The 1.000 year Great Sage ---> COMPLETED STORY

When Seya was ten years old and until he made 15, along with his travels with his mother, from time to time he gave an excuse like, going to visit Princess Heiji, or checking his fields, or going hunting, and he escaped from his mother's sight to travel alone.

On some of those travels, he indeed went to meet the Princess and he took her with him. Others, he went all alone.

This time, he thought it was a good idea, checking the deepest mines of the Dwarfs. He wanted to see the places where they dug up Magic Crystals.

For saving time, he used his Gateway. He couldn't make a gateway directly to the Dwarf's Mines, because he never went there, so he did the next best thing. He climbed over a tree and opened a Gateway the most far away that he could see. Then, he made another one next to him. By entering the one at his front, he reappeared on the other.

He did something like that when he undertook the Denar'an Trials, so he already knew that it could work.

Like that, he made the travel from the Royal Kingdom of Rohan were he was with his mother, to the Dwarfs Mountains, crossing in a direct line the RabbitKind Kingdom.

When the next Gateway could put him near a house or a Village, he made sure that no one was around or they couldn't see him.

Like that, he reached the Dwarfs central mountains in less than ten minutes. By carriage or by horse, it would take him 3 months to accomplish that. And the rest of the travel, had to be done on foot and with climbing gear.

- Now, where to? I guess I can enter through this cave. I think that this corridor can take me to a mine. I must make sure that I'm not caught. It would be troublesome to explain this invasion. They could think that I was trying to rob them, or something.

Seya entered the cave and he went all along the curvilinear corridor. Front, down, left, down, right, down, front… he walked for two hours, avoiding the crossings where he could hear Dwarfs voices. On some occasions, he had to hide inside some hole. Others, he opened a Gateway to the outside. After some time went by, he opened again a Gateway to the same place that he left previously. He made one or two blunders and he created a Gateway inside a wall or near one, because all the corridors looked the same, with no distinctive features.

He reached the deepest part of that mine, and when he did the next turn, he tripped.

Clang! Plunk! Bam!

- Oops… ah, hello.

Seya tripped over a pickaxe that was leaned against the wall and he fell over some buckets and shovels, right in the middle of some Dwarfs that were on their break, sleeping on the floor or eating. Before he could get up, a Dwarf grabbed one of his arms and placed a big and sharp axe against Seya's neck.

- Well, I find myself one pretty little human! I never tasted human, I wonder if it's good?

- Shut up Rudolf, stop messing with the child and let's bring him to the King. You know that King Barunger likes humans. Maybe he wants to eat this one. If not, we can use him as a punching bag!

Seya remained in silence. He knew that Dwarfs don't eat people. At least, that's what he read. There weren't really any books explaining everything about Dwarfs.

Most of the things that he knows about them, are from stories that his mother told him, about one little girl that was saved by Dwarfs and lived amongst them, until going to a school in the Kingdom of Rohan. Because of those night time stories that he heard when he was little and his memories from child stories back on Earth, Seya was always curious about them.

But these Dwarfs were not Snow White friends, that's for sure. They tied Seya like a boar that was hunted. Hand to hand, feet to feet, the handle of a big battle axe through it and Seya was carried upside down, hanging by his hands and feet, one Dwarf at the front, one at the back, raising the highest they could the axe so that their prey didn't brush the mine floor with his back, all the way to the throne room.

Seya remained in silence all the way. He didn't try to escape, because he thought it was a good opportunity to learn. He was also curious about the King. Maybe he was really strong, or really tall. Or not.

- King Barunger, we caught a trespasser. He was on the new mine, near the center where we were digging.

Seya tried to look to his front, and he saw a Dwarf seated on a chair at an enormous table, with some papers in front of him. That Dwarf got up and he went near him. He grabbed Seya's hair so that he could see the face of the captive. He made a frown and he seated at the chair again.

