Chapter 6: Sally’s Misfortune
A 10 years old boy could be seen sweating while squatting. He wasn't just doing normal squats but had numerous chains around his neck, which added to the difficulty and made him sweat more.
"1995...1996....1997...okay almost done...1998...1999...2000!!!"
The boy stood up straight before his knees buckled up, he slid the chains from behind his neck onto the floor, where they dropped with a thud.
"Next up is stamina training"
The boy had taken his shirt off, a toned up and nicely built muscles could be seen on this abdominal. He could probably take a punch from a grown up adult without flinching.
While the boy was now skipping ropes with tremendous speed, the rope couldn't be seen by a normal person as it was rotating with incredible speed, it was creating a slight air cutting sound. A female voice could be heard from behind.
"Henry, Master is calling for you! She said it was something urgent"
It seemed that the boy was surprising 10 year old Henry, after 6 years of intense training he now looked like a 15 or 16 year old. He was almost 175 cm which was surprising for his age, whereas his body muscles screamed refined.
"Tell Stella to wait, I'm almost done. If it's so urgent let her to come here herself"
Henry spoke with indifferent and continued his jump rope. The female wasn't really surprised because thats how Henry was since the last 6 years, even the hero mage couldn't bend his eg- no wait, his sheer ignorance of worldly status. He only cared for becoming powerful nothing more. The female had numerous things on her mind. While shaking her head she exited the training room and turned towards Stella's room.
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Stella was sitting on her sofa, with a relaxed expression as she looked towards the paper she had in her hand. She was slowly reading it, even thought she had already read the paper but she wanted to pose for Henry who she was expecting to come by.
"That brat should be here soon"
Stella continued posing, when a knock was heard on the door. She smiled and used her mind power to open the door.
"Henry, see what I hav-"
As Stella looked up to only see the maid she had sent to call for Henry. The maid was looking towards Stella as if saying using her eyes that Henry had refused to come.
"That brat!! Who does he think he is. Sally, today you'll see me finally beat that boy up. I'm serious. I'll break his third leg for sure today"
Stella flew out using her powers as a mage, towards the training room. Sally was left behind, where she only sighed and had a hand on her forehead.
"Master is always like that, she's not even true to her own words. What a household"
Sally might look like she was complaining however she was the only one who knew that her master and Henry were probably the most unique two people in existence. They did something if they like it, they ignored whatever that was not to their liking. Sally snapped out her thoughts and ran towards the training room, as if she'll miss out on a good show if she turned up late.
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Training room
"4999...5000...that was quick, I think I've beaten my own personal record. Hahah. I'm improving but my body isn't tired yet"
Henry dropped the jump rope, even after breaking his own personal record. He wasn't satisfied as his body didn't feel tired yet, he believed that only after being tired could he push his limits but throughout the years it had gotten tremendously difficult to tire his body fully.
Initially he would have been dead beat after doing 50 jump rope sets. Now his body could even take 5000 but no fatigue was felt by him. Henry was contemplating what would tire him more when he heard a sharp sound from behind, it was the sound of something travelling really fast in the air.
His lips turned into a grin, he had found the thing which will let him break into his limits and further push his body into improvement.
"Hahah Stella, you're right on ti-"
Henry turned as he spoke, but before he could finish his sentence. A fist meet his face and he was sent flying into the gym equipments.
*Crash*
"Brat, I told you last time, if you ignored my calls. The only call you'll get is a personal POV from my fist. How was it? Like it?"
Stella stood at Henry's precious position, with her hand on her hip as she puffed her flat chest up in pride. Her purple eyes and silver hair were something very iconic with that hip pose, however god had done her bad while creating her peaks.
Henry had those thoughts in his mind as he looked towards Stella's pose. He didn't voice these comments out, like usual. As he was not sure if he'd be able to survive Stella's full power fist. It seems she used almost 50% of her power. Henry could feel that his body took the punch well, better then last time. He was happy as he observed his body feeling the tension of stressed and tired muscles.
