It felt like they've been walking for hours at least it felt that way for Vilkas. They've actually only been walking for about an hour. "Oh and has M'aiq told you the time M'aiq fought of an army of giants bare handed?" He continued to talk, he has been telling stories the hole time they were walking.
Vilkas looked up at the sky clenching his jaw, he had to hold everything back to keep himself from taking his blade out and silencing this cat, but that would be murder. Vilkas sighed loudly looking down rubbing his forehead. "Are you sure they went this way?" He asked slightly looking up. "Yes M'aiq is positive! 84%!" M'aiq said with a smile.
Vilkas quickly snapped is head up glaring at the cat before him. '84!' Vilkas began to slowly reach for his weapon but quickly took his hand away. 'Keep calm...Even if this feline is annoying he is still a citizen..' Vilkas sighed calming himself down. "Oh and let M'aiq tell you of the time M'aiq saw a slaughter fish as big as a boat!" M'aiq threw his hands in the air too show Vilkas how big the slaughter fish was.
Vilkas sighed deeply once again rubbing his forehead. "I think I'm getting a head ache.." He mumbled to himself, he quickly looked up hearing voices in the distance. "M'aiq is also on a voyage to look for-" Vilkas quickly grabbed him to shut him up. "Shhh!" He said looking around carefully. M'aiq's ears twitched around looking for what he was hearing.
M'aiq pointed to the left down a path. "Over there." He said cheerfully. Vilkas gave him a quick pat on the shoulder quickly heading into that direction, the closer he got the more he could hear. "I told you not too leave your pack lying around!" He heard a familiar woman's voice shout out. He could feel his heart leap in his chest. "I know, I know!" He heard a mans voice, Farkas's voice.
Vilkas was now running towards the direction their voices were coming from, M'aiq was suddenly running beside him, Vilkas looked over at him furrowing down his eyebrows. "M'aiq is winning!" M'aiq laughed out running out in front of him. Vilkas sneered at him quickly picking up his pace to try and catch up with him but the feline just increased his speed. 'Damn..'
He slowed down a bit watching the Khajiit turn a slight corner disappearing behind some trees, Vilkas came to a walking pace catching his breath. 'Where did that cat go?' He thought to himself looking around. "Ah!" A woman screamed near by, Vilkas began to run again once he heard it. 'Could that be Krissy?!' He finally reached where it seemed the scream and the voices came from.
Vilkas came to a stop frozen in his place, he saw Krissy standing there soaked wet with water. "Dammit!" Farkas yelled out wiping water from his face, they were both wet. M'aiq walked out of the pond soaking wet. "M'aiq apologizes, M'aiq slipped on some mud you see." M'iaq gave a cheerful apologetic smile to them both.
M'aiq looked forward seeing Vilkas finally caught up. "Ah and here is the slow poke." M'aiq waved over to Vilkas. Krissy and Farkas looked to find him standing at a distance. Krissy felt her heart leap in her chest and butterflies fly up her body, a wide smile made its way across her face. "Vilkas." She said feeling her heart heart beat against her chest.
Vilkas couldn't help but smile at the happiness he saw in her face when she looked at him, he quickly jogged over to her. "Krissy!" He said cheerfully, he came to a stop in front of her. He wanted to embrace her in a hug but held himself back just incase she didn't want one but he ended up feeling arms go around him pulling him into a tight hug, he threw his arms around her holding her tightly against him.
Farkas smiled crossing his arms. "I wonder when you would show up." He chuckled out looking at them. Vilkas let go of Krissy clearing his throat. "Ah you got blood on me!" Krissy objected looking down at the blood spots on her armor, her wet armor caused the dry blood on Vilkas's armor become wet again. Vilkas laughed at the site. "That's what you get for leaving with out me!" Vilkas said with a wide grin on his face.
Krissy wrinkled up her nose at him teasingly, they both looked back at Farkas and M'aiq. "Hey you're the Khajiit who tried to sell us some flying potion from before." Krissy pointed at M'aiq. "That offer still stands friend!" M'aiq said smiling wide. "Yea and I still say it's bull shit." Farkas said furrowing down his eyebrows at him.
