Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 38: Not the face

During the whatever was left of the afternoon, Yunan,Leol and Reina tried their all and still failed to touch Dustan. Thanks to the effect of the Starheart they could last much longer and develop a better understanding of the combat techniques as well as coordination, even if it was very superficial and could not be called teamwork, they were getting used to the fact that their attacks might affect their teammates and are starting to take into consideration the location of their teammates when planning an attack.

Balin was the one who delivered the mutilated prisoners to the guild with a note saying 'keep the spies away or let them be test subjects'. Soon he returned to hall number 5 and a new betting round started in Debauchery, as if they were not going to annihilate a few families in another week and a half, obviously this round of betting was about who can get to Dustan and deal any damage. Shouts and encouragements of a weird kind filled the hall, things like "grab his legs and bite him" or "smother him to death with those fluffy tails" and of course the classic "you are loosing my money put some umph into it".

The class ended on a high note when Balin grew tired of the fight and joined in to spice it up, he climbed up to Dustan's shoulders sat there and blinded the orc for 5 second intervals to get the kids some leeway and chance, and with Balin joining the fun all hell broke loose as fae Fae and Leader buffed the kids up and debuffed Dustan, Bai would throw caltrops under Dustan every now and then, and Lucian would poke Dustan on the side if he ever let his guard down.

Still no matter how they cheated, they could not get the kids to touch Dustan as he resisted by literally throwing Debauchery off of him wherever he laid hands on one of them, he would pick up the victim and fly they will into a wall, while narrowly dodged the kids trying all they could to get to him, until the bell tolled ending the play session.

Reina had gotten used to the presence of the boys and had become a bit more open around them, thanks to the way the treated her,and how they taught her as much as they could about everything thing that she could not do, shehad become slightly dependant on them. As for Yunan and Leol they treated her like a younger sister whom they must guide and protect, especially against the hands of Debauchery, this period would certainly be a memory they could laugh at around a fire later on in their lives.

One might criticize them for sharing the same room and bath at an age where sexual curiosity is growing with them taking them nearer to puberty, thus something must pointed out for those people: Yunan, Reina and Leol are under the influence of a group that has no qualms about discussing the most vulgar of topics as if discussing the weather. Debauchery is a group that is not affected by sexualities between their members, they only differentiate by ability and trust. Thus it would be expected for their students to project the same mindset. As for the curiosity? Well that is left for the outsiders.

Back in their room, the kids each took a book and sat there reading and discussing what they did not understand with the each other, until dinner time. As the kids were having a quiet dinner, a group of girls approached them to invite Reina to join their group. Since it was the first time Reina ate at the cantina she was immediately noticed by many, and her coming in with two boys had already infuriated some girls since teachers forbade the mingling between boys and girls, even though the academy had no such rule.

Reina politely declined the invitation, she was not good with strangers since her identity attracts too much attention to her. Some girls don't take no for an answer and they started making trouble. "You there, both of you move away from her and go eat somewhere else, don't you know it is forbidden to mingle between boys and girls, if you don't move away right now we will report you for breaking the rules and harming a student, you will get kicked out for sure" said one of them "yeah that's right, move away or we will get you kicked out of school, boys should stay away from us girls" said another "how dare you both gang up on her, shameless", and the the voices kept growing and drawing more attention while Yunan, Reina and Leol ate leisurely and watched the farce going on like it was something they see everyday, although the girls had high pitched voices they hold no candle to Debauchery at their most quiet.

One of the girls felt emboldened by the cackle around her and pushed Leol's head into his own plate, she laughed saying "that is what you get for ignoring us". Leol wiped away the food on his face, nodded to Yunan, moved his plate away from the wooden tray, stood up and bam the girl that pushed Leol was out cold on the ground, Yunan motioned to Reina to stay put and stood up with tray in hand and said "make us".

The whole cantina was in a pin drop silence, the guy just flat out without warning dispatched the girl as if she was a waste of space, and then his friend stood up and told the girls who were surrounding them and ordering them to move to "make them". This is what they call taunting done right.

The stunned cackle soon turned red and pounced at the boys, what followed was a one sided show where girls threw themselves face first at wooden trays while trying to punch or grab the owner of the tray, it did not take long before the angry mob was sprawling on the floor either groaning or out cold. Once Leol found no one else about to interrupt their dinner he went for seconds and sat back next to the giggling Reina and the smiling Yunan. "Debauchery is far more influential than i thought, only one week and i am already getting into fights" sighed Leol, while Yunan answered "what did you expect, we fight for our lives all the time, it would be a wonder if you actually just stayed put after that".

Soon after the kids left the cantina to the muffled sobs of girls clutching the precious faces that had been attacked so ruthlessly by the shameless bullies.