The World We Do Not Know - 191 New Trouble

Ares walks out of the house with the help of clutches and his right arm in an arm sling. He instantly gets blown away by the sight his eyes are met with. He finds himself surrounded by grassy terrains all around him with hills, and a small village in the middle. A beach could be seen faintly across the mountains.

There are small, steep trekking steps to get down from the hill that Gus house is located on and the stair way is curved. There is room for only one foot on each step. It really looked like a stairway to hell. It could really become one if they were not careful enough. It is certainly not for the weak hearted. One needs to be careful of the slippery wet steps. And with strong winds blowing in the midway, it is naturally hard for a normal person to crawl down and even harder for Ares to get down as he cannot use the strength of his two feet completely.

“Mr. Ares, would you prefer going down with a rope way?” Gus asks with consideration.

The rope way is good for two people at a time and a person needs to pull the rope to make the wheel move. The cart will travel in any way they chose to move it.

“No no, no need for you to use any force” Alex tries to speak, but before he could – Out of nowhere Yang suddenly takes a long leap and jumps down the hill from the peak without any hesitation.

For Gus who has no idea about the superhuman strategy of advance technology panicked and worried at the sight of seeing Yang jumping down the mountain.

“What?? Mr.Yang! Oh no, this is bad!!” Gus is greatly in shock at what Yang has done and rushes to the cape to see what has happened to him.

Yang is wearing two leather gloves which seem to be reinforced with steel near the knuckles but what draws our attention to it is, there is a red stone on the palms of his gloves which started to emit a red aura, the red mist like aura swirled around his arms like a snake coiling around branches.

Yang seems like he is getting ready to aim at the ground by drawing one of his arm behind him and his other arm in front of him.

*Oomph!” he threw a punch in the air as he approaches the foot of mountain. It’s nothing different from him punching the air. Following his punch, a strong gust of wind is created around Yang, as though he has blasted a canon, which decreased the falling momentum of Yang. In mere 5 seconds after Yang jumped off the mountain, he landed on the ground normally as though he is hopping on the ground.

“Wh… what in the world did I see just now?!” Gus panicked upon seeing such power and strength displayed in front of him. He was of all more surprised and curious of the gloves that Yang was wearing, as Yang’s gloves are now back to normal with the red stone looking dormant and the aura disappeared into thin air.

“pfff, yeah, what a show off. Doing a little circus trick to impress people. So mature of him.” Tanya says with an arrogant and smirking smile and none of the soldiers on top of the mountain standing with Gus seemed surprised. In fact the look on the soldier’s faces shows displeasure.

“Oh! So our tools are fixed this fast? No wonder having you with us is a big relief” Ares praises Alex with his words and starts to climb down off the hill using the small steps.

Even though the winds are strong and the steps are too small that it is hard to climb down for a normal person and for people like Ares its almost impossible. But to Gus’s surprise, Ares and the rest are comfortable getting down the mountain without any problem. They do it while talking to each other about different things. Actually, it’s Gus who is being left behind unable to keep up with the soldiers as he keep rushing down to catch up with the soldiers.

“Oooof! It was easier than I thought it would be, eh? Now, my saviour Gus, let’s go see and explore the island” Ares is moving all around in excitement and jumping around like a kid, as if he wasn’t hurt at all.

“Cap’n are you really hurt?” Albert asks with a smirk and suspicion written all over his face while Ares nervously just laugh it off without saying a word.

As they continue to walk, the soldiers comes across the dogs and hens that welcomed them on the streets. The people too started recognizing the wounded soldiers that were washed ashore. Everyone started to greet them and wish them to recover soon. Each of the villagers tried to grab and take the soldiers to their houses as guests, to introduce many things to the soldiers as they walk by.

“We also have guinea pigs over here.” A women says while pointing her finger towards a fence and a little garden with a little house built for guinea pigs.

“Guinea pigs? Oh wow guinea pigs, I see them in the garden.” Ares face lit up as he see guinea pigs in the lady’s garden.

