Chapter 1: The Poring

Eiyorei

"Grawk!" an ear piercing cry broke the entire tranquil atmosphere. Casting a magnifier spell, Kamaite had created a translucent dome floating in front of us. Looking deeply inside it, we suddenly noticed that a gryphon was flying at top speed toward us.

Suddenly, I felt a strong tug on the back of my shirt as I was knocked to the ground. Opening my eyes slowly, I soon saw of what looked like the asshole of the bird. Within seconds, a huge lump of shit was on my face.

"Ichimotsu!" I shouted in agony as I knew that only one hateful organism on this entire planet would have the cheek to do his "business" ON me! I started to cast a storm of fire bolts at that mischievous bird.

Although Ichimotsu was young and small, he was very agile and quickly dodged all the bolts… Still pissed by him, I started imitating Zeus by hurling a dozen lightning bolts at him. Laughing in pain, Kamaite was holding his protruding beer belly and rolling on the floor. At long last! One of my lightning bolts had hit Ichimotsu straight in the eye! I gleefully watched the bird zooming to the ground at full speed and cheered to the sweet melodious tune of revenge.

"Heal!" Kamaite had cast heal on the bird and in a moment, Ichimotsu was surrounded by a white light for a spilt second. After the light had stopped blinding me, Ichimotsu was seen soaring up at a hundred miles per hour towards me.

"Entanglement!" I rapped it out and in a spilt second, the gorgeous silky brown feathered creature was trapped in a floating constriction of pure blue web.

"Muahahahaha…!" Kamaite laughed heartily, "It seems as though we have beaten ya again right?"

We freed our dear friend and questioned his purpose of visit. It had been a while since we last met; then, he was just a baby on his mum's back. Ichimotsu had been our friend since he was born and never once had he attacked us like the other unfriendly gryphons.

"Did something happen in Prontera?" Kamaite gave a worried look and quickly shoved into my hands the piece of paper tied around Ichimotsu's legs.

"Read it." I gave an optimistic look to Kamaite signaling to him that everything is going to be okay.

"Haiz… Relax dude, it's just another old letter inviting us to the annual prom night the next month." Upon hearing what I had just said, he heaved a sigh of relief and got back to his observation tower.

"Ahhhhh!" a loud high pitch scream was heard from a distance below us. It sounded weird and in a very panicking tone.

"Oh Lord of Thor….." It was unusual for Kamaite to say that as he was calmer in every way than me.

"What!" I shoved my way up to the tower, pushing aside all our notes and reports of incidents around this area. Surprisingly, I saw an overgrown Poring about the size of a house bouncing its way towards the city bridge. We immediately jumped up and grabbed our equipments, cape, boots, weapons and all.

"Lord Of Vermillion!" We both shouted and with no delay, a huge energy of yellow light surrounded us and was directed to the floor beneath the enormous poring. Loads of fire began to rise from the ground and amazingly it was able to surround the monster. Cheers were sent to us from the novices who were once chased by the Poring.

"Boin…Boing…." The Poring jumped out unharmed and squished a few novices to death even before they could scream. Undaunted, I flashed my tetsuya to the overgrown creature, blinding it for a second. Taking the chance, I jumped downed from the tower and 'flew' towards its eye.

"Shing!" I swiped my sword at its right eye. Unfortunately, I was sucked into its body and was floating around in the pink liquid… In desperation, I tried every skill in my book but it was to no avail. I found myself helplessly swimming in its body hoping to get out. Meanwhile, Kamaite buffed himself and charged towards the monster with incredible swiftness.

"Light Of Pierce!" Kamaite was using his new created skills against the Poring. With amazing stealth and quickness, he used his Glowing Slayer to slash the beast a hundred times. Unable to take the damage no longer, the huge Poring burst into tons of normal sized Porings.

I was covered in pink slime and unable to express my gratitude to my pal. Although the monster had been defeated, the death toll of today stands at a high number of 6. Citizens of Geffen gathered around helping to carry the bodies to the Prontera Cemetery (and also helping to kill the Porings). At that moment, I felt sympathy coming out of my heart to these young warriors. Thank lord almighty no one had pushed the blame upon us. Even so, we felt sorry and bowed our heads in respect to the deceased.

"How do ya think a Poring can grow so big?" I wondered… Hoping Kamaite may know the answer. Its was weird… Could the Poring expand? It seems kind of stretchable to me… Or could it have Leveled Up or something?

"It's the work of the baidai fruit. That Poring must have found a baidai tree somewhere around this area and mistook the fruit for its apple…" Kamaite muttered, "But, where?"

Puzzled, we walked back to our home to get a good rest. However, neither of us could sleep thinking of the legendary baidai fruit.

"The baidai fruit allows one grow two times bigger permanently without any side effects. That Poring must eaten a lot of fruits… So that means… a baidai tree must be somewhere over here!" Kamaite being more experienced and traveled, he enlightened me on the unbelievable things a baidai fruit can do.

After such a long chat, we finally slipped out of reality into our dream world, collapsing on our bed after another hectic day of life…

"Creak…" The familiar sound of the door brought me to my senses in the middle of the night... Was someone trying to break in?

"Psst… Wake up Kamaite…. I think someone's outside the door." Kamaite woke up with a sudden jerk, making the bed creak. He then yawned, "What is it so early in the morning? Bandits..? Assassins…? Or ya wan more sleeping pills…?"

A stealthy shadow appeared by the window and I wielded my sword. With hardly any expression, the 2 figures faded into the darkness. I shook Kamaite up and we tried to track down the shadows.

"Are you sure ya saw people by our house? I mean…our place is so high up and many know we live there. Who would want to come to take us on?" He arrogantly pouted, evidently showing that he did not like to be awakened.

"I'm not even sure if they're even humans, they move with the speed of light, the sounds they make can hardly be heard and the stench from them is simply appalling!" I argued, crossing my heart that I had really saw them.

Damn… After my dinner my head feels blank… Not much detail in this story… And kinda expected everything if ya read it… It's my 1st story btw… So drop me ya reviews tyty! )

Kyouchou will be introduced in the next chapter, these are species from the dark with big heads and limbs, and they drool all the time and are under the dark master's commands.

Kyonai and Seishoku will also be introduced in the next chapter; they are on the good side and are both wizards. Kyonai is a handsome guardian of the tower and Seishoku is in charge of the ministry of magic. Seishoku is also the father of Airashii, the party's conjurer.