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Post by The Chosen on May 29, 2016 18:18:56 GMT
As James headed out he would be walking down a small dirt path from his house toward a small house with an large open porch area that served for Charlie's smithy station.
Stairs leading up the porch would be around and heat waves could be felt as they got closer to the area. The sign on top of the house would say 'Uncle Smithy's Forge' with an Open sign down below. Charlie was a large muscular man with black hair, brown eyes and some stubble around his chin. He would be wearing the standard smithing equipment and clothes for his job and would have a intense look on his face like he was hard at work.
As they walked up the porch James sat down on a nearby bench away from the workbenches and smithing equipment.
After placing some metal into the forge to melt it as Charlie turned around to see the boys and smiled.
"New friend of yours James?" Charlie would say as he placed the hot metal he melted into a mold to shape it.
"Yes he is Uncle Smithy!" James said with a bright face.
"That is good James i'm glad you made a new friend." Charlie said as he placed the shaped metal into the water tank to cool.
"So what can I do for you boys today?" Charlie said as he placed the sword he had made in a rack nearby.
"We are going on a journey around the world so Mom and Dad sent us to get some proper equipment from you!"
As Charlie started on his next project he would be using his draw knife to carve some wood.
"Well you will have a long journey ahead of you then."
Charlie crafted the shaped of the wood into a wooden bow then strung it together with some high quality thread and banded it with some high grade metal for protection. As he placed the bow on the rack next to the quiver of arrows and the completed sword next to a shield Charlie smiled and wiped his brow. "Here you go boys! A brand new set of weapons fresh off the forge!"
James smile lit up as he looked at the quality of the weapons then wondered. "How did you know?"
Charlie simply smiled and said "In case you forgot James for normal people Koa' visits us in our dreams with visions of the future."
James rubbed the back of his head and and smiled"Oh yeah I forgot!" he said as he chuckled.
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Post by Neo-Devil on May 29, 2016 18:39:18 GMT
Zephiles watched as things went, and the fact they got new weapons made him smile. he looked at Charlie "my name's Zephiles." he stated with a smile. at the future thing, "yeah I got a dream like that too. didn't really understand what it meant till I came here." he stated with a bored shrug. looking at the weapons, "nice.." he stated with a smirk. he then put his hands on them and scanned the structure of the weapons, along with origin. "want to see magic trick?" he asked with a smirk. holding out his hand ready to do the magic ability that he has mastered once given the go ahead.
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Post by The Chosen on May 29, 2016 18:51:40 GMT
"Sure kid just don't do any sort of magic inside the porch area. I have an training area in the backyard should you need to use it."
James took his weapons and headed to the backyard. "Come on Zephiles lets test out our new weapons there!" The back area was large with rocks covering the ground enough to keep any fire magic from lighting the place on fire. Targets were in place and several wooden dummies were around the area. "Welcome to the Royal Training Grounds! Well it was at least before they decided to move the official grounds to the capital. Now it's here for anyone who needs to train."
James was out testing his sword and shield on the dummies but despite his best efforts he could not knock it down.
James walked back to Zephiles and his Uncle in shame. "Now now James maybe Zeph's little magic trick will cheer you up!" Charlie said as if giving him the go ahead.
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Post by Neo-Devil on May 29, 2016 19:02:35 GMT
once in the training area, Zephiles put the new weapons on the ground, "watch closely." he then held his hand out, a magic circle of some kind popped up on his hand, which then turned into a bright sphere of sorts, then the bow that was on the ground suddenly had a copy right in Zephile's hand. Zephiles then turned and aimed the bow at dummy, and had his other hand out, and did the same thing with an arrow, only he made several copies at once, he then prepared the bow, and fired all the arrows at once, getting a bulls-eye in every single target at once. the bow then dissipated into the air. as did the arrows. he looked at them, smirking "like the trick?" he asked still smirking.
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Post by The Chosen on Jun 1, 2016 22:45:33 GMT
James stood their amazed as he had never seen such an amazing display before. "What was that?! It was awesome!!" James practically shouted in excitement.
Charlie on the other hand just rubbed the stubble on his chin as he gave a slow clap.
"Very impressive Zephiles. That was Mortal Magic I presume? You have very good control against those dummies and targets but what can you do against a real opponent?" He practically suggested as picked up a wooden sword from the rack next to him.
"So boy would you like to try your luck?" Charlie suggested as he took off the blacksmith apron and placed it on the rack.
James stared in wonder as he had almost forgotten about his uncle's knight days.
"Oh boy! I get to see the Legendary Azure Knight in action!" James would say in excitement.
Not many knew the Azure Knight's identity but the Azure Knight gained his name by slaying a Dragon single-handed!
Everyone knew of the Azure Knight but never knew what he looked like and of course this secret was kept hidden by Cherryton Village so Charlie could live the rest of his life in peace.
"Well boy whenever you are ready, Give me your best shot!"
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Post by Neo-Devil on Jun 1, 2016 23:28:24 GMT
his ears perked up at the name 'Azure knight', he materialized his own personally made wooden sword, while de-materializing the other weapons. "Azure knight huh..." he muttered having heard that name before, he also slayed a dragon once on his own, though it took a lot of weapons to do so and he did not get away unscathed. he chuckled at his luck, "this will be interesting..." he stated with a smirk looking at Charlie. he did a few expert swings with his wooden sword, then summoned a second one, only slightly different in design, this one was also made by him, both of these weapons were meant for sparring only, not for actual battle, so they were easy to materialize. he put up a stance, it was clear that Zephiles was the type to duel wield swords. upon hearing Charlie say to give him his best shot, he replied with a smirk, "will do, brace yourself" before he was suddenly right in front of charlie slashing at him with the right wood sword at a crazy speed, of course he isn't aiming to kill, no, he's aiming to simply disarm the blacksmith of the wood sword.
well, the man did say to give him his best shot, so he'll oblige him in this spar, afterall, it is quite the honor to be able to spar against the legendary Azure Knight, so it should be a rare fun moment in his long life.
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Post by The Chosen on Jun 2, 2016 22:00:08 GMT
Charlie had kept his stance an quite easily dodged every attack that was thrown at him. Charlie wasn't even trying at this point as his skills he had as the Azure Knight had not gone to rust. The wooden sword still firmly in his hands he only needed a few quick strikes to end the match but that would end the fun all too quickly.
"Is that it boy?" Charlie said as he dodged and weaved out of the way of every swing. Suddenly Charlie vanished after zephiles' last swing as if Charlie was never there.
If Zephiles was looking around to find him he would soon find a tap on the shoulder from behind him.
"Don't keep your eyes off me boy." Charlie would say with a light swing toward Zephiles.
If the swing missed Charlie would move to the side as if dodging an attack then horizontally slash with it.
"Come on boy you can do better than that."
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Post by Neo-Devil on Jun 3, 2016 13:25:26 GMT
seeing him disappear like that, 'afterimage...interesting' he thought before suddenly blocking the strike at him from behind with his other sword. he turned his head and looked at Charlie with a smirk. "now who said I was only using my eyes old man?" he stated not losing any bit of his confidence while including a bit of witty banter as well, not really as an insult but more for the fun of it, afterall, banter during fights is always fun as he's learned over the years. he suddenly disappeared as well. and reappeared above charlie intending to do a double strike on him. one thing Charlie would notice was that Zephiles had yet to break a sweat at all, then again being over 200 years old tends to give one a bit of an advantage. if Charlie dodged he would do a sweep kick upon touching the ground while being prepared to automatically block any strike laid upon him in an instant.
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