Troy pov

“King Troy a word!”

I looked over to the open flap of the war tent and I saw the queen Isa and two of her guards behind her. I waved my captains out then I looked at her as they closed the flaps. I sat back on the table as she glared up at me. “What?” She stomped up to me with a glare on her face.

“What are you thinking!? More than half of our whole army is ready to follow you and your army!”

I closed a book as I looked at her. “I didn’t ask them to come and as far as I knew only three-thousand were willing to come with us. When did this happen, Queen Isa?” She seemed to calm down a little as she looked at me.”

“Well, you don’t seem to be lying. I have a talent for seeing through lies.”

I nodded then sat my book down on the table. “How many are wanting to come?” She frowned as she looked at me.

“About eight thousand.”

I sighed then rubbed my eyes as I looked at her. “We don’t have the mains to handle this.” She nodded but then a smile formed on her face.

“I’ll see to it an extra supply train will be set up. I’m not happy about this but if they follow I won’t see them hungry.”

I nodded and she waved to her guards and they bowed then walked out of the tent. She smiled at me then pointed to her ears. I smiled as I nodded at her. “Yes, the tent has a soundproof spell on it. You can also lock the flaps by putting a hand in the center of them then turn it to the right then to the left to unlock it.” She nodded then walked over and did as I said. Then the flaps turned red and the lower parts to the ground did the same so the rent wouldn’t be moved.

“Now, we need to talk about what you talked about the other day.”

I crossed my arms as I looked at her then sighed as I looked at her. “So, are you going to tear into me about my heritage too?” She nodded her head as she looked up at me then rubbed her arm as she looked down to the ground.

“No, I think I reacted in the wrong way after hearing all that. I overstepped with my words and I was scared I offered you with my words.” I nodded my head as I looked at her then leaned back on the table. “Please, by far your words were the most harmful I’ve ever heard.” She looked at me with pity by I waved a hand. “Look were not moving out for a few more days so do whatever you need to.” She opened her mouth to say something else and but stopped when I locked eyes with her. She turned then unlocked the flaps and walked out ears back on her head. I stood and turned then put my hands on the table. ‘Ya, she knows I’m pissed.’

“Boss?”

I turned and saw Shrapclaw standing behind me. I smiled as I turned and cracked my knuckles as I walked over to the weapons table. “Don’t worry about me Claw, I’m going hunting for some meat.” I put two quivers on my side then grabbed my metal bow.

“I’ll get a guard unit ready.”

I looked back at him then nodded my head as I looked at him. “No, any big game would run when a large group cames around. He looked at me for a second then sighed as he looked at me.

“If the queens or the offices hear about this then it’s going to be trouble.”

I laughed a little then I patted his shoulder as I walked out then jumped off to the forest and farmland. I landed then started to ran through trees and jumped around watching for any large beast. Then I saw something moving towards an open area and I jumped at the figure and landed on a branch where I saw it last. I heard breath then I shadow shot out at me. I jumped back landing on the ground then looked up at the tree. A cat-like woman stood on the branch I was standing on not a second ago. She was a large woman with a well-toned body. A nice six-pack with a nice set of double c cup and was wearing a black tank top with long black hair and blue glowing eyes. She was wearing bandages around her forearms and side hip armor.

“Your battle instincts are very good.”

I smiled as I hooked the bow to the back of my belt and punched my fist together as I looked at her. “Yep, now you going to try or?” She smiled as she jumped down and crossed her arms under her breast.

“Or nothing, I thought you were one of the deer assassins who were lurking around before the battles the other day.”

I laughed as I lowered my fist and crossed my arms as I looked at her. “Well, I’m sorry about that, I guess you could say it was our fault for destroying the war camp.” She smiled a little then walked over and started to look up and down me. I noticed darker spots on her fur on her shoulder and chest. “A snow leopard?” She looked at me surprise on her face.

“You noticed? Most think I’m a mountain lion.”

I laughed a little then pointed to the faint spots. “If you’re trying to hide your spots your make up is coming off.” She laughed into her hand then pulled out a small can then opened it then got out some grey stuff. “Um?” She looked at me then her face flushed a little then turned.

“S-sorry, I’m used to just being around my sister.”

I laughed and turned my head as I looked around. “Ah, well that aside what are you doing out here?”

“Looking for any big game. Our meal supply is empty and we need more. My sister doesn’t like to hunt so I do it after we moved down from the mountains after we lost our father.”

“Tell you what we’ll help each other miss?”

“No miss and its Aura and if we get anything I’ll have my sister Flora cook us a meal.”

“Ok, but what do we have to hurt around here?”

“Elk, bear, huge boars and if your brave gators in so swamps..”

I nodded as I looked at her then I waved her on. “Your land your call.” She smiled as she looked at me then extend her claws.

“Elk and maybe some bear meat too.”

I smiled then waved her she took off running then I ran up beside her. “So, why so trusting?” She smiled at me as she ran.

