From a distance between two large cedar red trees, an spiralling indigo blue flame that was seven feet high formed and from within a woman with long flowing blonde hair, crystal blue eyes, Olive complexion, her hourglass frame is adorned in a Brown leather corset with lower open dress combo, an white button long sleeve shirt underneath the corset, an pair of brown tight pants and a pair of black leather boots that came halfway up her shins, the pants being tucked under the boots. "oh there those two are" the woman said with a gentle feminine tone. Upon the twirling flame dissipating then vanishing the woman placed her hands behind her back as she walked over two both Romerix and Jeremiah who at this very moment are still locker within a sparring session.
The sound of still damp leaves and soft grass scrunching underneath her boots. As she reached both Romerix and Jeremiah, Jeremiah sent a spin kick that would be easily missed within the blink of an eye, making contact with Romerix's left side. The force and power behind such a kick blasted through Romerix's torso, near his ribcage like a sharp sting from a Bull wasp. A type of pain that is both sharp whilst pulsating with the area feeling like someone placed hot coals within that area. The force itself was enough to cause Romerix to hit the surface of soil, with a sliding motion the sound of scraping dirt was underneath him as he came to a slow halt, now holding his side in a groan of pain.
The woman's name was revealed to be Abilene Apostolis, older sister of her younger twin brother Jeremiah and mother of Romerix. "I see you two are having fun Jeremiah" she spoke with a gentle tone. Jeremiah turned his head to the left towards Abilene who is now standing next to him, she is a couple inches taller then him. "Oh hey Abilene, yeah Romerix is doing better then I thought he would be doing, he was actually able to make contact a couple times" Jeremiah responded with a stern expression. With a soft smile Abilene ran her fingers through Jeremiah's hair, ruffling it up to annoy him before walking towards Romerix.
"You know I hate when you touch my hair" Jeremiah Spoke with annoyance to his tone and expression. Abilene rolled her eyes. "Big cry baby" upon reaching Romerix she kneeled down to his side, Romerix slowly sitting up, wincing in pain sees Abilene and his expression turns from in pain to happy. "Owowow oh hey mum when did you get here?" she gently ran her fingers through his hair, stroking the top of his cranium in a soothing manner. "I arrived about two minutes ago Romerix" she responded gently. "Lets get you all fixed up" She gently placed her hands upon Romerix side, Romerix jolts in pain as the area is now rather sore.
A soft baby blue glow emitted from her hands. The pain from Romerix's side began to dissipate and subside, Abilene has removed the pain from his side, now standing up with Romerix who is now rubbing his side. "Huh...the pain is gone thanks mum" he said with a surprised and happy expression. "You are welcome Romerix, I'm glad I got rid of the pain." Jeremiah stands beside Abilene with his arms folded over his chest. "Well done in today's session Romerix you are getting better at holding your own" Jeremiah stated. "Thanks uncle I feel like I'm getting better" Romerix responded with a happy expression whilst rubbing the back of his head. Abilene spoke up to ask Jeremiah a question. "Hey brother?" she asked.
"what?" Jeremiah responded. "I am planning to head down to the markets to get some things for dinner tonight, do you want to join me and Romerix?" she asked again. Jeremiah ponders the question for a moment before responding back. " I don't see why not sure." With a happy expression and soft smile she would pat Jeremiah upon his left shoulder. "Thanks brother I'm glad you'll be joining us" "Well I will see you two a little bit later, I must now go speak with an old friend about something " he stated, turning around and walking away from them, both Romerix and Abilene wave Jeremiah farewell for now. "See you later tonight uncle." Romerix shouted with a wave. "Farewell brother see you soon." Abilene also shouted. Upon leaving Jeremiah, Abilene and Romerix left the open plain to a dirt road that would take them to the nearby markets, the sound of dirt and small rocks scrunching beneath their feet.
Romerix with his hands behind his head started to softly chuckle, Abilene confused with a raised brow. "What do you find funny Romerix?" she asked with curiosity. "Oh it's just I'm thinking about food right now hehe" He responded with an upbeat tone. Abilene sighs with a roll to her eyes. "Of course you are Romerix." Romerix makes a remark back. "Hey, it's not my fault you make the best grub in the world.' With her eyes closed and a smug expression about her. "Why yes I do make the best food in the world, though your uncle won't admit it he loves my cooking." With soft scrunching of dirt and rocks underneath their feet, they now happen to be walking upon cobblestone patching which created a soft tap with each step.
Walking through a gateway, the sign above that hangs from the gateway would read Welcome to Rastacor markets. Within the markets are Rastacorians going about their day. A couple are setting up a stall to sell fresh produce, some stall owners are selling seafood and meats, others are selling fruits and vegetables with a couple selling livestock. Coming in and out of the markets are a couple Rastacorians who own horse and cart, full of items to sell at the market and to deliver elsewhere, each one inspected by guards who stood by the gate on each side. "Place is rather busy today" Romerix remarked.
