Why does he fight?

AN/ so I was bored and I thought I'd just do some fanfic writing for Vindictus which has become one of my favorite MMO's

Anyway enjoy

Evie walked around Colhen annoyedly, she had been looking for that thrice damned dual-wielding mercenary she called her partner for several hours now and had seen hide nor hair of him anywhere.

"Damn you Lann when I find you hurt," she muttered evilly as she walked to the inn to see if he had shown up yet.

"Excuse me Tieve," she said to the blonde girl. "Is that meat shield of a partner of mine back from where ever he went?" she growled trying and failing to keep the annoyance out of her voice.

"No I'm sorry Evie I haven't seen him at all since he left this morning, he didn't even stay for his morning pancakes," she admitted.

Evie shook her head frustrated, Lann not showing up on time was not that uncommon as he was usually out helping Ellis with his training or on an assignment, but if she had to find him in the morning she could have usually counted on him being at the inn shoveling as many pancakes into his mouth as inhumanly possible.

Honestly who took pride in being able to shove 4 whole pancakes into their mouths at one time?

"Lann I think I heard him say he was going to train in the perilous ruins today," said a voice behind her.

Turning she saw the strange traveler standing on a table, the majority of his face hidden by the hood he wore, but she could still see him smiling at her.

"He went to the ruins by himself?" she muttered, why would he go there?

The traveler nodded. "He was muttering something about getting stronger, what he meant I confess eludes me," he said giving a small shrug before leaping off the table and walking up to his room.

"Lann," Evie whispered as she turned and ran towards the docks.

Lann was taking deep hard breaths as he collapsed to the ground. He had been out here training for hours now, his new twin spears lying next to him, the ground littered with the wreckage of dozens of destroyed training dummies. He had been planning this training day for a while now and had been slowly gathering enough training dummies to be able to practice out here in solitude.

Though he couldn't explain the strange chills and feelings of someone walking over his grave that he had been getting all day.

Sitting up reached up and popped his neck before wiping his jet black hair from his red eyes. He then stood up and picked up his spears, sliding them into their sheaths he walked towards the pile of dummies remaining and began to set them up for another round of training when he heard it, the roar of several Gnolls from the ruins to his right. Frowning he glanced in that direction confused, that was the spot where he had docked his boat, being that it was the only way to get to this particular part of the ruins. He had carefully snuck past them in the early morning whilst they had still be asleep so that he could get to this courtyard to train.

He fell back slightly as there was a huge explosion from the same direction and he heard something that made his blood run cold.

"LANN!" roared the unmistakable voice of his magic-loving-scyth-wielding partner.

"Oh shi-,"

BOOM!

Lann blinked at where a wall used to be, dropping immediately into a fighting stance as he drew his spears as several Gnolls came running at him before quickly hiding behind him.

"Wait what the-"

"LAANNN," Evie roared coming through the hole.

Turning to face the scared Gnolls behind him, he shot them a look that promised when he killed them it would be in the most torturous way possible, which caused them to run from him. (As he was known among the Gnolls as He-Who-commits-Gnoll-genocide) Turning back to his partner Lann tried to give her a sheepish smile and winched as she just glared him down.

"Ah hey there Evie I uh see you found my ….ah …. training….. ground….." he trailed off at her vicious gaze and was beginning to wonder if he might seek refuse among the Gnolls.

"Lann why didn't you tell me you were going to be training. All. Freaking. Day. Long?" she growled out. Lann looked at her then slowly turned away muttering something she couldn't hear.

"What was that?" she asked, using her magic to levitate him and make him hang infront of her so that their faces were mere inches apart.

"I didn't want you to know," he grumbled. He was suddenly reacquainted with the law of gravity as Evie dropped him to the ground. Muttering under his breath he rubbed his jaw and looked up at Evie who was staring at him as though he had grown a second head.

"You… You didn't want me to know?" she asked, causing him to wince slightly at the look of betrayal of her face.

"Well, yeah kinda see I needed to be able to train in solitude and your always interrupting it whenever I train in town so-," he was cut off as Evie kicked him in the face from his still half-kneeling position. When he had shaken the stars from his eyes he looked up to see Evie's retreating back through the hole from earlier.

Shaking his head confused he glanced at his training dummies for a second considering just resuming his training but found he no longer had the desire to go at it again. Having been sitting for so long that his muscles were starting to cramp slightly he stood and picked up his spears. Pausing when he heard growls from behind him he turned to see the small pack of brown furred Gnolls watching him from around the courner.

Sighing he just shook his head and turned to them dropping into his fighting stance before charging them.

After all Evie could wait.

Authors Note/ okay so I do have more planned out for this but I figured I'd only start it as a oneshot.

If it isn't very good it's cause I went and wrote this all in one go.

Oh and if anyone wants to party up with me game side my character name is 'HunterC' –that is a story longer than this one here.

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Ja ne.