- A child. What do you want me to do with him? If he was a grown-up, I could use him to spar. But he's what, 10, 12 years old?

- King, if you don't want him, can I eat him? I've never eaten a human.

The King laughed. But he suddenly stopped because he noticed Seya's look. That wasn't a look of someone who was afraid, that was a look of boredom. He even catched Seya yawning.

- Minister Igneel, look at him! He seems bored!

From another chair at the table, came another Dwarf. One short, fat, hairy and beardy red Dwarf. Seya noticed a familiar Magic Flow on that red Dwarf, a Dragonoid in disguise.

- The nerve of these humans nowadays! I'll teach him some manners! Yawning at the King!

Slap! Slap! Slap!

The red hair and bear Dwarf started to slap Seya. But when he was going for the fourth slapping, he got himself knocked out.

Bum! Clang! Plunk!

Seya used his Wind Magic to cut the ropes that restrained him, fell to the floor, and he raised one foot that landed directly on the fat nose of the red Dwarf. Another kick to his belly, followed by a continuous strike of punches to his chest, stomach and face, along with some Rock balls at close range that sent him flying and hitting the nearest wall. But Seya wasn't done with that disguised Dragonoid. He threw a gigantic Fire Ball that melted the wall where the red Dwarf was nailed to. It became a prison to him, only the head was free. One head with a broken nose and bleeding. Seya jumped to get near him and he continued on punching that head, like a punching ball.

The King and the other Dwarfs didn't even react at that sudden outburst. Seya looked around and it was then that he noticed that he was outnumbered. More than 20 Dwarfs were in that room. Seya shrugged his shoulders, turned to the red Dwarf and he continued on punching that big fat head, like if it was just a dummy.

The Dwarfs on the room went berserk. They wall run towards Seya. Seya opened a small Gateway near him and another one on top of the head of the King. Seya put his hand in and from the other Gateway, he grabbed the crown and placed on his own head. Seya turned around and he smiled. The Dwarfs stopped and they looked at the King that was placing his hand on his head, noticing that his beloved crown was gone. They all froze, looking at the King.

Seya turned again to the red Dwarf that was knocked out and with a face a total mess. Seya opened his Compressed Dimension and took a small dagger from it. He quickly shaved the beard and the hair of the red Dwarf. When he was clean as a baby butt, Seya quickly placed every bit of hair and beard on his Compressed Dimension.

He then turned around.

-Who's next?

That was when hell got loose. The Dwarfs running after Seya, Seya jumping around and opening Gateway after Gateway, entering inside one, getting out on the other side of the room, grabbing a Dwarfs beard or hair and using his dagger to shave a piece.

Soon, all the Dwarfs were looking at each other, noticing that all of them had one or two pieces missing. Except the King.

Seya was near the red Dwarf again. He opened a small Gateway near him and another again on top of the King's head. He put the crown where it was originally. Suddenly, the King burst in laughter.

- Ahahahahah! The look on your faces! You all look so dam funny! Ahahahahah! Child, you are really amazing! What's your name?

- I'm Seya, gramps.

- Gramps? I don't think I'm your grandpa, child!

- Well, you could be, you look really old. If you're not mine, you're the gramps of someone else, I'm sure of it.

-Ahahahah! The nerve of this guy! Ok, I can be your gramps then! Ahahahah! Uf…uf… let me breathe a little! I haven't laughed like this for too long! Seya, was it? Just that?

- I'm Seya 'Tally' Denar'an Hinamoto, gramps.

- Ahahahahah! Hinamoto? You are really the son of Anna and that crazy Rolland? Ahahahah! What are the odds? One grandson appearing like this! Ahahahahah!

- Oh, you know my parents?

- Of course! I even met you some years ago. Maybe… I think the first time was 8 or 9 years already? But you were sleeping at that time. In fact, I visited your house at least once each year after that and I never saw you awake or at the house. You used to train with that Sully menace and the sweet Cemil, right? How are they?

