8 Natural Skill

"That's very true, Captain. Be just like me, I never bragging about myself and underestimating anyone even though I'm one of the strongest people in our team, I just did what I should have done without complaining about anything, I know that's a plus point for me," spoke Cole shortly after Jake finished his words. He looked so proud of himself judging from the way he talked, he put on a big smile and he changed his sit position to make his confidence boosted very high.

"Did we ask?" Jade then replied to him sassily, just like how Blake replied to her earlier, she duplicated his way to say that very perfectly.

"Hahahahaha," everyone except Blake and Cole laughed after Jade said that, looks like the situation is kind of melted now.

Jade is no longer angry, she changed the way she stood, and it looks better. She also removed her foot from the tiny area of the ground which got kicked by her and makes the hole her kick created looks way more clear now. Chandler looked at the hole immediately after the girl removed her foot from it, and he looked quite shocked by it.

'And I almost got kicked by that foot 

… so scary,' thought him before a frown formed on his forehead shortly after that, the boy then also brought his face closer to the hole Jade 'created'.

"Oh my God, you just killed a cockroach!" Chandler told Jade afterwards, he found out that there is a dead cockroach on the hole that most likely died due to Jade's kick.

"Just a disgusting animal, it doesn't matter anyway," replied Jade.

"J-jade …!" Chandler looked slightly angry because he couldn't accept what Jade had just said.

"What?!" Meanwhile, Jade doesn't look so happy with Chandler's tone when he says her name.

Chandler then could only sigh, he realized that arguing with Jade isn't a nice thing and kind of useless, so he decided to just bury the cockroach.

"But, Captain, how do you know that it was me who made the snakes attack the Bigfoots? I didn't even know that and still can't believe it, I mean … I've never even activated my system, I've never used my ability before, and I'm the only one who can't use my ability because I don't know how to do it, so why did you say it was me who saved us?" Aksel then asked Jake about this important question.

"Because you were the only one who could do something at that deadly time, almost all of us were faint, Curt gave up, and Rosemarie couldn't do anything because a Bigfoot held her, you said you also couldn't do anything but you were free, and remember that you told me the only things you did were screaming and looking at a snake which strangely approached you, since the start, I realized that the snakes attack wasn't something happened just like that without any cause, that's why I asked so many detail things to everyone, even the ones who were fainted and didn't know anything, and glad you mentioned that snake thing because that solved the mystery. You probably did that without even realizing it, Aksel, but the fact is, you still did it somehow. One thing for sure is, you have the Beast Monster System, and I believe it makes you have a special bond with animals, and it's not even a skill, I believe it's just blended with you since the first time the Beast Monster System blended with you, let's just say … it's a special and natural skill which you can use anytime without have to worrying about your mana points because it costs zero mana point, and you don't even need to spell it before you use it, and I believe what you did to the snakes was giving them the asking for help signal, you didn't realize it, but somehow you gave the signal to them and they could feel it and understand about it so they helped us all. I also believe that your Beast Monster System makes animals look at you as their friend, which is in other words, you can use this natural and special skill to all kinds of animals, not only snakes, but this is just my guess. But, however, thank you so much for saving our lives, Aksel, you did a great job. I know some things about you, mainly about your reputation in the military, I know no one would expect you would achieve such an achievement, so congratulations, Aksel, I'm proud of you." Jake explained all to Aksel, and in the end, he smiled at him, while Aksel looked still can't believe it and kind of surprised at the same time, he could only be silent in disbelief.

"It's just your speculation anyway, you can't prove it," Blake said to Jake a moment afterwards.

"I know … but he can," Jake replied to Blake, he turned towards him when he said 'I know', then he looked at Aksel again when he said 'but he can', he looked at him, proudly.

"I-I can …?" Aksel asked, he's skeptical of himself.

"Of course, we need food for dinner, try to get help from any animal to find any food for us," Jake spoke to Aksel.

"But, Captain … I don't know how I did it previously, so … I can't …" said Aksel.

"What did you think about before the snake strangely approached you?" Jake asked him something afterwards.

"Uh … I thought about Curt … I didn't want him to die … he was very helpless, so I wanted to help him … and everyone else actually. At that time Blake had once told me I am useless, he said that while he kicked my face angrily, and it became a heavy burden for me and my mind, that moment when Curt became helpless … I realized I literally did nothing but being defeated multiple times, so I really wanted to do something, at least for the first and the last time, but I was also helpless until the snakes attack happened," explained Aksel.

"Alright, now think about us, or at least Chandler, he must be very hungry at the moment, his body also needs more food than ours, yet he did the most wasting-energy and tiring thing: healed all of us. He needs food, and we don't have any food now, but animals must know the best places to get foods near here, so ask them help, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to really ask them for help like that, you have a special bond with animals, they can feel your feelings at particular points, they will come to help you somehow," Jake helped and instructed Aksel how to do it, he's sure that's the right way to do it judging from how the snakes attack happened.

"Okay … I'm gonna try it," responded Aksel, he looked quite tense although he had sighed before he responded to Jake's instruction. He then looked at Chandler who indeed looked hungry at the moment. The boy closed his eyes after he looked at his friend.

Everyone looked seriously at Aksel after he closed his eyes, they all wanted to know what would happen next.

Amazingly, just a couple of seconds after Aksel closed his eyes, a quite big frog approached him and made the other Saviors surprised by this, and the boy opened his eyes right after the frog stopped jumping because it's only 1 meter away from Aksel now.

