The professional
(Note to reader I sometimes skip from third to first person though the story in parts where characters are taking to each other to keep the story going. its my first one so cut me some slack and at least give me till ch2 or 3 pls)
If you ever traveled into the northern kingdom of even in some areas of nilfgard you would surly hear of the exploits of the famous witcher Garalt of Rivia. Only our story follows a young witcher named Artem a young man with a past as black as deaths cloak. we find our young witcher in Boclare searching for the famed witcher Geralt of Rivia who aside from Lambert (a witcher who he learned his shity sense of humor from) roach a former blue stripes commander who had convinced him to fight alongside the blue stripes) and ves ( a beautiful warier maiden who had a close relationship with our hero if you catch my drift) was his only true friend, however he knew that he needed Geralt's help and he had a long way to go to get anywhere near Geralt's level of skill and experience.
Artem arrived outside of his old friends home to see Geralt atop his horse roach in a white shirt and brown trousers with black boots telling his workers what the new schedule was for the coming harvest.
Your starting to sound like Vessimer old man shouted Artem
Geralt recognized the voice almost immediately as he tuned his head to see Artem siting on his horse grinning.
Artem it's been to long Geralt said with a smerk on his face as he rode over to greet his old friend.
Yenipher herd all the commotion and arose from her usual spot in the sun to see Geralt greet his old student. Seeing that it was the boy who ciri use to train with had she went down to greet him as well.
Why are you here Artem I thought you were doing your mercenary work with roach and Ves fighting the nilfgaurdeans in Velen Geralt asked with what passed for concern.
I was but then the shit went side ways when we fumbled right into the middle of army group center as they were moving up.
dame Geralt responded.
It was my fault I thought it was only the advance group we lost half our men and ves was seriously hurt I did the best I could to hold them off for as long as I could but there were too many and I had to flee with the rest. Truth is you'll never gust who showed up at the last moment to save are asses.
Who Garalt asked.
Iorveth Artem say with a smile.
Iorveth but him and roach hate each other with a passion Geralt responded in shock.
Yah but they respect each other plus Iorveth still owed roach for not killing him in flotsam.
You talk to him Geralt asks.
no he gave us cover fire with a few of his followers then when we had a minute to breath he gave us a little solute and then they all disappeared into the woods.
What about roach and ves Geralt asked
There both in oxenfert licking their wounds there fine but I honestly wished we had letho with us they may hate him but he's great in a fight. Any way the war is basically over now that Radovid is crossing the pontar and I was hoping to ask you about a cave around here.
could you be more specific.
I heard that you found an unseen elder around here.
Geralts eyes narrowed why do you want to know Geralt replied with the tone of a father about to scold his child in his voice
the duchess has put out a massive bounty on any vampire the more powerful the more gold it has on his head Artem shot back sencing this wasnt going to go over well.
how much the dame kingdom. geralt responded.
enouph for me to retire on Artem responded.
so your idea of retirement is a grave then that's what you'll get.
you killed a high vampire here and you we can kill this one if we work together.
you weren't there the last time i was in that cave he froze me and Emiel just by moving his hand .
did you use the black blood potion before you went in.
of coerce i didn't that stuff is asking for death especially sense theirs no guarantee that they wont kill you first then feed.
were witcher's that risk is just another day on the path.
why are you so interested in using the black blood potion anyway.
well it just so happens that i met an old sorcerer who told me of his theory about blood and elders as he studied the the one that i believe you found here although his original colleague died in the experiment he learned some valuable information.
and.
for vampires all there existence is centered around blood and thus if say a witcher were to contaminate said blood he could theoretically be immune to a portion of its powers and with this new and improved formula we cant lose.
Geralt would have protested this further but he knew Artem would only go looking on his own and he wanted to see if the theory was correct not to mention he still owed Artem a favor for helping him break a rather tricky curse that involved a dip with a rather large siren. so he cut a deal with Artem he would tell him where it was if he would receive an upgrade to his witcher senses as Geralt had recently done that made him even more powerful. The second condition was Artem needed to kill a high vampire who was using orphan's as blood bags and there'd make a massive stock pile of moon dust booms, vampire oil and the two special servings of black blood to use against said vampire Yenipher decided to stay out of it for once as she knew they could only help him on the path not take him off at least not without a vary substantial amount of gold.
On the journey to the old mages cave Geralt told Artem of the history behind it where mage had originally intended it to reverse the mutations that witchers went threw but it only served to make witchers stronger in every way. Signs were stronger speed, reflexes, and strength, was doubled. The pair arrived within the day they had set off the procedure was quick and less painful than the trial of the grasses. The effects were almost immediate as Artem emerged with a large smile on his face. And without a word they returned to Geralts vineyard.
