"Perry! Oh, it's so good to see you again!" Pelanor exclaimed, happy to see another familiar face
"Who are you? And that's not my name! I-" The crestfallen warrior retorted. "Have no name, your just simply crestfallen, I know." Pelanor finished.
"Oscar and I are on the undead quest. The one with the bells of awakening. Care to tell him about it while I plot our next move? You can stay here if you want, I don't care." Pelanor continued.
"Bells? There's more than one?" Oscar questioned, a little more than surprised.
"Yes, how did he know?" Perry answered. "One's in the undead church, up above, and the other is far, far below in the depths of blighttown. But I'd go hollow before going there.." he continued.
Pelanor said, "I meant to ask you Perry, how do youknow about that? I could never figure it out."
"Everybody knows. How did you not?" Perry replied.
"Because you never talk to me. I get it, you want peace and quiet, but soon, Oscar and I are going to save some people, and they're gonna camp here for a little while." "What? Why?" Perry complained, dissapointed.
"We are? I mean, yeah, we are." Oscar said. Now whispering to Pelanor, he continued "you never said anything about that."
"Ah, forgive me. We should just let them die then." Pelanor sassed. "Not what I meant, it's just that you should have told me other undead needed help!" Oscar said loudly. "And what good would that have done? We couldn'tdo anything about it untilonly
/thing it would make you do is worry. Please, friend, I ask that you trust my judgment." Pelanor argued. "But before we can save anybody, we need more manpower. And I know just the guy." He continued.
"I'll see you later, Perry. It was good seeing you!"
"Just go away!" Perry said, annoyed by these newcomers. "Aww, don't be like that!"
After looting some bodies and restoring his humanity, Pelanor lead himself and Oscar to a thin stairwell on a cliff.
"Okay, there are going to be some hollows up ahead, but these ones are better equipped than the ones in the asylum. They have real weapons and armor, and one will pelt us with firebombs. Just stay behind me and watch our backs." Pelanor said."
three?" Oscar replied, eager to fight again. "On three. One..two..Three!"Pelanor shouted as they charged up the stairs, killing two sword bearing hollows that tried to attack them. "There's the firebomber, I'll turtle up, just stay back!" Pelanor
said, rapidly approaching the firebomb throwing hollow. The hollow threw afirebomb at him, but it was too late, as Pelanor already had his blade in itsguts. He kicked its corpse off his blade, and the cliff edge with a little effort. A hollow
wielding a battle axe almost chopped him to pieces, had Oscar not lept up andslashed its chest open. One hollow remained, watching from the stairs leading inside the aqueduct. It ran a beeline for Oscar, but he was too fast, and jumped out of
the way so the hollow ran into the wall, smashing its nose into the wall, and Oscarquicklystabbed its back, killing it.
"Okay, when we go in there, you go right, I'll go left. The giant rat can't ambush us if it's dead." Pelanor said, walking up the stairs.
After killing the rat, pelanor saw a small black sprite emanating from its corpse. He collected it, while Oscar said "where was it keeping that?" Confused. "Best not to question it. Better that we don't know." Pelanor said,trying not to thinkabout
/it.
Undead burg
"Okay, there will be two hollows up ahead. One with an axe, one a sword. You take the axe, I take the sword. Then, we cross a small bridge to another firebomber, whom I'll take, and a sword hollow hiding in a building to the left of him, whom you'll
/all that?" Pelanor teased.
"I'm no idiot, yes I understand." Oscar said, annoyed. He now knew why that crestfallen warrior wanted quiet.
They went up the stairs, and were immediately attacked by the sword hollow, which Pelanor effortlessly killed via a sword in the abdomen. Oscar went ahead, where the axe hollow jumped at him. Oscar easily perried this, and thrusted his blade into the
/hollows' chest.
Pelanor ran ahead, shield up, across the bridge to the firebomber. The hollow threw several firebombs at him, which he ignored, but not painlessly, and cut deeply into the hollows' chest and stomach in a vertical slash. Oscar joined him, then jabbed Thehollow
/to his left with his sword.
