yourself, but don't drag entire village into abyss"

Elder Fua replied.

"How am I dragging the villager to the abyss?, please explain."

"Little Gen, didn't you see that creature ?it came here for him, do you think the villagers can fight it even when we saw that a battle master could not defeat it ?"

Elder Fua pointed his finger at March Butterfly as he said.

"Yes, Elder Fua is right."

"We can't risk lives of others "

"No, we shouldn't abandon a fellow villager"

"Villager?he did not even born here"

"He is just a child, a poor child, we should rescue him."

The table divided into two factions one supported Gen and one who stood opposite to him.

"Enough"

Village chief Duku's voice silenced the noisy and bustling atmosphere.

"I would like to ask opinion of esteemed battle master here"

March Butterfly who was drinking juice paused, and kept the glass on the table,

She stood up and said

"Dear elders, you don't need to send villagers as I don't want to repeat the tragedy of battle of woods"

"My master will be arriving here in no time, I will assure you the safety of Henry"

"Then we will leave everything to miss March Butterfly, does anyone have an objection?"

"Brother....."

"What? You oppose my decision"

"No..brother"

Uncle wanted to open his mouth he was immediately shut down by the village chief.

"Then the meeting concludes here"

The people began to disperse except March Butterfly, Gen and village chief Duku.

March Butterfly was seated in the same place, Uncle Gen sat opposite to her while village chief Duku did not get any changes to his seating position.

"When will your master be coming?"

Gen asked.

"He will be here in no time"

March Butterfly replied.

"Is your master strong?"

"It depends"

"What's your plan?how are you going to defeat that creature?"

"We will figure out something"

Series of questions asked by uncle Gen and their answers by March Butterfly

"What's your master's name?"

"My name is Khush"

A burly man walked in through gate.

"Master"

March Butterfly stood up and bowed to him as a form of respect.

"Little Fly, you did well, I saw your fight on communication channels "

Master khush patted on the shoulders of March Butterfly.

"Thanks for your praise master, but I still lost "

March Butterfly replied.

"Little Fly,Winning and Losing is pretty common, what really important is the lesson you learnt when you either won or lost"

Master khush taught to March Butterfly as he supported her to stand up.

"Let's go and save Henry"

Master khush said.

"Wait, can't you at least wait a minute, we haven't talked yet "

village chief Duku expressed his desire to have a conversation.

"We can talk later, when it comes to some one's saving someone, other works should made trivial except the things required for the rescue operation"

March Butterfly and Master Khush walked out from the gate, and when they did, they encountered little devils.

"Big sis take us with you, we want to save brother Henry too"

Zen spoke while Buntoo, Redlap and Ivar stood behind.

"Stop messing, you should go and play somewhere else, the place where we are going is dangerous"

March Butterfly tried to pursue them.

"But we want to come"

Zen requested again.

"I said no"

March Butterfly rejected and as they about to move

"Sis I have got a relic and I can use it too, please bring me along I would be a great help to you"

Ivar called out.

"Kiddo, what did you say? You got a relic "

Master khush glared at Ivar.

"Yes, It is my mother's"

Ivar replied.

"Let me look at it"

Master Khush asked.

Ivar took out a belt from his pockets and wore it.

"Look uncle , this is my relic"

Ivar pointed out the belt.

"Hmm....that's definitely a relic but you are underage, so you can not be allowed to use it, where is your mother ?how can she give out a battle relic to a child?"

Master Khush began to shout.

"I am here"

With a response, a lady sitting on a moving chair appeared.

"You are..."

"Master, I am Zia "

"You are that Zia?the right hand of Rewlong"

"Yes"

"So you did not die ?"

"Almost did, but my husband saved me"

"Oh..but it does not mean you could give out a weapon to children to play"

" He demanded it to save someone, I believe that,as a human even if you are child you could take up a sword to save a life "

"Such a bold statement, I like it. Yo kiddo you can come with us"

Ivar:" "

Ivar became silent again.

The trio departed towards the direction where eagle took Henry.

A few moments ago

"Reporting Sir, looks like the master behind formation of team Sahara arrived here"

"Yes Berlin, keep an eye on them,and keep me updating about the situation, we have to recover our losses from that stupid interview"

"Roger sir"

similarly other reporters are also waiting a chance to get news then all of a sudden the reporters saw the trio going out of the village, they began to follow the trio.

"Sir, I am following them "

"Good Berlin"

Berlin along other reporters were about to step out of the village

"Shooooo"

An arrow landed just a few centimeters away from them, the air pressure from the arrow sent Berlin and the reporters who were at front sent flying back.

"Look look there is note on the arrow"

A reporter walked towards the arrow and took out the notes and read it.

"What's there in the note?, tell us too"

The rest demanded.

"If you love your job so much, then be ready to die for it "

It was a threat, an indirect threat.

"How dare her?"

"Does she think she can do anything for being battle master?"

The reporters could only curse but did not dare to follow the trio.