Greenella woods with Sierra, Hero, and Crystelle.
Crystelle: "Mmm… I wonder, why did they call it Greenella when I see only pink everywhere."
Hero is cautious and looking everywhere around him. Both Hero and Sierra knows that they are moving toward a trap. However, they cannot just stop and go back.
Crystelle: "Huf…huf" she seems tired.
Sierra: "Are you ok Crystelle?"
Crystelle: "Yes I'm fine."
Sierra: "Hero, we will take a break here."
Crystelle: "No, we should complete."
Hero: "We have to at least cross 75% of the forest."
Sierra: "But Crystelle is—"
Crystelle: "I'm fine!" and she moved forward…
Sierra: Whispered to Hero "…Hero…"
Hero: "Sigh… Let us take a break."
Crystelle: "O… ok"
Sierra: "Here" She handed Crystelle an apple. "Hero, we will share this apple."
Crystelle: "Wait, I don't need a whole apple"
Sierra: "Eat up you're still growing." She cut the apple in half with her sword that appeared from nowhere.
Hero: "This one is too sweet."
Sierra: "Yeah." They enjoyed it.
Crystelle: "Listen." Both Sierra and Hero looked at her. "I don't want to drag you two down. Don't just stop just because I'm tired"
Hero: Swallowed the first bite. "You are one of us now. We should care about you. Besides, we are all tired here. We deserve to rest a little bit."
Crystelle: "But…you! you know that your sister is a hostage is in there aren't you?"
Sierra: "Hmmm, you're right. But I can't fight if I was tired, can I?" and took another bite from the apple.
Crystelle: "!!!"
Hero: "Relax, just enjoy the apple now."
Crystelle: Blushed and looked the other side.
Hero: "From there, we will have to cross twin mountain Tai and Jow."
Sierra: "Do you know any other ways?"
Hero: "There is a way that the merchants use to deliver the goods to Salam city. It is safe, but it will take half a day to reach there by foot. However, Mt.Tai and Jow will take us there way more less than half an hour."
Crystelle: "I heard there are huge—" Hero closed her mouth.
Hero: "Shhhhh…"
Crystelle: "What?! You don't want me to tell her about the huge bugs in the bushes there?"
Sierra: "Thankfully, I am not afraid of all the bugs. Only certain types. Don't worry about me. I can handle it."
Hero: "I don't think we will encounter someone there but if we did, I wish that he is afraid of bugs."
Sierra: "Hero, let us move forward."
Hero: "Had enough break?"
Crystelle: "I'm fine too."
Hero: "Okay, let us keep moving."
Aniston and the knights entered Bellosoma.
Kent: "This is where Hero was born and raised."
Aniston: interrupted quietly. "He wasn't born here. He was drift by the shore."
All the knights looked ath their commander with amazement that he spoke.
Aniston always feel like there is a brotherly bond between him and Hero. Although the two were always in a fight.
Aniston: "Ask around quietly and don't make a rukus. Bellossoma was always under care from Crystalina kingdom."
Kent: "A request from Hero."
Aniston nodded.
The knights asked around.
Some of them denied seeing Hero. They felt like he will get in trouble if they spoke the truth and revealed that he was here just yesterday.
Aniston will reach the orphanage
The children: "Hero brother!!!!"
Aniston: "?"
The children Aniston slowly. "Hm? He's not Hero. You look a bit like him. He used to wear like you before."
The children admired Aniston and felt like he is an honorable knight from fairytales.
Child I: "Hero was a hero! He will fight the commander to be the commander in the future."
Aniston: "...." "(He was an idiot or what?)"
Child III: "That the commander has horns. And big claws."
Child IV: "The commander has a head bigger than his body."
Aniston: "...." "Do you know where Hero is?"
Child V: "He will marry the princess or the two ladies he brought here?"
Child VI: she is a girl. "Hero left yesterday. He was with two ladies."
Aniston: sat in front of her. "What do they look? The ladies."
Child VI: "They were both pretty. Especially the one with golden hair with a ponytail."
Aniston: "(That's obviously Sierra.)" "What did they do here?"
Child VI: "Hero brought the medicine from the capital to our village and left."
Aniston: "And the lady with the golden hair?"
Child VI: "We didn't see her too much. She went with the other lady to Hero's room."
Kent: came from behind. "Commander! Hero left already yesterday!"
The children understood that this is the commander Hero was always speaking about. They all froze in their place.
Aniston in front of Hero's room.
Aniston entered. He noticed a golden hair on the floor. Sierra definitely was here.
The innkeeper: "The commander of the knights. Hero admired you. We all thank you for taking care of Hero. He is a good man. If he did something wrong, we will apologize in his behalf. He is like a gift to this village. People became more like a family because of him. How? I don't know how."
Aniston listened clearly to the man. Nodded. "He…. Nothing…. He did nothing."
