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A/N: Hey Fanfictioneers! Welcome back to the Blazing Light, and I hope you came with water, because all this reading can be hard to digest! (I KNOW IT'S CORNY!) Anyway, on with the story!
A good hour or so after dawn came, Aracho woke up from sleep. He sat up, noticing that the pain from his wound was starting to hurt much less than before, to the point where he could barely even notice the pain when he moves. He quietly turned his shoulder across the bed, where Lyn was sleeping next to him. He was a little surprised to see she was not in the bed, but cooking breakfast. Aracho decided to get a better look at the food, so he slowly tiptoed across the tent to where Lyn was cooking.
'It smells good' he thought as his mouth was clearly beginning to water. Unfortunately, his growling stomach gave him away, and he was still quite a distance away. That was all Lyn needed and turned around to see a standing Aracho right next to the bed, looking like he just got up, which was true, in his case.
"Well hey Ara-um, Archy," Lyn greeted.
"Good morning, Lyn. How are you?"
"I'm doing fine, how's your wound healing?" she asked, turning back to her food.
"It's coming along great! I can barely feel it anymore," he told her, rather excitedly for just waking. Lyn looked pleased at the good news, and she stopped cooking, meaning that the food was done. She gave a friendly smile as she loaded the food onto the two plates.
"Well, food is done, and I can tell you're hungry so come eat," she said, leaving no room for argument.
"Okay, but you didn't have to cook for me," he said as they sat down on the nearby table. "If anything, I should be cooking for you," he told her modestly.
"You can cook?" she asked, intrigued in him cooking. At her home in the Lorca tribe, the men hunted while the women cooked, but the women could still fight and hunt along the men.
"Yeah, but it's more of a hobby. Usually, I just cook when I'm not busy training." Aracho said, before chewing on some eggs she made. He could remember well, he often helped the chefs in the Black Fang; and even tried to teach Nino how to cook. He laughed inwardly as he remembered the time Nino actually burned Linus' breakfast, while he cooked for everyone else. Needless to say, Linus was not very happy that morning.
'And she looked so cute whenever she pouted about burning something' he thought, before his mind caught up to what he thought. 'Where in the world did that come from?' Hurriedly, he could shake the thoughts away before he blushed, and quickly found more food on the plate to eat. Lyn wondered why he stopped eating for a minute, but was at ease when he grabbed more food.
The rest of the breakfast was rather uneventful, with the two just talking while eating, and getting to know each other. Right as they finished breakfast, Lyn remembered Aracho's words earlier about training. "Hey, Archy," she started, getting his attention. "You said something about training earlier. What do you train for?" she started.
"Well, I use anima magic primarily, but I like to practice swordplay as well," he answered.
"Isn't that odd? I mean, I don't want to seem critical, but don't people usually stick to one thing?"
"Well, as you can see, I'm clearly not most people" he rebutted. "And I think that sometimes it's good to branch out, especially if someone has an advantage over you."
Lyn thought about it, and came to see that Aracho had a valid point. What if someone if a lance came against her? She would be hard pressed, and may be defeated much easier.
"I guess," she conceded eventually. She looked outside the tent for a second, and used the sun's position for getting the time. She came back in swiftly, and went to where she kept her supplies and started to pack up the tent. "Aracho, it's time to go. Will you help me pack up?" she asked him.
"I would have helped anyway, so why not?" he responded. He got up from the chair and started to help Lyn pack the tent. Lyn was surprised it only took a few minutes, as it usually took her about five times this long to finish.
'I guess help goes a long way' she thought as they finished packing the tent, and were on their way. She turned to Aracho, who was carrying more than she was, and was wondering how he got more than she did. "Hey Archy," she called as he was looking at the map to get the location of the town they were supposed to journey for their supply shopping. "Don't you think I should carry more so you won't have to worry about your wound?" she asked, a little worried for his safety.
"No, Lyn, I'm just fine. I'm injured, not weak, ya know," he answered, doing well to hide his irritation of her thinking he couldn't handle his share of the baggage. "Anyway, it seems if we go south, near Bulgar, we should be right at the shopping districts," he mentioned as he gave the map back to Lyn, who put it back into her pack. With all of the traveling preparations done, the duo began their travel to start their new journey.
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"Well, hello bountiful mistress! Is there any way I can indulge in your amazing beauty, madam?" a womanizer in green-clad armor spoke to a woman at a store. She had an incredulous look on her face, as if she couldn't believe this was actually happening to her. The knight in the green armor stood in a pose people used in a proposal before he was smacked on the back of his head by another knight encased in red armor.
"Sain, this is NOT the time for your womanizing ways. Besides, she is married seeing as there is a ring on her finger," he reprimanded, pointing to the ring, which was clearly on the woman's finger. The green knight, now known as Sain, looked mortified, and immediately apologized at hitting on a married woman. Even as a womanizer, he had standards, and he does NOT hit on married women, especially if he knows they are married.
"Oh, I am deeply sorry, ma'am! I had no thought to look at the ring on your finger. Please excuse my incompetence!" he apologized, while standing on one knee.
"Oh come on, Sain, we have no time for your ridiculous episodes! We must continue with our mission," the red-clad knight reminded Sain impatiently, showing this was not the first time it happened.
"Oh Kent, lighten up! We will complete the mission!" Sain exclaimed, giving an army-like salute as he reassured his annoyed partner. In response, Kent just scoffed and walked away, and Sain quickly did a little jog to catch up with him.
"Sain," Kent started. "Remember to get your supplies while we're here, okay?" he reminded him, in a far less angry tone. "We'll meet back here in an hour, okay?"
"Gotcha! See you in an hour, Kent," he said, before running off and reminded Kent of one more thing, the most important.
"Remember, no hitting on women!" he yelled, before sighing, as it was too late. Sain was already too far down the market streets.
