Advent Story: Wretched & Angelic
Inspired by AnnaSophia Robb
Current story version: 4.1
Wretched & Angelic is a fiction/non fiction story based on the movie "Bridge to Terabithia" starring Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb. Bridge to Terabithia was directed by Gabor Csupo and presented by Icon and Walden Media who are the rightful owners to the Bridge to Terabithia movie and all rights are reserved by their trademarks. The movie is based on the children's book which was written by Katherine Paterson over 35 years ago from 2008.
This story is based on the events of the movie and takes place within and thereafter…
What will happen to our Heroes? What kind of Villains will they encounter? What paths will they choose? How will it all begin and end? Such is the adventures of Wretched & Angelic! This story is also based on the popular MMO World of Warcraft which covers most of the story. The World of Warcraft game is respectively and officially owned and all rights are reserved by Blizzard Entertainment. If any dedicated WoW players are wondering on the period the story takes place in it's the 4 years between WCIII and the MMO version. The lore of the Warcraft games is present in the story itself but its all based around what the characters know from their experiences at any time during the sequence plot of the story.
I admire the movie Bridge to Terabithia but I also am a great fan of the WoW game. Because of my complex nature, their will be some elements of the story you wont completely agree with like the battle scenes where it seems like the combat log from a portion of the MMO game. Also the dialogue and format of the story has been written like a script of a movie for many reasons except for some main reasons. One being AnnaSophia Robb is thought of by me as a brilliant actress and a inspirer, hence why the story is like a script of a movie. Secondly I wanted something different than another average story or novel hence the reasons stated above. As a bit of a spoiler for the movie fans, Bridge to Terabithia is not only in the beginning but also elements of the great movie drama will appear during the WoW part of the story and characters will return to that modern and imaginative world at unexpected times during the story. These differences may throw you off a little but please try to keep an open mind. Also the format of the writing between paragraphs and the characters dialogue etc will appear different online to what I typed in the word program and also because of the design of the word program the story itself will have its own chapters and sub chapters. Also the story will be written in parts and each part will have to be read individually online. Also please be aware that their will be mild profanity in the story along with some strong content, however nothing abusive or offensive will be contained here within the story itself, any extreme profanity will be muffled with obscure phrases such as !"&!^*!&! in order to keep the younger and more sensitive readers un-offended.
This story was mainly inspired by AnnaSophia Robb for her role in the movie Bridge to Terabithia, a fantastic story of 2 souls who's courage and imagination will live forever on within me…
Based on a story of courage, love, fantasy, reality, sadness and grief, Wretched & Angelic is a tale full of mystery and adventure just waiting to rumble your world!
Keep your mind and your eyes wide open and enjoy reading!
Part 1 Begins
I am afraid. Everything begins here, a dark stormy night on a long dead and forgotten plain. Something in history long discarded by those we held dear. I didn't expect all this to happen… no… it was impossible - it should never have happened, I should never have come back. If I had only stayed away then maybe these whole circle of events could have been prevented. If I had just… stayed away… I might have been strong enough to save her…
"The shackles of reality are thrown away, your actions are your very demise. Beginning"
KC: …
Voice: Looks like your doing better…
KC: ???
Voice: But don't try to move to much…
KC: Wh-who are you?
Voice: You don't know?
KC: …
Voice: Well I guess you'll find out soon…
KC: Am I dreaming?
Voice: Now that would be making it too easy wouldn't it?
KC: I guess…
Voice: Now take it easy… one small step at a time…
KC: One small step? Baby steps?
Voice: Yeah just like that…
KC: I think ill be okay now…
Voice: That's good to hear.
KC: But wait! Who are you!?
Chapter 1
"Pilot"
The darkness comes at us without giving any sign or chance to react. We never know when fate will just take us by the hand and swoop us of through the sky and drop us into a lake of molten fire. It was never easy but I didn't exactly have a choice… even though someone very close to my heart told me we always have a choice.
KC: I said who are you!?
Eden: Hey what yah doing!?
Location: Home
KC wakes up to the sight of early morning, the birds chirping and the light shining through the old window. The room was small… as if to say something about the personalities of the householders. They weren't exactly a wealthy family, well to be honest they were struggling to make ends meat at this time but they had each other and were holding in there so that's all that mattered. KC woke up in his bed covered with sweat… just sweat… and looked around focusing for a moment then noticing his sister Eden standing at his bed side and staring right at him.
Eden: What are you doing?
KC: What?
Eden: Hey! I heard you!
KC: (scratching the back of his neck) …
Eden: So what were you dreaming about? Must have been weird…
KC: Nothing… don't matter anyway… just a dream…
Eden: Fine keep it too yourself then!
Pulling a rasping face… sticking her tongue out like a child would do when they've been annoyed, Eden left the room quickly and ran downstairs.
KC: Jeez I guess I really am awake now…
Getting up of his bed and changing his clothes, KC took a few minutes to prepare and afterwards walked downstairs. He felt a bit strange after the dream but it was pretty normal for a 14 yr old to have a wild imagination. His sister Eden was only 9 and just started school a few days ago. KC could smell waffles from downstairs, his mom Jane was cooking the breakfast…
KC walked down the stairs and into the kitchen which was merged with the front room via a large doorway. The house weren't really that big but it was cosy. Their was another room through to the right side of the kitchen where you could sit down and relax and do whatever but KC mostly hanged out upstairs in his own room like any other growing rebellious teen.
But for now… since it was early morning and the sun was even brighter now, KC sat at the kitchen table and grabbed a few waffles from the plate and began to eat. His sister Eden was staring at him a little… she would do that sometimes… like any curious child would. They all usually eat pancakes since that was the American way of the morning but they wanted a change…
KC: (eating from the plate) ….
Eden: So what did you dream about?
KC: Drop it sis…
Eden: Come'n I wanna know!
KC: (chewing on the waffles) Le-av-e it si-s
Eden: Shouldn't talk with your mouth open KC…
KC: (mouth full) murrrppp burr-bu urrrre
Eden: (annoyed expression) What?
KC: (swallowing) Never mind…
Eden: (more annoyed) ….
The door swinging open gently and walking through was KC's father… but KC didn't let it seem like he was paying much attention - no hugs or kisses in the morning with this family - although he kind of wondered what that would be like sometimes. David walked past him a few times then stopped and stared for a seconds at KC… then he asked…
David: What you looking so grumpy about?
KC: I'm not grumpy…
Eden: (looking up at her dad) He had a weird dream…
KC: …
David: A dream huh?
KC: No….
Eden: Yeah you did I heard you KC!
KC: …
David: What did you dream about?
KC: Nothing…
Eden: He dreamt about her again…
KC: Shut it!
David: Hey easy… what was the dream about then?
KC: Nothing it don't matter…
Eden: (giggling)
KC: What's so funny?
Eden: Yah goin all red KC!…
KC: How would you even know what red looks like you just started school!
Jane: (walking over and sitting at the table) Hey don't speak like that to your sister!
KC: (rolls eyes and eats more waffles) …
Eden: …
David: Make sure you do your chores before you go school…
KC: (nodding and still eating) K then…
Few minutes later…
Eden: (giggling)
KC: (annoyed)
David: (going back outside taking a waffle from KC's plate with him)
KC: (muttering too himself) Err yes you can take some of my breakfast - I don't mind at all
Eden: Your funny when your angry…
KC: Well your gonna get all kinds of funny if you keep giggling lil sister…
Jane: (looking at her children then standing up to go to the kitchen to wash the plates)
KC: …
Jane: Anyway hurry up or you'll be late for school…
KC stands up and begins his chores…
"Going To School Grumpy"
KC throwing down the lumber he had gathered turns around to notice the bus at the end of the path that stretched from his house and onto a larger pathway that went all the way down to the road. The lumber was needed because for some reason the fire in his home was old… something about the house being built some years ago and they didn't have the time or money to replace it so they just went along with the idea of a cosy old fire.
Oh yeah and as for the bus… he had too run really fast!
He ran quickly down the beaten path towards the road and hastily got on the school bus…
Location: School Bus
Bus driver: I try to keep my stops under 10 seconds… your just like the other kid…
KC: (smiling slightly and muttering) Sorry…
KC walking along slowly is hit by what can only be described as a paper ball… then some other kid tripped him up… yeah it weren't working well for KC and the other kids at school… bullying was a big issue it seemed.
Standing up slowly and not paying any attention to the tripper, KC walked on slowly and sat down at a seat behind 2 others who were talking to each other… about something to with getting keys back… and about bells… not really sure what that all meant. KC had a weird habit of over-hearing what people were saying even when further away… its like he gave everybody attention even though they never noticed him… but he preferred it this way and he always kept to himself….
Eden: (getting up and sitting beside KC) …
KC: (looking at his sister then out the window) …
Eden: You alright?
KC: Sure… why wouldn't I be?
Eden: Maybe because you just got tripped?
KC: Its bullying Eden… something you just have to get used to…
Eden: Oh you just have to "be like a man"
KC: …
Eden: You shouldn't let them push you around so much…
KC: (facing Eden) I said its fine… just leave it…
Eden: Fine! Gawd! I was jez trying to help!
KC: (sighing and peering out the window) …
Eden: …
"At School & Still Grumpy"
Location: School, Classroom
Inside the classroom it was sort of a different surrounding. In a lonesome way, KC could just be himself here but he still kept to himself regardless of the bullying. He didn't know why or how it happened it just was… just is this way…
The classroom was aloud with singing from the children, music class didn't seem to bad but KC never really joined in… not much taste in actually "singing" the music that everyone else did. It seems he preferred to sit and stare at the new girl.
He only knew her by name… Leslie Burke… she arrived a couple of days ago and for some reason since then KC couldn't stop thinking about this girl, like the sun bargaining with the moon so that together they may bring a new morning and later a new night. He only knew so much about her which wasn't much. She liked books. She enjoyed singing. Liked running too… something about a race that she won along with that boy Jesse Aarons. They both seemed to be close friends and KC never bothered trying to talk to her. She seemed to be always smiling… I guess she sure eat her pancakes in the morning!
But the reason mostly was simply the fact that when she first walked into this very classroom he couldn't stop thinking about her. He even dreamed about her, every night…
However the most recent dream wasn't really a dream but more a nightmare. It was of Leslie but KC could only remember that he was locked in a room… so dark you couldn't even see your hand in front of your face. But what happened is in this dark room was more terrifying then any dream, he could see her… but she was walking away, slowly but surely she was… fading away… like she never existed and it scared him to the core.
At first however, KC didn't understand what was happening, even his little sister was curious as to why such things were happening to him. But he thought it was just normal to be dreaming about girls… or staring. At least he thought it was normal at this point in his life, raging hormones and all…
"When two or more pitches come together its possible for harmony to form. The musical note of love & friendship"
But anyway she seemed happy… so it was alright.
"From School & Back Home"
Location: Near to Home
KC & Eden both step off the bus, KC turning around to watch as it drives on down the road. They both start walking down the known beaten path towards home….
KC: …
Eden: So why didn't you talk to her anyway… KC?
KC: Talk to who?
Eden: That new girl…
KC: New girl?
Eden: (sounding serious) Look I know you like her… I've heard you talking!
KC: (confused) I ain't talked about her…
Eden: You have in your sleep…
KC: (looking at Eden more confused & still walking) When was this?
Eden: Few days ago, you fell asleep and I heard you saying her name…
KC: (stops for a moment facing his sister) I said her name?
Eden: (smiling at KC as she walked in front) Yep!
KC: (continues walking up the path towards the front door) Means nothing Eden, don't fill your head with clouds & squalls…
Eden: (confused for a moment) Clouds & squalls?
KC walked onward and entered his home. Sitting down and switching on the TV, KC relaxed and got comfortable in his favourite chair… he calls it that because it was a single chair and really was surprisingly comfy. KC's mom was in the kitchen, washing some dishes and such from this morning… never got round to finishing those since Jane was busy with other things all day. A few seconds later Eden walks by smiling at KC, he responds only with a stare…
KC: …
Eden: (sitting down on the arm of the chair) So when you gonna talk about her then?
KC: (annoyed expression) Will you just drop it already? She's a girl at school that's all!
Eden: (frowning) Oh so you DO know who I'm talking about then?
KC: (sighs)
Eden: She seems okay to me… why don't you just talk to her?
KC: (glancing at Eden then back at the TV) Because I don't have to alright? Leave it already…
Eden: Ok fine but she's gonna be there tomorrow and the day after and the day after that so you have to talk about her soon…
Eden stood up giving a weird look and ran immaturely upstairs…
KC: Jeez she's smart for a 9 year old… but she's also nosey…
Chapter 2
"The Next Day - Saturday"
Location: KC's Home
KC sleeping like a log… or more like paper hanging over flames. He was dreaming again… only this time it was worse than ever before…
KC: Ughh….
He tossed, he turned and he rolled. The way the images shot through his mind were like the heavy wind blowing away the small pieces of rock between the blades of grass towards a darkening sunrise. He was dreaming of her again, the new girl from school, only this time she was walking away and directly towards the growing darkness…
KC: Nuaaahh…
He SHOUTED!!!
David: (nudging KC's shoulder abruptly) Hey wake up son!
KC: (quickly sitting up with his eyes squinted) Whoa-wha!?
David: What's the matter with you? Heard you shouting from down the stairs!
KC: (laying back down against his pillow) Ugh… just a dream Dad don't worry so much…
David: Yeah sounded more like a nightmare…
KC: (looking up at his dad with his eyes half open) Yeah… I guess…
David: (walking over to the bedroom door) Well make sure your up in 20 minutes your mother's taking you out for the day…
KC: Wha-where?
David: Dunno… why don't you ask?
KC: (sitting up and leaning over the side of his bed coughing) ….
David: (turning around and facing KC at the doorway) You sure you're fine?
KC: I'm fine Ill be ok with some milk and cookies…
David: (smiling a little then walking out of sight onto the hallway)
KC: And maybe some TLC…
A moment later Eden walks in KC's room who was standing up and leaning over to look out his window at the clear blue sky…
Eden: What yah doing?
KC: (turning around quickly) Huh? Oh nothing much…
Eden: Still not dressed?
KC: (thinking too himself) Am I naked again?
Eden: ….
KC: Yeah will be ready soon… tell mom wont you?
Eden: Yeah sure…
KC: Ok then…
Eden smiled and walked out the room, singing as she childishly hopped along the hallway…
KC: (looking back out the window) Yeah… I am ready for today… aren't I?
KC got dressed and ready for a day out on the town…
"Feeling alive means feeling unfaithful"
"A Day Out"
Walking out the front door of his home, KC looked down the same beaten path he had always known and at the stone paved road to see his mom waiting at the car.
Jane: KC hurry up!!!
He ran quickly down the beat up path towards his Mom, KC climbed in the car… ready for a trip.
Location: Inside The Car
It was a warm day but the clouds covered and smudged the sky… it had been raining a lot this summer. Yesterday during the late afternoon it rained non-stop. KC thought their would be flooding or something but luckily it was all ok. Only thing that was really on his mind however was the thought of not being able to get this new girl out his mind and that it would make him insane. Why was he dreaming about her? Why did he stop and stare when she entered the room? Was it infatuation? Obsession? Or was it something more? He had no answers, only more and more questions. KC and his little sister were sitting in the back…
Eden: So mom where we going?
Jane: I thought we could check out the Museum today…
Eden: Oh great!
KC: Yeah… great…
Jane: (concentrating on the driving but children play up in the back of moving vehicles) Looking forward too it then?
Eden: Yah!
KC: (facing Eden) You don't even know what a Museum is…
Eden: I've been there before already! Twice!
KC: I've been alive for 14 years… and I still don't understand it…
Eden: That's because your brain is smaller than my little finger…
KC: (thumping his sisters shoulder lightly) Hey!
Eden: (pinches KC's arm) Owww!!!
Jane: (looking in the rear-view mirror) Hey you two stop that now!
Eden: (develops a frown) …
KC: (looking out the window at the passing vehicles) …
Eden: Silly dilly…
KC: (facing Eden) Hey don't make me-
Jane: You two that's enough!
KC: (sighing)
Eden: (giggling)
It was tough having a sister and being the older one sometimes…
Location: City, Museum
We arrived at the Museum of Art… at least most of it seemed to be paintings… I didn't really understand any of it at the time. KC, Jane and Eden were outside the Museum entrance at huge steps like you get at these type of buildings that are all historical and stuff.
Eden: Oh wow…
KC: (walking up holding his sisters hand) What?
Eden: (looking up at KC) It seems a lot bigger from the outside…
KC: I guess that's the idea sis…
KC holding his sisters hand walks alongside his mother towards the museum entrance, they all entered. It really was quite amazing… even though KC never mentioned it at the time. It was definitely bigger on the inside, the walls crowded with paintings and decorated with scriptures and all kinds of tapestries. It weren't just paintings here, their was all kinds of creativity on display all by famous artists and such. KC and Eden followed their mother further into the museum and began to look around…
Eden: Woooooooooooow…
KC: Yeah… big wow…
Eden: (letting go and running up to a painting hanging on a wall) !
KC: (quickly following Eden) Hey!
Eden stared at a painting… was kind of big… looked like… some sort of person holding up a manuscript… like a book of some sort. Only this person had wings… looked like an angel if you thought weird like that… which KC didn't really…
KC: (standing beside Eden) That's pretty neat huh?
Eden: Yah… but…
KC: (looking at his sister) But what?
Eden: What's it mean KC?
KC: (looking at the painting on the wall) How would I know?
Eden: Thought you were clever?
KC: (giggling) Ha-ha that's new where did you get that from?
Eden: (facing KC looking annoyed) … Nowhere… I just thought you know a lot that's all…
KC: (looking at his sister and resting his hand on her shoulder) That's why I like you lil sis, your mind is out there in the open…
Eden: Huh?
KC: Never mind…
Jane: Come on you two theirs more through here…
Eden: I know Mom I have been here before…
Mom and the children walk further down the hallway of the Museum into another room. This room was even more decorated with paintings and sculptures on display, weren't sure what to call all this stuff. But their was a lot of art on display in the middle of the room on stands and even more bigger pictures on walls…
Eden: Wow what's that?
Eden runs up to some artwork which rested on a stand…
KC: (standing next to his sister) I don't know but it looks expensive, so don't touch it…
Eden: I'm not gonna touch it stop worrying!
KC: Well you're a klutz…
Eden: And you're a worry maker!
KC: (confused) A what?
Eden: You worry so much!
KC: Well looking out for you anyone would be…
Eden: (giggling) Hehe
Jane was staring at a few pictures a few ft away from her children, continually looking at the art on display and back at her children… a caring mother but also a cautious one no doubt…
Eden: (looking over to notice someone she recognized) Hey look who that is!
KC: (looking over in the same direction) What?
Eden: Isn't he from our school?
KC: (staring for a second then looking at Eden) Yeah I think so…
Eden: (looking at KC) Wanna say hi?
KC: (sighing) No I don't I hardly know him so just come on…
Eden: Isn't he friends with that other girl?
KC: (looking at Eden) I dunno…
Eden: You know the new girl…
KC: I guess so… seen them around a few times at school…
Eden: Aha so you DO know EXACTLY who I'm talking about!?
KC: (face in the palm of his hand) Not this again…
Eden: You knew who I was talking about the other day… you look at her at school and I heard you saying her name in your sleep…
KC: (kneeling down and holding his sisters arm as if the next few words really mattered) Look, Eden… what exactly have you heard?
Eden: I heard you… shouting her name in your sleep once…
KC: And?
Eden: (her eyes become wide and she shrugs) That's all… I was interested…
KC: (standing up to notice the boy he knew from school was gone) It… don't mean anything sis… just dreams…
Eden: But…
KC: (raising his voice a little) Look it don't mean anything! It cant alright, I don't even know her so just forget about it already!
Eden: (develops a expression you see when they've been emotionally hurt) Ok you don't want to talk about it… fine by me…
Eden walks away and stands next to her mother… Jane looks at Eden then at KC…
Jane: (walking over to KC) Everything ok?
