| Eternal Legends 2.0 - Chapter 6; An Unexpected Opportunity. . . | |
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Time - Morning Location - City of Embers, Black Fire Capital ![]() The room door clicks into place as the black haired young man locked it. Aaron let out a long sigh as he stood in front of the dark brown door briefly before sliding the keys into his left pocket and with a pivot of the foot turned and walked down the long straightforward corridor lined with doors left and right, rooms both occupied and vacant on each side. His booted feet tapping the fine granite hallway floor in a light yet noticeable rhythm to the ears. Aaron didn't say a word as he walked, his mind was empty of any real thought save for the basic functions needed to live. As he walked past a door on the right near the end of the hallway right before a winding set of stairs descends to the ground level, his ears would pick up the sounds of locks being undone before he stopped as the door opened up and out stepped a man. The two briefly made eye contact, the man then spoke. "What's up man." The dark haired, pale skinned and brown eyes male said in a welcoming tone. His face was free of any blemishes or scars, however there was a noticeable pinkish tint to his cheeks. . . as if he was suffering from a hangover. Aaron would just nod quietly in agreement before stepping past the man and continuing on his way. "Not much of a talker eh?" The man chuckled rubbing a hand through his soft dark short hair. Aaron stopped walking right before he was about to step on the first few steps to the ground floor. He'd turn his head over to the right over his shoulder to look at the slightly taller male dressed in a dark purple t shirt with a pocket on the left pectoral housing what looked to be a lighter, black shorts and flip flops. "You figured that out on your own?" Aaron said in a mocking tone. "Good job." He'd roll his light brown eyes turning to walk away as originally intended. The stranger would laugh casually, Aaron turned to look at him once again. "Yep, I guess I'm getting smarter everyday mate." He agreed with Aaron's assumption. His voice sounded carefree and lax. Aaron would sigh shaking his head, hair moving soflty from the movement. "Using self deprivation to save face. . . you get an A for effort if anything." Aaron said letting out a small almost inaudible laugh. The male apparently saw the laugh regardless and nodded as he walked over to Aaron with a small smile. "Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches you know eh? Anyway before I forget, my names Dave mate. Yours?" He suddenly asked as if he and Aaron were purposefully having a conversation and the former wasn't just trying to walk away. Aaron would quirk a brow almost hesitant to even answer. Finally with a shrug and a sigh, he replied. ". . . . Aaron. . ." he said quietly and apathetically. Dave would suddenly look Aaron up and down and then quirk a brow, as if he were thinking to himself. "Aaron huh? I swear I've heard that name before. . . oh well." He shrugged now just forgetting all about whatever was flying through his mind. "Nice to meet ya mate, I noticed few days ago a girl was carrying you into your studio room when I was on my way home. Never knew you liked being a damsel in distress." Dave would chuckle. Aaron fell silent, pondering over what the man just said to him. A confused look brought itself upon his face. "A girl carrying me? I'm sorry but I think you were just seeing things. And with your last statement I'm starting to think you're one of those weird as people that think up sexual fantasies whenever they apparently see something out of the ordinary." Aaron said in a dismissive and creeped out one. The two continued to talk atop the stairwell. The flickering lights over head making a soft hum. "I probably was drunk that night anyway my friend." Dave shrugs agreeing again with Aaron's assumption. "I finally found my drinking limit that night. I'll never do it again." He laughed to himself before head twitched and started rubbing his temples. Aaron raised a brow that could barely be seen under the hair bangs eating away at his forehead. "You okay there? You look like shit." He asked in a blunt uncaring tone. "Ya I'm fine. . ." Dave grunted suddenly shaking his head and showing he was in fact perfectly OK. "Just a slight hangover from the drinking I did last night. No biggie." He assured Aaron and maybe even himself. "You know that stuff will kill you one day, you should stop while you're ahead, Dave." Aaron remarked calmly as he finally began to walk down the stairs towards the ground floor. Dave's footsteps were soon heard following, the annoying sound of his flip flops hitting the soles of his pale white feet made Aaron a little annoyed, but not much. "Nah, if I do die from drinking it'd be because I'm jumped walking home while proposing to a bottle of this cities