Aksel smiled at the animal afterwards. "Hello, little friend, thank you so much for coming," he said to the frog as he squatted and put a wide smile on his lips, he also stroked the frog's back.

"Wow …! Man …! It's hard to believe this … Aksel! You literally saved us! Not only once, but about to become twice! Dude! How cool is that!" exclaimed Curt, he stood up and approached Aksel and the frog afterwards with a very big smile as if he's a proud brother of Aksel.

"So … does it mean Aksel's skill is the same as mine, Captain?" Shawn then asked Jake about this question.

"I don't think so … yours is controlling animals, your ability makes as if you're their boss, while Aksel's special skill makes as if Aksel is one of them, which means friend. I believe there will be times where animals refuse to help Aksel, like … they won't help him if he makes them his tools, they still have the right to decide their own decision, and no one wants to become a tool for their friend, right? And so do the animals to Aksel. This special skill also most likely won't get stronger or weaker, while yours is, although your skill won't get weaker either. That's what I believe," explained Jake.

"I see," replied Shawn.

"Okay, now, does anyone else want to complain about anything? Let's throw the rocks before we enjoy our dinner," Jake asked everyone afterwards about the complain thing, but no one seemed to have anything to complain about, so they kept silent, except for someone maybe.

"I do, Captain."

"Go ahead, Jade," Jake responded to her and let her complain.

'I knew she stayed away from us for a reason,' thought Jake.

"This fat boy near me, I swear he was so annoying! He kept getting in my way while I fought a Bigfoot and wouldn't let me fight the Bigfoot I faced! I told him to not do so but he didn't give a damn, like … ugh! He thought I needed the protection from his fat body while no one even did! Tell him to mind his own business, Captain! He also needs to stop trying to become a hero as if he will become one, I don't care about what he has done to us, I hate this fat boy so much!" said Jade, her anger is back but this time it directed towards Chandler, and she indeed looked hate Chandler so much, she even kept looking at him in hateful stare while she talked.

Jake exhaled as soon as Jade finished giving her complaint to him. "First of all, let's not body shaming anyone, it's not good at all and shouldn't be done by anyone," he said.

"Now, why did you annoy her, Chandler?" he continued, he asked Chandler about his reason.

"I-it was a quest given by the system, Captain, I had no other choice but doing it, so I did it although Jade didn't like it at all," Chandler answered Jake's question.

"You're so smart at making a nice excuse, aren't you?! If you told us the truth, then why didn't you tell me about it from the start?! Huh?! Why?!" Jade then asked Chandler angrily.

"I-it was because you were very mad at me and didn't even let me explain anything …" replied Chandler, he looked quite scared of her anger,

As well as Curt. "Du-dude, this one is probably as scary as my mom's anger," Curt whispered to Cole, but Cole didn't care.

Meanwhile, Jake gave a quite intense stare at Jade as soon as he heard Chandler's latest reply to her. Jake also noticed that Jade cannot say anything again after Chandler replied to her, which means in this case, the girl should apologize to Chandler.

"Looks like what Chandler had just said is true," Jake then tried to tease Jade to see if the girl would make an excuse and try to defend herself or not, but the girl remained silent, she looked kind of confused because she doesn't know what to say, and after Jake teased her, she looked at the Captain for a moment, but eventually she turned her gaze from everyone to hide her embarrassment.

"Alright, we get the solution here. Jade, apologize to Chandler, he did nothing wrong to you, his system probably knew that you wouldn't be able to protect yourself at that time so he got that quest-" Jake continued.

But he actually hasn't finished his words yet and Jade interrupted him. "I was able to protect myself! And I am!" Jade stated.

"Shut up, your butt would get kicked by that ugly monkey if only Chandler didn't show up to save you with his own body," Blake surprisingly joined 'the party', looks like he's still mad at Jade so he's defending Chandler, although it's the right thing to do indeed.

Jade turned her gaze to Blake immediately after, but she was totally silent after Blake shut her mouth up with his statement.

"Nice, Blake, now I think it's fair if you apologize to Aksel too while Jade apologizes to Chandler," Jake said to Blake a couple of seconds after Blake succeeded in shutting Jade's mouth up.

Blake then stared at Aksel as soon as Jake said that to him, he didn't look so happy with that command but eventually he still walked over to Aksel to apologize to him.

"Stand up, it'll make it easier for me to apologize to you," Blake spoke to Aksel after he's near him. His tone wasn't too nice but at least it was way nicer than how he talked to Aksel previously.

"I don't think you should apologize to me, instead, I think we should thank each other. You protected me and sacrificed your life for me, and for Curt as well, your words to me weren't too nice but it was the main reason why I could save everyone, so thank you very much, I know I'm too weak to be included in this mission and team, but … I promise I'll become better as the time goes," Aksel replied to Blake as he stood up, his words were very unexpected to Blake but Jake knew he would say that.

"I know it'll be quite weird for me to say this since I had no friends all this time, but … perhaps what I need the most to become better is our teamwork and friendship, so I really hope you, I, and the rest of us will work together well on this team," Aksel continued.

"Fine," Blake responded to him, with a lazy tone.

"Thanks," he continued, he looked very forced to do this.

Blake then returned to his previous spot to stand up, and Jade exhaled quite loudly just a couple of seconds after that.

"Sorreh," said Jade to Chandler afterwards, there was no sincerity in her apology to him, she even didn't really look at him while saying it, and she also didn't say "sorry" rightfully.

"No problem," luckily Chandler is okay with that and replied to her very nicely.

'Those were way worse than what I expected to be, but … at least they did it though,' thought Jake.