Chapter 13: Leaving to the Cave

Eny woke up early, he had gotten used to waking up at 5 A.M by now and it was routine, today he had some plans. He noticed that they needed Ambrosia and Nectar because together with his healing he would be able to keep them alive for a long time, the good part of all that healing the last week was that his Healing [Skill] went from 00,1% to 12% and that was good. Eny still felt the slightly cold feeling over his body, like a cold coat wrapping around his body, indicating that he was invisible. Well, Eny doesn't need to sleep, he can just stay quiet and still for an hour to get enough rest, but he still enjoys sleeping and he will continue to do that so he may have something he enjoys doing other than hunting monsters.

Shoving his head down his fur, he could see in the dark so of course, he saw how Luke was trembling in his sleep, having a nightmare. Well, Pruno also had his nightmares and Eny knew how to calm him down but he did not know if it would work with Luke... He sighed as he felt a little bit of flesh on his teeth from the mermaid yesterday, he sadly got no ability from it, but it still tasted like fish. The best way to deal with a nightmare was to wait till it ended or at least what Eny would do because he is not good with this, normally he would sing to him the same Lullaby he has been singing together with another one, he recently remembered a song from a movie he watched once.

Feeling the cold air, he decided to wake both kids up so they can leave to the "cave", the cave was a safe place as far as Eny could think. It was a cave in a mountain, the only way to get in was through flying or climbing, but those inside the cave could easily attack the invaders using arrows, and even if the invader got inside the cave, there was a huge rock that could be easily rolled over the entrance of the cave to block it. Eny planned to leave Pruno, Luke, and Grenade there while he goes to try and exchange his dollars for Drachmas. He can easily steal dollars from mortals, but Drachmas... He is not sure. He has 9 Golden Drachmas, he will use one to summon the Grey Sisters and then ask them to take him to the nearest place to exchange currency.

"Wake up you two, we're leaning soon." Eny began to shift back, his body getting smaller as smaller every second as his fur returned to his body and his Chimera features vanishing as they returned to his body. He shrugged the tingling feeling he always has after changing back to human and feeling the cold air of the morning. Luke sat down on the ground in a jump, his face showed his fear before morphing into confusion, then back to realization. "Good morning," Eny commented as he began to look through his backpack, he still had the two backpacks he stole from that house three years ago. "Get on something warmer." Eny threw him some warmer clothes than the withe silk nearly transparent gown he was wearing now, Luke nodded as he looked down, he got noticed that he was still naked under those clothes and blushed slightly as he looked at his scars until he looked at Eny's back and frowned.

The scar on his back was big... He forgot to ask Pruno how it happened, Pruno said he knows Eny since they were 6 and Eny has always acted like that... Untrusting and observing, somewhat aggressive, and always with this powerful aura around him. Luke took the clothes that looked too big for him before he started to wear them. Eny placed his sunglasses on his face as the black leather jacket that was still too big for his body was worn by him again, he sighed before looking at Pruno that was sleeping on the ground before Luke watched in wonder as Eny's arm changed into a feathery wing and he began to tickle Pruno, who woke up giggling. "Stop it! I'm up! I'm up..." Eny smiled warmly before throwing warm clothes to Pruno, who pouted as he wore it, Luke felt for the first time warm in his heart... As if he had found his family.

"We're going to the cave, remember to keep quiet till I come back, okay?" Eny said while looking at Pruno seriously, he just nodded sadly before asking: "And what if you don't return?" Eny patted the boy's pink hair before he kissed his forehead and whispered: "Then you run and find a Satyr to take you to that place." Pruno nodded his head.

Of course, they had met Satyrs, Eny has a powerful Demigod scent that attracts both Satyrs and Monsters, so they can easily find him. But Eny always avoids them, going as far as attacking them when they get too close, and because he has a mixed smell of a monster when he goes full Dark Chimera, the Satyrs tend to flee.

Luke finished wearing the clothes with some difficulty, but as soon as he was finished, Pruno took his hand and they both were in front of Eny. "Ready?" He asked as his hands moved and threads of white silk weaved themselves, Luke was confused as to why he was doing this but Pruno smiled and said: "Yeah!" Luke just nodded along as Eny wrapped the net to his legs and his arms transformed into giant wings. He flew 5 feet above the ground as the net on his legs made an accommodation for both of them, it even had some ropes for them to tie themselves on the net so they may not fall! Pruno sat down on the net and Luke followed soon after and held tight to the ropes and wrapped them around his waist, he did not want to fall after all.

Eny flapped his arms, or rather, wings, and flew away. His feathers were big and black too, the sun was rising now and the vision they all had was amazing... The warm rays of the sun shining down the horizon as the ground below glowed yellow and orange, Luke held his breath and smile at how beautiful this was. Pruno giggled as he stared at Luke's shocked expression, saying: "Beautiful, isn't it?" Luke could only nod as Eny chuckled from above, he was not flying very fast to not risk making them motion sick, but he was going slow either! The wind blew as they flew towards a place Eny would consider safe:

The cave.