Chapter 1
Boredom
Thantos was sitting on his bed, continuously throwing and catching his blue foam ball, with his headphones in his ears and musik playing too loud and combing his medium length black hair out of his bright abnormally coloured eyes.
“This is so pointless. I need something better to do,” he said, scratching his extremely pale skin.
Thantos paused his IPod to hear a scream and girls laughing.
“What the- what was that about?” He asked himself, getting up from his tempat tidur and walking to his door.
“I’ll never know if I don’t go check it out,” he smiled.
Thantos walked down his stairs and toward his door and covered his ears as the girls screamed again.
He opened his front door to see a beautiful girl in a solid black bikini and another girl in a purple and berwarna merah muda, merah muda strapless one piece.
“What’s all the screaming about?” Thantos yelled at them, laughing.
The girls screamed, looked at Thantos, then started laughing at there foolishness.
“First tell us who anda are, then we’ll tell anda why we were screaming,” laughed the girl in the one-piece.
“I’ll tell anda who I am after anda tell me who anda are,” Thantos smirked at them.
The two girls looked at each other and smiled.
Both girls held out there left arm, palms flat facing him. Out of nowhere, water came shooting at Thantos, hitting him painfully hard.
“What was that for?” Thantos yelled, clenching his fists, angrily. “And how the hell did anda do that?”
“Because we could. Isn’t that a total ‘duh’ factor?” The girl in the bikini asked.
“And how we did it is none of your damn business.” The other girl scolded.
“Just tell me who anda are,” Thantos said, attempting to breathe calmly and not tampil his anger, but failing, miserably.
“My name is of no concern right now but… I might be willing to tell anda if anda tell me yours. We’ll tell anda why we were screaming and both of our names if anda only tell us yours. That is lebih than equivalent,” the girl in the bikini smirked, cocking her hip.
Equivalent? They know and follow the rule of equivalency? Then they must be from Eitri…Thantos berkata to himself.
“……Th-Thantos,” he stuttered, not knowing whether to trust the beautiful girls.
“Great! I’m Adomma!” The girl in the bikini said.
“And I’m Bronwyn,” the other girl berkata “Adomma’s older sister.”
“Well, why were anda screaming? anda told me you’d tell me that fact as well, and anda were hu-” he was interrupted oleh a loud, powerful roar that sounded lebih like an extremely large dog.
“Thantos, get out of here, now!” Bronwyn yelled at Thantos. “Sister, we need to lead it away! We can’t risk exposing our world to anyone else!”
“It’s fine! I’m not human so, I won’t expose your world!” the teenage boy yelled back at Bronwyn, tampilkan her the Eitri seal.
Bronwyn tugged did the same and turned to the beast, ready to attack.
“Do anda know how to kill this and how powerful it is? Do anda even know what it is?” Adomma queried.
“Judging the fact that it’s made of fire, I’d say that’s Hell Hound.” Thantos said, annoyed and offended that Bronwyn and Adomma thought him stupid. “And probably not just any Hell Hound. That’s the lord of all of them. He controls them?” Thantos said, as much a pertanyaan as a statement.
“Yes but something is terribly wrong. He seems to be injured. His eyes may also be api but when anda look at them, they still tell what he’s thinking. Look closely and tell me what he’s trying to tell us,” Bronwyn said.
Thantos looked at the Hell Hounds burning eyes. “They look so…” he stopped and cocked his head and his angry expression softened “…so sad and pained.”
“Correct. He’s injured and needs our help. But there’s one problem, we can’t help him,” Adomma frowned, the words bringing sadness to her expression.
“Why not?” Thantos queried.
“Because, there are only two api wielding dryads in the world and unless anda are one of those two, which is highly unlikely, there is no way we can help without dying at the first touch,” Bronwyn frowned.
“Well we’re in luck. My brother and I are those two api wielders so we can help this poor beast. Just one question, how do we know he won’t kill us after we do so?” Thantos asked.
“I can speak to binatang and hear all creatures’ thoughts,” Adomma said, adjusting her bikini top, awkwardly.
“Great, then do so. Make him promise not to hurt atau kill us if we promise to help him,” Thantos demanded.
“It won’t be that easy. We can either trust his word, and I should put in that Hell Hounds are compulsive liars, and help him and most likely lose our lives atau be smart and not trust him, attack and if we loose our lives it won’t be because we were foolish and healed one of the most powerful beasts’ and one of the most compulsive liars ever and he killed us all when we were caught off guard. Is it just me atau should we just attack?” Asked a voice familiar to Thantos.
