Chapitre 129: Firemane (8) : Homecoming
The light started dying the sky with its color, the cold light of dawn shone upon the world.
To a certain family in an isolated glade, this day is the day they always dreamed of for sixteen years. The day when they all walk home together.
"Sigh! It has been years." Jonrad said while walking beside me.
"Don't get all sentimental on me, old man."
"Hehe! Your cold attitude is making it easier not to be sentimental."
"You should thank me then!"
"Indeed, I need to thank you... for a lot of things." He said.
"Don't mention it!" I said.
"Your mother looks younger now!" He said.
"You guys look like people in their twenties, how younger do you want her to look like?"
"Well, when you live as long as I did, you will notice these small details."
I looked at Hilda who was smiling brightly while walking with Nurina and Jullanar in the front. She was smiling and waving her hands all around, telling some tale about her journeys.
Hehe! I hope life treats you guys kindly from now on. I know the world will fall into chaos four years from now but at least let's make them have four peaceful years.
My father and mother must have been through a lot.
A Great War no one could imagine how it looked like, a struggle in Hammerfell's desert against the tyranny of the Aldmeri Dominion, a chase through Cryodiil, High Rock, and Skyrim, an emotional struggle and desire for vengeance. And finally, when they returned to each other, they didn't recognize one another anymore. A crack was formed between them that only their son can fell.
I guess I should at least do them that much. I may not have a strong attachment to the Firemanes but I actually like them, I don't feel any hostility from any one of them and they treat me really nice.
"Sigh!" I think I should also relax in this peaceful place, I have built up a lot of anxiety lately.
"Hehe! You are sighing like your old man." Hilda heard me sighing and turned around to add that unnecessary comment.
"I don't care anymore! Where is Nefertiti?" I asked.
"Here!" It seems that Jull was carrying her.
"Give her to me! I want to heal for a bit." I took Nefertiti who was sleeping in Jull's arms.
Holding her like this makes all the trouble in the world feel like nothing.
"What's with you and that cat anyway? I have never seen a Firemane so attached to cats!" Jonrad asked.
"Because all Firemanes are puppy loving heathens. They should be electrified on a chair for their denial of the cat supremacy."
"... This kid is a lost cause." Nurina said.
"Humph!" I snorted.
"Hmmm! Since when do you have a cat anyway? Last year Nurina said nothing about it." Hilda said.
"Have? A cat? No no no nohohoho! No one can own a cat. Cats own people."
"... huh?" Hilda and Jonrad got confused.
"Here he goes again!" Nurina held her head.
"Cats are the noblest beings in existence! No one can own a cat as it is the other way around. Cats don't own just people, cats actually own the world......." I started educating the puppy loving heathens.
"Cats? Own the world?" Jonrad was overwhelmed.
"If they do, why aren't they taking over already?" Hilda asked with a smile.
"Good question! Cats are not taking over because they are just too lazy to do so."
"....."
These heathens should be enlightened about the faith of the Great Cat Goddess.
"Listen up, poor souls! The Cats are th........."
"Give me a break already!" Nurina said and covered her ears.
Anyway! I kept preaching for the holy word of the Great Cat Goddess all the way.
***
It wasn't too long but I feel that their souls have been cleansed already. Jullanar who is one of the fanatics of the holy cat creed was listening carefully, the others who had lesser faith had their eyes all white and held their heads. This is the effect of the puppyism going away. Must be tough!
"This is not natural, something is very wrong." Hilda was finally seeing the light.
"I know, you were lucky since you avoided this far." Nurina said.
"How can this be? All that was too much." Jonrad said. For a big heathen like himself, it surely should be too much.
"You just feel like that the first few times. Once the light of the holy cat illuminates your soul, you will be free forever." Jullanar as a senior fanatic said but her eyes looked a bit unnatural, maybe my imagination.
"Well, we are home!" Hilda said as she became refreshed for the fact.
I looked around and saw a house at the side of the mountain. I raised my brows in admiration.
"Not bad! Not bad at all."
The house in front of me is a one-story wide building. It has a small garden beside it that has a lot of herbs and mushrooms. There are some trees around and a small barn.
It looked like a forest retreat for vacations with all the snow and the faint greenery around it.
"Jonhild, like the place?" Hilda asked.
"Mhm! Looks great!"
"Haha! I built it on my own after all, took me two months." Jonrad was acting cocky again.
"Jonhild has a beautiful house too. It is like nothing you can do, don't be too proud." Hilda retaliated for me.
"He has?"
"Yes, his place has a basement and an attic. I told you we needed a basement but you kept saying no one makes them anymore."
"It is true..."
And they started arguing about their preferences.
But I think the place looks nice, it has its calmness, unlike my 'Sea Mist Manor that tends to be the place where all my business partners come to visit me. Also, the basement is the place of the training area, the vault, and the bathtub.