KC: (pausing for a second) … Little tired…
Jane: Ok well we can head back home soon honey…
KC: (looking at Eden then following his mom) ….
18 minutes later…
Location: Museum, Entrance Hall
The seemingly distant family were now at the entrance… they had been here for about 31 minutes but it seemed more like a life time for KC. He had no idea what that meant, but he soon realises…
Jane: (looking over) Oh theirs snacks, you two want anything?
Eden: Yah some twinkies!
Jane: KC?
KC: (looking at his mom) I'm ok…
Eden: (looking at KC then at Jane) …
Jane: Ok then… wait here with your sister and don't move from here…
KC: No problem Ma…
Eden walked off to the food & drinks shop which was only across the hall. The great room was really busy with people coming in and out and wondering about…
Eden: (standing next to KC) …
KC: …
Eden: …
KC: Look sis about before…
Eden: Hmm?
KC: Did not mean to shout at yah… its just…
Eden: What?
KC: Just I don't know why I'm having dreams about… that girl…
Eden: Maybe you love her…
KC: (grinning and looking at his sister) Whoa, he-hey don't get any ideas!
Eden: (looking up at her brother) Why? Is that so weird for you?
KC: Don't ask a mouse to go out and eat the cheese when the cat hasn't even left the room yet…
Eden: Whaaa?
KC: (laughing mildly) Never mind… its something someone told me…
Eden: Who told you?
KC: (winking slyly at Eden) Secret…
Eden: (smiling at KC) …
Eden looked over at her mother who was just getting the snacks…
KC: (looking over at the resting area) ….
Eden: (looking over at her mother) Ah finally I'm hungry…
KC: (thinking to himself) Its that guy from school again… with the teacher?
Eden: (looking up at KC) What's wrong?
Jane begins to walk over to Eden and KC…
Eden: Hey are you ok?
KC: (staring over at the pupil and the teacher sitting down at a small table drinking) ….
Edmonds: Its like that Japanese myth where the sun vows to go into the cave and never come out…
KC began to bleed from his nose…
Eden: Brother?
Jane: (standing beside Eden and facing KC) ….KC are you alright?
KC: (looking at his mom and grinding his fingers against his skull) Head hurts…
Jane: (grabbing KC's arm softly) Alright we're going home now…
KC: I'm ok… really mom…
Jane: Gonna take you home and your gonna go to bed.
Eden: ….
KC followed his mom out the rotating museum door entrance and stood at the top of the stairs looking up at the cloudy sky then wiping away the blood as it fell though the air and stained the ground…
Eden: (holding KC's hand) Are you gonna be ok?
KC: (looking down at his sister) Really don't know sis… Ill let you know…
The family walked down the golden steps but KC grieved, for someone close to his heart had just returned to the planet…
Chapter 3
"Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance"
Location: KC's Home
Walking through the front door and entering his home, KC looked around and said not a word…
Jane: Ok honey you go on up and get some rest okay?
KC: Really mom I'm okay…
Eden: (standing beside Jane) …
Jane: Ill let the doctor decide that but for now you can stay home from school this Monday…
KC: (rolls eyes) Okaaay, fiiine…
Eden: (smiling) ….
KC walked slowly up the stairs onto the hallway…
KC: (entering his room and laying down on his bed with his arm resting on his face) Oh man… I need help…
A moment passed by…
Voice: What you need you never managed to get a grip on…
KC: You again!?
Voice: So how are you now?
KC: Whoever… whatever you are, just leave me the hell alone!
Voice: Cant do that just yet…
KC: Ok… so who are you?
Voice: Just a friend…
KC: Don't need any friends… always done fine by myself.
Voice: And look how that turned out…
KC: Nothing to do with you…
Voice: But it is…
KC: ???
Voice: You'll see soon enough.
KC: Ill… see? How?
Voice: Don't worry about it right now.
KC: But I…
Voice: Just wish I could stay a little longer…
KC: Ok then just tell me… who are you?
Voice: Maybe we will meet again another day KC…
KC: No wait a minute!!!
KC is awake! He rose up in his bed looking around vigorously… it was dark… it was late…
KC: (now looking around nervously and striking the wall with his fist) God damnit, I'm getting really fed up with these nightmares!
KC sighed deeply only to then look around and see his little sister asleep in her bed on the other side of the room. Sis was still asleep… didn't wake her this time at least…
Eden: (facing away from KC and laying on her pillow) ….
KC: (yawning) Thought Sundays… were the day of rest…
KC lays back down and tries to fall asleep. He didn't count any sheep or anything - but non the less he managed to fall asleep after a few minutes…
It was now Sunday afternoon…
He woke up to the sound of early morning singing, again the birds were outside cooing, the squirrels were sneaking, his family were downstairs…
KC rose up slowly from his bed and clenched his fingers against the side of his cranium. He could feel a slight pain inside his skull but thought nothing of it…
KC: (talking to himself) One hell of a way to wake up, headache in the morning and nightmares when asleep…
Getting up off his bed and noticing his sister was not in her bed, it seemed KC had overslept since it was early afternoon… about 3pm.
KC: (looking out the window then at the doorway) Guess I really was tired after the trip yesterday… oh well feeling better now…
He quickly made his way downstairs and as he entered the front room and went to sit down, Jane came from the kitchen and asked KC…
Jane: How are you feeling today honey?
KC: Alright mom, told you its nothing… just a headache…
Suddenly realising his mistake, KC closed his eyes tight and muttered to himself…
Jane: Well that settles that, you aren't going school Monday. You can take the day off and stay in bed…
KC: Mom… I don't feel sick…
Jane: 1 day wont hurt but you can make up for it by helping around the house a little more on Tuesday…
KC: (sighing) Ok good deal….
Jane: (smiling then walking into the kitchen to wash up)
KC: (sighing and talking to himself) I guess I could use a day off, feels like heaven and hell is rising inside my own skull…
KC stood still in the middle of the room, idle for a moment, then quickly made his way to the front door…
Jane: (facing KC as he opens the door) Hey where do you think you're going?
KC: Gonna get some fresh air and try to relieve that headache…
Jane: Alright but only for 5 minutes then I want you back here to take it easy…
KC: Yeah good thinking Ma…
Jane: (smiling then continuing to wash up)
A moment later, KC wondered out the front door and went for a lone walk…
It seemed like a long time passed by or what should have been a long time…
But it was actually only a for a short duration, time was said to be endless and that the world would go on forever. KC did not really believe that things lasted forever, even if it was so good that you thought it was impossible to have happened to you. He realised that he was pessimistic about such things… and had good reasons to think such things when he came across an odd sight outside one home…
KC: (outside a house at the hedge and looking over) ???
Seemed to be quite an amount of people outside, they were slowly heading inside the house…
KC: (looking closer and thinking to himself) Dull clothes, a lot of adults mostly, not looking cheery at all… wonder who died?
KC turning around and not looking where he was walking… BUMP!
KC nearly being knocked off his feet looks over to see he had bumped into the side of the same person he had seen at the museum and on the bus with Leslie that other day…
Kid: …
KC: Sorry my fault…
Man: You okay?
KC: Yeah my bad, sorry….
Man: Its okay, be careful wherever it is your going though?
KC: (quick weird salute and smiling) Good advice…
Man: (smirking)
The man, woman and the other kid KC assumed was their son who went to the same school as him continued to walk on but not before the boy he only knew as a face looked back at him with a cold stare… KC only looked back showing the same expression if not a bit warmer. The boy then followed the man and woman as they continued to walk up to the house with all those people inside in dull dark clothes…
KC: (looking and thinking to himself) Hold on… they know the ones who live there? Hmm…
"Now I am wondering who does actually live there?" KC thought to himself…
He struggled with those words but only for a moment… like he was lost in thought and time… with no way back…
KC: (muttering) Nah, nothing to do with me…
He walked onwards to the end of the rough pathway and stopped at the mailbox which was only just next to a huge boulder that you could sit on comfortably…
KC: (gazing at the white horizon when a unusual and overwhelming feeling came over his mind) !
He moved his hand slowly towards the boulder and touched it with the edge of his finger tips….
KC: (thinking to himself) Could I wash up at your place? If I go home my mom will freak out and she will like be at the principal and everything - and my life will be over…
KC rushed backwards quickly!
A wave of pain raced through the core of his mind!
KC: (his eyes glazed over) Arrhhh!!! The hell… is wrong… with me!?…
Little realising what was going on with him, KC in the rush of anxiety, confusion and the sharp but moderate pain inside his skull made his way back up the beaten path looking up at the sky and then at the house…
KC: Oh God…
A far voice: Next time, we should invite Leslie to go… she would like that…
KC: (muttering to himself in pain and still walking stubbornly up the beaten path) Why… am I hearing…
He quickly made his way home and just as KC got to the front door his sister appeared behind him tugging on the belt of his jeans…
Eden: Hey whatcha doin?
KC: (turning to face Eden with blood coming from his nose and his eyes still glazed over) Ahh…
Eden: Oh mi God KC! Are you alright?
KC pulls himself together trying to focus his thoughts, he smiles weirdly at his little sister as his eyes return back to normal from the whiteness that had shadowed them…
KC: (smiling) Yeh… sis, silly question…
Eden: …
KC (voice inside his mind) KC why are you being like this? I don't understand you at all…
KC grasps the side of his skull again even tighter…
KC: (eyes squinted and leaning over from the sharp pulsing of the pain) Argh!
Eden: I'm gonna tell mom so she can help!
KC: (grabbing his sisters arm softly) No sis! Don't tell Mom or Dad yet!
Eden: But if theirs something wrong with you then you need help!
KC: (both of his hands on his sisters shoulders) Ill be fine… in a few days… you'll see… so don't worry about me? Alright?
Eden: Ok… a day, but if you don't get better I'm telling mom…
KC: Fair enough sis… but don't worry alright? I'm fine… its just a really bad day… for me…
Eden: (looking at her brother worried and with a nauseated expression) …
Time slipped through his fingers, Monday had finally arrived…
It was late in the afternoon… another day… another night… another life.
KC: (waking up his eyes squinted) Urgh…
KC looked around for a moment to notice his sister was up and about since he could hear her downstairs, her bed was neat and made. He noticed from the light shining through dulled that it must have been afternoon, at least 3:20pm. He had overslept… but no dreams! He had not dreamed!
KC did not remember dreaming of the girl last night….
KC getting up out of bed and getting changed with a smile on his face and looking towards the burning sun was suddenly filled whole-heartedly with a comfortable but oblivious delight. He seemed to be humming a tune but did not remember where had learned it… yet he did not care since the tune gave him that comfort…
KC: (humming) Huuummm-humm-hum-hummmmm-hum-huummm-hummmmmmm-huuuuuummmmmmm
Location: KC's Home, Downstairs
KC walked downstairs to see his mom washing the dishes at the sink… they had just eaten and he guessed that's why he woke up, must have heard his mother and sister talking along with the clatter of the dishes against the bellow of the sink but he did not really remember much since his brain was half awake… or maybe his heart was just half alive because of what had transpired without him knowing. KC still remembered very clearly what happened yesterday bit he weren't about to let some sharp pain and weird voices and dreams get in the way of his life or interfere with those he cared about…
KC: (walking over to the table and sitting down) ….
Jane: (washing up) Dinner is in the microwave hun…
KC getting up and heading over to the microwave to grab his meal suddenly stopped as Jane faced him…
Jane: (putting her hand on KC's forehead) Well your temperature seems normal…
KC: Do you have to play doctor at home as well as at work?
Jane: Now I'm going to look after my children if it means being a softy or not…
KC: Alright, sorry mom…
The door opened swiftly and in came KC's dad…
Jane: No need to be, go on… your dinner is in the microwave….
KC: (popping his hand in the microwave and getting out his dinner) …
David: (quickly walking up to Jane pulling her gently by the arm to one side and whispering)
KC: (turning around curious as to what's happening) Guys?
David & Jane: (whispering to each other even more loudly and slightly waving their hands at their sides)
KC: Hey what's going on…
KC begins to feel that twist in the gut you get when your nerves start to make you feel like hurling…
KC: (holding his plate and walking up to his parents) Hey guys what's going on? What's all the whispering for?
Eden: (walking in from the joined front room and standing 7 ft behind KC) What's happening in here?
David: (turning to face KC and Eden) …
KC could see his father looked tense… or more shocked… and so he had to ask him…
KC: What's wrong… Dad?
David: Why don't you kids… go sit down in the front room…
KC: (holding the plate and feeling more anxious with every passing second) No just tell us… Dad, what's going on?
Eden: ….
Jane: (sitting down at the table holding Eden in her lap to comfort her like a mother would normally do with a baby) ….
David: (walking up to KC and resting his hands on his shoulders) It's the girl you know from your school….
KC: ….What about her?
David: (breathing hard) Theirs been an accident…
KC: Please… dad… just tell me…
David: Leslie Burke, your friend from school is…
KC: (feeling like he cant breath) She's… ???
I began to breathe heavy… my mother gave comfort to my sister at the kitchen table, the place that should always feel like home suddenly became something I would remember as a time of transition, change, confusion and pain. We never ask for things to change, not really, but they do. Change is an inevitable occurrence in everyone's lives… but I guess its what we do after that really counts…
David: I'm sorry son, she's dead…
KC: (a crushing wave of heat rushes up his spine and he swallows hard) Wha-wha… how did…
Eden: (starting to cry)
David: I'm not sure… they told me it happened in the nearby forest from here… they think she drowned… I'm sorry son… I know you thought much of her…
Eden: (held tight by her mother and crying)
KC dropped the plate of dinner watching as the impact caused it to shatter into pieces… then looked up at his father, quiet tears were in his eyes…
KC: (hardly breathing) I… you cant be… this isn't… I don't… understand…
David: (looking at KC his hands gripping his shoulders even tighter) I'm so sorry…
KC: (thinking to himself) Oblivion of Bells
David: KC? Son?
KC threw away the hands of his father, causing him to lose his grip! KC ran quickly out the front door of his own home!
David: SON!!??
Eden: KC!
Jane: (standing up quickly with Eden in her arms) !
KC left his home and ran down the beaten path quickly towards the heavy pavement….
David: (outside at the front door) KC!!??
Eden: (standing near the front door and shouting) Daddy what about KC!?
David: Ill go after him, stay here with your mother!
KC ran down the paved pathway past some other homes and stopped outside that one house at the hedge only to sense that… no… he could not feel her… she wasn't there, she had not been in her own home for a few days…
KC: (breathing heavily) !!!
KC ran back up the path towards the forest that rested uneasily past the fields…
"When all hope has abandoned our hearts and we are left with nothing but our pain, we can only cling hard to that which we have struggled so long to hold on to. Together only so that we may endure our common pain is one of the few things that make us all the same. Struggle & Grief"
Location: Forest past the fields
KC ran so fast… never stopped for thought, never ceased for breath, only absolution drove him towards the truth. He fought for all he held dear in this moment as he had lost someone close to his heart and demanded satisfaction for his dreaded anger…
KC: (running across a small trench towards a creek and stopping) … …
KC now at the creek which he had heard about… he knew this was it, this was the Promised Land. He had heard Leslie Burke talking to her friend Jesse Aarons about such a place and also this seemed to fit with what he had been dreaming…
KC: (breathing more heavily) This… this must be the… place…
"Terabithia"
He walked abruptly, stepping on twigs and leaves… even if they were dead…
He walked still… until finally stopping at the edge of the creek… noticing a rope hanging directly above the running water…
KC: (looking at the broken rope and then at the stream of water) Oh god… this is where she died…
Looking over, KC noticed a tree had collapsed… must have been due to the heavy weight and raw power of the wind and rain. He walked quickly… standing up on the collapsed tree bridge and began to walk across…
He was stood at the roof of the collapsed tree, when he called out her name…
KC: (just louder than a whisper) Leslie Burke…
KC looked around and listened but their was no sign…. their was no miracle waiting for him here… so he decided to walk a little further…
He stood at half-way on the tree bridge and looked with his eyes wide and his mind open… but he just couldn't see…
KC: Theirs nobody here… I must have heard it wrong…
He turned around… BUMP!
KC: (knocked back slightly but keeping his footing) Argh!!!
He had knocked someone over!
KC: (catching his breath and looking down at his feet) Huh? I'm sorry, you alright!?
Girl: (nearly slipping of the tree bridge and trying to keep hold) !
KC quickly knelt down and helped the girl up on the tree bridge… at least he helped her get a grip so she wouldn't fall…
Girl: (shouting out) Jesse!!!
KC: (turning around hearing shouts from the distance of the forest) !!!
Jesse: (deeper in the forest) Leslie!?
KC: (thinking to himself) She's got a grip, he can help her up… but I cant explain being here…
KC ran quickly to the other side of the creek and hid in the bushes then looked out towards the collapsed tree where a few seconds later a boy came out from the depths of the forest and spotted the little girl… the boy was non other than Jesse Aarons and yet KC was not surprised for some reason…
Jesse: Leslie!?
May belle: Help Jesse I cant get across!
Jesse: May belle?
May belle: (still hanging half-way off the tree bridge) Hurry!
Jesse: (climbing on the tree bridge and walking across slowly) Its ok hang on!
The girl identified as his sister, May belle hanged on, she had good strength for a little one…
Jesse: (helping his sister up) Its ok I got you…
KC: (still hiding and thinking) He was best friends with Leslie…what he must have been feeling now…
Jesse helped his sister to the end of the tree bridge…
Jesse: What are you doing here!?
May belle: I was worried about you!
Jesse: Well don't - I don't want you too!
They both jumped down and faced each other tensely…
May belle: I wanna come with you!
Jesse: Go home May belle, this is our place! - This is OUR place!
KC: (whispering to himself) Our place? They came here? This was their place of happiness?
Jesse turned around and went to climb up on the tree bridge again but was stopped by his sister who attempted to follow… he turned around…
Jesse: (rushing forward) I said GO HOME!!!
He pushed his sister towards the floor with the force of anger itself… May belle rested on the floor crying and looked up at her brother…
Jesse: (climbing back up on the tree bridge and going out of sight after a moment)
May belle got up slowly and ran off back into the denseness of the forest…
KC climbed out of the bushes and looked around gazing over at the other side of the creek…
KC: I have to know… I loved her too… I need to know enough so I can go on living with this new heart ache…
Something was weighing him down… it was like when your hit with something hollow but still so heavy you just go numb. Your heart turns to glass and you just don't know what to feel anymore… or maybe you choose not too feel anything…
He jumped up on the collapsed tree and crossed over to the other side…
Location: Forest, other side of the Creek
KC ran through the mysterious forest, jumping over potholes and swaying past trees, forcing away branches… running faster than ever before till finally he caught sight of a old tree house…
KC: (stood outside the Fort looking up at the pair of trees holding up the foundations of the tree house) This place… what is this?
He climbed up and stood upon the Forts platform…and peered down at the forest. Then after a moment, he entered…
KC: (looking around at the art and drowned surroundings) I cant believe… this is it…
KC not touching anything walked around looking at pictures on walls and artists pens stacked on shelves. Everything was all drought and the inside withered because of the rain from… the night before… when she…
KC: (looking for a moment longer then settling his sights on a map which hanged on the nearby wall) What is… Terabithia?
"They give us purpose, they give us meaning, they allow us to be concerned with our past and consider our future, they allow us to be who we are so that we may cherish others or dismay them. They are our very soul calling to us from the mundane. Our Memories"
KC: (his nose begins to bleed) I remember…. I remember everything… so much feeling… so much memory…
He could hear someone climbing up… the clatter of loud foot steps…
KC dashed backwards towards the wall and stood still, his heart was racing!
