The little tale of Ittan the titan
Chapter 1 : Ittan
Legends tells of a land called Gaia were many magical tribes beside humans lived, however dragons and titans were known to be the mightiest of them all, their powers spread terror in every creation's heart, and their eternal battles against each other shreaded the realms for long ages, but everything shall get to an end, those wars are over and each tribe made their own independent territory, whereas the dragons resided the west and the titans took the east, Gaia finally entered an era of peace.
This story occurs after two millenniums of that noted era, on the middle continent "Esperia", which is resided by humans, in the kingdom of "Valeria", precisely on the frontier lines of a small town named "Floria".
Two young men were approaching the town; they were named Ittan and Claude:
The first one was a muscular guy around eighteen with a messy short gray hair, a square face, narrow black eyes and a nose that's almost flat, he was wearing a tight shirt with the same color as his hair, a red jacket that extends to reach his knees, and some loose black pants, noticeably he was putting a silver bracelet with a shiny blue pearl on his right wrist.
While the other one was a slender man around the twenties, with a rectangular handsome face, blonde hair combed to the back, dark green eyes, and on the contrary to his companion, Claude is wearing fancier clothing; a black tuxedo suit, with a pair of polished leather shoes, and a noticeable red bow tie.
They were walking slowly as a sign of exhaust, when Ittan starts to complain:
-"Gah! I told you we shouldn't let Ursula back at the bar, at least she would've lend us her vessel!"
-Claude stared at Ittan a bit and said in an elegant accent: "That vulgar woman would've made an obstacle to our quest, besides we are almost there, so if you don't mind…zip it!"
Suddenly a strange creature landed on Ittan's shoulder, it was harpy; a humanoid boy with brown feathered wings for arms and talons for legs, a cute round face, messy brown hair and large garnet like eyes, wearing a pink sleeveless shirt:
-Ittan welcomed the harpy scratching his armpit: "Oh Harpi! Good boy! You're back."
-The harpy rubbed his head on his owner's and said with a childish tone: "Harpi seen a market in that town, it was so big, maybe Claude we'll by me some dried meat!".
-The blonde man answered pulling some money labels from a small portal he conjured using a ring on the middle finger of his left hand: "There you go Ittan, two hundreds Geels, feed your pet and by yourself some decent clothes, and you should really consider doing something about those sideburns of yours!".
-Frustrated, Ittan shouted at his friend: "Hey! Sideburns are for real men! You are just jealous cuz you're hairless!"
-Claude responded with a dull face: "Be it! I'm jealous, but remember that you are working for me now, so I should be hearing more of and less of vulgarity…okay?".
Ittan tried to speak, but the other guy conjured some sort of paper saying: "That's what the contract said!"
The gray haired youth shouted: "Screw the contract!" and ran toward the town in a rush followed by Harpi, making his friend smirk and yell at him: "Don't forget to sell those basilisk fangs we hunted! And bring twenty percent of the deal!"
Meanwhile, at the bazaar of Floria, another interesting person was shopping, she was Reemy Vester, an innocent-looking seventeen years old girl, with a shy face, black round eyes, dark braided hair, her chest was full-bosomed, that she hides it by wearing a puffy white blouse with a pink bow around the collar, and a blue skirt that reaches under her knees.
She was doing her daily shopping for the house, a regular chores, vegetables, fruits, condiments…and if she was lucky and had some money left she could by herself some roasted corn which was her favorite snack.
She passed by a diner that Ittan has just entered, the young man ordered some heavily peppered pasta, and what seemed to be a pile of dried meat for Harpi, and while they wear eating a suspected looking man, approached and sat next to him:
-Ittan naively welcomed him: "Yo! Uncle looking good today!".
-The other man answered with a groan: "Pretty fine…works've been down a bit, and Imma short on goods".
-The young man asked: "Hmm…you a merchant?"
-The old man answered: "Yeah".
-Ittan pulled some fangs from his pocket and spread them on the table saying: "Well how d'ya like these uncle? These are some basilisk fangs I got couple of days ago, what d'ya think?".
-The merchant rubbed his palms against each other and started purchasing: "Well they sure are real…how about two hundreds fifty?".
-"You are kiddin' me right?! They at least worth a couple of thousands!"
-"Look kid! I know they are hard to get, but they aren't any popular items, so if I was any generous, I'd give'm five hundreds, that's my deal boy!".
-"C'mon at least one thousand!"
-"Look, it's not like I'm foolin' you, but believe me, if you gone to any souvenir shop, trust me the highest price they might give you is three hundreds! So here I'm offerin' you the deal of your live!"
-Ittan got angered and returned those fangs to his pockets saying: "Forget it!".
-The man smirked at him and asked: "But you know that bracelet's not a bad jewelry, I can give you a thousand in exchange of it."
-Ittan grabbed the bracelet and tilted his head answering: "No way! This bracelet is a gift from dad, it's priceless to me!"
-"Okay…how'bout the birdy there? Y'know harpies are a rare sight in Valeria, people would pay piles to have such smart n'cute pets."
-"What the? I'm not sellin' Harpi! He's not a pet! he's my boy!"
-The man then stood saying: "You have no idea what are you messin' kid…see ya!".
-Harpi then stared at Ittan and commented: "Harpi thinks that you should've accepted his offer for the fangs, now Claude will be mad at us."
