Dragon King

they both drank to stupors after renting an inn with the money fredrick had on him, now the morning sun is out and they are yet to get up,

"bro wake up, it seem you don"t take alcohol", aglovale teased fredrick, as he goes to the window to open the curtain for early morning sun and breeze to rush in and liven the room

"who told you that??, I had a little too much last night, and am kind of feeling sober" fredrick lied trying to cover up

aglovale laughed but let him be, "so what up?, what are your plans for the day?"

"I don"t know yet, what about you?" fredrick asked back not knowing what to do, he hardly spend two consecutive days outside the palace

"nothing much, will probably look for something to eat, and after that will go to the market place to look for job to do, I got to save for my winter expenditure expenses, i plan on going to yok city come this winter" aglovale said in high spirit, getting ready to leave, but looked sad and broken, the next minute

"what??!!" fredrick laughed hard, finding his sudden mood fluctuation funny and amusing

showing him his pig pouch "" we used up all our money to drink last night, I guess we have to steal for breakfast, bro I can"t do any work without food and those wicked labour masters won"t pay you till you are done with your job, and that will be later in the evening," aglovale replied

fredrick laughed the more watching aglovale explain the situation like a timid cat that fell in a pool of water,

"""ok ok, breakfast on me, I think I still have 50 bronze coin from the rent of the inn room, he managed to say, amidst laughter, just don"t steal, do you always steal everything and anything you need?? ""

"" not really except in dire situations, you know desperate situations call for desperate action""

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on their way to the dock of king"s city, one of the biggest ship dock in kingdom of crimson valley

during their breakfast which coat them 35 bronze coin out of the remaining 50 bronze coin with them, the duo over hear some group of boys saying that big shipment belonging to the biggest trading group in the city is landing this morning, if things goes well and they get chosen among the boys to offload the goods, they won"t have to worry as ship offloading is won"t be suicide, because when you are tired, all you have to do is ask for you wage and the supervisor will count your stones used in representing the number of goods you have carried and you don"t have to wait till the end of the day

""elyo!! Baxter my only brother in king city!!!" immediately they got to the offloading site, aglovale shout using his hand to cup his mouth so that his voice can go far

Baxter, the supervisor in charge of the offloading, short and fat with chocolate in complexion; his father along with other elite, are in charge of all loading and activities that happened in the dock,

"" h.e.l.lo brother, long time no see where have you been "" Baxter turn around and shout back out him,

"have been out of town bro, just got back yesterday and heard from my bird that enough loading is going on today"

"yeah yeah you are right but we have enough man power that we need, who is that dude with you??", Baxter asked pointing at fredrick, who is busy watching the whole dock, observing every details,he can

"he is my new friend from out of town, we came here in hope that you can fix us somewhere" aglovale replied sounding pitiful

Baxter laughter at his funny expression and gesture " I hate to tell you this, but we have enough man power, maybe I can help fix only you and not the two of you"

"no problem brother, but both of us can do the slot of one man and take one man pay" aglovale plead

"sure enough, join them while I get your own counting pot for both of you" Baxter said going inside the office

aglovale return to fredrick who is now done watching the activities of the dock and is now watching the free flowing river leading to the endless sea "bro I secured just one slot for us, and that means our two can work but we will go home with one man pay"

fredrick just smiled and replied" it the same thing bro, one man slot or two man slot, we go home with same pay"

aglovale still not getting what fredrick is trying to portray, look puzzled and fredrick noticed it and goes further to explain it to him

""if we both offload 20 goods each in one man slot, is the same as offloading 20 goods in two man slot as both option provide us with the same 40 goods".

aglovale smiled in satisfaction as he shake his head " alright pull your shirt, let get ready before those guys with threatening stature will offload the whole goods" he said as he start removing his shirt.

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back at the palace, the mad king is getting worried and scared by the minute as the Prince is not yet back, he feared that the second person he cared most in life is in danger, unable to endure it anymore, he yelled out to the guard in duty standing at the door post " hey you there, go get me the captains of fire, earth, water, air and wood squad, second level immediately""

few minutes later, five able young men came inside the throne room,

as soon as they enter they knee down in sign of loyalty " your Majesty you called us"

"yes I did, I want you to go and scout out that brat and bring him back here with or without his consent,

form about 4 to 5 teams of five soilder from each of your squad and each of them should be in upper level of amateur stage or lower level of lord stage, air style user are not to engage in the fight to avoid causalities, they are to scout the area by air to fasten the action,

and try as much to reduce or avoid any damage on the civilians to avoid any clash of clan and tribe that might result from this, we can"t afford to go into war with anybody, we have barely recovered from the previous one and public sentiment;

"yes your majesty!!" the squad captains replied as they bowed again and left to carry out his order

" go get me the minister of culture, tell him we have something important to discuss" he order the guard by the door post again "maybe if I set up his marriage with any girl, she might be able to get his head back on the line" the king said to himself as he drank from his golden goblet.

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back at the site, it midday already and every body is busy working, the offloading job aglovale secured for himself and fredrick is over and every body is waiting for their wage, aglovale is busy watching fredrick as he stretch his body and wince in pain due to his muscle being over taxed to do the offloading

""I guess this is your first time during such hard work, where do you even come from??"" aglovale asked feeling sorry for fredrick

"" yeah and my muscles are threatening to collapse, hmmmmm I was born and brought up in king"s city ""

fredrick replied him still stretching his body

"that means you must be the son of an elite, because commoner like us don"t behave the way you do each time we do job like, that means, if we had offload 7 to 8 ships filled with goods, you will be lying flat on the ground and won"t get up till the third day, since offloading just 3 ships made you behave like this"" aglovale said as he burst out in laughter

fredrick was surprise by his word "" is it even possible to offload 7 ships in a day??""

"yes of course", look over there (pointing toward a group of 5 men)

" what about them?? " fredrick ask

"""" they are complaining that, there are too many people and this has reduced their pay"

"" what!! those guys did the highest work and they are still complaining?? , wait how is each goods that we offload?? ""

"it all depend on the owner of the ship, the supervisor in charge and the distance between the dock and the store, but for today"s work the price per goods will be around 5 or 6 bronze coin,"" aglovale replied feeling proud that he is teaching his new friend

"" but that is too small, remember we still have to pay for the truck we used "