KC: Oh-oh… holy-
Jesse: (climbing up and standing at the entrance to the tree house and looking inside for a second) …
The boy KC never knew walked over and grabbed the artists pens from the shelves…
KC: (standing against the wall) …
A moment later, Jesse ran towards the entrance, left the Fort and returned to the forest…
KC: What the-
KC: (stepping forward) Its like he…. couldn't see me…
He held up his hands in front of his face…
KC: (dashing backwards!) Oh my God!!!
KC left the tree house, leaping off the platform and landing on the floor followed by a roll then quickly made haste towards the creek!
Still running, never stopping - KC had kept running not knowing how long for till finally he did stop - hidden by the forest, he could see Jesse…
He was being held close by his father… in his arms…
KC: (voice in his mind) She shared something special with you when she came here didn't she? That's what you'll hold on too, that's how you'll keep her alive…
KC: Good to know one of us is saved friend… but my story is far from over…
He got up and made his way to the fallen tree at the creek…
Location: Creek, Terabithia
KC: (stood on the collapsed tree and looking back at Terabithia) She' gone… and I have become something…. I don't know who or what I am anymore…
He walked slowly across the bridge…. pausing for a moment to stare at the snapped enchanted rope….
KC: If magic or the unnatural truly cant exist in this world… then how can I?
He continued to stare at the rope swing…
KC: What am I? Who am I? She was the only one who could tell me and now she's gone forever…
He grasped his sanity and started to walk over to other side of the creek… he was at half way on the tree bridge…
KC: (feels a breeze at the back of his neck and turns around slowly) Hey… who is-
Nobody and nothing was there… just his imagination…
KC: I have to get a grip… my name is KC, I am 14 and my home is just pass this forest… I have to go back home…
A soft wind blew in the distance and flowed in between KC's fingers. A angelic voice echoed in the breeze of the air …
Voice: KC…
KC: (looking around) Oh I'm hearing voices again?
Voice: KC I'm here with you now…
KC: (looking over at the rope then at Terabithia) Hey… you're…
She smiled that golden smile…
KC: (tries to turn around and slips) !!!
KC swayed in the air as light as a feather pressing against the cold breeze of the wind…
Chapter 4
"A New World"
"It is the world that binds us, keeps us together. We are children of God or simply creatures sprung forth from the hidden past, but we all have one thing vaguely in common, it is each other that rewards us our true purpose in this World. We keep our free will and even when we have nothing we still have each other, if not seen in this life then maybe in the next. Will of Humanity"
It was truly a whole different world… I never realised it at the time but everything that had happened before then was all for that moment… simply shaping things to come. My destiny was no longer my own. But now shared with others, different species that I never knew could ever exist in such a world of hopeless ingenuity - such a harsh world. It was all for this moment and now it was done… I was complete.
Location: Currently Unknown
KC stood upon the roof of the building, his eyes shut, facing onwards at the distant horizon of the sky where the pulsing red sun rested on its shoulders. The wind at his back, the warmth pressing against his face and neck, KC raised his arms outward slowly and held his face towards the glory of the heavens. His hands and arms raised high, KC opened his eyes wide and stared out across the coarse land to the grace of freedom… and leaped…
He fell toward the ground, waving his arms - his hair rippling through the force of the wind!
KC: (waking up in his comfy bed) Urgh! Oh… man!
Sky: (his claws dug in on the above lamp stand) More dreams again?
KC: (sitting up) Yeah… cant seem to be rid of them…
Sky: What's with that anyway KC? Been having them for weeks now…
KC: If I knew I would gladly unburden myself from them and tell you… but I guess Ill go with it…
Sky: Well better pucker up we got a big day…
KC: Yeah but between you and me old buddy, I don't like this whole "kidnap" thing, I mean I got no beef with the elves and all but its my and your neck on the line here…
Sky: We will just have to glide through it KC…
KC: (sighing) Yeah like always.
KC stood up out of his bed in the dark room, his bed rested in the corner, the room seemed to creek and shudder… like it was asunder. He walked slowly towards the porthole which was a small window that opened…
KC: (opening the porthole) Wow… what a view…
Sky: (resting on KC's shoulder) Indeed…
It was grand indeed… the airship Gladius Cordela flying directly overhead at Darnassus. Believe it or not but Darnassus was a huge city settled high atop a great tree (a REALLY great tree that stretched high towards the clouds) however it was said that the land itself was corrupted. Something to do with the elves and how the tree was created, the very seed that sprung this great branch was incoherently coursed with a selfish act.
The city was great indeed, the buildings, the land itself was all forest and woodland like. Critters and creatures could be seen down below on the ground from the windows of the airship overhead. The buildings were shaped with eagle and cat like decorations which were built into the foundations itself. The statues of past heroes could be seen all over surrounded by the shining grace of the elven lakes. The great waterfalls fell as a thin blue stream at either sides of Darnassus where the little elf kind would swim…
KC: (looking out the window for a moment then at Sky) Yeah but I am just a hired hand because of my… abilities…
Sky: I guess they needed the extra hands…
KC: Well I hardly know these guys… I mean we are staging a show just to kidnap some elf princess… what's the deal here?
Sky: Obviously something bigger than us…
KC: Yeah well… soon as this is over, we will be made for life… oh yeeeahhh…
Sky: I wont have to listen to your moaning about being pocketless…
KC: Well hey I kept us going chum!
Sky: What about the time I pulled you out that nest of soil trolls?
KC: That don't count I tripped and they pulled me in without my consent!
Sky: Well maybe when you get your footing I wont have to keep flying you out of those kind of situations.
KC: What kind?
Sky: The kind where I keep saving your relentless behind from ridiculous circumstances…
KC: (waving his fist about at Sky) Hey I may have my share of bad luck but the experience from those very events gets the work ahead done old friend!
Sky: May be so but sooner or later we are gonna get scrapped…
KC: (looking back out the porthole)You worry to much…
Sky: ….
A hour later…
KC stood in the room with his fellow band members, the same people who intended to kidnap the Princess of the elven kingdom… the room was alight due to the candles that rested on small tables.
Wise: Where's the boss?
Creed: Hell should I know? Said to meet here…
KC: …
Wise: I just got a bad feelin about this…
Creed: That's what you always say "I got a badda feelin about alla this"
Wise: Yeah… well… I do…
Blank: Relax the boss will be here soon…
Tan: Not soon enough…
A door swings open and an unknown humanoid with a dragons head leaped in the room and landed with a slam! The creature screeched loudly!
Battle 1 Begins
KC: (sheathing a sword and shield) Looks like we got unexpected company!
Blank - executes 1x Slash vs Dragon humanoid, causing moderate lethal damage to its armour
Tan - executes Dash & Kick vs Dragon humanoid, but the attack misses
Dragon humanoid - Runs stunting the ground with his oversized shoes and bashes with his shoulder vs Creed, causing moderate smashing damage to his armour and small smashing damage to his flesh
Creed: That really hurt! Damn it!
Creed - executes Charge & 2x Kick vs Dragon humanoid, causing small smashing damage to its armour
Wise - executes Steal vs Dragon humanoid, stealing a pair of gloves!
Dragon humanoid - executes Charge & 1x Swipe vs KC, but trips cancelling his attack!
KC - executes Dash followed by 1x Slash vs Dragon humanoid, causing moderate lethal damage and cutting away his dragon head armour!
Boss: Owwwwwwwwwww!! Hey-hey! Take it easy guys!
Battle 1 Ends
Boss: Good to see your all in ship shape!
KC, Blank, Tan, Creed & Wise: (breathing heavily and kneeling down) Huff puff!
Boss: (walking to another door at the other end of the room) Alright get in ere we are startin the meetin!
The boss enters the room and the rest of the gang follows seconds later…
"Gladius Cordela, the theatre ship"
Location: Gladius Cordela, next room
KC and the gang sat around a table except for Blank who leaned against the wooden wall looking downwards at the floor. The Boss stood up in front, he was a big fellow with goggles and engineers gloves, not to mention the odd like beard. At least the boss wernt a dwarf or else none of us would be fit for kidnapping any princess…
Boss: (holding up his fist) Right gang! This is it!
Creed: Explain again boss?
Boss: Great ol' Mary you forgot again!?
KC: ….
Boss: We're gonna settle the ship in Darnassus' royal castle and give one of the best shows their elven eyes have ever laid sights upon!
KC: That's when KC and Blank kidnap the elf princess right?
Boss: Glad someone is paying attention! Gonna kidnap the elven princess of Darnassus!
Tan: And I handle the guards…
Boss: KC I don't know you very well but don't compromise my boyz lives and we will be friends at the end of the day… capiche?
KC: Ill get this job done and everyone out alive…
Boss: After we have the elven princess we make like hell and fly the Gladius Cordela outta there before they even know what hit em!
KC: (thinking to himself) Sounds just reckless…
Boss: (holding up his arms) Alright we should be in position soon! All of yah be ready!
"The 1st ATE event"
ATE!
Location: Darnassus, Elf City
ATE is Alternate Timed Event! When story elements take place in the present, past or future but at a alternate location and maybe with alternate characters it will spark the ATE message!
In the capital elven city of Darnassus the elven king prepared for the arrival of the theatre ship and made himself decent for the show…
Elven king: (walking accompanied by another elf) I trust everything is prepared for the arrival of the Gladius Cordela theatre ship?
Elf companion: Yes your highness…
Elven king: Excellent… I am not however familiar with the band performing the act…
Elf companion: Your highness they are the Xathalius band originated from the kingdom of Stormwind… I hear they put on a exquisite performance…
Elven king: Excellent… I shall look forward to watching them in action…
Elf companion: Very good your highness…
Meanwhile in the elven city a Gnome made haste to the ticket booth located in the city, after all he did have a ticket and was just bursting to see the show…
"Glenshaw, gnomely-man not manly-gnome"
Glenshaw: (leaning over his hands resting on his knees) Urgh! My legs and arms are beat! I may not make this treat! But I don't wanna miss the shoooow!
The little gnome ran quickly down the shining streets of Darnassus towards the ticket booth! He really wanted to see the show and had to get his ticket stamped to officially enter the elven Darnassus castle where the act would be performed. The show was called "We Love We Sin" which was thought up by a writer named Ipsien…
The excited gnome ran down the paths of Darnassus, passing the elven kind as he did. The world… seemed bigger somehow for a gnome. After a moment he come to the location of the ticket booth. Glenshaw walked quickly up to the ticket booth stand and peered inside…
Glenshaw: (peering inside the ticket booth stand) …
Ticket man: (appearing suddenly into view) !
Glenshaw: (backing up quickly nearly falling over) Ah!
The ticket booth man leaned over staring at Glenshaw in wonder for a few seconds, then stood up straight….
Ticket man: Why hello there little gnome… come to see the show I take it?
Glenshaw: (holding up his ticket) Yes! I got my ticket right heeeere!
Ticket man: Why you are a stout one aren't you? Alright then let me check this for you
Glenshaw: (hands the ticket over to the ticket man)
Ticket man: (checking the ticket and stamping it a moment later) Alright this seems to be official… go on and enjoy the show little one!
Glenshaw: Why thanks!
Glenshaw quickly runs off heading north in the elven city…
Ticket man: (leaning over as if to stop the gnome then back) What a peculiar fellow… he forgot his ticket…
Glenshaw after a moment of running comes to the gateway which lead to the elven castle… their was people around… and not just elves but humans also and some other characters that he did not recognise. Glenshaw goes to walk through the small doorway of the great gateway and is stopped by a guard!
Elvish guard: We have to check for your stamped ticket little one!Glenshaw: Why sure I got it right here!
Glenshaw checks his pockets and his back pockets and his shirt pocket…. he could not find his stamped ticket…
Glenshaw: Oh… HAHA! I lost the ticket!
Elvish guard 1: Hmm that's very peculiar…
Elvish guard 2: Very peculiar indeed…
Glenshaw: (weird grin) Ahhh…
Elvish guard 1: (turns to face the other elvish guard and whispers) Don't you think he looks a little suspicious? Running around with that odd grin and not having a ticket at all?
Elvish guard 2: (whispering back) Got to agree with you, he is a gnome after all, always some malicious deed going on with them kind…
Elvish guard 1: (smirking) Right, that's enough for me…
The elvish guards turn to face the gnome, holding up their weapons!
Elvish guard 1: Right you little ruffian we have!-
The guards look around and cant spot the gnome anywhere…
Elvish guard 2: (looking at the other guard with a weird grin) HAHA… he's gone!
Elvish guard 1: (waving his hand around) Well don't just stand there! Alert the guard!
Glenshaw got past the guards and had sneaked within the elvish castle grounds! He walked hastily towards the elvish castle… their was a heavy crowd around him walking along the alight bridge towards the castle of the elven king of Darnassus. It was mighty indeed, also forbidden for any to enter except the royal high guard and members of royalty itself… except on the special occasion such as these which weren't many for the elves. They had only just recently accepted events such as these which were usually held in human lands….
The castle itself was mighty and held up over the shining greatness of the pearl ocean. The very foundation of the castle itself was a great tree trunk. The castle fitted with the decoration of eagles and cats… something to with the elven goddess but Glenshaw did not know much of such things at all. He continued to walk on while also staring at the great elf castle in pure astonishment…
BUMP!
Glenshaw: (on the ground for a moment then sits up) !
Wezz: (turning around looking a the gnome and stamping his feet in a tantrum) Hey watch where your going yah clutz!
Wezz was a odd character, but no older than a kid… compared to human years that is, his real age compared to humans was about 23 but for Wezz's life span he's barely out of his teenage years. He was a small character, not human, he had a oddly shaped nose which was rat like and head gear that covered most of his face and skull. He was dressed a bit trampish but his race was not of the high classy so they lived more like an amish…
Glenshaw: (standing up) Sorry!
Wezz: (waving his arms like a child then staring at Glenshaw more calmly) Wow yer funny lookin…
Glenshaw: I am? I've always looked this way…
Wezz: Jeez I feel for yah, really…
Glenshaw: (develops a weird smile)
Wezz: Your going to see the show right?
Glenshaw: Erm… yes… but I lost my ticket…
Wezz: No worries, I can help yah out… but theirs a catch…
Glenshaw: What's that then?
Wezz: Become my slave…
Glenshaw: But… I DON'T WANNA BE YA SLAVE!
Wezz: Well it's the only way you're gonna see the show…
Glenshaw: …. Alrighty then… to see the show ill do what you say!
Wezz: Great! Now your first mission! Come this way!
Wezz scampers off quickly followed by Glenshaw, after only a few seconds of running they stop at the Castle exterior wall and look up, Wezz turns to face Glenshaw then points upwards then at him.
Wezz: We will never get inside the castle of the elves, its extremely well guarded…
Glenshaw: (frowning) Ah…
Wezz: (thumping Glenshaw at the shoulder) Com'n this way!
The two mischievous young ones run around the exterior of the wall at the edge of the lake eventually coming to a old tower which rested on a small island right next to the wall. The tower was scheduled to be knocked down…
Wezz & Glenshaw: (coming out of the water and stepping onto the small island with the huge elven tower resting upon it)
Glenshaw: Wow that's a lot taller than me!
Wezz: …. That's our way over the wall!
Glenshaw: Oh yeah I guess it could do that to…
Wezz: Exactdamondo slave! Lets get inside!
Wezz & Glenshaw enter the tower building….
Wezz & Glenshaw: (inside tower at the base looking up the ladder)
Wezz: Alright! That's our way up! Slave check it out!
Glenshaw: (walks slowly into the tower interior stopping at the ladder and looks up)
BUMP!!!
"The Foogle's"
Wezz: AH! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?
Glenshaw: (getting up from the ground and looking at the sinister creature)
Sinister looking creature: Mu-mupo?
Glenshaw: Oh sorry about that!
Wezz: Phew! That's a foogle…
Foogle: So sorry Mupo! I fell from the top!
Glenshaw: (grinning) …
Wezz: (entering the tower interior) Whatever…
Wezz climbs up the tower and after a moment reaches the top…
Wezz: (shouting down to Glenshaw) Slave! GET UP HERE!
Glenshaw: (staring at the foogle for a moment) ….
Foogle: I not know you?
Glenshaw: I'm Glenshaw!
Foogle: Mupo! I enter you in Foogle Diary!
Glenshaw: What for?
Foogle: Well… I have a favour to ask of you mupo! Us foogle's keep in touch by a mail system! Can you help us deliver the mail? Mupo?
Glenshaw: Uuummm… yeah sure…
The mysterious and almost fairy looking foogle creature not any taller than Glenshaw took out a feather pen and threw down a huge diary to the ground…
Glenshaw: ….
Foogle: I enter you in Foogle Diary now…
Glenshaw: (nodding weirdly)
A moment later…
Foogle: All done mupo!
Wezz: (shouting down again) Eh slave! GET UP HERE!
Glenshaw anxiously looking up at the ladder than out the doorway they came in through notices another foogle with a backpack walk in and stand beside the other foogle…
Foogle: Why hello Neil!
Neil (foogle): Hey Monikia…
Monikia (foogle): You on your way to starting another one of your great adventures?
Glenshaw: (standing and staring at the 2 foogle's) …
Neil (foogle): Yeah just came to say ciao to friends and will cya later…
Monikia (foogle): Ok Neil! You be safe out there!
Neil (foogle): Don't worry I will…
Neil looked at Glenshaw then stated walking out slowly…
Neil (foogle): (looking back) Nice to meet yah buddy…
Neil left the small tower room…
Glenshaw: ….
Monikia: Neil likes you… mupo…
Wezz: HOW MANY TIMES SLAVE!!?? Get up here!!!
Monikia: MUPO! I think your friend is calling for you mupo!
Glenshaw: Oh yeah… ha…
Glenshaw quickly made his way up the ladder and a few seconds later was standing next to Wezz at the top base of the tower…
Wezz: Well that took you long enough…
Glenshaw: I met a foogle!
Wezz: Oh great those fluffy fairy weirdo's…
Glenshaw: Weirdo's?
Wezz: Ok slave! We are almost there! Follow me this way!
Wezz and Glenshaw turn around to see the wall of the elven castle just a matter of ft away…
Wezz: Ok we have to jump…
Glenshaw: Err….
Wezz: What?
Glenshaw: (nervous expression) ….
Wezz: Oh let me guess… you're afraid of heights, am I right?
Glenshaw: No… but… yeah-but…
Wezz: (thumps Glenshaw's shoulder hard)
Glenshaw: Aww!
Wezz: Don't worry so much! Just pretend your on the ground!
Glenshaw: O-ok…
Wezz stepped up to the edge of the tower opening and took a deep breath…
Wezz: Didn't these elves ever hear of windows? Fricking freezing in 'ere…
Glenshaw: ….
Wezz a moment later leaped over the gap between the tower and the wall and made it across, turned around and made a gesture for Glenshaw to follow…
Glenshaw stood at the edge looks over the opening in the tower wall and at the ground where the lake hits against the small island and at the base of the tower…
Glenshaw makes a sudden gesture to Wezz that he cant make the jump…
Wezz staring for a few seconds making another gesture… then shouts to him…
Wezz: Just pretend your on the ground and don't worry about falling! You wont fall I'll make sure of it!
Glenshaw: (getting closer to the edge not looking down) ….
The stout but brave Gnome takes a deep breath…
Glenshaw: (reassuring to himself) Just… don't look down…
Glenshaw shivered at the wrath of his own fear… and then LEAPED!
Location: Outside Balcony of Darnassus castle
4 minutes later….
Lights were thrown through the sky! A crowd of elves, men, gnomes and dwarves had gathered outside at the Darnassus castle and were enjoying the show! Cheers filled the sky and the hallways of the castle…
"Elven Royalty"
Queen of Darnassus: (watching and enjoying the show put on by the Xathalius band from the stage and platforms of the Gladius Cordela) This show is exquisite!
General of Darnassus: One who is bright would agree your majesty…
Princess: (frowning and looking downwards as if with a heavy weight on her shoulders) ….
Queen of Darnassus: (looking over at her daughter) Darling, do you not enjoy the show?