Farkas looked over at his brother raising an eyebrow in question to M'aiq's presence. Vilkas just shrugged rolling his eyes as if he knew exactly what Farkas was thinking. "I was told that you wanted help with something, what is it?" Vilkas asked Krissy with curious eyes. "It's a treasure hunt for something important to me, I'll explain more of it to both of you once I find the exact location." Krissy explained to Vilkas.
Vilkas nodded in agreement, he examined her closely. He furrowed down his eyebrows when he saw her armor, it looked very familiar to him but he couldn't figure it out at the moment. He just ignored it and looked back up meeting Krissy's eyes smiling sweetly at her. 'How I've missed you...' He wanted to say to her but he just kept it to himself for now.
Farkas cleared his throat breaking the silence and grabbing their attention, Krissy blushed a bit when she realized she was just starring at him the whole time. "We were actually just about to set up camp here." Farkas pointed out at the un done tents and still rolled up sleeping rolls. "Yea because Farkas set his pack down and we think a mudcrab took off with it." Krissy crossed her arms smirking a bit at him.
Farkas rubbed the back of his head looking away. "I set it down for a second I swear!" He said. "Oh you mean this pack?" M'aiq said holding up a dripping wet pack. "Yes!" Farkas reached for it but M'aiq quickly held it away from his reach and held out his other hand. "What do you want?" Farkas sighed rubbing his forehead. "Some bread." M'aiq smiled cheerfully at them.
Krissy unwrapped one of her loafs of bread and gave it to him. "Ah many thanks!" M'aiq said giving Farkas back his pack. Farkas glared at him a little bit and than went through his pack to make sure everything was there. Krissy chuckled a bit seeing the annoyed look on both of the brothers faces at M'aiq. She looked up at Vilkas noticing he had dried blood all over him, she raised an eyebrow at it in question but just shrugged and walked away. "You might wanna clean yourself and your armor off before you attract some beasts Vilkas." Krissy said smiling to Vilkas.
Vilkas looked down at the blood on his body almost forgetting about it. "You're probably right." He chuckled a bit looking back up, Vilkas took his pack off him and looked through it for some clothing but realized he didn't pack any extra clothing because he rushed off the first thing he got back.
He sighed looking over at Farkas. "Farkas do you have any extra clothing with you?" He asked. Farkas nodded grabbing a folded pair of pants up from the ground. "You're lucky I already took them out of the pack before the mudcrabs got it." He threw the pair of pants to Vilkas.
Vilkas caught the pants looking at them with a relieved smile on his face. "Thanks." He said to his brother as he walked over to the pond. Before Vilkas could start to take his armor off M'aiq wondered over to him "Well friend M'aiq but be on his way, but before M'aiq goes M'aiq noticed that you do not have a bed roll either." M'aiq said with a grin on his face.
Vilkas looked at him raising an eyebrow. "Let me guess you wish to sell me one?" He asked a bit hopeful. "Yes M'aiq would like to give you his extra, but for a trade." M'aiq placed his hands behind his back looking around. Vilkas sighed crossing his arms. "What do you want?" He asked tilting his head a bit at him. "M'aiq noticed that you have a very interesting cloth on you, M'aiq would trade you his extra bed roll for that cloth." M'aiq pointed at the cloth that stuck out of Vilkas's pack.
Vilkas raised his eyebrow a bit confused but shrugged. "Here you go." He said handing him the cloth. "Ah many thanks!" M'aiq said handing him his extra bed roll. "Thank you." Vilkas said giving M'aiq a small smile. "Any time." M'aiq bowed a bit to him and began to walk away down the path, he turned to wave goodbye as they waved to him and than turned back around disappearing behind the trees.
Vilkas rolled out the bed roll under the same tent Farkas was sleeping under, he walked back over to the pond striping off his armor leaving his drawers on. Krissy couldn't help but look over and admire his body, she grinned a little and looked back at her bed roll unrolling it.
Vilkas walked into the water getting chilled at first until his body got used to the temperature of it. As he walked deeper into the pond, the water around him began to turn into a muddy red color from the dried blood and dirt on his body. He went underneath the water rubbing the dirt out of his hair, he resurfaced taking a breath of air.