“I like to give someone the benefit at first so if someone does something stupid then I can kill them without regrets. I burst out laughing as I looked at her and she laughed as well. Then we stopped and I pulled out my long knife. I tossed it to her and she nodded and we jumped into the trees and keep going higher and higher. We stopped on a large tree overlooking a large clearing. I looked down at these monstrous large Elk. At the tip of the horns, they seemed to be nearly sixteen feet tall. “How heavy are those things?”

“Well, these are what the diamond dogs call mountain elk since the magic in this area makes them grow so big. As for weight, I think the heaviest I’ve heard of was over a tone.” I nodded then looked at a smaller bull near the edge of the clearing. I stood all the way up and tied the bow to my belt before I looked down at Aura. “Give me five minutes then come down to help my gut this thing.” I jumped off the branch and she yelled as I fell towards the young bull. I slammed into the ground beside him and he jumped back up on his hind hoofs. I jumped up out of the dust cloud and grabbed his throat and one of the horns. I threw my weight to the side taking him down to the ground but he was fighting like crazy kicking and screaming an ungodly screech. I locked my legs around his neck and grabbed both horns. I felt my bow and knife belt fly off as I fought with this guy. "Thanks for the meat!" I turned the head as fast as I could and snap its neck with a loud crack. He kicked his legs for a minute then stopped as Aura jumped down from a tree. She looked at me with shock on her face as I stood up. I dusted off my pants as She walked up and looked at the Elk.

“By the stars, you broke, it’s neck with your bare hands.”

I nodded as I picked my bow off the ground then my knife belt and tied it back around my waist.

“I’ve never got this much meat in one go.”

I looked at her as I retied the bow to the back of my belt. “Well, that’s good. Now, where can I find a bear?” She smiled as she leaned down then started to cut into the chest and started to drag the blade down.

“One will come to us, wherein their hunting ground.”

I nodded as I started to help her gut this thing and about twenty minutes I hear loud stomping. I stood up and saw a massive large white bear towering over me on all four. This thing was covered in scars with massive metal like claws and long white fangs with dry blood on its jaw and chest. I smiled as I pulled out four of my throwing knives as I looked at him.

“You’re going to fight it!?”

“I’m going to turn him into a rug!” I took off at a run two knives in my mouth as charged the beast. I turned the two knifed ready to stab down when I get close. I dropped to the ground and slide under then thing and stabbed both blades into the right knee focusing it to buckle under its own weight. I grabbed the other leg then pulled out another knife from my mouth. I stabbed the center of the second leg hind legs fully dropping it as I flew back from the beast. I landed and took out my last knife as it tried to stand back up but it buckled again. I jumped onto it’s back and it spun and tried to crush me but I spun to the side then stabbed the top spinal cord. He slammed down died as the elk. I ripped the blades out and looked over to a shocked Arua. I smiled as I turned the bear up onto its side. I pulled out a large knife from my bag then started to gut the bear.

“Your incredible.”

I smiled as I heard Arua my ego getting yet another boost. I cut the stomach opened then pulled everything out and set the heart aside.

“Why are you keeping the heart?”

I started to skin the bear as I explained. “It’s a tradition that many hunters chose to honor in my homeland. Plus. it shows respect to the spirit of the animal.” She stopped talking and I started to skin the bear. It took an hour for me to skin it and I looked back and she had nearly skinned the whole elk and I smiled as I started cutting off the meat.

“Just cut off the legs and back straps.”

“You sure?”

“Ya.”

I nodded then did as she asked and I cut the legs off then cut the back straps all the way down. It was well near sunset as we left with well over nine hundred pounds of good meat. I looked at the sky and pulled out a communication crystal from my pocket. I rubbed it and it gave off a bright blue glow. “Brutal you there?” A few seconds later his voice came back over.

“Ya?”

“I’ll be back late so have everyone ready to move out tomorrow evening,”

“You got it, Troy.”

I smiled as I put the crystal away then looked at Aura. She smiled as she struggled to pull the meat she had on the elk skin. I smirked as I stopped then grabbed the skin just under her hand. I grounded as I started to drag both skins.

“H-hey!”

“I got it just to lead the way.” She nodded then quickly walked ahead of me and I started to walk quickly behind her. After a few more minutes we walked up to a small farm with a light on in a run-down barn.

“Hey, Flora!”

Arua yelled and she ran up to the large barn door. I dragged up the meat as she pulled both doors open for me. And I saw a large female diamond dog wearing a pair of tight shorts with a bikini with a pattern I’d seen applejack wearing. I think it was called flannel but she only had it as a bikini bearly holding back what must be e cup breast. She was a beautiful dog with golden fur and a head full of hair with bright green eyes.

“Hey, sis… who is this?”

I smiled as I let go of the skins and waved at her as. Arua smiled as she walked over and grabbed the front of my belt and pulled.

“Troy and tonight I’m going to have fun.”

“Um?”

“Not a word seeing you take down the biggest monster of these country has got my blood hot.” I grab her forearm then pull her hand off my belt. “Well, I have a say in that and I don’t know you very well so maybe next time.” She looked annoyed but smiled then grabbed my junk I jumped then slapped her hand away.