- Everything is well with then, and also with Big Brother Null.

- Yeah, that ugly son of them! Null! Ahahahah!

- Ugly? I don't think he's that ugly!

- No, but I like to call him that. He hates it! Ahahahah!

Hearing that casual talk between the strange human that looked so innocent while he was tied up and their King, made the other Dwarfs curious. And that unusual display of Magic and fighting style, were so strange that they were still frozen.

The King was smiling at Seya, but he then remembered the poor red Dwarf, nailed to the wall and without a beard or hair on his head.

- Seya, what did my Minister Igneel did to you? You completely destroyed him. I don't know if he's still alive or not.

- There's only three beings on this world that can slap me. Any other, is up for a beating. But don't worry gramps, this hard as a rock Dwarf don't die that easy. He's just knocked out. But he's your Minister? Maybe I shouldn't have done that. Sorry for that, gramps.

- Ok, but it's a little late to be sorry. Can you at least release him so that he can be taken care off?

- Yes. If it was another Dwarf, I could heal him, but every time I look at his fat nose, I just want to punch him.

Seya used some Fire and Wind Magic to melt the rock again and cooled it down, so that the Dwarf Igneel could be free. He felt to the floor head first, with a hard bang.

- Oops… well, he's already in a very bad shape, so one more bump on his head doesn't really matters.

- Poor Igneel… But Seya, you said you could heal him? You can use Healing Magic? Did Anna teach you?

- Well, actually, I'm the one doing the teaching. I use Healing Magic in a different way. My mother says mine is stronger and faster so I'm teaching her how I do it.

- Well, Anna is already an amazing healer, if she becomes even better, I don't know what she will be able to do! But you still didn't tell me why you were inside our mine. Or even, on our mountains.

- No one asked me yet! Those guys over there arrested me. The fat nose slapped me and no one cared to ask me anything!

- You have a point there. So, why were you there?

- I wanted to see the place where you guys find the Magic Crystals, I was curious.

- So you are really a thief! It's a good thing that we caught you!

- Well, actually, you just caught me because I allowed it. I wanted to know more about the Dwarfs. Gramps, this ugly Dwarf is asking for a beating!

- Why do you keep on calling gramps to our King? Don't you have any manners?

- I do, but it doesn't seems right to call him my King. It's weird! Maybe because you are all too short, you all look like childs to me!

- Ahahahahah! Anna has the same problem! She never took the Dwarfs seriously! Ahahahahah!... Uf…uf… I lost my breathe again! But Seya, didn't Anna ever told you about us?

- Well, she told me a lot of bedtime stories about a human girl living with the dwarfs. I liked those stories. I still do.

- Ahahahah! I see. Ok, so, why do you want to see the place where we find the Crystals? You wanted some?

- Not really, I was just curious.

- Ok, because we don't find Crystals that often, we mostly find them by accident when we are mining for rare materials for our blacksmithing. I know that humans like them, but most of the times, we don't even bother on mining for them. If we find any, we find. If not, we don't cry because of that.

- That's good to hear. I was afraid I could ruin you all with my Magic.

- Why is that?

- Because I figured out a way for making them, just that.

- No way! Really! Can you show me?

- Well, I could, but what's in there for me? I like to get paid when I perform a show!

- Fair enough. I can take you to a place where we found recently some Magic Crystals. What about that?

- Ok, but I have one more deal for you. I can explain how to look for the best places for finding Crystals and you tell me more about the Dwarfs.

- We have a deal, my dear grandson!

And with that, the friendship between the Dwarfs and Seya began, along with the peculiar and funny relation with the Dwarf King, Barunger.

And what is more funnier, at that time, Seya didn't knew that King Barunger was the Dwarf Prince that raised his mother. That's why she's called Anna Barunger Hinamoto. The Dwarf King didn't told Seya, he thought it would be funnier when Seya saw his mother calling him father!