A New Path - Chapter 237

“M-Mister, Elfman and I would like to ride them.” Lisanna, Elfman and Amell stood outside the house with the panthers wrestling with each other close by. Lisanna, however, had been working up the courage to ask Amell this favour for an entire hour. She stood and pointed at the panthers while asking him if she could ride them since she didn’t know what they were called.

“You don’t like walking?”

“I do! But they are so soft I want to ride them, can I, please?” Lisanna pouted her lips cutely. Her childlike attitude won over Amell’s steel-like will, even though he had been around kids most of his life.

“Sure, and it is probably a good idea you three do so. We have quite a long distance to cover today.” Amell whistled over the panthers.

“You guys, these three siblings will ride on your backs so we can travel a little faster.” They nodded and bowed down so they could climb up on their backs.

“Yeah!” Elfman yelled and jumped on excitedly and following close behind him was Lisanna. They were gonna share ride while Mira would get her own. Speaking of the devil, Mirajane came walking out of the house with a completely new outfit on. Elfman and Lisanna also had new clothes on. Amell had travelled to Saint City in the middle of the night and bought new clothes for them, The previous outfits they had were complete rags that covered barely anything, so Amell bought some real clothes for them.

“Looks like I got the right size for all of you, lucky me!” Amell breathed out a sigh. Mira had slightly rose-coloured cheeks. She wanted to thank him for the nice clothes, but she didn’t wanna be indebted to him either. She wasn’t a fan of either idea.

“Yeah, T-Thanks, I suppose,” Mira quickly walked past him but stopped when she saw her siblings sitting on top of those cat animals. “What are you two doing?” She questioned with a slight head tilt.

“Mister said it was okay!” Lisanna yelled happily. She sat there and swayed back and forth behind Elfman.

“You three do not have to call me, Mister anymore. If you don’t wanna call me Amell, you can just call me an old man. That works too.”

“Okay, old man! I understand!” Elfman yelled with an equal amount of excitement as his sister.

“Little Mira, hop on that panther, they are gonna carry you, so we can travel a little faster.” Amell’s second panther walked up to Mira and bowed down. They were quite big animals, and both of them were bigger than Mira and she was the tallest of the siblings.

“No way! I can walk by myself!”

“Are you sure you can keep up with your siblings? They are gonna ride on an animal that can run faster than a horse-drawn carriage. But I guess you know that already.” Amell started to pretend to walk away with the other two’s panther in tow.

“Wait! Okay, just… Give me a second!” Mira said and started to slowly approach the panther. And with one slow movement at a time, she soon sat on top the black panther. It raised its body and Mira immediately pressed herself against its back and gripped its fur as hard as she could.

“Now we can finally be off!” Amell started jogging and the panthers followed after him with the siblings on their backs.

And so, their journey began towards the magic council. Their speed was slightly faster than a horse-drawn carriage, and two of the three siblings had the time of their lives. Elfman and Lisanna were waving their hands in the air without the slightest thought that they could fall off and die. For Mirajane, this was all she could think about, so she pressed her whole body against the panther and also closed her eyes, she only heard her sibling’s loud laugher and Amell’s occasional chuckle at their behaviour.

A couple of hours of this and finally Amell’s eyes locked onto a massive building in the distance. As they got closer and the scales corrected themselves, Amell could see how truly big the building was. “Been a while since I’ve seen this place, looks like they have upgraded a little.” He signalled for his cats to stop running.

“We have arrived, little Mira, you can finally open your eyes.” As everyone stopped, Mira slowly opened her left eye to scan her surrounding. When she confirmed that everything was safe she jumped off and stormed off to Amell.

“Do not EVER do that to me again! That was hell on earth!” She yelled this then walked off to see to her siblings. Elfman and Lisanna hadn’t lost their spirit which was unusual for kids. They had strained their voices quite badly after all that yelling.

“Quite the attitude on that one,” Amell shook his head and chuckled. He turned towards the building, and they were only a few hundred meters away from the large gates leading to the massive building.

“Are you all ready? We have arrived now, we are going in there, and when we get in there stay very close to me.” He said seriously and waited for Mira to nod in confirmation.

“Okay, let’s go!” He started walking after the siblings were done doing whatever they were doing. “Remember, stay close to me!”

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