Chapter 123 Invaders of the Mother forest 2 (2/2)
”you know how I was assigned a secret mission by the elders?”
”yeah, what about it?”
”well the mission was to invite Mars for a chat”
”I-I see... well in that case...”
Alvin gave a hand signal and the 11 other elvers showed themselves from the shadows of the forest
”let me escort you to Green river”
”captain!”
one of the elvers spoke out in protest
”we can't just escort some unknown outsiders to Green river!”
Alvin looked at the elf and gave a sigh before he put on a stern face
”did you not hear what Chloe just said?”
”with all due respect, she could be lying or perhaps that human is threatening her!”
”human? wait Mars is not a hu---”
before Alvin had a change to finish his sentence had Mars appeared in front of the elf that was speaking out against Chloe and grabbed him by the neck and lifted him into the air
”call me human one more time and I will end you”
”you!”
one of the nearby elvers took unkindly to Mars threatening one of the other elvers and drew her sword before she slashed at Mars, only to have a set of claws block her sword
”well aren't you lively”
Mars threw aside the elver he was holding by the neck and planted a lightning fast punch to her stomach making her kneel over
”get the human!”
”I'm telling you I'm not human!”
the distribute developed into a full on brawl between Mars and the remaining 10 elvers but less then 2 minutes later the forest was quiet again, well except for the groans of pain from the elvers Mars sat down on one of the more lively elvers and looked at Alvin with a grin on his face
”does this remind you of something Alvin?”
”....a bit, anyway could you get off Dexter”
”he tried to spit at me, i think he deserves to be sat on for some time”
”...please?”
”fine”
Mars got off the elver that apparently was called Dexter and brushed the dirt off his pants
”anyways... what do you know about the invaders?”
Alvin stroked his chin
”only that they made a beachhead in the southern peninsular and they seemed to have started building a fort”
”have you tried a diplomatic approach?”
”that's... sorry I don't know, I'm not high enough in the chain of command to know”
”I see... well then let's get going”
”yeah... squad, breaks over let's move... now!”
the wounded (mostly in their pride of course) elvers picked themselves off the ground and followed after Alvin while sending hateful looks at Mars, Mars as always ignored them and carried a calm smile on his face as he walked together with the girls
Later that day in the evening the group stopped to make camp, Mars found the looks he was getting a little annoying so he grew out some horns to convince the elvers he wasn't human which caused their looks to soften a little, everything would have been perfect if he had not beaten them so badly earlier
'well whatever...'
Mars sat down his backpack and pulled out his bedroll while he looked over at Chloe, she was speaking with some of the other elvers that sent glances in Mars' direction they were clearly still weary of him
'ignore it, ignore it...'
Mars sat down on his bedroll and pulled some dried meat out of his backpack and munched on it while he looked around, while he was eating Elsa came over and sat down next to him, she was silent for some time until Mars held out some dried meat and asked her
”want some?”
”...sure”
Elsa took some of the dried meat and begun eating it mean while she grabbed Mars' hand
”say why did you beat up the elvers earlier?”
”hmm... for nostalgia's sake”
”nostalgia? did you beat up a group of elvers before?”
”yeah when I first came to this forest I beat up a group of elvers that included Chloe and Alvin”
”...were they trying to kill you?”
”yeah... I remember Chloe's eyes they were dead like she was looking at some kind of filth”
”and so you beat her up?”
”...no she ran I sent Victoria after her”
”that must have been scary”
”yeah but they are friends now though”
”I see...”
Elsa leaned her head on Mars' shoulder and looked over at Chloe with a little envy in her eyes