Chapter 2: Undiscovered Mystery

I woke first thing to the sunbeam to my face. I rubbed my eyes and sat up in bed. I stood up and stretched out my body and stretched my tail. I walked over to the rack and took my leathers and put them on and my boots and walked out of the room. I walked down the hallway and saw Elanee come out of the room. "Hey Elanee how are-"

She jumped and gave a little squeak "God's, don't sneak on me like that Veltan."

I looked at her with a smile "Did I scare you Elanee."

She looked at me and said "Yeah...Don't let it happen again." and walked off towards the mess room. Then I heard foot steps behind me and I turned just to see Neeshka coming out of her room.

"Morning Sis."

She looked up at me after she rubbed her eyes and said with a smile "Morning brother." and walked also to the mess hall. I followed and began to wonder was it her or Elanee that kissed me last night.

I than met up with everyone in the room and saw Khelgar had cleaned of four plates already, and Elanee went to sit at the table and started to make potions out of the herbs she had found. Neeshka is by the fire just standing. I walked towards Elanee and sat down in the chair and said to her "you know, I learned a few from my father how to speak a little Elven and wanted to know if you can to?"

She looked up with a gin and set her tools down and said "Mai o sol o tal mael tia jhalendri? (So you think you can speak my language)?"

I looked at her and said "Okay, maybe not that much."

She smiled at me and picked back up her tools and went back to working on the potion. I stood up and walked over towards Neeshka. I wanted to speak to her in Demonic to see also she can understand me. I stood by her and said "Za, qwos oly uai kaefr? (So, what are you doing)?"

she looked over at me and said not a word. Then she patted me on the back with her tail and said "Sorry, I don't speak much of that language Veltan."

"Why not? Did you learn it or did you not care?"

She than shrugged and said "I just don't know much."

I than began to tease her with Demonic language since she couldn't understand me, "e nfaq es qoz uai qwa nezzyk ty dozs ferws (I know it was you who kissed me last night)."

she than pulled my tail and I yelled "Ow, that's very sensitive." then I pulled hers and she jumped with a squeak "Hey that's not nice."

I got a little closer and said "so, was it you?"

She didn't answer. So I walked away and went towards the door and said "so, who coming with me to the Watch to claim my reward and then figure out what were going to do?"

Elanee, Neeshka, and Khelgar came over towards me and I said "Good. Now let's go."

We walked towards The Watch building where I was going to claim my reward from Cormick. When we arrived inside the building, I saw that he and some other Watchmen were talking and I know not what they were talking about. I walked up to Marshal Cormick and said "I am here to claim my reward from Fort Locke."

Cormick turned and looked at me and said "Ah, of course Veltan, here you are, as promised." he handed me three hundred gold and I put it into my pouch.

I sighed and said "is it possible that you can get me into Blacklake District?"

Cormick shrugged and gave a nod "No, I'm afraid that I can't let anyone in nor out of the district."

I thought for a moment and said "how about I help around the docks? Will that get me in?"

Cormick shrugged and said "It's a start. Here's your watchmen cape to notify that you are one of us and I need you to sign here."

I took the cape and put it into my pack and sign the papers he handed me. Then Cormick handed me my first assignment. "Welcome aboard."

After days of work, and The Watch building burned down, and running into one of Leldon's men trying to kill Neeshka. I soon began working for Captain Brelaina and her assignments I finally heard about the Luskans and began to wonder who they were. Why they come here now? The assignment was to investigate the Sea Ghost ship and ask why they are here.

I began walking back to the docks when Neeshka said "Hey, why don't we go to Leldon's house and get my coin back?"

I stopped and began to wonder, well, this can test my true skill of being rouge. I turned around with a smile, "Sure, this should be fun."

she walked towards me and gave me a hug and said "I won't let you down."

we walked back towards Leldon's house and pick locked his door and stepped inside. His house was full of junk and expensive things. I turned to say "Okay, here's what were going to do. Khelgar and Elanee, you two stay here. Neeshka and I will go get the coin without them knowing were here."

Khelgar said with a shrug "Fine, you two love birds go and get that blasted coin."

Elanee didn't say a word, but she nodded.