This place doesn't need all that complications. It is a place where one should just relax.
"I think I like the place!" I said.
"....."
"Haha! Take that, Hilda!" Jonrad was making a victory pose.
"You're not out of the woods yet, the place really needs an attic. Even a small one with a big circular window and...." I participated in the debate of house designing too.
The argument continued until we got in.
The place looked simple and cozy from the inside even with the snow of the outside, the cold weather was barely felt here.
Jonrad kept his act and lit the place with his magic, he used flame magic in a very skillful way that made Nurina nod in approval.
"So our things has arrived here." Jull took notice of some crates. They were ours.
"I made sure everything gets done smoothly, now let me show you where you will stay!" Hilda said and started showing Nurina and Jullanar to their rooms.
She then gestured for me to follow, after I followed she showed me to a room.
"This is yours, Jonhild. We always kept cleaning it."
I looked inside and couldn't help but smile. It looked a bit small compared to my normal standard but it felt as it should be, a room of a son in his parents' house.
"It is nice!" I said.
"I know, right! Look, here you can put your books, here is the....." she kept talking about the things she did in the room. I noticed that Jonrad also came behind me and was smiling at what he was seeing.
Hilda, the captain of a big from yesterday who made a hundred man shudder from her glare, is acting all motherly now.
In unison, Jonrad and I started giggling while watching her. She looked at us as if betrayed.
"You know what? You two are just the worst, out of my way." She said and walked outside.
It was hard not to laugh but once she got out, Jonrad and I made stiff faces to each other.
"Get out, old man! I want to change."
"Tch! Jerk!"
"Heard it!"
"Meant it!"
Seems like things get like that when one is more handsome than his old man.
***
No one slept after we got home.
I thought I will sleep for sure but it was day already and Nurina sat in front of the fireplace to make some coffee. As a follower of the same faith, I joined her with an empty mug and high expectations.
"After all these years! You are now home." She said.
"Heh Heh! It is still too early to start regretting it." I said.
"Haha! Brat, I know you the best, there is no way I regret it."
True! To me, Nurina is an irreplaceable person. The part that yearns for Hilda as a mother is not the same part that sees Nurina as a mother. The two different people within me have their own mother-preferences too.
"Anyway, it seems you covered the problem between Hilda and Jonrad really well."
"Yeah! It would break my heart if after all these years they couldn't make it." I said.
"Speaking of which!" Nurina said and smiled at me, it was a wide smile that had a lot of naughtiness. She made a spell that I understood what it is.
"Oh! You are horrible! I am not eavesdropping."
"A brother or a sister?"
"Shut up!"
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A/N: Sorry for the late publish.
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Chapitre 130: Coming of Age (1) : The Race
Days passed!
Fun days!
I liked them!
Every day is something new, something fun!
Nurina is here, Jullanar is here, Hilda is here, Nefertiti is here, and Jonrad is here.
We lived for almost a week together like a family.
I saw everything there is to see in this place. I visited the Beast Tribes that live with the Firemanes.
I made friends!
I became so attached to the place.
How long has it been since I felt like that?
Years? Maybe! I always had my friends and I never missed anything but this time I feel rather... I don't know the word, but I feel like I have all that I asked for... I feel thankful!
Thankful? I remember my name from my past life also meant thankful!
Hehe! The irony!
Anyway! Here is my report for the past week.
Day 1: It was a full home staying event... I cooked, Jonrad says that he cooked but he only helped yet he says that he cooked and I helped! Don't really understand how his work... Anyway, Jullanar got really close to Hilda and Jonrad.
Day 2: Hilda took me for the Direwolf tribe to visit Ylva! Too many puppies! I hated it! Still, wolves are better than dogs in my opinion... We went to also to visit the Night Owl tribe where we met Forseti, Great Bear tribe where Grandpa was spending time with his partner, Singing Snake cave where Uncle Tyr stays, Hunter Fox tribe, and Snow Hawk tribe.
Day 3: Wulfur came with Skadi and Bjorna, I also got to meet Skadi's husband who is a very easy going fellow, his name is Forni Moonblade. Anyway, it seems that Wulfur started raising a bear.
Day 4: We went out and joined the gathering in the Clan's keep for dinner. Before eating Hafthor made up a competition that the elder agreed to it and an unarmed fight was announced before eating. No Aura allowed, no magic allowed, no Thu'um allowed, just fists and kicks. I may have become tall but I was still the same nimble monkey that participated in the tourney a year ago. Still, winning wasn't easy. I had to kick the hell out of Hafthor and Vilkar before they give up.
