The first meeting
Sun's first light fell upon Ascalon. Prince Rurik stumbled up from his bed as usual.
"Servant! Bring me my armor!" He yelled After a while Rurik heard a knock from the door and asked the servant to come in. With the help of the servant he got into his armor, after which he went to the dining hall to get some breakfast.
After the breakfast he went to the tactitian to see how the war against charr is going.
"The wall is still keeping the charr out. There's no way they could get through, your highness." He was answered "But if we don't so anything about it, someday they will break through. King Adelbern doesn't look far enough.
Maybe the war is going well on our side now, and the wall is keeping them out, but one day, I'll promise you, they'll get through."
"Maybe so, but the king ordered that we are not to attack them, your highness."
Rurik lost his temper after he heard that the tactician mentioned Ruriks father and furiously yelled back at the tactiocian "Do we have to sacrifice all our people just because the king ordered so! Would you kill innocent bystanders just because the king ordered you to! Are as blind as Adelbern! The Charr are getting stronger by the second and all we do is sit here and watch as they slowly breach the wall and massacre our people!"
The tactician saw Rurik's anger and nervously moved his legs around for a while, until he aswered.
"But we can't just go against the kings ord..."
"ORDERS! What good does it do to just wait until they're stronger than we are! We MUST act!"
Rurik heard his fathers, King Adelberns, voice from behind "But if we act we might lose all that we have achieved. Would that be good for you then?" Adelbern answered Rurik calmy.
"If we DON'T act we will lose everything, Adelbern" Rurik was still angry and couldn't stand hearing his father saying those things "Even though you are my son, you still will have to call me king. And the wall is impenetrable. The Charr will never breach it."
Rurik was so furious that he had to storm out the room without saying a word back, or he would have completely lose it.
"I shouldn't have lost my temper back there. I am the prince of Ascalon after all." Rurik calmed himself.
He sat alone on a rock just outside Ascalon city. He looked around and as much as he wanted to protect everything he saw around him, he couldn't but feel sad to think that someday the Charr will come and take everything from him. As he was falling deeper into his dark thoughts, he heard a soft and calming voice, which sounded quite familiar "I see that you are conserned about something, my son. May I know what weights your mind on this beautiful day?"
Rurik glanced up to see his friend, brother Mhenlo, standing a few meters away wearing his usual white robes with blue details. His presence somehow calmed Rurik.
"My father doesn't understand the power of Charr. He won't believe that they will someday be able to breach the wall and attack Ascalon." Rurik sighed in desperation.
"I'm not much of a tactician myself, but I can tell you that if you follow your heart then you're doing the right thing and you shouldn't give up. Don't give up and pray and your soul will be given peace."
Mhenlos word seemed to have an effect on Rurik as he brightened up immediately and stood up.
"Thank you, Mhenlo. I shouldn't give up no matter what. Even if it means my death, I won't give up. Now, I have business to attend to. You should also prepare yourself. One day the Charr will come and we won't be able to stop them."
"Well then, I bid you farewell and I will pray for your safety, my friend" Mhenlo waved him goodbye.
Rurik almost ran back to the castle in exitement. He felt that finally, today, he'll be able to strike back. He won't be scared by his father this time. As Mhenlo said, he should follow his heart and he'll do the right thing. The guard of the castle saluted him as he passed the gates.
"Welcome back, your highness."
Rurik completely ignored him and went in. As soon as he got in the castle he yelled as hard as he could "Servant! Tell the general to meet me in the dining hall!" and ran to the dining hall to wait for the general.
After some time had passed and Rurik had thought about all the possible ways to execute his plan, the general arrived looking very conserned.
"You called for me, your highness. Is something wrong?" The general asked "Nothing at all. Actually I'm feeling very energetic right now. I called you here to discuss about my plan." Rurik talked as fast as he could in exitement "May I inquire what this plan might be, your highness?" The generals consern changed to awe.
"I want to go and spy on the Charr!" Rurik yelled, still being overly exited.