Aniston left the inn.
Landis: "Commander. Hero placed the ladies in his room and slept in the roof."
Aniston: "….."
Landis: "I said this to make you feel better. This is what happened really."
Aniston: "Why is she not trusting us… the knights… her knights."
Landis: "I don't have explanation. Maybe she is under pressure from someone. Or being threatened—"
Aniston: "That's what I'm afraid of." He left.
In the entrance of mountain Tai and Jow. There is a small village.
There was a big crowd there
Man in red: "Come here everyone come here."
Sierra: "What's with all the hustle?"
Hero: "…" looking around with a sharp eye to see if someone is tailing them.
Crystelle: "Don't tell me we can't move forward."
Sierra began to sweat and Hero noticed that.
Man in red: "Enter the contest and you can get ticket to ride the dragon. It will make you cross with your goods in a flash of an eye."
Sierra: Smiling gently "Hero!!..."
Hero: Looking at her and smiling nodded.
Crystelle: "Wait wait wait. Hero. Don't tell me you are planning to compete?"
Sierra ran to register.
Crystelle: "What!! Sierra!!" and Hero closed her mouth.
Hero: "Don't call her name in public."
Crystelle: She nodded to him.
Hero then ran to register too.
Crystelle: "Hey! Don't leave me here!"
Hero: "Cheer us okay!"
Crystelle: "Hmph… okay" although from inside she was happy.
All the competitors were huge men. However, they were all looking at the confidence look in Sierra and hero.
Hero: "It does not matter who wins between us. But one of us should win."
Sierra: "Yes!" Happily agreeing.
Sierra: "Crystelle!" and she gave her the hood "Now I'm ready!"
Man in red: "Now we will start. Get ready. 1…..2.....3! Go!"
All of them ran to the 20 meter long column…they have to reach the summit. Sierra and Hero waited patiently. Then ran together and jumped on the men's heads to climb.
Both of them were climbing and climbing. They have reached 75% of the Column. One of the men down grabbed Sierra's leg.
Sierra: "Aaah!" She was about to fall.
Hero grabbed her hand from the wrist and tried with all his might to get her above him.
Sierra: "Thank you… Hero…" And she climbed and climbed. She touched the summit but she looked down and felt dizzy and about to fall.
Sierra: "…Not…now…" She lost consciousness and fell.
Hero grabbed her hand again and climbed until he reached the top and sat.
The people: "YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
On the top of the column.
Hero: He is trying to wake her up "Sierra…Sierra…!!"
Sierra: "Uhhh…" She opened her eyes.
Hero: "Don't worry, I'm holding you."
Sierra: "Ah!"
Hero: "Look there." And he was pointing at the view of the forest they were in before. It was like a drawing of a butterfly.
Sierra: She was amazed "I haven't realized that…" At the same time, she was dizzy from looking down.
Hero: "Who would realize…?"
Sierra: "I think I…" And closed her eyes again. Passed out again.
Hero: "Goodness…how am I going to get down now?"
The princess always has fever and has anemia from losing too much blood through coughing blood. That is the reason behind her frequent fainting incidents.
After a while.
They were already down.
Sierra opened her eyes again. "Uhm…" Then she rushed "It can't be!"
Crystelle was holding the tickets "Hehehe."
Sierra: Smiled, and laughed.
Hero: "Now we have to see the dragon owner."
When they went to see the dragon owner.
Dragon owner: "I can't believe it…"
Hero: "What happenned… Here?"
Sierra's eyes is wide open. All the dragons were killed.
Crystelle: "No way…"
Sierra: Squeezing her hands
Dragon owner: "Sorry.You have to cross the mounatain by yer foot now."
Sierra: "It can't be…"
When Hero looked at how worried Sierra is, he stretched too hard and said "Aah… No Big Deal! We will walk there like a stroll and get out of the twin mountain in a flash."
Sierra looked at Hero.
Hero: "We can do it. Right Crystelle?"
Crystelle: "Uh…yes…we can WALK all the way out of the longest mountain. No big deal." She was sarcastically speaking.
Sierra: "Umm Hero. I'm sorry."
Hero: "For?"
Sierra: "I actually faint out a lot. And I faint in the worst places."
Hero: "Hmmmm… well I know that blocking out is your specialty. It is not a bad thing when you have someone to grab you before collapsing. Just Try not to collapse in the middle of the crowd, ok?" smiled to her.
Sierra: "Hehe… okay" and smiled.
Crystelle: "Now she smiled."
Hero: "And why do you look so happy?" Telling Crystelle
Crystelle: "M-me! I don't care. Let us finish this quick."
Hero: "Heh. I know your key now."
Crystelle: "Hmph! Anyway. Sierra, your cape is there."
Sierra: "O…okay." Went to get it.
Crystelle: "You really know how to make someone smile."