Adventurous Duo

Trouble coming to town - chapter 2

"Hey ma, remember about the story about the elven race?" The curious Cosmo walks over to his mother to ask her about the history about their world. Ten years has passed and that line was still as clear as crystal in his mind.

"Mmm.. I think it's about time I tell you the story why," Hertha smiles and then pats the seat next to her. The young teenager sat beside her and then leans in.

"Elves have always been strong beings, some lived amongst humans and while some lived by their own race. The gods were one of the reasons why they wanted to diminish the whole race, there is this elf, you would have set your upon in the past, tanned with hair as light as pure silver.." Hertha flashes her silver ring infront of his eyes while slightly looking up towards the ceiling.

"He has killed over a few gods in his supposedly last years, that was for avenging a person whom he wanted to spend his entire life with, died to a sacrifice the gods made. She was pregnant with their child, the poor soul managed to get stronger and then slowly killed one god by one god, long after that, he was cursed with immortality." His mom looked at Cosmo with a sad look plastered on her face. And then she added, "That was eons ago, he resided in a forest to live in peace and then after a few centuries in his time, he fell inlove with a human, but then, he died just right after the Immortal one found out that it was the exact soul his past lover residing in that young man's body. It was because of the divine ones, yet again."

Cosmo leaned against his mother's shoulders and continues to listen,

"He mustered up the strength to injure one of the major gods upon tricking them. The gods then decided to wipe out almost all of the elven race because of that, the remaining elves fled to safety and that's why none of us have ever found one again excluding the immortal one. Many have seen him in their own eyes, only to be wandering around." His mother smiles at him, she places a kiss on his forehead.

"Go to sleep now dear, it's already late.." She yawns and then continues writing on a sheet of paper.

"Alright ma, goodnight." He hugs his mom before going up the stairs. He has notice that the stars tonight have been glowing as brightly as ever. He smiles softly and then goes to his window in his own bedroom. He decided to lay down there for a couple of minutes while making up scenarios in his head while gazing up to the starry night sky. He then starts having nostalgic things, his childhood and teenage years coming to a stop early in his past life. He was about to tear up but changes the thought.

The view then made him think about the wandering elf, he haven't seen him ever since a decade but he knew that the elf was still residing nearby.

"I wonder if I can really introduce myself to him correctly.." He sits up straight to see a flying figure near the moon, facing him. It looked like a human silhouette, it gave him goosebumps. He then rushes back in, hoping whoever or whatever it didn't see him or a threat to the area.

He chants a weak protection spell for his home incase something happens tonight. He then goes to sleep after a few hours because of his horrible habit of overthinking.

He wakes up in the morning and then gets ready for grocery shopping. He puts on his casual clothes and then hurries down to eat breakfast. He wanted to tell his mom about what he saw that night but he was scared to get scolded, so he shuts himself before saying it to Hertha.

He spots his mom in the kitchen preparing breakfast for the both of them.

"Hi ma, I didn't get to sleep more," He yawns after stating that and then takes a seat at the dining table.

"Ready for some shopping later?" She questions him and then adds, "You know, I've been thinking, I want to live in the capital again."

"Ma? You want to go back to that place? Why?" He asks after pausing from chewing.

"So you can get into a school, a school that can potentially make you smart enough to make a business or something out of it.."

"Oh... I don't like that idea." He didn't like that because he wanted to get to know the elf first. The mysterious guy.

"Alright then honey, this life in the province is already peaceful, why would we move out of here?" His mom replied with a laugh and then goes to the table to eat with her son.

They pack up some stuff before leaving. They reach the town in less than a few minutes. "Oh yeah, your birthday's coming up soon. What'd you like?"

"Uh, I don't really know, ma.." He starts drifting off to his seas of thoughts until he sees a group of winged people talking to the mayor of the town. Meanwhile, Hertha had a very vivid memory about him asking for an animal couple of years ago.

"Hey, ma, what are they?" He stops walking and then looks at his mother.

Hertha replies, "They're.. uh.. We don't actually know which race they originated from, we don't think they're angels either." while shrugging. Cosmo realizes that they were heavily armed. The blonde one was armed with bow, the brunette one was carrying a greatsword, another brunette was equipped with what looks like a whip and the last.. the auburn haired man brought dynamites with him.

"Why are they here, though?" Cosmo questions yet again but at this time, walking because it was getting slightly crowded.

"They're probably here for a bounty hunt, it's unlikely to get visitors from halves or nobles like them.." His mom replies and then ushers him to enter a*****e. Cosmo then had a very horrible feeling about that.

They begin picking out ingredients and then walk out again to another store. Doing the exact thing again, they soon come back to their hut in almost noon time.

"Today was a long day.. Why don't you go and walk around, I'll be preparing your favorite." She tosses him an apple,

"Oh yeah, while you're on it, fetch me some wild flowers." He nods and then goes outside. He decided to go to the river near their home.

The smell of summer coming was clearly evident. He takes a deep breath underneath the slightly hot sunlight and then races to the river with a huge smile on his face.

He stops in his tracks after seeing a certain someone. The elf. He was seemed to be frightened and was running from something.

The thing was, he was wounded, not too badly but he was bleeding, he falls to the ground not too long after. The curious but scared Cosmo decided to follow him, he had a thought that he should help the wounded one out.

The elf was lying on his back against the ground. He can clearly see that he was critically injured now.

"You alright?" Cosmo kneels down to the elf.

"Who are you and of course I'm not, if you can see in what state I'm in right now."

"Wow, that was sass." Cosmo thought, he didn't take it offensive. He laughs nervously.

"I'm sorry, can you help me get away, some flies are trying to capture me alive." The elf sits up and then Cosmo nods. As quick as he can, he started to chant an average level of healing magic. That level of magic drained almost all of his energy.

"Please, don't tell anyone about this." The elf suddenly disappears after standing up and walking off. Cosmo then sits down on the ground while leaning against a tree.

"That.. that escalated quickly as I thought." He nervously laughs yet again. After a few minutes of resting, he started to walk to the river so he can just go and pick flowers nearby.

He then sees the exact same winged people from the town square flying above the trees after exiting the woods cover. He knew that they were up to no good after all.

He decided to wait them off, after a couple of seconds, he goes to the flowers resting under a tree shade.

He sniffs them and then smiles at the relief. He just wanted to go back home as quickly as possible after making a sall bouquet of the flowers.

After a couple of minutes he reaches his house and then comes inside.

"Hey ma, here are the flowers you were asking for earlier.." He leaves them on the table and then his mom looks at him with worried eyes.

"Did something happened out there?"

"No... I just ran around the place." He waves off to take a short nap in his bedroom. He lays ontop of his bed while staring at the ceiling.

"What on earth even happened today.. I can't even comprehend what that was. I finally got to speak with him tho after searching and searching for him with efforts. I get to meet him effortlessly.." He lets out a yawn before sleeping.

The elf also didn't know what happened that day, he was lucky enough to run into a magic user, even tho he didn't fully healed him.

TBC.