firewater. Have you tried that shit man? That's good stuff right there. . . if it was a woman I'd lick her all day." Dave said giving no fucks about being modest with his words. Aaron snickered silently under his breath at the end of that comment. This Dave guy was something else. The two would continue down the stairwell at a slow yet persistent pace. "So Aaron, where ya headed? To go meet a girl perhaps? You look the type to be a young and upbeat skirt chaser." Dave chuckled as he followed Aaron down the stairwell. Aaron rolled his brown eyes and initially didn't bother replying. When they were on the last few steps leading to a double door Aaron would finally speak. "I'm going to look for a job or something, my room doesn't pay for itself. Don't know how long it's paid for anyway." He said in a quiet voice as he pulled both hands from his pockets and pushed open both the wooden double doors out onto the spacious and well kept ground floor of the building. White tiled floors, large ceiling fans and tables and chairs organized neatly all over the place as well as a welcome desk making the place feel as if you were walking into a bank. "Oh is that right? I can give you a job if you want mate?" Dave scratched his head causing Aaron to stop walking and then around to face the man. "What race are you? Judging by the hair color and your light skin I'd take it your an Infernic? But I can never tell by appearances." He'd wave a hand dismissively. Aaron fell quiet. . . then nodded. "Yeah, I'm a native to Black Fire. I'm from the island chain off the western coast of this Continent." Aaron remarked. Dave raised a brow of interest. "Far east huh? You're really far from home are you? This city is damn near along the southeastern region of the continent. What're you doing so far from home in a place like this?" Dave would ask curiosity peaked. Aaron would fall silent as he pondered what to say next. After hearing on the radio survivors of the deity attack on Rose City back on the island were being searched for Aaron couldn't tell him why he's here. . . even then, he didn't even remember the events that happened after he escaped the island. He just woke up a few days later in a laid for and stocked studio room and since then he's just rolled with his fate. "I don't. . . remember. . ." Aaron half lied and half told the truth with his reply. "I'm known to suffer from short term memory loss." He lied again, hoping the man would buy it. "No need to lie about the truth man haha just should have told me to mind my own business." Dave caught the lie like a ball almost immediately. Damn, either Aaron was a bad liar or Dave was psychic. "Regardless, if you want a job you can come with me to work. We'll head there now actually." Dave gestured towards the door leading out into the city streets. The sparse chatter and sounds of people walking in and out the building seemed almost non existent as the two talked. "You're going to work dressed like that?" Aaron gestured towards the man's clothing. Dave let out a nod and a cough. "Yeah man, all I do is shoot water at shit all day to cool it off. Not like I need to wear body armor. The reason you could work there is because not many infernics, is that your nationality? Did I say it right?" Dave touched his chin in thought. Aaron deadpanned to the side and nodded. Dave clapped his hands together. "So yeah then, despite the mad number of fire manipulators in this city not many have a keen interest in the growing steel industry. Seems a lot of you folk are stuck in the ways fifty years ago with the stone and wooden get up. So my jobs short on people who can heat and melt steel and iron. Basically you'll be a smelter, it's not a hard job I'll show you the ropes." Dave nodded approvingly. "Growing steel industry? Since when did Black Fire start warming up to using steel over wood, stone, and obsidian?" Aaron asked curiously. Dave pointed at the lights above him. "Since we began using electricity as power source, industrialization started about 20 years ago when you and me were still babies. The continents warming up to using steel and wires for power and transportation. Hell there's even rail lines running throughout this large ass Continent." Dave seemed proud of the advancement age this land was headed into. Aaron looked a little perplexed, he had always assumed electricity was something Black Fires used long ago, not just recently really getting into it around the time the man was born. No wonder he never learned about it in school. "Yeah I'd say the dark ages of this Continent is fading, hell everyone's developing across the world except for maybe Azuron, I never understood their tribal ways despite being a ancestor of them." Dave would off remark causing Aaron to look at him a little surprised. "Ancestor?" He asked quietly. "You're a Puri? A native from Tsunami?" He finished his question. Dave nodded before raising a palm up, and