“Damon! You’re home? Since when? I thought anda were away on some sort of-” “I was away doing research on exactly these creatures. And if anyone is going anywhere near that creature it’s going to be someone with experience. None of anda have any experience with Hell Hounds. God, all your ages, the only things anda know about them is stuff you’ve heard in stories. I’m most likely the only one here who’s had any experience with them,” Damon said.
“Okay then mister tough guy, exactly how old am I?” Bronwyn asked, putting her hand on her hips.
“By the way anda look, I’d say about 17,” Damon replied.
“Wrong. 20, exactly,” Bronwyn replied.
“I could use a bit of help over here. This thing is a real pain to keep still. He’s really happy,” Thantos yelled, laughing and holding on to the playful Hell Hound for dear life. “He’s gonna kill me if I let go!” Thantos laughed.
“What did anda do? I berkata not to go near it! It’s going to kill you!” Damon yelled, angrily.
“Well, he’s happy, I don’t think he’s gonna kill me. I healed him while anda two were so uselessly arguing. You’ll never believe what he has already trusted me with?” Thantos smiled.
“And what would that be?” Damon asked, with a sigh.
“He told me how to summon him which also happens to be his life source. If I translate the words into English, the words form the spell that ends his life. And I know exactly what the English translation is,” boasted Thantos.
“Brilliant, my younger brother has a pet Hell Hound master. Just what he needed, death oleh being so foolish as to befriend a Hell Hound master. Just so anda know, when anda know the words that must be spoken to summon a Hell Hound, they have a connection to your mind which means that they have a connection to your soul and can easily crush your life source. We have no choice but to kill it,” frowned Damon, rolling his eyes.
“Well when anda put it that way…I’ll kill it now.” Thantos frowned, drew his sword, and raised it to strike the Hell Hound down, but was interrupted oleh an explosion of ice cold water.
“Oh my god, that’s cold! Why did anda do that? My sword is gonna rust, not to mention, I’m absolutely freezing and anda have made me unable to make fire!” Thantos complained, when he fell to the ground and started drying his sword with his clothing.
“You can’t kill Hell Hound masters. Not exactly. They’re made of one hundred percent api so if anda stabbed it with a sword, the fires would menelan it up but, the fires of a Hell Hound master, or, rather any Hell Hound can be extinguished with a single element, all the others will destroy it only for a period of time. If anda get this wrong, I’ll be very disappointed because I made it easy for a reason. What one element can truly destroy a Hell Hound?” Tested Adomma.
“Isn’t it obvious? Water. Fire’s weakness is always water. anda can’t fight api with sparks so I wouldn’t really be able to fight it but, when anda turn those sparks into large water droplets, your api is out quickly,” relied Thantos.
“Correct. But there is one flaw with that theory. Do anda know what that is?” Bronwyn smirked, tightening her one piece and flipping her brown (hair that was just down to her legs) out of her blue eyes.
She started rubbing her eyes and blinking them, vigorously.
“Stop rubbing your eyes! You’ll mess up the contact lenses! You’ll freak out everyone here but me and then who knows what would happen to both of us!” Exclaimed Adomma.
“Sorry. They hurt my eyes! I don’t they weren’t designed to wear hari in and hari out! There gonna give me berwarna merah muda, merah muda eye…if that’s even how anda get berwarna merah muda, merah muda eye,” she said, lebih to herself.
“You can if anda don’t clean them properly. But if anda don’t keep them in, we may be accused for sorcery and I don’t now how the people here would react to that!” Scolded Adomma.
“And have anda not noticed our abnormally coloured eyes? My family won’t mind that your eyes are abnormally coloured in the least bit so, anda can take out the contacts, clean them and what not,” offered Damon. “Both our eyes are different colours. oleh the way Thantos, where are your contacts?”
“I didn’t put them in. I’ve been hiding in my room all day. Why don’t anda girls come inside.” Thantos said, changing the subject, not want a lecture from Damon.
“I would like that a lot. Anything to take these things off! They are the most uncomfortable things ever!” Bronwyn fully accepted.
“Okay, hang on, let me tell my parents.
“Okay. anda go right ahead and do that” Adomma laughed, admiring his kindness.
“While we are waiting for him to do that, tell me, why are anda here and not back in your own world?” Thantos snapped.
