Speaker 1: A fairy a quest. Aiden, I'm not so sure about this.
Speaker 1: I mean not to point out the obvious, but you
Speaker 1: haven't even leveled up yet. What if you get into
Speaker 1: a battle with a giant beast or something? Buddy, I
Speaker 1: don't need to remind you that it's not going to
Speaker 1: go well for you.
Speaker 2: Remember the slimes, Okay, digested my slimes? Please help me? Yeah, Dad,
Speaker 2: I know. It just means that I've got to be
Speaker 2: more careful than the others. Plus safety numbers, you know.
Speaker 2: I'll have Pork here. He looks like he's been in
Speaker 2: a few fights, haven't you, big guy?
Speaker 3: Call me big guy again and I'll toss you into
Speaker 3: that lake over there.
Speaker 1: Well, he seems pleasant anyways, Aiden, As your dad, I
Speaker 1: just have some hesitations about this. Run it by me again.
Speaker 1: What exactly is going on?
Speaker 2: I'm still a little fuzzy on the details myself. At Pork,
Speaker 2: you want to tell.
Speaker 3: Him buckle up, pops, this one's a doozy. Once there
Speaker 3: were five heroes known all over the land for their bravery,
Speaker 3: their abilities, and their desire to help everyone they met.
Speaker 3: They fought dragons, trolls, rock, monsters, you name it, and
Speaker 3: I was their quest giver in charge of finding and
Speaker 3: giving them quests to help them level up. But one
Speaker 3: day on their own, Glitch started acting weird. You see,
Speaker 3: Glitch's ability was that he could skip forward and backwards
Speaker 3: in time, but the more he used his power, the
Speaker 3: more he started to see things, things that haven't happened
Speaker 3: yet but could still come to pass. One day, and
Speaker 3: we're not exactly sure what happened, Glitch went crazy, started
Speaker 3: ranting and raving, kicked us all out of our headquarters.
Speaker 3: Nothing made sense, and no amount of trying to talk
Speaker 3: to him helped. Over time, a dark cloud started to
Speaker 3: form over the base and a weird energy started crackling
Speaker 3: around him. One day it got really bad. Me and
Speaker 3: the other heroes went inside to try and stop whatever
Speaker 3: was happening, but before we could stop him, he sealed
Speaker 3: all of the heroes away into the crystals and sent
Speaker 3: them all over the world. As for me, he stuffed
Speaker 3: me inside a puzzle box that your son found. And
Speaker 3: that's about all I know. We gotta stop whatever Glitch
Speaker 3: is doing, and we've got to rescue the four heroes.
Speaker 1: Nice story, Beef, Hey it's Park. Well, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big fan of my son leaving the ghost. Stop some
Speaker 1: maniac who can glitch through time. Call me over, protective.
Speaker 2: Dad, you're not listening. I'm not trying to beat Glitch.
Speaker 2: I'm just wanting to help Pork rescue the four heroes.
Speaker 2: Once we do that, I'm sure they'll have a plan
Speaker 2: to take on Glitch again.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Aiden, maybe if you were a level
Speaker 1: five or ten, but certainly not as a level one.
Speaker 1: I haven't even taught you proper sword holding for them yet.
Speaker 1: You see, it's all about thumb placement and.
Speaker 3: Goblins.
Speaker 2: Goblins are attacking goblins.
Speaker 1: Aiden, Pork, get inside quick, lock the door and don't
Speaker 1: come out. Got it? No, Dad, I want to help Aiden.
Speaker 1: This is too dangerous. Listen to me. You can't fight
Speaker 1: these things. They're too fast and too mean. Go inside,
Speaker 1: close the door.
Speaker 2: Uh fine, come on, Pork.
Speaker 1: Whatever you say, Boss, Grab my armor, my hammer, my helmets.
Speaker 1: Do I need two helmets? No, that'd be dumb. I
Speaker 1: only have one head, jeez.
Speaker 2: So I guess we just sit here until the goblins
Speaker 2: go away.
Speaker 3: Listen, the last thing I want to do is get
Speaker 3: on your dad's bad side. He's the local blacksmith. He's
Speaker 3: probably got a giant club the size of a cow.
Speaker 3: He'd bring down on my head if I got you
Speaker 3: into trouble.
Speaker 2: He's just protective, is all, you know. He was a
Speaker 2: great adventurer himself until Mom, well Mom left us. They
Speaker 2: called him the stone Prince because while all the other
Speaker 2: fighters used weapons made of steel and iron, he always
Speaker 2: chiseled and made his hammers out of the sturdiest and
Speaker 2: strongest rocks from the deepest caves. He's kind of a
Speaker 2: legend in these parts. You know.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, kid. I can see why not leveling up
Speaker 3: like your dad has been tough on you. You want
Speaker 3: to be like him, don't you?
Speaker 2: Sort of? I don't really know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: think I'm ever going to swing a huge hammer like him.
Speaker 2: But what I think i'd most is his ability to
Speaker 2: protect the people around him. If I could do anything
Speaker 2: he does, it's that, you know. Same with my mom.
