Different stories on different chapters.Different point of view,different characters amd different events.Please choose your story.

I always wanted to keep drowning with my own tears. A tears of love. Well, coming from those series that I've always watch. I always dreamt of maybe my story can be as tearful as with these novels and movies that I repeatedly watching. Well as my life story goes along with a rhythm of Cupid's bow. I found Kim the person who loves me the most and the person that I've hurt the most as well. What's the reason?. You must find out.



The weekend went by in a flash but it wasn't fast enough for me. I kept thinking about what I saw, why wouldn't Zaynab remember anything, it was unlike her to just forget anything and who would forget about seeing a bunch of fish people with glowing tattoos anyway? 

"Fish people?" I thought to myself. 

"Hello," Lokun's voice interrupted my thoughts, I turned back, and there he stood with the same smile he always had on his face. 

"Lokun? What are you doing here?" I asked. 

"Well, we go to school here now." 

Kunbi and Shunbunmi appeared from his back and their father was there too. The man looked like an older version of his children. Very good looking and younger than I imagined with the same silver-colored hair which started to seem weird and a strange stare that made it seem like they were looking into your soul. 

"This is our Dad, Mr. Omishore," Lokun introduced him to me, and just like we have met before he patted me on my shoulder. 

"You must be Bisi. I've heard a lot about you from my daughter, mostly good of course." 

I heard the Zaynab's familiar, high-pitched voice scream my name as she joined us. 

You must be Mr. Omishore, she shook his hand, smiling radiantly. 

"Who are these people," I kept asking myself. 

The bell rang and everybody in the hall started struggling to get to classes. This was the perfect opportunity to escape the scene because I felt trapped there. Lokun's smile, Kunbi's and Shubunbi's weird stabbing stare, the weird hair dye, and the fact that Zaynab didn't remember what we saw at the party somehow made me feel uneasy. 

I have to get to class now, it's nice meeting you Mr. Omishore, I turned towards my class and didn't look back. 

It felt like an escape, a narrow one. I sat down in class, lost in my mind. I kept visualizing what I had seen in my mind. The scaly skin, the glowing eyes, the sharp teeth, and the way Kunbi moved before everything went dark. It was all so confusing, I tried convincing myself that it might have been the alcohol messing with my mind but it was just too real and haunting to be untrue. 

Let's all welcome Mr. Omishore to the class, the teacher's voice and the voices of everyone in the class as they chorused " welcome" interrupted my thoughts, and I paid attention to my surrounding for the first time since I got into the class. Lokun stood in front of the class, clasping a backpack. He seemed unusually serious, it was the first time I would see him not smiling. 

"You may have your sit now, Lokun," the teacher said. 

"Thank you, Miss Anderson," Lokun replied as he started walking towards my sit. He stared into my eyes as he got closer and started smiling. I held my breath, praying he wouldn't sit near me. He walked past me and I thought "Oh thank God." 

"Hey, Bisi. I think we should talk after school," his gentle voice whispered into my ears from my back. 

"Oh he sat directly at my back," after all, I whispered to myself. 

"Talk about what, Lokun?" 

"About what you saw at the party, I know you must be confused." 

I immediately turned looked back at him to see how serious he was and he was not joking. He appeared as serious as he was when he first came into the class. 

"What did I see?" I asked, trying to pretend as if I couldn't remember. 

"Oh, Bisi I know you remember. I know because I didn't allow Kunbi to wipe your memories as he did Zaynab's." 

"What the hell?" I screamed and everybody in the class heard me. They all started staring at me and I had to just ignore him for the class. The class then felt so long and I couldn't wait to get out. 

The bell finally rang for the end of the class, I shortly grabbed my backpack and was heading for the door when miss Anderson stopped me. 

"Hello, Bisi. Wait a moment, please." 

I stopped reluctantly. I was so surprised when I heard her call Lokun's name, I felt like she wanted to catch me for him so that he could carry out his evil plans. 

"Bisi, I want you to tutor Lokun for the rest of the semester. He has already missed a lot so you have to get him up to date." 

"I'm sorry Miss Anderson, but I don't think that's a good idea." 

"You're the best student I have, Bisi and you've got no choice." 

Lokun stood there looking confused and it made me feel bad a bit until the memory of the party came rushing back. I didn't want to be in the same place with him, I was afraid of him, I was afraid of all of them. 

I left the class and went straight to my locker, I opened it and buried my head inside just to take a long breath. 

"You have nothing to fear from me, you know?" I heard him whisper. 

"What do you want, Lokun?" 

"I just want to talk, Bisi. I would never hurt you." 

"What are you?" I asked. 

He hesitated for a while and finally said "come with me, Bisi. I have something to show you." 

I followed him reluctantly and we made our way out of the school. We got into his car and he drove down to his house. Their place was just a bit smaller than mine. A large white mansion backed by the beach. 

"This is your house! I asked" 

The building was owned by a rich family but they mysteriously disappeared some years before. Everybody was surprised when someone started renovations at the house but when they asked the construction workers they said the only thing they knew about the new owners was that they were not from town. 

"So you're the new owners?" I asked. 

"Well, technically speaking we're the real owners," he said as he opened a door and went into one of the rooms. 

"The real owners went missing three years ago and they've not been found since then, Lokun." 

"Yeah, I know about that. They were family, our family. See this is actually our family house and we are from here," he offered me a seat on one of the couches. 

"How come?" I was more confused than before. 

"They held on to the place for us and they were actually murdered, they are not missing." 

"What?" I screamed as I jumped off the couch. 

"What do you know about the stories of the sea people?" He asked. 