soon enough the skin on his fingers started dripping with clear water. "Back home we use hydroelectric generators with all the water and rain we get. We tried cutting away some of the forests but the spirit of the land doesn't seem to agree with that as the forest itself seems to come alive not long after destroying whatever was built and regrowing over it. So our place isn't as high tech as here as we still live in the canopy and stuff like that." He shrugged then pointing at his clothes. "We don't even wear these types of clothes back home. We use animal skins and furs. You could say were a cluster fuck of technology trying to live alongside a primitive landscape." He laughed to himself. Aaron just stared. "You seem to prefer living here I'd assume?" Aaron asked. The dark haired and pale skinned Puri nodded. "I can go in literally all day about the different levels of technology advancements going on in each separate Continent as well as the success rate of trying to achieve said advancements but then we'd be here all day and I'd get fired for being late again to work because I'm such a goddamn lazy ass and I'm talking too much again huh?" Dave suddenly shut up causing Aaron to snicker. He was starting to warm up to this guy. "I bet you're the type to make witty one liners or crack terrible jokes too huh?" Aaron teased dryly as he shook his head. Dave winked at him. "The ladies love a guy who can make a terrible joke funny. They also love the witty one liners. I'm like a comedian you cant help but love man I'm telling you." The Puri chuckled before finally getting back to the main topic at hand. "So you want the job or not? If so we'll take the transit line recently finished that runs all throughout this city to the steel company in the Northeast district. Or where I like to call the Big Ego Small Dick region. Nothing but rich and high class residents bossing around average to below average workers working to make their lives better." He'd remark with a sarcastic smile. Aaron was silent as he thought to himself. . . finally he nodded. "Sure, I'll take the job. . . you look decent enough of a guy I guess." He said casually. Before he knew it the slightly taller Dave wrapped a white arm around a unsuspecting Aaron's neck and head and began to drag Aaron with him out the livening up residential building and into the busy morning stone streets of Black Fire. "Stick with me mate and we'll be rich one day, I have a feeling you and me are gonna be really cool ass friends ya know?" Dave nodded matter of fact wise. Aaron just scoffed as he tried to free himself from the headlock. "Let me go already goddammit!" Aaron said monotone like yet hastily. His bare yellowish hands pushed Dave off of him and he suddenly seemed really annoyed. "You trying to choke me out you fucking brute!?" He exclaimed annoyed as he glared with the odd twitch at Dave in a almost comedic fashion. Dave looked confused and then looked between him and Aaron before breaking out into a laugh. "Sorry mate sometimes I forget I'm a bit of a strong guy. But you're not dead so you shouldn't be complaining right?" He winked at the Infernic. Aaron scoffed and closed his eyes ignoring Dave as they stood outside the steel and stone unfinished building they both lived in. Workers could be heard atop the unfinished roof of the multi storied piece of construct yelling to each other about wires and placement. The chatter of the citizens on street level slowly increasing as more people emerged from their living areas and poured into the orange Sunrise lit city heading off to wherever they were going. "Just lead the damn way already dude. I'm hungry and want to get this over with." Aaron said a bit peeved. Dave sighed to himself. His voice calm and casual. "I see you're not much of people person?" Dave asked as he motioned for Aaron to follow him into the bustling streets. Aaron would hesitate, and then proceed to follow the man making sure to keep him in sight as they maneuvered through the inflating crowds. "No, I just prefer not having peoples hands around my throat. You're still a stranger to me, I don't trust you yet no matter how calm or "cool" you seem to come off as in your head." Aaron said bluntly. "Aww you called me cool, I'm so flattered I could hug ya!" Dave teased causing Aaron to glare annoyed as he almost bumped into a passing old man. "You dumbass I clearly said -no matter how calm or cool you seem to come off in YOUR head. - " Aaron muttered annoyed. Dave turned briefly over to glance at Aaron again as he snickered. "I know ya did." He teased. Aaron just shook his head and fell silent. "Why the hell am I following this guy for a job I'll never know. . ." he muttered in his thoughts as the two disappeared into the crowd. "And so. . . the legacy begins anew. . . as the sun rises over the City of Embers. . ." To be continued. . . . |
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