While Forsaken and Miaka were waiting for an audience with the Prince of Madness; Forsaken thought back to the day he joined the Fighters Guild. His mom and dad had died in an assault on their village of Cornwall. There were twenty-two bandits for the village of forty. He and four other boys made it out alive. Everyone else was killed.

They found themselves in the Imperial City stealing from merchants and causing mayhem. That is until the Imperial Guard caught them. The guards told them if they wanted a job the Fighters Guild was looking for new recruits.

Forsaken and his friend, Dabascus, were the only two who went to the Fighters Guild in an attempt to get a job. They were accepted into it with open arms. Forsaken and Dabascus had risen up the ranks fast. Dabascus had gotten up the ranks and was now a champion. Forsaken was a Brawler.

"So Forsaken, how did this ever happen?" Dabascus asked.

While parrying a blow from Dabascus, Forsaken replied, "I don't know. But you need to strike harder." Forsaken shrugged off another blow and he knocked the sword out of Dabascus' hands.

At that time Dye-Bear-Hugger came down to talk to the two. "I have a problem that I need you two to help me with."

"What do you need help with sir?" asked Forsaken.

"We just got attacked in Anvil. I'm sending the two of you there. I trust you two with anything, you know that. I will be stepping down to one of my champions. I hope it will be you Dabascus."

That night we got ready to go to Kvatch. When we were ready to leave we stopped at the Feedbag. This little stop was to get food and drinks for the trip out there. We took few things; I took my tent, sword, and sharpening stones. Dabascus brought his sword, tent, food, drinks, and an extra sword.

The first night we only got to the way shrine and made camp there. I sharpened my sword while I was boiling some water. Dabascus was out hunting and he returned with a deer. We sat around the fire eating venison stew with peas, carrots, and corn.

While we sat around the fire we talk about the old days. About stealing and the mayhem we had caused. After we were done talking I went to bed. Before I was asleep I heard him talking to his sword Firebrand.

The next morning we set off again. We came to a bridge and were stopped by a couple highwaymen.

"We want a hundred gold. If you don't give it to us we will gut you like a pig."

"We don't want to fight so leave us alone and we don't want to kill you." I said.

The highwaymen grabbed for their weapons and so did we. As I grabbed my sword I jumped down off my horse. They were right in front of me and all I could do was block. Dabascus on the other hand was on the offensive. He lunged at his opponent but he dodged his blow. Dabascus swung sideways and made contact with the man he was fighting. I had made a small vital mistake and swung when I should have blocked. The highway man saw this and started to swing after I swung. Dabascus saw the trouble I was in and ran towards me. I saw how close the sword was so I closed my eyes. I waited for the pain of the sword sinking into my throat but all there was was some warm sticky stuff on me. I opened my eyes and saw that Dabascus had taken the blow in his side. Seeing this I grabbed my sword and thrust it into the man's gut. Then when he hit the ground I took my sword and plunged it into his heart.

As soon as I made sure he was dead I ran over to my bleeding friend. I picked up his head and found that the once warm hearted friend I once knew was dead. I then buried the two highway men and covered Dabascus. Throwing him up onto his horse I headed down the long road to Anvil.

When I got to Anvil the gaurds saw me and ran to help. They took Dabascus to an alchemist and ran to get the queen. Me on the other hand went straight to the guild house. After the alchemist looked Dabascus over I had an escort sent with him to be buried in our old town of Cornwall.

When I entered the guild house I was greeted by the Champion of Anvil. he instantly promoted me to champion. Then we started to plan our defence for the next attack that the bandits would mount. Two men would hold the downstairs door. When the door was lost they would fall back to the next five and keep falling back till the last floor. At that floor all the remaining guild members would hold and fight the bandits. So now all that we needed to do was get some sleep and wait.

I was awoken by the sound of metal clanging on metal and rushed to find my armor. I know what this was. It was the begining of the bandits attack and I had to get into my position. When I got to the top floor the word had already come up that the first floor had fallen and that the two there were dead.

"Brace the door with your shields when they get here. Any holes that they break I want the archers shooting through them." I said triyng to sound confident.

About a minute later the second floor was taken and the four men there fell back. As soon as the four got behind the door and we closed and shielded it.

"Sir, we killed seven of them with our bows but there are twelve left. We only have eight men remaining. What are we going to do?" Asked a recruit.

"We hold our ground till all of us die or till we push them back."

The bandits were hard on the trail of the four from the second floor. They had started hacking their way through the door when our archers started to fire through the cracks. When they did break through it was like a bar brawl. Our men charged and our archers ran. When our archers got to a safe distance, even though bein inside the small guild building, they started firing. I instantly had a bandit who swung at my feet trying to knock me down. I parried one attack and got him in his upper arm. Then I stabbed at his heart, piercing him all the way through. I looked around and found that only two of the twelve bandits were left. They had surrendered before it got too far into the fight.

After that night I had the Anvil guard take me back to Imperial City. Only then had I heard that the bandits that attacked Anvil were the same ones that attacked and destroyed Dabascus and I's village.

When I returned to the Fighter's Guild Dye-Bear-Hugger was waiting for me.

"I heard of your victory at Anvil and I also heard about your lose on the way." said Dye-Bear-Hugger in a mournful tone.

"Sir, with your permission I would like to go to the grave that he has been placed in. I would like to see his resting place."

"I expected as much, but when you get back here I have something for you."

"What is it?"

"You will see when you get back."

I left after that conversation and went to the burnt ruin of Cornwall. In the middle stood a beautiful mossoleum. I looked at the door and on it was a very detailed carving of a dragon flying to the heavens. The lock on this door was on the inside so no one could enter.

I left my past home and returned to the Imperial City. When I returned to the guild house many of the guild members were standing outside. While I walked past them they kept saying "Congratulations". When I got to the door it opened and Dye-Bear-Hugger was standing infront of me.

"I, Dye-Bear-Hugger, now present thee, Forsaken, as Master of the Fighters Guild."

Before I could say anything he handed me the papers that stated that I was the Master of the Fighters Guild.

I was then awaken when Haskil returned.