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| - The twins had traveled fast and were soon going to enter the Forbidden Forest. They stopped when they heard the sounds of crinkling leaves and saw the form of a Fiko. Immediately, they got into back to back formation, keeping their heads close together, to have a stable soul bond. Elorn warned to the former guide: “We can now soul bond, Fiko.” At this, the other form, hidden by the shade appeared. The second form moved forward and approvingly replied “Good, let’s see how much you can charge it and what form it takes.” "Who are you?" Neltor challenged. "Me?" Asked the avian, quite surprised. "Hmm. Call me Nero." "Good, at least you told us your name immediately. We still haven't found out the name of the Fiko." "Ha ha, oh he's a tricky one, isn't he? Well, I won't spoil the surprise for you. You were going to show me--" The twins immediately caused a steady stream, weak, but stable. It struck the form’s hand, and Elorn immediately remembered his first usage of magic. Neltor, due to the soul bond, also remembered Elorn’s memory as his own memory and they corrupted the link, giving the usual effects of magick. But the avian didn’t toss it back, it absorbed it instead. Nero disaprovingly replied, “That wasn’t very good. I don’t feel refreshed...Now stop fooling around, your former guide and I, have dealt with canorks because of your expedition!” Elorn, remembering the stories about canorks, questioned “Canorks?” Nero simply replied “Yes, canorks, now come along we’re going on a merchant ship.” Elorn, understanding that they could have been slaughtered right now, realized that no harm was meant towards them from Nero or the Fiko. Elorn quickly sent Neltor this explanation. They had found that these tiny mental messages were dealt with easily and that only minor headaches came from doing so. They also had learnt that by thinking as one their disputes were solved less then a second. Neltor, now agreeing with Elorn, replied sorrowfully, “Well, we thought you would kill us, we weren’t sure so we decided to escape for our safety.” The Fiko grinned at this and apologetically replied “Well if that was the case Nero and I would have already killed you both by now.” Nero now spoke with authority “We should be traveling, the goblins reported the skullka that had ambushed you all earlier is looking for you two.” Elorn proudly replied at this “We met him in the forest and flared him and his energy neutralizer with a soul bond a few days ago. We stole his sack of runes, there are 6 of them, and we stole this flask.” Nero complemented the twins, saying “Great! May I see the runes?” Neltor gave the runes and the flask to the avian, who read the symbols on the spells and muttered “The flask is an energy tonic and the runes are an energy neutralizer, a smoke rune, an energizer, a negative magnet, a positive magnet and a magnifier rune... It’s a standard escape pack, it is pretty useful.” That day the group exchanged stories about their split up. Though Nero was quiet about what happened before he met the Fiko in the forbidden forest. That night, around midnight, they decided to sleep at the edge of the forest... That morning they traveled to the town market where all the stores were placed, it was an early morning and so the people of the city were just waking up. They went to a restaurant, to talk of what they would do next. Nero chose a table in the corner and stated “So what do we need?” Neltor sarcastically commented “Anything but ground cinnamon.” Nero jotted down: eat at a restaurant in his notebook. He then asked “Anything else? Don’t worry, he and I have sacks of coins.” Elorn, at this asked “Are there spells that avoid the effects of magic, Nero?” Nero smiled at this, stretched his hidden scales, and gladly responded “Yes, energy tonics. And they're not very expensive.” he then wrote: energy tonics. The Fiko now spoke: “You should get a weapon, Neltor.” Nero wrote: one runeblade, “And we should get our clothes washed.” Nero finally wrote: four cleansing runes. They all ate breakfast at a restaurant, and the rest of that morning was spent buying their shopping list. Nero bought two energy tonics and a triple-socketed runeblade, as well as washed their clothes with cleansing runes. At noon they headed for the docks, but at the entrance, a person in hysteria jolted at them, laughing uncontrollably. When the dark coffee drinker reached them, he squealed “You're alive! We thought you were mush now but your alive! Not that I don't like mush but I like you more and since I like you I don't want you becoming mush since that wouldn't be very pleasant I think. Did you get any beans!?” The Fiko looked at the hysterical person and responded “No, I’m sorry. But we must be leaving.” at this they walked away, away from him, who now was glum. The caffeine had lost it’s effects and his hopes were ruined. He sorrowfully walked back to the pub, shaking his head slowly. At the dock, the four spotted a reliable transport ship and walked towards it. Nero handed the owner of the ship fifty coins for a one way ticket, and the quartet kept walking on. The merchant was so joyful that he forgot to ask Nero to remove the mask--which probably saved Nero's life, as a 'avian-like person' was wanted by Serval. The four settled for the next week. The ship was a well built one. It’s frame was built with canork lumber and fifteen large oars came out of it’s side to propel it forward with miraculous agility. It’s front bow was a well decorated energy magnifier (with a enormous energy absorber in case of pirate attacks). Its ten sails were high, quite wide and could be brought down with ease. When they departed, the wind was on its side, so it would travel doubly fast. Things were finally starting to go well for them.
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