Neeshka and I jumped on the ledge of the ceiling and began walking slowly to get the coin. I saw two guards standing at the door way. I looked at Neeshka and nodded. We both hanged off our tail from the log that was going across from one side to the next and grabbed there heads and slit there throats. Then we pulled our selves up and only to see two more coming this way. I than threw both of my daggers at them both and one of the daggers hit the man on the left in the head, and the other in the chest. I ran over and picked them up and got back onto the ledge. We got past the second door and saw four guards. I turned to Neeshka and I said "this will be tricky, you will need to take out the two by the table and I will take the ones in front of the door."

she looked at me and nodded. I was hanging off of my tail on the log that was going across from one end to the next and Neeshka was over behind the two over at the table. I waited for her to kill them both. She took her daggers and stabbed them both and I took mine out and stabbed the two in front of the door in the back of there head. I jumped down and wiped my blade and said "Perfect."

Then we rushed to the door that had her coin. Neeshka then said "Hold on, Leldon always have doors rigged. Give me a minute to disable this-"

I went up to the door and kicked it open. She looked at me with a smirk and said "or you can do that, but you might have woke up Leldon since that was a noise trap."

I shrugged and said "oh well, now let's get that coin and get the hells out of here."

She nodded and walked over to the chest and opened it. Took the coin and the gold he had. Neeshka got out a piece of paper and began to write something. "We don't have time for this." I said with a sigh.

"Hold on, I want to prove that I'm better than he his and how I- we got past his guards and traps."

She than placed it on top of the chest and we made a break for it.

When we got out of the house Neeshka, with excitement, said "Yay, we got the coin back and it's thanks to you Veltan." she came over and gave me a big hug and a small kiss on the cheek. Aster she let go of me I looked over at Elanee and Khelgar. There eyes were big.

Then Elanee said "So, uhhh, are we going to investigate the ship yet?"

I looked over at her and shrugged "Yeah, I guess so."

We walked to the docks to investigate the ship that arrived in Neverwinter. When I saw the ship, it was huge. Then I saw eight guards in front of it. I walked up to one of them and said "do you have business to be here in Neverwinter?"

The guard looked at me and said "no, but we have the right to be here. When we want and where we want."

I said to them with a tone "if you have no business here, I expect you leave now or I will make you regret it."

The guard turned to his men and said "let's kill these guys. Including the demon here."

I sighed and said "well, here we go." when the guard went to look back at me, I took out my dagger and stabbed it into his throat. I looked at the others and said with a smile "Come get me if you can."

they came charging at us and I said "Elanee, start casting something quick, Neeshka and I will attack from behind them. Khelgar, go ahead and crack some skulls open."

Elanee began to cast Entangle to hold them in place while Khelgar went ahead and took his axe out and smashed one of them in the stomach and tripped him and smashed his skull. Neeshka slid under one of the guards to dodge his attack and stabbed him in the back. I for one, tripped one of them and went behind him and lifted his head, put my dagger under his neck and slit his throat. Elanee's pet badger ran up to one and frenzied one of them fiercely. I thought to myself, I will never want to make that badger angry at me. I saw a guard charging at me with a sword. He swung his sword at me, and only to dodge some of the blow, I was cut on the stomach. I lied on the ground looking down. Then I looked up at him as he lifted his sword, then stopped. Neeshka stabbed him in the back, then took her other dagger, and put it on his chest and pushed in. I looked at her in pain and said "Thank you."

She held out her hand and I grabbed it and she said "No problem, it's what friends do right?"

I nodded a little only to see a man in a robe get off the ship. I held on to my stomach only to feel a burn within me and I know not what it was. I felt like my hand was on fire. He than began to talk. "I see you have killed all of my guards, but I won't be that easy to get to." then I saw more of the guards jump off the ship and they were bigger.

I sighed and said "Eh? You gonna need more guys than one. Two. Three. Four. Five guys to take us down."

They all began to charge at us. Elanee, Khelgar, and Neeshka got in front of me to guard. "Here, let me try to heal you. Khelgar and Neeshka, go fight them off." Elanee bent down and held my hand and took her other hand and placed it on my stomach only to see there was no wound. She looked back at me and said "There's no wound. How did you-."

