Chapter 5

"Ajax, come home quickly after training from  forest. Adeline yelled to Ajax who just had finished his meal and was headed towards forest.

Ajax turned back and his big, deer like eyes assured  and said, " Yes, mumma don't worry at all, I won't be late.

Suddenly from house  sprung out zane who was busy eating meat saw Ajax heading outside. Zane looked at adeline with his big dark black smiling eyes and purred like a kitten. Adeline smiled and said, "Zane slow down and take care of Ajax for me okay? ". Zane  growled in accord to the statement of Adeline.

Adeline was a woman  with snow like complexion, long silk like soft long hair and beautiful blue sparkling eyes. She cared a lot about Ajax and her husband. She taught Ajax every good and bad thing , every lesson of life.

Ajax and Zane left the house and while running suddenly bumped into someone and they felt like they had hit upon a hard rock. Upon looking up ajax started smiling sheepishly and Zane started looking here and there as if he was caught doing something naughty. Zane sat down pretending that he was very obedient and nice tiger. They both had bumped into Andrews who had a sturdy body and big muscles flexing from his arms, with dark brown hair and deep black eyes. And he was returning from his work and saw his naughty cub and Zane running . He folded his arms and raised  his eyebrow and with a questioning face asked, " Where are my two little  racy cubs running off in this much excitement? 

Ajax pouted and said, "Dad I am not little any more, I am your big boy now and Zane is also 5 year old big tiger. He is very powerful and so am I. Zane also growled in agreement with Ajax.

"Ok, ok my big, matured cub now go and be careful and come home early", andrews said with a smile.

Ajax said yess and then they again headed off to forest. Ajax with strong, long legs was heading very fast inside the forest followed by Zane.

" Zane quick run across the river in one minute, " Ajax ordered to zane while checking at the stopwatch. Zane roared and leaped. He ran very fast but still he crossed the river in 1 minute, 50 seconds. Zane was very angry and punched a rock and that rock was turned into powder. Ajax was also hoping that today they would successfully and Zane would level up as they were practising since one month,but it did not happen in the way they wanted. They still needed time.

Ajax smiled and said " It's okay , we will try to achieve it in this week Zane. Don't be hard on yourself. You are the fastest in running. We both are always by each other's side. We both will do it together.

Now let's try our power punch on trees. "Zane, zeus(ajax's Nick name) combine, " Ajax said and Zane disappeared, ajax's eyes turned from black to blue, and said POWER PUNCH. Slowly instead of ajax's hand there appeared big claws of Zane and with one strike the tree was cut down. They did more attacks and made smaller pieces of tree. Then zeus calmed down and Zane appeared. Both looked at each other and smiled in unison that this punch was most powerful. Then they did some more practice individually as well as together. It was almost dawn when they were ready to go home. They both loaded themselves with logs of wood that they cut to take home for burning.

When they were outside the forest a little far from village Zane saw smoke emerging from village. He signalled to Ajax. Ajax's eyes widened and he started running as fast as he could  as their developed an unknown fear in his heart. Zane too followed him.

What happened in village?!