"Great job, now we go through here, let me grab this first...okay. Up those stairs onto the bridge, but watch out for the drake."
"The what!?"Oscar shouted, a little fearful for what his friend said, hoping he was joking.
"The drake. Don't worry, it just lands, then immediately takes off to another bridge. Here, I'll go first so it doesn't stomp on you." Pelanor siad, attempting to calm Oscar, who had been gripping his shield much tighter after hearing of the
loosened his grip a tiny bit, but not much. Pelanor walked ahead, and was halfway across the bridge when a huge drake swept down, slamming its' feet on the stone floor, roaring, and took off. "See? No worries-" Pelanor wascut off as he saw another
/flyingfigure to his left. "Him..." he thought. A large crow, carrying a familiar entity flew overhead, then back to Firelink shrine behind them. "We need to move, now!" He shouted, not wanting toget caught by the pursuer. "Was that thecreature
/you were talking about earlier?" Oscar asked. "Yes..it was." Pelanor answered.
As they approached the next open space, thee thing happened at once. A crossbow bolt hit them just in front of thier feet, a hollow broke a wood barricade it was hiding behind, and another hollow lept at them. Oscar stabbed the one that lept, pelanorchargedthe
/one that broke the barricade, but got shot in this right shoulder doing so. "Good thing I have shoulder pauldrins, or I might not be able to use that arm."He thought. The hollow swung its sword at him, but he blocked It, andslashed atthe
/hollow until it fell to the floor and he absorbed its souls. Oscar fought the third hollow, while Pelanor went up a small flight of stairs to kill the crossbow wielding hollow. It tried to shoot him, but after enough hits, he managed tostaggerit
/out of reloading its crossbow. Oscar had already dealt with the hollow he fought, and went to help Pelanor. After killing it, and looting a crossbow from the corpse, Pelanor said "to our left is a bonfire. Do you want to use it now?
I will warn you, it will revive all the hollows we just killed." "I see no problem with that. And you don't look so good." Oscar answered. "I'm fine. It's just a few minor dings." "Fair enough, we'll rest here anyways."
Upon resting at the bonfire, Pelanor asked "did you get enough souls to level up?" "Ah, I did. Thank you for asking. You?" "Aye. Buffing endurance and Vit. Always good to level vit." "Vit?" "How many hits Ican take." "Ah, of course." "Okay,All those
/hollows we killed are back. They revive when we rest at bonfires, so we're gonna have to kill 'em all again. Now, instead of making progress here, I'm going to backtrack and find a merchant to buy stuff at."
After exiting the tall building and disembowling the hollows around them, Pelanor walked across a stone bridge to a platform with two hollow soldiers weilding spears. One tried to skewer him, and he parried the slow thrust of the spear easily. As he was
/focusedon the first soldier, he hadn't seen the other reeling its arm back preparing for a powerful jab. He did gut the first one, but the other managed to puncture its spear deep in his right side. He yelled in pain, as the slightly serrated
spearsliced hisinnards. The hollow yanked the spear out quickly, causing Pelanor even more pain, but he took his chances and chugged some estus, healing him instantly. Oscar dashed behind the spear weilding wretch and ran his blade through the
/hollows backand ribcage, the tip of the blade coming out the front of the hollow. "You gotta be more careful, buddy." Oscar chimed. "Oh shut up. I had it completely under control." Pelanor answered, agrivated by his comerad's taunt. "Anyway,
the merchantis just down here."pelanor said. "Uhh..down where?" Oscar asked, confused as there was no way down. "Right...here!" Pelanor shouted as he kicked some boxes, breaking them to reveal a staircase. "Shall we go?" Pelanor said, not caring
/whatOscar was going to say. Upon getting to the bottom of the stairs, Pelanor immediately went to his right, stopped before an oddly positioned rectangular box, and thrusted his sword through it, killing a hollow who was hiding behind it, ready
/to ambushcareless travelers. "Good eye." Oscar complimented, for he had not known of the trap. "Merchant's through that archway. Watch my back?" Pelanor asked.
