Chapter 3

First Mission Disaster


*Yawn*. Man I wonder if I have to wake up every dawn, for every mission as a Knight. I wish, mission would start around noon so that I can get more sleep. Not that it matters anyway, since I was headed outside of Hamel to meet up with my brigade. I bumped into someone while I wasn't looking since I was very drowsy.

"Ow sorry." The crash, wide woken me up and I saw the person giving me a hand.

"Its alright. I'm sure it was an accident." The boy replied. He had black hair, and was wearing an armor plating. He had hazel eyes that seemed like a calm aura in your soul. As I grabbed his hand, he gave me a smile and handed me Conwell. "You dropped this."

"Oh thanks."

"Well I must be going. I'm in a hurry." He immediately left and I saw him leaving until I couldn't anymore. What a weird guy, and after watching I realize I was late so I began to ran to the gate and saw Aisha and Chung waiting for me.

"You're late." Aisha spoke, rudely to me. It made me ticked off a bit, but I tried tolerate her attitude.

"Now calm down, Lady Aisha. Our specialist is late as well." Chung added.

"Oh I wasn't late. I was simply hiding till all of you we're here." A voice replied. A figure, stepped out of the tree and a young man with blue-spiky hair appeared.

"Wha. You we're here all along Mister Obsidia?!" Chung was shocked. The man smiled at him and then greeted us.

"Indeed so, Master Chung. Oh where are my manners. I'm Nyte Obsidia, please to meet your acquaintance." He bowed down at us, as he greeted us. So this is the man, that the captain was talking about. I thought our specialist would look alot older. Just before, we headed out. Chung warned us, of creature such as Phoru, Ruichi, and Fairy guardians along the way. After him telling us that we headed out to Elverna. As we were traveling Chung noticed Conwell.

"Hey Elsword, I realize that you only use one of your sword, what about the other one?"

"Oh this is my father's sword Conwell. I'm not ready to use it though. But I still keep it around me, as a charm and a memento to remember my father. So until, I become stronger. I'll restrain myself from using it." Chung smiled and responded.

"You must really care, for your father huh?"

"Yeah, he was the reason why I continued to live on. Without his encouragement when I was young. I wouldn't have live on when he died." I said, with a calm smile. I noticed Aisha listening and I turned to look at her and she turned her face away from me, to prevent me from looking at her. I start to wonder if she was actually concern about me. After, a little while. We finally arrived to Elverna one of the cities of the Elves. As arrived at the front entrance, the guards started to be cautious.

"Halt, what business do you have here?" One of the guards responded. Nyte, appeared before them and their expression change.

"Oh Nyte, good to see you. I'm guessing its business huh?" Nyte nodded his head, and he handed the letter to the guards. After a while, the guards opened the entrance to their city. "Try not to mess around the town you three. I trust Nyte, but i'm concern of you three." We nodded and entered the city. I looked around seeing the beauty of the city, such as the plants, the lighting, and the tree house's. I began to talk to Aisha. "This sort of remind me, of the tree house I used to had. When I was young."

"Hmph, must be pretty common for your people."

"What's that suppose to mean." I made a troubled face. The four of us then arrived at the inn, and decided to rest a bit before we headed out. I decided to took the time, to look around the city and look at the beauty of the area. After a while, I went back to the inn and noticed Nyte in the lobby, looking at a locket of some sort. I walked up to him, and he noticed me.

"Oh hey Nyte." I was close enough to look at the picture. It showed a picture of a white-hair young woman, holding a baby. I asked him who they were. "Hey Nyte, who's that in the picture?"

"Oh its a picture of my Wife Mari and my Daughter Neige." I looked shock.

"Really?! You look pretty young to have a family." He started laughing a bit.

"Well you're not the first one to look surprised. Other people, looked pretty surprised when I told them about them." He put the locket in his pocket and looked at the clock. "Its almost time for our escort to be finish packing up. We should let the other two know." I nodded my head and we went to the room and let Aisha and Chung know it was time to go. We packed up our bags and headed outside to meet our client.

"So who's the person we have to escort?" I then noticed the caravan and noticed a young girl, with a goat that is pulling the caravan. She then noticed us.

"Oh so you must be my escort's. Well I'm Lin, please to meet you."

"So you're our escort. I thought, you be more older." I said, with a surprised look.

"Well you can't judge a book by its cover. Anyway, you guys should do your job on protecting me." She gave a brief smile and we continued on. For the past hour, we encounter a few bandits in our travel, however it was nothing we can't handle. As we continued we took a break before continue on.

"Man, who knew being a knight. Would be very exhausting." Taking a deep breath for fresh air, I unsheathed my Conwell and took a glimpse of it, shining it in the sun. (Dad if you're up there. I hope your protection shall guide me to a safe knighthood).

"Ahhhhhh" I heard a scream. I quickly sheathed Conwell and looked to see what was going on. When I saw what happened, everyone was already there. I looked and saw Aisha being held captive by a phoru. My eyes widen.

"Aisha!" I took a step and the Phoru brought the knife further up.

"Move again, and I'll cut her throat open." The Phoru threaten Aisha.

"Elsword, at times like these we need to negotiate." Chung replied. He cautiously walked up to them and started negotiating.

"Now, calm down. I'm sure there's something we can work out. What is you're terms?" Chung asked the bandit. The Phoru pointed at the goat.

"I want goat. So that I can eat it!" The Bandit Phoru. Look at the goat with a drool look on his face. Chung then look surprised.

"Wait, are you saying. You want the goat?" Their was a long silence after that. Finally, Chung started to speak with a shocked look.

"Absolutely not. We do not accept these terms." All of us looked with a blanked face. As Chung continued. "You can't eat the poor goat! It works too hard. Besides how are we supposed to bring back the cargo?" Chung defended the goat. But, Aisha was still captive. The Phoru then put his knife even further into Aisha's neck.