"Other than the fact that they're just stories? My grandmother told them to me all the time, just like any other person from around here." 

"What if I told you that those stories are not just stories, Bisi? What if I told you that they are real events preserved by your ancestors orally and passed down from generation to generation." 

"So you are telling me that stories about merpeople and sea monsters are true?" I grabbed my backpack and started walking towards the door. 

Somehow what he was saying and what I saw at the party was starting to align but I wasn't just going to believe that merpeople existed. What would it all mean? It would mean everything I knew or thought I knew wasn't true, it would mean that all the terrible things in those stories were true too. 

"Where are you going?" he asked looking confused. 

"I'm leaving, Lokun!" 

"I thought you wanted to hear the truth, I don't understand your reaction. I thought the truth would make you feel better." 

"Oh, you think telling me that monster stories would make me feel better?" 

"Bug you saw us, didn't you?" 

"I don't know what I saw, Lokun. I was drunk." 

"You know it wasn't the alcohol, but you just don't want to believe me. This must be a human way of coping with things you do not understand?" 

He suddenly started taking off his shirt and I froze. He started to search the room for something. 

"What are you doing," I asked. 

"There should be some seawater here somewhere. Father always keeps it around in case of an emergency." 

He emerged from one of the rooms with a jar of water and immediately poured it on his stomach. The surface where the water touched him crackled, turning the flesh scaly and glinting. Two openings then appeared on the right and left side of his stomach. 

"Behold, my gills, Bisi. I would fully transform but I don't want to scare you." 

My backpack fell from my hands and I felt myself fainting again. He dropped the jar and with such speed, he caught me before I hit the ground.

A lonely rich girl lived her life daydreaming about when her life would be more than just going to her expensive private school and going back home to her father's mansion. When she finally met a good-looking boy and his mysterious family, she thought her dreams were finally coming true but she couldn't have been more wrong.

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While she started preparation to extract essence of the sleeping flowers, water users made the thin water masks for everyone, including the ants. 
As the flowers were spread out, the few people people that still refused it felt dizzy and agreed quickly for this in last second.
Kendra smiled. "Wind users, send all the air towards the other cave. Fire and water users should help me making fog."
While they concentrated to make fog that suddenly surrounded them, Kendra used hwe powers to extract the flowers and mix the essence into the fog.
The fog was slowly sent trough the openings to the other cave with help of windusers and earth users quickly closed them as soon whole wind and fog went trough the opening.
Suddenly there was large noise from the other side and after some time the noise became weaker and Kendra chose to check on it.
As they opened one of the holes they could see most of them fainted on floor, while some still tried to crawl away.
Kendra knew this was the time. "Queen of ants, you have the seeds I left. I left more potions. Many of your warrior ants are and even many of normal ants are stronger after digesting spirit potions. After we leave, you plant those seeds and then gather them before next water. Always leave some water for your colony. And really, go pay visit to the Great Queen. I will see you after you are ready."
Queen of ants knew they had not much time to chat do she just nodded. 
Kendra turned towards the Cyan Jade. "Summon us a cloud. We can support it yourself, right?'' She knew that it took lots of his power, but if they helped...
" Yes. I forgot that." He truly forgot that they  could use their power for the cloud. "Just instill spirit whisps inside. How foolish of me."
Kendra just rolled her eyes and saw huge cloud spreading. "Everyone, the rest is on us. Everyone put spirit whisps inside, Cyan Jade will it be easier for you to control the power then?"
"Yes." He nodded.
She sent spirit whisp inside and looked at Queen of ants and Cyan Jade. "Take them all back. I am about to blow this thing up."
She gathered one of those strange things that were exploding before explosion and planted it on wall. Then she made water wall and waited.
And indeed, just as she expected that thing blew up and became... wait... it became tiny butterfly?
She patted her chest and just shrugged. There is no time to think about insect ability to change completely. This is not usual world so nothing is normal.
She could see water still on its place, but low cracking in wall was clear proof that tue wall will crumble soon. 
With a smile she jumped on the cloud and rushed down. She literally told nature users to make nets and capture all those creatures. 
Then she used vicious method to destroy their startling cultivation and left enough food for them to eat in their huge caves. 
Yes, they had huge caves high in wall. Just when they were done water broke down and flushed with unimaginable poet towards them. 
The ants gathered and closed the openings with their teeth while Kendra and her cultivators slowly floated trough last gate and appeared in mid of an empty room. 
Suddenly a man and woman in shiny armor appeared in front of them, making Kendra become dazed. Why are they familiar? Do she knows them?
The two people smiled at everyone benevolently and then summoned big vials with true potion. "Well done. I know some killings were unavoidable, but that is how the life is. Some live some die. As you passed this place first you are all given all the true spirit water and each thousand points in school. Well done. Who was leader?"
Everyone pointed at Kendra. She came closer and again that strange pain in her heart made her almost dizzy. The woman smiled at her. "Kendra, right?"
She confusedly nodded, bit then remembered that they left their data before coming here. "Yes."
"Kendra was leader and will be awarded with another hundred points. I hope you all do not mind?" She smiled at their group but to her winder they started really protesting.
"Hundred? But she was leader! She should get another five hundred!" Everyone voiced in and the woman looked at her husband. 
"Fine. As it was your own wish, she will get another five hundred points. Use wisely." Without saying another word the man waved his face and they all appeared again in tasking guild.
Marcus appeared there and smiled. "Very well done. But you guys took two months. And everyone's spirit rose. Good!"
He praised them while they silently blinked at him. Even Kendra recounted all the days and couldn't come to two months. "Uh, impossible."
"I told you it's different world or dimension. The time there and here work differently. Anyway, as I can see many of you gathered great amount of energy. Go cultivate. You as well Kendra." He patted her head in passing and dissapeared.
Bess poked her red cheeks. "He is indeed quite handsome."
"He... And I... I..." She wanted to say they ate unsuitable, but this is not her previous world. There is not so much problem as long two people like each other. "I'm too young. Let's go home."
Seeing her being shy the girls quickly followed while the others told everyone stories about their trip. For long time they were in wonder and many were jelous. At that time they were not very willing to join.
"Next time I'm joining her again. She is great leader. Even tho she needs to learn a lot, she still listen to our ideas." Few cultivators looked at one ypung man and agreed.
Soon whole bunch of cultivators were searching for her to do another task, but she was already floating on cloud and flying back to caves with Zami. 
Bess could feel their minds and warmed her on time. So they used cloud to fly away and promised to come back after they break trough next boundary.
But the problem were not cultivators.
"You ate finally back, I missed you."


