Guess what! Another chapter! Woo!

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Saura's POV

Yes! Finally, I could go and get Master Torak, a.k.a. Torakar from Altador, to sponsor me. I was in an absolutely good mood, so I walked a little too retartedly to the Tavern, causing a few of the less ignorant pets to stare. And if you play the game, you should know that walking around Meridell takes FOREVER, even when running while holding the R1 button! And I wasn't running either, I was walking. So it took even LONGER. Once I'd made it to my destination, I was pretty sure that it took me an hour to get there. Ever had one of those instances where you have to go to a specific place in Meridell, and you run one way, only to find that the other way was much shorter? I HATED those moments! But enough of that. It was time to get sponsored! I walked casually as I could into the Tavern, immediately spotting Master Torak. Then I realized something: the reason he looked so ticked off was because his sword was broken. I forgot to repair the gosh-be-darned thing! Now I had to go all the way to the platforms to get the pieces of the sword, buy one from the psycho gelert Torak had fought earlier, get the sword repaired, and come all the way back to the Tavern! I could have just done that! Darn me to heck! So I stormed back out, making even more pets stare, but right now, I was too miffed to care.

Plus, I didn't care that I was supposed to talk to the guards at the castle door to "learn" about what happened when Torak fought the dude, I just wanted to get this over with. So to the left of the town square, I climbed the ladder onto the first platform and got my first piece of sword. Then, I crossed the plank to get the second, back to the first platform, up the next ladder, down the zip line, (weeeeeee!) and I had the third piece of shiny sword. I had the tip, blade, and cross guard of the sword, now I needed the last piece. (I forgot what it was. Was it another blade piece? Whatever.) Sighing, I ran to the Army Recruitment Center, ignored Mr. Techo, and went to the jail cells to the left of the main room. I found the blue gelert there, smiling like the psycho he was.

I approached the cell and put my paws against the bars, trying to look like an innocent and curious little girl. When the gelert looked up at me, I cocked my head in what I hoped was a cute way. "Whadya want, girly?" he snapped, making the 'little girl' act instantly go away. I sneered at him, hopefully fooling him like my cuteness didn't. I was never much of a tough, bossy, commanding, sneering, smirking, etc. person, so I really didn't think I could pull it off…but I had to try. "What happened between you and Master Torak earlier during the fight?" I asked with my head held high. He gave me a crazy (as in needs to be in an asylum) smile and asked me back, "You work for the paper, kid?" then he shook his head, still grinning (not a pretty picture), "But, I have a little something of his." And at this, he giggled like a naughty child. I frowned and said, "Yeah, piece of the sword, isn't it?" He looked up at me, obviously surprised. Was he sober? He seemed pretty drunk to me…, "Howja know?" he asked hoarsely. I pressed my face to the bars of his cell and tried to look menacing as I replied, "Answer my question first. I'll pay you 100 NP for it."

At my mention of this, he brightened up. (No, guess he wasn't drunk. He'd be funnier and stupider if he was.) "Yeah, yeah, gimme!" he said, holding his paws out as if asking for a cookie. He DID seem to be like a child, even more than I could be! (That's saying something!) I glared at him and said, "Show me the sword piece first and give it to me. Then I'll give you the NP. And don't worry, I will give it to you, I keep my promises." The gelert nodded eagerly and pulled out the sword piece from his pocket. I grimaced. No telling where that thing had been. He handed me the piece, and I gave him the money. "Heheh! You're not so bad after all, kid! Easiest 100 I've ever made!" I smiled sweetly at him, not being able to resist torturing him, and said, "Yes. Good job. What are you going to spend it on in your nice, cozy cell?" He seemed to think for a moment, then the smile disappeared, and the lower half of one of his eyelids twitched. I walked away, laughing silently as his profane and unsafe for young ears shouts followed me out the door. I ran over to the Smithy's, glad that I finally had all pieces of the sword. When I'd entered in, the scorchio at the front looked up, and then looked back down with an agitated face. "I'm very busy with all these squire sword orders! Come back later!" I rolled my eyes and brought over the sword pieces. When he saw the unique markings on the shiny objects, his eyes widened and his expression changed. "The Man at Arms' sword! It would be and honor to reforge this!" and he quickly snatched up the sword pieces and got to work. I yawned as he fixed it, not paying any attention as he muttered to himself.

Finally, he had it all reforged, and I had to say, it was pretty impressive! Shiny, very shiny. It had a long blade which was very shiny, and it had a pretty golden hilt, which was also very shiny. But the best part was…..IT WAS SOOOO SHINY!!!! I took it from the smithy and thanked him, and before leaving, bought the squire sword on the counter. 'Yay,' I thought, 'A newer, stronger, metal weapon! I do dub thee….' I looked over the sword, running my paw up it to check texture, wondering what name I could devise from it. Nothing special, and it wasn't too shiny. (But it was definitely shinier than poor Toast.) I paused. Speaking of Toast……, "Toast?" I called, "Toast?! I lost my Toast!!!!!" I shrieked. "Don't we all?" said the smithy, and I looked at him questioningly. "Why, just this morning I put my toast on the table, and it was gone…" He sighed with a blissful look on his face. I backed away, guessing that now that I had a new sword, it was obvious that Toast had to go away. I was going to miss him, but oh well. I felt the hilt of the squire sword, only to feel that it had a sort of twisty shape to it. Then I got it. The name. "I do dub thee…..Squire Squiggle!!!" I held up Squire Squiggle boldly. Remembering that the smithy was in there, I thanked him, and dashed outside.