‘Master I don’t think no is a word she knows.’

With a blush, I turned and walked out of the barn. “I’ll wait out here if you’re going to cook some of the meat.” I walked out and over to a woodpile in front of a road in front of the farm. I sat on the cutting block and sat in the cold air.

“Hey.”

I turned my head and saw Flora a small blanket over her. I stood up and she had to look up to me. I was a good thirteen inches taller than her. She was at most five-foot-four making her just a little shorter than Applebloom. I smiled down at her and she smiled back up at me. “Thank you, and I hope you don’t mind me taking the skin of the bear.”

“That’s more than fine…”

Three long and loud howls came from not too far. Flora looked scared for her life and I smiled down at her. “Let get you back inside of the barn and I’ll see what we can do about diner.” She smiled and we walked back to the barn and walked in. Now with a few lanterns on, I can see there were tons of holes in the walls and I could quickly feel the wind coming in. They had two small rooms in the back which looked like they had a little work done on them. I saw Arua had pulled all the meat in and was cutting up some. She had changed into a part of one of the shoulders. I walked over to the wall then put a hand on the wall. “Let’s see what I can do about this.” I sent a waved of ice energy out over the barn and every open spot in the wood filled with ice. It traveled all over the barn then the wind stopped with heat from the fire. I nodded at the stunned look on their faces when I saw down and grabbed a few chunks of meat from the elk and bear. I froze them solid and then tied the bearskin around it then froze that closed. “You two can keep everything else and I’ll have someone come to fix this place up. You could get sick living in a barn-like this.” They looked down then I realized what I said. “I’m... sorry I didn’t mean to make it sound like that,” Flora spoke up and sounded sad.

“No, it’s fine. We know what it meant when we left our father’s home but we couldn’t take the fighting anymore. We found this barn last year and well it’s been home.”

I nodded as I looked at them threw the meat on a grill. I sat down and put my back on the wall then let my body relax. ‘Those must be some big wolfs to make those howls. Maybe I should get another wolf puppy while I’m here.’ I closed my eyes and listened to the sounds of them talking and the sound of the siling meat. I felt one of them sit down beside me. I felt her shaking and I opened my right eye seeing Flora shacking clearly still cold. I smiled as I pulled the cloak off my body then wrapped it around her my heat energy quickly helping her. She smiled as she pulled it tighter to her body as she leaned back into the wall. I smiled then stood up and walked over to the grill. Arua had three nice stacks cooking with something wrapped in time folly. “So what’s cooking up?”

“Potatoes and Elk stacks.”

“Sound good.” Arua smiled then slapped her tail on my chest. I rolled my eye and seeing she wanted to play that game I played back in kind. I smacked her ass and all her fur shoot straight out with a blush on her face she turned and faced me with her claws out. I smiled as I looked down at her. “Play that game I’ll playback.” She huffed as she crossed her arms then smiled as she looked up at me.

“I think well get along very well.”

I smiled then crossed my arms as I looked at her then a thought hit me. “Say you two want to come along with me?” She raised an eyebrow as she looked at me.

“Where exactly?”

“My army is marching to griffin stone and we could use more nurses to help with the wounded.” She looked at me for a second then a scared look formed on her face.

“Are you an army officer?”

I laughed as I crossed my arm then nodded. “No, I’m the king commanding the now allied army.” She looked up at me frozen and I smiled as I leaned down to her face. “I also gave fair pay to anyone who works in my army. And, If you’d like I could have some better land and farm tools sent to you two.” She snapped out of it then frowned as she looked at me.

“What do you want for that?”

I smiled as I stood back up. “Join as a nurse and once it’s over you come home and I’ll have the royal family deal with everything else.” She nodded then sighed as she took both a stack and potto off the grill. She wrapped them in some more tin folly then held them out to me.

“We’ll talk about this, for now, have a good night.”

With a smile, I nodded then grabbed my meat and fur then walked out Flora keeping my cloak with a smile on her face as she waved me off. The walk back was nice and I noticed I was being followed as I walked but they backed off once I walked close to the camp. I set the stuff down then turned around and saw eyes. I opened the folly and took a bit of stack and spoke.“So, we going to do this or not?” I heard a laugh then claw jumped down from the trees.

“Sorry boss, we got a rush of deer troops while you were out.”

“And?”

“No wounded or casualties.”

“Any survivors on their side?”

“No sir we whipped them out after they tried to drag off a few female members of the second rifle battalion.”

I nodded then the other tigers came out then I unfroze the meat then took the skin then refroze it. Theirs well over four hundred pounds of bear and elk meat.” They smiled as they snacked it and took off running. “Make sure theirs enough for everyone one who wants some!”

“I’ll make sure of that Boss.”

Claw raced off after them and I laughed then lifted the skin over my shoulder. I walked but in to came and everyone was lining up at many of the mess hall tents getting some food. I walked passed them all and up to my tent, I walked into and stopped seeing a death mach staring match between Magma, Isa and Crhysails. “Um?” they all looked at me clearly annoyed. I blinked then took off. “Nope!”