ShadowKaktus: Time for Shade to show his face around. Sil might be the more calm and collected one but Shade will make sure Neo and Sil doesn't rest easy XD

Commence reading hoomans~

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Dawn slowly rise from its slumber, pure light strewed across the morning sky; it's hue ambitiously illuminating the back alleys of these slums. Nighttime, the most dangerous time for these people of the slums had finally ended. Only God knows how much they suffered during the wake of the dark.

A week had passed since my friends and I were summoned...or saved by them -whichever you prefer- and also around the same time, I left the castle. The king seemed to be willing to hear our thoughts, although the queen decided to do a little probing in our heads. Seems like our privacy was nothing for her. When one calls for help, one should trust the people you appointed rather than just poke inside their heads to see if they're trustworthy...haaaahhh...humans are just arseholes.

Flashback

"What do you mean I HAVE to stay here?!" I exclaimed.

"You have to understand Shade. It is the matter of convenience, it is easier to contact you and if anything happens, we could be around at a moment's notice" the queen said.

I took a deep breath and exhaled with a sigh. "To make things simple, you just want to keep an eye on me? Lady, I don't care what title you have but no one puts me on a leash, and I rather cherish my mental privacy thank you very much." I said with malice, the queen unfazed by the fact that I knew that it was her who probed our minds.

"You are quite the peculiar boy, Shade. For someone with no experience in magic to pinpoint the source so quickly is quite alarming. What would happen if-" she was interrupted as I was inches from her face.

"Here's the thing queen, if you want to ask for someone's help then you better have the heart to trust the other parties, because if you were going to talk about trust in my face then here's a thought; trust goes BOTH ways, your majesty...so next time, I advise you to at least ask rather than invading someone's privacy because, in my world, that's enough to get you arrested.." I said with full contempt.

With that cheerful ending, I left the castle so that I could get a better grasp to see what's needed to be done. And what better place to do that than the slums.

Flashback end

Not my finest moments, but what's done is done. Time to move forward into the abyss of not knowing. A casual stroll along the back alleys of slums, had many predators of every type lay their eyes on me. In the past week, since I've mingled with them, I have been assaulted, robbed, and almost mauled. Most, if not all of my attackers were either hungry or poor. They chased me like they wanted my brains (They wouldn't survive eating my brain anyway). I've also changed my clothing so that I could fit in easier in this world. I wore a short-sleeved, navy blue shirt with a homemade hoodie attached (yes I can sew, now let's move on), dark grey sweatpants (I'm not changing that), Black running/hiking boots. I also bandaged my arms, legs and half of my face with some leather armour dyed in white for a little protection.

As I walk through the back alleys of the slums, I heard a loud scream. And like every other generic people in mangas and stories, I decided to take a look. As I arrived at the scene, I saw three burly strong men, and a young boy in an expensive suit surrounding a beaten up girl (how cliché can this become?). With a slight sigh of annoyance, I went over to help the girl. Well, I'll just use them as practice dummies then. I thought.

"Congratulations filthy peasant. You have been selected to become my personal toy. Aren't you delighted to be able to serve me you lowlife~?" The boy said. A noble, of course he is. As if this turn of events isn't cliched enough. I thought silently.

The girl seemed to be unfazed, rather, she looked like she stopped caring a long time ago. "You should thank the young master when he's given you this high privilege you scum." One of the burly men said, a scar on his left eye.

"She must be too thrilled to speak." Another said, he had a weird looking tattoo on his right hand, and also everywhere.

After taking a closer look at the girl, I realized she was handless and her pupils were alabaster white, indicating she was most likely suffering from blindness. Her clothing was ripped and tattered, her body was full of wounds and scratches. Why would a noble want someone like her as a servant? She'll be useless in cleaning, washing, basically every single job. Then why...oh...I see...this is proof that humans are nothing but cruel and selfish shits. You guys do the thinking, I'm done.

Silently, I sneaked behind the young shithead and pulled out a karambit. "I'm afraid this girl is not available kid," I said, holding him and putting the karambit against his throat. The noble froze and gasped as the other three looked surprised, then went into a battle stance.

