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Chapter 7
The party became livelier after the Moses and the Oresoren Brothers came. Pippo, Poppo and Quppo performed a matching song and dance of "Happy Birthday" Oresoren style that led to the gushes of "Aww.." and "How cute!" from the girls. But then as their performance ended, Moses decided to do the "Moses' victory dance", which everybody turned their backs to ignore.
Without stopping his stunt, the bandit urged them saying, "Come on!" which they replied to with "Shut up, Moses!" in unison.
Finally put out by their reaction, Moses stopped to pout and said, "You peeps are no fun!" But being a person who can't stay feeling down for long, Moses grinned as he strode behind the sofa where Jay sat and jumped the back to sit in the space beside the ninja, ending up between Jay and the Oresoren brothers who smiled at him.
"Not feeling up for some entertainin'? Then let's just get to the grub!" Moses happily announced.
"You really amaze me with your occasional bursts of brain activity, Moses." Jay dead-panned.
Moses chose to pretend he didn't hear the insult, as he hunched over the table and made himself busy with piling up food in the ninja's plate. "You gotta eat properly, Jay."
When Jay finally saw his plate, he felt the veins in his head twitch as it threatened to pop in annoyance. In front of him stood what seemed like a mountain of everything edible set at the table, with his plate somewhere at the base of it.
"How can you expect me to eat all tha-mmf!" Before he got to finish the sentence however, the bandit shoved a large spoonful of food in his mouth. This caused his cheeks to puff out as he tried to contain them in.
Moses smiled and nodded approvingly. "There now, that's my boy! Now, chew your food properly, Jay."
Jay growled as he could do nothing at the moment but obey, and literally swallow his humiliation.
Already used to the ninja and the bandit's antics, the others idly watched the spectacle as they helped themselves to the food as well. A moment later, short conversations began amongst them, leaving the two to their own chaotic world.
Jay watched in horrified fascination as Moses then scooped a mouthful of food on the same pile, and used the same spoon to feed himself. Hurrying up to chew and swallow his food down in order to scold the disgusting bandit, Jay finally opened his mouth to say, "Don't you at least know some etiquette, you disgusting barbarian?! Use your own spoon!"
Well, that's what Jay tried to say anyway. Because the moment he opened his mouth, only a syllable was out before the bandit shoved another spoonful of food in his mouth.
'Horrified' was too light a term to describe how the ninja felt. To think he had just exchanged body fluids with the bandit, however small and indirectly it was…
Jay fought the urge to gag and in the process ruin the others' appetite by the mess he could create. He fought hard to erase the revolting thoughts of disgusting fluids and tried to glare the bandit to death instead. As the famous cliché goes, if looks could kill, the stupid bandit would never have existed!
Moses finally turned to Jay, acting as if he couldn't see the murderous glare directed his way, and innocently asked "Was there something you wanna say?" Jay only chewed his food faster, knowing that the bandit was goading him to say something in order to shove food down his throat the moment he opens his mouth to reply.
After seeing the ninja had swallowed most of it down, Moses made sure to let Jay see him as he licked the sauce off the spoon in such a way that made the ninja gasp in reaction. The bandit did not waste this opportunity however. Before the ninja could come out of his daze and close his mouth, Moses shoved another spoonful of food in Jay's mouth. Looking like a cat that ate the canary, Moses smirked at the disgruntled expression on the younger teen's face.
Jay unconsciously chewed his food and swallowed as his mind was occupied with thoughts about his reaction to the stupid bandit's act a while ago. When he saw the bandit licked the spoon, he felt a hot sensation travel from his stomach towards somewhere lower, which caused him to gasp. The idiot was just licking the spoon so what caused that feeling? To say he felt confused was a severe understatement as he seemed to have completely forgotten to be angry towards a certain beast tamer's underhanded trick to feed him.
A burping sound snapped the ninja back to reality as he scrunched his face in disgust at hearing it, especially when he saw that it had come from the savage himself.
"Moses!" Only Jay had perfected the art of saying the bandit's name while making it sound like a reprimand at the same time.
"Just showin' my appreciation." he told the ninja, "It's good food ya know!" Moses grinned as he patted his full stomach and reclined in the sofa.
"Seriously, you could have said 'thanks'. It's what words are for, after all." Jay retorted.
"But my people does it tha' way." Moses said, with a faraway look in his eyes.
Jay could only wonder at the bandit's expression as he remembered that like most of them, Moses also came from the mainland; but after living in the Legacy for more than five years and sharing a lot of life changing experiences in it together, it was almost too easy to forget that fact entirely. While there had been many instances that Moses mentioned about "his people", the bandit himself never had actually talked about them nor did he disclose anything about his past. Even the information about his history with Giet came from Csaba. Because of his cheerful personality and dumb antics, it was so easy to overlook many things about the beast tamer himself.
Without Jay noticing it, the conversations around the living room table became much louder with the voice of Moses added to the mix. It seemed that the bandit chose to use that moment to reminisce about their past adventures, based on the topics that Jay could gather. It only took a while before he was forced to join in as the beast tamer said something that compelled him to retort scathingly, forgetting his curiosity about the bandit's past in the process, as Moses became his old ridiculous self again.
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When the first Orerines came to Legendia aboard the Legacy a long time ago, they were at least ten thousand in number and had different cultures between themselves. Still, they were united in attaining a goal, which is to claim their place in the new world against its inhabitants, the Ferines. The Ferines, a race of people who can breathe under water and possess the power called 'Eres' greatly fascinated the Orerines. But with the thought of that much power set against them, it incited their fear as well. The fear of that power which can be used against them later led to anger, then to hatred, and thus it led to the wars of the races.
After having lost many comrades, friends, and loved ones because of the wars, the two races ended up having stalemate after the last Merines, leader of the Ferines, flooded the lands and caused most of it to be submerged underwater. Most of the Ferines isolated themselves within their own secret realms while most of the Orerines settled in the crescent-shaped land formed by the flood. Each race living in separate peace for a long while, but not forgetting their past and the emotions it brought.
However, a small number of those who survived the war had had enough of the sufferings they experienced. These people, both Ferines and Orerines, chose to live in harmony together at the sanctuary they created at northern tip of the mainland called the Hidden Lands, or Renawes as the Ferines calls it. The land gained its name from the natural barriers that surrounds it, with the lush rainforests at the center that covers the fertile land below and the hills and mountains that surrounded it from the north and the south.
At Renawes, the people of both races found a haven for their injured spirits, and something about the beautiful land made it easy for them to live together, and eventually forgive the mistakes of their kin enough to forget and start anew. Thus the time came when the fair Ferines, with their golden skin and hair became united with the dark-skinned Orerines and they called their new family as MelOres (Silver Earth) in deference to Nature who not only nurtured their body's needs, but mended their hearts as well.
Time passed and the survivors of the war then became parents, grandparents, as well as elders of the MelOres. Unlike the Ferines and the Orerines who kept their hatred of each other alive by retelling their past differences, the MelOres elders chose not to tell the gruesome story to their children. This allowed the children to forget about their differences entirely but when instances come when their curiosity compels them to ask, the elders have learned to say it as what it actually is, "It's all in the past, dear children, and that's how it should be from now on." So, as the children grew up to become parents and elders themselves, they had completely forgotten that they were once separate races forced to live together as consequence of the wars their own people brought about many years ago.
From then on the MelOres clan lived in peace…
until a time came when they had to face a new enemy.
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A/N: I think it's good that I really am enjoying writing this, even with so few readers out there. Thanks to FFnet, cos otherwise, I won't have any readers at all XD Please read and review!