"Edgar is strange lately..." Said Tataina to his father.
"Yeah, after Guren's defeat, he usually tries to get his old bed back, but these nights he goes straight to the weapon laboratory... I wonder what happened."
"Mmhh... Probably he got... Rejected by Nina?"
"That's not possible." Said Orin. "I visit Nina everyday to see Borgrim and she never told me anything about Edgar."
They got interrupted by the young fencer who was trying to not fall. "Good... Yawn... Good morning guys. Where is EXeLD?"
"He wanted to talk to you in the forest."
"Uh? I wonder why? Well I am going to see him."
"Ehy brother, wait for the breakfast!" Said Tataina.
"I'm not hungry, sorry." He walked towards the door. "Ehy wait you jerk! You could at least try to eat the food I am mak-"
"Is not that, I wouldn't eat even something made by Orin today."
"Stop right there kid! I don't know what is your problem and I don't want to disturb you, but you won't be cruel with yourself and with your body!" Said the red haired man, Edgar's master: Blaire. "We can't know what will happen in future and you have to be prepared!"
'Here we go again, always saying stupid things...' "Listen Master Bl-"
"No buts! Now you will eat the breakfast and THEN you will go to see your guardian beast."
"I always managed to fight properly for more than a week without having any breakfast, do you remember?"
"That was an emergency! Now we live in peace, we have more time to think about ourselfes."
"You just said that we can't know what will happen, maybe now EXeLD is struggling against a new enemy. And as I said, I am not in the mood today, please let me going in the forest now."
"Edgar is right dad, maybe he just needs some time alone." Orin supported his adopted brother. "Besides I think I know what happened to him."
Blaire remained in silence for a while, then he closed his eyes. "Fine, you can go, but be sure to return alive."
"Do not worry Master." The two brothers went outside and the younger one asked. "Orin, why did you told Master Blaire that you know my problems?"
"Because I do. It's because of a girl, am I right?"
"Uh? Well... Kinda of." He admitted.
"Ohohoh, and who is the lucky one? I assume that it cannot be Nina, right?"
"Yeah, I didn't see her since Goura's defeat."
"Oh I get it, she must be the summoner that you claimed as stronger than you... Roris... Torres..."
"First, her name was Toris. Second, no she is not the problem. And third, it's NOT the way you are thinking about. In fact she is not the main problem."
Once they went in the forest, they saw EXeLD waiting for his master and Orin's eyes went wide. "Is that..."
"Hi Orin, long time no see uh?"
"Lynn! Are you all right?" Asked the blonde boy, running towards the woman.
"Yeah, I met EXeLD last night and I told you to come here. May I talk to you in private?"
"Uhm... Yeah ok... Sorry Orin."
"Don't worry Edgar." He said before his brother and Lynn left them. "So she is Edgar's problem... EXeLD, do you know what happened?"
"Me and Master Edgar met Lynn and Ryouga at the Oni Springs, but they had a violent argument..."
"You mean Edgar and Ryouga?"
"Affermative."
"So Edgar, how have you been?" Asked the woman.
"Very bad Lynn, I was really worried about you, and R-Ryouga as well..."
"We reunited the night after that incident, so it's ok now."
"Glad of that." He put up a fake smile.
"You have the same expression that my brother had when he found me, he told me it was nothing but I don't belive him."
Edgar sighed. "It's all my fault. I-I s-shouldn't do t-that but I was s-so angry... I..." He stopped when the woman put her hands on his shoulders. "Take a long breath and tell me what happened."
After following Lynn's advice, the edge fencer started his short story, telling her how he and Ryouga searched for Lynn and how Edgar called his best friend a dick.
"And that's how the story ended. And that's why I can't be happy this days..." he bowed his head
"Edgar..."
"It's all my fault..."
"That is not true, stop that."
"No Lynn... I just met my best friend and I ruined the moment... I am an horrible person." and he was stopped again, this time by a slap across his face. He looked at the woman with a surprised face without a word.
"I don't want to listen such foolish things anymore! You may overdid it, but it's not completly your fault, and most of all, you aren't horrible at all!"
Edgar blushed at those words and when Lynn realized that she said, she blushed as well. "Do... Do you really think I am not horrible?"
"I do... In fact... You are a wonderful person, Edgar. You always been kind to me, to Ryouga... You never gave up and cared about my feelings. And I will never forget how you easily forgived me when you discovered that I was just tricking the entire village, how you fought so hard to save me from Guren. Besides, Ryouga might act all tough, but he is a cute guy that forgives quite easily, just like you."
"What's your point?" He blushed again.
"That you mustn't so severe with yourself. Everyone commits errors, and errors doesn't always make someone a bad person."
"Maybe you're right... Yeah, definitely. Thank you Lynn." He smiled at the woman, then, "...I just said those words, right?"
"Yeah, you did." Lynn grinned. "And now, you have to thank me in a proper way." She placed her hands on his cheeks. "We are all alone, no one can bother us."
"Uhm... I am a bit embarrassed..." Now his face was as red as a Blaze Ore.
"Don't be, just relax and close your eyes as I get closer to you."