"Don't you know who I am peasant?" The boy glared.

"A scumbag? A shithead? A slob? Frankly, I don't care who or what you are." I said nonchalantly.

"Idiot he is the-" Scarface started.

"blah, blah, blah." I interrupted.

"His status is-" tattoo man started.

"I. Don't. Care." I halted him. "Here's the deal. You guys walk away and no one gets hurt, capiche?" I smiled.

"Kill him!" The boy exclaimed. With a strong side swipe to the neck, the boy fell to the ground unconscious. I sigh loudly. "You know, walking away is still an option."

Unfortunately, the three stooges started attacking me. "Why does no one go for the easy way?" I sighed again.

Let's test out my power, shall we? I thought to myself. With a flick of a finger, I silently summoned a strong gust of wind, throwing the middleman into the wall behind him, breaking the wall. A bit too much power. I tried pushing myself using the wind but instead, put too little force and went 15 cm in front. I had to eat a knuckle sandwich for that failure.

Yep, that hurt alright. I thought as I slowly stood back up. "Muahahahaha..! You think you have a chance against them you filthy commoner?! They're the best mercenary of this king-" He stopped talking and fell to the ground as I punched him in the guts.

"Shut the fuck up you spoiled snob. I just needed to adjust my power," I went to face the other two, surprised looks on their faces as the third on just stood up from the broken wall.

"Ready for round two~?" I grinned menacingly. Tattoo man charged at me like an angry bull, but like an angry bull, he ran into a wall as I easily dodged the straight charge. Scarface took out a club and swung at me. I pushed him off balanced using my wind powers and he ended up falling face first into the ground. The third guy was sneakier and tried for a surprise attack. Unfortunately, I was expecting him and instead, he got hit by a roundhouse kick.

" 'best mercenaries' riiiiight," I rolled my eyes. I used the wind to create a strong pressure against their back making them unable to stand back up.

"Now here's the deal you three. You walk away and carry this sorry excuse of a noble with you and I stop humiliating you," I said with a gentle smile. "OR, I keep this pressure on you and slowly increasing it by the hour until your body fails to withstand it and you get crush by sheer force of wind~"

Fear struck into their eyes as they knew that I was very willing to do that. They nodded in agreement to walking away and I let them go. As they were going away with the noble, however, I pushed them with another gush of wind, launching them out into the sky. With a hand on my forehead, I said. "They'll most likely survive. Bad people always do."

I turned to see to the girl and found that she had fainted. Her wounds are minor but she's obviously suffering from fatigue and hunger. In the spur of the moment, I decided to bring her to the castle for a quick recovery.

As I dashed through the kingdom towards the castle I silently wondered how to explain this situation to everyone.

Eh, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it

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I politely entered the meeting room of the castle. And when I say politely I meant I smashed through the skylight because I'm too lazy to deal with the guards. Conveniently though, Sil and Pearl were there.

"Oh hey guys, mind if I drop by? I have a sick patient here," I said with a slightly embarrassed grin. They were stunned -well, Pearl was, Sil was not surprised and just shook his head with a long sigh.

"What did you do this time Shade?" He said, an eyebrow raised.

"In my defence, they started it. Plus you expect me to leave a girl defenceless now do you?"

"And why did you bring the girl with you here?" Pearl asked, a bit of hostility still in her voice. Maybe she's still mad about that thing I did when we first arrived.

"She's severely injured (a total lie) and she needs a bath and a wonderful meal (that's true)," I told them what happened and how cliché that event was. Pearl didn't how what's cliché about the event but Sil understood what I meant. Anime and manga have this event occur countless of times it slowly becomes annoying.

With a loud sigh, Pearl told me to send her to the royal bath and the maids will take it from there. While they do that I sat myself on the table -yes, on- and smiled stupidly. "So, whatcha talkin' about~?"

"I was just telling Princess Pearl about our world's problems and how we planned to avoid them," Sil said with a slight sigh, knowing that half of their plan was not working.