After Kendra Johnson lived her life under great difficulties she finally died and thought that was it.
But the fate made bet with her. 
She awakened in the body of a weak child that was close to dying. Should she take a chance and live this life with full breath?
Even tho the body was weak, but the mind of the person that already lived a full life.
''I will make my wishes come true.''
''I will travel the world and explore the continents.''
''I can understand all the languages? Great with me I don't need a damn translator.''
''I need money so let's dive to the depths of the ocean and look for 1000 years old pearls.''
There is this man who can't let go. 
There is the other who thinks he is important.
There are many birds and bees.
''But what I want is just travel around and one day find a quiet spot and enjoy my life.''
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"I don't think I like that look on your face," Noah said, easing back into bed beside her and pulling her against his side.
Randi leaned against him, sliding her hand across the hard plane of his abs, hoping the contact would ease the tension gathering in her body again.
 "What's up, babe?" His fingers danced idly up and down her arm. "I can smell something brewing in your brain." Suddenly his fingers stilled. "Wait. You're not still thinking of taking that job, are you?" When she didn't answer him he sat up, pulling her to a sitting position with him. "Randi?"
Oh, god. I knew this would happen.
"You've known for a long time, every since I got my EMT certification, that what I really wanted was to be a firefighter." She studied his face, looking for some clue that he would at least listen to her. "It's what I've wanted for as long as I can remember."
"And we discussed the dangers of it," he reminded her. "We talked about getting married, Randi. About having a family. Why would you want to put yourself in the line of fire, literally, when you're a mother? Or would be."
Randi could feel the anger boiling up inside her. "You were plenty supportive of me when I got this job as an EMT."
"Because it doesn't require you to walk into burning buildings," he ground out, a muscle jumping in his cheek.
Randi forced herself to remain calm. They'd had this argument so many times, but she thought they'd already settled it. And not once, but twice.
"I will be trained to do it," she reminded him, a sentence she was getting tired repeating. I will take classes and have drills. Fire departments don't let you just put on the gear and haul ass into a blaze."
"Even if they train you," he persisted, "the danger is always there."
She looked at him, her temper fraying. "Is that any worse than running all over the globe covering stories in hot spots?" she asked.
"We've discussed that." 
His voice had that concentrated patience that indicated she was on his last nerve. Well, fine, he was getting on hers.
"No." She shook her head. "You talked and I listened. You never heard one thing I said."
"You didn't hear what I said, either," he pointed out. "I explained to you I wanted to do the hot spot stories for a wire service to build up my creds. Then I could be in a position to do freelancing and we could live wherever we chose. That's what I wanted all along."
"And what was I supposed to do in the meantime?" she demanded. "Just mark time?"
"I wanted you to come with me, or did you forget that little thing. Honey, you love being an EMT." His tone of voice had softened. "You told me so. I'll bet New York has a crying need for people with your experience and training."
"I don't want to go to New York." She was really having a hard time keeping it together. "I want to stay here and I want to take that firefighter job. The battalion has an opening and the chief offered it to me. To me!" She stabbed herself with her thumb. "It's what I've been aiming for all this time. Besides, you'll be gone half the time on assignment."
"I told you I wouldn't be traveling all the time. I'd be home between assignments. By the time we decided to have a family I'd hardly be traveling at all."
She snorted. "Yeah, right. I know you, remember? You've got it in your blood, just like my desire to be a firefighter is in mine. Are you saying you won't get the job unless you move? What happened to the digital world and airplane travel?"
"New York is where it's happening right now," he told her. "It's a place for me to make contacts for stories, for sources for the things I need."
She shook her head. "This is getting us noplace fast."
"So you're saying if I really love you I'll give up my career for you?" he asked.
"Aren't you asking the same of me?" she demanded.
Noah didn't answer. Instead he threw back the rumpled sheet and climbed out of bed, stalking over to the window. They'd left the curtains open and the moonlight slanting in outlined his finely honed body and scattered glints of light on his disheveled. He wasn't handsome so much as ruggedly good looking, with a square-jawed face, dark eyebrows, and eyes a brown almost as deep as the hair on his head. They'd taken one look at each other and it had been lust at first sight. That lust had morphed over time to a deep friendship ad unexpectedly into love. Randi had dreamed of a future together, a family, building memories through the years.
Who knew he'd be so adamant about her dream job? So unbending. At first when she brought it up he hadn't said much. Probably because it was just a maybe at the time. There had been no openings in the San Antonio Fire Department at the time and she thought now he'd been thinking there never would be. She hadn't rained on his parade. Why did he want to rain on hers?
He stood there without speaking for so long Randi couldn't stand it.
"Noah? Aren't you going to say anything?"
"Like what? My opinion hasn't changed and neither has the situation. You know how important this is to me."
"Same goes," she reminded him, trying to speak over the stabbing pain in her heart.
"Really." His tone was flat, uninflected, a sure sign that he was dealing with a lot of anger over this.
"Okay, let's talk about my job for a minute. What if I went to New York with you and was able to get hired on as a firefighter there. Would that make this work?"
"Did you hear what I've been saying?" He practically vibrated with anger. "This is not a job for a woman no matter where we live, especially one who says she wants to get married and have a family."
She scrambled off the bed and went to stand beside him. "There are plenty of men who are firefighters. They have strong marriages and great family lives. And I'm sure their wives worry about them, but they accept it, because it's part of the men they love."
"That's different."
"Different? Different how?" Anger suddenly shot through her. "Wait a minute. Is this because I'm a woman and you don't think women should be firefighters?"
"It's not...exactly like that," he protested. But he still didn't turn to look at her.
"Then what exactly is it? Because I have to tell you, that's how it looks from here." She dropped her hand and took a step away. "Holy crap, Noah, I never took you for such a chauvinist."
"I'm not." He raked his fingers through his hair. " You know that, babe."
"Yeah? Just exactly how do I know that?" She stamped her bare foot. "And don't call me babe."