There was only one more test that Artem needed to pass to complete the deal he made with Geralt killing the vampire Orianna who enjoyed drinking the blood of orphans. Artem waited outside of Boclare for her to ride out to the orphan edge he didn't have to wait long as she came at the exact 5 until midnight as she usually did. Artem stepped out from behind an oak tree with his hood over his head and orianna stopped dead in her tracks as she looked into the cat like eyes of the young witcher that shined in the night. I knew this day would come orianna said in a hushed voice Artem said nothing he just fired a silver bolt dipped in extensively harsh vampire oil into her forehead he then took Oriannas head so she couldnt regenerate and took her jewelry for proof of death then burned the body to ash.
Two weeks had past since the day Artem arrived and he was fully prepared to take the elder vampires head as a trophy but Geralt had a few more gift to give Artem his swords and a set of vampiric looking armor that was in red Geralt had found on his first trip into the cave it was the legendary hen gaidth armor that was said to have been the ancient armor of the first vampires that had ever set foot in our would and the wearer would gain power from the men he killed the set came with A magic mask that increases the power of the armor. The first was a steel sword hen gaidth blade made completely of pure dark steel it held the same power as the armor and it had magic runes from an ofiri rune wright inscribed on the blade to make an even more overpowered weapon. the second was Geralts prize sword which could only be past to a warrior who had the five chivalric virtues Compassion, Generosity, Honor, Valor, and Wisdom the sword was made out of the purist of silver and was blessed by those from above as shown by the shining runes that were written is such a way as they looked almost god like. and so being prepared as he could the two set out to kill the unseen elder they would act it out as Garalt would greet him just as he did before and they would set of the bag of moon dust booms Artem had set up in his nap sack.
As they arrived Geralt only said follow my lead Geralt said in a cold tone voice and just like that Artem had begun to wonder what the fuck he had gotten himself into with his old friend. Artem looked threw some of the old chests he found in the cave slowing progress a bit but he was fascinated by the od jewelry and silver coins he found in the chests almost as if the elders were once worshiped like gods back in there day.
As they come into the elders chamber Geralt holds out a rare mineral and says in a bizarre language and says spureni veres nac I assume that's a greeting the elder swipes the mineral from Geralt's hand quick as a flash then Artem realizes just how deep in shit they both are but he keeps his head on straight to fuck up now is certain death but Artem was a man who covered all his bases before hand as he drank down enough of his special black blood potion to kill 50 vampires with a drop of it so after the greeting was over and they both stood Artem gently lit the fuse on the moon dust booms with a small igni sign (fire ) and started counting downward from 150.
What do you want this time witcher. the elder snarled
we seek the knowledge of the world you came from before the conjunction of the spheres. Geralt responded
why should I tell you of my home
because we asked nicely Artem joked like an asshole.
Which caused Geralt to slap him in the back of the head.
hehehehehehe the elder laughed. very well i'll will speak
The world I come from is just beyond the dimensional gap that once happened here hundreds of years ago.
While the elder was talking the count hit five Artem threw the bag at the elders feet that then exploded in his face. which caused the elder to go mad with pain and rage the elder then rushed at Geralt an using his Sharpe clause cut Geralt's arm badly Geralt then used the ared sign(a powerful shock wave blast) to push the elder back a few feet but Artem had a plan he threw another moon dust boom to really piss off the elder and get his attention when the elder rushed forward and grabbed Artem by the neck and shoulder to start feeding Artem let out a smile his plan had worked he grabbed the elders head and forced him to keep drinking his poisoned blood then the elder let out a cry of pain as he gasped for air but he feel to the ground having drank so much of the poison. Taking advantage of this opportunity Artem drew his new silver sword and rushed at the beast slicing off one of its legs. The elder fell and screamed in pain only to meet with another slash of Artems sword killing the elder or at least putting him out of commotion until he was helped by another high vampire to return. As Artem placed the elders head on a large steel hook for trophy's Geralt drank a swallow potion that almost instantly healed him he said well-done Artem you've achieved something no one else in history has ever done Geralt said with a look of pure pride on his face. Let us not forget that without you my friend I would never have been able to do this without you're training and help Artem returned the look of pride to his mentor and tossed Geralt the head take this to the ditches for me will you I'm going to have a look around. Are you sure you may miss out on the glory Artem just nodded and went to search the caves Geralt shouted to him see you on the path old friend. As Artem disappeared into the cave.
While searching the cave Artem cane across enough silver coins and jewelry to buy his own vineyard next to Garalts an early retirement he thought to himself as he chuckled at the thought of a nice worm bed every day to sleep in. while he was in the cave thou he felt his wolf medallion vibrate like never before. As he followed the vibrations to the source of the magical power he came upon an ancient looking skull of a vampire probably form the conjunction of the spheres. As he picked up the skull a beautiful silver amulet with a large ruby fell out of the skulls mouth as he grabbed it as it fell the red gem began to glow blindingly and he then began to fall into a deep sleep. Just before he lose conchesness he hears footsteps not of a beast but of a man and he hears the faint sound of whistling.