FINALLY, I returned to the Tavern, Master Torak's sword out. I got to his table and handed him his sword, noting that everyone was staring in awe at me. 'Okay, people. Feeling a little too self conscious and paranoid now.' I thought, swallowing nervously before turning my attention to Master Torak, who was holding his sword, mouth agape. "M-my sword!" he cried, making me feel more and more like I wanted to disappear, "You, you got my sword back! Thank you, m'lady, thank you!" I sighed, knowing I had to get this over with. I took out the Sponsor Form and held it out to Master Torak. "Eh, what's this?" he demanded. I swallowed again and replied, "I want to become a-the first female knight. I just need you to sponsor me." Torak looked at me in sheer awe and surprise, and I knew he was probably wondering if I were serious. "And before you say anything else, tell me how much weaker I am than a guy if I fought and won against the bandit in the arena. And why I have a sword. And why the heck I was given this sponsor form by the techo." Master Torak looked at me expressionlessly, obviously thinking it over. Then he suddenly took the form and said, "Fine. Go to –insert techo dude's name here- and tell him I will sponsor you. Once you have what you need, come meet me in the castle." And he walked out of the Tavern. I hastily tried to follow him when a lupe stepped in front of me, saying, "How did you-" but I cut him off, "NO DANGED STINKIN' COMMENT!!!!!!" Apparently, the suspense had built up a LITTLE too much in me, so I got out of there as fast as I could.

I was over at the Army Recruitment Center soon enough and told Mr. Techo, "Okay, Master Torak's gonna sponsor me, so give me the Letter of Consent thingy." Mr. Techo gaped at me and a frowned at him, and he shook his head to stop himself from staring and handed me the paper. "Thank you." I said, and walked out the door. Okay, two down, one to go. I started out walking, but decided that I was being way too slow and began to run back to Meri Acres. At the bridge, I met up with King Altador, and thought of it as a good idea to talk to him. We talked about all that sappy 'you need to prove it to your parents that you are ready' stuff and I raced off. Through the other farms and I had made it to my own. (Or was it Tor's own? Who cared? It was mine temporarily anyways.) I approached Patricia and Hubert, and of course, (Omigosh…) no Lucy. Putting on another act, I asked, "Oh mother and father! Where ever could dearest Lucy be?" Patricia said, "Oh, Sar! We were so worried!" Hubert continued, explaining, "When you didn't come back, we got worried. We sent Lucy out to do your chores, but she didn't come back." Patricia cut in, continuing, "She was mad that you got to go to Meridell and not her. She said that she wanted to go on an adventure, too. You don't think she-" Here she looked at Hubert, who said, "You don't think she went into Shadowglen Woods, would she? Sar, you must go find her!" Once again Patricia had to say something, "Please Sar. It's getting dark, and if she's lost and all alone, who knows what could happen to her?!"

'Are you done?' I thought as I nodded and turned my back on them, walking away. Behind me, I could hear Patricia sobbing and Hubert yelling, "LUCY!!" Okay, I won't torture you with the details of how I walked through Meri Acres Farms, so let's skip to the part where I arrive at the bridge. I went to the left, following the path that went to Shadowglen. Down the ledges, more of the path, and finally at the cave-like entrance of Shadowglen. As I walked through it, I noticed that the grass became more grey tinted and I wondered, 'How does grass grow in here with absolutely NO sunlight?' I dismissed the thoughts, focusing on the more important part of the quest. The tunnel ended and I looked at my surroundings. The first thing I noticed was the creepy music. I gasped. All this time, I had been going around so many different areas and was so used to hearing the music themes, that I had not noticed them. Now, I heard it. That ultra creepy theme of Shadowglen's. I shook my fist in the air and screamed, "Shut up! I hate you! Darn you to heck!" Okay, a little explanation here. I had gone through a phase when playing this game where I became scared of the creepy places, and going into the purple clouds. I'd hated it. (Believe it or not peoples, I, Cat, was scared to play certain parts of the game for a while! Then I got better and forgot about it. But I was SERIOUSLY scared.) I sighed, regaining my composure. I had to get this over with. So I ran. I ran down the slope, through that flat area of land where all those plant monsters are, up that neat little circle-shaped wooden bridge, up those ledges as I killed that evil vine like monster, down the zip line, across more flat land, up a path, on another ledge and climbing up those odd brown vines, MORE flat land, up some ledges, across that huge log plank, down the zip line, got the four leaf clover, across the river, and I had made it. I was at the entrance of the Juppie Monster's lair, and bringing out Squire Squiggly, I walked in. As soon as I had entered it, vines climbed up the entrance behind me and up the walls. I heard that Juppie Monster theme music, but it was distant as I spotted Lucy struggling in more vines, squealing, "HELP!!!!"

