Here's the second chapter, edited as much as I saw fit. Enjoy.


Chapter Two

Disagreement

"Well?" I asked in a strained tone.

The Draenei only continued to sit beside Shade silently and had a smirk fixated on her face. I was about to poison my daggers behind my back when Eva came back to us.

"What seems to be the problem here?" she asked.

To my surprised, she answered Eva in a soft voice that would make anyone she just met immediately trust her. "Nothing is the problem. But your friend here is being very rude to me. Have I done something wrong?"

Eva was totally in her grasp. "No. Of course not," she said as she turned to me, her eyes flaring. "How dare you be so unkind to this customer?'

I blinked. "Uhm, what? How could you fall for her charm so easily? Actually, that doesn't matter. Eva, don't you remember her? That's Vyolet. Her and I got into that huge battle about a year ago?"

She and I were best friends a year ago, with Eva, Syla and Snow as well. But she said something that flared my anger, we fought, she won, and departed from the group.

"When you were still just an apprentice rogue and I was a full-fledged death knight, you mean," she managed to mention under her breath.

At that point I had totally lost reason to be anything but calm and dived for her. Eva and Jon held me back but I still managed to yell, "Well now, I'm a full-fledged rogue so how about you and I have another battle session and see who's victorious this time!"

Vyolet stood up grinning wickedly, "I accept! But the victor will still be the same as it was the first time."

We both stood there in each others' face when an arrow of arcane energy hit the wall from the top of the stairs, dazing all six of us. When I regained consciousness, Snow was walking down the stairs toward us shaking her head in disappointment. "I sit upstairs for 10 minutes and you get into an argument with Vyolet. I really can't ever leave you alone can I, River?"

I looked up in astonishment at Snow, "S-snow, how could you say that? How could you think I started it?"

"Honestly, you did start it. You clearly have no manners for a simple person who walks into an inn," scoffed Vyolet.

I turned around to face Vyolet, my full attention and rage focused on her. "Just one more word out of you, death knight, and you won't be stepping out of this inn… uhhh… well; you just won't be stepping out of this inn uh, conscious!" She was a Death Knight, so she was already dead. What else could I say?

Vyolet chuckled darkly, "My, you aren't the one for insults are you?"

Shade then spoke, "Enough. I can't sit here while you both fight over events that had happened in the past." He got up. "Jon, Anthony, I'll see you both in Dalaran." Shade then left then inn.

I stood there, mortified that my crush left, me being part of the reason, and soon turned, when I could speak, to Vyolet and stared at her pleasantly. "Get out," I ordered firmly, "You have no idea how much you just ruined everything for me."

Vyolet tilted her head to one side curiously, and, to my surprise, bid Eva, Anthony and Jonathin good bye, and then left.

As she was leaving, Syla, a druid with long ocean blue hair and blade markings, was coming in with a few bags. "Now I'm really gonna get it," I thought. Snow hurried to my side and Anthony and Jon headed out so they wouldn't see Syla yelling at me when we told her what happened.

Syla came to us. She glanced at the untouched food on the table, the arrow in the wall, the two humans hurrying to get out behind her, and the cleared out inn since most of the people eating had left as quickly as they could at the sight of me and Vyolet's predicament, then locked her gaze on us. "Some serious crap must have happened while I was gone, huh?" she asked. Snow, Eva and I nodded dismally.

Syla sat down, "Okay, go ahead and tell me what happened." I sat down with Snow and Eva.

"Vyolet came here," I began angrily.

Syla looked thoughtful for a minute and she grinned. "Hey, she used to hang out with us a lot. And then, you and her…" Syla's grin dropped into a frown. "You fought with her because she joked about being able to beat you in a battle, since you were still in training." She sighed. "You didn't really take that as a joke."

I sighed. "I guess I didn't."

"So, Vyolet came here today?" Syla inquired.

I nodded. "She sat by Shade since it was last free seat at that table. I asked her why she came, and she didn't answer. After that, Eva came over and asked what the problem was and Vyolet used her stupid charm to foil her; until I reminded her who Vyolet was."

"Well, she was one of our best friends. And then you guys fought and she parted ways with us after she won," Eva mentioned.

I nodded again. "I guess she came here just to mess with me. She had a bit of a playful expression so she wasn't really meaning to start trouble. But it still pissed me off."

Snow spoke up then. "It was starting to get a little out of hand so I shot an arrow in the wall to daze them and calm them down. It barely worked."

Syla looked around to inn again. It was just us and Chef Kettleblack here since everyone else had left. Then she turned to us and I knew she was about to let us have it.