“You don’t see guinea pigs in cities and concrete jungle nowadays.” Alex says.

“But why Guinea pigs? Are they just your pets?” Tanya asks the lady who showed them.

“Yes…” The lady replies with a smile.

“Oh wow! This lady also has some vegetables and mint leaf growing in her small garden” Ares talks excitedly like a little child.

“Are you cultivating on this land?” Yang asks the lady.

“Yes, me and my sister Tisha(age-18) cultivate and grows vegetables in this garden. The chicken eggs help us earn a little money and our dogs here guard the garden and guinea pigs” Rissa (age -22), the lady who invited them over to her garden explains to Yang.

“Who is the person hiding behind you all this while?” Tanya asks Rissa with curiosity and she peeks over Rissa shoulder to get a better look at who’s behind her.

“Oh! this is my sister Tisha,whom I was talking about. She’s a little shy, so don’t mind her.” Rissa says with a grin.

Yang felt a little tense as his and Tisha’s eyes meet for the very first time. His heart-felt as light as a feather, almost floating, he couldn’t take his gaze off from Tisha.

Tisha is a shy and timid looking girl. She has very soft and fair skin that looks very delicate. It’s so creamy white that it seems if her skin ever comes in contact with anyone, it will make it dusty.

Tisha’s fair skin has more pink added to it now as she sees Yang’s gaze fixated on her. She hurriedly  looks down trying to avoid his gaze as she blushes and her round amber coloured eyes sparkles. It attracts Yang, who had never felt anything like this before. His heart is racing fast not allowing his feelings to settle down. He has never seen a girl who could stir up his heart and soften him up completely.

“Ahem… Yang let’s move on now?” Ares says to Yang before things get more awkward. He has seen what was going on between Tisha and Yang.

“Oh why… I wish someone would look at me too with their blue piercing eyes ahhhh~” Rissa playfully says as she gets closer to Ares and leans on his shoulder referring to how Yang looks at Tisha.

“Ah, how much I wish someone would hold my hand too” Tanya furiously says under her breath as she holds the other arm of Ares and glares at Rissa.

Ares can feel that Rissa and Tanya are pressing their chest against him as if they’re competing against each other.

“Whaaaa!!! well…. We…. ooooooooo ummmm” Ares face turns super red at this situation unfolded and he have a really tough time to utter words out of his mouth.

“Ta-Tanyaaaa!!!!! Ares, you popular bastard!. Alex give me my weapon. I’m going to incinerate these creatures!.” Albert cries out loudly for Tanya while hating Ares for his popularity among women, as he shouts at Alex, asking for his weapons.

“Haha, I just like to tease young boys. Well, all of you are welcome to come buy eggs and vegetables from us anytime. I only sell vegetables to people who are special to me” Rissa says in a seductive tone while she runs her finger on Gus’s cheek.

Gus shivers at her touch and he backs away quickly, tilting his head down as it got red and hot.

“Ahhhh, Alex kill me please Alex I don’t want to live anymore!!!” Albert shouts while he grabs Alex’s neck and suffocates him. Albert is beyond disappointed that even a 15y/o gets more action than him and he curses his very own virgin life.

“Ahhhhhh, Albert I will hold your hands if you want just don’t kill me pweasee!” Alex annoyingly said to Albert and frowns.

I will do anything you want, just don’t take your anger out on me and choke me to death is what Alex wanted to say.

“We need to leave now, we will come for dinner sometime later” Ares says and runs out of the house without even wanting to look back at what he has just experienced.

Yang looks around and comes back to his senses. He takes his leave quietly but as he leaves, he sneakily looks back at Tisha who was still hiding behind her sister.

Tisha who was brave enough to look up after the soldiers left, caught Yang is still looking at her when he is about to leave and she smiles at him shyly, but sweetly at the same time. A smile that rivals the beauty of cherry blossoms that instantly melted Yang’s heart even further.