Day 5: Jonrad went to the fire garden and Hilda told me to go with him so don't forget about time and return the second day. I went with him but this time it was hard to reach the central area on foot, I picked a place I could withstand the heat in and started getting a taste from the energy of the place. It was indeed wild yet it blended into me greatly in the end. I felt like it got dissolved every time I absorb some of it. I was careful to not absorb too many but I ended up getting excited, I also may have discovered a way to make a Magicka Nature Change technique. After some time I took the sky on a Flame Atronach Hawk and reached Jonrad to pick him up. He kept begging me later to teach him the spell so I promised I would give him the Flame Atronach Horse spell later.
Day 6: We returned the second day! Hilda gave us an earful. I also had to get ready for tomorrow's gathering.
Day 7: Today...
The Firemane members gathered in the training courtyard in front of the keep and all the Elders were standing on a high platform. The ten participants this year are five boys and fives girls, that includes Alina, Wulfur, and Jullanar.
"Listen up, brats! I know some of you wants to compete, it is all good and fine but I want you all to be careful! You are not going alone to the Serpentstone Isle. This place is right at the doorsteps of our clan's enemies. They also may send their young bastards this there." Grandpa Turmond said.
"Now I want you to remember one thing and remember it very damn well! Every one of you needs to kill only one Ice Wraith on his or her own. Those who can't make it will wander the land to find his own prey alone until he or she returns with the proof!" Uncle Njord said.
"The rule is simple, go and come two in weeks at most, whoever comes late will go hunt one more time on his or her own." Uncle Heimdall said.
"There is one more rule this year! Out there, your brother Jonhild is called Jon Dare, the Thane of Winterhold and a distant relative to our clan who will be joining the house! This is for his safety and also for the clan! This also is a secret from the town's younglings" Skadi said and the ten of us nodded.
"Now! Open the gate!" Grandpa said and the gate of the courtyard opened. Some people from the outside came in. On the lead were few adults who came in and greeted Grandpa in haste, followed them some young ones who were around our age, they also greeted the elders and greeted us with respect.
"These are the people from the town! Treat them well as they are our soldiers and closest men!" Hafthor whispered to me.
The young ones who join us are around thirty! They are all from the houses that serve the clan in the town outside. Their number is around thirty and the male/female ratio was equal.
"Now! Everyone is well aware of the rules! You are allowed to go! Each one of you must return with a flask of an 'Ice Wraith Essence'. Help each other out if needed! Now go!" Grandpa said.
Everyone here was suited and booted and have a big weapon on his back. I had my hammer and saber and donned my 'Savior's Hide', Wulfur was carrying his Skyforge Warhammer and an axe on each side, Jull and Alina looked beautiful in their black armors.
"Listen up boys!" Hafthor spoke up! "There are two small ships waiting for us in White River. One for us boys, one for the girls! You know what that means. Yeah! Yeah! Let's get them this time!"
"HAHA! LET'S DO IT!" Only Vilkar was happy about it and the other seemed not even motivated!
I don't want to know what happened to make them like this but I hope we don't look bad at the very least.
Frejya daughter of Njord mocked Hafthor and declared that the competition will start as a race to the ships in White River. Hafthor foolishly agreed and started rallying us to run but we found out that the girls were prepared in advance and twenty horses were brought as they rode ahead of us.
Hafthor looked pale and started looking around for horses but it seemed it will take time to prepare twenty for the boys.
Sigh! What an unlucky start! I now know why no one was even motivated.
"Listen up!" I said. "Is there any carriages?"
"Two!" Vladimir said. "But don't expect them to carry ten each and run faster than the girls.
"Hehe! Just bring them and bring many ropes."
In a minute everything was prepared.
I was also conjuring Flame Atronach Horses! Once the boys saw them, I have already been declared the lord and the savior.
"Vladimir! Take that staff and command those six! Tie them to a carriage and get moving!"
"Hehe! Six horses and one carriage! Yes, cousin!" He was already fired up to command them six.
I kept conjuring another six without a staff and roped them to the carriage and rode.
It felt a bit royal to have six horses but we rode so fast and caught up with Vladimir who rode first.
We were already going through the town and the people were freaking out from the scene.
"Vladimir! Where are they?" Hafthor who was with me called out.
"They are ahead! We are a bit late!" Wulfur who was with Vladimir replied.
"They can't run too fast or their horses will get tired! A Flame Atronach Horse is faster and will never get tired. Don't worry about it and push forward!
I assured Hafthor and he rallied the message to Vladimir.
The run kept going as we went out of the town and kept riding on full speed at the wide road between the town and the under mountain tunnel. As we could see the entrance to the tunnel, we saw the last of the girls going in.
"Now, we caught up! Make sure that you light the way ahead! Full Speed!"
"Catch them!"
"Haha! Jon! You are the best!"
We rood into the tunnel but we had to slow down for the carriages to not get damaged. The stone gate was opened and the girls were riding out. As they did, the last one of them could already see us!
Hehe! They rode slowly thinking we will never catch up. Just like that story of the rabbit and the tortoise, but this time, the tortoise has become the panther they need to run from.
This will be fun!
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