Settling a Debt

Rith looked down at Bishop with a wicked smirk. "Whoops." She said, innocently. "My bad."

The man looked furious. "You made the biggest mistake of your life, wench."

Rith looked down at the drop. She could make it if he dropped her… maybe. Rith then acted with lightning fast speed. She punched the man in the face and as he dropped her, she caught the edge of the building the flung herself up and pushed off the side of the building. Rith flipped backwards and pulled out a small hook. She then latched the hook to a clothes line and rode it down.

Bishop cursed aloud and pulled out his bow. He aimed for her arm and shot. It cut her arm but didn't hit. He heard Rith curse and watched her fall over. Bishop then jumped on the line and slid down it, trying hard not to fall off. He jumped off and grabbed the girl by the cuff of the shirt again and held her up.

"You shot me!" she cursed him. "You fucking shot me!"

"Well, girl, you're lucky I missed." Bishop said. "You owe me."

"You're in West Gate, ranger boy." Rith said coolly. "You guard your purse like it's your own life."

"Well this ranger boy just caught a thief, and she better give me back my money."

"I'm broker than some hobo now!" Rith said, she struggled some more before Bishop finally jerked her back quickly then brought her closer.

"Well, you better pay me another way." An evil gleam in his eye and how he stroke her cheek lightly before running his hand down to her collar bone, told Rith what he meant.

"Sorry, but this rose has thorns. You might get cut." Rith looked down at him with a playful smile.

"I think I'll take the chance."

"No you won't!" Rith struggled harder to no avail.

"You stole my gold…"

"Congratulations, you won a damn medal" Rith said, sarcastically.

Bishop dropped the drow and she landed on her toes.

"We'll sort this out somewhere else." Bishop said, looking around him.

"I ain't going no where, ranger boy."

Bishop moved closer, looking her in the eye. "Think again."

With lightning speed he pulled out a spare belt and flipped her around. She tried to fight but the ranger was faster than her. He wrapped the belt around her arms. She gave an oof as she fell on her chest. He then picked her up and put a spare cloth in her mouth, heading for Randy's.

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As Bishop walked into Randy's everything went quiet. Everyone just stared at the man who carried the infamous drow. She looked up at Randy who gave her a wicked look for trying to pin the theft on him. She glared at him and made of note of killing him slowly for turning on her. Bishop closed the door to his room and threw Rith down on the ground. He grabbed the cloth out of her mouth and stood there, with his arms crossed, looking down at her.

"What am I going to do with you?"

"How 'bout having a heart and letting a starved thief go?" Rith batted her eyelashes and smiled at him nicely.

Bishop grinned. "Right, like that will happen."

"Ok how bout I work for you?" Rith looked up at him. "I could make you a fortune."

Bishop thought for a moment, money was nice, especially if he had someone working for him.

There was a knock on the door. Reminding him why he had come here.

"Stay here."

He opened the door and closed it behind him.

There stood a man in his thirties. He was skinny and muscular, his armor shined off the candle light. The man had blonde hair and grey eyes, with two bread braids that he wrapped around his finger. He had a long sword at his belt and a shield on his back, indicating he was a skilled fighter.

"You got my message then?"

"Yah, what were you talking about, greatest treasure in the realms, blah blah blah."

"Yes, well may I come in?"

Bishop shook his head, "Someone is in there." Bishop watched his smile grow, "No it's not a whore." Bishop sighed.

"Very well, we'll talk at my table."

He sat down at a table that was covered in shadow and very quiet. He looked around to see if anyone was listening. "Right, so I came across this chunk of wood," He pulled it out of his bag and slid it across the table. It had symbols and pictures on it that Bishop couldn't really tell what they meant. "I took it to a mage who claimed it was a map to some forgotten temple of the sun elves, you know them right?"

Bishop nodded. "They live in Evermeet, correct?"

The man nodded. "Well, there was a group who once felt that a certain paladin sun elf was a god just because he stopped a revolt from spreading and saved Evermeet, but he soon died of poisoning. Of corse, that's impossible, no one can just become a god but they felt it, so they left Evermeet and set up a temple in this sun elf's honor.

"Well, the other elves felt that it was ridiculous, and demanded that they destroyed and, or, abandoned that temple and come back. But they didn't. So when they got there, they saw piles of gold, more than any oldest dragon's hoard, but when they went to attack the temple and all of its followers vanished into thin air. Now I need you to help me track it down."

Bishop shook his head. "I don't see how I could help at all, it's not like I'm tracking down someone to kill, and the tracks are gone by now. And besides, it's most likely myth."

The warrior shook his head. "It's not, I found an ancient tome from that age, from one the followers, who claims how to make the temple appear."

"How?" Bishop leaned it, this was getting somewhat juicy.

"Elvan blood."

Bishop leaned back. "What?"

"Any elf will do, we just need the blood of an elf, any elf in fact, and there is only one problem."

"What?"

"The whole place is covered in traps and nasty things to get in our way so we just need to find an elf and an experience thief and we're good."

"But wouldn't we have to split the gold?"

The warrior nodded. "Yes, but-"

"I think I got a thief we could use, and an elven one at that."

The warrior nodded. "Go get her."

"No, you follow me." Bishop got up and the warrior followed. Bishop opened his door to his room to see Rith still there, but her hands were undone, and she was about to jump out a window.

"Uhh… This isn't what it looks…" She said plainly.

Bishop grabbed her by the shoulders and put her right in front of the warrior.

"Who's he?" she asked.

"His name is Crist, and he and I got a job for you."

Rith looked up. "Is there gold involved?"

"More than you can carry." Crist smiled at Rith as he expanded his arms out. "But we need a thief."

"Well, if it will set me up for life, I'm in."

The man nodded. "Great, just pack your bags and meet me at the gates..."