Here's the second chapter. It is a little shorter.
Curse of the 5 halos
Chapter 2: The woman of the dream
Bartus looks at the woman who smiles innocently. She the slowly loses it a little after a long silence of Bartus. Bartus isn't very interest by what she asks.
"What is it? I ask you if you want to show me around." Repeats the Yumil. "After all...I'm sure a big and strong Jiralhanae can do that." She adds innocently without her voice changing.
Bartus looks at her and he realises she is not even trying to impress him or flatters him to says yes, but she just says what she sees. He finds her strange.
Bartus closes his eyes for one second before looking at the girl again. He has a feeling she will be in trouble if he lets her on his own...Plus...He wonders why she was in his dream. She also says that he is familiar.
"Yumil...Is that it?" Asks Bartus to be sure.
"Yes." She says. At that moment, the moon shines a little stronger around Yumil and accentuate her smile with the light blue color on her eyes, which are chocolate.
"...Fine. I'm not even sure why I bother...But I feel like you'll get into lot of trouble for wandering around by yourself." Says Bartus. "Not jerk enough for that."
"Jerk? What does that mean?" Asks Yumil.
"?" Bartus looks at her with his mouth open. "Ok...I think I was more than right."
"Let's go." She says walking at the direction of the main street.
"Hey!" Shouts Bartus walking after her. "If you want me to guide you...Than you should be by my side or behind me!"
"Sorry...Just overexcited." Says Yumil.
"That is not an excuse. You cannot be careless. This town is dangerous during the night." Says Bartus.
He then walks with Yumil by his side.
"What is this place?" Asks Yumil.
"This is a restaurant of...low quality by human standard but my stomach don't mind." Answers Bartus.
"Let me try it." Says Yumil.
"You have the money to pay for it?" Asks Bartus.
"...What is money?" Asks Yumil.
"...You got to be kidding me...Everyone knows about the basic of money...I know human knows it the moment they can count." Says Bartus looking at her in disbelief.
"What is it?" Asks Yumil.
"Ignorant woman...This bronze coin I have in my fingers..." Bartus shows one of the coins from his pocket. It is a small and bronze coin that reflects a little the moon. On the center of it, there is an image of a royal Unggoy. Yumil looks at it and she nods. "With this...Depending on the quantity...You can buy a lot of things with it...It depends of the quantity of money you need."
"Hum..." Answers Yumil confuse.
"You must have the worse parents ever." Says Bartus with a face palm.
"What's parents?" She asks.
"...What did you just- I mean how- But- How is it possible for you to ignore it?" Asks Bartus completely confuses now.
"What is it?" She asks.
"Parents are those who raise you...Give you birth." Says Bartus.
"San'Ganjy the wise raises me." Says Yumil. "He teaches me my mission and the virtue."
"Guess there was a lot of lacking in his teaching." Sighs Bartus. "Anyway...I'll say we will not buy anything...Alright...Let me continue to show the place...And hoping I won't have more questions a baby would ask me."
"Alright." Says Yumil.
Bartus continues walking with Yumil by his side.
"...Do you at least know what a male is and a female is?" Asks Bartus.
"Yes...I can show you." She then starts to take out of robe.
"NOnononono." Orders Bartus. "Don't show off everything you have...You can at least have dignity and not take your clothes."
"...Alright...But you can see there that I'm a female." She puts her hands on her breast.
"Oh..." Bartus immediately turns away. It is wrong for a girl to have no shame and being so much innocent about her own body...He can now safely bet that if she can, she will walk around naked and feel nothing.
They continue until they are close to the fountain where the water is spit out in the air before falling in the fountain.
"It's beautiful." Says Yumil looking at the water.
"Yeah..." Says Bartus. "It's nothing impressive as seeing the Prophet entering the town and..." I can't believe I've say that...but it's still really more interesting than looking at the water. Thinks Bartus.
"Okay...So...Where do we go next?" Asks Yumil.
"..." This is going to be a long night. Thinks Bartus. "I think we will go at the tower...There is not a lot to do during the night that can be respectable for you."
In the castle
"Where can he be? Where?" Asks the Unggoy panicking even more when he searches around for the prophet. "Why did he escape?"
The soldiers in the castle see the small Unggoy running around and panicking. They look at him and decide to ignore the little one running around. They hear his little footstep when he runs. He looks around until he is once again back in the chamber. He enters in the chamber and he then notices something he hasn't when he was busy panicking like a child. He walks inside and he looks more carefully. He looks at the window and he sees a long rope made from the sheet outside.
"I'm so stupid." Says the Unggoy tapping his head with his big hands. He sighs and he hears sound. He turns around and he sees the high priest.
"Why are you telling yourself you are stupid?" Asks the high priest.
"High priest! I-! Sorry! I didn't notice that rope outside the window!" Shouts Unggoy. "He is not in the castle...He is somewhere in the city! We have lost time because of me!"
"You were panicking." Replies the high priest. "You can go outside and search for the prophet...I'll call the temple guard and starts the search outside."
"Alright." Says the Unggoy.
"Before that...Bring your gear." Says the high priest.
Outside, in the city
Yumil walks besides Bartus at the direction of the tower that is close to the wall that protects the city. Bartus shows her the right way and they climb the stairs until they reach the top of the stairs. They climb the stairs until they reach the top of the stairs and they reach the top of the tower. They look in the air and they see the starts more clearly and also the moons and the Halo.
"I have a question Yumil." Says Bartus.
"What is it?" She asks.
"You say that I look familiar...Why?" Asks Bartus.
"Hum...Oh...You just look like someone I see in my recurring nightmare I have for a while." Says Yumil. "Someone looking like you in my dream say to a dark giant thing...«It is not over»." Says Yumil.
Bartus knows it is the same dream. He looks at her and he is stuck in his mind. He looks in the air again.
"I can say the same. I see you in my dream also." Admits Bartus. Yumil looks at him surprise. "The same situation...I say that sentence...We were against a dark presence and...It is my recurring nightmare also...I don't know what it means."
"I don't really know either...I want to visit the city...I know nothing of the outside world...Also...There is another reason I am here this night." Says Yumil. She looks at him.
"What other reasons do you have?" Asks Bartus. "Not that I really care...But what is your purpose."
"Well...I-" She was cut by a voice.
"Finally found you." Says a voice.
The 2 turns around and they see 4 being with dark cloth on them and hiding their face with the black hood. One of them is taller than the other's and Bartus knows it's another Jiralhanae.
"What do you want?" Asks Bartus when he sees them getting out sword of darkness color.
"You can go away...We are only here for the girl. We are lucky she is wandering around." Says the Jiralhanae in the dark clothes.
Bartus looks at the girl...He can let her go...But he still needs answer...After this...He doesn't care.
"Sorry but I still need to talk to her." Answers Bartus drawing his hammer.
"That is too bad...I wasn't really interested in killing those who have nothing to do with it." Smirks the Jiralhanae. He didn't really mean that.
They are ready to fight. But Bartus is ready too.
"Finally the night is getting interesting." Says Bartus.
AC: End of the chapter 2.
Chapter 3: The fight.
