"Garland….Garland….Garland…" a voice said calmly… Garland slowly open his eyes and sat up in his bed, remembering a voice, but not sure who it was that was calling him. He got up, and looked out the window and saw some knights down below practicing their swordsmanship in the court yard. He open up a door nearby and took out his armor, piece by piece he put on, unable to shake that voice from his head. He decided to good down and spar against a few of the knights, so his swordsmanship would better although it needed little improvement. On his way down the stairs the voice came again calling his name, then he head a sound from behind him snapping him back to reality. Garland turn around and saw a knight named Ray running towards him
"Garland, I'm glad you're up we have important orders from the king". Ray shouted running towards him "Garland the king needs to see us, now".
"What does the king need" Garland asked.
"I'm not sure, I was told to report to his majesty as soon as you were awake" Ray answered.
"Don't you think you should have been waiting for me outside my room" Garland asked as he walked towards the king's chamber.
"Yes, I guess I should have" Ray answered following Garland. Garland quickly made it to the king's chamber, opened it and walked in, followed by Ray. Garland and Ray kneeled to the king ready to hear his orders.
"Garland, Ray I'm glad you are both here. It seems we have a slightly bandit problem and I would like you two to take care of it" the king stated.
"Very well, your majesty, but do we have any leads as to their whereabouts?" Ray asked
'Yes, people from town have informed my knights that they see bandits going to the chaos shrine." the king explained.
"Yes your majesty" said Garland, standing up with Ray. They turned around and walk away ready to take on the bandits in the chaos shrine.
"Garland I want to make sure know what you up against" The shouted after them
"They are just bandits, as soon as show they will run for their lives" Garland shouted back at the king. Garland heard the King say something, but couldn't make it. As they walked away Garland thought of something, he seemed somewhat disrespectful to his majesty, shouting at him, not caring what he had to say, Garland shook it off and kept going.
"Are you sure we can take care of these bandits, I heard they have killed quite a few of people.' Ray nervously asked.
"You are a knight, act like one" Garland said coldly. They made their way out if the castle and walked towards the town to stock up on supplies. He looked around as the people in town noticing they seemed happy to see them, more than likely happy they were going to stop the bandits. As they walked towards the item shop Garland noticed Ray as slightly shaking.
"Ray, if you don't calm down you will get hurt…or worst" Garland shook his head slightly. Ray just nodded and took a deep breath as they walked in to the item shop.
"We need five potions, a hi-potion…for each of us" Garland said to the man in the shop.
"Oh, Sir Garland, going to stop those bandits, I've lost a lot of supplies because of them" The shop keeper quickly grabbed the potions. "Here you go free of charge"
"Sorry I don't believe in charity" Garland gave him a small sack of gil. Garland gave Ray his share of the potions walking out of shop. As they walk toward the edge of town they heard people give a small cheer to the knights. As they exited the town they saw a few goblins who ran at the sight of them.
"Be careful those goblins have an ambush ready for us" Garland told Ray
"Are you sure" Ray ask, and Garland just nodded. As they got closer to the woods, chains with hooks at the end were tossed at them and they dodged them. Goblins with knifes jumped out at them, Ray grabbed his twin sword and ran at the goblin, dodging and countering each goblin with a quick slash. Garland took two of them out with one swipe of his sword. Garland felt a chain wrap around his arm and a hook bounce off his armor, Garland garbed the chain and threw the goblin at the others. As the goblins got up the one who were still alive ran away, he turned around to see more goblins attacking Ray, he was on the ground chains pinning him to the ground. Garland started to run towards Ray, but a voice started to talk to him.
'Forget about him, take out the bandits and take all the glory, you can do it by yourself." The voice said.
"No!' Garland said to himself and easily slayed a few goblin nearby. Garland cut a few of the chains allowing Ray to get up.
"Ready" Garland asked.
"Any time" Ray replayed. One at a time Ray and Garland killed each of them and just like the other goblins they ran away after only a few were killed.
"I guess you were right, because of my nerve I almost died" Ray said. Garland stood there for a second wondering what that voice was…it almost sounded demonic. Ray patted Garland on the back, snapping him out of his thoughts.
'You ok, you seemed to be worried about something." Ray said.
"It's nothing to worry about, the Chaos Shrine is right around that ticket of tress "Garland said pointing. Ray and Garland quickly rounded the trees and saw the tall shrine in front of them.
"This is it" Ray asked, Garland nodded and walked towards the shrine.