"well it is the afternoon so it usually is rather busy this time of day." Abilene responded. While Abilene is purchasing a couple ingredients from a local fresh produce stall, Romerix decides to wonder off to see the rest of the market, the soft tap of cobblestone under his feet, the multiple conversations people are having blurred into one confusing noise. "I wonder how much tahluns this place makes a day?' He thought to himself. Making his way through more of the markets, Romerix's ears perked up to the noise of a woman screaming, he turned his head to the left to witness a man trying to steal from an elderly lady who runs a stall. Romerix with quick haste ran over to the stall to confront the man as no one else was trying to intervene in what was happening. "Hey leave that lady alone!" Romerix shouted towards the man as he approached this man.
The man stopped trying to rob the lady and glared directly at Romerix. 'Stay out of this kid before you regret being an idiot. The man snarled. "well if you weren't stealing from this lady I wouldn't have too. Romerix responded sternly. "Oh a smartarse huh I hate smartarses. The man responded seeming to only get more aggressive as time went on. "You looking for a death wish kid!" the man shouted, charging at Romerix in anger. "This idiot" Romerix remarked, the man throwing a sloppy right hook at Romerix who in return caught the fist with a timely grip of the fist. Bending the man's arm outwards then with a quick motion placed his free hand unto the back of the mans head, using one foot to take a lunging step forward he brought the man's face crashing down into the cobblestone with a decent sounding thud.
"GRAGHH LITTLE BASTARD!" the man shouted in a rage unable to move, blood pouring from his broken nose. "You decided to charge at me you fool and this is what you get for attacking me" Romerix responded rather annoyed. The next thing to happen was someone grabbing Romerix by his shoulders then proceeding to slam him directly into the hard cobblestone ground, pinning him down. It was a couple guards, holding them both down. "Do not move kid, there is no fighting within these markets' one of the guards said sternly. "That little bastard broke my nose!" the man shouted whilst being now pinned down by a guard.
"Only after you tried stealing from that lady you moron!" Romerix responded with agitation. "Enough the both of you, you are both in trouble" the other guardsmen said sternly with annoyance. The elderly lady with who was clearly upset slowly made her way over to the two guards men. "E-excuse me good guardsmen, that young man is right he did indeed tried stealing my fresh produce, a-and then tried to attack him when this young man intervened to stop him." The elderly lady stated with a strain to her tone. "Yeah she's right he did!" one man purchasing apples next to the elderly ladies stall spoke up.
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"That young man did nothing wrong except try to help an old lady!" a younger woman spoke out too. The guardsmen pinning Romerix down, let him go then proceeded to help him up. "You did a good thing today kid, but for next time let us handle it understand?" the guardsmen sternly told Romerix off, the other guards men picking up the thief. "Yes sir I understand." Romerix responded accepting what the guardsmen was telling him. The guardmens left with the highly aggressive and now vulgar speaking man, the elderly lady walked up to Romerix, she was about a foot and a half shorter then Romerix, she gently held his hands, looking directly up at him with a gentle smile any grandmother would give their grandchild.
"Thank you dear you are such a sweet boy in helping me." She said with a tone that made Romerix feel jittery inside. "W-well you are welcome ma'am, I couldn't let him steal from you and it's how my mother raised me to be" he responded with an embarrassed expression. Abilene with a sack cloth bag full of groceries is walking down the same cobblestone path as Romerix and the elderly lady are standing in. She sees him and in a normal walking pace made her way to him. "Oh there you are I've been looking for you for the past five minutes Romerix." Abilene said with slight annoyance. "Oh sorry mum I got curious and wanted to check the rest of the markets out and thank Numen I did because this elderly lady was being robbed" he responded with a smile. Abilene is taken aback by this, surprised this has happened. "Oh really? And are you alright ma'am?" She asked the elderly lady. The lady responded with a smile and happiness.
"Why yes I am now, thanks to this beautiful boy of yours." The lady responded with a gentle and strained voice, Romerix only becoming more embarrassed. "W-well my mum here wouldn't particularly be happy if I stood idly by and not help you, so did what I believe was the right thing to do ma'am." Romerix responded with a smile. "Yes I wouldn't be too happy about it if you didn't help Romerix" Abilene stated with a tone of approval. "well thank you very much again young man but I must be heading back to my stall it seems I have a couple customers as of right now." The elderly lady slowly turned around and walked back to her stall to tend to her customers, her aged body didn't allow her to move like any young person would be able to. Abilene turns her frame to the left to face Romerix directly. "Well Romerix I have everything I need, it is time for us to head home, your uncle should be just about done with whatever he is doing."
She spoke with a gentle tone as she placed the sack cloth bags handles over her arm and onto her shoulder, the bag itself now hangs from her shoulder. "Alright mum, cant wait for your grub tonight it's gonna taste so good!" Romerix spoke highly upbeat whilist looking forward to dinner tonight. The sky now adorned with a beautiful and vibrant orange from the dusk of the sun. Now having made it back to the residence both Romerix and Abilene reside within, the exterior building itself was a small house with cobblestone walls, a furnished red cedar tree trim, with a tiled roof and chimney.