Speaker 2: She was always willing to use her shield to protect
Speaker 2: the people she loves most. Actually, Pork, that gives me
Speaker 2: an idea. What do you say we get rid of
Speaker 2: these goblins?
Speaker 3: Uh? Didn't your dad say we had to stay in
Speaker 3: the house.
Speaker 2: Who said we were leaving the house?
Speaker 3: Come here, you tiny little bogger creatures.
Speaker 1: You're not getting all my cheese today, not like last time.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it seems I can't get my chunky, needy
Speaker 2: and tender friend unstuck from this treasure chest. Oh no, oh,
Speaker 2: my barrel chested friend. It'd be a shame if a
Speaker 2: bunch of big, strong goblins came to eat you.
Speaker 1: Aiden.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Trust me, dad? Oh no, my scrumptious little fairy friend
Speaker 2: is stuck. I hope no goblins come to eat him.
Speaker 3: Okay, kid, you're really selling it a bit too much here, Aiden.
Speaker 1: You left the door to the house open. They're gonna
Speaker 1: get inside.
Speaker 2: Trust me. You goblins up here, cat's this They're covered
Speaker 2: up by a huge blanket. Now, cork, Now, everyone barricade
Speaker 2: the doors.
Speaker 1: Aiden, I told you to stay in the house.
Speaker 2: Technically I'm in the house. I've just barricaded the upstairs
Speaker 2: and laid a trap for the goblins downstairs, so that
Speaker 2: the entire rating party traps themselves inside the house, thinking
Speaker 2: they can come in and get an easy meal by
Speaker 2: eating my stout fairy friend, when they're actually being trapped
Speaker 2: in our house by all of our neighbors who have
Speaker 2: now blocked on the exits, so we can keep them
Speaker 2: in there until we can tie them up and send
Speaker 2: them back to the Goblin King, who's going to be
Speaker 2: pretty mad about an unauthorized rating party coming to human territory.
Speaker 1: Aiden, that's incredible. You thought of this plan all by yourself.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean yeah, but I wouldn't have been able
Speaker 2: to pull it off if it weren't for the help
Speaker 2: of all the townspeople pitching in.
Speaker 3: That's right, Pops. This kid's got the chops to be
Speaker 3: a leader. I can tell.
Speaker 1: Okay, Aiden, come on down from there. I think we've
Speaker 1: got some stuff to talk about. So if you're sure
Speaker 1: you want to do this, I'm not going to stop you.
Speaker 1: If you feel like you've got a quest in your heart,
Speaker 1: then I want to support you.
Speaker 2: Dad. It's like I was telling Pork earlier, it's not
Speaker 2: that I want to be a fighter. It's not that
Speaker 2: I want to go and be a mighty warrior like you.
Speaker 2: I just want to help people like Mom helped people
Speaker 2: like you help people by protecting the village and by
Speaker 2: being an amazing blacksmith. And right now there are four
Speaker 2: heroes who need help, and I'm not sure they're going
Speaker 2: to get that help. Unless I help them.
Speaker 1: You're right. I think I've just been hesitant to see
Speaker 1: you go out on adventures since your mom. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I get.
Speaker 2: That, Dad, But I think this is my time, my quest,
Speaker 2: my chance to make my mark.
Speaker 1: Okay, Son, I get it. Just promise me one thing.
Speaker 2: What is it, Dad? Take this.
Speaker 1: It was your mom's mom's shield. That's right. She always
Speaker 1: wanted to protect people, and she knew that if she
Speaker 1: was using this shield, then nothing in this world could
Speaker 1: hurt the people she loved.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dad, I love you, son.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm brushing my chance hand going to bed. You
Speaker 3: two have fun.
Speaker 2: I love you so much.
Speaker 3: So about what happens with your mom. She sounded like
Speaker 3: a nice lady. I'm sure she's proud of you.
Speaker 2: Oh she is.
Speaker 3: She'll always be in your memory.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean she's still around.
Speaker 3: That's right, kid, She'll always live in your heart.
Speaker 2: No, I mean she's like a bird person. Now, I'm
Speaker 2: sorry what she's a bird person dual citizenship. She lives
Speaker 2: with the bird. She's a diplomat helping negotiate human bird
Speaker 2: relationships and politics. So she lives in the aviary at
Speaker 2: the top of that mountain with the bird. People. Me
Speaker 2: and my dad can't go up there because we're allergic
Speaker 2: to birds, So she works remotely.
Speaker 3: You guys made it sound like she.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she comes back like once or twice a month.
Speaker 2: She's doing well, very healthy.
Speaker 3: When you guys are talking about making all these loving
Speaker 3: tributes to you are crying when hugging each other. It
Speaker 3: was the saddest thing I ever thought.
Speaker 2: You telling me that she's alive. What I'm I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 2: because my family means a lot to me.
Speaker 3: Your people are crazy. Seriously, I can't believe I'm trusting
Speaker 3: a quest this important to a crazy person.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man, it's super cool. They pick her up
Speaker 2: and fly her back and forth. It's pretty gnarly.