Hello everybody, I hope you like the chapter, and I've got chapter 9 all ready for uploading, so it will be up within a day. I don't want to keep you waiting, so here's chapter 8. Fun fact of the week: I may or may not start writing another ff soon
It had been about half an hour since I had left and I was on the Magnolia city limits when I realized that I had absolutely no idea where I was going. So I started to walk along the clearest path I could find in the surrounding forest, waiting to happen upon someone who could tell me where to go find some information. I stumbled upon a large clearing where there appeared to be some sort of a structure, and as desperate for directions as I was, I began to walk around, looking for anything that could tell me where to go. But instead of help coming in the form of some person walking in the woods as well, it came in the form of someone who caught me in a net trap.
I couldn't make out who or what the figure was, but it was short and appeared to be reaching for a weapon of some sorts. For whatever reason, I didn't bother trying to burn through the ropes, perhaps due to a subconscious desire to find out what was going on. The small figure, clearly shaking, began to walk further into the light, where I could see it completely. It was a cat, slightly taller than Happy with a silvery gray fur color with large areas of white on it's stomach and tail. The cat, with a sudden look of apology, rushed over to me once he got a good look at me. " I'm so sorry, I meant to do that to someone else." The cat said quickly as he tried release me from the net. "No hard feelings, but ya mind telling me who you were trying to trap?" I exclaimed, feeling both annoyance and interest towards the cat. "Well, these bandits keep harassing me, and even though I'm stronger than a lot of them, their leader will always end up beating me, and no matter where I go, they will always end up finding me." "I could probably help him out, it's not really goanna affect the grand scheme of things if I'm really looking for one guy throughout all of Fiore." I thought to myself. Noticing him still struggling with the rope, I burnt through the rope, which surprised the cat quite a bit. "A group of bandits shouldn't be too much to deal with." "R-really? You would do that for me? Thank you Mr." after a short awkward pause, I answered "Nicholai Kasai, what about you?" " My name is Sayume. If there is anything I could do to pay you back Nicholai, please let me know." "Actually, there is something that comes to mi-" Sayume interrupted me with a sudden gasp, "They're coming!" Confused, I said, "It's still not that big a deal Sayume, I can handle them." "No," he said in a voice filled with dread, "This is different, I can tell, they've all risen to the power if their leader." "Well," I said starting to notice some slight noise coming from the direction Sayume was facing, "If you can measure their power, why don't you take a look at this." I suddenly flared up my power as much as I could without causing a forest fire, causing Sayume to, and I am not kidding, sprout wings and fly back about fifteen feet in surprise. We both stared, awestruck at the sight of what the other one was doing, but there was little time for amazement as the group of about a dozen supposedly powerful bandits and their leader appeared from the edge of the forest. "Well, well," One of the bandits, who I presumed to be their leader mockingly continued, "the runt cat has enlisted some help has he?" I smirked as I lit my hands up in flames, "You could say that, if you consider catching me in a net 'enlistment'. Sayume you just stay up there, I can take care of this." "No," Sayume said, beginning to approach Nicholai, "I've put up with their abuse long enough, it's about time I finished this. Although, I still need your help." "Um, Sayume, not to be rude, but how do you intend to fight these guys, because they're all about five times larger than you." And here is where things really got weird, and I would be lying if I said I didn't do a double take to make sure I wasn't imagining things. Sayume grew to be about as tall as I am, if not taller, became even more well built than Freed looked when he transformed, and along with that, his staff expanded along with him. "Are you even a cat!?" "In all honesty, I have no clue whether I am or not, but since I don't really know what else I could be, let's just go with me being a magical cat." "Alright, well anyways, let's go." We charged at the bandits, both of us confident we could win. Unsurprisingly, the fight was over in hardly any time at all, with them all being not nearly as strong as me and with Sayume's newfound courage. Any details there were had been completely forgotten except for the fact that the fight took at most a minute before we sent them running. "We- we did it!" Sayume cheered at his freedom from the bandits. "Yep, so, back to what we were saying before we were interrupted." "Huh? Oh yeah. What did you need me to do?" "Well, you see, I was looking for this mage, and I wanted to know where I might find somewhere to get information about him." "There is a tavern not too far from here, but if you are looking for someone specific, I could help you with that myself." "Really? How?" "As you should've seen earlier, I have the ability to sense anyone's energy if I have met them before, even if they aren't mages, which can also be used to find certain magic users if I pinpoint on their magic type." "Really? Prove it, where are any fire dragon slayers, and how many are there in total?" "Well, lost magic is a bit harder to sense, but I can try. Let's see here, there's you right here, and I sense another one heading towards Hargeon, and at the speed he is going, he is probably in either a train or a magic car." "Woah, you were actually right. That other Dragon Slayer is my brother, and he is in fact on a train to Hargeon." "So, who did you need me to find?" Before I could talk, a wave of sudden hunger slammed into Sayume and me. The sound of Sayume's and my stomachs growled loud enough to probably scare off some wild animals. "Hehe," I said scratching the back of my head, "I guess we're both pretty hungry after that, even though I wouldn't have even considered that a fight. Come on, we can go get some food at that tavern you were talking about." "Yeah!" Sayume yelled in excitement.
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