Location: Inside Darnassus Castle
7 minutes later…
Back inside the elven castle, two weary brigands were intent on capturing the elf princess…
WHAM-WHOOP! SLAM! BASH!
KC: Ha-ha… they fell easy…
Blank: (taking the guard's armour) Ok lets use their outfits to sneak around more easy…
KC: Good idea, luckily they are about the same size…
A moment later…
KC: (adjusting his armour and holding the helmet) ….
Blank: You about ready KC?
KC: Yeah nearly… but this helmet reeks…
Blank: What are you going on about man? My armour is to wide! These gloves have elven bread crumbs in em! The boots don't fit! My shoulders are compressed! My pants are-
KC: (waving his hand weirdly) OK! I get the idea the armour don't fit you… but we have to push on, time aint on our side right now…
Blank: Ok lets find this elf prince…
KC: Princess…
Blank: I know that….
KC: (sighs) ….
Blank: Don't worry I got this…
KC: You got the package ready?
Blank: Yeah! They wont see these lil fellas coming a mile away!
Blank drops a toglop on the floor which bounces away trying to escape before being caught again by a shaky Blank…
KC: Just be careful…
Blank: Man… I hate toglops…
KC: …
KC & Blank both exit the guards resting room and enter the castle hallway…
KC: Wow this place is neat…. elves pride themselves on cleanliness…
Blank: Makes me wanna puke…
KC: (grinning) Ok from what the map told me the royal high chambers is upstairs…
Blank: Right then…
KC & Blank quickly make haste up the large spiralling stairs onto the balcony. Blank goes to run outside…
KC: Whoa hey! Where you going?
Blank: To see outside?
KC: Are you kidding? You'll get seen…
Blank: Well im more stealthy than you think…
KC: ??? Don't matter anyhow… we have to find the princess…
Blank: For a hired merc you're very pessimistic…
KC: Hmm… ok… lets go this way…
KC & Blank pass by the double sturdy doors and enter the royal champers… the room presented some elven royal guard…
Blank: (standing next to KC then whispering) Lots of elven soldiers around… 2 at the doors on the right and 3 at the big doors straight forward…
KC: (whispering back) Don't create a ruckus yet… we find the princess first then figure a way out…
Blank: Good plan… but which way…
KC: (looking around for a moment) If memory serves correctly… we go right…
The two brigands intent on kidnapping the elf princess of Darnassus behaved as best they could similar to the elven royal guard and made their way slowly towards the door on the right side of the great royal hall…
KC & Blank: (approaching the elven royal guard at the double doors which led to the princess' room) …
The royal guard held up their hands and said…
Elven royal guard: HALT!
KC & Blank: (standing still and at attention) …
Elven royal guard: In this room rests the princess of Darnassus! You soldiers are not admitted to enter! State your intent!
Blank: (whispering to KC) Now what?
KC: (whispering back) Leave it to me…
KC takes 1 step forward… the guard's grasp the hilt of their swords…
KC: The Queen asks… that the princess returns outside and enjoys the show…
Elven royal guard: We have not received word of this!
KC: I expect you would not… you see…
KC gestures for the guards to come closer… they do so but very cautiously…
KC: Their may be bandits on the loose… intending to kidnap the princess this very night!
Blank: (whispering to himself) What the hell is he doing!?
Elven royal guard: By the great star of Elune! We must alert the Royal Guard!
KC: Indeed! But first we should inspect the princess' quarters and be certain that nothing has transpired!
Elven royal guard: (turning around quickly and unlocking the doors) ….
The 2 guards entered first followed by KC & Blank. One of the guard walked forward toward the person standing at a small square opening in the wall looking out. She wore some kind of elven white dress along with a hood which allowed her to stay mostly hidden from the naked eye…
Elven royal guard: Your highness! We have received word that bandits have-
The guard is knocked out by KC! The guard behind is knocked unconscious by Blank!
KC walks slowly only to stop a few ft away from where the princess of Darnassus was standing. Blank closes the double doors slowly and quietly then stood a few ft away from KC staring at the princess…
"Elven Princess of Darnassus"
KC: Ok now princess… just like the guard said… bandits are here and you are coming with us…
Princess: (looking out the opening still) …
KC: Star gazing is over elf… your coming with us one way or another…
Princess: (moving her head slightly) … And if I disagree?
KC: Well I would hate to get forceful with you but if the occasion calls for such action…
Princess: The occasion calls for much action… for there is much death to come…
KC: Ooo-k… maybe you didn't understand me but-
Princess: (turning her head slightly more so only the edge of her nose can be seen) Or maybe you don't understand yourself KC…
KC: …. How the hell do you know my name?
Princess: The same way I know your companions names… and those to come…
Blank: (walking forward 1 step) Enough of this gootchy crap! Lets just take her!
Princess: ….
KC: Ok fair enough princess. I don't care what you know but you've wasted enough time, you are coming with us now…
Princess: As I must, for many lives are at risk…
The Princess turns around quickly to reveal her face to KC. The rumours that elven princess' struck beauty into even the strongest hearts of men were almost true. He and Blank stood for a second at the hooded princess…
Princess: I shall go with you KC for your intentions are good at heart…
KC: …. Whatever, I'll find the truth one way or another…
Princess: (slowly walking closer to KC and still facing him) And only with the slow passing of time shall you understand who you are…
KC: …
There is a sudden crashing of fists at the doors!
Elven royal guard: (shouting on the other side of the door) Why is this door unguarded!? Princess!?
Blank: (walking to the side of KC quickly) We are out of time! We have to go now!
Princess: Quickly! Come this way…
KC: No choice…
KC & Blank follow the Princess to edge of the wall…
Blank: Don't think we can leave this way… solid wall and all…
KC: ….
Princess: (pulling on a elven ornament hanging on the wall)
Blank & KC: (moving backwards quickly as the wall shifts and a doorway is revealed) !!!
KC, Blank and the Princess make their through the hidden passage as the doorway closes behind them…
"Royalty & Secrets, they do mix"
A few minutes later…
KC, Blank and the seemingly helpful princess exit the hidden passage onto the hallway 1 floor below…
KC: (looking back as the doorway closes again) Well, that was rich…
Blank: (looking over at the Princess as she looks back at them then faces KC) Can we really trust her, KC?
KC: (walking past Blank and stopping beside the princess) Don't think we have much choice…
Princess: I implore you, you must trust me…
KC: Little trust to go around right now, lets just get back to the Gladius Cordela before the guards find us…
Princess: We should go this way…
KC: (eyes becoming wide with suspicion) Alright… lead the way princess…
The princess makes her way followed closely by KC & Blank down the royal hallway into the hall where the entrance to Darnassus castle is located. As they entered the great royal hall they stopped at the balcony and looked down below to see the guards at the entrance. One of them pointed at the party as they spotted them! The guards move quickly up the stairs towards where the party are…
KC: Ah crap!
Blank: (approaching the balcony) KC get the princess outta here! Get to the ship!
KC: What the hell are you-
Blank: (jumping over the small wall of the balcony level) GERONIMOOOOO!!!
KC: Blank!!!
KC moves quickly to the edge to see Blank fall against the guards toppling them over. Blank begins to fight with the guard moving about quickly and shouting!
KC: Damn crazy !*$&!^!
Princess: (grabbing KC's arm) Quickly theirs another way!
KC: (looking at the princess then back down below and finally following her) ….
The Princess and KC make their way quickly down the hall, no time to waste or stop for breath and go back up to the 2nd floor. KC follows the princess all the way to another room on the 2nd level where she stops at a window…
Princess: Ok this will have to do…
KC: (standing at the door) What will?
Princess: (climbing up on the opening in the wall) We have to jump…
KC: (walking quickly stopping beside the princess and moving back quickly waving his hand) Oh theirs no way I'm-
Princess: Theirs little choice now KC!
The door shakes as fists bang at the door and shouting is heard from the guard!
Guard behind the door: Open this door at once!
KC: (walking up to the window opening in the wall) The theatre ship is just down below…
Princess: Yes I see it…
The princess unhooks one of the human made wires that had those colourful decorations attached to them for shows etc. It was now dark as KC looked outside the window then at the princess…
Princess: (looking back at KC and smiling) Better hurry KC…
KC: Wait a damn min-
The princess in some kind of adrenaline junky move jumps from the window managing to hold on to the wire swings down towards the theatre ship!
KC: (climbing up on the windowsill opening and grabbing another wire from above) She's one crazy princess….
"Falling with the wind"
The guards break through the door and rush at KC! He jumps of and away from the windowsill and falls towards the theatre ship as the guard clang against the window opening and watches as he swings over towards the ship following the gallivant princess. KC hangs on to the wire with both arms and is soon gone with the wind…
The princess lands with a thump on a softer surface of the theatre ship shortly followed by KC who lands next to her. They both crawl carefully across the theatre ship surface and jump down into one of the balconies below where the orchestra could be seen performing for the audience in full view at the back of the ship. The music was trumpets and violins etc made by humans…
KC: (getting up and raising his hand to point at the princess) Next time tell me before you attempt something crazy!
Princess: (staring for a few seconds at KC smiling) We have no time to dawdle…
KC: (shrugging then grinning) Inside we go…
KC & the princess enter the theatre ship…
Location: Inside the Gladius Cordela
2 minutes later…
KC & the hooded princess stop inside the small room of the theatre ship where KC once looked out the porthole to see Darnassus in full view. The Princess stood in the middle of the room where KC stopped a few ft away from her and stared for a moment…
KC: (thinking to himself) Phew, that was tough, but we got her…
Princess: Do you own… this theatre ship…
KC: (thinking to himself) Guess she figured that part out…
Princess: (turning around to face KC letting down her hood slowly) I am princess Opal till Darnassus and I have a urgent request to ask of you!
"A Promise of Royalty"
KC stood for a moment in confusion and maybe a little shocked. Seconds later the princess grabs KC's hands and makes a pleading gesture with her eyes and her arms…
Princess Opal: I wish to be kidnapped! I must leave here!
KC: (behaving anxiously looking at his hands then back at the Princess) I uh, I don't, I mean…
Guards at the door: Princess!
Princess Opal: (backing up and bring back up her hood to cover most of her face) They have come!
KC: Ah so that's it! You need my help!
Princess Opal: (nodding)
KC: Ok princess…
KC holds his hand up to his heart and bows his head slightly…
KC: I promise to do my best to kidnap you…
Princess Opal: You have my gratitude…
The door behind Opal swings open! The princess jots back beside KC and both of them stare…
Wise: What're you doing prancing and dancing around for!?
KC: Its ok princess… that's Wise…
Princess Opal: (facing Wise) Oh I am sorry you just startled me.
KC: With a face like his I would be startled too…
Wise: (prancing about on the spot and waving his arms then raising his fist at KC) Hey that hurts! I wash every morning and bathe every afternoon yah know!
KC: (grinning) ….
Guard at the door: Princess!!!
Wise: (gesturing to KC and Princess Opal to follow) Com'n this way!
KC & the princess follow Wise into the next room and they shut the door behind them locking it. The guard enters the room they just left and searches anxiously like a dog sniffing out a fleeing fox…
"The loyal, ignorant and downright self questioning Knight"
Knight: (searching around) Princess!
The Knight goes to the backroom and searches amongst the bookshelves and goes back to the main room with the table where a candle rested on its surface very silently as it gave light to the darkness…
Knight: (searching further) Princess!!!
Location: Inside the Gladius Cordela, the next room
Behind the door the pursuing Knight could be heard as he banged against it with his fists of iron plate…
KC: Jeez don't that guy ever give up…
Princess Opal: …
KC: (turning around to face Wise who stood at the table) Ok Wise we need a way outta here…
Wise: So we do…. A-PRESTO!
Wise as he schemed those words lifted up the table to reveal a secret hatch that led into the engine room of the theatre ship…
KC: Not bad…
Wise: Ok get in and lets go!
KC, the princess and Wise jump down the hatch, closing it as they do…
Seconds later the elven Knight enters the room…
Knight: Princess!!!
Another shorter guard in thin armour but moving stubbornly enters the room…
Guard: ….
Knight: (spotting the hatchway and opening it quickly) !
The knight steps back…
Knight: They went this way!
Guard: Ill go first sir!
The strange guard attempted to jump down the hatchway bottom first… he became stuck in the hatchway due to his armour!
Guard: (sharking while stuck in the hatchway) Argh!
Knight: You! What are you doing!?
Guard: Sir! I am stuck sir!
Knight: Arrrghhh!!!
The angered Knight storms out the room quickly…
Guard: (looking back still stuck in the hole) Hehe… he bought it!
Location: Gladius Cordela, engine room
KC jumping down on the engine room platform stands a few ft away from the Princess looking at Wise then at the Princess…
KC: Elves are athletic huh?
Princess Opal: I have been planning to leave Darnassus for some time…
KC: Really? Hmm…
Wise: Hey now is no time to doodle! Lets keep moving!
KC: Yeh…
The small group walk across the platform where below the engines of the theatre ship could be seen rumbling and enter the next room through a doorway. The princess and KC stand in the middle of the room and look at some platforms that go to the surface. Wise was standing near the doorway…
Wise: (walking towards the platform) Ok go this way it will take you-
Swinging down the elevation support pipe is the loyal knight of Darnassus! He lands on his feet and quickly stands glaring at KC & Wise!
Elvish knight: Aha! Princess! I have come to your rescue!
KC & Wise stand in front as the princess backs away a little…
KC: I don't think she's in the mood for returning back to the castle…
Elvish knight: (points at KC) Silence! I am Albion! Royal knight of Darnassus! You will cease your intentions immediately and hand over the princess at once!
KC: Talking is your strong point but your not that bright…
A eleven soldier runs into the room standing beside the princess…
Princess Opal: (facing the other elvish guard) …
Knight Albion: Aha good timing! This will be known as the knights finest hour!
Man in armour: (walking then standing beside KC and Wise) Hehe, don't worry princess… we will have you outta here soon…
Knight Albion: (raising his fist in the air) WHAT!? You are not one of my knights!
KC: You can just…
Blank: Leave the princess…
Wise: In our hands…
Battle 2 Begins
Albion unsheathes his 2 handed sword, KC & his group also unsheathe their weapons…
Wise - executes Steal vs Albion, pocketing some plated shoes!
Albion: Rotten thief!
Albion - executes 2x Slash vs Wise, causing moderate lethal damage to his armour
Blank - executes Counter followed by 2x Slash vs Albion, causing moderate lethal damage to his armour
Albion: I am a Royal knight of the kingdom of Darnassus! Cease at once!
Blank: We're taking the princess outta here!
KC - executes 1x Slash vs Albion, causing moderate lethal damage to his armour
Albion - executes 2x Slash vs KC, causing moderate lethal damage to his armour
KC - executes Counter also empowered by Rage followed by 3x Slash vs Albion, causing high lethal damage to his armour and small lethal damage to his flesh!
Albion: Urgh… a flesh wound…
KC: Stand down knight!
Albion: I'll never surrender!
Albion - Executes a manoeuvre with his sword raising it high in the air and sending forth unknown magic energy vs Blank, breaking away his armour!
Blank's armour has been shattered! The toglop's spread out on the floor and scatter around the room!
Battle 2 Ends
Everyone except KC & Princess Opal run around the room… just like children due to fear of the toglops…
KC: Princess! This way!
The princess follows KC onto the platform… shortly followed by the knight who slaps Wise with such a force across the chops he flings to one side and lands with a thump! Blank was occupied with his fear towards the toglops…
Location: Surface of the theatre ship Gladius Cordela, in front of viewing crowd
"We Love We Sin"
King Deon: And furthermore!
The platform rises and up pops KC & the princess along with the knight a moment later…
Boss (King Deon): Hey! What the!?
KC: Everyone, just improvise!
KC & the performing band nod and carry on with the act: We Love We Sin
Isobella (Princess Opal): Marcus! How I missed you so!
KC: (whispering) Hey your doing great!
Princess Opal: (whispering back) I studied a lot of poetry and acts…
Marcus (Creed): Isobella!
Isobella & Marcus share a hug…
Deanei (KC): See King Deon? You should'eth just give them thy blessing… let them be…
King Deon (Boss): (walking across the stage to one side a few ft behind Marcus and turns to face Deanei) Never! I shall hot see my daughter married to this peasant! I will have him marry non other than this noble sir!
King Deon pats Albion on the back who is just standing there slouching. Marcus can be seen standing beside Deanei on the opposite end of the small stage…
Albion: (turns to face King Deon): Marry the Princess!? Me!?
Isobella (Princess Opal): (walking forward standing a few ft away from King Deon) Nay father! I shall not marry this knight for I love Marcus!
King Deon (Boss): (facing Isobella) It is my rule! You shall not challenge my decision nor betray your promise! You shall marry this man come the stroke of 3 this night!
Marcus (Creed): (taking 1 step forward) Not while I hold breath to prevent it!
Marcus stands but 7 ft away from King Deon! His sword sheathed and brandishing straight at the king's neck!
Marcus: For my love! For Isobella!
Marcus thrusts with the sword at the King's torso!
Isobella (Princess Opal): (throwing herself in front of the King): !
Marcus: (pulling back the sword and dropping it to the ground as Isobella falls into his arms) …
Marcus on his knees holding his love, the wretched King Deon too on his hands and knees speechless while Deanei watches as his friend begins to cry and despair thoughtlessly…
Isobella (Princess Opal): (looking up at Marcus) Forgive… me… Marcus… I still love… my father…
Isobella dies in Marcus' arms… seconds later he stands to his feet holding the blood stained sword again in his hand…
Marcus (Creed): What have I done!? Am I never to be with her again!? Never to hear her laugh!? See her smile!? Nor watch her cry!?
Marcus impales himself through the heart with the blade! Deanei watches and gasps as his friend collapses slowly on the ground breathless…
Deanei (KC): (holding out his arms) Marcus!!!
The heart broken King Deon rests his hands on the face of his dead daughter as Deanei runs across to his friend…
Atop the viewing balcony at the belly of Darnassus Castle…
Queen of Darnassus: Oh! This show is- This act is magnificent! BOHOOHOOO!
The Queen throbs around slightly caught up in her emotions and putting her hands up to her face…
Queen of Darnassus: Now where did Opal go? .... BOOHOOOHOOOO!
In the crowd of the viewing podium just in front of the stage of the Gladius Cordela stood 2 rascals …
Wezz: Wow! Even I'm all teared up on that one!
Glenshaw: Why did she have to die? Why I ask yah!?
Wezz: (facing Glenshaw) Ok maybe your enjoying it to much…
Elvish guard: (spotting Glenshaw from the end of the podium) There he is! You there! HALT!
Wezz: Ah crap we've been had!
Glenshaw: I still don't get why she had to die…
Wezz: RUN YAH FOOL!
Wezz runs away in the opposite direction of the guards, Glenshaw turns to spots the guards passing by the excited and emotional viewers moving towards him and runs after Wezz!
Glenshaw: (tripping over onto the floor) Uff!
Wezz: (seeing Glenshaw collapsed on the floor) Oh forget it! I'm outta here!
Wezz runs off!
Glenshaw: (standing to his feet and turning once again to notice the pursuing guards only a few meters away from him) Oh jip!
Glenshaw runs towards the front of the viewing podium!
Back on the stage of the Gladius Cordela…
The knight Albion was on his knees next to Isobella, his head lowered and despairing in its own ignorance…
Albion: Princess! sniff, please get up!
"Gnome-man meets strange-man"
A moment later Glenshaw runs up the small stairway followed by the guards and stops beside princess Opal…
Glenshaw: I said stay away!
Glenshaw raising his arms creates fire in the palm of his hands and throws flames at the guards who are forced back! The fire catches the princess' hood!
Princess Opal: (standing up quickly jumping around) Ouch hot hot hot!
The princess throws away her hooded gown! KC walks and stands beside the Opal…
KC: I think it was time we were leaving…
Princess Opal: (facing KC and nodding) …
Albion: Princess what is this!?