She smiled seductively shortening the distance between their faces and the young blonde obeyed at her command. He was ready, his heart was beating like crazy at the idea, thinking if was the right thing. After all, he was only 15 while Lynn was over 20 and Blaire would have never tolerate something like that, and probably the entire village wouldn't. Then she finally did it, the moment she waited for weeks: thier lips met in a gentle, soft kiss that erased every doubt by Edgar's mind, they were replaced by an overwhelming wave of pleasure, he felt like crazy. Then the woman pushed him away.
"So, how it was?"
He couldn't do anything but stutter while trying to control his nervousness. "Calm down..." The summon creature touched his cheek. "It was... Very pleasent." Edgar smiled.
"I knew it." She giggled. "I finally managed to thank you... But now it's your turn to thank me."
"W-What?!"
"C'mon, you just saw it, right? It's not that complex."
"Well, you have a point... Ok I will." He said, blushing.
"Wow it was easy this time, you really liked my kiss uh?"
"S-Stop teasing me... Here I come..." he said, grabbing around her and leaning towards her body.
"Whoa!"
"D-Did I do something wrong?"
"Not at all, I was just surprised... Go on, Edgar."
They looked each other, and when Edgar opened his mouth, a voice was heard. "Edgar, where are you!?"
The fencer suddenly realized that happened and left Lynn's body. "! That is Orin! I-I-I am sorry Lynn, I have to go."
"It's fine Edgar. I'll say hi to Ryouga from you."
"Ok, see you!" The fencer smiled and turned away to go to his brother when Lynn grabbed him by the shirt. "I will be at the fire fortress tomorrow, at sunset. Do not make me wait." She whispered at his ear "Uhm... I won't." "Good boy." She let him go as he went away. 'Wow, he was really into that...' Lynn giggled.
"Edgar, where are you? Stop playing hide and seek!"
"Orin, EXeLD!"
"Edgar, EXeLD told me everything." Said the red haired craftknight, a bit concerned.
"A-About what?" He looked at his guardian beast angrily.
"Don't look him like that! He made the right choice." He continued as his brother was sturrering. "You should have tell us about Ryouga!"
The blonde fencer looked at Orin with a stunned expression, he thought he would have been scolded because of his ecounter with Lynn. But he felt a sense of relief about that. "Yeah but I was sure that you would have be angry with me because of what he did..." He lied. "... Sorry brother."
"No problem, but the next time be sure to tell us everything." He smiled.
"Sure. I am a little better now, Lynn told me that Ryouga probably will forgive me."
"That's good, c'mon let's go back to home now. Dad is probably still worried and Tataina will surely kill us, if you know what I mean."
"Yeah, we can't let her touch the kitchen! We don't have any time to waste!"
They ran like idiots with EXeLD still wondering what happened between his master and Lynn. His sensors could feel Edgar's temperature rising more than ever. The trio reached the house and unfortunately for them except for EXeLD, Tatiana already prepared the breakfast for the two brothers.
"Why did you took it so long? We were worried about you!"
"Eheheh, sorry sis!" Then Orin whispered to his brother's ear. "It seems we will be punished for taking our time uh?"
"Yeah, I'd rather challenge Goura without my Mono Shift."
After breakfast, everyone returned to their job and Edgar went to the laboratory, but he fell on his knees.
"What's the matter, Master? It's because of Tataina, am I correct?"
"Argh... I shouldn't take so much time... But I guess it was worth EXeLD. Lynn told me about Ryouga, he is fine."
"Yeah I heard you talking with Orin. Also I noticed something about your temperature, Master Edgar."
"Uhm..." He immediately thought about the kiss he had with Lynn and his face went red. "Master... Did you and Lynn thanked each other?"
"... Correct... But it wasn't anything of dirty, j-just a kiss! C'mon, let's focus on our job, we must test the materials we found in those rooms!"
The duo chose to begin with the strange Box they found after defeaing a Satelite Eye in the Ruined Factory in order to make a spear and with a cat paw figurine to make a claw. But the work took them a lot of time as the materials were hard to work with and Edgar was still shocked by the earlier events and they stopped only to have lunch and dinner. Though in the end they managed to do the weapons out of those materials and them were really good, expecially the claw which gave Edgar an extremely high speed.
"Wow, that weapons were amazing EXeLD! I wonder what the other materials will generate!"
"Of course they are amazing, I put all my effort into them, the result was obvious. Now I am going out, good night Master."
'Sigh, he always claim himself as the best. But he really helped me today, maybe he did better than me. Well, I am going to sleep now.'
At least, Edgar tried to sleep but he couldn't and we knew why. Her words about him, her kindness and most of all, her extreme beauty. The way she touched her face with her hands, the feeling of her body pressed against his, those soft lips, all this memories captured his mind and he was impotent. The blonde tried to free his mind thinking about his adventures with EXeLD, the battles against Gabriel, but in the end everything brought him to her, the summon creature who started his journey and ended it, the person that always supported him, the woman who always fascinated him: Lynn.
'... God, I think I am in love with her...'
Second chapter is here, folks! Sorry for everyone who wanted some scenes... You know, those scenes, nothing like that yet :c I don't have anything in particular to say sooooooo... R&R guys!