and was immediately startled by shouting further ahead, Mars gave a frown and walked ahead after he grabbed Yel by the hand as he approached the source of the shouting and found a group made up of both elvers and sky people surroundings something

"we're going to fly Yel"

"yes master"

Mars flew up along with Yel and got a view of the situation, it looked like an elven soldier fighting a sky person surrounded by the crowd, Mars was about to step in when Yel held him back and called out to him

"wait master"

"...okay"

Mars waited as Yel told him and despite it begin a fight Mars noticed that both sides were smiling and laughing as they exchanged moves, Mars gave a smile as he realized it was a friendly fight and gave Yel's hand a squeeze as he thanked her

"thanks Yel, without you here I would have made a fool of myself"

"it's my pleasure to be of use master"

Mars turned around and petted Yel on the head before he gave a wide smile and said

"let's go see your mom"

"yes master"

Mars and Yel flew off and soon they arrived at Xel house and Mars knocked on the door

"come in limp d.i.c.k"

Mars' smile stiffened slightly at the new insult Xel had decided to address him with but opened the door still and found Xel sitting on a floor cus.h.i.+on and sewing clothes, Mars and Yel steeped in and sat down across from her before Xel gave a sniff and looked at Yel then at Mars and then at their hands which were still together and gave a smile

"looks like I can't call you limp d.i.c.k anymore Mars"

"...mom please"

Yel went red from embarra.s.sment while Mars just gave a smile and asked

"how have you been since the move Xel?"

"good, but less about me we have elder stuff to talk about"

Mars straightened his back and for the next hour or so Mars and Xel talked about things related to the elder council, there was some things to catch up on since Mars had been absent from the last few meetings but n.o.body faulted him since the sky people had been told about his divine mission to close the portal that connected the two worlds, after going over topics such as hunting patterns and local wildlife in the forest which mars knew a lot more about than the sky people Mars and Xel spent some time hurling insults at each other with smiles on their faces before Yel eventually spoke up

"master, mother can't you just speak normally to each other?"

Mars and Xel locked eyes for a moment before they said in perfect sink

""this is pretty normal though?""

Yel gave a sigh before she stood up and walked out of the room with a twitching smile on her face, leaving Mars and Xel that both laughed for a bit before Mars stood up and said

"I'll better chase after her"

"you do that Mars, it was nice seeing you two"

Mars raised his hand in farvel as he walked out of the house and began chasing after Yel, luckily she had not run very far, Mars found her a few meters away from the house and bluntly asked her

"are you mad?"

"...I'm not mad master"

"you look pretty mad"

"...I said I'm not mad"

"okay then..."

Mars walked over and poked her puffed cheeks a few times before he apologized

"sorry Yel"

Yel gave a sigh before Mars took her hand and gave it a light squeeze

"let's head back, it's about noon anyways"

"....yes master"

Mars and Yel went back to Green river by portal and ate lunch along with the rest of the girls before they all went out shopping for supplies for the road and by evening they all returned to Mars' building and ate dinner before they went to bed...

early the next morning a portal opened in the eastern plains of Kafer and the group of 7 stepped out of it before it closed before they began walking east, it was not for long though as Mars suddenly heard a sound he had not expected to hear in this life

"...stop here, we have incoming"

Mars kneeled down and so did the rest of the group, then Mars transformed his eyes and looked ahead and saw... an off road car, it looked like something from an old movie his father had once shown him called Mad Max, it had spikes and a gun turret with what looked like magic powered hot weapons

"sure sounds like a combustion engine"

"....Mars what's a combustion engine?"

Mars pointed ahead at the car that was speeding towards them and simply said

"that is a combustion engine"