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Aracho was heading to the exit of the small town with his supplies in his bag. He bought an Elfire tome, a pair of iron swords, as well as some vulneraries along with other things that he and Lyn might need (food, travel, etc.). About an hour ago, they agreed to meet at the exit and see what they got, before deciding whether or not to buy extra supplies. Honestly, he was about five minutes late, because he was busy watching some womanizer asking a married woman out on a date. It kinda took a lot of time after laughing his head off for a good 10 minutes.
He saw Lyn in the middle of the plaza, being heckled by that green armored knight he saw earlier. He wondered what other shenanigans the knight would do to Lyn, so he just walked up beside Lyn, who quickly became aware of his presence as the knight got on his knee in an over-dramatic way.
"O beautiful maiden! Your beauty is striking in every way so! May I please have the honor of having your hand as your knight in shining armor?" the man romanticized. Lyn had the most confused face ever seen before, while it took everything Aracho had not to burst out laughing at her predicament.
"I'm sorry, but no! Who are you, anyway?" she screamed/asked in the calmest tone she could, which was not very calm at all.
"Where are my manners today? My name is Sain, and I am a knight of Caelin!" he responded proudly.
"Nice meeting you, Sain, but I… have to go now, I needed to meet up with my traveling partner." Lyn was not slow on leaving the vicinity as quickly as possible to hide her shame. Aracho quickly ran through the crowded streets to meet up with her, seeing she was heading to their meeting spot. He weaved through the giant wad of people to see Lyn standing there, looking for him. He casually walked up there from another section so she wouldn't know he saw her new… admirer.
"I'm here Lyn!" he voiced when he walked up beside Lyn. She quickly turned with a smile of relief on her face.
"Oh, hi! Did you have an easy time getting supplies?" she asked him curiously.
"I mean it was easy, but I got put back a bit by looking at some green armored knight hitting on a woman in a tavern. Did you run into that guy? He seemed a little bit off his rocker." He mentioned, giving a slight smirk when he saw Lyn sweat a little at the forehead.
"N-No, I didn't run into him, but he does sound very weird," she lied horribly.
"Okay, let's see what we got and mix it together," he suggested, to which Lyn agreed. "By the way," he told her with a smirk as he got his things out, "You're a horrible liar."
Lyn snapped her head up so fast Aracho thought it might break, or at least be fractured in some areas. Her face was red with embarrassment and she looked like she was constipated in so many ways. Aracho couldn't help it anymore and started laughing his head off at the expense of Lyn's dignity. Lyn quickly gave him a good smack to the shoulder, which ceased his laughing as he grabbed his arm in slight pain.
"Okay, okay, let's just finish this," he said, pouting that he couldn't have his fun anymore.
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It only took about ten minutes to synchronize all of the things that they had together. Now ready, the duo took off for the exit of the markets. They couldn't leave just yet as there were two horses blocking the way back to the plains. Lyn found that the horses belonged to a knight waiting a little distance away, clad in all red armor. She went over to him so they could leave on their journey.
"Excuse me sir, can you please move your horses out of the way so we can leave?" she asked politely.
"Why sure ma'am," he responded while getting the two horses to move out of the way. "I must say, have I seen you anywhere before? You look rather familiar in some sort of way," he inspected.
"Nope, I've never seen you before, but thank you anyway," Lyn returned.
"I see. By the way, my name is Kent, and I am a knight of Caelin. If you happen to remem-" he started, before being interrupted by the green knight's advance… again.
"HEY! Kent, I had her first, so find your own mistress!" he basically yelled in front of everybody.
Aracho looked to his side to see a clearly flustered/angry Lyn who looked like she was about to go on a rampage. Fearing for safety reasons, he took some steps back, and carefully got ready to run the other way in case she DID start going crazy.
Instead, she just grabbed Aracho's arm forcefully and dragged him out of the town with her. "Come on Aracho! Apparently there are no decent knights in the Caelin ranks!" she jabbed. Aracho pretty much had no choice but to follow Lyn, so he just went to avoid losing a limb.
Back with the oblivious Sain and the fuming Kent, Sain was getting harshly scolded by Kent. "You nincompoop! Do you have any idea what you just did?"
"What did I do?" he asked, like nothing just happened. His cluelessness was rewarded with a great smack to the side of his head, courtesy of Kent.
"She may have been our target! Do you notice any similarity to lady Madelyn at all?"
Now that you mention it... Oh my! We just messed up badly!
"No, YOU messed up you lout! Come on before we're too late!" Kent said. With no other words, the two readied there horses and quickly left in pursuit of Lyn and Aracho.
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Lyn and Aracho were on the path that leads out to Bulgar, one of the largest cities in Sacae. Aracho has seen that Lyn has calmed down considerably, but is still angry and embarrassed that she was hit on by some wannabe Casanova. The two were going down a road when Aracho had an idea. He was thinking about telling Lyn, but decided to think more about it before asking.
The duo stopped in their tracks when a big man with an axe appeared right in front of them. He seemed to look Lyn up and down, which disgusted Lyn greatly. The man then gave a swing of his axe, and four other bandits came out of hiding, joining with their leader.
"So, this is Lyndis, eh? So beautiful, and it all has to go to waste. Hmm, the things I do for money…
Lyn stood there shocked, and Aracho just wondered what had gotten into her. All she could do was stare at the bandit leader in confusion, and nothing would come out of her mouth, except a question.
"How… How do you know my name?"
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And the Cliffy kills all! MUWAAAHHAHAHHAHAHA! Now, sorry for being late, but this is the result of what happens after you go to summer camp (It was fun though, and I got to knock people in the head with a pillow.) But anyway I hope you like it, and remember to Fave, Follow, and Review! Until next time….
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