//------------------------------// // Start To Be A Teacher // Story: The Adventures Paused // by Dragon Shimmer //------------------------------// -----------At night------------- After doing three quests today, Sunset flies back to her home. When she lands near her house, she stretches her body because she is quite tired today. 'Some sleeping will be helped' she thinks as she steps inside but she feels someone behind her. The dragon turns her head back and yells, "Come out here already, I know you here,"  but nothing happens. She forms a fireball and throws it at the bush, a dark figure wears dark clothes that cover the head and face. Sunset takes out her staff, "Who are you?"  The dark figure takes out a chakram. Sunset sees the chakram and sighs. She covers her staff with blue fire. The dark figure steps back and prepares to fight. Sunset teleports to the dark figure's back and uses "Wyvern Slash". The dark figure rolls forward to dodge, then she covers her chakram with an ice aura and throws it at Sunset while taking another one. Sunset deflects back to the dark figure. The dark figure dodges and jumps away from the dragon, turns its body to flee away. Sunset teleports in front of the dark figure and uses her claws to catch the dark figure's arm but the dark figure blocks it.   Sunset slams her palm to the dark figure's right arm, making the dark figure grunt in pain, then the dark figure takes out a flashbang and throws it. The flashbang exploded, making Sunset cover her eyes. When the light is gone, Sunset doesn't see the dark figure anymore. She rubs her head, "Okay, Sabrina is weird today though." then she turns back to her house and activates the magic circle to protect her house. Then Sunset goes to the bedroom and sleeps. -----------At Maple Village's tavern--------- Javen is looking at the menu to choose the food. When he finished, he calls the owner to order his food and taps his feet to wait for someone. The tavern's door opens and the dark figure just fights against Sunset steps inside, she sits opposite Javen and reveals the pink-haired girl. She rubs her head with her left arm  "ugh, she is stronger than I thought." Sakira rubs her right arm, " I think she knows my sister."  "Now that's a surprise," Javen puts his arms on the table and places his chin on it, "So what happens to your arm?" The tavern owner put the food on the duo's table, "Thank you," The owner bows and leaves.   "I don't know, she slams her palm into my arm now," Sakira tries to move her arm but can't, "And I can't move my arm,"   "Let me check," Javen comes and checks Sakria's left arm. He sees a blue magic circle in there. "Look like you got a gift from her. Sorry but I am not a mage so I don't know how to defuse it."   "That's fine," Sakira feels hurt when Javen pokes her right arm, "Hey, that's hurt."   "Well, if she manages to make your arm isolated, I would regret not trying to invite her though." Javen goes back to his seat, "Oh right, anyway how strong is she?"   "Well, I thought that she can't teleport without throwing the staff," Sakira rubs her chin, "We get fooled by her. She can teleport by herself."  "That's.... now I am a fool for her." Javen eats some food, "Anyway, we will talk later. Now take a rest and I will ask a mage nearby to cure your arm." Sakira nods and starts eating. -------The next morning------ Sunset wakes up and stretches her body. After having breakfast, she comes to the magic circle and she sees Eldaro is there as usual. Eldaro raises his arm and asks, "Ready to go?"   "Can you give me a map? I don't know where is it?" Eldaro throws Sunset a map and Sunset takes it, "Thanks Eldaro, I should go." She opens the door and flies to the location of the quest. On the way to the guest's house, she realizes that she forgot to ask the name of the requester but she continues to fly to the location. ------- Confetti town-----  The Confetti town is located to the East of Maple Town. Inside the town, there are many trees planted but most are confetti trees. People in Confetti town respect this flower and see it as a lucky symbol. They use it to decorate their house and store a lot and there is a festival about this flower. Sunset is flying across the town but she gets slammed into a tamarind tree and falls down because she is busy looking around the town. "Ouch," she whines and looks up. A yellow-haired old man that wears a formal vest helps her get up. "Thank you," The man nods, "It's rare to see a dragon robot in this country," Sunset rubs her head as the man continues, "What do you do in this town?"   "Well, I came here for a quest from the Aran family," Sunset takes out the quest paper and shows it to the man, "Here, I have the quest."   The man takes a look at the quest paper and bows to her. He introduces himself, "Apologizes my lady, my name is Mitch, the butler of the Aran family." Then the man takes a step, "Follow me, I will lead you to the family." Sunset nods as she follows him. The butler continues, "Please introduce your name later when we get there." Sunset sighs and nods in agreement. ------Inside the Aran family------ "Come on dad, I don't need a teacher to teach me how to win this school competition" A blue-haired boy is trying to deny his parent's decision, "I can beat them on my own."   "Do you remember last year, Avin?" A charcoal-haired man slams the table, "You nearly died because of your arrogance. Don't you take that as an example?"   "Meh, he's lucky though," Alvin smirks, "Don't worry, I will get revenge...." He gets cut off when he hears the knock on the door. "Oh great, what now?"   "Sir Athew, the teacher is here." Mitch says from the door, "She is waiting for us."   Athew commands, "Then send her in. I want to see her." The door opens, Sunset and Mitch are stepping into the room. Avin sees Sunset and feels amazed at her. The butler bows at his master.   "This is our teacher," Mitch turns to Sunset, "Please introduce yourself."   "My name is Sunset.... sorry Sunny." Sunset rubs her head, "Sunny of the Fantasy Guild. Well, I'm just a "B" rank adventurer."   Athew looks at her, "How long did you join the guild?"  