The Golden Fury

Chapter Two

Chapter Two

Learning to fly…

“…with the information if I gave it to you” Brakka was asking Aldira who was with Bria in the open field

Brakka was an average height man from the other land outside the Dynasty, Aldira source of so many informations about the outside world which was rarely known by all

For this reason she kept Brakka close by, the man who had lost everything and was ready to lose his life along with the rest 

“Nothing far fetched, just wanted to know why the great Brakka would be so afraid to go back home after a ship raid on the sea”

“He probably lost someone dear to him during the attack, so he has no reason to go back to his home country” Bria said, anticipating that he will discard the answer she gave and provide them with the real truth they hoped to hear

“That's not true, my malle (mother) is the only still available and she wasn't on the ship, bit probably dead by now I think, she was the great sickness when the kingdom called for me to carry out my duties”

“Thats so sad” Bria said in a low voice “should duty be put first before family, especially one who was in great need at the time of the calling”

“So is the way of my land, duty is held in the highest regard in my home country, a man free of duty is a man not worth living…” Brakka was trying to explain to them the culture where he comes from as they walked towards wherever Aldira was taking them

“walk faster Brakka and you Bria, you guys are falling behind” Aldira called back to them, who was engaged in a constant discussion “how fast do should I walk when am the one with all the load” and they all laughed, knowing he was referring to status hindering his pace not really the load

Brakka was a very short and stunted man, the common status of all natives of his country, their country land which was located in the Sylvian mountains, known for their earth harden lifestyle

“We are almost getting there” Aldira called out to them both as she could view the palm trees from the slope in which they have just climbed using it's path

“The people of your land are so lucky, having these kinds of materials in abundance ” Bria wanted to know more about the Sylvian materials “i can tell your country tried to keep it a secret from much of the world”

“Why shouldn't we keep it a secret, we the tusks of oddfinnur serves the Sylvian mountain and do not want the greedy war stricken people of the other lands to come defile our mountain”

“We produce a few of those weapons and sell it at a very high price, and we try to keep our location hidden and unknown when doing so” Brakka was going into details about his land now, that's because he trusts 

“So like what material comes from the mountain that is used to produce my wipe ” Bria said bringing out the Sylvian wipe to show him

“Oh, that's from the roots of the modivian tree that grows through the mountain side, very hard to obtain, that's a nice treasure you got there” 

“Thanks, I will make sure I cherish this gift from miss Aldira” 

Bria was named after the Bria lake which sits near the border on Moryhate and across the side of heatherstown where she was born an orphan because her mother left her by the river side after child birth

Roaming the streets on heatherstown was on a daily basis right from a young age, and living in the street together with her fellow orphans for safety, she had the privilege of meeting a lot of travellers from different parts of the dynasty and outside, building her curiosity like that and of Aldira

On reaching the palm field with its trees sprouting into the blue sky “let's set our base here” she said to Bria and Brakka who were closing in on the distance to get to her

There was a hill at it's side with a little hallow side of it, almost to be taken as a cave, Aldira entered to sit down on a rock after their long journey

Brakka could see Aldira entering the cave like structure that looks like a big open mouth from afar, he's eyes which has been on her hair most of the time during their now ended journey because of how the golden hair glitter in the sun, making it look like another light producing fragments of the sun

“You walk so fast madam” Bria said as she and Brakka reaches the rock where Aldira sat

“Drop the loads over there and help bring the black box from among them” Aldira said to Brakka

“Now we learn to fly” she smiled at Bria as she unveils the Electra zipper, 

“i have never seen this equipment in the Sylvian mountains since I was there, this is a suprise" Brakka was astonished to see the odd complex looking equipment Aldira called the 'Electra zipper'

“Yeah it was specialy made, my most prized invention, one I had to gather a lot of information for a long period of time in order to make it” Aldira said as she took her time, wearing it on her right hand

There was a pair of Electra zipper in the black box, supposedly for use by a single person, a left and a right hand Electra zipper 

“i had two made because thought I was going to make use of the two of them on both hands, but it turns out that using one works just fine and it's more easier to handle making it very effective” 

“Bria, come strap in the left Electra zipper on your hand and I will show you how to use it” Bria came hurriedly and happily to where the box was, taking out the instrument as she rapidly touching and turning it 

“dont touch the…” Aldira was about warning her, but her words were too late

On pressing the trigger lever by mistake, it shot out a small sharp claw-like metal head and attached to it, a thin strong flexible string following it as it goes from the body of the Electra zipper that was supposed to be worn on the hand

Bria and Brakka were shocked, at what just happened, the claw which shot out now fastened to the lower part of a palm tree some distance away from the hallow cave-like hill with a string that extends from the Electra zipper body part that is supposed to be worn on the arm to the claw like metal now firmly attached to the palm tree

“Woah….. my fault” Bria said as she tried to rectify her mistake with no idea how to it even worked, touching another part of the Electra zipper, ‘swoop…. ’ the item went nearly taking off her fingers with it, she must have drawn the pull lever sending it into a retract mood as the Electra zipper flew off the rock which it was on taking in the string as it goes, as fast as a bolt

“Wow, that's so superb" Brakka said “i suppose the string is made of Sylvian material, I could see it moves, tho it was a bit strange”

"Yeah Sylvian material, same as the wipe, but webbed with golden insect silk" Aldira answered him " the golden insect silk gives the string the strength to pull a large weight, while the Sylvian material gives it the retraction ability"

"So you mean there are only two of these?” Bria eyes was still in admiration for the instrument

“yeah only these two, and now that one is yours” tho Aldira had a little doubt if someone may have found a way to replicate it, tho that's almost impossible

“let me go get it for you”

'oh no that's not appropriate' Bria thought in her mind, "no need to stress yourself I will go……" but before she could finish her sentence, Aldira taking a runner's stance raised up her right hand which had the Electra zipper strapped unto it, aiming at the top of the same palm tree where Bria had mistakenly launched her Electra zipper

‘swioosh….’ the claw-like metal head went along with the connecting string, taking a forceful hit on the palm tree and sticking firmly there

“Bye guys” she smiled as she pulled the retract lever using last small finger

“voooommm….” the Electra zipper string pulled her towards the palm tree, lifting her from the ground into the air

Brakka stands up immediately seeing for the first time a human lift into the air and they were astonished

On reaching the palm tree in the air, Aldira swung into her landing stance; with the zipper string pulling her forward, she swing her lower body forward, making her legs parallel to the string, landing on the palm tree with her both legs

Hanging up at the palm tree, Aldira looked down seeing the left Electra zipper stuck on the palm tree 'wow, this has been a long time' 

“how I have missed this so much” she said out loud to no one's hearing and it sent joy through her 

Brakka and Bria could not believe their eyes as this was the first they had seen such a thing happen before, it was like magic

Bria mouth was agap in suprise and shock, her master had told her about the Electra zipper before but never had she thought that it would work in such a way, like MAGIC!