Heya! Thanks for being patient~

Welp my little story is out now yay~

One of the first thing i took into consideration is 'did Freud wait for a damn letter to appear before making his move? Nope!' So after much consideration this story is written anew~ (Hopefully i can do a good job this time)

EK12- Hehe just wait and see! I'll make it so that he totally blends in with this crazy group! He deserves a better fate and i PREFER a happy ending~ Btw thanks for the suggestion~ I'm tweaking the title a bit cuz yours really IS more descriptive~

Blaze, fire spread through everywhere. Freud walked through the debris and cringed at certain corpses, they looked like they were clawing to get free. Another helpless village burned downed by the Demon king(Aka Black mage)the auburn haired mage walked through deeper after performing a proper burial. That was when he heard it, the sound of someone wailing. Freud immediately dashed to the source to find a miniature version of him on the ground crying for the loss of three corpses.

The mage immediately went to embrace the child "Calm down, its alright the evil ones are no longer here." It took him awhile but he somehow managed to chase away the minions of the demon king, however, he did not arrive in time to save everyone. Those that were alive already fled, except for this one. The small boy sniffed and turned sad sea blue orbs towards Freud "B-But Mom and Dad! Even Utah got burnt alive! T-They d-didn't w-want t-to leave m-me b-behind! N-now t-they w-won't e-even w-wake u-up!"

"Oh dear child…..They will no longer awaken. They have been put to rest. For eternity…." The boy's eyes widened as he clenched Freud's robes tighter and crying into his robes, the mage could only rub a comforting hand on the child's back. Freud knew it would be better to say it instead of letting the boy think that he will ever gain a chance to see his parents and siblings again, false hope is something far too cruel. "M-Mister, w-what d-do I do n-now?"

Freud himself did not know, his parents are gone and he couldn't just tell a random stranger to help, not thinking one bit that he himself is a stranger. He would one day question what came out from his mouth. "Would you like to come with me?" Freud asked. The boy blinked before saying "I-Is t-that alright? I m-mean, w-won't I b-be a burden?" The mage shook his head "Currently perhaps, but I will teach you to stand on your own."

The boy gave him a slightly determined look "I-If I g-go with y-you would I be a-able to learn how t-to s-stop t-this f-from happening to anyone e-else?" Freud look slightly surprised, instead of seeking revenge the boy wanted to prevent tragedies from happening? "You will, I'll take you in as an apprentice." Now that he took a good look, he could sense the great potential this small boy had.

"But first, lets perform a burial and say you farewells first shall we?" The boy nodded and got to work. "B-by the way mister, w-what's your name?" "Freud, I'm a traveling scholar." "O-oh, I'm Evan!" Evan says trying to sound a little cheerful. "How old are you?" "Umm fourteen." The mage froze for a second before continuing work, fourteen and his parents are already gone. His parents died when he was seventeen, at least he could fend for himself but this child…The mage shook his head to get rid of the thoughts. (Oh if you're wondering Freud is around nineteen years old)

With everything done and items packed, the new apprentice and teacher left the burned down village.

Currently, its been a few months since Freud took Evan under his wing. While the boy made excellent progress, he was a tad bit clumsy at times which the auburn mage found endearing. The duo were on their way to Leafre where Freud's home was located. The auburn mage planned to teach Evan with some ancient scrolls and techniques on them, he was sure he could turn Evan into an outstanding elemental mage or a contractor, or possibly both. However, even before they reached the safe area of Leafre, they were surrounded.

There were a few wolf like demons and some pixies among them, Freud couldn't see but he could sense Centaur archers somewhere nearby, prepared to shoot and kill in a single draw. Evan squeaked and inched closer to Freud "Master Freud! Why are there so many!" The auburn mage couldn't answer as four arrows were shot towards them. Years of training made Freud exert large amount of mana at one go, easily repelling the arrows as the mage countered with large fireballs.

This action set everything in motion as wolf demons leaped at them to claw out their flesh. Evan stepped in to counter before twisting around to hit another with ice spells and poison spells. The act was repeated many times until the panting mages were close to running out of mana. Yet there were a few tens of demons and beasts left. A archer saw that the duo were giving him an opening, letting him fire an arrow. The mages reacted too slowly and the arrow was close to killing them.

Until a strong gust of wind blew.

The demons and beasts seem to pale as they scattered, hearing a loud resounding roar. Freud and Evan turned to look up at a majestic dragon whose snout was near them. It gave a genuine warm smile making the two loosen up a bit. "I am terribly sorry about their behavior. I thought I already banned human hunting around here but I guess some just do not listen." Freud was the one who recovered first before giving a curt bow. "I thank you for your assistance. Tell me, who are you?"

