This story came to me after I watched "Hero Quest", which is a fantastic movie and a must see. :)

"Hero Quest" belongs to Glukoza Production and Cinedigm Entertainment. I only own Sage and Hyacinth.

A/N: This story takes place after the movie, is a little AU, and will have some spoilers. :)

A Rickie's Honor

Chapter 1: Trouble

A twelve year old girl raced back into her village. "Hyenas! Hyenas!" She cried out.

No one had to question her as they saw the hyenas coming down from the hills that were near the village. "Secure the village!" The leader cried out.

"Sage!" The girl heard her mother cry out and immediately raced to her.

"Mother, those creeps are running toward our village!" She said.

Her mother was worried. "Ever since that boy drove them from his village and told them to never come back, they've been trying to pillage the other villages," she said. She then pulled out a necklace that Sage has always seen her wear. "Sage, I need you to do something."

"What, Mama?" She asked.

"Find your father," said the older woman, taking off her necklace and giving it to Sage. "This is called a soul necklace. It is very important in your father's tradition."

The necklace had a pendant that was a sun and what looked like an hourglass cut in half lengthwise. "Your father has the other half," she said.

"What does he look like?" Sage said.

She knew they had no pictures of her father and her mother had never told her what he looked like. "I don't know," she said. "But you'll know."

"How?"

"A soul necklace is unique and made specifically so that the two halves that make it up cannot match with any other soul necklaces," said her mother.

A crash sounded outside and they saw the hyenas were trying to tear down the closed gate. "Go, Sage," said her mother. "Find your father. It's the only way we can stop the hyenas and save our village."

Sage looked out the window towards the woods she loved. "You always told me to explore the forest," she said. "Was it because of this happening someday?"

"That and I wanted you to appreciate the woods as well," her mother said. "Hurry, my child."

Hugging her mother, Sage quickly left, putting the half of the soul necklace she had around her neck and hiding it in her shirt.

As she watched her daughter run into the woods, Hyacinth recalled when she first met Sage's father.

Twelve years ago, she had been in another village visiting a friend when the evil monkeys had attacked and she saw a rickie in blue armor fighting the monkeys, but although there were just a few monkeys, they had him soon surrounded.

Hyacinth had seen a nearby stick and grabbed it, smacking the monkeys back, surprising the monkeys and the rickie, who watched her in stunned amazement before he quickly fought back the monkeys with her, forcing the simians to retreat.

Hyacinth had been afraid of him when he had approached her, but he simply took her hand and bowed to her. "Thank you for assisting me," he had said.

His voice was something Hyacinth fell instantly in love with and when he escorted her back to her village, she offered him to stay.

Hyacinth then remembered that not long after she and the rickie had wed in secret, he had been called back by his king and had given her half of a soul necklace, promising to return.

But trouble had been prominent and he hadn't been able to return. "Hopefully, Sage can find him," she said to herself as she barricaded her door just as the hyenas managed to break down the village gates.

Will Sage find her father? Read on?

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