Princess Opal: Albion! Don't follow me any more!
Guards: What do we do sir?
Albion: (holding his hand up to his chin in thought for a second) I apologize princess! In regards to your safety I cannot comply!
Princess Opal: (facing Albion) Stubborn as always…
KC: Come on Princess lets ditch Sir mighty rusty and get outta here…
KC walks over to Glenshaw who is collapsed on the floor…
KC: (kneeling down) Hey buddy, you alright?
Glenshaw: (standing up slowly and facing KC) Yeh I am ok…
Princess Opal stood beside KC sees Albion quickly walk closer accompanied by the 2 guards…
Albion: Princess! I cannot allow you to leave! Guards cease them!
Battle 3 Begins
Albion and his fellow guardsman arm themselves, KC & his group do the same along with the Princess in the back row.
Albion: Hand over the Princess!
Albion - executes 2x Slash vs KC, causing moderate lethal damage to his armour
KC - executes 1x Slash vs Albion, causing moderate lethal damage to his armour
Albion: I shall never surrender!
Albion - sways his 2h sword through the air and throws his hands towards the ground with the blade forming an energy pattern vs Creed, inflicting him with small energy damage on his armour and flesh
KC - executes Counter & 2x Slash vs Albion, causing moderate lethal damage to his armour and flesh!
Albion: (kneeling down) Urgh… wounded…
Battle 3 Ends
"Swift lift-off!"
The theatre ship begins to lift! The Boss has given the order to dust-off without permission of the Queen or King! The Gladius Cordela attempts to leave the Darnassus castle viewing area!
KC: (kneeling on the ground) Agh! Hang on we're lifting off!
Glenshaw: (hand gripped to ship attachment) !
Princess Opal, Albion and Creed hanged on to the ships foundations and structures as it shooked and rumbled! Far in the distance at the balcony of Darnassus castle the Queen shook her fists and gestured her hands giving the order to fire at the theatre ship!
Creed: Hey what's that!?
KC: (on one knee close to the Princess and looking into the distance at the Castle) I dunno!
A hatch began to open and as it ceased suddenly out came flying a elemental! The elemental beast fed on the oxygen in the air and was able to fly towards the Gladius Cordela and attack the escaping party!
Battle 4 Begins
The royal knight back on his feet again attacks KC and his group!
Albion: My mission is the safety of the Princess! Cease this vessel immediately and bring us back to port!
KC: Bit to late for that!
Elemental: (floating behind Albion)
KC: Hey man! Look behind you!
Albion: Treachery! I wont fall for such a old childish trick!
Albion - executes 2x Slash vs KC, causing high lethal damage to his armour
KC - executes Counter & 1x Slash vs Albion, but the attack is dodged!
Albion - casts Knight's Defence & executes 1x Slash vs KC, causing high lethal damage empowered by Knight's Defence to his armour & moderate damage to his flesh!
KC: Agh damn!
Princess Opal - casts Elune's Moonlight on KC, healing his flesh for a moderate amount!
Elemental - grows 2x in size!
Creed: Hey man! Look behind you damn it!
Albion: I wont fall for such an old trick!
Creed - executes 1x Slash & Shield Bash vs Albion, causing moderate lethal and moderate smashing damage to his armour!
Albion - executes Battle Field Armour Repair, repairing his own armour by a moderate amount!
KC: That's pretty slick…
Elemental - Grows 2x in size!
KC: Holy!
Princess Opal: Albion! Look behind you!
Albion: I cannot fall for such a trick! I will finish my mission!
Creed: Its no good! Its gonna blow!
Elemental - Grows 2x in size!
The elemental grows so large in size that Albion senses something at his back and turns around only to fall down as he sees the elemental beast in all its great glory!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Battle 4 Ends
A patch of smoke in mid air… the graze of the night horizon scarred with fire from the dangerous elementian beast…
Out emerges the Gladius Cordela from the smoke! The ship is battered and more dirty but still uplifted in great momentum!
The Queen orders a volley of arrows shot from the castle walls at the escaping Gladius Cordela!
Chapter 5
The arrows sway through the air gracefully and hit the bulk of the theatre ship! The arrows pierce glass and wood alike with 1 just missing Glenshaw's shoulder! 2 arrows fall directly for the princess! Seconds later, Opal crouched and protecting herself looks up only to see the arrows floating just above her head…
Princess Opal: In the name of Elune… how?
Glenshaw: (on hands and knees looking over at Opal then the arrows as they fall to the ground) !
KC walks over to Opal… the ship now leaving the castle of Darnassus and the Queen furious on the balcony…
KC: Are you alright?
Princess Opal: I am fine… I don't know what happened…
KC: Just be glad it did…
KC helps the princess to her feet… Glenshaw walks over to KC's side…
Glenshaw: How did you…
KC: (looking at Glenshaw and making a alerted gesture) !
Glenshaw: (looking around) Can this ship fly like this?
Creed: (walking over to the group cautiously as the ship rumbles about through the air) You would be surprised what this ship can do tiny man…
KC: She's sturdy… we should be ok…
Glenshaw: (peering at Opal) Looks ok to me…
KC: I meant the ship…
Glenshaw: So did I!
Princess Opal: (looking at KC then at the castle in the distance) …
KC: (facing Glenshaw) Oh… what's your name lil one?
Glenshaw: I'm Glenshaw, who're you!?
KC: Name is KC… don't ask what it means, never knew…
Glenshaw: Ooh…
KC: (walking towards the doorway which led inside) Come on we better take cover…
The group followed KC inside, Opal froze for a moment staring toward the dark horizon at the place that once felt like home… then followed the group seconds later…
"Intentions 1"
Location: Inside the Gladius Cordela, the bridge
5 hours later…
The small and slightly self vigilant group stood on the bridge of the Gladius Cordela, the ship had escaped and undergone quick and required repairs, they were planning their next move. The Boss stood at the bridge wheel, KC and the Princess stood a few ft from him with Wise and Creed stood next to them…
Boss: We almost didn't escape this one…
KC: ….
Wise: Was a tough but lucky break, Boss…
Boss: (turning to face the group) Well we're still in one piece…
Wise: Not sure how long the ship will stay like that…
Boss: Keep up the repairs! This ship must escape Kalimdor!
Wise: (doing the Xathalius salute) Right boss!
Wise runs off down the spiralling steps to the lower levels of the large theatre ship…
Boss: (walking down and standing in front of KC and the princess) Right… now what we gonna do about this one?
KC: ….
Princess Opal: ….
KC: I agreed that she would be taken to Stormwind…
Boss: Your private promises don't mean much here, you're a merc and your job is done…
KC: …
Princess Opal: Please I must reach the human city of Stormwind!
Boss: I doubt the ship will even make it across the great ocean…
KC: If we can keep up the repairs…
Boss: We will be doing just that, but you will be getting of my ship soon as we reach a landing zone…
KC: Fine with me, Stormwind is where I need to be…
Boss: Fine… we'll take you along with us…
Princess Opal: What about me? Why did you plan to kidnap me?
Boss: Higher cause than us princess, it cant be discussed here…
KC: …
Princess Opal: I trust KC, he helped me escape the castle…
KC: (frowning at the boss)
Boss: (giving a weird look at KC then walking away) Lets just make it off the continent first…
The Boss walks off down the spiralling stairs…
KC: (facing Princess Opal) Well we're on the way…
Princess Opal: I must thank you again, you helped me greatly…
KC: (shrugs) Eh what was I gonna do…
Sky: (flying up from the spiralling stairs and settling on KC's shoulder) Good to see you made it KC…
KC: (tapping Sky on his wing) Hey Sky, good job you waited here eh?
Princess Opal: (interrupting) But one more matter at hand…
KC: (facing the Princess again) What's that?
Princess Opal: How did those… arrows stop in the air afloat like that?
Sky: …
KC: Dunno… sure it aint just some elf mojo?
Princess Opal: Its nothing I am capable of in the least KC…
KC: Maybe it was that mage?
Princess Opal: Ah yes the one who nearly set me ablaze, who was that tiny fellow?
KC: Glenshaw…
Princess Opal: And what was he doing there?
KC: Trying to get a better view of the show?
Princess Opal: KC this is serious!
KC: Haha I know! He's downstairs why don't we go ask?
Princess Opal: Very well…
KC & the Princess make their way down the stairs to the 2nd level of the Gladius Cordela, the place was really a wreck with stuff all over the place. This was a larger space for keeping equipment, furniture and parts etc. KC enters via a door into another small room where Glenshaw was sitting down on a bed busy in thought for a moment before he looked at KC with a curious look…
KC: Hey, Glenshaw…
Glenshaw: KC… princess…
Princess Opal: Glenshaw…
Glenshaw: Sorry I hit you with that firebolt… I was so scared of the guards I couldn't concentrate…
KC: But your really something Glenshaw! You got some good power for a small guy…
Glenshaw: (looking down his eyes to the floor) …
The princess walks over and sits down next to the troubled looking gnome, KC follows a second after and stands a few ft away from them both staring for a moment and crossing his arms…
KC: You peeved because I called you a small guy? Hey you're a powerful mage with great spells ok?
Glenshaw: Its not that…
KC: Then what's up?
Glenshaw: The ceiling is up…
KC: No it's a… never mind…
Princess Opal: What KC is trying to tell you is don't be ashamed of who you are or what… gifts you possess…
Glenshaw: (looking at Opal and smiling weirdly)
KC: Hey that's more like it!
Glenshaw: (facing KC and getting off the bed then holding up his hands like he had just realised something brilliant) !
KC: Ugh what's up… I mean what's with you?
Glenshaw: I find it strange how you don't speak like the rest of us KC…
KC: I come from the north…
Glenshaw: The north?
Princess Opal: The frozen north?
KC: Apparently… but I don't remember anything so don't ask… waste of time…
Princess Opal: Speaking of time… what are we gonna do now?
KC: Follow the Boss' plan… and hope we can make it to Stormwind…
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
KC, Glenshaw & Opal tumble over on to the floor! The ship rumbles and is thrown about going side to side! The sound of crashing and screeching can be heard from outside!
KC: (getting to his feet and looking at Glenshaw & Opal) Ah… you both alright?
The Princess & Glenshaw stand up… Glenshaw holding the palm of his hand to his head…
Princess Opal: Oh… what…
Glenshaw: What in jabbering succotash was that!?
Sky: (settling back on KC's shoulder) Where did that impact come from!?
KC: (turning around to face the door) It came from outside…
KC runs via the doorway to the next room and looking around he sees some of the crew panicking… the ship shakes again! But this time KC is ready for it and manages to keep his footing… the rest of the group follow from the other room seconds later…
Creed: (running via the doorway on the opposite side of the room) !
KC: Creed! What the hell is it!? Engine trouble!?
Creed: NO! Its coming from outside whatever it is!
KC: Must be something chasing us…
Princess Opal: My mother would not endanger us all like that!
KC's eyes were on the ground facing and Opal slightly then facing Creed a second later…
Wise: (running in from the same room as Creed via doorway) KC! The ship cant take this much punishment!
KC: ….
Princess Opal: KC what are we going to do!?
Glenshaw: (behind KC)
KC: (looking at Opal then facing the group) Ill go on up… whatever it is Ill see what I can do…
Princess Opal: Ill assist you! If my mother sent something after us its my duty to stop it…
KC: (nods at Opal)
The ship rumbles about again! The engines can be heard choking and smoke begins to smog the air!
Glenshaw: Ill help you as well KC!
KC: Ok! Wise go on and keep this ship in the air! Me, Opal, Sky, Glenshaw and Creed will go stop whatever it is attacking the ship!
Wise: Right!
Wise runs back through the doorway! Creed walks up to KC…
Creed: Your crazy… I like it…
KC: Right then, lets go on up!
The group make their way up the spiralling steps of the rumbling and shaking theatre ship to the bridge and its occupying crew…
KC: (looking out the bridge port windows) I cant see anything… its behind us whatever it is!
Creed: We have to go up to the surface…
Man at the wheel: The Gladius Cordela cant take much more of this! You have to stop it attacking us or we will crash!
Creed: Alright lets go on up! This way!
Creed runs up more spiralling steps and opens a hatchway to the roof of the Gladius Cordela and is quickly followed by KC, Opal and Glenshaw…
Location: Gladius Cordela, roof surface exterior
The group emerge from the hatch of the Gladius Cordela on to the surface and look out at the horizon and adjust their eyes to the brightness of the early morning sun light… Albion the elf knight soon comes up through the hatchway…
Albion: What is this!? Is this your doing you filthy abductors!
KC: Listen for a second!
Albion: ….
KC and the group scout the horizon… they cant see anything other than the sky and its ever accompanying sun staring right back at them…
Creed: (looking over the side of the ship to inspect the damage) Its like something has been shot at the ship! Its everywhere!
KC: (looking closer at the substance on the surface of the ship) …
Glenshaw: (walking and stepping in the burning substance) Oh ow gross!
KC: (looking back at Glenshaw) Careful!
Princess Opal: I cant see anything, but this bile…
KC: Bile? You know what that mess is?
Albion: (standing next to the princess and shoving KC back)
KC: (gaining his footing) HEY! What the hell!?
Albion: You stay away form the Princess! I am to escort her royal highness back to the castle!
KC: (crossing his arms) Oh yeah? How you gonna do that? Fly?
Princess Opal: This substance… its produced by a gland… commonly from the creature known as-
Creed: (quickly running back towards the group) CHIMAERA!!!!
A large flying 2 headed creature known as the ancient Chimaera falls from the sky and shoots bile at the theatre ship!
The bile falls and hit's the side of the theatre ship eating away at the hull!
KC: What the!? Sky take flight!
Sky: (flying off into the air) !
Albion: What's going on here!? Is this your doing!?
KC: (facing Albion) Hey this aint me!
Princess Opal: (gaining her footing) It's a Chimaera, the ancient creature and guardian of the skies for the elven Kingdom…
Albion: Princess! The Queen would never endanger you this way! Theirs got to be some mistake!
Creed: (shouting and pointing) Its coming back around!!!
Glenshaw: Everyone down!
The group jump and fall to the ground as a stream of energy, otherwise known as lightning, shoots past and hit's the back of the theatre ship! The Chimaera fly's away and begins to come back around…
The group stand up…
KC: It seems to be mostly interested in destroying the ship…
Creed: Which means we die!
KC: Opal! How do we stop it!?
Princess Opal: …
KC: Come on! Think! What can hurt it or kill it!?
Princess Opal: A volley of projectiles should disable it…
KC: Right then… Creed you-
As KC looks over he sees Creed running towards a equipment stockpile kept attached to the ships hull and unpacking it…
Creed: Help me with this!
KC: Albion you help him!
Albion: I don't take orders from a trickster scum like you!
KC: Wait, you calling me… a trickster!?
Princess Opal: Albion! Please help him!
Albion: (facing the Princess and giving military salute) At once!
Albion runs over and helps Creed to unpack the equipment…
Glenshaw: What about me? How can I help?
KC: (facing Glenshaw) I want you to use some of that fiery greatness to keep the Chimaera busy!
Glenshaw: Ok… you can count on me!
Glenshaw runs over near to the edge of the ship and fire can be seen charging in the palms of his hands as he lifts his arms towards the heavens….
Glenshaw: Lets see what you got big bad monster!
KC faces Opal who's looking around at the approaching Chimaera….
Princess Opal: KC!
KC: Get down!
The Chimaera swoops in for a frontal attack! The attacking creature dives in and sweeps at the surface of the theatre ship destroying some of its structure then flying away back in the air along with the debris as it falls towards the sightless air! The group who fell to the ground stand up again. Creed and Albion were halfway through unpacking!
KC: Jeez that was naughty…
Princess Opal: …
KC: (looking over at Creed & Albion) Keep going! We have top stop it attacking one way or another!
Princess Opal: I can help!
Fire could be seen shooting at the Chimaera which came from Glenshaw! The Chimaera is forced to stay back, come around and attempt another ranged attack!
KC: Ok what can you do to help?
Princess Opal: Just watch…
The mysterious princess runs up the small steps which took her so she could view the surroundings from the back of the ship…
KC: Yeah ok… watch what?
KC runs to the edge of the ship and spots the Chimaera fly under and to the back of the theatre ship, then swiftly climb upwards and stop facing the ship with its wings outwards and its neck straight. Both its heads opened up its mouths wide and as it did green energy began to form!
The princess stood directly in front of the flying Chimaera…
KC: Princess! Get out the way!
The Chimaera launches the green bio-organic substance so it would hit the entire surface of the theatre ship!
KC: Opal!!!
The substance collapses through the air… but is stopped by a invisible shield of energy! Opal cast a shield and prevented the attack! Some of the bile however hit the side of the hull causing extreme damage and fire to erupt out from the bulk of the heavily damaged theatre ship! The ship collapses to one side as one of the four propellers give out due to the attack!
Glenshaw falls over the side!
KC: (his hand grasped on Glenshaw's coat) Gothcha!
Glenshaw fly's through the air like a rag doll and only KC stops him from falling to his death! The Chimaera comes around for another attack!
KC: (facing the Chimaera) Oh give it up already!
The Chimaera attempts to spit more bile at the ship but is strangely deflected away and the bile only just misses the ships hull! KC manages to pull Glenshaw back onto the theatre ship surface as the Chimaera fly's directly overhead and leaves a shade on the group as it blocks out the sunlight! The Chimaera begins to charge its attack again!
KC: (looks over to Opal who is grasping onto the theatre ship structure)
Princess Opal: (looking back at KC)
The Chimaera opens its mouth as the energy is fully charged!
Creed: Eat this you baggage firing pansy!
As Creed valiantly cried those words the Chimaera screeched as it was hit with bullets from the surface to air chain gun! The Chimaera not able to take the punishment roars and quickly flees the scene! KC looks over at Creed and Albion seemingly surprised…
KC: (walking over to the set up gun) Not bad… could you have left it a little later?
Creed: Hey you was lucky I didn't just let it eat you up…
KC: Well regardless of the inconvenient motivation… good job…
Creed: Yeah we're still alive…
KC looks over to see the Princess coming back down the steps and walking over to him…
KC: You alright Opal?
Princess Opal: Yes KC, I am fine…
Sky: (flying down and resting on KC's shoulder) …
KC: Good then… now you want to tell me why the Queen of Darnassus just endangered her own daughter!?
Princess Opal: I am just as startled as you are KC…
KC: …
Princess Opal: My mother would not intentionally endanger my life unless she deemed it absolutely necessary…
KC: (facing the horizon with his hands on the railings) Oh great…
Glenshaw: (pats KC on his leg) Thanks… you saved my life again!
KC: Huh? Oh yeah that was lucky, just in a nick of time…
Princess Opal: So what do we do now?
KC looking out to see the ship falling towards the empty air and Teldrassil on the brink of the rising sun where Darnassus rested and was becoming out of sight took a deep breath…
KC: I think we should just head for Stormwind… get some answers…
Princess Opal: You don't know why you're here?
KC: (facing the Princess) Hey! I am just a hired hand! Alright?
Princess Opal: So you are…
Creed walks up to KC…
Creed: If you want to know more, just go ask the Boss…
KC: Yeah I think ill do just that…
KC leaves and heads back down the hatch to the bridge shortly followed by the rest of the group. He then approaches the Boss who was at the bridge wheel standing next to the pilot…
Pilot: Sir I don't think the ship can take much more of this…
Boss: Steady as she goes…
Plot: Aye sir!
KC: (in front of the Boss) Hey I need to talk with you…
Boss: (facing KC) Not much to talk about boy… you're a hired merc and that's all we expect…
KC: (getting annoyed) …
Princess Opal: (standing next to KC) Please, I beg of you! Tell me why you intended to kidnap me…
Boss: (turning around to look outside the bridge window at the blazing sun) That's confidential… I cant tell you that just yet…
KC: (raising his fist) Hey look man! We just fought off a giant flying nasty and stopped it from eating up this entire ship! Me, Glenshaw, the princess & Creed just literally stopped you from becoming mincemeat!
