Chapter 3: Forgotten City
"You guys did know we didn't need Ronan's plan, I could've taken her out myself!" Elesis beamed, "You could not beat her by yourself! You can't even beat a troll by yourself!" Arme retorted, "Here we go again…" sighed Lire.
Lire took a couple steps back to talk to Ronan, "Say you're part of the Spell Knight Family of Kanavan right?" she questioned him, "Yes." He simply said, "Yeah, I heard about your father! He was the best Aegis Knight there was." Lire told him, "Yes, he's… gone now." Ronan informed her, "I'm so sorry to hear that. Well I gotta stop those two before they start fighting for real, nice talking to ya."
Lire said and Ronan gave her a nod. Lire caught up to the two who were still arguing.
They rested for the night in a nearby town eight miles away from the ruins of the Forgotten City. Arme woke up while Elesis and Lire were fast asleep. The sun hasn't came out yet and Arme tried to fall back to sleep again, but couldn't so she walked outside the motel they were staying in.
Arme decided to do a morning walk near the forest outside of town; she spotted Ronan, training. Arme hid behind a tree and watched as Ronan gracefully lunged, slashed, and thrust his spell sword to an invisible foe.
Ronan stopped suddenly and sheathed his blade. He sighed and looked to the direction Arme was hiding, "Hey, what do you want?" He asked as Arme stepped out looking awkward and shy, "I… uh I just came out for a walk since Elesis and Lire were still sleeping and I… I just saw you t-training here so I figured I'd watch." She responded, "Why don't you train with me? Let's see what you got eh?" Ronan smiled, Arme blushed as she said, "A-all right."
Ronan told her to just attack and not hold back and Arme did as she was told. She started with casting one of her favorite spells, Lightning Bolt, but Ronan simply dodged it. Arme tried and tried to hit Ronan as she wanted to prove to him that she can fight and to earn Ronan's respect.
It got to the point where Arme was starting to get Frustrated that she casted Meteor, to her surprise none of the mini meteors hit Ronan. Ronan then lunged at her at an incredible speed and stopped short as the tip of the Spell sword touched Arme's neck.
"As expected from a member of the Violet Mage." He told her as he took his sword back and sheathed it. Arme just stood there, shocked and amazed at the same time. "You're going to be a fine magician." Ronan said with a small smile, Arme felt her face burn and turned away, "Thank you." She replied. "C'mon lets go, those friends of yours are probably awake by now."
"Y-yes of course, let's get going." Arme's voice was disappointed for she wanted to spend more time with Ronan. They walked back to town and caught up with a grumpy Elesis, and a rather sleepy Lire eating breakfast at a local food place.
Arme and Ronan joined the group and also ate some breakfast.
After breakfast, they departed the small town and resumed their journey to Forgotten City. As usual Ronan stayed a couple of steps behind, deep in thought. Elesis leaned, "You like him." She whispered as Arme's face blushed, Elesis gasped, "You do like him!" she whispered a bit louder. Arme didn't answer, "So…… where were you two this morning huh?" Lire questioned her, "Probably out on a short date, aren't I right?" Elesis added.
"No! we… we were training that's all." Arme finally responded, "riiiiiigggghhhttt…. 'training'" Elesis said, "Just let it go Elesis. Don't make such a fuzz out of this." Lire chimed in.
They reached the Forgotten City by noon, "Whoa…. It's so… deserted." Elesis said, "What did you expect a party?" Lire asked sarcastically. They saw a really weird monster, it was small and diamond shaped, "What is that?" Arme asked, "It's probably a paraminimy, it won't hurt you unless it's prov- WHOA!"
Lire dodged a small pink laser that came out from the monster, "Never mind." Lire finished. They used magic, arrows, and slashed their way through but had a little struggle with a mini-golem, "These things are wicked little things aren't they." Elesis had said.
They decided to take a break and sit down for a while when the ground started shaking, "What's happening?" Lire asked, surprised, "Stone Troll, keep on guard." Ronan said finally speaking for the first time since they came to Forgotten City.
A couple of minutes later, they spotted the troll, it was looking around, "okay, just stay quiet and may we can---" Lire didn't finish as Elesis yelled, "Hey you big moron! We're down here!" The troll looked down and bellowed. "There goes my plan…" Lire sighed.
The Troll started to run towards them, growling. "Gather around me NOW!" Ronan ordered and all three girls did. A magic Circle engulfed them as Ronan said, "Holy Bless!" A sudden new surge of power was felt among all of them. "Whoa! This feels awesome!" Elesis said. Lire quickly nodded and went into action aiming for the trolls head. Elesis ran towards the troll and it swung its huge club. Elesis dodged it by running towards it, and then she slid in the ground and slashed the troll's left calf. The Troll bellowed and it went down to its knees. Arme quickly casted lightning, stunning the monster.
Then finally, "Sharp shoot!" Lire let go of the glowing green arrow and finds its mark, right between the eyes. The troll yelled in pain and vanishes. Ronan walked towards them slowly applauding, "Wow. I'm very impressed, you really handled that well." Ronan smiled at Arme's way. Arme felt her face go hot and turned away. "Yeah!" Elesis yelled raising one arm up. "Well we better get going, it's getting dark" Lire shrugged. And so they continued forward in search of a way out of the city, forgotten by time.
