"Up...get the hell up Wood Elf !"

Ceoldoren felt a hard boot connect with his head, and he let out a pained yelped as he scrambled to stand up. His eyes fell upon a young woman with auburn hair, she wielded an iron battle axe and he immediately grabbed for the hunting spear his father had given him on his eighteenth birthday.

"Easy ! I'm not gonna fight you, It'd be a waste of valuable time, I just wished to get you on your way. They'll be trouble here shortly and you prolly don't wanna be here when it happens."

He noticed the blue tabard she wore, it was in tatters and hanging from her waist, but it was the same he'd seen on the men at the border last night, he looked up from her tunic, she was covered in cuts and dirt, she'd certainly been in a fight. Ceoldoren scowled at her

"Wha' the hell happened to you ?" he said in a groggy voice, he was still half asleep and he slid his spear into the sheath on his back. The girl looked quiet tired, and he would've pitied her had he not been so rudely awakened.

"Damned Imperial's ambushed my men and I at the border, they were all dead before I'd unsheathed my axe, and I had no choice but to retreat." her eyes sparked in anger as she spoke and she began pacing back and forth on the road. "But I've run long enough, the Imperial's have been trailing behind me for hours, time I stood my ground."

The scowl left his face, he truly did pity the poor girl now, All her men had just been slaughtered, and he'd seen it happen and hadn't lifted a finger. Guilt mixed with the sorrow that already covered him, and finally it all turned to anger, he didn't know who this girl was, what she fought for, or who she fought. But he was going to help her.

"I don't know who you are, but I don't feel right leaving you to your fate, if you're going to fight, I suppose I'll fight with you" he moved to stand beside her and she looked at him with wide eyes.

"You fool ! there's at least a dozen men heading this way, you've no reason to help me, and I have nothing to lose, you should go while theirs still time !" She pushed him and he stumbled back abit.

"You're right, I've no reason to help you, but I to have nothing to lose, and it's better to die with a stranger then no one at all" he smiled at her grimly and unsheathed his spear, spinning it in his hand without thought as he stood beside her. "By the way, I'm Ceoldoren Hawke, it's a pleasure."

He could hear metal thudding lightly against hard dirt from around the curve of the road 'Least they'll be plenty of room to fight' he thought.

"Lilly...my names Lilly."
AN: I hope you'll forgive me for the chapter being so short but I was just trying to introduce are Protagonist and are main Heroin :). Next chapter will be a battle with the imperial's, and I'll go into Ceoldorens past abit. Also note that I've sorta rushed out the prologue and the first chapter. The next chapter I'll be taking my time with and It'll probably be around 2,000 words. Also, I'm not entirely sure how I want Ceoldoren to look, I've already decided I'd like him to be sorta pale for a wood elf, but other then that I haven't decided. I'd like if you guys threw some fan art my way, if I like it I'll consider it his canon appearance. :) Anyway guys, enjoy, take care and I'll be back for the next chapter ASAP.