“Hey, calm down. There’s defiantly no need to snap at me. I expect that we are here for the same reason anda are. To find the truth. And the secret,” Adomma glared at him, threateningly
“Bingo! Maybe anda aren’t our enemy. I’m here to find the truth as well as the secret. But do anda know what the secret is the secret to?”
“Of course we do. We were sent to find out what it is exactly. anda don’t think they’d send us and not tell us why his little secret is so important? Besides, I’m not daft, I put the pieces of the puzzle together long before they even told us why it was so important that it be kept until we have the whole secret and we have it translated into English,” Bronwyn laughed.
“Translate it into English? But it’s already in English, isn’t it? At least the copy I found is,” Damon said, confused.
“Then it’s not the…right…copy,” Adomma started, slowly. “It’s not the secret, it’s the truth. The truth of the kingdom. But we can’t figure it out properly until we have the secret because they’re both connected,” She finished.
“Maybe, atau maybe it’s just to throw us off. We already know that,” Bronwyn stopped when she heard the door open and saw Thantos walk out, grinning from ear to ear.
“What is that look for?” Thantos asked, trying to hide a smile.
“Well for one, anda are free to come in. And I have tanggal set for tonight at eight sharp,” smiled Thantos.
“Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations,” laughed Adomma and Bronwyn together.
“Um, Okay. I don’t know what to say about that so I’m just gonna pretend I know what you’re talking about and say thanks,” Thantos replied, confused.
“It’s a silly line from a TV tampil called Fullmetal Alchemist,” explained Bronwyn. “If anda say congratulations three times, anda will have good luck.
“I’ve seen the first episode but got too caught up in a tampil called Death Note to watch any lebih of Fullmetal Alchemist but Thantos has seen every episode,” laughed Damon.
“I forgot about that line,” Thantos remarked.
“Let’s go inside, it’s too hot to be out here. I’m gonna melt,” complained Adomma.
“What? Are anda crazy? It’s a beautiful day. Perfect for just sitting outside and enjoying the sun. I could use a small glass of water though,” Thantos said.
“Don’t forget that we’re water elementals and can’t stand the hot weather but anda are api elementals so anda cinta the heat,” explained Bronwyn.
“Oh, right. Then, yes! Let’s go in so anda don’t melt!” Thantos said, teasing Bronwyn and Adomma.
Boredom
Thantos was sitting on his bed, continuously throwing and catching his blue foam ball, with his headphones in his ears and musik playing too loud and combing his medium length black hair out of his bright abnormally coloured eyes.
“This is so pointless. I need something better to do,” he said, scratching his extremely pale skin.
Thantos paused his IPod to hear a scream and girls laughing.
“What the- what was that about?” He asked himself, getting up from his tempat tidur and walking to his door.
“I’ll never know if I don’t go check it out,” he smiled.
Thantos walked down his stairs and toward his door and covered his ears as the girls screamed again.
He opened his front door to see a beautiful girl in a solid black bikini and another girl in a purple and berwarna merah muda, merah muda strapless one piece.
“What’s all the screaming about?” Thantos yelled at them, laughing.
The girls screamed, looked at Thantos, then started laughing at there foolishness.
“First tell us who anda are, then we’ll tell anda why we were screaming,” laughed the girl in the one-piece.
“I’ll tell anda who I am after anda tell me who anda are,” Thantos smirked at them.
The two girls looked at each other and smiled.
Both girls held out there left arm, palms flat facing him. Out of nowhere, water came shooting at Thantos, hitting him painfully hard.
“What was that for?” Thantos yelled, clenching his fists, angrily. “And how the hell did anda do that?”
“Because we could. Isn’t that a total ‘duh’ factor?” The girl in the bikini asked.
“And how we did it is none of your damn business.” The other girl scolded.
“Just tell me who anda are,” Thantos said, attempting to breathe calmly and not tampil his anger, but failing, miserably.
“My name is of no concern right now but… I might be willing to tell anda if anda tell me yours. We’ll tell anda why we were screaming and both of our names if anda only tell us yours. That is lebih than equivalent,” the girl in the bikini smirked, cocking her hip.
Equivalent? They know and follow the rule of equivalency? Then they must be from Eitri…Thantos berkata to himself.
“……Th-Thantos,” he stuttered, not knowing whether to trust the beautiful girls.
“Great! I’m Adomma!” The girl in the bikini said.
“And I’m Bronwyn,” the other girl berkata “Adomma’s older sister.”
