Chapter 6: The Willis Family
The two rode the horse under the hot desert sun, on the way the two have finally gotten along without a fight. The girl has finally put down her snobby prep attitude a bit and actually asked Sky's name before introducing herself. "My name is Hannah Willis, from the great Willis family that have been arch mages for generations, we are a family that have been in use to the great Flias Emperor, Caesar V. Flias, my grandfather was the legendary Arch Mage General that subdued the Crynolian invasions to the north and forced them back to their borders," she continued before I could say anything back to her, "My father became his successor two years ago after becoming an arch mage himself, his name should be known by everyone since his magic level has become even stronger than my grandfather, his name is Leon Willis, you know him don't you?" "Uh, no, I have been living in the desert and you are the first person I met besides the tribe people here…" I replied knowing that I lied to her, but I can't afford people knowing my true identity, because I'm sure I'm still on bounty. "No way! For some reason you give me a sense of nobility not some nomads I the desert!" She seems shocked by my response.
"Listen, I'm from the Willis family, our family has a rule to have the next generation to train in a certain place and survive through the place for at least a year, when times up, I have to get back to the Willis to report, the surviving members of the family will be a candidate to inherit the family's power and authority the failures will be considered "workers" for the successor." She continued, "But I ran out of food 3 days ago so obviously I won't be able to make it back so that's why I needed your help.""Oh no wonder but didn't your family give you enough food for the year?" I asked. "They did, it was just some…bandits…" She said almost frightened to remember the scene.
In a bandit hideout…
"Boss, what quest did ja accept this time, killing some royalties or kid'apping youn' maidens and asking for ransom or just some goody quests," a guy with a Mohawk asked another man that obviously looked a lot more serious than the Mohawk dude. "It's a request by a royalty, to kidnap the head daughter of the Willis family, we received some news about her being all alone in the desert supposedly has to survive in it for a year."The man said without emotion. "Cool, is she hot? Does our client mind if we "play" with her a bit?" Another dude with a really perverted face showed up and asked the emotionless man. "Our client didn't say anything about that, just do whatever.""Awesome, boss you are the best!"Another woman popped up and heard the conversation but she didn't respond to it but left, her emotionlessness can rival the emotionless man's. (These are the people that popped up in chapter 1) The woman started to polish her bow and arrow and the other two the Mohawk and the pervert started joking around about how they should "play" with the head daughter of the Willis family. "We'll start the objective now!" "Get ready!"
After Sky heard about Hannah starting to be recalling terrible moments, he stopped asking and had Hannah take a rest while he rode the horse and had her lay behind him.
Then suddenly a nostalgic feeling hit Sky as the sky and view in front of Sky became foggy and obscured. "IT'S THE POISONOUS GAS AGAIN!" Sky thought as he pulled the horse to a stop and head backwards. At this time, sleeping beauty has awakened and pulled on Sky's sleeves. "Why are we heading backwards?" "That smokescreen over there is a very venomous gas, I have seen what happened to creatures that get covered by it, their skeletons and remains didn't even exist after it surrounded them, "Sky thought back to two years ago when the smoke separated his cat and him.(Yes, finally the main character remembers about the cat.) "Hurry up, hurry up, I don't want to die here…" the girl panicked. "I'm hurrying, don't you see the horse is at its limit?" I started getting irritated by Hannah's reaction. The smokes are coming closer and closer, to the point where I had Hannah hold her breath and I decided to travel by air using magic. I let go of the reins and handed them to Hannah, she was confused why I did that but the second I started to drop down to the ground, she knew what was going on. "You be safe, "I dropped down to the ground, "NOOO," She yelled at me with some tears, but I know once I get off the horse it will be able to run faster and as I expected it shot away from the smoke as if it looked like the smokescreen has slowed down. "Now to protect myself," I cast a barrier spell using the aurorus magic and surrounded myself with a thin, see thru layer. The smokescreen pass right over it and cleared.
I deactivated the spell and looked towards the hill Hannah was at and waved to tell her I was safe. At Sky's view he couldn't see Hannah's face but at this moment Hannah has tears crawling down her cheeks symbolizing relief and gladness. As Hannah was about to take a step towards Sky's location, she was gagged and tied back by two men. Sky had seen the two men in action and hurried to where Hannah was but they were already far in distance…