Albion: (interrupting) Hey wait a moment!
KC: Oh yeah he helped too…
Albion: I care not about that! My task is to return the princess to safety! You and your band of brigands kidnapped her and have repeatedly endangered her life!
KC: (facing Albion) So? We went to kidnap her… and she wanted to be napped, stop moaning about it…
Albion: Moaning! Ill have your head when we return to Darnassus!
KC: (facing the Boss) Yeah-yeah, not the first time I heard that…
Albion: Why you!
Princess Opal: Knight Albion! Please stand down!
Albion: (saluting) Yes your majesty!
Glenshaw: ….
KC: Right… Boss, I need to know your plan…
Boss: …. We were instructed by the King of Stormwind to abduct the Princess of Darnassus and bring her to the city… that's all we got…
KC: … Wouldn't that cause war between the two nations?
Boss: That's the reason why we were hired….
KC: To make it look like a pirate kidnapping…
Boss: (facing KC) Your smart for a Merc…
KC: Yeah it haunts me… so we are heading for Stormwind…
Boss: Well… we would have been…
KC: Urgh… what do you mean!?
Boss: The ship has been heavily damaged… we cant keep it in the air…
KC: (approaching the bridge window and leaning over to look outside) Jeez she really took some damage…
Boss: (facing the bridge window) I can only hope that we make it across the ocean…
KC: (facing the Boss) Cant we just dock and repair!?
Pilot: Negative! The hull and the landing mechanisms have sustained heavy damage sir! We cant lands without crashing the front of our hull into the dock!
KC: Don't call me sir… and so what?
Pilot: Well it would mean we die… sir…
KC: I know that!
KC runs up to the Princess…
KC: Looks like we will just have to hold out…
Princess Opal: We did our best KC…
Glenshaw: So are we gonna crash or what?
KC: (frowning) …
"Recovering lost time"
1 hour later…
KC, Princess Opal, Glenshaw & Albion sat in the room with the beds and where KC promised he would help kidnap the princess and get her to safety. KC looked a little more pale than usual. They were all sat around a small table on chairs…
KC: (listening to the sounds of the ship struggle) I don't know how much more this ship can take…
Albion: Its all your fault that are in this predicament!
KC: Whoa-hey! This was gonna happen anyway yah silly tin can! If I weren't here they would have just found someone else…
Albion: …
Glenshaw: Well I don't wanna die either…
KC: Nobody is going to die, Ill take care of it…
Albion: How!? Just look where we are!
KC: Relax… theirs always a silver lining on every darkened cloud…
Princess Opal: ….
Albion: And you intend to help these thieves get the Princess to Stormwind?
KC: I intend to get to Stormwind and I made a promise… that's all I know…
Glenshaw: ….
Princess Opal: I have an uncle in Stormwind he should be able to help…
KC: …. Uncle!?
Princess Opal: Yes he is a close advisor to the King…
KC: Hmm… trusted?
Princess Opal: Why yes, he has worked with the King of Stormwind for many years now as his closest advisor and friend…
KC: (getting up suddenly from his chair and holding up his hands) OH THAT EXPLAINS A LOT!
Princess Opal: (looking at KC with anxiety) Explains what?
KC: Your uncle, advisor to the King, tells him that they have to get you out of Darnassus. But they don't want to cause any strife or ruin what alliance they have with the elves, so they hire thieves, give them a theatre ship to use and pay them to put on a fabulous show to get you out!
Princess Opal: I think I follow… but why kidnap me? What's so bad that I would have to be suddenly brought to Stormwind by my uncle?
KC: (stands for a moment then sits down in the chair) I don't know that yet… has to be something bad, maybe even capable of threatening the nations…
Albion: (banging his fist down on the table and peering at KC) This is absolute nonsense! Deceit and ill intentions from someone who's nothing more than a scoundrel and a thief!
KC: (looking at Albion with a smirk) Hey man, I'm just trying to figure this all out…
Albion: ….
Glenshaw: …
KC: (tapping Glenshaw at the shoulder)
Glenshaw: Ugh! What?
KC: So why were you there? Why were you being chased by the guards?
Glenshaw: I dunno! Ha! One moment I was there for the show and the next thing I know I cant find my ticket and I meet Wezz who helped me get into the castle! I hope Wezz is alright…
KC: Wezz? Ah never mind…
Glenshaw: KC…
KC: What?
Glenshaw: What will you do when we reach Stormwind…
KC: I don't know yet… I just want to get back home…
Glenshaw: You live in Stormwind…
KC: I'm… adopted…
Chapter 6
"KC's past"
Albion: (mind wondering)
Princess Opal: (looking at KC) …
Glenshaw: …Adopted?
KC: (looking up as if to share a story) Hell now… must have been about… 8 years ago…
Glenshaw: ….
ATE Begins
Location: Stormwind Harbour (being built)
It is now 8 years back into the past…
KC: I was 11 years old, I washed up ashore of Stormwind harbour, not knowing where I had come from or why I was here
Human guard: Hey! I got something here!
Human captain: (running over to the alerted guard) What is it soldier!?
Human guard: Looks like… a boy… been drifting for at least 3 days by the looks of him…
Human captain: (disturbed) Hmm… I think he's dead…
The startled guard used a rake like tool to pull the boy closer to the shores of the sandy beach that was next to Stormwind Harbour which was in construction at this time…
Human captain: Yeah he's dead, fetch a priest to cleanse his body… he may be infected…
Human guard: (looking at the captain) Right sir…
The boy gasped as he coughed up ocean salt water and put his hand up to his face to block out the blazing light of the sun which shun down unto his face like the graceful nature of an heavenly angel stranger!
Boy: Ahh!
Human guard: (dropping the tool and letting the boy fall back into the ocean) !!!
Human captain: (jumping up then peering over at the boy) Good grief ol' Mary!!!
"He lay in the pool, was dipped underwater and when he raised again he was born anew"
Human guard: He is still alive sir!
Human captain: What are you doing yah fool!? Let him go he's already a goner!
Human guard: Yes… sir…
A man with a thick jacket made of some strange leather material and wearing a adventurers hat tapped the captain on his shoulder…
Man: What do we have here?
Human captain: A stray! Go about your business sir! This has nothing to do with you!
Man: You were going to let him go back into the ocean?
Human guard: ….
Human captain: Well I urgh… he is clearly dead!
Man: …
The boy still laid in the ocean, half his body in the water and his head along with his shoulders and arms resting on the beach…
Boy: Ungh…
Man: (looking over the lieing captain's shoulder then peering into his eyes with a stare that would scare the soul out of you) …He is not dead… clearly…
Human captain: (looking back at the other guard) Let him go! Toss him into the ocean!
Man: (pushing his way pass the captain and pushing the guard out the way then standing next to the boy) Your committing murder… I wonder what the Council would have to say about that?
Human guard: (looking at the captain) …
Human captain: But… he!
Man: Get out of here before I do cause you some real trouble!
The Guards stood frozen in place for a moment…
Man: OUT OF MY SIGHT NOW!
The guards jumping up and down run away back up to the dock in construction and out of sight in a matter of moments…
Man: (looking down at the boy) Right… now what do we have here? A stray they say? Heh-heh…
Boy: (opening his eyes and looking up at the man from the flat of his back) Urgh…
Man: You aren't a stray are you? You know where you come from… you have only forgotten…
Boy: Please… he-…help me…
Man: You have to be strong in this land boy… or you want live for long…
Boy: ….
Man: (grasping the boy's arms and helping him to is feet then putting him on his back like you would with a caught but big fish) …
The man walks of the beach towards Stormwind… now he is free…
1 day later…
KC was laying in bed, he woke up to the sound of birds chirping outside, the morning sun shining through the window shaped in squares due to the window interior. He looked around to notice he was in a small room, looked like someone's home… no… more like someone's room. Their was belongings, clothes and toys scattered around everywhere…
KC: (looking out the window then at the door) Urgh… where…
The room was silent, however laughs and cheers could be heard very faintly outside…
KC: (eyes squinted and coming into focus) Where am I?
KC suddenly collapsed back onto his pillow and grasped his skull as a sharp pain quickly shot through his skull and down the back of his spine!
KC: Arrhhhh!!!
A little girl runs into the room opening the door and peering at KC for a moment then runs out again…
Little girls voice in distance: Daddy-daddy he's awake!
KC: (in bed throbbing about then falling on the floor and getting under his bed) !
A moment later, a man walks into the room, his boots flat on the floor and making a sound as the metal of his heels clamped against the wood floor…
Man: Now if I was a boy… and I found myself waking up in a strange place with someone else's pyjamas on in a bed that wasn't mine… I would look for the safest place there is… which is usually…
KC moves back a little as the man's face comes into sight as he looks under the bed right at him….
Man: (laughing and smiling) Right where you are friend…
KC: …
Man: Its ok… you can stay there if it makes you feel safer…
KC: (looking back at the man with eyes like a scared newborn puppy) ….
Man: (being handed a plate by a adult woman and then settling it down next to the bed on the floor) That's yours when your ready… you can come out and eat it at the table if you want…
The man stands up, walks to the door and peers back at the bed to see a hand and a arm stretch out and pull the plate under the bed, the man leaves back through the door smiling…
Location: Other room
Some small time later….
In the bigger but still small room, the seemingly kind man and his family were gathered around a large table with his daughter at his side and his wife outside getting water from the well. A moment later the door opens and KC sees the man. The man and the little girl both stare at him vacantly although he had on some kind of eye wear…
Man: Oh… glad to see your up and about…
Little girl: …
Man: Its ok… come sit down…make yourself comfortable…
KC: (still stood in the doorway staring at them vacantly and with a blank expression) …
Man: You don't got to worry, the wife cleaned you up and changed your clothes not me
As the man laughs faintly, KC takes 1 step back into the room…
Man: Well now… you are a shy one…
A older woman walks into the room through the front door and looks at KC, leaning over as if to take a closer look at his face….
Older woman: Well at least your awake young one…
Man: (smiling with his daughter by his side who was looking over at KC) …
Older woman: What's your name?
They seemed to be dressed in clothes you would see Amish people wearing, like their was no modern tech in this world, more like medieval times, completely oblivious KC was to what was happening around him. He was not aware of his surroundings much and still felt threatened although he had been given no reason to feel that way…
KC: (still at the doorway, his hands clenched against the door and facing the older woman) …
Older woman: Its ok… you don't have to be afraid…
KC: (giving only a vacant stare and breathing lightly) ….
Older woman: (looking back at her husband) Should we get the priest to look at him?
Man: Nah-no, he'll be fine, he just needs time…
The little girl from her father's side walks over quickly to KC and stands in front of him staring for a moment into his eyes…
Little girl: (reaching out to touch KC's face) ….
KC: (backing up a few more steps) !
The girl stood still and the woman straight, they peered at him for a moment….
Little girl: He's weird…
KC: (staring at the little girl) …
Man: Now-now, leave him alone, go do your chores for the day Helen…
Helen: Yes sir…
Helen, the little girl, runs out the room quickly and immaturely…
KC: (stood still away from the doorway and near to his bed) …
Older woman: (facing KC and stood at the doorway) If you want to, you can come sit down and tell us where you came from and how you got here…
KC: (looking at the man then at the older woman, still with a blank expression) …
Older woman: (walking back towards the front door then stopping) Well when your ready lil one, you just take your time…
The woman walks outside…
Man: (still at the table sitting down) Aint she wonderful?
KC: (staring at the man again at the doorway) ….
Man: Her name is Rain, she's my wife…
KC: …
Man: (laughing slightly) We'll save all that for another time since your not holding up your end of the conversation…
KC responded only with a faint stare, he was now sat back on his bed looking into the other room at the man, only staring…
The next day… early afternoon…
KC standing at the front door in the doorway looked out to see a house next door and another small house next to that, their was also a small family living in a small house next door to this one. Goldshire was a small village indeed, which was the name of the location he was in -- so the old kind man told him this very morning -- but KC some how felt comfortable here even if he had been here only for a matter of days and could even call this place home if all went well. The old man, "Cross is my name" he said, was out of town in Stormwind which was only up the hill to the north-west and very close to the town, Goldshire after all was the supply of fish, meat and water to the great human built city. His wife, Rain, and his daughter were both out somewhere picking flowers, a mother and daughter bond thing maybe, Rain told him to "Stay inside because it was strange outside." but KC was also a stranger to these people anyway… and yet he already started to feel like he may call them family one day…
Location: Stormwind, Cathedral of Light
Wise Holy Man: A boy you say?
Cross: Yes your holiness, I found him not 3 days ago, up by Stormwind Harbour…
Wise Holy Man: Ah yes, I do recall the so called rumour of a boy being found on the beach by the dock in construction…
Cross: He is suffering from trauma and maybe amnesia it seems, he wont say a word to anyone…
Wise Holy Man: This boy is a stranger to us, Cross… we know not where he has come from, why he is here… and worse… if he is a threat…
Cross: But your holiness, he is just a boy, 12 years old if that, we must give him time to open up his mind…
Wise Holy Man: Never the less… if he shows any signs that he is under the influence of evil, you shall bring him here…
Cross: Evil… your holiness?
Wise Holy Man: These are dark times Cross, we know not of his intentions or who's instrument he may be, we must tread carefully…
Cross: Yes, your holiness…
Location: Goldshire, KC's new home
KC walking outside peered around at his surroundings and as he looked to his left down the large stone pathway he could see the centre of Goldshire with its inn, its smithy and the general store cart which stops for a few days then moves on to the next town to trade, as it was. He began to walk downwards towards the inn and he noticed to his left their was a small school by the lake, not very big at all, only near twice as big as the small homes around here, no need for a big school with such a small town as it were. KC standing outside the small school on the pathway looked at Goldshire's inn to see human beings walking in and out, busy… but not that busy. As KC walked a few steps more he found himself a moment later outside the inn looking around, but still only very cautious, like a eagle sighting its prey from afar before the dive…
KC: ….
As he walked forward 3 more steps and stared at the sky then at the place he now called home, KC suddenly lost his footing!
KC: (turning around) Ah!
KC turned to look where his back was facing only to see… light… which blinded him and dazzled his very mind, freezing him on the spot for a moment before realising someone was trying to speak to him… like the Siren song bewildered by he listened carefully to thee…
Girl: Hi, sorry about that!
KC: …
The girl who was shorter than him, blond, slightly thinner and also wearing a dress made of cloth stared at him almost passionately. She held a small rubber ball in her arms…
Girl: Are you new here? Neva seen you ere before…
KC: …
Girl: Well sorry for pushing you, was just messing around with friends…
The girl as she turned around threw the small ball back at some other 9-12 year old kids who were only a few ft away waving and laughing as they looked back at them both then ran away back up the same pathway KC came down…
Girl: (looking around) Oh… guess they got bored…
KC: (facing the girl) …
Girl: (now looking back at him) What you here for?
KC: ….
Girl: Don't talk much do yah? You a dummy?
KC: (annoyed expression and just looking around then at the girl)
Girl: Well ok, I guess your getting annoyed a little… im tired anyway from all the running so I'm gonna sit down ova here for a bit…
The little girl skips over quickly next to the entrance of the inn and sits down in the small patch of grass where 2 horses 6 ft away stood by the container which they were drinking fresh water from…
KC: (stood still and looking at the girl) …
Girl: (looking back at KC with eyes lighted up) So you gonna sit down too or what?
KC: (pausing for a moment then walking over and slowly sitting next to the girl) …
Girl: Well don't worry, I am only 9, but im not stu-ped… I can tell your not from here…
KC: …
Girl: So anyway… what be yur name strangie?
KC: My name…
Girl: Oh he speaks!
KC: …
KC thought this girl was unusual, but at the same time interesting and kinda cheeky… but in a good way…
Girl: So what's your name?
KC: … KC…
Girl: Ah… kinda funneh name…
KC: …
Girl: Do you know what it means?KC: …. No… I don't remember…
The wind blew a slight breeze past KC bringing with it the leafs from the trees that once belonged to the nearby forest which surrounded Goldshire on all sides…
Girl: You don't know the meaning of your own name?
KC: … No…
Girl: What about… where you're from?
KC: ….
Girl: Its ok, you don't have to tell me…
KC: I don't remember…
Girl: Theirs a lot you don't remember…
KC: I… just don't remember much right now… I was found at the sea…
KC looked around to see a smithy smelting some kind of ore material at the smelter… the very thought and even the sound of the hammer clanging against the anvil forced KC to hold his hand up to his skull and clench in pain…
Girl: Are you okay?
KC: (bleeding from his nose) I… dunno…
Girl: ….
KC: I'll be ok… this happens a lot…
Girl: You bleed from tha nose a lot?
KC: … Yeah…
Girl: Did you get punched by Maxim the bully?
KC: No…
Girl: Wow… you are lucky…
KC: I wouldn't put it… like that exactly…
Girl: ….
KC looked into the girls eyes and then over his shoulder for a moment at the horses drinking from the water container…
Girl: (sitting still and staring at KC with a puzzled look) … You sure your feelin ok?
KC: (looking back at the girl) Ill be fine…
Girl: Okay then…
KC: (pausing for a second) What's your… name?
Girl: Oh sorry, forgot to tell you… my name-
The girl is interrupted by a boy, the same age as KC, who stands ruggedly at her side looking down at her then quickly at him with an expression that made you feel suddenly uncomfortable… he was dressed in the same kind of clothing for younger males and gave a unwelcome stare at KC for a second…
Boy: Urgh… Sophia, don't tell me your actually talking to this weirdo!?
Sophia: (standing up and looking at Maxim) He's not… ok he is a little weird, but he seems alright!
Maxim: Urgh! I heard he got made by a witch and cast out!
KC: (getting to his feet slowly, looking at Sophia then at Maxim with a glare) …
Another 2 kids a bit younger and smaller than KC walked up and stood beside each other next to Maxim…
Griff: I heard he was killed and raised by the undead and sent to come eat our brains!
KC: (looking at Griff) …
Zane: Well my mom told me he was just left by the ocean and unwanted…
KC: (looking at Zane and developing a angered expression) !
Sophia steps out from the group and stands at KC's side…
Sophia: Stop it! Stop being so mean!
Maxim: Urgh! Cant believe your actually siding with this freak!
Zane & Griff: Freakazoid!
KC: I'm not a freak…
Maxim: Oh look, it talks! Freakazoid talks common!
KC: …
Sophia: Just leave him alone you guys! He's been through a lot!
Maxim: Bah! Who cares, enjoy your time while it lasts freakazoid! Your from nowhere and created by nobody! We might as well just call you Frankenstein!
KC: …
Maxim: So long Frankenstein! Sophia your loss!
KC & Sophia: ….
The bullies run off quickly up the pathway which led to Stormwind…
Sophia: (walking a few steps forward and facing KC) See what I mean? He's just a bully!
KC: Yeah….
Sophia: You ok? They were pretty nasty…
KC: Ill be fine, but thanks anyway…
Sophia: Good to have a friend, even better when your alone!
KC: I guess…
Sophia: Alright I have to get back home now, cya around KC!
The girl runs off, looking back and waving…
KC: (waving funny) Yeah… cya!
He looks around at his new hometown… thinking about his only friend and those few who could take care of him…
KC: Alone… I guess I am sorta… alone…
KC walked back up the street towards his new home…
It was 14 minutes later…
KC was sitting at the table when Cross suddenly walks into the room and to the other end of the table, sits down and looks at KC for a moment before saying…
Cross: So, what you been doing?
