CHAPTER 1
A sign. A literal sign… Well a poster is what started this great journey. Here's how.
It's the start of spring, there's snow still sprinkled around the country, but the grass is starting to make its way out into the open. People are walking around, shopping, socializing, and doing other normal things. The town is busier now due to people being more willing to go outside now that there isn't more than 2 inches of snow covering the roads and blocking doors. Mostly humans, but also some local water elves, and dwarfs fill the paths that go between homes and businesses.
Within the big cluster of people, is a boy looking for a job. Green Viridi lets out a sigh as he shuffles along through the group "Ah c'mon there's gotta be a job somewhere! A guy needs money to survive y'know" he mutters to himself. With his hands now in his pockets he looks side to side, searching for something that may give him some money.
Nothin. No surprise, Green has been looking for a job for days ever since he lost his last one. Green continues his walking/job searching until he bumps right into someone. "AH! OW- oh… uh I'm sorry!" Green gives an apologetic look up to the stranger he bumped into. The stranger, who's a bit taller than Green, shakes his head.
"Ah it's okay, I was just watching some ripoff trying to show off" The stranger replies casually. Though his reply isn't what interests Green, instead it's the horns that spiral out of his head, curling around but not in a tight fashion, rather, it's more of a loose curl. The green jobless boy finds himself staring at the horns, in wonder and in confusion.
"Are those… real horns?" Green struggles to talk right, he had heard that only Dragons have those types of horns, but why does this guy have them?
"Maybe~" The stranger replies, with a sly grin.
This man couldn't be a dragon right? Before Green can ask that question the stranger has already left, but in his place lies a flyer. "What…? Did he turn into a piece of paper?" The 18 year old laughs to himself. "But no seriously where did he go?" Green looks around, scanning the crowd. It doesn't take long for him to give up and look at the paper.
The Paper reads:
"HELP WANTED
In need of a guide/someone who's good with social situations
If you're interested, meet me at the left top corner of town under the big tree
See ya there!"
Green just kinda stares at it for a moment, processing the information. It was a very vague job description but hey, it's a job. That was the moment where Green decided he would follow a mysterious poster that was found in the spot a mysterious, maybe dragon, man once was in. About 10 minutes later when Green was almost at the meeting place, he realized how fishy that poster was and how stupid he is. But still he went forward, hoping to maybe get an actual job that he will be able to keep.
When the green job-seeker gets to the tree a man is waiting under it. Unsurprisingly, said man is the stranger from before. "Oh. It's you." Green just kinda stares at blinks. The stranger bows in reply and when he comes back up, and the two's eyes meet, Green can just sense that this guy is bad news.
With a smirk the stranger speaks up "Yes, indeed it is me. I see you followed by job request, you're the first one to actually accept the position!"
"I can see why." Green answers with a sarcastic tone.
"The job is simple really! Help me find my gold. I had a massive amount of gold stolen from me, and I need help recovering it. So? Wanna help me?"
Green takes a surprisingly long time to think this through. Accepting would make him an idiot, but denying would make him jobless. Being idiot sounds much better to the 18 year old than continuing to be jobless. "I accept your job offer! Now first things first, what's your name… boss?"
Without skipping a beat the the stranger replies "I'm Shadow! Shadow Noir." He adjusts his black vest and smiles "Now your turn"
"Oh! Uhm I'm Green! Green Viridi." He shows the horned man a smile. "So uh… I guess the question now is… what are your leads so far?"
Shadow laughs "Leads? I got none!"
The human just stares at the possibly-not-human. "Seriously? Nothing?"
"Nope! That's why I'm asking you for help!"
Green sighs. "Well… how bout I meet you here tomorrow? I need to go prepare some stuff, say some goodbyes. Then tomorrow we can head to the next town over, it's fairly bigger so we're bound to hear some sort of rumor about your gold, right?" Shadow nods, seeming to just accept this quickly.
And with that the two split paths for the day so they can both get prepared. On Shadow's end there wasn't much to do, but on Green's end, well…