My first Guild Wars story. Just thought I'd give a shot at writing again, so I decided to base it off of my current obsession. I simply love the Guild Wars universe, and hope that this writing doesn't kill it. This first chapter is simply an idea that came into my head suddenly, and I just wrote it down. I'm aware that it's not that great, but it'll get better, I promise.

Anyways, this will be a little project I'll do on the side of things. I'll try to be constant with the updates. This is just going to be a collection of one-shots with various characters.

-Disclaimer: I own nothing. The only items I own are the names and personalities of the characters in this story.

Sweeping his brown hair from his eyes, he set his sights on his target. A devourer. A poisonous creature that took the life of his dear companion, Muffins. Since then, he had an intense hatred for the creatures, and so he hunted them.

Scanning the environment quickly, his dark green mask that covered the lower half of his face making his gaze more piercing, he planned out his pattern of attack. If it was just this lone devourer, then this would be easy. Although he had a very long string of bad luck when he decided it was alright to attack a lone scorpion-like creature when several other like creatures, much larger, revealed themselves from their burrowed hiding spots.

Notching his arrow, he pulled the string back, getting ready for his aim, a poisonous film covering the head of the arrow. Pulling the string as far as it would allow, Sai Xu took aim at the devourer.

But then he heard a light whine, a bark, and the next thing he knew, his wolf pet was racing towards the devourer, excitement in its leaps.

"No, Titan!" Sai yelled to his affectionately named pet. But it was too late. Titan's curiosity had gotten the best of him, and he was happily nipping at the creatures small legs. The devourer seemed to dislike that, and brought down its stinger towards the wolf's leg. Titan yelped at the movement and jumped away, but couldn't escape a wound from the angry creature.

Sighing, Sai Xu took aim and released the arrow, hitting the devourer head-on. Sai assumed the creature dead and stood up from his hiding spot, pacing towards the whimpering Titan.

"You shouldn't do that. You know that the devourers don't like their legs gnawed." He scolded the wolf as he placed a hand over the wound. Uttering a few words under his breath, a light glow emanated from his hand, and the wound was healed.

Relieved from the pain, the wolf's enthusiasm from earlier returned as he paced around his master a couple of times, panting happily, waiting for a command. Sai looked at Titan for a moment before letting out a light sigh. Looking in the distance, he saw a sturdy looking chest. Making a quick notion to it, he spoke to Titan.

"Retrieve." And he was off. Smiling lightly at the pet's energy, he leaned down to pluck his arrow from the creature. As grotesque as it was, he wanted to keep as many arrows as he could. It saved the work of making more arrows frequently. Quickly dousing it in water from his pack, he cleaned off the blood and put the arrow back into his quiver.

"The things I do for fun..." He said in slight sarcasm to his own nature. Yes, he was wanting to do something to occupy his time, but he didn't really enjoy the company of others who didn't know what they were doing. Most of the people who wanted to group up mostly consisted of new adventurers wanting to go through perilous places to maybe find a town that would sell them high-quality armor and much better weapons than what the town of Ascalon offered. He did group with them once, but was disappointed that they didn't even know how to effectively combat, and was mostly relied on. He couldn't remember what happened with them. He remembered going to Piken Square, then never saw them again.

Then there were the strictly business others. They always had one goal in mind, and kept it professional. Often, others were excluded from this. They always looked through your battle equipment and mostly discluded those that didn't have a good enough strategic 'build', as they call it.

And of course, there were henchmen. If he ever did group up, it would be with that group. When told to go to a point, they go to that point. If they were told to post in the middle of a rather large group of angry Charr, they post themselves in the middle of a large group of angry Charr. Although to him, it wasn't much better. They always demanded pay. Coming across a plate of platinum, he was immediately confronted with three hands demanding equal share.

On top of that, they weren't very smart, and sometimes greedy. Sai remembers when he had come across a rare find: a vial of black dye that fell out of the pack of a renegade necromancer when we defeated him. He had a look of amazement on his face, but was quickly changed when the burly swordsman jumped on top of it, promptly yelling 'Mine!' Sai was more than unhappy when he saw that the man had crushed the vial, its valuable liquid going to waist on the dirt ground.

He was broken from his thoughts when he heard a scraping sound near his feet. Looking up, he saw Titan, dragging the chest by it's chains, a light growl in the wolf's throat, seeming as if he was trying to intimidate the chest into moving faster. Sai smiled and couldn't help but laugh a bit.

"Good wolf." He said to Titan, lightly scratching the pet's ears. Titan let out a gleeful bark. Reaching back into one of his belt pouches, Sai pulled out a key with a similar design to the lock on the chest. He pushed the key in and turned it. He winced at the sound of the key breaking within the lock. 'There goes another key.' He thought. Lifting its lid, Sai looked over the contents, and his face fell.

Inside the chest lied a piece of parchment. Given, it was quite a lucky find. Although Sai could pretty much see the decline of value, looking over the crude and rather explicit drawing on it. In black ink.

Sai sighed at his luck again, and simply closed the chest, wrapping the chains around it for the next unfortunate individual who got excited for an unguarded chest.

"Let's go, Titan." Sai said to said wolf. Understanding, the wolf began to trot towards a strangely shaped rock.

"Skraa!" Sai immediately turned to the not-so-dead devourer, which was currently clutching itself to his leg, ready to bring it's stinger down on him. Quickly thinking, Sai notched the same arrow and released it into the creature's skull. It became motionless after a few twitches, and Sai was able to pull his leg free from its grip.

"Alright, I'll let you keep that one." He said, not bothering to retrieve the arrow. He sighed at the further loss.

Sai Xu has earned the title "Cursed by Fate". The Gods have extended their blessings.

So there you have it. I know it's not the best, but it's what I can do at the moment. Expect more from me! And remember: If you like it, then review! Reviews heighten my self-esteem in writing and may most likely cause a drastic improvement in my writings. Thank you!

-AYZE