The Heroes of Isya by Jesus Camarillo (ebook reader ink TXT) 📖

on you.”

“Aha, sorry about that.” says Tai.

“Oh, it’s you young gentlemen, and I see.” said Robin.

“So, what do you have for us this time?” asked Aaron.

Robin thinks for a second and says, “Ah, yes. The Mini Greenkies have been reported to be disturbing the peace lately. I want you to head to the Forest of Tides and take care of 5 of them.”

“Anything else?” asked Tai.

“That would be all for now,” says Robin. “Thank You.”

The three young heroes say their goodbyes and start heading to Forest of Tides.
Chapter Two

A Little Trouble

Cly

We were approaching the Sand Beach gate; we were told that Mini Greenkies would be there. When Aaron starts to blabber his mouth again about how Tai and I always leave him out of conversations and decisions. I couldn't take him nagging and I also couldn’t keep in my frustration! He just kept on talking! And he keeps talking now; it’s like a yapping Chihuahua that you can’t get off your back.

“Aaron! Shut up!” I shouted.

“Geez, what's gotten in you?” He eyed me.

“Just be quiet.” I replied trying not to look at him in the eye. Aaron may be a little Jokester at times and he’s probably our weakest link, but he’ll put up quite a fight.

Well, looking back at our last quest I somewhat question that now. “Let’s just try to get through this quest, deal with the Mini Greenkies and get home. I’m a bit tired, so I want to do this as fast as possible.” I glanced at Tai, knowing he was the leader of our group, to say something, but it wasn’t like him to butt into other people’s arguments.

“Alright,” he said. “That’s all you had to say.”

Don’t get me wrong, he’s a good friend and all that, but he’s always repeating the same complaints. And no, I am not afraid to hit the guy or anyone as a matter of fact. Even if it seems like it … I’m not.

Anyways we go through the gate; by the way this gate spins slowly while floating about a foot off the ground. It has green stones floating around it as well. Looks nice if you can actually see the thing in person, but it can be dangerous at times. I’ve heard about Isyans, that’s what the people of the world of Isya are called, actually dieing for not using the portals right. Scary, right?

We get to Sand Beach, a few Fire Mushroom around, but they’re no biggie! Tai threw around a few fatal slashes and Aaron power shots a couple Fire Mushrooms out of our way. I’m not sure if I was the only one that noticed, but Tai seemed to hesitate on which direction to go in. I wasn’t going to make a big deal out of it, so I ignored it. We kept walking along the beach shore where we encountered tons of Crabs and Blue Crabs. They were as harmless as flies, but some of them would try to run up to us and grabs us with their pincers. A lot smaller then King Crab pincers for sure, I do not want to encounter any of those!

Everything was going well; we seemed to be going on the right path when something happened. “Tai?” Aaron called.

“Yeah?” replied Tai, still looking forward.

“Are you sure you know where were going?”

“Positive, you don’t think we were going the right way or what?” asked Tai.

“Not that, it just seems like we’ve been walking forever.” Aaron complained, again. “I mean it’ll feel really nice if we dipped in that ocean real quick.”

Tai actually looked on over to the water that was just glowing, calling to him to just jump in!

“Tai,” I said, trying to focus him on our quest. “What are you thinking?”

“Uh,” Tai was trying to get his words right. “Maybe we can use a little break.”

“Yes!” shouted Aaron with glee.

“C’mon Tai,” I said. “You can’t be serious!” I watched Aaron run toward the ocean while throwing off his clothes. “You’re seriously going to do this?”

“Cly, I’m as tired as you are,” he said to me with this exhausted look. “Maybe we need to cool down a bit.”

“Fine, you stay here with him and be the babysitter,” I said. ”I’m going to go walk around.” And with that I started to walk away from the beach. Once I was a few meters away from the beach, I looked back only to see Tai jumping in the ocean with Aaron. How dare he not try to get me to stay! After all we’ve been through! Okay, maybe it was a little stupid to get mad over that, but I’m tired as heck right now!