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Controlled Burn Part 1
Montana Wade was home after writing off the past ten years of her life, but she needed one more night of courage before she faced her family. Boone Crider, hotshot firefighter, was burned out from the rash of malicious fires. They thought one night as strangers would cure them both, but the fire they started between them soon became a barely controlled burn.


Before I went into my room, I excuse myself to Fuyumi, and going straight inside my room after. Well, we will meet soon after for dinner anyway. So I take this chance to take a bath.

The room is simple, there's a wooden bucket with water and some towels next to it. A small towel and a bigger one. Next to it there's a small bottle filled with some water inside. I checked it and it has a Rose like fragrance, I bet that this used as a replacement for soap?. And the most important part is, toilet. It existed! The sitting toilet I mean. So, I called off my magical equipment and goes naked inside my own room. I've locked the door anyway, what could get worse?

I take the bucket and some towels to the toilet with me. I warmed the water with [Mana manipulation] by manipulating and tempering the temperature with [Mana], and pour down the fragranced water from the bottle to the bowl after. Then, I take the small towel and begin to clean myself up by wiping up my bodies. Once I'm done, I dried myself up with wind magic which combined with some fire magic mana to give off such a warm wind. I don't need spell for this kind of magic. Just a simple [Mana] control.

I called out my equipments back from my [Inventory] and they automatically equipped on and re-sized to fit me, the owner and wearer. I also called out my [Black Ayakashi], hooking its scabbard up to the left side of my belt and walk to the chair and table with drawer next to the bed. I pull the chair with me to the window, placing the chair right next to the window and open it. Due to my heigth, I need the chair to life myself up higher.

It is only from a second floor but the fantasy view it gives still an amazing sight. Down on the streets, there are people from combined races and creatures. The fresh nature air which carried the wind breeze really soothe my mind. I took my time there looking at the activities of the villagers for quite some time until my door knocked.

'Knock knock knock..', Sounds made from the knocked door. I get down from the chair, and walk toward the door to get it. I opened it, and saw a Human male with well built muscles and wearing a daily clothes. On his right belt bag, I can see cloth gloves which a little bit off from the bag.

"Apologize for disturbing you, Irumi-dono, was it?", the man with well built muscles asked in polite manner.

"Yes, I am. Just Irumi is enough. Umm, who are you sir?", I replied and asked back politely and plainly while looking at him. I kind of tilted my head a little backward to be able to see his eyes clearly as he's taller than me.

"Oh yes, sorry. How impolite of me.", he scratched his back of the head while apologizing and smiling warmly. "I am Dan, a worker from this Nightingale Inn. Pleased to meet you, Irumi.", He answered with a warm accent trying to be polite.

"Oh yes Dan-san, the pleasure is mine.", I smiled. "Do you need any help?", I asked.

"Grace-sama was calling for you. She said the changes are ready. And also, there are some people waiting for you downstairs.", He said.

"I see. Okay then, let's go down.", I replied while moving out. Then, I'm pulling my room's door behind me to close it while walking out, and lock it after.

I turned by back after locking it. He smiled while nodding gently, I reply with a nodding my head a little as well. We walked through the hallway to the stairs which leading downstairs. He took the lead and I am following right behind him. He has a nice guy face on him despite having those big mucles all over his body. I was imagining he would fit to be like somekind of a Gladiator from some movies back in my previous life with such body. Ofcourse, it is if, he was paired with those Romanians Armor. 

Once we reached downstairs, I can see Grim and Fuyumi sat on a round table with 4 chairs. Grim waved at me, Fuyumi then turns his back to wave and smile at me too. I waved back as I followed Dan to the receiptionist where Grace is.

"I beg my excuse then, Irumi.", He asked in a polite manner to me as we almost reaching the receiptionist table.

"Yes, thank you Dan-san.", I replied and bowed my head down a little to show some appreciation toward his service.

Then he left, I greet Grace whose busy reading at some book there and did not realize that we were there.

"Hello Grace onee-san.", I greeted her. She turns her head up from the book to see who's greeting her.

"Oh my, Hi Irumi-chan. By the way, do you have a coin purse with you?", She greeted me back and jump straight to the point after.