I stood up while looking down and lifted my hand with a dagger in it and set it on fire. Then lifted my other hand that also had a dagger and set it on fire. I turned the blades backward and at lighting speed, I charged at the man in the robes. I ran by him only to stab him in the chest, then I took the other blade and stabbed it on his back, then took out my blade from his chest and held it in front of his throat and stabbed it into him. I let go of him and he fell down and I looked at the guards that were attacking Neeshka and Khelgar and ran after them stabbing them both in the back and pulled up cutting them from the lower back to the chest.

I than began to pass out and fall over only to hear Neeshka say "Veltan!"

Khelgar saying "Are you alright lad?"

Elanee running towards me and saying "let's get him back to the tavern quick."

I woke up the next day in my bed and my head hurting. I looked at my hands only to see that there a little burnt. Then I looked back at my tail because it hurt to, as to see that it had a cut on it. I leaned over out of bed and fell to the floor. My legs hurt and I can barley move. "My God's, what the hells happened?" I said to myself. Then I tried standing up again only to walk slowly to the door. Before I can put my hand on the handle, I saw Duncan standing there and saying out of curiosity "what happened lad? I saw Neeshka and Elanee carrying you in and putting you into bed and Khelgar coming towards me and telling what happened. I didn't want to hear what Khelgar had to say, but I want to hear from you."

I looked at him while I was in pain and said "I don't know, when I was cut, Elanee came over to heal me and my wound was healed, then I saw my hands on fire along with the blade, and I ran at lighting speed at the man in a robe and killing him quickly, then I passed out."

"Well lad, I don't know what happened to you or what is becoming of you, but you have a lot of mysteries about you." as he patted me on the shoulder and walked back to the mess hall. When I walked towards the rack to get my towel, I went down the hall and went inside the bathroom, stripped down, and got into the tub to relax a bit. I began saying to myself "what was that power that I felt within me? Is there something about me or what." then I heard foot steps above me. I looked up only to see Neeshka was standing on top of the ledge. I looked at her and smiled "See anything you like Sis?"

She looked at me with a smirk and said "Oh, please Veltan. I seen it all."

I used my tail to pick up the towel off of the ground and wrapped it around me and said "Get down from there. I want to show you something."

She jumped down a walked slowly towards me. I held up my hand and said "lock your hand within mine."

"why? Are you going to try something on me?" she said nervously

"just do it Sis." I said back. She put her hand and I closed my hand and I got close to her and said in her ear "I know it was you. And I want to say, this." I than kissed her on the cheek and hugged her. She put her other arm around me and hugged back.

She than said nervously "How did you know it was me?"

I than let go of her, smiled, and said "Because, your tail hit my tail when you kissed me on the head that night.

She began to blush a little. Then I said "I need to get dress Sis."

"Oh, umm, okay." she stepped over and I went towards the door, opened it, and walked towards my room.

After a while I came out to the mess hall and saw Neeshka and Khelgar at the bar talking and Qara saying something to them as she was cleaning the tables. I looked over at Elanee as she was staring at me, waiting for me to go over there and talk. I walked over towards her and said "something is troubling you Elanee, what's wrong?"

She held out her hand with a potion and said "this is for you, you know, when you get into that rage again."

I took it, examined it and said with a grin "What do you know about this...Rage?"

She shrugged and said "Not much, only to go into a rage is to feel pain. But that's all I know. Of course, your a demon and suppose to know this."

I looked at her with grief and said "was that a shot at me?"

she laughed a little and said "not in an offensive way mind you."

I smiled at her, got up out of the chair and said "Thanks for this potion. I will certainly use it."

She nodded and went back to work making potions. I then remembered that I need to report back to Captain Brelaina. I walked towards the door and said "Who's com-." then I felt the pain again. It wasn't my hand, it was my chest. I gripped on my chest tightly and looked up only to see Elanee rushing over holding me up and saying "Are you alright Veltan?"

I said to her while still holding my chest until the pain was gone "Yes...I'm fine. Is anyone going to go with me to report back to the Captain?"

Elanee of course said "Yes."

Khelgar and Neeshka came walking over and Qara stayed.

I then said "Alright, let's go."