77 chapter 1

Back during Rin, Lin, and Tenlong's training under Master J, a strange event occurred after a hard night's workout.

The three were sitting at a table built for men, Tenlong's size or bigger.

Rin spoke, "I feel like a newborn at a kitchen table! This is crazy!"

Lin laughed at her brother's comment.

Tenlong spoke, "I am sorry that we do not have any better arrangements, but Master J is not used to having house guests. I was the probably first one in centuries, to spend time with him. He is such a hermit that abhors change. He means well though. He is very hard-nosed, yet he is very giving at the same time. He had to see many wars and battles over the supposed thousand-year life that he has said to had lived. He has certainly obtained much crystallized intellectual prowess over all that time."

Rin spoke, "I wonder how strong he really is without any sandbagging? Grandpa has to be very strong as well. Isn't that right Lin?"

Lin did not respond since she looked to be deep in thought about something unbeknownst to the two others.

Rin spoke, "What is wrong, sis? Has a cat got your tongue? Out with it."

Tenlong frown and said, "Do not force her Rin. We don't want to harm her by forcing an issue when she is not ready to talk about it yet. Let us be considerate to her feelings at the very minimum."

Rin let the matter drop.

Tenlong spoke, "Why are you two so desperate to carry out this mission for your Grandpa? I will

do all I can to help you two, so tell me to shut up if I am prodding too much."

Lin pounded upon the stone table like a judge smacking his gavel. She stood to her feet in a rage that of someone bigger than even Tenlong.

Rin just sat there at the table frozen, like a statue.

Tenlong spoke with concern, "Have I erred my friends? What did I do to wrong you all? Please do tell me what I have done."

Rin spoke, "It is okay. You have done nothing wrong to us. It is that the subject is just a sore subject for us, especially for Lin. We miss Grandpa after being with him nearly all our lives."

Lin tried and succeeded to flip the table over and everything on it.

Her face was red as an apple and grimaced into a face filled with pure unadulterated anger.

Rin spoke, "We were our grandpa's hands and feet, but he cast away one day out in the blue. He gave us no explanation but just handed us this hastily written map. If he had made it himself, then he would have been very trouble at the time upon which he had written it. That much I know to the gospel truth as you say it, Tenlong."

Lin started to break what few dishes that were left unbroken after she had flipped the table.

She spoke, "Are we not good enough anymore? Why have cast us like unwanted trash down into

a dumpster fire? What have we done to you to deserve this? We did all we could to please you and did all our tasks as good little children. Yet, here we are in the land, we know nothing about to find something that may or may not even exist! What malarkey!"

The twins were both crying profusely to the point that Tenlong was forced to take action.

Tenlong remembered how he felt in the arms of both of his mothers. He picked them off the floor like little babies in a mother's arms, with the means of trying to comfort Rin and Lin.

Lin instantly fought the embrace of Tenlong, kicked and punching to no end. Rin tried to escape

the Gigantos' grip as well, but as violently as Lin was at this moment. The pair was powerless to escape the mighty man powerful, yet somehow gentle embrace.

Lin gasped as she looked up into the eyes of Tenlong.

He was crying along with them with the tenderest look that one could be given.

Rin saw as well and was taken back by the sight as well.

A spirit of peace covered the trio like they are given ad never experienced before. Tenlong lowered

the duo to the floor with care not often given by a man of his size.

The twins' eyes about jumped out of their skulls when they looked back upon the image of

Tenlong.

He appeared to much older and bigger at twenty feet tall, to go along with weighing one ton of hardening muscle. He was wearing the clothing of royalty with a large golden crown on his head. The crown had gemstones upon them, but that was not the greatest attraction that they saw that day.

There was an elongated green dragon wrapping itself around the flesh of the giant. The dragon did something truly unexpected.

The dragon roared at the twins with a deafening blast of wind that caused the twins to tremble at its very presence.

Rin and Lin were white as a ghost as Tenlong's appearance returned back to his normal self.

Tenlong was totally unaware of what had transpired and the twins never spoke to Tenlong about what really had transpired that night.

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Tenlong and the had just returned back from their mission with the pirate island when Master J greets them with a firm look on his face.

The master spoke, "It did not go as I hoped, but better than I had expected. You three are three different individuals but still you are one unit do not forget that. There will come a time where you will need all your combined skills to win."

All three students nodded in agreement.

Master J spoke, "Go rest at Tenlong's house for a week and recover. Then and only then I will show you what you twins had looking for."

Rin and Lin bright up like a new shining star in the sky.

The twins bowed to the old warrior and said, "Thank you Master J!"

Tenlong bowed as well and repeated what the twins said.