As everyone heads towards the house the village chief lives in, no one has noticed how Yang was suddenly acting strangely, except for Ares.

*”So a woman can do this to any kind of man huh”* Ares smiles in secrecy at the reddish face of Yang, who was just a cold-blooded soldier a while ago inside Gus’s house.

As they enter the chief’s house, Gus notices a pair of shoes left in front of the door which was never seen by him in this entire village. He quickly realized that something is wrong with the noises and unfamiliar voices coming from inside the house. Gus suddenly rushes towards the entrance, the soldiers realizing the unusual seriousness in Gus’s behavior, follows him as he opens the door hastily.

“WHAAT THE HELL..!!!! What are you guys doing in our village??!!” Gus yells with rage. And he takes out his scalpel and rushes towards the person sitting in front of his village chief and point it at him threateningly.

“No Gus, hold on!.” The chief of Mindoro village, Mars, shouts in surprise of the action taken by Gus.

Gus is just overtaken by his rage, he couldn’t listen to a single sound n the room, because in front of him are the people from Caracus village and his long time enemies. But they seemed to come here to talk to the chief about something peacefully.

*”It’s legal as long as it’s not our men who drew the weapon first.”* One of the guards from Caracus village feels the meeting is useless and takes this as an opportunity to attack the villagers and dashes towards Gus with his blade which is longer than an arm of a person.

Gus could not even see a person coming towards him to take his head, the rest of the guards from Caracus that are in the room realizes the blood lust of one of their guard who is charging towards Gus with a huge blade.

The guard was about to swing his huge blade to cut Gus vertically into two, but suddenly a person appeared in between him and Gus. He stopped Gus with his clutches and halts the swing of the blade by holding the sharp edge with his finger tips.

“Ow ow, a huge blade for a scalpel? This is a little unfair, don’t you think? Hehe”. Ares playfully said to the soldier with a mischievous smile.

*”Wha-what..! who is this person!, I cannot move my blade inwards to cut him nor can I retract my blade. His hand isn’t even budging!”*The guard thinks while witnessing the power difference between him and Ares. *”Is he even human?!!”*

“I suggest you to refrain from your violent thoughts.” Ares says to the guard while his bright smile starts to fade away slowly and turning into a killer expression.

Ares is emitting a strong aura. The guards and the soldiers in the room can feel his aura from a distance, his eyes are turning cold and sending chills down the spines of the guards of Caracus. It’s almost as if they are looking at a demon that they cannot be comparable in strength. The atmosphere inside that single room became greatly tensed and every guard in the room automatically drew their weapons out as their pure animal instinct is telling them that death is coming in their way in the form of Ares.

“Why don’t we talk first? I want a cup of coffee if possible, my whole body is so sore hah! hah! hah!.” Ares suddenly changes his presence and laughs in a goofy voice.

“Gus, soldiers, please calm down.” The village chief speaks up trying to calm his people down.

“Stand down!” the official of Caracus orders his guards in a commanding tone. The official looks like a  strict and serious person.

Ares loosens his grip off the huge blade and the guard with the blade steps back from Ares like a helpless hyena backing from Lion’s vicious strike.

The soldiers and the chief are relieved, but the official from the Caracus village and his 4 guards were not relieved by a bit at all. All of them are shocked and scared, they did not expect Mindoro to posses such strong kind of people like Ares.

“Chief Mars, what are these people doing here?” Gus asks the chief bitterly.

“We got attacked…. by outsiders, they annihilated our village. They have different weapons that blew away our barricades, pierced through our armor, we suffered a huge loss” the official from Caracus replies.

“That’s what you ge…” Gus was about to add insult to the injury, but before he could, he was interrupted.

“They said we were hiding 5 soldiers” The official said to Gus.

Gus and the soldiers were dumbstruck.

Ares and his party are the only 5 soldiers on the entire island. Did they get tracked down and are now being hunted?