The dragon rested his large body on the flat ground before replying "I am the leader around these parts. They call me Afrien, King of the Onyx dragon." Evan really didn't understand much about those odd titles as he went to scan the dragon's scales. "You have nice looking scales! Never saw a dragon before!" Afrien blinked before replying "Thank you for the compliment. Now then, I am certain you are exhausted. Please come with me. I have to somehow make up for this mess." Afrien could sense that the mage wanted to refuse.

"No, I insist." He said before grabbing both the mage's collars and gently place them on his back while extending his large wings. He flapped them, giving off a large gust of wind as the dragon took off to his nest. By the time they arrived at the cavern, it was soon approaching evening as his home is surprisingly far away from where he picked the duo from. Afrien left once again before returning with his caught and nicely skinned pounds of slightly charred meat. The trio ate in silence until Freud broke it. "Tell me Afrien, why were you there at our location?" The dragon stopped its meal as he stared into sky blue orbs "It….is something personal."

But Freud pushed on "Please do tell. We could assist you in your problem after all, you did save my apprentice and me." Evan turned to focus on their discussion and was surprised to see slight anger in the dragon's eyes, it let out a menacing growl and Evan flinched but Freud held his ground.

"It's the lot of them! When the demon king dared to attack my people, he turned several of them against me! He killed my love and even has the gull to order people to sneak back in to rob my precious egg!" he roared, the sound was deafening as the dragon let loose his problems to a stranger he barely knew. But those eyes! They were so wide and ready to accept, just like the open sky. They made him feel like letting out all that he kept bottled in, why, he did not know. "He shattered my blessings and made the egg vulnerable to all. Its easy to steal now and I heard that bandits got a hold of it while I was out defending my people."

"The humans would not listen to my request to assist me with their network of information. Halflingers tried to help me but even they could not top the information that humans have, I have asked many times but they merely chased me away. I didn't go in a group as it would frighten them." Afrien elaborated as he finally calmed down, feeling a weight lift from his chest. "I see." Freud said at last.

Evan however felt rage, how could they turn down a request when he asked nicely instead of demanding? "Master Freud, can we help him?" Afrien looked shocked while Freud nodded his head. "I did say that we could try to assist. After all, I have an inkling as to why they turned down your request and I have to admit, its probably not very fair." Afrien looked at the duo, for some strange reason he felt like he could put his faith in them, that they will succeed.

"I-" "Do not say thanks for we have done nothing yet. We should start out with information gathering." Afrien sat on twos as he glanced down at the two "Nevertheless you have offered your help and I should express my gratitude." Evan decided to cut in before they could argue on politeness and he knew that could take awhile. "Umm so Afrien, what leads do you have now?" The dragon turned to look at smaller mage "I heard from a very trustworthy source that what seems to be bandits have carried off something that matches the description of my egg. However, tracking them down is something I have not yet succeeded."

Freud pondered about something before asking "Do you have a description on what they look like?" "Actually yes. They wore rather thin clothing and wore a cloak on top of it." The scholar placed a hand on his chin "Thin clothing? Hmm, quiz time Evan. What inhabitants wear thin clothing as casual attire?" "E-eh? Umm since the weather is actually quite cold, they wouldn't wear something like that unless they lived in a very hot area like a desert."

The auburn mage nodded in satisfaction at the description "How long ago did you receive this information?" The dragon answered immediately "Not too long ago, around a few hours I think. I heard that the egg changed hands quite a bit, I speculate that my egg was sold," he scowled at what the person was doing to his egg "and that the person who recently got it was seen hastily trying to get away." Freud pieced together the information and smiled.

"Now that we pieced together certain information, its not that difficult to predict what the man is going to do next, listen up…" Freud said the plan and his opinions on certain things as he took in the widening of the other twos eyes. "Wow Master Freud, that actually sounds reasonable enough to be the truth." Evan spoke out loud and Afrien agreed with him "Indeed, if things go as you say then retrieving the egg should be possible. However the humans-" Freud lifts his hand to cut Afrien off "Not to worry I'll take care of that." His eyes held a mischievous glint.

Evan inwardly panicked, oh he knew that look alright. It meant that his mentor had some crazy idea that would work and its downright scary! Think he's over exaggerating? Once Freud had him train with the people of Mu Lung Dojo, Evan had to say that the panda's were friendly but could pack quite a punch! The boy swore he couldn't move for weeks!

"If that's the case then I leave it to you." The mage nodded "Good, now then, it seems we have preparations to make."