Abilene headed straight to the kitchen to prepare tonight's dinner while Romerix headed to his room to change into something more comfortable. The interior of the building was made of beautiful rich cedar red floorboards, the living room has a skin pelt rug of dark grey fur from a mammal similar to that of a wolf. The kitchen countertops made of the same wood as the floorboards, the counter bases were also made of cobblestone, utensils hang from the wall and right beside a spice rack. Romerix has left his room, his feet softly tapping against the floorboards as he enters into the kitchen. His attire is now a type of white tunic with brown shorts. "Go wait for livingroom Romerix, it will take a little while." Abilene stated with happiness as she can tell Romerix on the other side of the counter while she has already begun cooking.
"Yes mum" Romerix accepted what he was being told to do, making his way from the kitchen to the living room, his ears would perk up to the sound of someone knocking upon the front door, Romerix walked over to the front and upon opening the front door a smile grew upon his face. It was his Jeremiah with the usual stern expression, his attire had change to of a custom made Toga that instead of it being long and coming down to his feet it came down to the top of his knee caps with the addition of sandals with leather straps coiling up his shins. "Uncle Jeremiah's here mum!" Romerix shouted out to Abilene. "well let him in Romerix I'm busy cooking!" Abilene responded with a shout. Romerix made way for Jeremiah to enter the house, closing the door behind him, the sound of Jeremiah's sandals made a gentle thud against the furnished cedar red floor.
Making his way to the kitchen. Jeremiahs nose was met with the scent of fresh cooked Antullo steaks, Boarull chops, the sweet aroma of both vanilla bean and citrus coming from lemon and vanilla pound cake. Then his nosed picked up on his favourite type of food, roasted potato and corn cobs glazed in a savoury and salty butter, with little garnish of pepper corns on-top of the roasted vegetables. "You have outdone yourself today sister, what an amazing looking and smelling spread you have made" Jeremiah stated with satisfaction.
Abilene would be moving to the dining room table and back to the kitchen, placing the different assortments of foods ready to be eaten. "Well you two seem to have bottomless stomachs so it's only natural for me to cook a large spread of food." She responded happily. Romerix and Jeremiah took a seat at the table, pulling out the chairs caused a soft scrapping against the floorboards. "well dont just sit there waiting, dig in you dummies" Abilene said with a smile.
Upon hearing those words, Romerix and Jeremiah started taking what they wanted for their first meal, scoffing down food as if they had not eaten in weeks, Abilene would sit down on the other side of the table, placing a small amount of food upon her plate, using utensils to eat while Romerix and Jeremiah ate with their hands. "Slow down there is enough to go around boys." She said with a laugh. "Hands off the corn boy." Jeremiah said muffled from a mouth full of food. "There is a dozen cobs here, you are not going to miss one corn cob." Romerix responded muffled from a mouth full of food too. Abilene would be slowly eating, using a fork and knife to eat her food.
Upon finishing her mouth full she looked towards Jeremiah. "So who is the old friend you were speaking too?" She asked him. "Huh?, oh yeah it was Bruticus our old teacher, he wants Romerix to join the academy in Ruachaim and I didn't have a problem with that" Jeremiah responded his voice somewhat muffled from Antullo meat he is eating. "Academy in Ruachaim?" Romerix questioned. "Yes the academy in Ruachaim is where I and your uncle learned to harness our chai and become the people we are today, they will teach you the way of Chai, how to harness it and better yourself" Abilene responded to Romerix's question.
"A boat will be ready for him in the morning to take him to the city of Ruachaim as two days time from now is the opening day for the academy to take upon new students and you'll become one Romerix." Jeremiah stated while looking towards Romerix. Romerix expression became excited and eager. "Oh man I can't wait I get to meet your old teacher and learn more about Chai, this is freaking sweet." Abilene was happy to see Romerix excited, Jeremiah had a slight smirk before reverting back to his usual stern demeanour. "thank you for the meal sister but i must be going, bring Romerix to the harbour first thing in the morning." Jeremiah pulled his chair out, standing up in a slow motion then placing his chair in, heading to the front door. "Very well brother thank you for stopping by."
She responded with a gentle smile. "Bye uncle see you tomorrow" Romerix spoke up, waving Jeremiah goodbye. Jeremiah left the residence, door behind him, Abilene left her chair, putting it back under the table as she began to clean up the table of all the now empty dishes. "Best you head to bed young man it'll be a big day for you tomorrow." Abilene said with a motherly tone. "Yes mum I'll see you in the morning, good night and love you." Romerix responded, standing up from the table, putting the chair in then heading to his room for a goods night rest to be up early in the morning. "Hopefully Bruticus isn't way to harsh on him." Abilene said to herself.