"I want to see what the Charr are planning against us, for they haven't given us any real threat for a while.
So, I thought that if they are planning something, which they most likely are, we would be able to stop them in time and preserve the peace in Ascalon."
The general was a little doubtful about the plan "I know that you are the prince of Ascalon, but I'm not sure if it's wise to go against the will of king, your highness. Didn't king Adelbern say that no-one is allowed in the lands of Charr?"
"I know, I know... I don't care what my father says about the plan, and still, isn't it just harmless spying?"
"Well, I could spare a few soldiers. Just don't tell the king that I gave them to you. I don't want to risk my career because of this." The general answered a little anxiously.
"I won't. I promise. Have them wait for me at the gate in two hours."
"Roger that. I wish you the best of luck, your highness." The general said as he turned to leave the room.
Prince Rurik was walking to the gate as he looked around to see the landscape which was right out from a fairy tale. As he looked all the hills and plains of Ascalon, he started to think himself that nothing could ever hurt this land. He walked towards the gate in trance. He snapped out of his trance as he heard some voices from the direction of the gate.
"Oh, look everybody! The prince is finally coming!" A weird girl yelled to other people of the party.
"It seems that you're correct, Cynn. This is the first time, I assume." Someone taunted back.
Prince Rurik stopped for a moment. He looked at this girl, which was just called Cynn, so Rurik assumed that this was her name. She had blue robes and a staff on her right hand. She also had two buns on top of her head and she looked quite attractive.
"Hahaha. How funny you are, Eve." Cynn replied to the taunt.
Rurik looked at the other girl. Eve, who had brown heavy robes with some armouring on them and white short hair.
This girl seemed to carry a staff on her right hand as well.
"Calm down, you two." Said brother Mhenlo who sat on the grass next to them.
Rurik was amazed to see Mhenlo here. He thought that Mhenlo would be against fighting.
"Good day, everyone! I hope you didn't have to wait too long." Rurik greeted others cheerfully as he knew he'd be able to go and at least spy on the Charr.
"It wasn't too long" Answered a tall man, who was wearing black pants, blue shirt and blue cloak over the shirt.
He also had awful lot of leather straps around him and a bow and arrows tied to his back.
"My name is Aidan and I'm a ranger. It's nice to finally meet you prince Rurik."
"It is nice to meet you as well, Aidan. Now, if you wouldn't mind, we could introduce each other. I am Rurik, the prince of Ascalon and son of the king Adelbern." Rurik introduced himself while shaking hands with Aidan.
"My name is Cynn and I'm a elementalist." Cynn was the first to answer.
"I'm Devona. Warrior. Nice to meet you." Answered a huge all around armoured girl, who was carrying a rather large hammer. She looked like she was ready to kill prince Rurik that second, while she was looking at Rurik behind her long, blond hair.
"I'm Eve. And I'm a necromancer. You don't want to make me your enemy." Eve said while grinning at Rurik and taking his attention away from Devona.
Finally, brother Mhenlo introduced himself, wearing the same old robe.
"And I'm brother Mhenlo. A monk, in case you happened to forget."
"It is nice to see you again Mhenlo. But I never thought that I'd see you going to a fight." Rurik said awaiting curiously for Mhenlos answer.
"I don't want to fight with my friends, but I'll do my part in keeping my home safe." Mhenlo gave Rurik a big smile. Rurik felt more at ease after seeing Mhenlo smiling.
"Well then. Aidan, Cynn, Devona, Eve and Mhenlo. Let's get going." Rurik said while trying to remember everyones names.
"Finally..." Cynn said sharply as they all started to walk towards the gate.
Author's notes:
Well, I finally decided to do a story of my own. It'll probably go on forever, but hopefully it'll be intresting enough for you to read it all the way through. There's going to be a lot of chapters. I'm not too sure about the personalities though. Hopefully they'll be "close enough". That said, enjoy! Oh, and all characters and stuff are made up by ArenaNet. I just made the story.