Chapter Two
"Will I need to pack anything?"Creeb asked her uncle "Nope. All you will need is your sword and the clothes on your back! You'll acquire everything you need on your journey." "Uncle are you sure I'm ready for this? I mean I can't really do anything alone without breaking out in a cold sweat!" "I know your nervous Creeb. I would consider you as a fool if you weren't. But you don't have to worry about being alone. Many people start training for the war every day! You'll make friends in no-time! No matter what happens you'll never be alone. If your mind fails go straight to your heart. It will never fail you Creeb, I'm going to leave you with a good friend of mine, Sten Stoutarm in Coldridge. He will start you off on your journey." "I take it that's where we're heading?" "Yes"
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" said a bearded dwarf walking towards Creeb and her uncle. "One talented gnome when she has a weapon in her hand as promised" Vubur said whilst showcasing Creeb to his old friend. Creeb blushed while the dwarf stared at her inspecting then suddenly changing an emotionless mouth to a smile "Nice to see you again Vubur" the dwarf said as he bear hugged his old friend "It's been a long time Sten!" "I know. The war with the Lich king has me on my toes… constantly!" Sten then took a big breath in and shook himself out of the depressing statement he just stated and changed the subject to Creeb. "So this is the famous lady warrior Thakola's daughter! Well I might not know if what Vubur says about you being as good as your mother with a sword is true. But I defiantly know that you're her daughter. You're almost like a clone! The only problem is that looks can't kill. I can take it from here now Vubur. Take care of yourself old friend." Sten said as he shook his friends hand "You too. Come visit me soon Creeb! It will be nice having another one of our good talks over lunch again." Vubur said as he was tearing up at the thought that this could be the last time he sees his little niece. "I will Uncle I promise; I promise I won't fail you. The two departing family members then gave each other one last big hug and said their goodbyes then walked their separate ways.
"Don't be nervous Creeb! We aren't going to send you straight into the frontline. We'll just start you off like everyone else. I'm your commander, so that means: for as long as you stay in Dun Morogh you can report to me about anything. Think of me as a fairy godfather. Come with me and I'll take you to your group members. They're the ones you'll start off with till you can go your own ways. This group that you're in is pretty good but you have an odd character in the group called Shortstufz. He's very enthusiastic! To say the least! But you always get at least one odd character in these groups. I'm sure he's lots of fun once you get to know him" Creeb just nodded in silence. All this talk about the war and her fighting group were making her ill.
Sten lead Creeb to a small group of Gnome and Dwarfs just mucking around with each other. The Dwarf boys were having sword fights where as the girls were doing some magical stuff that just confused Creeb. "Alright you lot settle down" Sten called out "Where's Shortstufz gone to?" asked Sten "He had to fix something to do with his registration, I think" said one of the Gnomes "Well he will just have to catch up later then. I have another last minute group member for you all. Everyone this is Creeb Nightland! Daughter of Lady Warrior Thakola Nightland." The whole group made accepting noises like oh's and are's fascinated by the famous female warriors mother and herself. "DON'T LEAVE YET! I'M COMING!" yelled a voice from behind Creeb. The group started cracking up laughing at the clumsy running Dwarf heading in there direction. The Dwarf stopped running when he reached the group huffing and puffing. "Sorry I'm late sir *puffing* had a mishap with the registrations." The dwarf said as he bent down leaning against his knees. "That's alright Shortstufz." Shortstufz then turned his head from Sten to Creeb "Hello, I'm Shortstufz!" the dwarf boomed out proudly as he held out his hand in greetings. "Creeb" said in reply to the greeting as she shook his hand. "Shortstufz will be the leader of the group, Creeb" Sten stated "Well you guys start getting to know each other and when you all know one another come back to me and we can get started.
"So, Creeb, welcome to the group. This guy next to me is Nagitrah; he's a Rogue and then we have these two girls who are Asereht and Medainer their both Warlocks." Shortstufz said as he pointed to the two other Gnomes. "So tell us a little bit about yourself Creeb." Creeb was very shy and spoke in a very soft voice "Well I don't really know who my parents were they died a few moments after I was born. Ever since then I've been living with my Uncle, he's a hunter, so he couldn't teach me much but he did what he could. That's pretty much my life up to this point in time."
About an hour later the group turned up to start their training with Sten. "There isn't much you need to know really. The way you're going to make it through this war is basically doing quests for people and they will give you something in return. The most important thing that you will gain is reputation with that town/village. The more reputation you build the more that town/village will trust you. They will also give you some money for your efforts." Sten explained "So your first quest is to bring me some tough wolf meat from those wolves over there I'm in need for a lot of it so I'm going to need eight slices from each of you. The wolves will not attack you at first but once they are hit they will defend their lives just like you will. In exchange for the meat I will give you a nice pain of gloves for each of you. I find that it's much easier holding a sword when my fingers are not bitten from frostbite!" Sten insisted "Ok group, Lets move out the wolves are just west from here" Shortstufz commanded "We know Shorty, we can see them!" Nagitrah said sarcastically. The group laughed. Creeb was starting to get used to the idea of having this group by her side through the starting steps of her life journey. The laughter took her mind off the fact that they had to kill eight wolves and gut them.
The wolves didn't put up much of a fight…they didn't get a chance once Creeb made the first move as tank the rest of the group surrounded the wolves one by one and put them out of their misery. The group was very impressed with Creeb. She felt happy, even with her Uncle not beside her, she knew she was safe. Before she even knew it they all had eight tough wolf meat slices ready to hand in.
"Wow that was quick!" Sten said in surprise "Very good. Here you go a selection of gloves as promised. Creeb and Shortstufz you guys can choose any because you're a Paladin and Warrior. But for the Warlocks you can only where cloth. Nagitrah you can either choose leather or cloth." Once they got their hands on their gloves the straight away put them on and started rubbing their hands together to keep their hands warm.