Harbinger: The Four Knights

Heavy Blows

3 months later

               “Young master, that Nana girl is getting on my nerves. Should I just eliminate her?” Abel ask as they walk back to their residence after an eventful day at the academy. “What are you talking about? You can’t just say that Abel you know? I see you as a rational individual so how come you are saying stuffs like that? And besides she is a daughter of one of the knights, you can’t just kill her off like that!” Marcus express his remark with a really displeased tone.

               “She is pestering the young master enough, and I was just holding myself back but today she’s done it! If you two will not help me then I will do it myself, I’ll just have to get away from here after doing my job. That is what all the elders want as well.” Abel said with a dignified tone as Marcus looks at him in deep concern but Amon stops him from doing anything that he just stated.

               “What the hell did she just do to make you agitated like that?” Marcus asks out of interest but Abel did not manage to hear it since he started mumbling to himself so Amon answer him on Abel’s place. “Nana said that ‘Let’s get married and have many kids.’ She was fooling around since the day after the duel and Abel started losing it when she ignores Abel’s warnings and talks to me.” Amon said with an confused tone as to how he should have said it to his big brother who is staring blankly at Amon.

               “Oh- so it’s just marriage huh-! Huh? How dare she tells that to my younger brother!? Abel!” Marcus felt the same urge to eliminate the threat. Abel then responds to his call with a sharp look. “See? That’s what I am feeling for the past couple of months. I tried to endure it! I tried! But I can’t take it any longer.” Marcus pat his shoulder, commending the great job that Abel had done in keeping himself in check. “Great job my brother, Amon must remain untainted even if it means we have to stain ourselves.” Marcus said with a dramatic tone as Abel agrees immediately without any ounce of hesitation. Their drama continues to unfold in front of their gates as the maids and butlers stares at each other with weird expressions.

               A few moments later

               “Ah! Nothing beats the stressing day with a bath. Thank goodness we had ordered the head merchant to install a bath like this.” Marcus said as he relax at the steaming bath that is designed to accommodate a large number of people. “Hah! I can feel my worries float away!” Abel said as he slowly submerge himself into the water as Amon also relaxes as well.

               After a hearty bath, one of the maids immediately informs them of a visit from someone who is waiting for them at the living room. The three were confused as to who the person might be and were puzzled when they know that not many knows that they are staying here so they promised to meet the visitor after they dress themselves. The maid then immediately runs off and informs the visitor as they hurriedly changed their clothes in their rooms.

               [Who would be visiting us in this time of the night?] Marcus tresses himself as he tries to guess the identity of the person before even meeting the visitor but a person turning up, he ceased thinking and proceeds to meet the other two who seem to be more relaxed. “Do you have an idea who it might be?” He asked the two who then immediately shook their heads. “We were hoping that you would know but looks like none of us knows.” Amon responded as he opens the door and reveals that it is the headmaster sitting comfortably in the sofa who is delighted to see their faces.

               “Good evening headmaster.” They greeted as they ow their heads and the headmaster greets them as well. “Sorry for disturbing you three in this time of the night but I came here to tell you something.” The headmaster explains his sudden visit as the three intensely listens to him as he continues. “The instructors and I thought of making a special class dedicated for those who are on an entirely different league than most students. And the three of you are on that same category. There are others on the list as well and we want to implement it starting tomorrow but we run into troubles. The dormitory that we contracted was destroyed for an unknown reason that should house the special class and I was hoping that you would allow us to use your residence instead.” The headmaster explained the situation but then Marcus said up a straight no.

               “I’m sorry, headmaster but I don’t think we can allow that. The special class will also involve nobles and royalties right? Getting entangled with them will result to anything but good.” Abel and Amon understands where Marcus is coming from and agrees. The headmaster also agrees to what he said but then makes another proposal. “I get it that you don’t want to get involved with nobles, so how about you let them stay here until the dormitory is fixed? It would not take at least a month to fix the dorm and we are going to pay an appropriate amount for it.” Marcus looks at Amon and Abel who thinks that they are the last resort and the headmaster is desperate.

               [I think this is a good thing young master, it will always be great if someone of higher status than you owes you for something. We can ask him in the future for a favor if we are in a pinch.] Abel whispered to Amon mind as the latter nodded. [Indeed that is true, but that also means that we would suffer a month of torment by whatever those people bring. Well, we can just deal with it ourselves.] Marcus, being with the two can immediately tell what they are thinking and lets out a smile after realizing what they are going to do. “If that’s so, then we have no excuse to refuse.” Marcus said but the headmaster is confused as to no discussion was made.

               “There is no need to worry headmaster, I’m sure both of them will agree just by looking at their expressions.” The headmaster then turns to the two and sees no change in their expression but then brush it off and thank the three of them for listening and considering his proposal, the headmaster expresses his gratitude as the three tells him that there is no need for payment which surprise the headmaster greatly and leave him speechless..

               The next day

               “Is this really the place?” Nolan ask the others who are confirming the address that was written to them by the headmaster. “Yup, this is the place.” The other nobles confirmed. [Looks like a large mansion but nothing fancy.]  he thought to himself as he sees a maid sweeping the front yard and calls on to her to grab their luggage but she did not seem to hear him.