"Well, now…You seem to have your wits about you, hmm?Then you are a welcome customer!I trade for souls. Everything's for sale! Nee hee hee hee hee!" The merchant mused, as he had so many times before to other customers. "How mush for that key, a bow,repairbox,
/orange guidance soapstone, and 20 wood bolts and arrows?" Pelanor asked, browsing the merchants' wears. "5,500 souls. You got all that?" "Yes. Here you go." Pelanor concentraited on the souls, and suddenly, a large, white, glowing orb appearedin
/his right hand. Trading thier items, the merchant happily said "Ah, thank you, very much! Come back soon! Nee hee hee hee hee!" "And because you're my favorite merchant, take this." Pelanor handed the merchant a tiny black sprite. "Th-thank you!Youare verykind,
/sir..." the merchant exclaimed, crushing thesprite in his hand, absorbing its essence. "Pelanor. What should I call you?" "Well, I don't remember my name, it's been so long since anybody asked. Just call me Miles."
"Alright Miles, if you'll follow me, there is a bonfire not far from here where you can restore your humanity. And, would you mind moving your shop to Firelink Shrine? I'm going to send people I save there, because it's rather safe, and you mightmake
/a few sales from them."
"Sure, just gimme a moment to pack up. I'm not leaving little Yulia here alone." "Of course. I wouldn't expect you to."
After escorting Miles to Firelink, they returned back to the bonfire in the burg. "Remember what I said about that bridge ahead?" Pelanor asked. "No, you never said anything." Oscar replied. "As we cross, there will be three firebombers trying to killtwo
/axe hollows and a hollow soldier." "Okay. Ready when you are." "Let's go kill some withered dirtbags." Pelanor eagerly muttered.
They killed the crossbow and the hollow welp before turning thier attention to the bridge. Pelanor and Oscar quickly dashed across it, into a room with a stack of boxes next to the right wall. A iron bar door was in the far right corner thatlead
to the lower part of the burg. A shortcut for later, but they had more pressing matters to attend to. Two axe hollows sprinted towards them, and raised thier axes high, ready to strike. Pelanor and Oscar took thier openings and stabbed theof
the shells of former undead s fell to the floor. A soldier, hearing the commotion, walked into the room only to be ambushed by Oscar and Pelanor. Exiting where the hollow entered, they came to a building on thier right, and stairs leading up
in front of them. "The building leads to five black firebombs, and the stairs continue the path. Where do you want to go?" Pelanor asked. "Continue the path. No point in detours." Oscar replied, not wanting to be here any longer.
"Oh, you can have this crossbow. I like regular bows better anyway. And these bolts." Pelanor said, handing Oscar the items. "Up ahead, there is a sword hollow, an axe wielding Hollow, and a firebomber. Ready?" He continued. " three, like
usual?" "Of course. Why change it now? One...two...three!" They charged the hollows before they even knew the two knights were there. Oscar jumped at the axe one, cleaving it in two, while Pelanor went for a low thrustat the sword one. The firebomber
/drew its sword and sauntered over to Pelanor, but he just slashed its chest open.
"Okay, crossbow in tower to the left. I'm going in there to get some gold pine resin. I'll aggro a spear soldier, so be ready. After him, it's just two regular soldiers." Pelanor said. "Okay. Good luck." Oscar replied, beforedashing into the tower.
