-Break-

  Location: Orb’s mansion

  A few days ter

  Φ Hopping up from her bed Maple opens her eyes yawns and looks to her left, where her husband Willow lies.

  Looking at Willow’s face I am quiet, then a few moments ter with my finger I poke his cheeks and say, “This is all mine,” With a smile on my face.

  “His face really is big, and his cheeks are softer than I thought.”

  Grabbing his hands, I say, “He is always wearing the bandages across his hand, so he keep his hands soft. It makes the animals like his touch more. He really is adorable, makes me want to eat him.”

  Lying down on our bed, I say, “Well he is my husband, so a little nibble won’t hurt.”

  Closing my eyes, I open my mouth and try to bite Willow's ear, but I end up nibbling on something bigger.

  Opening my eyes, I see I am biting his nose. Fag me with his eyes open, Willow smiles and then starts to cry profusely.

  Shocked, I sit up and say, “I am sorry I didn’t think it would hurt a lot, I won’t do it again.”

  Standing up as well, Willow says, “No, I am just so happy I get to experiehis with you. I love you so much!”

  Freaking out, I hit Willow in the chest, and say, “Don’t cry over such stupid things! I thought I had actually upset you.”

  Hugging me, Willow says, “You could never upset me, as long as you remain you, I will always be in love with you.”

  Fag him, I say, “Well you better, because if you don’t, I will kill you.”

  Hugging me even tighter, he says, “Please do if such a tragedy were to ever happen.”

  “I got your permission so no taking it back.”

  “Oh course I won’t, but also I am your husband so you ask permission to do other things for me instead of just attag me during the night.”

  Looking away, I say, “I don’t want to do anything!”

  “You sure, because I have already allowed you to see me pletely, so if you want to nibble me a bit you .”

  Turning red, and looking away, I ask, “ I.”

  g even more, Willow says “Yes, whatever you want to do, go ahead!”

  Turning into his chest, I open my mouth and prepare to bite him, but then through the door, Orb walks in and says, “The day has begun time to work!”

  In our promising positioare at Orb aares at us. Then with blue hair, Orb says, “Wha-What did I say about doing unspeakable things in my childhood bed!”

  Willow's face is filled with embarrassment, and I scream, “LEAVE RIGHT NOW.”

  “NO, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY ROOM.”

  “IDT’S MY ROOM NOW SO DASH!” Grabbing my bow from my bed side I activate my legad shoot directly at out.

  When it nds it lets out a little explosion.

  “Serves yht, bleh!” I say, stig out my tongue.

  -Break-

  Since Orb didn’t get us a gift for our wedding, he decided that he would give us alone a room to ourselves. But he imposed stupid rules like we ot do anything he doesn’t like in the room.

  Walking out the main door of the mansion, I wave to Willow and say, “See you ter.”

  Hugging me, he says, “Bye darling!”

  As we split ways I stop for a moment as I notiething in my peripheral. It is a girl wearing a fox mask, with 3 rge white tails behind her; it’s Suzuka.

  “It seems I o get to it today as well.”

  I start dashing towards her, and as I do, she starts to run away so I scream, “You're always stalking me, so instead of running away why don’t you try to talk to me!”

  Usiails she rolls up into a ball, and just like a hedgehog she rolls away faster than I keep up with her. Stamping my foot, I say, “She got away again!”

  Before I catch my breath, someone says, “Hello chief.”

  Looking at him, I see it is someone familiar to me, “Umm aren’t you the head architect.” Struggling for a minute, I eventually say, “Your name is Ned right!”

  He pauses for a moment, and then says, “You're right. It is just that I wao talk to you about the pns for the building, so do you know where Orb is.”

  Annoyed, I say, “Hey you just ask me, I am the vilge chief anymore, but I guess we are a bit bigger than a vilge now. So I guess I am the queen!”

  Maple is incredibly happy as she speaks about being the queen, so much so that the man in front of her goes along with it.

  Grabbing, the paper out of his hand, I ask, “So what do you need?”

  Ned says, “I just need you to get me more of the materials for the stru, I would also like some ideas because we need substitutes for the ats eater hide we have been using.

  If we start hunting too many of them, we might hurt the ecosystem around here, and wonderbeasts like predasaurs need bance or we might end up with more animals behaving like sonbits and overhunting.”

  As he speaks my head starts to spin. I have killed thousands of wonderbeasts, and have seen their insides, but I don’t reize any of them in this drawing.

  This building in front of me just ’t be structed from wonderbeasts parts it just ’t be. There are also a bunch of numbers on the page, isn’t building physical work, what is with all of this maths?

  As I am about to pass out due to all this information, I hear Orb say, “Arend is everything ok?”

  “Oh yeah, king would you be able to help us with this?”

  With a face of disgust, Orb says, “Please don’t call me king, Orb is enough.”

  “Sorry, just force of habit from hearing people talk about you.”

  “So what do you need?”

  Arend shows Orb, the paper and then in mere moments, Orb replies to him and solves the problem.