"Fine, then I'll kill the girl." I couldn't stand to look at that thing, continuing to torture Aisha anymore. So I spoke.

"What about gold? How much do you want?" I took my money bag and the Phoru seemed surprised.

"Oh really? Then you don't mind paying 5,000 ED. Won't you?" He said with a smirk. I listened to him and took out 5,000 ED and gave it to him. "Alright, I put up my end of the bargain. Now let her go." The Phoru threw Aisha, right towards my arm and he left quickly before any of us can get after him. Aisha, then look at me and started to blush. I soon blushed a little and let go of her, and turned around to be unable to see her.

"Why did do you that? You didn't have to give that much money to him. I'm sure we could've have came up with a better solution." She responded, still being flustered. I turned around and smiled at her.

"Its because we're in the same knight brigade. Meaning we're sort of like family, right? Also I still have 5,000 more ED left in my bag. So don't worry about it." I smiled at her once more and she blushed a bit more. The captain then interrupted us.

"Um, anyway shall we continued you two?" We both at him and said in union.

"Yes sir!" We continued on the road, back to Hamel Castle and arrive there another hour later.

"Alright, mission accomplish." I said, with glee. Stretching my arms and yawning. We we're at the front of the castle entrance. Where we saw Secretary Yumi, waiting for us.

"Oh you're back. I see your mission was a huge success." She then walked over to Lin. "Well, shall we get going Alchemist Lin of the Elverna Council?" She responded. Lin, just smiled.

"Its been a while Yumi, you haven't changed a bit. How's everyone else doing?" We looked in surprise.

"Lady Oto, do you know this girl?" Chung asked in advance. Yumi turned to look at Chung.

"Ah yes. Me and Lin, are actually friends from the past. She's about a year younger than me. I liked to thank you four. For bringing her safetly. As well, you're mission has been completed. Congratulation. Now Lin, shall we be goin?" Lin nodded, and they left to the castle to discuss the trade routes. Chung, turned and looked at us.

"Well not the mission been accomplished. You guys, are free to do anything for the rest of the day. As for you Master Obsidia. Your payment shall be at Solace's Wing. We appreciate your help." Nyte gave a simple smile.

"Thank you, I look forward with working with you guys again.(Looks at Me) Especially you young man, you shown some interest to me. I hope we can work together in the future." Nyte then left and headed back to town. I started to leave. Aisha, then followed me.

"Wait up!" I turned around.

"What is it?" I asked her. She stayed silent for a while and then spoke.

"I like to thank you for saving me. Maybe you're not a bad guy after all.(Holds our her hand to shake) What do you say, friends?" She started blushing. I gave a smile and shook her hand.

"Sure, lets be friends." As we parted hands, I blushed a bit and broke it up. By parting with her, to look around in town. For something to send to sis. There were a lot of things to get, but I found a locket. I purchased which cost 100 ED and before I send it to sis. I wanted to show how much I grown to sis. So I'll keep it for a while, until I have something to put in this locket. I decided to head back to the castle, when I noticed the boy from this morning. He was staring and drooling at some pork buns. I approached him and handed him 25 ED to buy the buns. "Here, this is for helping me earlier this morning. He noticed me and looked at the money.

"Oh its you, sorry about that." He bought two of them and gave one to me. "So, by the looks of it. I'm guessing you're a knight trainee. Am I right?" I simply nodded my head. As he smiled and took a bite of the pork. "Man this is good! I always wanted to visit Hamel. But never got the time."

"Why is that?" He took another bite and then spoke again.

"I was very busy. With some things and didn't have the chance visit Hamel. Up until now, it a shame huh?" I stared down at my food. He noticed me, not eating.

"Hey are you alright, you're not eating it?" He asked in concern, I got back from spacing out and replied.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine." I took a bite off my food. He smiled again and finish off his bun and stood up.

"Well, don't worry about it. Thats what I would do, try not to worry about it and just do it." He started stretching and yawned. I just realized that i'm talking to a person, and I don't even know his name.

"Say what's you're name?" He took a seat back down and answered me.

"My names Nightwing Hanurana. But you can call me Night. What about you. What's your name?"

"My name is Elsword Everhart. Nice to meet you, Night. Well anyway, I should get back to the castle." I stood up and walked back. As I looked at him waving goodbye.

My life's been starting to get interesting since I became a knight. As well... I began to blush of me giving CPR to Aisha. Shaking the feeling off my head. (Calm down, you must not act like that). I continued rushing back to the castle, as I was still slightly blushing.

Man, what's up with me?


To Be Continued


Character Database No.3

Nyte Obsidia

Race: Human?

Age: 19-21

Personality: Calm, Cool, Gentle-nature(Aggressive to enemies).

Occupation: Mercenary, Husband and Father

Affiliation: Solace's Wing/Hamel

Add Note: A Mercenary that specialize with communicating with Elves as well has a unknown power as well(Shall be revealed in a future chapter). He is also the Husband of Mari Obsidia and the Father of Neige Obsidia. (He will appear in future chapters)

Weapon: Scythe and ?(Shall be revealed in future chapter)


Lin

Race: Elven

Age: 13-15

Personality: Calm, Cheerful.

Occupation: Alchemist and a Council member of Elverna

Affiliation: Elverna/Hamel

Add Note: Has known Yumi in the past.


Nightwing(Night) Hanurana

Race: Human?

Age: 16-18

Personality: Calm, Serene, Curios

Occupation: ?

Affiliation: ?

Add Note: A mysterious person that Elsword befriended. Only thing Elsword knows about him is that he likes pork buns.

Weapon: ?