“Well, why were anda screaming? anda told me you’d tell me that fact as well, and anda were hu-” he was interrupted oleh a loud, powerful roar that sounded lebih like an extremely large dog.
“Thantos, get out of here, now!” Bronwyn yelled at Thantos. “Sister, we need to lead it away! We can’t risk exposing our world to anyone else!”
“It’s fine! I’m not human so, I won’t expose your world!” the teenage boy yelled back at Bronwyn, tampilkan her the Eitri seal.
Bronwyn tugged did the same and turned to the beast, ready to attack.
“Do anda know how to kill this and how powerful it is? Do anda even know what it is?” Adomma queried.
“Judging the fact that it’s made of fire, I’d say that’s Hell Hound.” Thantos said, annoyed and offended that Bronwyn and Adomma thought him stupid. “And probably not just any Hell Hound. That’s the lord of all of them. He controls them?” Thantos said, as much a pertanyaan as a statement.
“Yes but something is terribly wrong. He seems to be injured. His eyes may also be api but when anda look at them, they still tell what he’s thinking. Look closely and tell me what he’s trying to tell us,” Bronwyn said.
Thantos looked at the Hell Hounds burning eyes. “They look so…” he stopped and cocked his head and his angry expression softened “…so sad and pained.”
“Correct. He’s injured and needs our help. But there’s one problem, we can’t help him,” Adomma frowned, the words bringing sadness to her expression.
“Why not?” Thantos queried.
“Because, there are only two api wielding dryads in the world and unless anda are one of those two, which is highly unlikely, there is no way we can help without dying at the first touch,” Bronwyn frowned.
“Well we’re in luck. My brother and I are those two api wielders so we can help this poor beast. Just one question, how do we know he won’t kill us after we do so?” Thantos asked.
“I can speak to binatang and hear all creatures’ thoughts,” Adomma said, adjusting her bikini top, awkwardly.
“Great, then do so. Make him promise not to hurt atau kill us if we promise to help him,” Thantos demanded.
“It won’t be that easy. We can either trust his word, and I should put in that Hell Hounds are compulsive liars, and help him and most likely lose our lives atau be smart and not trust him, attack and if we loose our lives it won’t be because we were foolish and healed one of the most powerful beasts’ and one of the most compulsive liars ever and he killed us all when we were caught off guard. Is it just me atau should we just attack?” Asked a voice familiar to Thantos.
“Damon! You’re home? Since when? I thought anda were away on some sort of-” “I was away doing research on exactly these creatures. And if anyone is going anywhere near that creature it’s going to be someone with experience. None of anda have any experience with Hell Hounds. God, all your ages, the only things anda know about them is stuff you’ve heard in stories. I’m most likely the only one here who’s had any experience with them,” Damon said.
“Okay then mister tough guy, exactly how old am I?” Bronwyn asked, putting her hand on her hips.
“By the way anda look, I’d say about 17,” Damon replied.
“Wrong. 20, exactly,” Bronwyn replied.
“I could use a bit of help over here. This thing is a real pain to keep still. He’s really happy,” Thantos yelled, laughing and holding on to the playful Hell Hound for dear life. “He’s gonna kill me if I let go!” Thantos laughed.
“What did anda do? I berkata not to go near it! It’s going to kill you!” Damon yelled, angrily.
“Well, he’s happy, I don’t think he’s gonna kill me. I healed him while anda two were so uselessly arguing. You’ll never believe what he has already trusted me with?” Thantos smiled.
“And what would that be?” Damon asked, with a sigh.
“He told me how to summon him which also happens to be his life source. If I translate the words into English, the words form the spell that ends his life. And I know exactly what the English translation is,” boasted Thantos.
“Brilliant, my younger brother has a pet Hell Hound master. Just what he needed, death oleh being so foolish as to befriend a Hell Hound master. Just so anda know, when anda know the words that must be spoken to summon a Hell Hound, they have a connection to your mind which means that they have a connection to your soul and can easily crush your life source. We have no choice but to kill it,” frowned Damon, rolling his eyes.
“Well when anda put it that way…I’ll kill it now.” Thantos frowned, drew his sword, and raised it to strike the Hell Hound down, but was interrupted oleh an explosion of ice cold water.
“Oh my god, that’s cold! Why did anda do that? My sword is gonna rust, not to mention, I’m absolutely freezing and anda have made me unable to make fire!” Thantos complained, when he fell to the ground and started drying his sword with his clothing.