  “Thank you, ki- I mean Orb.”

  “No problem, just do your best.”

  Seeing this, Maple hangs her head down low in frustration and embarrassment.

  Turning to me Orb says, “Hey Maple I have a favour to ask you?”

  Giddy I say, “What is it, tell me I will get it done!”

  “Gd to see your enthusiasm. I need you to do some extra hunting during today's training, specifically, the monkey-like wonderbeast that I found, the Norka’s as Avram put it, we need some of its hide.”

  “WILL DO!” I say as I run off.

  -Break-

  Location: Bottom level of Fimbulwinter.

  During each day all of the warriors of Aplos, and some others head down to collect food, and now materials for building as well.

  As a Spercera attacks one Coco, Buloke interrupts and strikes it with his spear.

  Then reag out his hand, he says, “Coco, are you okay.”

  Grabbing it he says, “Yeah, but this spirit arts thing is hard to get down.”

  Along with the usual hunting, we have also made sure to train everyone in spirit arts. Some people got it instantly while others have been struggling, though unlike when we were training in the Gaia sky caves, actual bat makes it easier to uand.

  Someone behind us screams. It seems a tor is attag the man behind us, though before it does any serious damage Alis kills it in one blow.

  Aea says, “It seems the new recruits are struggling to fight, I guess not all outsiders are as strong as Orb.”

  Mango says, “We shouldn’t judge them, they were all still sves until earlier this year, they o build up strength. That’s why we should protect them.”

  Seeing the man shivering, I start to move close to him, but before I reach him Atanta appears at his side, and uses her legacy to create heat.

  Looking at the man, she says, “If you want to be strong you got to stay warm.”

  The man blushes as Atanta looks at him and says, “Ok.”

  Looking at everyoanta says proudly, “I might still be missing an arm but if any of you o stay warm in her or at night just call on me!”

  Cheers erupt through the area, and I notiany people are simply getting on by themselves.

  Due to all my squabbles with my father, I never got a ce to spend time with lots of the people in the vilge, evehe time Orb was gone I mostly spent my time with Willow.

  Sht now, strong, reliable figures like Buloke and Atanta are behaving more like leaders than I am.

  I o ge that aablish myself. I am not good at all of that paper stuff, but I fight with my legacy.

  From behind Atanta grabs me and says, “Maple give your master a hug. Tell me you love me!”

  Turning to her. I gre directly at her, and say, “I love you.”

  “I am not feeling it with that murderous gre!”

  Suddenly Buloke shouts, “GROUP UP!”

  Everyone following his instrus es together in a giant group, and then I ask, “What is the issue.”

  “Those monkey wonderbeasts; the Norkas are here!”

  Ever since Orb had a run-in with these wonderbeasts they have been appearing a lot more often, and they are a pain to fight. Their ability to swing from tree tops gives them a ridiculous amount of mobility, and if we spread out they will swoop down and start pig us off one by one.

  Luckily no one has died from them, yet, but we have sustained some serious injuries from them in the past.

  Buloke shouts, “Aea, Alis, Banya, Mango, Apur, Fir, Spruce, all of you will follow me into the treetops, the rest of you will stay here and be safe.”

  Bringing the stro among us to the treetops while the rest of us stay here, the best pn he manage. But still, it would be hard without someoh enough power to break through their hide.

  “Buloke why ’t I e along?”

  “Princess stay here it is too dangerous for you to join us.”

  “But you guys won’t have enough power without my legacy.”

  “Sorry, but you are not used to fighting side by side with us, there will be some issues with coordination when fighting a deadly enemy.”

  Yet again my mistakes haunt me, but still, I o prove myself worthy, as a warrior, and as a leader.

  “Then I will just fight by myself.”

  Using my spirit bow I weave an arrow with a very long tail, shoot it and then grab on to the end and use it to swing high into the air.

  Buloke looking in shock, says, “I thought her bow only shot arrows.”

  Atanta then says, “I taught her how to elohe shape of her arrows, to make weave rope in the spirit bow.”

  All the warriors of Aplos scream, “SO THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.”

  Buloke says, “Protect the princes-, I mean chief right now!”

  As I swing to the treetops, a memory pys in my mind.

  Activating my lega the soul book, I open it and say, “Veessiah, Sagittarius?”

  Orb then says, “It seems that is the name of yacy, Sagittarius, just like Iancu’s Capri, and Anto and Mime’s Gemini, yacy is named after one of the twelve months.

  It must mean that whoever yacy previously was, it was a great person who had aire month named after it.”

  My legacy improves my vision, but more than that it grants me the ability to speed up and slow things down.

  Reag the treetops, I activate my legad say, “I am going to take ead every one of you dht now!”

  Name: Norka

  Height: 375 cm

  Type: Predasaur, ivore

  Description: A giant monkey-like wonderbeast from the upper levels of Fimbulwinter, It has a giant e-shaped body with thick skin, two giant arms that could easily crush a human body, and ti.

  Fact: They smile stantly not because they are violent, but because they truly love swinging from the trees with all of their heart