Suddenly a girly scream is heard outside the diner, Ittan and out of his curiosity jumped out to see that Remmy is being assaulted by some rogues in the narrow allow on the back of the pub, one of them pulling her from her arm saying perverted expression right before Ittan punches him violently sticking his face to the brick wall next to them.
The girl quickly rushed and hid behind our hero saying: "Please…help me", the gray haired man didn't pay enough attention to the girl's plea for he was angered, and headed straightly to the mob and started pummeling them, all this noise made people gather around the fighters and make shouts as if they were in a public knight duel.
This gathering captured Claude's attention who was nearby purchasing some traveling equipments, but when he heard his companion's voice shouting: "Bastards!" he dropped whatever was in his hand and ran toward the crowd, there he saw Harpi on Remmy's shoulder so he asked:
-"Harpi! What's in blazes is going on here?"
-The bird boy answered: "Ittan helped this girl, he ended fighting these guys".
Claude groaned, and walked few steps then called his friend, who responded by asking: "What?! Can't ya see am busy teaching these punks a lesson!".
-The blonde man conjured the contract again and told his friend: "You do realize that you'll soon will break one of the articles, namely the twenty fifth one, so make the fight snappy or I'll cut it from your salary."
Ittan got angrier and magically his left arm grew massive that he managed to knock out ten men with ease, this got into the girl's attention so she asked: "Huh?! What kind of humans is he? How could he do this?".
-Claude adjusted his hair and answered gently: "Hmm…I beg your pardon miss, but my brute companion here is not a human, he's a titan"
-Remmy said in surprise: "Ti…Titan?! But how could he…"
-The blonde interrupted here explaining: "I myself find it hard to believe, but according to legends, dragons and titans can live in disguise among humans, while dragons shift their shapes into human like forms, titans can shrink themselves into our sizes".
-"So you are saying that this is not your friend's real size? Then how big is he?".
-"Believe me miss, I've been a year with him, and never got to see his real size, but I do trust that he has the potential…enough to crush any opponent".
And that was the end of Ittan's fight with the last rogue running away in fear, the titan turned back and joined his friends panting and saying: "Dammit! They are persistent", the girl approached him and thanked him shyly, but he replied stupidly: "Wha…who are you?" making Claude hit his face with his palm commenting: "Did I mention that his brain never grows?", but Remmy tilted her head saying: "it's alright, God bless you anyway, hey why don't you guys come to my house, you know as a thanking gift I'm inviting you for dinner".
As expected Ittan drooled and pulled the girl hastily asking for her house's whereabouts, during their walk Remmy started a conversation hoping to know more about her saviors:
-"So he's Ittan, but who are you mister?"
-Claude smiled and bowed answering: "Claude Sebastian"
-The harpy added: "Harpi's name's Harpi"
-She rubbed the bird boy under the chin commenting: "How cute…by the way you don't seem from around here, are you traveling friends."
-The boys stared at each other and answered: "Nah…"
-Ittan added: "I can't be a friend to such annoyin', hairless, long lashed guy who wanders around in penguin suit!"
-The blonde one ignored his companion: "Well, it is not as if I am your number one fan around here…anyway, you see miss Remmy, the relationship between me and this meathead, is an employer-employee relationship, Ittan is some sort of a bodyguard, a caretaker, and a serveant…"
-The titan interrupted: "I'm no serveant for you!"
-Claude summoned the contract and pointed to the seventh article: "You signed it yourself, here look, By signing this contract, I accept to be a bodyguard, a caretaker, and servant to Sebastian…"
-Ittan commented: "Screw the contract!".
-Claude pointed at the first article: "Under any circumstances, swearing is intolerable"
-The titan spoke dimly: "Eltale!".
-The employer pointed to the third article: "It should be noted thet the first article applies also on any other known language, especially the employee's native tongue".
-"Hey screw isn't technically swearing, and Eltale doesn't necessarily mean anything for humans…"
-The blonde asked slyly: "Do you want me to mention the fifth article…again?"
All this conversation made the girl laugh from the bottom of her heart, for she never actually befriended anyone ever since childhood, making boys ask her for the reason of the laughter, she just nodded and walked in front of them.
With this the four of them arrived at the girl's place, a small house at the edge of the town over a hill, it was a classic style, it seemed that it's attached to some garden, and there was also a hen house, Remmy opened the fence and yelled: "Mom! I'm home."
A middle aged woman opened the door of the house, and walked using a cane, to her daughter, that was Maria Vester, she had a slender body albeit a bit stocky around the girth, a curly blonde hair, with sky blue eyes, she wore a simple velvet dress, and a noticeable golden necklace with a red jewel on it.
-The woman noticed the guys and asked her daughter: "Remmy who are these folks?".
-"Mom I'd like you to meet Ittan, Claude, and Harpi, they are the people who saved me today".
-Claude approached the lady and held her hand, bowed and kissed it introducing: "Claude Sebastian…honored to meet you my lady.".
-Maria blushed saying: "What manners!why don't you enter the house and we'll complete this conversation."
As the mother suggested the group entered the house, sarcastically Ittan managed to break the calm atmosphere with one of his antics by asking Maria a private question: "By the way miss Maria, are you pregnant? Or is your belly just fat?" making Claude punch him on the head, creating a strange yet funny situation…
And so our heroes were about to spend a calm night to set for their quest, however from the woods behind Remmy's house the wind that'll move the mill of their adventure we'll strike, but will it be a breeze? Or a tempest? Everybody's about to know soon…