He looked over at Krissy running his fingers through his wet hair. Farkas looked over a bit seeing Vilkas eye Krissy, he smirked a bit looking back down at the burning fire. "I'm going to go collect some more wood for the fire, I'll be back." Farkas said getting up and disappearing with in the trees.
Vilkas grinned a bit swimming around. "Hey!" He called out grabbing Krissy's attention. Krissy got up walking over to the pond looking at him. "You look a bit dirty yourself, you should take a bath." Vilkas's grin grew on his face as he admired the way Krissy's form looking in that leather armor. Krissy gave him a crooked smile tilting her head to the side a bit. "No I think I'm good." She said smirking a bit more. "You sure? I think I smelt something strange I walked up to you." Vilkas called out teasingly. "It was probably you!" Krissy teased him right back, she turned beginning to walk back to the tents but Vilkas splashed some water out hitting Krissy with it.
Krissy almost fell over from the impact of the cold water, she turned around glaring at him a bit. "See now you do have to take your armor off so might as well take a bath while your at it." Vilkas walked out of the water a bit revealing his wet muscles. Krissy bit her bottom lip a bit admiring his body, she grinned at him while she grabbed a pair of her cloths off the ground.
She winked at him walking into the trees to change out of her armor. 'Tease.' Vilkas thought to himself chuckling. He got out of the water grabbing one of the cloths quickly drying himself off before the cool wind got to him. He took of his drawers and quickly slipped on the warm cotton pants.
When Krissy walked back holding her wet armor she saw that Vilkas had his armor drying by the fire and his underwear hanging over it. "Really?" She said waving her hands to the underwear. "What they need to try." He shrugged drinking down some mead. Krissy couldn't help but laugh a bit sitting down next to him, she placed her armor next to the fire to dry as well.
Vilkas handed his bottle of mead to Krissy offering her a drink. She gladly took it and gulped some down than handed it back to Vilkas. "So, you've been gone quite awhile." Vilkas said clearing his throat. "Yea..." Krissy responded quietly looking down. "I missed you.." Vilkas said slightly looking at her. Krissy looked up a bit surprised at what he said but she smiled warmly at him feeling her butterflies return. "I missed you too Vilkas..." She looked down keeping her smile on her face.
Her smile faded a bit when she remembered Torvar telling her that Vilkas and Ria were out together. "So...You and Ria have a thing now?" She hesitantly asked. Vilkas choked a bit on his mead and started coughing, he hit his chest a bit trying to clear it up. "What?" He coughed out looking at Krissy. "No, why would you think that?" He finally got the mead cleared out of his throat. "Well I just thought because Torvar.." Krissy scratched the back of her head a bit looking away.
Vilkas sighed a bit annoyed even at the mention of Torvar. "Torvars a drunk you should know better than to listen to him." Vilkas chuckled a bit running his fingers through his hair. "I was just out on a job with her, we had to take down some giants because they were terrorizing a town in the hold." He found himself laughing more realizing her concern about it.
Krissy couldn't help but blush from embarrassment, Vilkas laughed even more seeing the look on her face. Krissy looked at him glaring at him a bit. "Don't laugh at me!" She said crossing her arms. "I can't help it, it's just funny that you would think that Ria and I had something and the fact you were concerned about it." Vilkas gave her a wide smile leaning over a bit towards the fire, his smile faded a little bit when he noticed a new scar on her face. It was across her nose and down her cheek, he wanted to ask about it but just kept it to himself for now.
Farkas returned with a hand full of wood. "This should last us till morning." He said spilling the wood out of his arms. Farkas sat down on the other side of the fire placing his hands over them.
They spent the rest of the evening drinking, catching up, and telling stories until they all finally decided to retire for the night. "Think you'll need some company tonight? It might get cold." Vilkas said watching Krissy open up her tent, she gave him a small grin. "I think I'll be okay." She crossed her arms smiling at him. "Well if you change your mind just let me know." Vilkas said winking at her. He couldn't help but flirt with her, he had to make up for lost time anyways.
She gave Vilkas one last smile and than turned going into her tent. Vilkas and Farkas went into their tent both calling it a night.