Sunset counts by her nail, " Three weeks sir,"  Athew nods as he turns to Mitch. "Mitch, please lead this teacher to her room. You will start teaching my son tomorrow." The butler bows as Athew continues, "We will have the discussion, Son."  The butler leads Sunset to the guest room. The room has one bed set at the corner, near the window, a table, a bookshelf, a sofa, and many books on the bookshelf. Sunset looks around as it is shining. There is also an olive-haired girl inside, she is cleaning the room. The butler bows to Sunset and goes out the door, leaving Sunset and the maid alone. Sunset takes a book and sits on the sofa. After three hours, Sunset sees the maid is still cleaning the room. Sunset sees that and sits up.   "Okay... Why are you cleaning this room for so long?" Sunset puts the book down, "Can I help?"   "No..no..." The maid looks away at Sunset, "I... I'm fine."   "Can I know your name?" Sunset rubs her head, "I'm confused."   "I...It's Camila, ma... dam." The maid stands up, "So..Sorry for disturbing, Madam. I will go out." Then the maid goes out without any hesitation. Sunset feels weird but she decides to ignore it because the maid is shy. She goes to the table in the room and takes out the paper to continue to study magic.  After four hours of studying magic, Sunset stretches her body and stands up. She goes near the window and sees that the sun is nearly set. She stares at the sunset and wonders how others are doing. Her thought track is broken when she hears a knock on the door. Sunset opens the door and sees a familiar blue-haired boy. He stares at her and walks around her. Sunset tilts her head. Avin points his finger at Sunset,  "You should be my personal maid." Avin smirks, "I like to be a dragon rider and you should be my personal maid to let me ride on you." Sunset shuts the door immediately. Avin keeps punching the door and shouts, "Hey, you shouldn't be disrespected like that."   Sunset opens the door and walks to the sofa to lie on it. Avin glares at her while Sunset picks up a book of magic and reads to ignore the glares of the boy. After a while, Avin still glares at her, making Sunset put her book down, "That's annoying you know. You should prepare for the lesson."   "Bah." Avin jumps on Sunset's belly, "Who needs your stupid lesson? I am already strong."  Sunset looks at his confident face and sighs, "...Sounds like someone I know. But anyway, did you like the heroes' story? Because I glance at your room and see you have many collections of them."  "What is that question? Of course, I like heroes. Not only me but most of my school like them." Avin turns on the TV and it shows a movie. "See, right in time. Their victory is in the movies and films in five years." Avin rubs his chin, "I would say I watch all of the movies. Anyway, this is my favorite movie about heroes."  Sunset takes the books and still lets Avin sit down on her belly. " I see. Anyway, which heroes do you like most?"  "Well, my favorite hero is Matt." Avin takes out a sword and raises it, "I want to be like him because he is strong." Then Avin turns his head to Sunset, "Well if you ask me what is my least favorite, I would say the Black Mage."   "I see. Can you tell me why?"   "Honestly, I don't like her because what kind of mage is fighting in melee? I got to say her ability is cool because it is related to the wolf. but why didn't she just show her appearance already, I hate that." Avin turns his head back to the TV, "not only me, most of the students of my school don't like her though. I know that because my school has celebrated a festival about the hero and they do the vote about their favorite heroes."  Sunset puts Avin down and gets up, "I see, I will ask your father about the competition that you are going to do." Sunset starts leaving the room, "You can stay here as long as you can. I will start checking your ability first tomorrow." Sunset closes the door as Alvin huffs.   "Stupid dragon," Alvin turns his head to the TV.  Sunset asks the butler the ways to Athew's room. Mitch leads Sunset to the room as she sits down to start talking. From what she knows, this is like an arena competition where students fight against each other to complete the goal that the judges give to them. This year is different from another year because it requires a team. Sunset asks about the possible goal that the judges can give to the student. Athew gives Sunset the paper of the threads, Sunset takes it and says goodbye to Athew. She goes to her room and researches the threads. ------- The next day------- Sunset is going out to the garden with Avin and her parents. They led her to the empty spot. Sunset sees around and sees this spot is fit and asks Avin to grab a weapon. Avin takes his lance and steps opposite Sunset.  Sunset rubs her head, "eh.... you can start now. Just attack me as long as you can."  Avin smirks at it and starts charging at Sunset. Sunset sighs at this. Avin covers his lance with a fire aura and shouts "Fire Slash", Sunset dodges and jumps away from him. Then he swings the lance and shouts "Air slash", the attack is flying toward her, and she just ducks.   "You know," Sunset rubs her ear, "Can you not shout your skill when you are going to perform it?"   "Why? It sounds cool right?" Avin points the lance at Sunset  "No... It makes you sound dumb in the battle," Sunset notices that Avin is gritting his teeth, "Don't you believe. Go ahead,"  Avin points the lance at the sky and yells, "Wind balls." Many wind balls appear in the sky and are flying toward Sunset. Sunset is walking toward Avin as she dodges the wind balls without looking. Alvin covers his lance with a fire aura and shouts, "Fire Slash". Sunset catches the lance and the fire is burning her but she doesn't feel anything to this fire. Then she trips Avin and successfully makes him fall.  "It's over," Sunset glares at Avin, "Get up and rest, I will explain why you shouldn't shout your skill in battle."  Sunset turns her body and walks to the table where Avin's parents are. Sunset sighs as she takes a blank paper to write about Avin's situation. This teaching for her will be a long time for her.