Chapter 13 - Jethro's Suspicion
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Based behind a covert, the village of Moon Meadow is home to small elves and fairies led by the elder elf.
The village they visit looks imposing. Copper rooftops, cypress wood walls and rainbow colors of different flowers. Moon Meadow has a mystical atmosphere.
The main attraction of the village are their giant colorful mushrooms. Those giant mushrooms, planted a long time ago and designed by gnomes and fairies.
“Wow, I never thought I could visit this kind of place. It’s peaceful.” Sekhmet said in awe. Her eyes roamed the village. There she met different faces of fairies and elves and they were all friendly to her. They even greet each other to the man beside her.
“What was your name again?” Sekhmet asked, looking up to him. In this close, he was six foot tall. Still taller even she tried to straighten up her back to reach his shoulder.
His eyes turn to her, “Theon,”
“And we are heading to the chief of this village, right?” she asked again while glancing around the place. Looking for any sign of Persis.
“Yes, we are going to ask him if he could tell the whereabouts of your friend,”
“Thank you,”
“And after that, I will let you lead your way back to the city.”
“Oh, right. After I found my friend. I was getting worried about her. Hope she didn’t encounter that serpent-dragon you are talking about,”
“Let’s hope she didn’t,”
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The humanoid form lying over the broken trees has woken up to see someone standing a far distance from him. He was all bare naked when this other man in green robes started walking towards him at a slow pace. His face was smirking, as his long black hair revealed his devilish striking beauty.
“Atreus,” he grunted, helping himself to stand up.
The man stopped. Closed to his presence. “This is the second time you were down with a mere creature,”
He looked away, feeling dismayed by the incident. “She wasn’t alone.”
“She?” he tilted his head with an interesting tone of his voice. Atreus never met a female who could bring down one of his brothers. Especially the family of serpent-dragon.
“A winged one with the element of wind. But, this guy came, much stronger, I could have devoured her if it wasn’t for him,” he spitted with spitefulness on his face.
Atreus smirked by studying him. His brother's lean body got several bruises and wounds. But nothing looks serious except for his broken pride this time and he can take care of that.
“What are they doing here?” he asked.
He then lifted his face to his brother, his forehead furrowed. “I don’t know. I was here in my place when I heard someone calling other names which I don’t know of. And when I came to look for it, she was alone and looking for someone.”
“What was the name of this person she was looking for?”
“Sekhmet,”
Atreus’s eyebrows lifted the moment he heard that name. It sounds familiar. He once heard that name a long time ago and it wasn’t an ordinary one. “I see, this Sekhmet might still be lost in this forest. If you happen to see someone, ask her name before you do something to her.”
“And if this is Sekhmet?”
“You capture her alive and bring her to me,”
“What is it to you with this name, anyway?”
“No need to know for now. You’re still young, that is,” he turned his back on him, “and besides, you need more training. You are one lucky younger brother that he let you still lives, Iesem,”
In one blink of his eyes, Atreus was gone with no trace that he was there with him.
He was feeling intense dislike of the sight of those two. He might have got a delicious meal when that guy never interfered and he will take revenge for that. And now, his eldest brother is trying to capture this one, too. This is getting annoying to his part.
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Inside Persis’ quarters, Morpheus was long gone from tending her wounds and bruises and headed back to the senior quarters and left her alone to rest. But to herself, she goes weary and fearful for Sekhmet’s whereabouts. It was almost sundown and the whole academy is in the breach of emergency.
Before Morpheus had left, he mentioned the abnormality of ogres that someone had planned to experiment such creatures into that kind of abnormal size and without fear to attack anyone. But they do not have any idea who would do such a thing.
Grunting to get up from the bed, she needs to see Jethro to help her find Sekhmet. She can’t let herself drift off and do nothing.
Heading to Sekhmet’s quarters, to her surprise, she saw Jethro inside the room, looking for something.
“What are you doing here?” she asked her cousin, seeing the mess on the floor.
Jethro paused, staring at her with bewilderment. “I was...looking for something that might help to find Sekhmet,” he answered and continued to look around the room.
“And what is that?”
“Ryuujin said to look for this thing,”
“What thing?”
“The golden horn,”
Persis’ forehead creased at what he said. “What are you talking about? Why would Sekhmet have the golden horn?”
Jethro stopped and faced her cousin with his messy hair. Half an hour he didn't find what he was looking for and this is the only chance he has to find that thing before anyone could claim the horn. Only to be a little disappointed to find him here from his cousin.
“Look, Persis,” he walked towards her, towering his height over her, and said, “do you remember when the Blue Longhorn dragon came back with Sekhmet and Ryuujin?”
She nodded.
“The admin was looking now for the golden horn. They said maybe someone took it,”
Another line appeared between her brows and crossed her arms, “And you are now accusing Sekhmet that she took away the horn? What if the one who stole the egg already stole the horn?”
“That’s impossible,” he sighed, “You can’t take away the horn inside the egg. And the egg hatched itself and abnormally grew in enormous size in minutes. That will be the right time to take the horn from the dragon,”
Persis shakes her head with disbelief, “You can’t do that to her,”
“Why? Because she’s your friend? How much do you know about her?”
“It doesn’t matter, but you can’t just accuse her like that, and did you find what you are looking for?”
Jethro turned his back on her, starting to pick up the mess he made, “I’m sorry, but I just got suspicious,”
“Then get suspicious to Ryuujin,”
“He’s the one who told me about that,”
“I don’t believe it, Ryuujin might be the one who took it and hid it away,” and she’s feeling irritable by what Ryuujin and Jethro are talking about. This is somehow unacceptable for her. “I can’t believe you have done this thing behind us, atleast you tell me or ask Sekhmet about this,”
“I was about to, that’s why I was looking for you the moment I heard the trouble in the city, but I was unlucky to find your friend. I’m sorry,” he returned the books back to the shelves and faced his cousin.
“And you didn’t even wait for her to come back,” it’s not a question and she was angry now. Not good news for him.
“Persis, you must understand, this is an emergency,” now he is trying to convince her not to get upset with what he’s doing. “Remember your classmate who turned into a dragon? He needed the golden horn,”
“You mean he’s still inside the lab, and not yet--” she stammered. There was a stabbing pain in her chest.
Jethro nodded, “but please, don’t misunderstand me or Sekhmet, if I couldn’t find it, I will apologize to her and if I do, I will not tell anyone unless you say so,”
Persis didn’t answer, putting her hands on her side, and she studied her cousin. He looked sincere enough for the situation and he did save her in time. “Did you find it?”
“Not yet, only if you are going to help me,”
“No, I’ll look at Ryuuin’s place even if he is there,” she didn’t wait for Jethro to say anything anymore, withdrawing from their conversation.
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