Chapter Two-The beginning of a journey.
It was a sad morning, when telling the town folk that I'm leaving to join the Order. The old blacksmith told me he knew it would happen when he heard of the knights coming to town. He made me a new axe for my journey; he told me he'd forged a special fire stone into it. I told him I'd be back and that would bring it back to him in good shape and thanked him for his kindness and said my goodbyes before leaving. It's going to be a long and dangerous journey; I'm hoping I don't bump into anything too bad on my way.
After what seemed like weeks of traveling and some small and big encounters with monsters and undead I stop for a routine rest. About a week ago I was injured by a rather strong undead who put an arrow in my back, I had to rest for a day or two to let it heal, it was lucky I could reach the wound otherwise it would have gotten infected.
About 3 days ago I had made it to firelink shrine where I had rested for a day. It would seem that someone's been working very hard and cleared away most of the enemies before I had reached some areas. I was now in Sen's Fortress resting near a lit bonfire. A man at fire link shrine had told me a chosen undead has started a journey, that's why I didn't meet much trouble on my journey. Well not much trouble until now.
Before I had found the bonfire, I had gotten into a nasty fight with a chest! As I was exploring the fortress, I had come across a chest. I inspected it with high interest and caution having already fallen into a couple of traps prior. I move to open the chest, but as my hands touch the lid of the chest, it trembles causing me to jump back. As I watch the chest it starts twisting into something horrid. The lid opens slightly, showing rows of rounded teeth, a long tongue creeps out. The chest lifts off the floor revealing long thin black legs and arms. I pull my axe off my hip, holding it tight. The chest creature starts flipping and twisting about, trying to catch me in its mouth. I hit it with my axe between its attacks, rolling away and around it to dodge its jaws. Eventually the creature lays lifeless on the ground, a small yellow glow radiating from its core. I reach down and snatch the object, it's a spear. As I inspect the spear it lets out a crackling noise, it appears to be imbued with lightning. I smile at my find and continue on my way.
After many battles with Serpent soldiers and mages and many near death experiences with traps and giants I find myself growing tired and to make things worse a massive iron golem wielding an axe blocks my path to Anor Londo.
I pull myself off the ground. I'm going to have to do this. I'm probably going to have to rely on my pyromancies to take the iron golem down I don't think my axe will do much damage, although maybe the fire stone will help. I contemplate my options for a while and prepare for battle.
I now stand before the iron golem, he towers over me. With my axe in my right hand and my pyromancer flame ignited in my left hand, I run straight for his feet and try to get behind him. He slams his giant axe into the ground in front of him as I just make it behind him and roll to dodge the force of the attack, pieces of stone flies everywhere. I take my chance to attack and throw a large fire ball at his left leg; it hits him with a loud hiss, his metal leg red where the fire had hit him. He brings his left foot up preparing to stomp it down, I attempt to roll away but the force of his weight hitting the ground sends me flying. I land on my back with only a couple of scrapes and bruising. At this point the golem had turned to face me, I quickly get up, I need to try to stay behind him. As I begin to run towards him he starts raises his hand up, as I reach him he begins bringing his hand down in a fist, I roll through his legs to dodge the attack. His fist hits the ground at full force breaking the stone into pieces.
As he is taking his fist out of the ground I take the opportunity to slash away at his left leg with my axe. It leaves long red slashes across his leg as though the blade was hot. After a couple more slashes and foot stomps the iron golem begins to wobble, I slash away at his left leg again, this causes him to trip and fall over backwards off the narrow platform. I watch in shock as he falls into the deep darkness. Although I appreciate the stroke of luck, I feel cheated, I had expected a long battle with me being victorious, I would have felt strong, but I feel weak and not victorious.
With a shrug and a sigh I turn around, the only way to go is back to the bonfire, there's no other way? I take a look around and notice a mysterious ring of light in the middle of the platform, how did I not notice this before? I walk up to it; it looks hot to the touch. I place my hand over the ring examining it. A loud screech echoes through the air making me jump, I look to the left side of the platform and see a pink coloured winged creature. I hear another screech coming from the other side of the platform coming from another winged creature, a third one holding a long spear appears next to it. I begin to panic as two of them grab me, I close my eyes waiting for the pain of a spear or a claw but there was none, they take off into the air, the third one holding the spear leads them.
I open my eyes to the sight of a distant Anor Londo, surrounded by clouds and mountains, the view was breath taking, one of the most beautiful things I've ever laid my eyes on. It would appear that these bat winged creatures were taking me to Anor Londo. The winged creatures start to lower me down above a stairwell, they hover above the ground before dropping me, I land on my feet with a thud. The winged creatures fly off, disappearing in the clouds. I head off in the direction of the order.