Harbinger: The Four Knights

The Start Of The Academy

After clearing everything, Razel engaged with the three about their abilities and talked to them the entire day and exchanged their opinions about the spar that they had. Razel told them a few things to improve but overall, she says that their performance are top notch. Three doesn’t have much opinions about their spar since it was a 3v1 after all. “Believe me, there is a group duel in the academy and I promise you that with your strength right now, not even the strongest in the academy can stand against you. Now I’m excited to see the results haha!” Razel gladly told them that she will be their backer and do not be afraid, promising them that if something happens, she will take care of it.

               [Wow- we just had a backer just like that. If I knew it was this easy to get a backer then I would have done this a few years ago but this is still thanks to my younger bothers. I wouldn’t have been this strong if it were not for them.] Marcus hangs his arms on their shoulders and dragged them to him and embrace them to show his thanks without saying it.

               Razel end up visiting frequently and spars every chance she gets with the three but after a few months, things changed, the dragon grew faster and joined their ranks as a novice mage. It’s breathe of flames are much inferior to the flame dragon monarch that they fought but it can still inflict as much damage like an average knight. “Ra, don’t go burning everything again. The last time you played with fire I had to extinguish it myself.” Marcus gave the dragon an earful which they named Ra, the dragon sat on the ground while staring at Marcus who is angry of the fire that set a little portion of the garden ablaze.

               “Ra? Really? What’s with that lazy naming?” Razel ask and Amon told him the reason. “Big brother called him Ra apparently because every time it breathes fire it makes a sound of ‘ra’.” Razel understood the reason behind the name but still could not get over it.

               A few moments after

               PANT! PANT! PANT! PANT! PANT! PANT! PANT! DROPS DOWN!

               Razel fell on her back in exhaustion after taking on not three but four opponents this time and expended most of her energy trying to evade their attacks but most of them were unsuccessful. “I admit defeat, there is no way I can defeat a single one of you without destroying the entire place and that is something that I don’t want to do.” She said as she wipes the sweat from her face with her hands. “Wow- I never thought that Ra would be that useful.” Amon said in amazement after seeing the dragon fight for the first time. “How naïve young master, the dragon did not fight on its own volition. It was trying to defend us that’s why it cooperated. Not to mention it consider Master Marcus as its mother so its only natural.” Abel explained the behavior of Ra that Amon was not able to realize and took his words to heart. “So that’s how it was.” Amon said in awe of Abel’s knowledge who flaunts it like a proud man by raising his rose up.

“I guess this is the end of my sparring with you all, I can’t imagine how you are all able to become strong like that after just a few months. You are now able to defeat a knight, I congratulate you all.” Razel butt in as Kassandra enters the room and brings them beverages. “Looks like the spar just ended so why don’t you all drink something to replenish your energy?” all three of them immediately walk towards Kassandra while Ra is still staring at Razel instensely, Marcus felt that Ra is not with them and immediately told it off. “Don’t even think about it Ra- I can’t believe you still don’t trust aunt Razel.” The poor dragon sits in front of Marcus like a sad puppy while Marcus tells him to put his aggression in the right place.

“Come here Ra, its time to eat.” Life seems to came back to Ra’s face as Kassandra calls its name and run off before Marcus could finish giving it a lecture. “Mom! This is why he doesn’t listen to me at all. You are spoiling him always.” Marcus voiced his disapproval of his mothers treatment to Ra but his mother says otherwise. “What? Am I not allowed to spoil him? He is now like my youngest son and the youngest son tends to be the most spoiled of all the siblings so don’t try to stop me from doing anything that I like.” Kassandra said with her suppressed angered tone.

“It looks like master Marcus is jealous of Ra, I think you need to think about a solution for this madam, I read in some books that if this isn’t treated immediately it will become untreatable in the future.” Abel said in a calculating manner that threw Marcus off. “Don’t even get started with me Abel.” He said with a disappointed tone as he turns to Amon but the other one has nothing to say and would like to remain neutral.

