~ After the passing of their friend Flint, Ion and Zephyr decide to venture out on a journey of self discovery and to hopefully one day carry out Flint's dream of becoming a Contract Hunter. Ion and Flint for their age, were very talented in combat with swords and scythes respectively, and in their natural element of psyenergy. Ion armed with the sword his father gave to him when he was really young and Zephyr armed with a newly fashioned scythe, crafted by his big sister, a blacksmith in training, were able to easily dispatch any foe they came across. Bandits thought that they were easy targets, two fairly young boys traveling alone, with weapons that looked too big for them to wield properly, easy target to steal from or capture for the underground slave market. What none of them expected though was just how talented these two kids were, overpowering anyone who crossed them with lethal precision and just how cold blooded these boys could be.
This did cause Ion and Zephyr to develop a sense of cockiness, as they did start to overly enjoy these encounters and even seek them out for fun but also to keep their skills sharp. One bandit group planned a retaliation against these two, getting high numbers and following them into a dense forest, apparently undetected, though there was a old fox who lived nearby this forest and decided to tail the bandit group to see what the commotion was about. Seeing the two young boys being apparently followed, the old fox got ready for action as he would make sure no harm came to the young lads. Though something seamed off when the two boys suddenly stopped, throwing the bandit group and the old fox off guard a bit. Both of them started laughing before the boy with the ice blue in his fur started pointing all around saying "we know you are all there" with the boy in the orange hat following up with "think you can take us?".
The bandits now knowing their position was compromised, all descended on the two boys, weapons drawn and ready to kill. The old fox readied to jump in and defend the what he though were two idiot kids that provoked a large bandit group, even if they were talented enough to sense them, they should have never let them on to that and call them out. But the old fox just stood there, amazed just how swiftly and deadly these boy took out the whole hoard of them, completely wiping out the entire bandit group without breaking a sweat. They were talented for sure as the old fox could see they were not even using their full power but they were raw and unrefined. They needed someone who could mold them, who could flesh out their great potential and to help get rid of that cockiness that they displayed. Seeing as their senses were not fully sharpened yet as well, with the two of them not being aware of his presence, he decided to follow them a bit more as he had taken a great interest in them. Being a somewhat retired Contract Hunter himself, the old fox though he owed it to these two boys to not let their potential go to waste, and he would help them realize it.
The old fox found his next project in life, a life that for the last little while he felt nothing but sadness but seeing these two put the spark back into him. As the two young boys ventured on, the old fox waited to make his move, with the two boys unaware of just exactly how their lives would change and how they would eventually take the first step in actually achieving Flint's dream ~
