It's been a while since I've written anything, but I decided to get back into it and see if I could write something people would like.
It was a cool fall morning and Echo opened her eye and blinked a few times and looked around the forest, lowering the magic barrier she had put around herself the night before.
"That was the worst nights sleep I've had in a long time, then again I guess the ground doesn't make a great mattress" she thought to herself
She stood up and stretched out her legs, she just very tall, but all of her height was in her legs. She grabbed a comb out of her bag and brushed her long brown hair. She checked her bag to make sure her fire rod was in easy reach in case she needed it, hoping she wouldn't. Echo then took her pendent out and put it around her neck and looked at it, as she started to walk down the path though the forest.
It was a long, blue, pendent with weird indentions in it, and it made of some kind of metal that was not easy to find. Some people thought the metal was lost a long time ago and the only amount that was left was her pendent and 4 others, each in a different color. She didn't know who had the other four, but she didn't really care, the only thing she knew was the pendent was the only thing she had left of her parents. She was give the pendent a few weeks before her village was destroyed by bandits, her father was kill and her mother was taken. Her mother hid her before the bandits took her away. That's why she was on her journey to find her mother, and maybe make the bandits pay.
In the next town there was a guild hiring people to fight off bandits and other unwanted visitors. Monster had started to act very hostile towards humans lately, most didn't attack human with out being provoked before, but now anything would set them off.
Echo looked down at her pendent as she entered the new town because she though it glow for a second.
"What a silly thought, why would it be glowing" she had a little chuckle and walk around looking for the guild.
It didn't take long to find, there were signs all over the town tell people where it was and how to sign up.
"They must be very low on members with all of this promotion going on" she thought to herself, yet was surprised when she walked in and it was filled with a lot of people, laughing, drink, and telling people stories about their latest job.
She look around and saw a small line of young adventures, there were three, one was a back mage, easy to spot with the pointed yellow hat most of the wore, she wasn't to fond of black mages, because their eyes always seem to sparkle or glow and it made her uneasy. In front of him was a man in light clothing and he looked very strong, she thought he looked like a monk of some sort. The woman in front of the line was singing a piece of paper, she wore a yellow and green clothing with a yellow headband, she stood up and pick up her bow and arrows and walk away. She looks like a hunter of some sort, but wearing clothes like that would make her easy to spot, so animals would be able to see her easily.
She got behind the black mage as the monk was starting to sign up. She looked to her left and saw a lot of papers on the wall with different pictures of monster and humans, she guessed to be bandits
"There are a lot of papers, I though with as many members as they have they should be able to take care of jobs easily and quickly, or maybe there were just so many problems in the area they got jobs so fast they couldn't complete them quickly. It would explain why they wanted new members so much."
Echo was in deep thought, thinking about how dangerous the area was, she was snapped out of it by a man yelling at her. She look towards the voice and she notice the monk and black mage were gone, and she was next in line. She walked up to the counter, and she man gave a sheet of paper without saying a word. Echo looked at the paper, and it had spaces for her name age and few other things. Echo wrote down at the info he wanted, and held it up to him. He took a look at the paper and put in a drawer
"Echo huh" the man said in a gruff voice
"We don't have many people skilled in magic around here, nice to have you. Show up tomorrow morning at ten for you first mission" he said handing her a badge.
Echo nodded, and quickly walked out of the guild feeling a little uneasy inside. She walked into the inn which was right next door, and walked up to the woman running the inn.
"Do you have any rooms open?" Echo asked hoping she wouldn't have to sleep on the ground that night.
The woman nodded" I have two small rooms left".
Echo sighed with relief and signed in and start to reach for her gil pouch, but the woman stopped her noticing her badge.
"Guild member can stay here for free" she explained as she handed her a key.
Echo smiles and thanked her as she headed up the stairs, her room was the first door up the stairs. She sat on her bed ready for her first job the next morning.
I hope you enjoy chapter 1, chapter 2 will be up within a week hopefully.