Razel witness this and had a hearty laugh just by staring at them bickering at each other. “That was refreshing!” she told herself as she stood up and join them.

Meanwhile

CHAK! CHING! CHING! CHING

[The prince has improved a lot after almost a year of training and his improvement is faster than expected that we need to hire a lot experienced trainer after another. His talent really is exceptional, well except for the person that gave him the reason to aspire to be stronger. I wonder how they are doing right now.] Kairon told himself as prince Japeth takes down his trainer.

“I admit de-feat.” The trainer said as Japeth pointed his sword on the trainer’s throat. “I guess that would be all. Thank you for training me until now.” Prince Japeth said as he sheathe his sword. The trainer knew what was going to happen, a person will replace him, someone even stronger than him just like what happened to the ones that he replaced a few months ago. So he excused himself and walk away from the training grounds.

“That was splendid your highness, your mastery of the sword is even more refined now. But is it really necessary to change trainers? That trainer is the last one from the personal trainers of the royal family. There is no more that can replace him this time.” Kairon said as he hands prince Japeth a towel. “It is necessary Kairon, this is my way of showing Amon my thanks for saving my life. I want to show him that saving my life is not a waste and give him a decent duel would the thing that he would want the most.” He replied as he changes his clothes.

“I know that would be the best your highness, the other nobles have seen your swordsmanship and have already been known as one of the best swordsman there is. They are also aware of her highness’ improvements in magic that she referred her as Ice Queen because of her unchanging attitude towards the nobles. Most of the nobles have already sent a lot of suitor but she did not even entertained them at all. I’m afraid that you will be facing the same number of admirers.” Kairon reported as prince Japeth ignore his remark.

“There is no need to tell me about it Kairon, I am aware of such things but it is not my goal for now. My goal is to be strong enough to have a good fight with Amon and nothing else. Things like that will only be a hinder to my goal so please do not even say such things again.” Prince Japeth said as he walks out of the training room and find out that his sister is listening to them. “To think that you have time to listen to our grumble. Are you done with your training?” he ask as his sister nodded. “I have finished training a few hours ago and want to check your training out but I heard some unnecessary things so I did not dare go inside.” Princess Joanna said as she walks with her brother.

“How is your training?” Princess Joanna pouted and told him that there is nothing more for her to learn from the royal library after reading all of the books a few months ago. “One year from now and the academy will open, I just hope that there is more that I can learn from there than here. Otherwise I have to move to another kingdom just to learn more magic.” She said with a sad tone. His brother pat her back and tells her that there are more things that they can learn in the academy and tells her to be patient.

A year later

“I can’t believe that we are going to enter the academy. Wooo!” Amon cried as he jumps in joy while Marcus holds him down. “Stop it Amon, you look like a country bumpkin if you do that.” He said but to his surprise Abel was about to do the same thing as well but stopped when Marcus laid his eyes on him. “Maybe not- mater Marcus, are you sure that the thing you made will be enough to hold Ra for long?” Abel ask a question that Amon wants to ask as well but Marcus responded proudly with a nod. “Of course that would be enough, who do you take me for?”

Meanwhile

“Madam! Ra got out!” a maid said as she tries to catch Ra who is not a lot larger than he was a year ago. Kassandra immediately run down the stairs and calls his name before he can get out of the house and the obedient dragon comes to her side immediately.

“Oh! My baby! Don’t worry your father will be back okay?” Kassandra comforted the dragon who is sitting in front of her.

CHATTER! CHATTER! CHATTER!

“Hey- I heard that the royal prince and princess are attending the academy. A lot of their admirers decided to join the academy right after hearing the news.”  One of the young ladies who are walking inside the academy said but then their eyes caught Amon, Abel and Marcus also walking inside with jolly expressions. “Aren’t they handsome?! Who are they?!” she exclaimed after seeing the three who did not even hear what she said. “Excuse us.” A voice came from behind them as they pass through the crowd of girls that admired the three.

The young ladies were shocked to see that it was a twin that passed through them. “They’re twins?”