A man wearing a sandy colored cloak panted as he reached Leafre. Things were going smoothly for him, but still the queen of Ariant was crazy! All of a sudden demanding that she wanted a cute dragon or dragon egg for her collection. Yup she's nuts but hey the pay was good and the deal was great so heck with it. As the man ran towards the departure area for his trip back to Ariant he noticed something odd.

There were hardly any people here.

Okay so maybe the time was very early but still, there are bound to be people bustling about at this time of the morning and yet the place was eerily silent. As he was pondering he didn't noticed that he crashed into someone and almost made him drop the egg on the floor. He sighed in relief when he found out it didn't.

He turned to shout at the man blindly standing there and found that the auburn haired man was slightly taller and had quite the intimidating aura on him. "Oh? That's an interesting item you got there. Mind letting me see it?" Piercing sky blue eyes stared at him. "I-I'm afraid I can't." "Why? Because its not yours?" The man was startled at a new voice and turned around, only to be met by a furious dragon, the reptile pointed a golden claw at the egg the man was hugging tightly.

"That appears to be MINE." The dark scaled dragon growled. The man wanted to run only to find that the area was surrounded with onyx dragons. "W-Wha-?!" Afrien slammed a claw in front of the man to prevent escape "You have guts to try to steal from me, the onyx dragon king!" The man eyes widened in fear as he pieced together the information. Freud lifted his staff and jabbed it at the man's back. "You're not running away." The fear filled man used his last resort and brought out a dagger.

"Stay back! Or the egg goes 'bye bye'!" What all of them didn't notice is faint glow the egg emitted. As the man inched away, Evan came swooping down while riding a onyx dragon and swiftly plucks the egg away from the man's hands. Freud and Afrien used this moment to pin the man down, unaware of what was happening to Evan.

All the boy remembered was grabbing hold of the egg and the next moment he knew he was floating in the air with no one around. So he does what any normal person would do, explore. Evan walked around until a shadowed figure loomed behind him, the apprentice swiftly turned around to see a miniature Afrien. The mini Afrien came to him and rubbed his snout on the boy happily. Evan loved any forms of animals, especially cute docile ones. The boy reached out to pat the dragon on his head seeing a mark glow on his hand.

'The pact is sealed. You have made the unbreakable pact, a inseparable contract with a trusted partner, bound together by the threads of fate.

To live or to perish, this sacred contract will last through both.'

What does that mean?! Yes he knew about contract or pact making but he hasn't learned HOW to yet. So what did that odd voice mean? With a blink he found himself back in board a dragon's back. But instead of a egg in his hands he found a small blue dragon smiling at him "Hiya! I'm Mir!" "what is this?!"

Back down on ground, Afrien panicked as he saw the egg shells fell down but sighed in relief when he found out it was empty.

But wait.

If its empty, where is the contents? Just then he heard a loud scream as the onyx dragon Evan was on landed as well. Freud was amused and interested to say the least to see a cute small baby dragon nudging his apprentice, calling him 'master' "Well well dear child, what an interesting feat you've managed to accomplish." Evan groaned. "Freud! I don't know how this happened! One moment its 'contract bounded by fate' or something like that and now it's a dragon calling me master and demanding for food."

Freud turned to him with shocked eyes "Did I say something wrong Master Freud?" The said mage muttered something before grabbing his apprentice shoulders "You made a spirit pact! That IS quite a feat, say Afrien was that egg meant to be like that?" Afrien was busying hugging his child and was near tears at seeing the tiny reptile safe, something about never letting anyone near him again before being able to answer the question.

"Sometimes the egg is special and is only allowed to hatch after meeting several conditions. No wonder he didn't hatch no matter what I did! But still a spirit pact…" Afrien mumbled something as he lifted the Mir up. "Freud, Evan. I must express my gratitude. I have given almost nothing to you yet you've manage to return my child to me." Afrien said as he turned and bowed deeply. "There's no need Afrien!" The duo chorused. "No. It IS a big deal and I will make it up to you." The dragon said with much resolve as Mir squirms in his grasp.

"Master I'm hungry!"

What a way to spoil the tense moment/ warmth filled moment.

I hope that wasn't too fast. But then again, most would start of with Afrien and Mir already having a Spirit pact so...yeah.

I wanted Freud to be more human! Some fics i saw he's a bit too...stone-faced, but hey he will be like that in this fic as well but only to strangers. He's more softer and a whole lot more expressive in this fic because Evan is sort of like a son to him~

Oh and if you're wondering why from the bandit(S) to 'him' its because the egg changed hands a few times so that itself is pretty self explanatory.

Anyways~ Please Review~