“You can’t kill Hell Hound masters. Not exactly. They’re made of one hundred percent api so if anda stabbed it with a sword, the fires would menelan it up but, the fires of a Hell Hound master, or, rather any Hell Hound can be extinguished with a single element, all the others will destroy it only for a period of time. If anda get this wrong, I’ll be very disappointed because I made it easy for a reason. What one element can truly destroy a Hell Hound?” Tested Adomma.
“Isn’t it obvious? Water. Fire’s weakness is always water. anda can’t fight api with sparks so I wouldn’t really be able to fight it but, when anda turn those sparks into large water droplets, your api is out quickly,” relied Thantos.
“Correct. But there is one flaw with that theory. Do anda know what that is?” Bronwyn smirked, tightening her one piece and flipping her brown (hair that was just down to her legs) out of her blue eyes.
She started rubbing her eyes and blinking them, vigorously.
“Stop rubbing your eyes! You’ll mess up the contact lenses! You’ll freak out everyone here but me and then who knows what would happen to both of us!” Exclaimed Adomma.
“Sorry. They hurt my eyes! I don’t they weren’t designed to wear hari in and hari out! There gonna give me berwarna merah muda, merah muda eye…if that’s even how anda get berwarna merah muda, merah muda eye,” she said, lebih to herself.
“You can if anda don’t clean them properly. But if anda don’t keep them in, we may be accused for sorcery and I don’t now how the people here would react to that!” Scolded Adomma.
“And have anda not noticed our abnormally coloured eyes? My family won’t mind that your eyes are abnormally coloured in the least bit so, anda can take out the contacts, clean them and what not,” offered Damon. “Both our eyes are different colours. oleh the way Thantos, where are your contacts?”
“I didn’t put them in. I’ve been hiding in my room all day. Why don’t anda girls come inside.” Thantos said, changing the subject, not want a lecture from Damon.
“I would like that a lot. Anything to take these things off! They are the most uncomfortable things ever!” Bronwyn fully accepted.
“Okay, hang on, let me tell my parents.
“Okay. anda go right ahead and do that” Adomma laughed, admiring his kindness.
“While we are waiting for him to do that, tell me, why are anda here and not back in your own world?” Thantos snapped.
“Hey, calm down. There’s defiantly no need to snap at me. I expect that we are here for the same reason anda are. To find the truth. And the secret,” Adomma glared at him, threateningly
“Bingo! Maybe anda aren’t our enemy. I’m here to find the truth as well as the secret. But do anda know what the secret is the secret to?”
“Of course we do. We were sent to find out what it is exactly. anda don’t think they’d send us and not tell us why his little secret is so important? Besides, I’m not daft, I put the pieces of the puzzle together long before they even told us why it was so important that it be kept until we have the whole secret and we have it translated into English,” Bronwyn laughed.
“Translate it into English? But it’s already in English, isn’t it? At least the copy I found is,” Damon said, confused.
“Then it’s not the…right…copy,” Adomma started, slowly. “It’s not the secret, it’s the truth. The truth of the kingdom. But we can’t figure it out properly until we have the secret because they’re both connected,” She finished.
“Maybe, atau maybe it’s just to throw us off. We already know that,” Bronwyn stopped when she heard the door open and saw Thantos walk out, grinning from ear to ear.
“What is that look for?” Thantos asked, trying to hide a smile.
“Well for one, anda are free to come in. And I have tanggal set for tonight at eight sharp,” smiled Thantos.
“Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations,” laughed Adomma and Bronwyn together.
“Um, Okay. I don’t know what to say about that so I’m just gonna pretend I know what you’re talking about and say thanks,” Thantos replied, confused.
“It’s a silly line from a TV tampil called Fullmetal Alchemist,” explained Bronwyn. “If anda say congratulations three times, anda will have good luck.
“I’ve seen the first episode but got too caught up in a tampil called Death Note to watch any lebih of Fullmetal Alchemist but Thantos has seen every episode,” laughed Damon.
“I forgot about that line,” Thantos remarked.
“Let’s go inside, it’s too hot to be out here. I’m gonna melt,” complained Adomma.
“What? Are anda crazy? It’s a beautiful day. Perfect for just sitting outside and enjoying the sun. I could use a small glass of water though,” Thantos said.
“Don’t forget that we’re water elementals and can’t stand the hot weather but anda are api elementals so anda cinta the heat,” explained Bronwyn.
“Oh, right. Then, yes! Let’s go in so anda don’t melt!” Thantos said, teasing Bronwyn and Adomma.
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