"Thanks for that fist, I really like how you always know what I want"
Hearing that comment, Stella's face went abit red, it was as if she understood Henry's sentence in a different manner.
"Wha- what are you even saying. Did I hit him too hard?"
Stella was stammering abit, as she whispered to herself wondering if she had hit this kid too hard. While she was lost in her thoughts, Henry had already crept lose to his previous position.
"Ohh, Stella, did you change your hair style?"
Stella was instantly flabbergasted by hearing Henry's voice so close up, caught off guard.She hugged her hair pony tail.
"You notic-"
Before Stella spoke out, Henry interrupted her
"NOT!!. Haha"
Henry had taken his revenge for that fist in his own way. He laughed while holding his stomach. When he looked up, he saw Stella's purple eyes slowly getting darker and darker. He panicked, as he didn't think his teasing would lead Stella to have such a reaction. He had to calm her down or Stella will blast the whole building along with him into tiny dust particles.
"Hey hey, Stella, I was joking. Wait no. I mean, you're hair is so beautiful, I want to dye my hair silver as well, matching hair no?"
Stella was about obliterate Henry's existence, but hearing his follow up comment. She had a bright smile as she continued smiling till her teeth showed. This was a sign that Stella was pleased by what Henry said.
"Okay, Henry, I'll let it go just this once. Whereas, next time you'll see. Now follow me back to my room. I have a mission for you"
Stella started walking towards the exit, where she saw Sally excitingly rushing towards the training room.
"Perfect timing Sally, clean up this room. Order new equipments as well"
Sally wanted to see the existing scene but reality came crashing down as the training room was already in a pitiful condition. She had missed the fun, but hearing her masters orders she gave to work.
"Alright, master. I'll be sure to get this place back to its previous condition soon"
Sally said in a professional manner, while she looked around the room. She saw Henry who had the most evil grin on his face. Sally was scared out of her mind, she slowly gained her clarity back as she remembered.
"Last time Henry had that expression was when Master and him went to flatten that anti hero organisation"
Sally was shaken even remembering those events of the past, she was praying that such a event doesn't take place again but looking at Henry's growing smile. She was 100% sure, trouble was just around the corner.
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Stella's room
"Henry, last time it was that punk Jamal we flattened. Whereas this time, it's a-bit different. You'll go solo"
Hearing what Stella had to say, Henry only nodded and was beckoning her to finish quickly and tell him more about the mission.
Stella seeing Henry's bright eyes, already knew this puppy could barely hold his excitement.
"Don't get to excited, this mission probably won't have a lot of fighting"
Henry had already deflated and was flat on the floor hearing this, it was as if his bones had softened up and stopped supporting him.
"However!"
Henry popped straight up as if nothing happened. Seeing this Stella was having a great time, her successor was someone even she doted on and loved everything about him. It's probably the reason why she lov-. She lowered her head abit, while pushing those thoughts behind and continued.
"So, you'll be going to the Ancient Tree of time. You'll only need to stand guard, while the Time spirit slowly wakes up and gains her power back, at-least until she can protect herself from any idiots like Jamal"
Henry had already turned around and was walking towards the door.
"I'll get ready and leave by tomorrow morning. I won't see you before leaving. So I'll say my good byes now. Bye my Stella"
Stella had a serious face as if listening to his each word attentively, her face went bright red and her brain had overheated as steam could be seen coming out of her ears, after she heard the "My Stella" part.
"...My...Stella"
Stella focused back into her normal expression, while she could be seen whispering to herself. If Sally saw this she would have taken a picture of her master. This was like a ultra rare moment. But unfortunately Sally had missed it.
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Training room
*Achoo*
Sally was cleaning when she suddenly sneezed, she wondered why she had sneezed on a bright sunny day. Probably something random she thought. Little did she know, she had missed a once in a life time event. Sally would even sell her soul to get front seats to see her master blushing. But reality was cruel. Sally continued doing her work, as if nothing happened.
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