KC: … Nothing much, sir…
Cross: (surprised expression) Good to hear you talking now… what brought this on suddenly? Thought you would never talk to us…
KC: I went for a walk… and met some kids around town…
Cross: Did you now? How about that…
Cross laughs faintly, looking vaguely around the room, still wearing his tight goggles made from unknown materials and his long coat… KC could see him tapping the table with his fingers while holding a long stick with his other hand, the end of it touching the floor…
Cross: Well now I'm sure if I wasn't blind I would get to know you better son…
KC: (looking up at Cross) …
Cross: But your welcome to stay here for as long as you need too… me and Rain both agree its what's best for you being so young and all… at least until someone comes searching for you…
KC: (looking at the blind man) …
Cross: You have only been here a few days, but we feel like your family now, if that's what you want…
KC: (getting up off the chair and standing a few ft away from Cross facing him directly) I just want everything to be ok…
Cross: (laughing faintly) Well that makes 2 of us… now you don't have to tell us everything, but can I at least know your name?
KC: My name is KC… sir…
Cross: (facing KC) Well KC, good to finally know you, I'm sure you'll get along with everyone well here… we'll take care of you…
KC: (pausing for a second) …
The son took a few steps forward and gave the new father a hug…
ATE Ends
Location: Gladius Cordela, theatre ship rest room
Its is now 8 years back into the future…
KC: (sighing deeply and looking down) …
Glenshaw: (staring at KC in mere amazement) Wow…
Princess Opal: So you lived there, in the town of Goldshire, with your new family?
KC: (looking at the Princess) Yeah… for my time…
Glenshaw: What do you mean "for your time?"
KC: Its complicated Glenshaw…
Glenshaw: Well I'm not going anywhere…
Albion: (looking at KC) …
Princess Opal: (looking down with a expression of sadness then at KC) May I ask what happened after that KC?
KC: Well… after that-
A loud and shocking ruckus is heard in the bowls of the theatre ship! A sudden drop in altitude and balance follows as the ship begins to tumble…
"Going down"
KC: (standing up after being set of balance) Ah damnit! The ship is failing!
Glenshaw having fell off the chair and on to the floor grapples with gravity and clutches at the table to gain his footing…
Boss' voice on loudspeaker: The engines are failing! All hands to your stations!
Glenshaw: KC what are we gonna do!?
Princess Opal: (hanging on to the table) !
KC: Hang on to something!!!
The room shook and rumbled more as the theatre ship, Gladius Cordela, fell to her inevitable doom! At the same time on the bridge of the dieing ship…
Boss: (at the wheel) Damn!
Creed: (beside the boss) Its no good boss! The engines have failed! We're gonna crash!
Boss: Alright! Its just what we feared and expected!
The Boss picks up a instrument…
Boss: (speaking into the receiver for the loudspeaker) This is it crew! Make yourself scarce and ready for crash procedures!
The ship losing its altitude catches fire as it clumsily sways and cuts through the air, gradually falling towards the ground with its nose up!
Boss: (on the loudspeaker) BRACE FOR IMPACT!!!
The ship descending towards the ground crashes into the swamps of the unknown! Flames, burnet wood, disturbed water and soil was thrown into the air as the theatre ship made its impact against the surface!
ATE Begins
Location: Goldshire, outside the school
7 years back into KC's past…
It was 1 year later since KC had arrived in Goldshire and was adjusted well to his new surroundings and his family and they with some compromises had adjusted to him. But they knew very well that he was no normal boy…
KC: (walking outside the small school building and looking around taking a breath) …
Sophia: (walking out after KC and standing in front of him)
"He looked at her and was so amazed that he welcomed her with open arms…"
KC: (looking at Sophia quickly then staring back at the distance watching the grazing of the grass sway as the wind passed through it) …
Sophia: You cant keep doing this you dolt…
KC: Why not, everyone here thinks I'm a freak anyway…
Sophia: Your not a freak, theirs loads of people in the world who are different… treated like outsiders!
KC: (still looking in distance) I am an outsider, Sophia…
Sophia: Aren't we friends?
KC: Of course, but everyone else just looks at me like some demon or spawn of evil…
Sophia: (whacking KC on his arm) Don't say that! Your not evil!
KC: (looking at Sophia) ….
Sophia: (staring at KC's eyes) … …
KC: Yes?
Sophia: Theirs something… I never noticed about your eyes…
KC: (looking at the ground then at Sophia) … …
Sophia: It don't matter… look we should hang out tonight…
KC: I dunno…
Sophia: Agh… come on, it will be fun! I promise!
KC: Yeah I know that, but-
Sophia: Ok cya tonight!
Sophia looks at KC with those wide open eyes of grace and quickly runs off down towards the centre of Goldshire…
KC: (talking to himself) …What just happened?
Some hours later…
As KC wondered down that same street he did 1 year ago he looked around beside the horses but could not see Sophia… it was getting darker and the sun was setting on the horizon which made Goldshire shine bright orange… then out of sight and out of mind she appeared before him…
Sophia: Hey there stranger…
KC: (smiling) Thought we we're friends?
Sophia: (smirking) Oh definitely… but you are so easy to mess with…
KC: (nodding weirdly and thinking) Good point actually
Sophia: (staring at KC right into those bright blue eyes) … …
KC: (looking back at Sophia then the horses) So… what did you wanna do?
Sophia: (walking over tot the horses quickly and settling the saddle on the horse) … …
KC: (looking at the horse which smiled at him then at Sophia) You must be kidding…
Sophia: Oh come on KC! Where is your sense of adventure!?
KC: (annoyed) I was found alone and half naked at the beach Sophia, I think I've had my fair share of adventure….
Sophia: (trying to get on the horse) Jeez… I hate being short…
KC: (looking at Sophia) … …
Sophia: Gonna help a girl out or just stand there and stare?
KC: (nodding then walking over to Sophia and kneeling down) Ok if you insist, your highness…
Sophia: (getting on the horse and settling) Phew… was not too difficult was it?
KC: (smirking) How do you even know how to ride these things anyway, Sophia?
Sophia: (weird expression) Well… I am a quick learner…
KC: (staring weirdly then smiling) ….
Sophia: (looking at KC then around at the darkening surroundings of Goldshire) And my dad taught me how…
KC: Kinda young aren't we for horseback riding? Don't you think?
Sophia: (patting KC on his forehead) Never to early or late to learn something new…
KC: … …
Sophia: Now hurry up and get on that this other horse…
KC: (peers at the other horse 4 ft away drinking from the container then looks at Sophia) Ok… now I KNOW you are kidding…
Sophia: Oh… what's wrong? Too scared?
KC: No…
Sophia: Scared of horses….
KC: (annoyed expression) NO…
Sophia: Don't trust me?
KC: Ok now you are being silly…
Sophia: No… I am being interesting! Now mount up boy!
KC: (smirking) … …
KC letting out a sigh and walking away from Sophia approaches the horse drinking from the container and as the horse turns to face him, KC questions himself if its really safe or if the horse knows him enough… but then he quickly realises if Sophia is in the same situation then he has to be by her side…
KC: (standing next to the horse) … …
The horse was looking constantly at KC then straight ahead… it seemed to trust him…
Sophia: (facing KC) One foot on the strap…
KC: (putting one foot on the strap) … …
Sophia: Ok now lift yourself on the horse and swing your other leg around quickly…
KC: (jumping up and mounting the horse) !
The horse moves around a little and quietly yelps as it adjusts to the new light-weight…
KC: (holding on tightly to the straps) Whoa, boy!
Sophia: (smiling) Well you seem to be okay…
KC: Yeah… but that's the easy part right?
It begins to get darker around Goldshire…
Sophia: Jeez… stop worrying KC…
KC: (rolls eyes and pats the horse) … …
Sophia: (explains how to guide the horse)
A few minutes later…
Sophia: And that's all there is to it… for the basics anyway…
KC: Ok sounds easy enough…
Sophia: (guiding the horse forward) Ok follow me!
Sophia mounted on the horse slowly walks away into the darkness…
KC: Hey! Wait up!
Sophia: (waving to him) HURRY UP!
KC: (patting the horse) Ok do this well for me horse and ill secretly feed you apples for a week…
The horse makes a sound like it almost understood him… then breaths heavy…
KC: Ok… that's weird…
KC slowly guides the horse out of the small outside stable and again slowly turns and approaches Sophia…
Sophia: Glad you could make it this millennium…
KC: (smirking) Go easy Sophia… this is my 1st time on a horse… I think…
Sophia: (smiling) Ok-ok…
KC: (facing Sophia and smiling) … …
Sophia: Ok.. Follow me!
Sophia gallops off towards the lake!
KC: HEY! WAIT!
KC follows Sophia only just managing to gain the same kind of speed… it was near to the sprinting speed that humans could do on foot…
3 minutes later…
Location: Silver Lake, Goldshire
KC and Sophia were now both sitting beside the lake… staring at the moon which was reflecting upon the silver surface of the water… even the fish seemed to be more active than usual as you could see them swimming around and then disappearing into the dark depths of the lakes edges…
KC: … …
Sophia: (looking at KC then the night sky) … …
KC: (looking at the lake) So why did you want to be friends with me?
Sophia: (facing KC) Huh?
KC: (fiddling with the grass) Well… why did you walk up to me?
Sophia: Well I would have offered you some gum but the general store was all out…
KC: (giggling and smiling) Alright then… but why exactly did you welcome me with open arms? Most of the people around here just stay clear off me… it happens at school and after most of the time…
Sophia: Probably just because you're an outsider and nobody knows where you come from… its kinda exciting…
KC: (fiddling with the grass and letting it drop through the air next to his feet) Yeah… mind blowing I'm sure…
Sophia: (facing the silver lake waters) But its true… you can go anywhere you want… you don't have much to hold you back…
KC: Well theirs some things I want that you can never find anywhere else, Sophia…
Sophia: (staring at the moonlight) Like what?
The surrounding trees swayed about from the passing wind…
KC: Well… uh…
Sophia: (looking at KC) ???
KC: (staring at the surface of the lake) Theirs my family….
Sophia: But you have only known them for a year KC…
KC: Yeah but they took me in, they gave me shelter and clothed me, they fed me and made me feel safe… that's makes them my family…
Sophia: … …
KC: (facing Sophia) And you gave me hope…
Sophia: (weird expression and smirking) I gave you hope?
KC: (smiling) Yeah…
Sophia: Ok that's one reason… what's the other?
KC: (eyes looking away) Other… reason?
Sophia: (eyes becoming wide) We are friends… you can tell me what your thinking and what your feeling…
KC: (looking at the silver lake) Nothing… I just think its best to keep a distance…
Sophia: (sighing and facing the night sky) Cant go through life just "keeping a distance"
KC: But its like everyone said… I am an outsider, I may have been sent by something evil and corrupted, I am just a Frankenstein…
Sophia: (facing KC) Well don't look like a monster to me… ok?
KC: (facing Sophia) …Ok…
They faced and smiled at each other… time was suddenly and seemingly faster…
KC: (suddenly turning to face the lake) … …
Sophia: (concerned expression) ???
KC: (looking around) Don't you hear that?
Sophia: (looking in the distance) Hear what?
KC: (clenching his hands against his skull) ARGH!
KC stands up gasping suddenly in pain! His fingers pressed against his skull! A sound of a screeching or more like something metallic was calling inside his mind!
Sophia: (standing up and resting her hand son KC's shoulders) KC what's wrong!?
KC: (leaning over in pain from the screeching) Cant you… hear the… sounds!?
Sophia: I don't hear anything! Tell me what's wrong!
KC: (walking towards the lake) They are… screaming… I can hear their cry's of pain…
Sophia follows KC as he approaches the edge of the lake and kneels down, dipping his hand in the water calmly…
Sophia: (looking at KC then the lake) KC what are you doing!? What's wrong, just tell me!
KC: (one hand against his skull and the other rested in the waters of the lake) I can hear the screams… of the avatars… they are calling for me…
Sophia: Avatars? What the blazes is a avatar-
KC is suddenly pulled into the lake! The movement is too fast and sudden for the eyes to recognize how it happened!
Sophia: (looking at the lake as the waters settle) KC!!!
KC sinks through the water… drifting silently into the darkness… suddenly and violently he stops and struggles… he tosses and turns… twists and shifts… it was like the water itself was trying to drown him and had a hold on him…
Not having much breath left but noticing something a few ft away from his sight… KC reaches out and grasps the light… a shining light so close to him… touching the light the power which gripped him lets loose its grip! KC is able to swim back up to the surface and emerge out of the lake and settle on the edge…
Sophia runs over to him moments later, kneeling down beside him with the expression of loves dearest concern…
Sophia: KC are you alright!?
KC: (moving around and resting on his back) … …
KC holding out his hand reveals a orb lie object in the palm of his fist… resting calmly and settled… it had an aura about it that calmed your mind and relaxed your body… like you knew instantly the orb itself would not harm you…
Sophia: What is that?
KC: (sitting up) What the hell happened!? Why am I soaked in lake water!?
Sophia: (staring at KC confused) Oh what are you-
KC: Sophia what's going on?
Sophia: (gestures with her eyes at the glowing orb held in his hand) … …
KC: (facing the orb object) Sophia… how did I get this?
Sophia: (looking at KC curiously) You were pulled into the lake… it was so fast…
KC: (looking at Sophia with fear in his eyes) … … …
Sophia: You were saying something about "the Calling of the Avatars"
KC: What the hell is a Avatar?
Sophia: (worried expression) I really dunno… but you sounded like you knew what you were talking about…
KC: (staring into Sophia's eyes) Sophia… just what the hell is happening to me?
Sophia: (staring into KC's bright blue eyes) … …
They both moved their eyes to stare at the orb with its harmonistic aura of soothing in quiet motion… the orb rested now in KC's hands…
ATE Ends
Location: Unknown swamp, near to the Gladius Cordela crash site
7 years later back into the present…
KC waking up and opening his eyes, stands up slowly nearly tumbling over to realise he was in the swamp. Gaining his focus and looking around for a moment he notices the theatre ship, some of its attachments, the propellers etc and the hull was destroyed. However the ship itself seemed to be damaged beyond repair and some of it on fire but not hopeless, their was a strong chance that their was more survivors! KC quickly made his way down the hill side towards the crash site!
Location: Unknown swamp, Gladius Cordela crash site
Creed: (walking out from a opening in the ships hull) Ah damn…
Tan: (facing Creed) How many are dead?
Creed: I found 6 dead on the 2nd floor, 3 wounded on the bridge… the Boss is missing along with KC, the Princess, that weird small guy and the stuck up knight…
Tan: Ok with the indiscrimination… What about Blank and Wise?
Creed: They're ok, they are helping with the rest inside and putting out the fires…
Tan: And the Boss?
Creed: Cant find him anywhere…
Tan: Oh great, the Boss is missing, KC our hired muscle is MIA, the Princess who we kidnapped is also missing, most likely dead, the gnome and that other elf I cant really care about….
Creed: For a chick your kinda hard headed…
Tan: And your being big headed, go back inside and help with the fires, bring the wounded out here…
Creed: (turning around) Right…
Tan: And save the supplies! We will be bug food if we cant defend ourselves or are to weak from starvation!
Creed: (facing Tan) Yes sir…
Tan: That's ma'am…
Creed: (sighing) …
Creed walks back into the opening of the theatre ship. Tan turns around to analyse the situation quickly, the outside was small since it was the edge of a swamp pit after all, she could not see far either because it was dark and the swamp marshes rose high enough to cover the distance from eye sight…
Tan: This is bad… really bad…
A moment later, Creed & Wise emerge back out of the opening carrying 2 wounded humans on their backs, seconds later they drop them on to the ground and go back into the ship…
Tan: (walking over to the wounded and leaning over with her hand resting on her knee) You alright there?
Wounded instrument player: Urgh…
Man under the wounded instrument player: Ah! Will you… get off me!
Tan: (sighing and walking back over to the supplies) …
Tan reaching into the supply crates got out some bandages and wrapped one around her arm and another around her leg, her clothes had been cut where the wounds were which were not severe but were bleeding…
Tan: Agh! Damn!
A moment later, KC jumps out from the thick high brush and runs over to Tan who jumps at the sight of him….
Tan: Ah!
KC: Hey not nice to laugh…
Tan: You scared the living crap outta me!
KC: My bad… how is the situation?
Tan: (pointing back at the theatre ship) The gang is inside now putting out the fires and helping the wounded, but the Boss is missing along with the Princess…
KC: Damn…
Tan: …
KC: We have to find the Boss and the Princess…
Tan: Yeah no kidding genius, but at this point we are barely holding it together, we cant go after them just yet…
KC: Well we cant wait either! We have to save Opal!
Tan: Never realised you and the princess were on a first name basis?
KC: Never mind that, lets get the wounded out and these fires under control so that we can launch a rescue mission…
KC looks at where Tan was wounded on her arm…
KC: You gonna be alright?
Tan: Yes, I was in the engine room, I was one of the lucky ones…
KC: Think were all lucky to have survived this…
Sky: (flying down from the darkened skies and flapping his wings hovering above the ground near KC) !
KC: Sky! Good to see you made it pal!
Sky: I thought you got roasted when the ship hit the ground KC! You got some strength in you…
KC: Heh-heh glad to see you too…
Sky perches on KC's shoulder…
Blank: (walking out of the opening and standing beside Tan) Jeez KC! You're alive!
KC: (facing Blank) Yeah and all 5 limbs attached…
Blank: Jeez your crazy man! Jumping from the ship like that!
KC: I didn't jump, I was thrown out from the impact…
Sky: …
Blank: Did you see the Princess or the Boss when you woke up?
KC: If I did they would be here…
Blank: Oh yeah good point…
KC: What about Glenshaw or Albion?
Blank: Who are they?
KC: (eyes becoming wide) The gnome and that knight…
Blank: Not seen them…
KC: (looking at the ground with his hands on his hips) Ah damn…
Creed & Wise bring out more wounded and drop them on the ground…a moment later they wonder off back into the burning ship…
KC: (looking at the survivors) Good to see some are still alive…
Blank: Well we're holding strong…
KC: Lets hurry it up, I'm gonna go find the Princess…
Tan: But what abut the Boss?
KC: ….
A sound emits from the high grass of the unknown swamp marsh, KC & Tan both turn to face where the sound came from along with Blank behind them…
Tan: !
KC: What the hell was that?
Blank: …
The high marsh grass begins to sway, something is moving towards them! KC, Tan & Blank make ready…
Boss: (emerging from the marsh) Ah darn it!
Tan & Blank: Boss!
KC: ….
Boss: Holy! You all survived too!
Blank: Yeh Boss…
KC: …
Boss: Good to see you alive too merc…
KC: (smirking) …
Tan: Did you find anyone else Boss?
Boss: (walking past KC and Tan towards the opening and turning around) Nope… nobody and nothing…
KC: …
Tan: Ah crap…
Blank: …
KC: Well now that we know your alive I'm gonna go look for the Princess…
Boss: You cant, its too dangerous alone…
KC: She could still be alive…
Boss: Your still contract merc, your working for us…
KC: Look around Boss-man, that contract became void when the ship smashed into this god forsaken swamp!
Boss: What's your plan to launch a rescue?
KC: …. I aint thought that far ahead…
Boss: HA! You're just gonna launch into the swamp marsh with some of it in flames and go on this suicide mission to find the Princess who is most likely dead anyway?
KC: Yeah that's pretty much it… and find the gnome and knight too….
Boss: …. You got brass balls son… maybe you could join the Xathalius some day.
KC: Hold that thought…
Boss: ….
Tan: So what IS your plan exactly?
KC: (looking at Tan and sheathing his sword) Gonna go out there and slice & dice anything that gets in my way…
Blank: Then Ill go with you…
KC: Eh?
Boss: No, I need you all here to help keep the situation under control, if he wants to go on some crazy suicide mission then let'im go, makes my job more easier…
KC: (facing the Boss) I don't need you or anyone else for that matter either yah old boot!
Boss: (turning around and walking inside the crashed ship) Don't expect us to be waiting for you or going after you either…
KC: …
Tan: Good luck KC
Tan walks away and tends to the damaged equipment and supplies on the ground next to the group…
Blank: …
KC: (facing Blank) …
Blank: Don't you go dieing out there…
KC: It'll be fine, ill find the Princess and be back here before anyone realises I was gone…
Blank: Alright good luck!
