Earl took a stance and held his sword in his left hand, he took a defensive stance as the Saber fangs surrounded him, "I thought They're lone hunters unless moving in packs of three or four, why are they six of them?" Earl asked himself. during the training regimen, Earl found out that doing the exercises everyday also raised his stats, specifically strength, speed, stamina, agility and defense, they had all raised by four. he was significantly stronger than when he first fought a saber fang, but if there's one thing he had learned, it was that these things were one of the fastest intermediate beasts out there. ordinarily that wouldn't have been a problem, considering the fact that the third eye skill was able to increase both Speed and Agility by 10, but they were 5 of them. although the group effect of the third eye skill made time significantly longer, it doesn't exactly combine the time for each beasts, for example. when facing a single foe, time would

It was really early in the morning, around 5am or so, and the ever eager Earl was standing outside by the front door to the shop, with a backpack in tow, phoenix was still asleep on top of Earl's head and his grumpy grandfather was standing at the shop's front door smoking his clay pipe. "You know, normally I wouldn't care and would've just stayed in bed, but if your really going to wait for the bus you should at least have breakfast first" said grandpa Ollie, but it seemed like his words fell on deaf ears as Earl sustained his enthusiasm and didn't even turn back to reply. "whatever floats your boat" said grandpa Ollie as he headed back inside, he stopped at the door and turned around before speaking once more, "you coming phoenix?", however the bird was still sleeping and couldn't even reply him, he then decided to head inside and prepare his shop. It took almost 5 hours for the bus to finally arrive and carry Earl, and just like before, they drove in a random route,

Tai chi… a soft form of martial arts developed in China, mostly consisting of redirecting attacks and landing swift graceful strikes, body movements, concentration and most importantly skill are all implemented when practicing the art. With the discovery of Alchemy, martial arts in general took on a different form.mixing alchemy and martial arts was a difficult thing to do, and became even more so as other things like Heka were discovered, and masters of each were given the title Deathking, they were many of them which lived throughout the different Eras of the world, from the reign of the Samurai, to the beginning of the hundred year war. they had existed, and had been almost unrivaled, except facing other deathkings, they were given this name due to the sheer number of people were not able to survive in their presence, the very aura that surrounded such individuals was able to take lives, and only a handful of people born, had a suffocating presence enough to cause physical d

The air surrounding both Crystal and Henry changed along with Henry's mood as he stared down at Crystal with a menacing gaze."I said, what happened between you and Ruby?!!!" said Henry once more, Crystal was shocked at first, but quickly retained her cool demeanor."if you wanna know about the lost princess, then why don't you ask her yourself?" asked Crystal.Henry said no words, and just maintained his menacing glare at her."Alright then, how about a deal?" said Henry, "a deal?" asked a curious Crystal.Charlie, who was off to the side, saw the two students chat idly in the middle of the stage and then walked over to them awkwardly."uh... Are you guys gonna fight or?..." "Just a moment," said Crystal, beaming a smile at him."go on.." said Crystal as she turned over and faced Henry, "if I win this match, you'll tell me about Ruby", Crystal raised a brow as she heard his statement."and if I win?" asked Crystal with a curious, enthusiastic smile."you can decide that yourself," sa

(note: this chapter will be told in both first and third person perspective, the first part will be told in Ruby's POV, and then the second will be in third person, any who enjoy) Earl looked at me with conviction in his eyes, what he had said was true, I did avoid eye contact subconsciously whenever I lied to someone, I don't really get how he knew this, or how he knew any of the other things about our other friends, but I guess my behaviour was too obvious for anyone not to notice, and it seemed like all my teammates were worried, I mean it was to be expected… I am their leader after all. but since I was more or less cornered in this room, there was no longer a reason for me to keep quiet, after all I hear talking about it with someone really lifts the heart. I mean there was nothing stopping me from just flat out ignoring him and going to bed, but he was my friend, at least it felt like that, they were all my friends. every single last one of them, and they