The Earth is slowly dying due to human's incompetence and laziness to protect it. I hope we can make sure this world doesn't experience the same fate ours are.

"So what, you guys planning to stop global warming or something? I mean in this era we kinda HAVE to burn stuff till we find a better alternative," I said, my head tilted.

"And that is why Sil is chosen as alternative king and not you Shade," Pearl rolled her eyes at me. I flicked my tongue at her for that.

"Fire elementalists SHOULD have lightning as their sub element. So we could try to bring in electricity that way into this world. However, we have no resources for that yet so I'm thinking we could make wind or steam powered engines to power my planned vehicles." Sil explains briefly.

How can we have the things to build steam powered engine but not lightning powers?Eh, as long as I get my fun it's fine I guess.

"Okay, while you guys talk science and whatnot. I'm going to go check on the girl and also Neo." I said, leaving the room.

"Alrighty Shade, try not to destroy anything please." Sil asked.

"No promises...!" My voice echoed in the hallways.

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I skated through the hallways -yes skated, I figured out that I can still use other elements, their just not as powerful as my wind. So I froze the bottom of my shoe and gave it a smooth and slightly slippery surface.- As I was saying, I was slating through the hallways, trying to find the girl from before.

"Now if I was a royal architect, where would I put the infirmary...?" I said to myself as I wonder around the halls, skating through. After a while I stopped perfectly right in front of the infirmary. -Well, more to I hit the door face first because I forgot to put countermeasures on my shoe skates for the brakes. Oof I say.

"Oh, master Shade, What are you doing here?" a maid/nurse/servant asked.

"Number one, don't call me master it feels too weird, just call me Shade. Number two, how's the girl doing?" I explained.

"I-I can't do that, I'm just a serva-"

"Frankly I never care about statuses and stuff so...Yes you kinda have to. Anyway, she here?"

"She's having lunch at the dining area."

"Oh, thank you little one~" I patted her head before going of again on my 'skating' shoes, this time, actually making the skating blades.

I breezed into the dining area and saw the girl eating with the help of a maid. Before I came there I went and grab one of their element orbs of some sort. I need an ally in my team and my gut tells me she's perfect because she's going to be the last person they suspect to be dangerous. Plus, it'll be fun to see their faces when she beat the hell out of them.

"Hello little one, how are you faring?" I asked politely.

She flinched at the sound of my voice but quickly relaxed. "I-I'm doi-ing fine..Why did you help me?" she asked quietly.

"Now how would you know that I'm the one who did that?" I grinned. "I'm pretty sure you do not have sight."

"Y-your pattern of speaking is si-similar to the one that saved m-me. You two gave of a certain aura of w-warmth and some sort of disorder." She fiddled with herself. "And finally, you're the only one that asked about my condition."

Basically, the last one was a dead giveaway.

Some sort of disorder? Haha, why am I not surprised.

"Why I saved you? Because I like you~"

"L-like..?"

"Let me finish, I mean by you're the perfect person for my plan." I grinned.

"What plan..." She asked, her eyebrows furrowed.

"It's doesn't involve anything bad don't worry. My plan is to embarrass and humiliate the snobs and arseholes of the kingdom~"

"Aren't you a noble as well?"

"Me? Pfft..nah! I don't like being in such an annoying status and dealing with their stupid logic. I rather watch them burn as I slurp an ice cold smoothie."

"W-what's a smoothie?"

"Nevermind."

She fiddled nervously in her seat, wondering in what way would she be useful in my plan. Before she could say anything I propped my self beside her.

"Touch this orb little one. I want to see if my guts is right on you."

"And if it's wrong?"

"If it's wrong I'll still need you in my plan."

Reluctantly, she touched the orb -I helped her find it- and the orb glowed a fiercely bright red colour. My eyes sparkled and I grinned mischievously. The plan will work perfectly. She just need some training. I'll make sure to make full use of the phrase 'looks can be deceiving'.

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ShadowKaktus: Aaaaaaannnd that's a wrap. What's he planning? We'll see in the next phase. Adios amigos.