Chapter 4: little of this little of that

My ankle, my ankle, the bite marks still visible, I am going to waste here in an alley of ugly grey bricks and this purple moss stuff on the wall opposite to me slowly breaking the brick wall. I fell a sense of uneasiness grow inside me, my head starts to hurt, I start to frown, and finally I let out a scream. I then start crying and cursing; "why me? Why did Kamlet bring me?" He then left us behind as he went off for the rite of kindling for the gods. The god why can't they get their own damn rite, he would have known what to do, because he was greatest, I remember the time Kamlet captured a drake with a single copper coin, or the time he fell of the side of the earth. Kamlet told me about his adventures.

I heard skittering from the road, might be a rat. I decide to crawl towards the sound. The snow was thickening but only up to my ankle if I could stand, every movement was slow and made little effort. As I inched towards the noise it started to come closer to me, as I got to the end of the alley I noticed that Quinn was in a cage, looked sad, but he deserved it he left me, his friend, for dead. I started limping towards the great wall that blocks to Anor-Londo, away from Quinn; I remember the one thing he told us, how he got his dagger.

He got it as a child from his older brother Camrin when he left his brothers home; it was barely a month before he became undead. Why did he turn himself undead? He was mean, unlikable, smelled like coal, and was shorter than me.

There were bodies in piles on fire; it smelled like the taste of ash, I had cut myself on the stomach when I went over broken glass, the snow had covered it. I turned over, just sat. I heard skittering again from down the street. I could not see what it was. Uneasy and unsure I played dead. To my luck it was only a rat, but it was the size of a large dog. It was covered in ticks, maggots, and was slowly decomposing. Bacteria was eating it still alive, blood ran down its beautiful white fur, making it a hideous tainted pink it sniffed me, and licked me. While it was looking away I forced myself to kill it. With a quick slash I cut its right front leg off, it screamed as it bleed. Attracting a hollow from a building down the road, it limped over, it had a burn mark on its left leg, it had no clothe, it was no longer recognizable by gender, race, or what it used to be it was a light pink and looked weak, it bit into the rat, and its empty face with the only noticeable feature was the flame in its eyes. I wanted to look away but I was paralyzed, stuck in place. The glass was getting deeper in my body hurting more. I closed my eyes, hearing the sounds of crunching bone and tearing meat.

I woke up. My stomach hurt but was not bleeding, I pulled out the glass shards. There was no point picking at sand. I stood up; my ankle was weak but could move it. I started to walk towards Quinn. I look around seeing that the fires still burned. I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around to see the weak pink hollow stumbling around, it fell in a pile of still flaming bodies, it was pathetic, and why would it do that?

I grabbed the floor to the hanging above me, like the ones the clerics put heretics in, I pulled on it. Quinn was not responding to me shaking his cage, the cage was attached to a chain that was bolted to the balcony above. I went inside the building to try to pry the bolts off. The place was looted. Nothing was inside, not even furniture. I went up the stairs that where the only thing worth mentioning about this boring wooden room. As I went up the stairs I heard snoring, I stopped and started to tip toe. Up the stairs, as I reached the top, I kicked the door down, the foot started to bleed again and fell down the stairs. An undead walked down the stairs, he was old, warring clerical robes and was very thin and his skin was in flab's on his face, his eyes where gray and he was bald and had pale skin, also he was a head taller than me. "Are you ok?" he asked, "Yes I am fine; um do you know that someone is in the cage outside" I asked, he looked at me with a look of stew, and responded "no I thing the key is in the bottom room." I went down the stairs "but there is nothing here" I stated. He locked the door and pulled Quinn's dagger, "humanity is so hard to come by and I'm not going hollow any time soon!" he cried as he lunged at me, I wildly swung the estoc and begged for mercy, the estoc hit him in his torso right above the right half of his hip, he cried in pain and stepped back I trusted the estoc forward into his neck, I puked at the sight of the man lying on the floor with my sword in his throat as he gasped for air for several seconds.

After mustering the courage I looted the corpse for a key and dagger. I broke the bolts by jumping up and down, on one foot, the bolts where rusted and Quinn woke up when the cage hit the ground. He cursed and asked where he was, I walked outside and opened the door to his cage and handed him his dagger. Looked at me with tears in his eyes and cried and laughed. He hugged me and ran off towards the outer wall probably wanting to leave this accursed place. I went forward still, after some time it stopped snowing and the snow started to become mush. I heard some scream "hey, there someone, are you not a hollow, can you hear me!" a man screamed from behind a door. I kicked the door with my good foot. The man stepped outside and thanked me, I saw a body in there, and asked who he was, the Stanger replied "that was Zepheram my good friend, we came in search of master Logan, the great wizard, but a Capra demon had found us and in flee I locked us in here without a key, the demon had nicked him bad, he had died of blood loss, I must find master Logan, or his death will be pointless" he responded before running off.

As I went forward I started to notice bodies becoming more frequent and in fact before long there was a body every three steps, they was also dogs eating the bodies I almost puked again. I moved forward afraid of being attacked by the dogs I made hast until I heard a crash, a goat demon like the one from the stories jumped down from a roof, I fell down as I tried to escape, the goat demon jumped over me blocking the way back, I rolled forward to dodge the blade of the Caper, I got up and stabbed my sword into his left shoulder. He dropped his blade. He grabbed me with his right arm and I dropped my sword, he threw me several meters, I could not even get up before he had grabbed his machete and got to me, I tried to crawl away, before he could finish me a soul spear hit his back killing him, I got up and looked at the demon, then at the man from earlier he was on a bridge above me, he waved and left, I grabbed my trusty estoc and started to leave before the Capra demon got up and ran towards me. I slashed at its right leg landing a hit, but he had grabbed my left arm and he began to squeeze it, I heard bone snap, in shock I had dropped my estoc, a bell ringed the goat dropped me and looked up, with my right arm I grabbed estoc and pierced his back, the blade hit its spine, I pulled the sword out the demon fell trying to escape it crawled with it arms. I stopped on its back, my foot started to hurt again. The demon continued, after several minutes of following it for several scores of meters, I cut it head off with the estoc, it got stuck about a third of the way though and I pushed hard and tried again with eight more swings. The estoc was clearly not meant for beheading I thought.

I went back to the bonfire to see several knights standing there, but none of them where Kamlet. As I approached I asked "do you know who rung the bell, one knight said that a worshiper of the first son, an embraced one, and a man warring a goat demons head as a helmet stayed the Bell Gargoyles" I then asked "where did these heroes go to" he replied "they're going to Blight town, a young woman and Juno went with them". Ran off to the aqueduct in glee, I will help the chosen undead and be remembered as a hero, just like Kamlet.