Capítulo 21: First companions

Everyone in the hall kneeled as the family of four made their entrance. With Baldrik telling them to stand up, he addressed everyone in the hall. During this time, he looked round the hall and saw various races all gathered together. There was also a familiar female human, but he just ignored her. The group that stood out the most was the four dukes.

Most of the females were drawn towards Amadeus while they largely ignored Baldrik's speech. Smiling bitterly, Baldrik ended his speech early and bought Amadeus to meet various people. One by one, starting from minor nobles, all paid their respects to the royal family. To greet them last were the four dukes and their families.

The first to speak was Adelmo,

"You guys took your time."

Amadeus' parents just smiled as they started talking to each other. Quyen turned to Amadeus and picked him up with gentle smile,

"You're quite the cute one, aren't you?"

'Ok, calm down Lenny.'

Amadeus just nodded as all the others attention was drawn to them. The others nodded in agreement with Rada pointing it out,

"It's like he got both your good parts and they were enhanced further."

Urania came next to her brother before moving his fringes to the side,

"Why do you keep hiding one of your eyes? They're both beautiful."

Amadeus was slightly embarrassed by the compliment while Gaius grabbed him.

"Let me see my nephew."

Placing him down, Gaius carefully looked at him when he was pushed aside by Adelmo. He bent down and bought his face right in front of Amadeus. One hand was holding his chin while he had a thoughtful look,

"Your highness…"

Calling out to Baldrik, he questioned,

"…is his innate ability related to fire-"

Gaius chimed in,

"-And water."

Baldrik nodded and explained to them.

"I'll tell you later."

Baldrik trusted these four the most in this empire. They were all one big family and were the four commanders to the dragon corps.

Amadeus excused himself and left the banquet. He knew that it would be beneficial for him to start making connections, but he didn't like gatherings like such. Taking a stroll, he saw that the sun had started its descent to end the day while the moon was peeking over the opposite side of the horizon. He didn't need to see it, but he could just feel it. There was now a faint connection between him and the two celestial bodies.

Finding a bench, he sat down and looked directly at the sun. He started reminiscing about the time he spent in this world. He thought back to his previous world, what was it like there? Were his parents grieving his death now? Or was it his missing status? His thoughts then went towards the class. There were still nine years left until the class got summoned so this meant that the war would start around then or maybe earlier. It did give Amadeus a sort of benchmark to work towards and get ready for the upcoming war.

While he started planning for the future, he suddenly felt something and immediately turned his head.

"Who's there?"

A rather large child walked out. He had fiery red and purple hair with red eyes. He seemed to be a bit older than Amadeus but felt like an all brawn no brain lad. He said only one thing,

"Let's fight."

Amadeus looked with a confused face when the boy attacked.

"Wait, wait, wait."

"What?"

The boy looked annoyed,

"My mother loves these flowers; we should go to the training ground."

The boy nodded with a simple look. Amadeus concluded that the boy already knew his identity while it was also the same for Amadeus. The boy was most likely the son of Adelmo and Vesta.

The two then made their way to the training grounds where they stood in front of each other. The two looked at each other and, as if they had confirmed it, shot towards each other. Two fists met in the middle where the boy was sent flying back. The boy then shouted,

"I can't do this alone!"

Another figure appeared behind Amadeus and swept their leg at Amadeus. With the help of the skill received by his ancestor, he was able to see it and dodge, while also sending his own kick. The impact caused the figure to be shot back. Another two figures appeared either side of him and sent a punch with immaculate timing. It seemed as if they were both of one mind. Crossing his arms, he blocked both their punches, The one on the left with his right and vice versa. When he did this, another figure appeared behind him sending a punch while the boy and the other figure returned while sending attacks of their own.

'''''Checkmate!'''''

The same thought went through their hearts while the draconic adults in the banquet all looked in their direction. They then looked towards Baldrik who just gave a sheepish laugh while rubbing the back of his head,

"It seems that Amadeus got excited, hahaha..."

Vesta just told the rest of them,

"Let the kids have fun, they rarely get to meet their match, especially one that causes them to attack together."

The others nodded as they returned to chatting.

The ones that had occupied Amadeus' two hands both saw an excited grin on his face and felt a bad premonition in their hearts. They felt a sudden pull and found themselves flying towards one of their comrades while Amadeus jumped up the last one. He then put some distance between them. Getting a proper look at them.

Apart from the boy were two twin girls that had black hair and black eyes. They both had ponytails one had it on the right side of her head while the other had it on the left. They were both petite and were extremely cute.

Next to them was a slightly budding girl with long blue hair and a leisurely air surrounding her. She also had blue eyes and kept her hands folded propping up her assets.

Lastly was a smart looking green haired boy with glasses. One would relate to him with an intellectual and someone with a stick up his… He just looked like someone who was really strict to not only oneself but on others as well.

Suddenly the first boy had one fist covered in fire while the other in lightning, the twins had their fists covered in rocks, while wind covered the green haired boy's leg and water twisted round the blue haired one.

Seeing this, Amadeus' excitement only went up a notch as his left hand glowed golden while the other silver.

