Chapter 2

"Hi, are you alright? Can you hear me?" A girl says.

Slowly, Sin opens his eyes, he feels really tired. So he doesn't bother to answer the question at first.

"OK, that's enough sleepy head. It's noon already you know."

"Ahhhh, why can you just leave me along!" Sin pulls the blanket over his head.

"What did you just say? I can't understand what you just said."

"But, how in the world can I UNDERSTAND you?" Sin gets up from the bed, and asks the girl with a confused expression.

"Sorry, what was that?" The girl asks Sin.

Sin finally awake from his deep sleep, he takes a hard, long drink from the cup offer by the girl and takes a good look of the girl. 'She is kind of cute. Wait, what the hell am I thinking, she will murder me if she finds this out.'

The girl has long green hair, with a pair of beautiful emerald eyes. She wears strange clothes, which seems belong to the plains people.

"You know, it is rude to look at a girl for so long." The green hair girl says teasingly.

"S-Sorry."

"So, you CAN speak my language." The girl says with an annoyed expression, which to Sin it is extremely scary.

"Ok, but I really don't what's wrong with me."

"Aaaaaanyway, you mu……." Suddenly Sin and the girl hear a loud sound coming from the out side. 'What was that?' Sin thinks.

"It must be the bandits, they just won't give up, will they." The girl says with a small voice, with full of hatred.

"What? Do you hold some kind problem against them?" Sin asks her innocently.

"You heard that?"

"Yeah? What?"

"Never mind. You wait here, I will drive the bandits away myself." The girl says with full of determination.

"I can help." Sin says with a huge grin on his face.

"What can YOU do? Besides you are just awake from whatever accident you had."

"I don't know, but I think I am a tactician-in-training."

"You are?" The girl says with a startle look on her face. "But wait, why did you says I THINK?"

"Well, I can't exactly remember my past, So……."

"You are extremely annoying and weird. Anyway, I suppose it won't hurt to let you have a try, I do have the skill to finish even ten bandits by myself easily. Oh, by the way, my name is Lyn, or Lyndis, whichever you prefer."

"And mine is Sin."

"OK, let's go to the battle."

Lyn pulls out her iron sword, and walks out her tent. Sin takes a good look at the field and finds three bandits.

"Ok, here is the plan. You will attract their attention, one by one; it will be much easier for you to fight. As for the last one bandit, he seems that he is really strong, so you better keep your distance and if you have any healing item, take few with you."

"Not bad, the plan not as bad as I thought it would be. You CAN be a tactician-in-training." This makes Sin blush a little, although he has no idea why.

"Ok, time to move." Lyn starts running quietly toward the first bandit. The bandit takes notice of her and starts to advance. Lyn holds her sword, waiting for the bandit to make his first move. The bandit holds his axe high in the air and in the moment when he is about to make his kill, Lyn rushes under the bandit, pushes her sword into the bandit's stomach. The bandit falls on the ground without a sound.

"You know Lyn, sometimes your sword skills are really scary, but effective, very effective." Sin approaches Lyn slowly, making sure that she is very stable.

"Now, one down, and two more to go." Lyn takes not notice of Sin's nervousness and approaches the second bandit. This time, she also makes a quick work of him like the last one and walk up to her final destination, the last bandit.

"So you must be the beautiful girl that everyone speak of, but don't you worry, I won't hurt you. I can use some company you know. Hahahahaha…"

"Oh shut up, or I will cut you in half just like your friends."

"What can you do? You are just a woman."

Without a reply, Lyn holds up her sword and slashes at the bandit. She hits the bandit, but it only made a tiny scratch on his body.

"Is it the best you can do? Ha, let me show you how a worrier rally fight."

Sin knows that the bandit is about to make his final move and finish Lyn off, but for some reason, Sin's body moves on its own will and block the bandit's axe with his bare hand.

Both Lyn and the bandit look at Sin with a startle look on his face.

"This must be your man, am I wrong, little girl? He seem to be a very good fighter, I think will toy with him for a while, what do you think?"

Lyn doesn't make any reply, she just stare at Sin, and wondering why would he save her life. Without being notice by anyone, Lyn blushes slightly. 'What the? Why in the world am I blushing? I don't like him, right?'

"Leave, or die." Sin warnings the bandit with monotone while he is holding the axe up.

"Yeah, Yeah. Whatever, buddy. Why don't you just give up, I promise we can share the girl."

Just as the bandit stops talking, Sin starts to attack. He pushes the axe forward, and with swing with his hand, a strange light blast both the bandit and the axe few metre away.

"What the hell was that?" The bandit looks around, tries to find any kind of clues.

"You better keep your eyes on your opponent, I am much stronger than you, you know." Sin says with a hint of amusement in his voice. It seem that Sin enjoy the battle very much.

"Oh, shut up." The bandit sitting up from the ground with his steel axe, and once more ready for battle. However this time, Sin wastes no time, he holds up his hand and point a finger at the bandit. He speaks a few strange words; the strange light reappears again, but unlike last time, the light concentrate in one single point. Sin screams 'Air Blaster', a powerful wind being shoot toward the bandit and blast a huge hole on the bandit's chest. The bandit looks at Sin with a really frighten face. And finally falls onto the ground.

Lyn slowly approaches Sin, she still haven't recover from the bandit's last attack and Sin powerful air blast. 'What did he do? Who is he? And more importantly, how did he use that kind of magic? So many questions, but one thing for sure, the magic he just used does not belong to our land.' Lyn thinks. She looks at Sin but finds him fall on the ground. "Well, I suppose that attack toke a lot from him." With a small chuck, Lyn pulls Sin toward her tent.