KC: Cheers…
KC turns around and vanishes into the marsh of the swamp…
Blank: Gonna need it out there…
"Into the harshness of the Wetlands"
Location: Wetlands swamp marsh
KC made his way through the desolate and unknown swamp, his hands in front pushing away the thick of the marsh grass that stretched higher than he could see and blocked out the horizon. He had no idea where he was going or what direction he was heading but he knew he had made a promise to the Princess, he was never really any good at keeping his promises however…
KC: (wondering out of the marsh and falling down a slope into a shallow river bed) !
KC realising he had fell but not been knocked out luckily got to his feet and stood up in the river which was only near waist high…
KC: (looking around and could only see more high swamp grass) Jeez that was clumsy…
He made his way following the river until eventually he arrived at some clear ground that was next to the swamp grass and was blocked by a fallen tree of some kind… luckily he was able to go through the base of the tree trunk which had rotted out over many years…
KC: (leaving the tree truck interior and arriving at a swamp infested creek)
ATE Begins
Location: Wetlands, southern part of the swamp creek
Albion: (running away and turning to face the harsh swamp as if to search) Is it still following us!?
Glenshaw: (standing next to Albion and looking) I dunno!
Albion: (searching the swamp grass) …
There is a loud roar of anger from the grass…. it begins to sway about…
Albion: !
Glenshaw: You think its coming this way!?
Albion: Stay back gnome! Ill handle whatever dares threaten us!
Glenshaw: (looking at Albion and back at the grass which had stopped moving) ….
Albion: (stood still gazing at the harsh marsh) …
Glenshaw: (walking forward a few steps cautiously) Maybe it… went away?
Albion: ….
Albion looks overhead…
Albion: Glenshaw! GET BAKC!
Glenshaw: (toppled over) AHHH!!!
Albion: !!!
ATE Ends
Location: Wetlands, near to the southern part of the swamp creek
KC stopped as he heard screams and cries of anguish and fright…
KC: (listening) That sounded like Glenshaw…
He made his way quickly down the edge of the creeks river and only a moment later he spots Albion with his sword raised!
KC: (jumping down into the shallow river which reached only ankle high) !
KC with his sword in hand faces the creature…
Albion: (facing KC then the creature) YOU!
KC: (looking at Albion then back at the creature holding out the sword) Me…
Albion: Why are you here!?
KC: To help you it would seem…
Albion: Don't be so folly! I alone shall rescue the Princess!
KC: You plan to take this thing all by yourself then!?
Albion: …
The creature was no man, it looked more like some plant like monster that had dwelled in the marsh secretly and the crash of the theatre ship had awoken it. Glenshaw was trapped inside the monster's organic cage which was fixed atop its head. He seemed to be alive and awake! The monster began to scream wildly and lash out with its tentacles!
KC: Its getting moody!
Albion: Then let us ends its pain!
KC: Right then!
KC & Albion charge the monster! The creature leaps and attacks them!
Battle 5 Begins
Plant creature - lashes out with Tentacle vs KC, causing moderate smashing damage to his armour
KC - Charges & executes Slash & Bash vs Plant creature, causing moderate smashing damage to its organic armour and small lethal damage to its flesh
KC: It seems to be able to bleed…
Albion: Then let us slay it now and be done with the monster!
Plant creature - lashes out with 2x Tentacles vs KC, causing moderate smashing damage to his armour and small smashing damage to his flesh!
Albion - Dash's & executes 2x Slash vs Plant creature, causing moderate lethal damage to its organic armour and moderate damage to its flesh!
Plant creature - executes Mass Charge vs KC & Albion, causing high smashing damage to their armour and small smashing damage to their flesh!
KC: Argh! Now that hurt!
Albion: Indeed it was a exceptional charge…
Albion - executes Field Team Medical on himself & KC, healing them both for a high amount!
KC: Nice move…
Albion: You are welcome…
Glenshaw: Urgh…
Albion: Glenshaw is still alive!
Glenshaw: Ah…
Plant creature: MUAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!!!
KC: Then lets just kill this thing!
KC - executes Slash & Kick vs Plant creature, causing moderate smashing damage to its organic armour and breaking it asunder while also causing small lethal damage to its flesh!
Albion - executes Knight's Charge! Both Albion & KC charge their enemies and execute 2x Slash, causing moderate lethal damage to its flesh!
Plant creature: MUUURP!!!
KC: …
Battle 5 Ends
The Plant creature falls to the ground along with its tentacles smashing with a thundering slam, Glenshaw now free jumps out from the organic cage and stumbles away from the creature then stands next to KC and Albion…
KC: (looking at the creature then at Glenshaw) You alright?
Glenshaw: Why yes sir, I'm fine…
KC: (facing the creature and walking slowly towards it) Told you not to call me sir… just KC…
Glenshaw: (grinning) Ah sorry…
Albion: You fought well… for a stubborn brigand…
KC: (looking back at Albion) Not like we had much choice…
KC kneels beside the Plant creature that was laying face down in the dirt of the swamp from which it once spawned…
KC: ….
Albion: What is that creature?
KC: (fiddling around with the creature and inspecting its bleeding corpse) I dunno… I think it was a little easy to be any big bad nasty of this swamp…
Albion: What do you mean?
KC: I think its just a minion…
KC stands up on his feet and faces Albion and Glenshaw…
KC: Whatever commanded it to attack us wanted us alive…
Albion: Nonsense! It is a brutal monster! Nothing more and nothing less!
KC: (looking back at the slain creature) Just because it looks like a monster and behaves like one don't mean it chose to be one Albion…
Albion: Non the less! It tried to murder us!
KC: (looking back at Albion) Maybe your right… for once… and whatever sent it I think we'll find the Princess…
Albion: How do you know of this!?
KC: If I'm right and it is just a minion… then its master will be waiting somewhere close by… and I am almost certain we will find Opal there…
Albion: Very well… if it means finding and rescuing the Princess, I shall assist you!
Glenshaw: (looking at KC) Me too!
Sky: Im always on your side KC, but where do we look?
KC: Hmm… trust you to ruin my plans Sky…
Sky: What plans?
KC: (sighing) What direction did you guys come from?
Albion: (pointing to the north)
KC: And that's where it followed you from?
Glenshaw: Yeah!
Albion: Indeed…
KC: Ok lets just head north…
Albion and Glenshaw nod then follow KC as he makes his way through the marshland of the swamp….
"Rescuing the kidnapped Princess"
Approximately 20 minutes later…
After traversing some obstacles and fighting of a few gnolls which were brutal and animal like humanoids that infested the Wetlands in groups, KC, Albion and Glenshaw arrived at a well of pure water. It was settled in a very green and lush patch of grass contained within a tree like well which poured out as a small fissure into the ground…
Location: Wetlands resting place, the brimming well
Glenshaw: (walking quickly to the small well fissure and drinking from it) Auughhh…
KC: Guess he was thirsty…
Albion: Please I would advise we rest….
KC: (looking at Albion weirdly) Thought you wanted to find the Princess?
Albion: We have had little rest and I think only of her safety! If we do not rest for a small amount of time we shall be to weak to fight any monster…
Glenshaw: (walking up to KC and Albion) I do feel a little tired KC…
KC: (rolling his eyes and sitting near the well fissure) Ok fine but only for a few minutes…
Glenshaw grinned a little at the triumph of being able to rest a while after being worn out from all that had happened so far and sat down next to KC while Albion a little more abruptly sat opposite them…
KC: (looking at the well fissure and drinking some then looking around) …
Glenshaw: Are we gonna make it out of here alive?
KC looked at Glenshaw with a smirk then back at the water pouring out like it had little choice but to do only that… like that is what nature intended for it to too, to give life and survive even in a corrupt vile land such as the Wetlands…
Albion: How can a pure water source survive in such a harsh environment…
Glenshaw: …
KC: I'm not sure…
Sky: Maybe it wasn't its time to extinguish? Maybe theirs more life to come to the Wetlands?
KC: "Life will find a way with hope" right Sky?
Sky: A sharp view KC…
KC smiled a little for a second then looked around again at the surrounding marsh of the hostile swamp and back at the fissure…
KC: I just hope the Princess is still alive…
Albion: (facing KC slightly angry) You and your band of thieves should never have abducted her in the first place!
KC: (looking at Albion sharply then to his left) It was gonna happen anyway…
Albion: (standing up quickly) Nonsense! I wont allow you to put her life in danger repeatedly! I Albion of the elven Royal Knights shall rescue the princess and have you prosecuted when we return to Darnassus!
KC: (facing Albion) You may want to take a look around sir rustalot… you probably wont get out of here alive…
Albion: (raising his fists) WHY YOU!
Glenshaw: Guys!
A odd sound is heard from the pathway up ahead… KC still sitting down looks around the fissure to notice something flying just above the ground and moving towards them…
Origin of the sound: ….
KC: (Standing up and leaning to left a little) What's that?
Glenshaw: (walking around to KC's left) Sounds like…
Dromoison: (flying just above the ground and now settling earthbound just in front of KC) Mupo!
KC: Oh… a foogle…
Dromoison: Mupo! I thought I was all alone here mupo!
KC: Don't worry you will be soon…
Albion: (walking around the well fissure and stopping a few ft away from the foogle) Rudeness!
KC: (sighing) ….
Sky: You should here his rudeness the rest of the time…
KC: (the palm of his hands hits his face) Argh! Sky!
Sky: (bird like smirk) …
Glenshaw: How did you get here foogle?
Dromoison: Mupo! I stowed away on your theatre ship!
KC: (facing Sky) Holy! Never saw that one coming…
Dromoison: I was very careful not to be found mupo!
KC: So what you doing here?
Dromoison: Just finding a way out mupo…
KC: Found any?
Dromoison: Mupo! Their may be a way out to the east of here! I was just on my way there!
KC: Why aint you left yet then?
Dromoison: I was too thirsty after all the crashing and the flying mupo!
The foogle walks slowly over to the well fissure, leans over and starts taking little sips of the well water…
KC: Figures…
Glenshaw: What does KC?
KC: He's alone and unarmed, he finds a way out and makes it here unscathed for a drink… but we being armed, trained, experienced and looking for the Princess have gotten nowhere and are lucky to be alive…
Glenshaw: So what's that all mean?
KC: That life can be full of surprises… including bad ones… and yet everything turns out okay in the end…
Glenshaw: Hmm…
Sky: Again you surprise me KC…
KC: Ah quiet Sky, I'm just keeping an open mind about all what's happening…
Albion: (looking at the foogle then at KC) …
Sky: And that's ALL it is?
KC: Of course, what else?
Sky: …
Glenshaw: Can we get moving now Mr KC?
KC: (looking towards the pathway) Just KC please, Glenshaw…
Glenshaw: Oh yeah…
KC: (faces the path that the foogle came from and looks at Sky) We should be able to take that pathway north and then backtrack to head east out of the Wetlands…
Sky: I agree…
Albion: Very well…
Glenshaw: Yeah!
KC: Alright… lets go…
The group head on using narrow pathway which was covered on either side by the harsh marsh….
Glenshaw: (as he leaves the area he waves back at the foogle) Bye foogle!
Dromoison: (flying away from the well fissure and getting knocked back by the high grass onto the ground) Urgh… what's in that stuff? URP!
"Rescue the Princess, slay the abductor"
The group after walking for a couple of minutes through the vastness of the seemingly never ending Wetlands arrived at something they had not seen yet since they arrived in the desolate swamp…
Albion: (looking around) What is this?
KC: (few ft behind Albion) Not sure… looks like some kind of growth… it almost seems alive…
Albion: (facing KC) We should investigate!
KC: (crossing his arms) Oh you just want to stroll inside eh?
Albion: The princess could be in this place! We must investigate!
KC: (standing normally) Maybe… this growth aint anywhere else so we should fins something…
Glenshaw: So we're going inside… there…
KC: (patting Glenshaw on the back)
Glenshaw: (rubbing his back) Ow…
KC: (walking towards the opening of the plant growth) Don't be afraid Glenshaw, we're all in the same boat here…
Glenshaw: (following KC & Albion) What boat?
A breath of frustration is heard from KC as the group wonder on into the opening of the unknown plant growth. As the group walked onwards further into what was now a tunnel but still covered in this vaguely green growth of plant roots and weeds, they started to notice a light as they came to the end of the tunnel… and as they emerged out momentarily blinded by the light they spotted the princess! She was unconscious but what was before her and in front of the groups eyes was something near unimaginable!
KC: (sheathing a 1h sword) What the hell!?
Albion: MONSTER!
Glenshaw: Its very green!
Location: Inside of unknown cavern, Plant boss' layer
In front of the group was a huge plant like creature! It was a giant green pod with tendrils and tentacles sticking out of its monstrous torso with what seemed like pods on either side and it seemed to be rooted into the ground! It even had many petals attached to stems which performed as a face which did not seem beautiful or charming at all…
The group facing the monster and sheathing their weapons stood prepared for the giant plant creature…
The huge plant monster began to sway about within the huge cavern underground which was surrounded even more with the same growth that had been seen outside!
Albion: Princess!!!
KC: Easy man! We have to kill this thing first!
Glenshaw: (holding out his hands either side which were alight with flames)
KC: Be careful not to hit the princess…
Albion: I will slay it myself!
KC: Not this lone soldier crap again!
Albion: It would be indisputably unforgivable if the king & queen were to discover that a thief saved the princess from a creature such as this one!
KC: And I made a promise, so button up! We got us a plant to cut down!
Albion: …
KC: Go!
The group charged forward towards the plant creature who also began to thrash about with its tentacles and whip-like arms!
Battle 6 Begins
Plant boss - raises its tentacles in the air as the huge petals for a face began to flutter about!
KC: Looks like its not gonna let us leave without a fight!
Albion: I wont rest till it is slain!
KC: Alright lets just put it down!
KC - executes 2x Slash vs Plant boss, causing moderate lethal damage to its armour
Plant boss - lashes about with its tentacles and sprays pollen all over the entire group!
KC: (harshly dancing about) God damn it %&!!(^.^)!*
Albion: (recovering from the attack) Be alert for that attack!
KC: (recovered) Yeah no kidding!
Glenshaw - With his hands alight from the flames he throws it which forms like a flamethrower vs Plant boss, causing high flame damage to its armour and moderate burning damage to its flesh!
KC: WHOA! Nice move!
Glenshaw: Hehe thanks KC!
Sky: (lifting off of KC's shoulder)
KC: (looking at Sky who is flying about in the air) What you doing!?
Sky: Getting a better view!
KC: (facing the plant boss) Right now my turn!
KC - executes Jump & 3x Slash vs Plant boss, as KC jumps upon the pods and stabs wildly into the side of the Plant boss he causes extreme damage to the creatures armour and moderate damage to its flesh!
KC is again settled on the ground near to the group
Albion: Very impressive skill for a thief…
KC: The battle aint over yet!
Boss creature (with wild roar that was like thunder) RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWRRRGGGGGGGGGGG!!
KC: Scream all you want you son of a &!^&(*!
Plant boss - executes 2x Whip Slash with its Tentacles vs KC, causing high damage to his armour and small damage to his flesh
Albion - executes Charge & Knight's Guard! With increased strength Albion executes 3x Slash vs Plant Boss, causing high damage to its armour and high damage to its flesh while also causing it to bleed!
Glenshaw - Lifts up his hands of flames and attempts to cast Flamethrower vs Plant boss, but the attack is cancelled as Glenshaw is hit by a Tentacle and knocked on his back!
KC: Glenshaw!
Albion: Vicious monster!
KC - executes Party's Revenge followed by Dash! Both KC & Albion charge vs Plant Boss followed by 2x Slash & 3x Slash, both causing moderate lethal damage to its flesh bypassing its armour completely!
Albion - executes Charge and attempts to follow with 2x Slash vs Plant boss, but is forced back by one of its Tentacles!
Glenshaw - Recovers from the attack made by Plant boss
Plant boss - executes Pod Dropper vs Albion, causing him to fall asleep as the pod manages to hit him and spread poisonous spores to all other group members
Glenshaw - casts Flamethrower vs Plant boss, causing high flame damage to its armour and small burning damage to its flesh
Plant boss - executes Wild Rage & Pollen vs All KC's group members, the act causes high nature damage to Glenshaw's armour and his flesh, moderate nature damage to KC's armour and small nature damage to his flesh but the attack missed Albion
Glenshaw: Ugh…
KC: Glenshaw!
Plant boss: (the wild and alive petals flutter about in Glenshaw's direction) Murrruuuppp!!!
Plant boss - executes 2x Whip Lash with its huge Tentacles vs Glenshaw, but the attack fails as 2 Tentacles are cut apart from the Boss and fall to the ground! KC saved Glenshaw from a savage attack!
Plant boss: (thrashing about and screaming wildly with a roar) !!!
Glenshaw: (kneeling down) Ugh… thanks…
KC: (standing in front of Glenshaw and facing the plant boss) You're wounded, stay back…
Glenshaw: (getting to his feet) I'll be fine…
Albion: (waking up from the induced coma) Urgh…
KC: (facing Albion then the plant boss which was still thrashing about from the attack) Glad to see you awake…
Albion: (recovered) It shall pay dearly for that!
KC: Then lets finish it!
KC - executes 2x Slash with Bash vs Plant Boss, causing small smashing damage to its armour and sundering it completely!
Albion - executes 2x Slash vs Plant Boss, causing moderate damage to its flesh!
Plant boss - executes 1x Whip Lash with 1 Tentacle vs KC, but the attack is prevented as Sky claws at the Tentacle as it falls and the Plant Boss flinches!
Sky manages to get airborne again after dodging a lash or 2 by the Plant Boss
Plant Boss - executes Tentacle Swipe vs All of KC's group, but the attacking swipe is avoided as the group duck down!
Glenshaw - casts Firebolt vs Plant Boss, causing high damage to its flesh and small damage to its head!
Plant Boss - Thrashing about from its wounds executes Wild Rage vs KC, attempting to hit him with a Man Killer Pod, but the attack is dodged as KC runs up the stem and jumps landing on the Plant Boss's back and thrusting the blade directly into its back causing extreme lethal damage!
KC lands near the Princess who is comatose, the Plant Boss thrashing wildly begins to lean over and cease moving and finally ceases a few seconds later…
Battle 6 Ends
Albion & Glenshaw run over to KC who is kneeling beside the princess…
KC: (Sky landing on KC's shoulder) Opal?
Albion: (standing beside KC) Is the princess dead!?
KC holds his hand up to the comatose princess' nose and mouth for a second then faces Albion…
KC: No! She's in a coma and still breathing!
Albion: We have to escape this place and give aid!
KC: Yeah no crap…
Glenshaw: We have to get outta here!
Sky: I agree with the panicking gnome…
KC: Alright lets go!
Albion: (leaning over and holding the princess in his arms then stands up) KC let us leave at once!
KC: (stood up) Ok lets go!
The huge plant boss creature looks as if its…. melting into the ground and leaving a huge gaping hole where the roots have grown from…
KC: (looking at the newly formed hole in the ground) …
Albion: …
KC: (listening) Wait… do you hear that?
Albion: (turns to face KC as he has walked closer to another opening in the cave which formed when the plant boss died) …
Glenshaw: (standing near KC) I don't hear anything…
KC: (noticing a shield on the ground which had fell from the plant boss' corpse)
KC has acquired and equipped a shield!
KC: Poor sod who this belong to… its mine now…
Glenshaw: (walking closer to Albion and facing KC as he hears something) …
KC: (looking around) ….
Albion: Something is coming…
KC approaches the hole looking down but all that can be noticed is darkness, however their is a noise streaming from within…
KC: (turning around and waving a few seconds later) GO! MOVE IT!
The group make their way out the cave through the opening… and a moment later hundreds of plant minions and insects emerge from the hole and pursue the group followed by nothing but wild screams!
Part 1 Ends