In the banquet everyone was chatting rather leisurely when a body flew through the window. Getting up the boy with red hair and violet hair got up only to see everyone looking at him with wide eyes. Straightening his suit, he bowed and said sorry to everyone before quickly leaving through where he came from. A short while later, two figures smashed through another piece of glass. This time it was the twins as they did the same thing and quickly left. Following there were two more instances where a blue haired girl and green haired on flew through.

After that nothing happened, and it all returned to normal. Back in the training grounds, Amadeus was breathing heavily as fighting the five had proved to be taxing. The five had Amadeus surrounded and suddenly nodded to each other. Amadeus was first confused but realised that they were about to transform. Seeing Amadeus was also about to transform when a familiar walking stick made its existence known. Hitting the six children on their heads, all their transformations were forcefully halted as they fell down.

"You kids have been up to a lot of mischief."

A familiar old voice was heard as Amadeus and the other five huddled together.

"G-g-gran-granny!"

Before they knew it, they were sitting on their knees with weights on top of them. A bowl of water was placed on top of their heads and one order was given; one drop of water meant one stick. The red and violet haired boy had at first stood up to the unreasonable violence, but he was currently sitting there with a bruised-up face.

"Anyway, I'm here to give you your birthday present."

Amadeus previously depressed mood made a 180 switch as he knew that it wouldn't be something normal.

"Here."

Putting her hand out a young colt appeared in front of her. Amadeus was barely able to follow it with his eye as Granny fed something to it. It was a pure black horse with demonic red eyes and flames for a mane and tail. It wasn't a normal fire but rather a blood red one. The fire wasn't the only non-normal thing about it, with a sharp red unicorn horn to boot, it had eight legs. It didn't make it look weird, rather it made it look majestic.

Amadeus could see the colt's muscles and it wasn't the bulky sort, but rather the one that expressed agility and speed.

"I don't know what it is, but it is our gift from up there. The god of war reared it which basically tells you what it specialises in."

She then pulled out a bag,

"Feed it this every three months while letting it snack on a demonic or even a magical beast when it wants to. Remember, in the upcoming tumultuous times you will need all the strength you can. Also, take care of him, the god of war looked really reluctant when we took it off him."

Amadeus got up and stood in front of the colt. After eating the things from Granny's hand, it then turned towards Amadeus. Dragon and horse looked each other in the eyes, and as if knowing his future owner, the horse walked forward and rubbed his head on Amadeus. Laughing a little, Amadeus started to play with it and pet it. Granny who was looking at this, also smiled,

"It seems you like our present. Anyway, this is the last time I will be descending for now until something comes up."

While saying this she just vanished into thin air and left the six kids and the horse together. As she vanished the other kids also gathered round and started playing. The colt was close to the size of many horse despite being only 4 years of age indicating that it will be larger than them when it had fully grown.

Before they knew it, they started laughing together as they sat down while the horse started running at impeccable speeds round the training ground.

"Don't you want to reign him in?"

The red and violet haired boy said with some envy in his eyes. Amadeus just shook his head,

"Why would I tie such a majestic horse and leave him in one place."

The boy then turned to Amadeus and bowed,

"Sorry for earlier, your highness."

The green haired boy started speaking while pushing up his glasses.

"We wanted to see if you are worthy for our loyalty…"

Amadeus just shook his head and cut him off,

"I know one's intentions when I see them, it's both a blessing and a curse."

The others were just silent as the blue haired girl coughed to break up the atmosphere.

"We should all introduce ourselves to the prince."

Everyone nodded while she went first. Getting up, she made an aristocratic bow,

"it's a pleasure to finally meet you, my name is Veronica Glacies, the heir to the duke of the east."

Veronica was like her father with a leisurely air surrounding her. She seemed to not have a care in the world and a warm smile was always present on her face. Amadeus found out that she was 13 years old, the eldest in the group.

The green haired boy went next,

"My name's Celer Ventus, heir to the duke of the south."

Celer had the air of a tactician and strategist. He looked like a bookworm that didn't have many friends. He seemed to always stick to the rules and would be the first to call you out when you break them. He was the second eldest in the group, also being of 13 years of age, he was a few moths younger than Veronica.

Next were the twins,

"Chandra Terra."

"Selene Terra."

They didn't speak much and reminded Amadeus of cats with their petite bodies. They looked around his age, despite being 12 years old. No further introduction was needed. Apparently, the both were the heirs because they couldn't decide which. The two sisters did everything together resulting in Chandra, the older twin, to tell her father that she wanted Selene to be an heir as well.

Quyen being the gentle one, accepted it and now both of them were the heirs. They were inseparable.

The blue and violet haired guy went last. With a simple smile he walked up to Amadeus and put his hand out,

"The name's Milo Ignis. Heir to the duke of the west."

Milo was just like his father and what Amadeus thought when he first saw them, a fiery personality and all brawn no brain. During the fight, he did seem to have an intuition that surpassed most and was able to calculate his next moves. Amadeus could tell he had a simple heart. He was the youngest of the five and was ten years of age.

This meant that Amadeus was the youngest from the six.

A neigh was heard behind them as the colt walked up next to Amadeus who could tell that it was asking to be named. The name seemed important to the horse and Amadeus knew exactly why. Once Amadeus named him, it was like binding a contract, the horse would be his and would only leave his side upon death.