"Umm, No?", I answered with my index finger below my lips. "Why is that?", I asked her, a little confused.

"Oh, nothing in particular.", she smiled. "It just happened that I have this cloth-made small coin purse for you. I was thinking you might need it as I didn't spot you're carrying any with you. If you want it, I can deduct 1 silver coin for the service and it's all yours.", She offered.

"Sure, Grace onee-san. I'd like to take it.", I accepted her offer.

"Allright then!", she clapped her hands as she said the words in a cheerful manner. "Here it is, I've prepared them for you. 92 silver and 4 copper coins inside it.", She shoved the purse bag with coins inside it to me. I reach my hand to answer her gestures, with the "hands down" impression. As my palm directly below the bag purse, she dropped it on my palm. I saved it right into my inventory as soon as it touches my palm.

"Thank you for-", She stopped her words with suprised looks right after she saw the bag vanished. "Is that [Inventory] skill, Irumi-chan?!", She asked with a smile.

"Um.. No?", I began with short reply. Trying to hide my nervousness. "It was a [Spatial magic] that I used for storing little things. Its [Magic formula] connected to these sphere like objects embedded on my gloves's cloth. It is not unlimited though..", I explained with made up excuses, trying to stay in my composure to be more convincing.

She looked in to my eyes after hearing that answer for some seconds. She closes her eyes and smiles again. "Allright, I believe you. Thank you for your patronage.", She followed it with a bow of appreciation at me.

"Likewise Grace onee-san.", I bowed back. as I pulled back my head, I saw her smiling at me with those cute Onee-san's eyes and glasses. Then, I proceed with walking to the table where Grim and Fuyumi are.

'[Spatial magic] with no mana trace, huh? Fufufu.. I wonder why she hid such thing. Interesting..', Grace murmured on her mind as she looked on Irumi who's walking away from the receiptionist desk, smirked a little.

I pull the round chair from a vacant seat between Grim and Fuyumi and take a seat after. Their eyes following my movement.

"So, Irumi-chan..", Grim started the topic with him looking at my blade.

"Umm? Is there something wrong with my blade?", I asked. Making a confused face.

"Ahaha No..", he laughed slightly. "It just that, people usually not carrying armaments while feasting. They put them on the shelves there.", Grim answered while pointing the shelves which filled with armaments with his thumb.

"Ah.. I see.", I learnt a new common sense of this world. "Excuse me for a second then.", I excused myself while standing up. Both lf them nodded gently to answer my excuse. Then, I began moving myself to the shelves after.

I loosen the hook from the scabbard with my left belt when I reached the front side of shelves. While I'm still at it, a tall Demon-like race came to the shelves as well. He has small horns pointed out from his head, small portion of his fangs caming out from his mouth, and wearing a black and red steeled armour set. He put 2 of the blades which like my ayakashi with dark red scabbards and silver hilt with black and blue colors linnens mixed on it. He was suprised when he looked at me putting down my [Black Ayakashi] which is full in black color on the shelves.

"...Blade, huh?", He asked while standing there firmly.

"Y-Yes.", I got nervouse when hearing his heavy voice asking me. I'm still holding on my ayakashi awkwardly.

"...I see..", he replied with his plain face expression. "Do you mind if I se-..", He asked my permission while shoving his hands toward my blade trying to reach it. I instinctively grabbed his hand before his hand reaching my blade and he stopped his word.

"Unfortunately... Yes, I do mind. Mr. Adventurer.", I cut in his words.

"...Hmm, I see. I understand. I apologize...", He said while he tried to pull his hand gently. I released my grasp as I felt he was pulling his hand back. He bowed his head afterward to me. I bowed back answering his apology. He's really like a warrior in fantasy stories. That thougt was popped up within my mind.

"...You.", he said while pointing his glare at me. "You have a good grip for a young Human girl.", He implied. Then, he turned his back and walk away from me heading to Grace's desk.

I am quite confused with his words. I thougt I didn't put any force when I grabbed his hand. Then, I tried using [Appraisal] on him, trying to see any available information of him.

[???????]
Lv. 100(31)
Occupation: ????
Class: [Blade Path Warrior]
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[HP]: 100%
[MP]: 23%
[STA]: 41%

Absurdly, the apprasial letting me know his level but not his Name, race, and Occupation. I stopped my dilly dallying and walking back to the table. I sat one the same position. Grim and Fuyumi who looked at the whole scene from the shelves incident were looking at me.

"What is it, Grim-san, Fuyumi-san?", I asked calmly in confusion leaving some innocent taste in it.

"Gah! Fuyumi, you tell her.", Grim sighed and shaked his head. His actions made me a little bit uneasy, I look at fuyumi direction hoping to get somr answer.

"Nothing much, honestly. It was about the demon race guy you met at the shelves. Grim just exaggerating it.", He answered.

"Eh?", I got even more confused. "Who was him? Did I do something improper?", I asked, starting to feel insecure.

Grim was ordering the foods for us as I asked at Fuyumi. He didn't ask what we want to eat but, there's not many options for it anyway. The inn only offered the mass cooked food which rolled daily.

"Hmm.. How to say it?", he crossed his left hand below his chest, his right hand's finger rubbing on his chin, and his right hand's elbow was pressing on the back of his left hand which crossed below her chest. Closing his eyes, leaving the impression of taking a deep thougt over something. "He was a prince in the [Demon] kingdom. The first brother of 3. He left the throne to his brothers which by the end ended up the 3rd prince become the current demon king. The first, Him, left the throne because he chose to see the outside world with his dual wield blade. As for the 2nd, he chose to be the general and guardian of, somewhat-whatever it was I forgot, in the demon kingdom.", Fuyumi implied some explanation.