/Pelanor opened the building with the key he bought from Miles and went through the house and down some stairs. A chest sat in the far end of a makeshift backyard or garden of sorts. A spear soldier saw him, and started walkingtowards the stairs
/in a slow ass way like they usually do. He opened the chest, and claimed the three pine resins that sat inside. Hearing a crossbow fire, then a gurgled moan, Pelanor assumed Oscar had done his job. Upon leaving the house, he sawOscar circlingthe
/soldier. Pelanor went in for the backstab, and kicked the hollow off his blade. "Okay. Two more soldiers, a trapped staircase, another soldier, and the Taurus Demon. And an optional black knight." Pelanor said. "BLACK KNIGHT?!We cannotkill
/those yet!" Oscar shouted. "Eh. He ain't that hard. I know his move set and I can parry almost all of his moves. He just might kill us in one hit if we slip up." "How can you be so calm about this?!" Oscar said, obviously
concerned for his comerad's mental health. "I did say he was optional."
They walked to the stairs and as Pelanor foresaw, two undead soldiers ran towards them. One stabbed Pelanor, as he was just a little too slow to parry. Oscar quickly dispatched the one on the left, and looked at Pelanor just in time to see him get impaled
/by a hollow. "Dude. You suck ass." Oscar teased, laughing at Pelanor and his failures. "Shut up and kill this wretch!" Pelanor gurgled, chocking on his own blood. Oscar decapitated the hollow, and slapped Pelanor on
his back. "Ouch! What the hell, man?" Pelanor screeched. He chugged an Estus, and continued.
Down the stairs was a circular landing on the left, ahead was another set of stairs up, and the right lead to a black knight down yet another set of stairs. Big surprise. Between the stairs up and down, was the half garden Pelanor was in earlier.
/Looking at each other and nodding, they both went up.
After the first small set, they turned left to the next set, and a barrel was set aflame, and kicked down at them. Oscar rolled back, but Pelanor was hit in the face by the barrel, and then it exploded, blowing his head off. Oscar looked back, and
/saw a hollow charging at him as well as a familiar body missing a head. A charred black stump was what remained of the neck. Oscar ducked, tripping the hollow, then he spun around and plunged his sword through the hollow and the ground. Oscar waited
/for his friends' return.
Pelanor sat up, popped a humanity, and saw he only had two left. Gotta be more careful. I knew that would happen, so why did I freeze? He thought. He ran through the empty burg to where Oscar sat, waiting for him. "What was that? You told me
/that would happen, so why didn't you roll?" Oscar teased. "Shuddup. Let's go. I have a friend I need to see." "Okay, not cryptic at all."
They went into the tower, and there were two paths to take. A door just ahead, and another set of fucking stairsto the left. "I'm going through the door. I have a plan, but if you come, you might die. I think you should stay behind,
and stay safe." "Okay, sure. Whatever. Do you have the key for that door?" "No, but I do have a boot." "What-" Oscar was interrupted by Pelanor kicking the door off its hinges, thenwalked down morestairs, until he saw a man clad in stone armor
with a stone greatshield and a dragon's tooth as a weapon. "Havel. Good to see you." Pelanor said. "How do you know my name, and why are you here? I'm almost hollow. I can feel it. Stayback." "I...see the future. I'm here to help you. Take this."
Pelanor said, handing Havel a humanity. Havel took it and crushed it in his massive hand. "Thank you, but this will only hold it off for a little longer" "Iknow. Follow me, and youcan restore your humanity. Then, would you join me on my quest?
You will be a very helpful member." "No. I cannot join you. But I will assist you, should you fight that albino abomination. Look for my sign by theelevator in the Dukes' first one. I've been there before and know the location well.
I wish you luck, and farewell. Hopefully this will not be the last time we meet."
End of chapter 2! Sorry if some words are crammed together. I tried fixing it over and over but it never works. I wanted to get to solair, but I put way too much in this one already. You can be sure that he will be in the next one. I have big plans for some of our favorite characters, and for the ones most of you forgot about. I can't wait for Lautrec, as I planned that part from the beginning. Please leave some feedback, your thoughts and ideas, I will most likely mention you in the following chapters with my replies. Thank you so much for reading! I saw that I have two followers of this, and one favorite. No idea who they are yet, but thank you so much. You give me confidence that my work is not abysmal.