"Argh! This is SO hard! I can't do it!" A boy, with chocolate hair and eyes wearing a simple black shirt and ragged blue pants, yelled while holding a little crystal shard. "I give up," he finally said as he fall on his back.
"What? You can't just simply give up!" A girl jumped down from a rock and ran toward the boy. She has brown hair and golden eyes and wears a hat tilted to the left, a red jacket over a white shirt, and shorts under a mini-skirt. "Come on, Jay, it isn't that hard!"
"Well, of course, it's easy for you, Rena! You are trained to be a magician. So, yeah, of course, you can create a protection field just like that *snapped his fingers*!"Jaden complained while getting up.
"So what if I'm a magician? Jess is training to be a swordsman and yet he can do it! So why can't you?" Rena asked.
"I don't know! I guess archers are just bad at magic…" Jaden replied sitting down.
"Hey, guys! Whatcha you doing?" a boy, with aqua hair and green eyes wearing a white sleeveless shirt and black pants, asked.
"Oh, hi, Jess, we were just talking about you!" Rena smiled as she waved to Jesse.
"Really? What about me? Is it about how handsome I am?" Jesse jokily said while he put his arm around her shoulder.
"Yes, you're gorgeous," Jaden walking towards him and patted his back.
"That wasn't a question for you, Jay!" Jesse complained.
"Haha, no, we were talking about how you can create a protection field but Jay can't." Rena laughed as she lifted Jess's arm up.
"Still? Come on, Jay, it's been like what 3 weeks and yet you still can't do it!" Jesse said in disbelieved.
"Well! It's not my fault!" Jaden tried to argue back.
"… How can it be NOT your fault?" Jesse and Rena asked confusingly.
"I don't know! It must be the shard's fault!" Jaden tried to find something/someone else to blame beside himself.
"But…" they both tried to talk back but were cut off by General Crowler walking in.
"Well, I guess you guys are slacking off... again!" General Crowler angrily yelled as he walked in.
"Ah!" They screamed in unison. To be honest, they weren't really scared of him; they were more scared by the way he is dress. I mean, even though the man is wearing armor, he has it with gold trimmings and ruffled pink collar, shoulders, upper chest, and sleeves, with gold earring, and purple lipstick. They were used to it but it is a shock every time they see him.
"Hm! That's not really exactly polite to talk to your GENERAL!" General Crowler growled.
"Um… Sorry! What is it you need, General Crowler," Jaden, being the only one who was able to break the scariness, coughed.
"Well, the king wants all three of you to go to the Village of Light to deliver this message to their king," General Crowler said in disgust while holding an envelope.
"Us? Are you sure? I mean that sounds pretty important and we ARE just trainees…" Jesse asked unsurely.
"You'll be fine. The king said it is a pretty simple job that even a trainee, like you, can do it. But since it is the first mission any of you ever have, the king decided to let all three of you go." General Crowler assured them while hoping to get out of here as soon as possible.
"Are you or someone stronger coming with us?" Rena asked. She is still not sure if this mission is as easy as General Crowler made it sound to be.
"No, you won't need anyone. You, ur…, strong… enough…" General Crowler tried his best to get those words out of his mouth. The truth was that he just doesn't want to go with them and he also just wanted to get rid of them. Which it's also the only reason why he wanted all of them to go to this mission. "Now, go, get ready for your mission. The journal is about 1 to 2 weeks on foot."
"Yes, sir!"