"I see. So basically he's a prince?", I asked back to fuyumi to confirm while I see Grim has been back from ordering the food and joining us back on the table.

"Yes, he was.", he nodded after taking a seat. "But he never likes to be treated as a royalty. A loner and a geezer. Gah!", Grim added to the stories. Face palming himself.

"Hah-haha...", Fuyumi san laugh with an expression like holding some pain.

"So, What's the history with Grim and Him, Fuyumi-san? Grim seemed to resent him so much?", I asked at Fuyumi. Grim stayed in silence hearing my question. Doing nothing while propping up his chin with his left hand's palm looking away.

"Well..", he started it with scratching his left eyebrow. "Back when we were still an active adventurer, Grim was a total muscle head who seek strong opponents to duel on. Like, he's looking for battle experiences from friendly battles or somewhat. Battle maniac stuff or such, I suppose?", Fuyumi said.

"Hoo.. So Grim-san is an M who seeks stronger opponent then?", I smirked at Grim, teasing him. "And then?", I looked back at Fuyumi.

"Hei hei.. It wasn't like that.", Grim wiped his face with his hands and shivered.

"Hahaha, you may call it like that.", Fuyumi responded to my tease.

"Sigh..", he sighed. "Fine. Yes, I was a battle maniac back then. But not in a bad way. I respect every opponent. You know, That guy there even existed when I was still a baby.", Grim chose to told the story of himself by himself, but trying to distract the topic. Sneaky.

"Hmm? When you were a kid?", I asked in a curious mannner, following the currents.

"Indeed Irumi-chan. The story of the throne itself was taken itself back to 600 years back or so.", Fuyumi confirmed.

"Eeeh??!", I shocked. I looked at Grim after hearing Fuyumi's implied explanations, he nodded. "He's sure is a geezer then. And then-And then??", I asked for more.

"Him as an adventurer is truly a remarkable adventurer. He's a very promising A rank adventurer but, he kept on refusing the test for ranking up to S adventurer.", Fuyumi said.

"Mmhmm!", he gallantly confirmed it. "And his experiences in blade wielding as a warrior is also remarkable. I lost to him 4 times straight in the duel.", Grim added.

"Whoa!", I was suprised in a praising manner. "I see. So you lost 4 times? No wonder you're somewhat pissed. Fufufu..", I teased Grim again after.

"Hahaha. Yes.", he laughed, tapping the table. " But, in most duels to anyone else, Grim is indeed showing his developments when doing each round of the mock battles with them. And eventually, he improved and able to defest them from their openings. Even those higher rankers than him also lost at least once from him. Grim talents in martial arts is splendid, if I say it. It's true.", Fuyumi said. He nodded with a little cringed on his face while saying the last sentence, giving the taste like he's saying 'I almost not believing it, but it's true', just from his that body language of his.

"Gah, it is just that he's a monster.", he shaked his head in that gallant pose. "An old monster to be precise. His speed, his movements, and his swings are precise and efficient. Everytime I learned things from my lost in the duels, He always have something up his sleeves. I don't even want to know how many battles he had been through to achieve that. So, It stressed me out looking for a way or openings to surpass him in those battles.", Grim explained.

"Hoo..", I enjoyed myself hearing this story.

"Yes Indeed, he's also called as a merciless adventurer rank tester. Mostly, to those blade wielders which are quite rare in quantity. People tend to choose the double-edged sword path and become a knight to ensure future life for themselves and their family, in some major cities.", Fuyumi said.

"Oh, I see, I see.. He's really strong then?", I asked.

"Yes, I admit he is.", Grim nodded.

"Hahah. He really is. Not to mention he is also a solo adventurer, I think. No one have ever seen him doing requests with a party. Most importantly, he always coming back with no scratch on him.", Fuyumi added more information of him.

"Whoa.. He's a strong lone wolf. Now I understand why his words are plain and straight to the point.", I said.

And then, the food came with Dan as the waiter who brought it to us. His nice guy face added with warm smile coming to us followed with warm greeting and small pleasant talks while putting down the food to the table, really make us feeling more comfortable with this Inn while taking our meals. I wish all of the waiters in my previous world has this warm manner of him.

Then we enjoyed our meals. Continuing some minor stories of Grim duel maniac stories with regular ranked adventurers while at it. And still, due to their exciting stories, I forgot to ask about that guy's name. Well at least we laughed, we talked and we feasted together on that table to our heart content like a family. So, it was another nice and warm memory I got since I came down to this new fantasy world.

Iruma, an ordinary boy who lived in the same house with his mother and his 2 older sisters, tends to be quiet and dependable at his workplace.

He plays an RPG game whenever he has the time for it.
As the stories goes on, a tragic incident happens and he finds himself getting reincarnated to another world as a girl just like the girl avatar which he used in his RPG games.

The world indulges in sword in magic, with some advancements in service and era of the world. Thus, her new life begins, as she adventuring the wide world she lives in as her second chance life..

(Early chapters are short. Please be advised.)

A stone signboard with a well carved image of a generic witch on a flying broom was placed at the centre of the top of the entrance to the cave. 

They walked into the mouth of the cave in hopes to find shelter for the rest of the afternoon and the night. The cave had two openings, one where they entered and the other on the opposite side of the cave. The two openings were 7 kilometres apart. The cavern was illuminated by lanterns which held flames of all colours, making it easy but disorienting to walk through. After about a 5 minutes walk, they can see a community. Wooden and stone buildings were built into the walls of the caves, making it seemed as if the manmade structures and the natural cave walls were one. 

