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Chapter 13 - The Beast Folk

Lilian Says I will provide you a path. They sing and the horses come to them and they ride towards the beast village as they clear the forest, they see a lot of homes that were destroyed. Orion says lets "sing the Song of truth". And they start to sing as they ride through the street a lot of people hear the song and the possessing spirits leave their body's these people come out crying their thanks and others who were not possessed came out to see what was happening. The town had only about 25 people in it after riding to the end of town they went Back to the center of town and finished their song. Orion ask Who is the head of this town"? To this an old tiger man steps forward and says "That would be me. I am Bengal". Orion looks at him and says "I have freed this village from the shadow but that won't last long unless you have someone that can sing for your town every 3 days! I am a Sword mage of old, my name is Orion and this is my apprentice Sherly we are on a quest to free this land and I am taking apprentices as we go. Those who want to learn the song to keep the village safe I will also ask you to Visit the forest dryad and sing for her as well this will help your land become prosperous again. I will introduce the singer to her as well". The Bengal says a Sword mage, A real sword mage! oh lord how can this be I though they were all dead and even the Dryad of the forest has been saved we can see the life has returned to the forest. Forgive me it has been so long since we could see hope we barely had any hope left all of our young left for the wars and never returned. And here you are riding with a demon half-bred and have even taken her as your Apprentice"! All of the beast folk present were in shock. This means there was a chance they could survive. This gave the town hope you could feel the change in the air. Orion announces "I will set up my cottage just outside of town any who wish to learn either to be a Sword mage or just a song of truth singer, can find us there. If we don't have any in 3 days, we will sing for you and the tree one last time before we head on to find those who will want to keep their villages and towns safe. Since I am the last of my order its imperative that we do so. With this they ride out of town and set up the cottage. They had just finished feeding the horses when 3 cat women came to them. One was a black cat one was a brown and the last was a gray. Orion asks "So who wants to learn what and what are your names"? The black cat girl steps forward and says my name is night, the brown steps forward and says I'm Tabitha, and the grey says I'm Eliza. The grey continues "me and Tabitha want to learn the song to protect the village and Night wants to become a Sword Mage". This makes Orion Smile and he says "Thank you all for coming. Tomorrow you two can come back after noon and we will start your training as for you night be here at first light. Or if you don't have family, I can make room for you in the cottage". He sings and the cottage grows bigger. Night says thank you but I want to spend the time we have here with my family. Orion smiles and says thank you and I approve. The next morning night shows up and finds Sherly in her uniform looking at her, Sherly says training starts now teacher says for me to start teaching you hand to hand and like she was taught she watched and corrected and had her do 100 of each. In the afternoon as night was learning the forms Sherly greeted the other 2 girls and started by explaining magic and started teaching them from the basics before the girls left, they asked Where Orion was, Sherly said "he went back to the dwarven village to order a Sword for the new apprentice. The girls asked how he did so if the horse is still here Sherly smiles and says the Dryad really likes master. Apparently as long as there is a tree there, she can transport him to it". The cat girls all look at her in amazement, and ask "The dryad can do that"? Sherly says "Wait till you get to meet her. All three of you are so lucky to be learning from my teacher. He actually has a way to teach you and then have you learn even more, oh wait it might only be night who actually learns from my teacher. You two get to learn from me. This way I learn even more and build friendships". That night Orion returns home and tells Sherly that he ordered 2 more swords and that the dwarven village is doing well. Sherly tells him it will take some time with the girls. The next day Orion watches the training of night and makes several corrections but for the most part leaves it to Sherly as night practices the forms of hand-to-hand Orion tells Sherly it's time to dance, they pull out their swords and spar. They move so fast and the sound of swords clashing draws attention from the town, many villagers come and seeing the 2-sparing, and they watch in amazement. After the 2 of them finish they hear the applause of the crowed and Orion just Smiles and bows, Sherly follows his example. The whole thing made the 3 cat girls excited. They were learning from these 2. Because they were Brave and wanted to protect the village. After the crowd dispersed Orion looks at Night "you kept your concentration on your practice as we spared good job. You will be a good apprentice". Night smiles and replies "thank you teacher"

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