Chapter 1
I was flying high with my Heaven Dragon's Wings. My two companions that I had found during my travels were also using their magic to keep up with me. Quite surprisingly the magic was a cat. I don't know much about them but when I found them they both had cats with them and they can both sprout wings and fly. The first time I met Kai Tsuchi was five years after I started my mission.
I was traveling near the boarder of Fiore when I heard a story from a young traveller about some mysterious avalanches and landslides near the mountain range. I asked the boy if there was a guild anywhere near where the incidents were occurring and according to the boy the guild near there was called Quatro Cerberus. From the information I decided to go check if there was the possibility that it could be a dragon slayer. I just happened to be right.
I was walking along the side of a dirt road when I heard what sounded like rocks falling. From the general direction I could tell it was well into the forest on my left. Then I heard the sound again so I followed the sound through quite a lot of shrubs and large trees, when I finally came to a clearing. When I got there I saw a young boy standing in front of a large pile of rocks just staring into space.
When I first saw him I thought what an odd look for a child; his clothes made him look like he was from the bush or the forest. They were rugged and not clean and quite smelly. As I stared at him a cat came out from behind his leg as if it was scared of something. I walked slowly over to Kai who lifted his head and noticed I was coming towards him, so he started to back away. I stopped where I was and decided to introduce myself.
"Hi, my name is Chizu Ten. What is your name?" I asked.
He didn't reply.
"That's okay you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I think we are alike you and I. Did you make these avalanches and landslides happen?" I asked him.
He didn't say anything again.
"You had a friend right, a really big friend and he taught you magic didn't he. Then he disappeared and you couldn't find him anymore could you?" I asked one more time hoping he would answer.
"How . . . did you know that?" He asked me in reply.
"I also had a friend like that and she disappeared quite recently as well but don't worry, we can look for our friends together okay. So what's your name?" I replied.
"My name is Kai. I really can come with you to find Tsuchinoe?" He asked.
"Kai is it; yes I will help you find your dragon. But first I think you need a little training."
"What do you mean training?" He asked with a really confused look on his face.
"There is a Magic Guild near here called Quatro Cerberus, from what I have heard it is a good guild and you could learn a lot from the mages there so is it okay if I take you there first?" I asked him.
"What is a guild?" He asked.
"A magic guild is a place where mages gather and join forces to complete missions if you are there long enough it becomes a family and you rely on your family to help you through tough spots." I answered.
"Okay but can I stay with you?" He asked.
"Sure. While we are there I am going to teach you some things about our type of special magic okay and when I do I want you to practice them as often as you can."
"Okay. So what type of food do these guilds serve?" He asked as we started walking out of the clearing back to the dirt road.
After that I took Kai to Quatro Cerberus and as I had told him, some of the other mages showed him their type of magic and gave him some tips. We stayed at the guild for a couple of days and I used the day before we left to do some one on one training. We had our one on one time behind the guild in a clearing so there was enough space to mess up.
"Okay Kai I am still trying to figure out what type of magic you use so can you show me something small?" I asked.
"Yeah. Umm . . . what do you want me to show you?" He asked.
"Something small like this, Heaven Dragon's Claws," as I said this light extended from in-between my fingers to form claws.
"Wow! That's awesome," was all he could say.
"Right now your turn."
"Right. Earth Dragon's Decoy."
Suddenly a pile of rocks came together and started to gain some height and what looked like to be forming a human shape. When the rocks finished forming it looked exactly like Kai, to the naked and untrained eye of course. I circled the decoy and found that it only looked like Kai from the front.
"How was that?" He asked.
"Good, now I know that you are an Earth dragon slayer type, I can better prepare your training." I replied.
"What do mean by that?" He asked.
"Well every dragon slayer uses an element so when training you have to put them in their element until they are confident to use their skills. Then you take them out of their element to see how long they will last. For you, your weak areas will be out at sea and some how in the air."
"So what you're saying is that anytime I am on land I am in my element."
"Yes that's right."
"So when are you in your element?"
"When there is light around I draw my magic from it."
"Cool. Can you show me another one of your cool moves?"
"Sure," I said as I turned to face away from Kai, "Heaven Dragon's Roar."
Out of my mouth came a spiraling column of light then a few dozen celestial arrows came through the top and hit a tree. A few seconds after they hit the tree they exploded and the tree was pretty much burnt to its roots. The face that Kai had made when I had turned around made me start to laugh. After that day Kai kept pestering me to teach him his dragon roar which I thought he should have already known. It took a few tries but eventually I gave in and began teaching him how to perform the Earth Dragon's roar.
Though there wasn't much I could do seen as I was not an earth dragon I couldn't really teach him what to release. I taught him how I would release it but it was entirely up to him seen as it was a technique only meant for the Earth Dragon to teach him. Eventually he managed to perform the Earth Dragon's roar though it wasn't quite what I expected. Kai pretty much, spat out a large boulder, though I thought that was all it was going to do I was corrected. The bolder, just before it hit a tree shattered into tiny rock shards and shredded the tree. I was amazed because he said he had learnt the idea of not showing the roar's true intentions until right before it hit from watching how my heaven dragon's roar disguised the arrows coming out and then seeing them explode just after impact.
After Kai learnt to use his roar the other techniques came easily and he became a partner as such until two years later, when we met Umiko Mizu the Water Dragon Slayer and as elegant as she sounds she was quite destructive.
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