All three adventurers had different emotions and showed distinct differences in their expressions towards the sight. Lyte was amazed at the sight. Since he was a young little boy, he had always wandered about how a Witch Cavern looks after knowing the existence of such a place. But he never dared to step into one without a companion. He had tried asking his friends to accompany him but they were more scared than him of the mysterious place foreign to mortals. 

Lisa's face was one of excitement. Her elder sister, Laura, had always told her about the wonders of such a place. Every witches treat each other like sisters. No discriminations, no prohibitions to magic usage. It is a witch paradise as she was told and now she could see for herself whether the stories were true or false. Her excitement was more obvious with the stars glimmering in her dark irises. 

Snow's expression was as always, a poker face. She showed no interest towards the place as she had visited there on multiple occasions. However she had always wondered why there was a cave in low grounds near a village, but she decided to not question that. To each their own as she loved to tell herself. She did not care about it as it would not affect her in any way.

Lisa who obviously knew the language of the witches better than the other two - or so she thought - became the leader of the group and brought them to a hotel. She booked a room for her and Lyte only on purpose.

"Come on, Lyte. Let's go to our room and rest. After that, we can go to a nearby restaurant to grab something to eat. I already asked the owner and he told me a great place we can have our dinner,"

"W-what about Snow? She is staying in the same room with us, right?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, Lyte. I got a double person room, not triple,"

"Maybe you two can sleep on the bed and I will sleep on the couch?"

"But Lyte..."

They kept bickering about the whole where would Snow sleep thing until suddenly, Lyte felt someone tapped his shoulder. He spun around to see Snow looking bored out of her mind. In her right hand she held up a key similar to the one to their room.

"It is alright, Lyte. I got a single room across from yours just in case. If anything happens, you can come knock on my door," Snow said while shaking the key on her hand. 

"H-how?" both Lyte and Lisa piped up in surprise. 

Lisa was pissed and speechless. She was so sure that Snow would be helpless and would crawl to her for help and apologies to her and beg for mercy and kindness while she would deny her any form of aid and laugh at her misery. She had the whole scenario plotted out in her mind but it was all shattered in the matter of seconds by the fact that Snow somehow managed to handle herself just fine. Lyte the other hand was beyond amazed that Snow was able to get a room all by herself.

"Languages can be learnt, guys. My mother tongue is Mandarin but here I am speaking fluent English. I was bored so I decided to pick up a few new languages, witch language being one of them,"

"B-but, the language of the witches are one of the hardest ones to master. Only those with witch's blood have the slightest chance of understanding it,"

"Like I said, languages can be learnt. And I learnt the language of the witches. Now if you will excuse me, I will be heading to my room now. I will see you at dinner,"

With that, Snow walked past them towards the long hallway in search of her room. She found hers and walked into the room and locked it behind her. Lyte and an even more frustrated Lisa followed the same path Snow took and entered their own room across from hers. 

Lyte was quite surprised when he entered the room. Half of the room looked like it belonged to a witch. There was a velvet single bed with tons of pillows on it and a fluffy blanket that looked like it was made out of pure clouds. Shelves of potions and spell books occupied the walls of that half of the room. In front of the bed was a small black carpet with a small white pentagram on it, big enough to fit an adult sitting with their legs crossed on it. There was even a wooden chest half opened at the corner of the room and a small cauldron above it. Lisa placed her stuff down on the bed and opened the chest excitedly to find it filled with ingredients for brewing a potion or for ritual purposes. The walls and the ceiling of that half of the room was painted in different hues of red and purple. The floor was covered with red fluffy rugs.

The other half of the room however looked like a plain human room. A navy blue single bed with a pillow and a blanket on it. One table and one chair was placed on the right side of the bed. On the right wall was an average sized cabinet with a bathrobe, some towels and a pair of slippers in it. The left side of the bed had a nightstand on it with some books in the drawers. The was a modern looking table lamp placed on it. That was all. Quite plain but it suited Lyte's taste. The wall was painted a dark green while the ceiling was white. The ground was panelled to look like the floor of a cabin, all wooden and waxed.

"Amazing! I didn't know they customized the room for different guest," Lyte said as he claimed the more human part of the room.

"No they don't silly. All the rooms here have a shape shifting spell on them. It will morph into the ideal room for the guests whether it'd be the colour scheme or the items around. That's why my side of the room is witch themed and your side is human boy themed,"

"Oh! That's a very cool idea. I wonder what Snow's room looks like,"

"Uh huh. Me too, I guess," Lisa was displeased that Lyte thought about the reapress at a moment like that. Even when she was out of sight she was not out of his mind.

"Well, let's set our stuff and take a bath. Then we can get dinner at about 7 o'clock," Lyte said as he looked at his watch. It said that it was only 4 o'clock in the afternoon so they had all the time in the world to prepare. If they want to, they can even catch a shirt nap before heading out for dinner. 

Lyte took a bath first in the connected bathroom while Lisa unpacked the little things she brought along. Lyte was surprised that the bathroom looked very similar to the one he used at Snow's mansion. Guess I liked that bathroom the best, Lyte thought as he took a long cold shower. 

In the hotel room, Lisa finished unpacking her stuff and took out the stuff she would need for the bath. Her favourite shampoo, a towel provided in the room and her outfit for dinner. As she waited, she decided to pick up one of the books on the shelves and read through it. 

After 10 minutes, Lisa heard a click and the sound of the bathroom door opening. She turned her head and...





