Skill?

mion realized that the wyvern had took its gaze away from him, and so he also was curious and turned his gaze to the direction that the beast was looking.

he soon saw that the wings that were covering nic were starting to move, they spread out into the air before they began get smaller and smaller before vanishing in Nics back.

nic was kneeling on the ground in his fairy peak form, but this time his form looked more like that of an elderly man, his horns were as long as one of his arms, he had a total of five horns on his head this time, the two at both ends of his head resembled that of a matured bull horns, and the other three were like that of small spikes that still needed some time to mature, they were located in between the two massive horns and were on his forehead, his horns made it looked as though he was wearing his very own crown.

his hair looked white as though it had succumb to age and it reached the ground and spread out as it surrounded him.

but mion started to notice something, just like the wings his hair was shrinking and his skin that looked wrinkled and shiny was becoming more smooth over time, soon nic looked as how he once did in his fairy peak form as his long hair turned to that of black, and the three spike horns on his forehead disappeared, leaving only his two massive horns that had shrunk back down to size.

"what the hell are you" mion whispered to himself, he looked at nic who was kneeling, he had so much questions he wanted to ask as to what race nic was mixed with, but it would be out of his place, he was to much of an honorable person to meddle in his rivals business.

soon nic opened his eyes and was stearing directly at mion with a sharp murderous gaze, mion who was looking at Nic at the moment he opened his eyes, gulped his own saliva in fear.

but then nic blinked and the murderous feeling disappeared with it, "how long was I out?" he asked as he started to lift himself from his kneeling position.

"not that long" mion immediately replied, he had alot of respect for nic, afterall he considered nic to be his rival, nic was the first person his age that he had fought and lose to, nic was someone that he wanted to surpass, and he would do anything to pass nic in strength to go out on the path in becoming a knight.

but for nic he thought of mion as nothing more than an cockroach that he owed alot.

hearing this he looked over to Charlotte who was still looking at mion in fear, the trauma can be seen on her face as she looked at mion.

"Charlotte?" he mumbled, his veins on the side of his face bulge as he looked at the scared little girl.

he immediately turned to face mion in rage as he thought that mion had done something in his absence, but before he can say a word the voice in his mind calmed him down.

"he did not harm her, the child still hold fear of others other than you, it would take her some time to forget her past" the voice calmly echoed in his mind.

nic started to walk in the direction of mion slowly, his face showed that of no emotions as he looked in the direction of mion coldly.

"gulp, I swear nic I did not do anything, she was in the water and you were in this cocoon...." mion quickly spoke as nic got closer towards him, he even stepped back in fear and closed his eyes as he bulge his body to prepare for the impact.

but nic simply passed him straight and went to Charlotte who was behind mion, he was now infront of Charlotte and knelt to be face to face with her, but she still had the face of fear, she was trembling and sweating heavily, she did not even realize that nic was right infront of her.

"Charlotte its me" nic said as he stretched out his hand to touch her face, but before his hand even got close the wyvern that was laying on her stood up on its hind legs and stretched out its wings.

"grrr" the wyvern growled at nic.

nic did not pull back his hand but still went to touch Charlotte face, seeing this the wyvern open its mouth as the red glow began to emit from its mouth, nic then turned his cold gaze to the monster, as the monster saw nic's gaze it immediately coward.

the monster dropped its head as though it was kneeling to nic before it immediately flew away.

"you didn't have to scare the beast, it was only protecting its companion, afterall she is now apart of it and it is apart of her, to protect her you are to protect the beast" nic ignored the voice in his head as it was not making no sense to him.

he then touched her face and began to comfort her as he gently rubbed his hand at the side of her face.

"Its ok Charlotte, it's me nic"

Charlotte soon stopped shivering and began to calm down as she looked at nic.

nic then smiled as tears ran down Charlotte cheeks as she realized that it really was nic.

"your such a crybaby" nic said as he held her in his arms.

"ehhm!" the sound of someone clearing their throat sounded in his mind, and drew his attention.

"sorry to intervene but it takes lot of my strength to keep up the connection between you and me, I think we got alot to talk about, you would have time for your friends after we are finished" the voice said to nic who was trying to ignore him.

"you were almost killed by your own gift, if not for me you may have been nothing but an empty corpse, the least you can do is have alittle chat with me" the voice said calmly once again.

nic wanted to ignore but he was not someone that was ungrateful, "go to sleep I still got something to deal with" he said to Charlotte as he smiled at her, and went into his meditating position.

she simply nodded as she used his lap as a pillow and closed her eyes, the wyvern flew over and forced it's way into her arms, it did not even look at nic as it now held fear towards him.

nic did not pay the creature no mind instead he closed his eyes and went back into his gift space.

"what do you want to talk about" nic said as he was infront of the giant fox mask once more.

"that" a force turned him around to face his gift, nic mouth opened as he was in shock.

the scene looked devastating as the clock was now in many pieces and was scattered all over, but what was even more interesting was that at the middle of where the clock once was, their was now something that looked like a giant monster core, chains where connected to each of the many pieces of the clock that were scattered, and all of the chains were attached to the giant monster core in the middle.

nic soon realized that the giant core was slowly pulling the pieces back together.

"is this also a phase"

"no" author replied coldly, "I have never seen or heard of this all the years I have been alive"

"but that's not why I called you here"

"then why have you called me?"

as soon as nic ask the question an image of himself appeared before him, this image looked as though it was only made out of nothing but light.

soon after the image seemed to have ripped off it's own arm and then it grew back as though nothing had happened.

"congratulation you have unlocked a skill" the fox mask cheerfully said to nic