It’s been about five minutes since I left Tai and Aaron at the beach. Still a little angry at Tai I kicked this little hill of sand. Probably a bad idea since it got all over my shoes and a little in my eyes. As I rubbed my eyes I noticed a man standing under a palm tree. He was standing next to a cave so I figured that he was a Minor. I walked up to him and asked, “Are you a minor?” Which I thought was a pretty dumb question to ask since he glanced at his pickaxe and glanced right back at me.

“What do you think, boy?” He replied with his raspy voice.

“Sorry, it’s been a long day.” I replied trying to look at him in the eye.

“Boy, it’s hardly noon.”

“Uh, I’ve been questing a lot lately.” I replied quickly trying to make up an excuse, because I didn’t know what time it was.

“What is it that you want?” he replied, his voice sounded annoyed like if I was wasting his time. I don’t see how since he was doing absolutely nothing when I found him.

“Um, do you know where the Mini Greenkies are?” I asked. “I need them to finish my quest.”

“Mini Greenkies?” he started to chuckle. “Boy, for the past years I’ve been standing at by this palm three here I’ve seen nothing but Crab, Blue Crab and King Crab! Aha! And you over here asking for Mini Greenkies?” I really saw no point of why he was laughing. A simple ‘no’ would have been fine and I’d been on my way, but no, he decides to laugh at my face. “Listen here,” he gestured his hand telling me to get closer to him. I didn’t.

“There Mini Greenkies you so called aren’t going to be around the beach. You need to go looking in the grassy area.”

“Where’s that?” I asked. Again thinking ‘why did I say that’ when he glanced to his left you can see patches of green a few feet away.

“I think you can find your way there.” He told me. He let out a creepy smile which really disturbed me and made me wish I never left Tai and Aaron at the beach.

“Thank you.” I said and started to walk down toward the grass. Hoping that I would have never had to see him again.

“Wait!” he shouted, spoke too soon. I turned raised my arm over my head. The sun was beaming straight at me. I squinted to see the Minor. “Don’t you want to go in the cave?”

“Why would I want to do that?”

“It’s fresh in there, nice and cool,” he told me. “Unless you want to stay out here in the hot sun and get a nice dark tan.” He laughed a little. I walked to the cave. Hardly a couple feet away I now knew why the Minor was standing next to the palm tree. The palm tree gave shade and the cave was giving out fresh chilly air. Just what I need right now. I took one step in, “I’d be careful in there.” He warned me.

“What do you mean?” I asked curiously.

“Well, I always see young adventurers like you go in every day and none of them come back out.” I backed off a little. “Then there are those who are too scared to go in the cave, noticing that you already took a step back, your one of those.” Angry at his little comment and from Tai for completely dissing me and Aaron for annoying me, I walked straight into the cave. Proud of myself of doing the unthinkable! I mean me in a dangerous cave! How cool am I! No pun intended. “Good luck in there! Ha-ha!” said the Minor with the creepiest laugh I can ever think of. His laugh echoed throughout the tunnel I was walking in. Just then I stumbled on a faded, ripped up sign that read, ‘Welcome to Cave of Echo!’ And I completely thought of the most horrifying things that could possibly happen to me. But I couldn’t just turn back around and let the guy laugh at me! So, I continued on walking down the creepy-like tunnel and hoped for the best!

Tai runs out of the water and quickly grabs his armor for warmth. He drops his top due to it being hot because of the sun. He looks around and notices that Cly isn’t back yet. He looks back at Aaron who was floating on his back with his eyes closed. Without a word Tai decides to go look for Cly.

As I walk down the tunnel I come across a big field of orbs. Across the room I can see Hooligan Phinofly mining them. I’ve done my research on these things and they LOVE shiny things. So, carrying this Round Shield with me isn’t the best of ideas! But I was too late; one of the Hooligan Phinofly caught their eye on my Round Shield. It crept toward me slowly, I backed up a bit. Then it began to sprint as fast as it could to me, before I had a chance to run, the other Hooligan Phinofly started to run after me as well! Now I had a whole mob of Hooligan Phinofly’s after me! Now I really wished I never had left the beach! Why couldn’t I just get in the water and drown Aaron for the hell of it! Ah! I’m going to die. ALONE!

Tai managed to find the Minor that I was taking to before entering Cave of Echo. The Minor was sitting and lying against the palm tree sleeping. Tai didn’t bother to wake him up. He felt