"You don't even know which way we're going! HOW THICK ARE YOU?" Daniell screamed.
Alannah pointed south. "They went that way, so I suppose the first place they'd go is Bowerstone."
"... were they bandits or something?" Daniell asked, sounding curious.
"Uh... no. They were mostly demons... but one of them was human, he had a black and red mask... with a big scratch on it. He wore a red cloak or something like that... and his sword was big, and pointy."
"Ah, well that narrows it down a bit. I suppose no one in Bowerstone will ever where that..."
"Hey, what's going on down there?" Alannah pointed to the town of Bowerstone. It looked like it was going up in flames.
"Hey, Heroes!" someone from the village screamed. "Help!"
"Erm..." Daniell scratched her head. "I s'posse we should help them?"
"It's our duty as Heroes to, yes..." Alannah started to unwrap her whip, "but seeing as we're still apprentices..."
"The only heroes left, mind you, besides my Daddy!" Daniell shrieked.
"Uh.. hello? Help, please!" the villager screamed from the village.
"WE'RE COMING," Daniell drew her sword and raced down to the village. Alannah shook her head unapprovingly, but follwed suit.
The inside of the village was worse than what you could see from the outside. Villagers were screaming, looking like human torches. Death was everywhere. Alannah looked around and saw a group of people attacking Lady Grey, mayor of Bowerstone. The leader was a handsome bandit.
"No, I didn't do it... it was Sieg, he killed Twinblade!" Lady Grey yelped.
"We don't care... last we checked, you and him were on good speaking terms, so if we want to
draw this 'Sieg' out, we're gonna have to kill you," a handsome bandit with black spiky hair said.
His hair was covering his right eye, and he had two daggers by his side.
"Daddy told me about him... about Twinblade... he was a giant of a man, and carried two blades, like him..." Daniell started.
"He's sooooo dreeeeamy," Alannah cut in. She wouldn't take her eyes off of him.
"Gr.. anyway, that was years before I was born... probably before he was born, too."
"If you don't want to talk..." the bandit drew one of his daggers, and readied to stab Lady Grey.
"NOT SO FAST!" Daniell shrieked, and charged at the handsome bandit.
"Not so fast yourself... remember the battle just 10 minutes ago? YOU'RE NOT READY," Alannah told her coolly. "Allow me..." She raised the whip, and brought it to the bandit's face, but it didn't make contact. It DID, however, scare him enough to drop his dagger and backup.
"See, it's all how you do it," Alannah bragged. You can do anything if you know HOW you do it."
"Oh, shut up."
"Ah... look boys... Lady Grey has given us two princesses," they bandit joked. "And look... one's a prostitute, carrying a whip!"
"Oh, shut up," Alannah stated, whipping it around, hitting one or two of the bandits, knocking them off their feet. They got up.
"HOW DARE YOU! Do you even know who we are!"
"Nope, and frankily, I don't care," Alannah replied again, and swung her whip around. She hit the bandits again, but with another swing, the whip snapped around one of the bandit's necks, and was starting to choke him...
But the handsome bandit raised one of his daggers up and cut the whip off of his throat. Startled,
Alannah fell down in suprise. The bandit smiled.
"Nice to see some eager young Heroes try to stop us... we'll make you a deal." He smirked. "We'll let you live... if you tell us where Sieg the Pilgrim is... and give me a... LAP DANCE!"
"Uh... how about we'll let YOU live if you SHUT THE HELL UP!" Daniell raised her sword, and brought it down with a CLANG.
"Ah... noble to the end... you Heroes make me sick... you're no better off than Jack of Blades! He was bad, yes, but he killed my mother! And Sieg killed my father!"
"Daddy killed Twinblade long before you were born!" Daniell shrieked, while swinging her sword around.
"'Daddy'? So... you're the Daughter of the Pilgrim the bandits were talking about... tell me, where is your father now a days? Out killing more bandits, is he?" The bandit smirked.
"Twinblade was a criminal, and Daddy let Twinblade die of the wounds Daddy gave him!"
"You think so, huh? Well, if you truely believe that, I'll let you live in your own little fantasies for a while... but I will be back! I guarentee!" And he ran off, leaving the rest of the bandits with Daniell and Alannah.
"I suppose..." Daniell looked at Alannah.
"Yeah... I'm bored silly."
Daniell jumped up and swung her sword, catching two bandits off guard, cutting them in half. Alannah
just whipped her whip around, striking anyone who came near, killing a few more people in the process.
And, a few more strikes and cuts later...
"Sorry, Lady Grey. That's all we could find," Daniell said, her head drooping.
"It's... tis quite alright," Lady Grey seemed scared at the smallest things now. "Er... where's the young bandit with the long hair?"
"He got away," Alannah looked around. "Too bad... I was starting to like him."
"You don't like boys, you dump them!" Daniell playfully hit Alannah across the head.
"HE ESCAPED! GO AFTER HIM THIS INSTANT, HE THREATENED TO KILL ME!" Lady Grey screamed in Daniell's ear.
"Sorry, I need to find my Daddy, Sieg. Have you seen him lately?"
"No, but I saw him run south into Darkwood. That's the least I know..."
"Then, into Darkwood we go!" Daniell ran out of Bowerstone, and Alannah followed. Lady Grey sighed.
"May Avo be with you... and Sieg," she sighed.
Meanwhile...
"He's heading to Darkwood, eh?" the bandit smiled to himself. "Those girls will tell me all there is to know about this, and then I will go after Sieg myself... and kill him! Mwa ha ha ha!" He got up, and ran after Daniell and Alannah.