FARM BARNtwo days latter after the contest match, fredrick finally woke up from his deep slumber which result from his magic energy exhaustion, he opens his eyes and look around, and notice that he is in a farm store at one corner of the store is aglovale who looks anxious and worried
"how long did I sleep?" he asked the approaching aglovale
"two days, take eat something you must be hungry" aglovale replied as he stretch his arm, offering him a plate of porridge "we need to talk, fredrick"
"thanks bro am dam hungry, I can even finish a whole cattle "
half way into the food he spoke up "just two days and you face look as if I have slept for a whole week, what is it that we need to talk about?""
aglovale braced himself for his interrogation and ask " who are you, and don"t you dare lie to me??
that creature you metamorphosed into, what the h.e.l.l what that??""
fredrick knowing he can hide the truth forever decided to tell the whole truth
"" am fredrick de Baron, the prince of the kingdom of crimson valley,""
showing him his dragon medallion which shows he is of royal blood
""that creature I transformed into is a young drake, dragons is my fire affiliated animal but it is still small because my magic stage is still amateur""
taking the medallion from fredrick with trembling hands
"" your highness!!, I grovel at your presence"" aglovale finally spoke out not believing that he and the prince of kingdom of crimson valley have been living under the same roof
"" c"mon stop that, you knowing that am the Prince doesn"t change anything, bro we are pal for life"""
feeling relieved and regaining his confidence aglovale then broke the latest news
" this explains it all, unusual activity have been going on, more and more soldiers are fluxing the town and, king guards have been on constant patrol, the whole towns in king"s city, is more like a military barrack, a friend of mine said they are in search of the Prince who have snicked out of the palace and is pretending to be a commoner, although it will take a while before they will expand their search to the neighboring villages, I think you should go back to the palace""
""now I get it, I have been wondering why I have not seen any of those his watchdog, they think am still in the town behind the border of king"s city hahahaha, bro you are a genius, your ideal of coming to this village is way better than I though"" the unconcerned fredrick said as he get up to observed the environment
"" who owns this place?? ""
""a farmer friend, I use to work for, he normally travel to the towns in king"s city or other big cities to sell his products, so we are save for now;"" confused aglovale replied wondering "why on earth will somebody that is fortunate enough to be born a Prince be snicking out of the palace to visit the slump ""
"you are probably thinking, why I decide to leave the palace every time even against my father"s wish and won"t go out with any guard, come let go explore the village, I will tell you everything you wish to know about me on the way""
fredrick said as he get up to leave the barn, aglovale hesitated for a while, feeling scared about the patrol guards on search of fredrick, soon the military station in this village will receive order to scout out the Prince and when that happen, he will be in danger but thinking about what fredrick have to tell him, he dismiss his fear and follow fredrick behind
in their way round the village, fredrick took his time to explain everything to aglovale
" my father, king Raymond came to power, not just inheriting glory and fame and power, but also hatred,anger fear, betrayal, mistrust you name it, between the other clan; the peace you see today is forced upon and some clan benefit, while some suffer during the merging of all clans to form this great crimson valley, and one of such clan is the forest descendants, they believed, they own agriculture, and can build any wooden structure since they can manipulate wood and also they can use their wood style to create thick forest to protect the people, but the rest of the clan present in the summit refused saying that when the clans were on their own, it was the fire tribe that draw them together through trade, developing the whole area, and making things bearable for the non magic users, that giving them power is just to allow them more resources to do what they know how to do best which is administration since by nature they own no profession, but it was later discovered that the main reason why power was given to the fire tribe, is to make them fight themselves, while others watch
the water tribe also refused, stating their reason that the fire tribe started the war decades ago, which have claim thousands of innocent people, although some other clans and tribe were scared or too weak to speak out. and at the end of the summit, the fire tribe were chosen to be the administrative clan and the dragons riders to be the royal bloodline to rule over others, while other clan will remain chief and ministers under the new king; the water tribe decided to live on their own with their government, only partaking on trade when necessary, and some other clans like the animal summoners and forest descendants fight secretly again the fire tribe, especially the dragon riders, this fight in the end has result to many bad thing and it has made me and my father to be the last survivor dragon riders of the fire tribe.....""
"" that is the more reason why you need to go back to the palace ""aglovale, with mixed feeling, hearing the true story or history of crimson valley forced himself to say, cutting fredrick short
fredrick smiled and continued his story "" although am still in amateur stage, I can fight off lord cla.s.s magic user and beside if anything happen to me, my father the king will set the whole forest on fire with just one command to his dragon deathbringer""
""deathbringer, that is the name of his dragon??""
"" yes""
""then what is the name of yours??""
I have not given her a name, we have not even bond together for the first time because my magic level is still low, I only summon her when am in danger and I don"t have anything to do ""
"" hmmm that how strong the fire tribe""
"" yes the fire tribe are rumored to be the strongest due to their destructive nature but to me they are the kindest and love wholeheartedly, that is their weakness, although my father have the power to burn down the whole forest, he won"t do it, always thinking of others, are you aware of the fight that occur at the bridge of blossom flower that made the pink petals turn red??""
""yes yes, who doesn"t know that fight""
"" yes every body heard of the fight but body know what really happen;
you see my mother is of the animal summoning clan of the blood magic tribe, an arranged marriage between my father and my mother all in bid to sustain peace, but they grew to love each other and one day my mother went for a meeting to represent my father who left for the floating temple, the base of the air Normans
after the summit, my mother was attacked by her own clansmen nd was murdered, but because of her bloodline magic, she survived long enough to run to that bridge, running out of time and energy as her pursuer were closing up on her, she used the last of her magic energy to contact my father who is far away on the other side of the kingdom .....""
aglovale finding the story more interesting asked "" how is it even possible to reach someone far away, even the fastest bird or horse can"t travel that fast""
"" the blood tribe of the animal summoning clan can contact someone they have their blood, the more advanced users can contact as many as his magic energy can carry while the low level can only contact one.....
when my father got the distress call, he summoned his dragon, deathbringer and did reversed summoning, which took him to the bridge of blossom flower where my mother was, but the damage has already been done, he was only able to meet her before she died and her blood ran down the bridge of blossom flower turning the pink flowers to red, there and then, my father lost it and his dragon deathbringer, because they are already bonded, felt the pain and anguish my father was pa.s.sing through, and he wrecked havoc on those tormenting his master, since he is the head of all fire creatures, he commanded them and they destroyed the village together, although my father joined in the b.l.o.o.d.y fight, he still regret it to today, it took the combined effort of the joint magic user squad, that were transported there to restrain my father and the seal that constrain magic energy was placed on him sending his dragon deathbringer away""