Sunburn had a secret cave about a mile from her hut, hidden from view. No one besides her and Cactier knew about. It was deep underground, maybe about 30 meters below the ground.
The only way to enter it was from a secret passage below a rock in a small clearing. Sunburn had discovered when she was about half a year old. Since she had no parents, she had no one to tell her what was dangerous and what was safe so she did a lot of exploring.
This was her second journey from Hyena's Fury. She had never seen a tree before so its leaves amazed her. While she tried to touch the leaves of the tree, she stood up on the rock. Right when she stood on the rock. She slipped and revealed the secret passage.
When she first entered the cave, she was terrified. The passage was pitch black and she couldn't see a thing. However, after walking for a few minutes she arrived at the cave.
The moment she had looked around she was awed. Even her tiny brain could tell it was absolutely beautiful. Fireflies flew around, lighting up the dozen of tunnels. Each tunnel leads to one to two rooms.
She had entered a cave system. A gorgeous cave system, at that.
Her day-to-day life included training, shopping, training, eating, completing missions and training.
Everyday she trained for over 7 hours, while Cactier accompanied her. But, he usually only managed to complete 5 hours of training. Every so often she would complete the 7 hours with her, though.
Cactier bitterly laughed at the realization that his master, a 3-year-old dragonet, trained more than he could.
Training was no easy task. When Sunburn began training she could only train for 2 hours max. But slowly, she had gotten stronger and could persist for a longer amount of time.
However, even after training for 2 years and a half, she would still end up in a heavy sweat. During her first year of training she woke up everyday with sore limbs. Even moving them was pure agony.
But she persisted and now she could do 7 hours of training a day feeling great all the while.
She was still pant in exhaustion but that was about it. Training had become part of her daily routine and she only allowed herself to cease her training when she had a mission.
They took a break after 2 hours of training and went to buy their breakfast. Sunburn's favorite restaurant was The Scorpion's Den while Cactier's was Snake Fillet. They had argued for the longest time before finally comprising to take turns.
After they ate breakfast they would each go their separate ways and buy a few snakes with the limit of spending 10 pieces of gold each.
Then they would return to their little hut and train for 3 hours, until lunch. Being unable to comprise caused another debate. The argument somehow escalated to asking for the opinion of Python.
Poor Python was caught in a difficult decision. He didn't doubt if he chose Cactier Sunburn would literally have his head, but he didn't want to betray Cactier. He and Cactier had a decent relationship and they were friends. He didn't want to abandon a friend so he suggested Lizard Heaven.
After lunch they would train another 2 hours before eating dinner.
When they came to him about dinner, he said the same thing, not wanting to choose either.
Then, after dinner they would go to sleep without any other word to each other. Sunburn didn't treat Cactier unfairly like Cactier expected. He was content with his life right now; he didn't want anything to change. But everything changed when the fire nation attacked (jk J).
Then when either of them had a mission they would go and complete it. The other would then continue their routine until the other came back. Missions took 1-8 days. They usually only took 2-3 days though.
There was only one time when a mission took 8 days. One time during a mission Sunburn saw a poster that said a traveling musician was arriving there in 7 days and reallllly wanted to watch. You know the rest…
When they finished a mission they would go return the head of the dragon they were hired to kill as proof, return the mission paper and collect the gold. Killing the dragon actually only took a day or two but to collect all the gold they had was tough to collect.
That's why Sunburn enchanted a ruby earring for Cactier. All he had to imagine what he wanted to take with him and it would teleport in the tiny ruby earring. Then when he wanted take it out, he would imagine it being taken out and ~poof~ it would appear out of thin air.
Sunburn and Cactier made a lot of money being assassins. Cactier only accepted missions of A or higher. He had never touched anything lower. Sunburn only accepted the missions that paid over 10,000 gold.
Only S ranks and higher gave that much gold so she didn't have a lot of missions to do. She was only called for the highest level of missions.
Cactier was a rank S+ assassin.
As for Sunburn? She was a rank S+++ assassin.
The top assassin of the world.