               “Hey! Are you deaf?! Can’t you hear that I was calling?” the enraged Nolan approached the maid and wants to slap her for not listening to her but then one of the butler comes in to defend her. The butler caught his hand and tells Nolan to stop whatever he plans to do. The other nobles got angry at the butler for butting on their business. “How dare a mere butler grab my hand. Do you want to die?” Nolan stares at the butler with murderous intent as the butler melts in fear but  Amon comes in to their rescue.

               “That’s my line. They are not here to serve you but if you are itching for a beat down then I am more than willing to comply.” Amon said as he tells the two to come inside and relax themselves. “I will take it from here.” He smiles at the both of them who immediately follows his command then Abel and Marcus comes out of the door. “What the hell are you three doing here?” Nolan ask in complete ignorance of the situation. “We suddenly pulled a stop to our training since Amon sensed a dark presence but to think that they arrived here earlier than expected.” Marcus said as he wipes the sweat from his face. “And what the hell are saying? This is our residence you bastard.” Marcus said with a cold tone as Nolan’s eye brows squinted in confusion but then Nana insulted him.

               “You don’t know because you did not read the letter from the headmaster properly. As expected from nobles, such class- class of ignorance.” Nana said with a sarcastic tone as she steps forward and greets the three. “Nice to see you, my sister and I will be in your care.” She said as she grabs Riri beside her and went inside.

               Infuriated of what happened, Nolan turned back and read the letter again and saw that the three of them actually owns the place as his face turned pale and started sweating. “Watch out for your temper, it always gets the better of you.” The prince reminded his as they walk forward.

               After a spark of bad start, the group then entered the mansion and saw how large and beautiful the place is in contrast for it’s difference on the outside. Marcus takes the group to a tour of the seemingly endless rooms but the most impressive part of the house for the group is the large bath and training room which is surprisingly large for the entire mansion to house.

               “I will leave the tour to you big brother, I will continue on training. Abel, can you ensure that the other two are okay? They may still be agitated by what happened so please take care of them.” Abel nodded his head and assured his young master that the two will be handled with care. “Yes young master.” He said as he left to look for the two and dispel the agitation from their minds.

               Most of the girls looks at the two leaving the group as they continue the tour to their rooms.

               A few moments later

               “Well, that is everything. If you want maid to serve you or butlers then you should hire some people since the maids and butlers here will definitely ignore your orders.” Marcus reminded as he leaves the group and proceeds back to the training room.  “This is all because of Nolan’s outburst earlier.” Some of them immediately mutters to each other but the prince told them that what is done cannot be undone. “The rooms are definitely large but I recommend you all not to get some people to attend to you. This is a new experience and I think we should all enjoy doing things on our own.” The other nobles are hesitant while the others have no problem with it from the very beginning.

               RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

               After a while of moving their stuff, they felt the ground shook as some prepare to have a bath while other are preparing their food. “I have been feeling it from earlier but where is this rumbling coming from?” Nolan ask the others who also doesn’t have an idea. The rumbling of the ground seem to have came from the training room so they decided to take a peak, to their amazement, they saw Amon and Marcus going for a spar as the two traded blows to each other but the heaviest thrower is Amon. Each punch and kick makes a searing and painful sound but the two don’t seem to mind while the spectators are feeling the pain to themselves.

               PAK! BAM! PAK! BAM! PAK! BAM! PAK! BAM! PAK! BAM!

               “That is the same sound that was made when Amon’s punch hits Jaq but to think that Marcus doesn’t seem like he felt any of it at all.” One of the nobles stare in awe as they witness the capabilities of the two but then they began to wonder why Abel is not around so they decided to open the door completely and revealed Abel hitting a target with a blindfold on. Multiple targets appear and Abel is able to hit them all consecutively and accurately and stops to turn to them before firing off the last magical arrow.

               [Young master, I think some of them are going to train so why don’ we stop for today?] Amon and Marcus then stopped sparring only to find that the group is staring at them intensely. Seeing the injuries at Marcus’ body, Abel immediately heals them with ease by only extending his hand towards Marcus as he steps out of the training room first. “To think that we are so engrossed that we did not notice them.” Marcus said as he covers himself with a towel. “Sparring really is the best. Well, then I guess our turn is over.” Amon said as he gets out of the room with Marcus.

               With the training room empty, the group stares at the three who did not seem to be tired at all. “Well, I guess after seeing that. I got pumped as well.” Prince Japeth said as he happily enters the training room and takes out his sword from his dimensional ring and was surprised when a training dummy appeared before him with sword in hand. A smile crept on his face after seeing the seemingly interesting training room that he is seeing for the first time.

               KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

               “Young master, a man from the merchant group delivered this earlier. They said this is of utmost importance.” A butler handed Marcus a letter and reads the contents and was shocked that he immediately heads to Amon and Abel’s room to look for them. “What’s the matter big brother?” Marcus shakes heavily as he hands them the letter. “Ra, Ra has escaped and is coming here.” He said with a nervous tone as Amon drops the letter on the floor. “WHAT!?” both of them exclaimed in surprise after hearing what he said.