A human boy who has a special role.

A witch who decided she'd tagged along.

A reapress who helped them on the way.

Another witch who followed them one day.

A prisoner freed from his chains.


Lyte just wanted to unite the Keepers and retrieve the stolen cursed Wind Goddess Statue.

He met some poeple along the way to help him in his journey but tragedy struck when one of them stabbed him on the back. 

He might be prepared to face the challenges ahead, but was he prepared when betrayal smacked him in the face?

I had never given much thought to my future or where it may lead me, for me my life had be planned out the day I was born. I was born into the Tellus clan. One of the four great clans of Gallatia. We were the farmers of Gallatia, the ones who worked with earth magic, yet I was still to come into my gifts. 
"Gifts" my mother would say, more like a curse if you asked me. Nobody leaves their clan unless they are Luna marked, which the last Luna marked child was born over 100 years ago. My  mother would tell me stories about how the Luna marked were once many and used their gifts to create our civilisation of Gallatia. She said they mastered all four elements and where the keepers of our magic, protectors, priests. That all changed when then clans were formed, I seems less and less Lunas where born and now they are just stories to help children sleep at night.
Gallatia had become divided, we rarely spoke to other clans anymore, I wonder what their villages would like? I sat and thought for a while whilst I was in the corn fields. It was harvest and we had to gather the crops in before winter.
"Amara! What are you doing? Come on we got to get evening assembly"
My brother Elias shouted me, he was right i was day dreaming again and totally forgotten about the time. I felt a rumbling beneath my feet...
"Oh no! Don't you da.." I screamed and I knew what was about to happen, Elias and his earth tricks again I looked down and the ground seemed to moved and shift and I found myself being lifted up in the air by the earth under me. I hated it when he did this, you see Elias had had his gifts now for 3 years and he was creating quite confident with them as he was now flipping me through the air and straight in to the hay stack over 200 metres away. I landed very ungraceful which he found obviously amusing, I sat up, mouth full of straw and I felt a surge of anger pulse me. I clenched my fists and for a moment I could of sworn i saw sparks of flame of around my hands. Funny, it went as soon as it came. 
"Come on! We best get back to the hall before Gregory sees you" Elias laughed as he lifted me out of the hay.
"You know you could of seriously hurt me!" I look at him at in frustration 

"Well you seem fine to me!" 
If Elias wasn't so chipper and my brother I probably would of punched him by now.
We headed to the great hall, it was the centre of our community it was a grand structure made up of great tree roots and earth. There were large openings at the top where sunbeams and birds would cascade down in the summertime. It was truly a beautiful sight to behold.
Tonight was the Equinox ceremony, matters of the earth clan future plans would be discussed along with the trials of youth. Yep that was me, it would soon be my 17th birthday and I should have my powers come in by now, Elias was nearly 20 and he had his powers at my age. What was wrong with me? Our mother said that it's normal but I knew it wasn't. I was the oldest out of the group not to get their gifts. 
The assembly had been called a few times and the trials had be made and each time I failed. No gifts would surface for me where as others would have theirs awaken straight away.
I must be broken. Either that or I'm some sort of power regret.
I stood their on the Great hall waiting again for my turn to participate in the trials. I stood behind a boy I knew as Howard steepleson, he was 15. Staring at his red hair From behind all I kept thinking was I'm gona get humiliated again and by a 15 year old. I closed my eyes and took a short deep breath as I watch Howard mover toward centre of the hall. In the middle was a small hole in the ground, I watched as Howard stood next to it and placed his hands over the entrance to the hole. The elders signalled him to begin. Howard closed his eyes and suddenly a small green shoot rose from the ground below. It snaked its way round Howard's risk and up his arm, Howard's eyes widened as he watched and the shoot settled and then sank into his skin to create a tattoo that was beautiful. 
"Vine mage" said the elder to the others that sat around watching curiously.  Gregory walked over to Howard and greeted him telling him his training would start soon and he would join the other vine mages to help support our defences. Howard's face lit up, he turned and looked looked at me with a smug face as he strode past me like he was some sort of king or something.
Now, it was my turn. I swallowed hard and took a few small steps forward. Gregory was the head of our council and he seemed so tall today, taller than I ever thought he was before.
He motioned for me to place my hands above the sacred earth when the hole was. My knees were weak I rather stumbled down than knelt, I blame Elias for that I glanced over at him and saw him mouth at me "sorry" his face wincing as landed with a thud. I felt everyone's eyes on my now, burning right through me with anticipation. Waiting. Waiting to see if the girl that everyone thought was broken or not worthy would receive her blood right as a earth Tellus.
Moment of truth I thought, I slowly reached out my hand over the opening on the ground. I felt air rushing through my fingers and then nothing. 
"Oh come on!" I exclaimed. Quickly looking around at the others in the room. Whispers and giggles is all I heard from them. I looked up to see Gregory's face, he wore and expression of steel. I had failed again.
Next thing I felt was Elias and my mother my side, "it's ok sis! Don't worry there's no rule on how many times you can have the trials" he said helping my up.
"Yes honey listen to your brother. Everything will work out just you see" my mother hugged me.
"Can we go home now please?" I was exhausted, after a day in the fields and not this spectacle I just wanted my bed.

Amara, a lowly farmers daughter from the earth clan Tellus is outcast by her people and she finds herself on a  journey of self discovery. Along with her brother Elias they have many trials and find themselves separated in the midst of war and Amara in the clutches of the Blood thirsty Fire king. Will she find the strength to fight and be reunited with her brother or will she submit in defeat?

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