Suddenly, a loud rumbling was heard, and the Juppie Monster exploded out of that disgusting yellow goop, before going back in it. I heard a distinct rustling noise and turned around to smack a vine tentacle that had snuck up behind me. A giant juppie fell from the roof and I quickly got onto it. The Juppie Monster emerged out of the yellow liquid again. I roared and I leapt off the juppie as fast as I could. The monster struck out and stunned itself as it smashed the juppie, splattering me with juppie gunk. I made a face, but attacked the Juppie Monster viciously anyways, trying to slice its head off and yelling, "Die, die, DIE!!!!" After repeating this a few times, the Monster was dead. Lucy was slowly let down and skipped over to me, saying thank you before running out of the back of the cave. I followed her.

We ended out at our farm, and I cut down the negg plant on the ledge, getting a red negg in the process. Yay me! I jumped off of the ledge, and did one of those fancy somersaults again before straightening up and making my way back to the cabin.

I was pretty relieved to see the sunlight again after being in such a gloomy abode, (did I use that word right?) and took a deep breath. Happy me. I walked out of the crop field and went into the cabin to see Lucy explaining the battle between me and the Juppie Monster. "And then, it let out a BIG ROAR, and it wrapped its tentacles around her and I thought it was going to eat 'er, but she came it, HI-YAH!!!" Here she made a swishing motion as if wielding a sword, and then sighed, finishing with, "She was so brave!"

Trying to be like Tor, I ruffled Lucy's hair, and braced myself as Patricia suddenly hugged me saying, "Oh, Sar thank you!" I squirmed out of her arms, and said, "Listen, I went to Meridell, and they asked me if I wanted to be a squire!" I totally knew that wasn't true, but they didn't know that, "I could be the first female knight some day!! I just need you to…" I pretended to guiltily pull out the Letter of Consent, "Sign this." I bowed my head as if to say, 'Well, what do you think?'

Hubert and Patricia looked at each other. "Is this what you really want, Sar?" asked Hubert. "More than anything." I answered. He took the paper from my paws and smiled. "You've grown up faster than we imagined. You'll make a fine knight some day."

"My sister's going to be a knight!!!" squealed Lucy. "Write to us, often. And be careful." Patricia advised me with a pleading expression on her face. Hubert handed the signed Letter of Consent back to me, and we all headed out the door. I rushed away before I could be pulled into more bone crushing hugs, but still waved and shouted a goodbye to them as I dashed out the Ellis Family Farm. (I finally remembered what it was called!!)

Again, I will not use detail in how I uneventfully traveled through Meri Acres, down the paths, and over the bridge. So, let's start off at the Army Recruitment Center. I entered it with a broad smile on my face, and gave Mr. Techo the Letter of Consent. He nodded and said, "Well, that's all of it. Sorry about the run around I gave you. It helps weed out those who weren't cut out for being knights…or knightesses in your case. If you become a knight that is." He fished a chain mail squire's uniform from a drawer in his desk and handed it to me. I went into the next room and changed, and like Toast, my old clothes disappeared. Not that I cared; they itched.

Once I made sure that the uniform fit well, I took the rope off of my old clothes and tied my hair back with it. It was pretty thin, and stayed in. I guessed that it would be tough to do a 360 attack with my hair swishing all around me. I came out, thanked Mr. Techo, and walked out the door.

'Omg,' I realized, 'I'm a squire! OMG!' Sure, I didn't have to be so excited about it…but I was. I ran to the town square and entered the castle. I met Master Torak in the entryway, just like in the game. I approached him, and before I could say anything, he talked first, "Good, you're here. Well, what's your name, girl?" "Sar, sir." I told him, remembering to add the 'sir.' "All right then, Sar. You think life on the farm was hard? Well, it's going to be ten times worse here! Go get some sleep in the squire barracks! It will be the last sound sleep you have in a long time!"

Normal POV

Saura nodded, and went down the hallway that branched off to the left. She took a right down the next corridor, and at the end of it, made a left into the squire barracks. She remembered the first time that she had ever played this game, and got lost way too many times in the castle, just plain searching for the barracks! It now made her laugh, and she allowed herself a small smile.

In the barracks, she immediately saw Squire Grayson. She walked up to the green lupe and tapped his shoulder. He turned and blinked upon seeing her. "Yes, I'm a girl. I'm going to be the first girl knight in history!!! And by the way, I'm Sar!" she extended a paw, which Grayson slowly took and shook. (That rhymes!)

"I'm Grayson," said Grayson, "Um, good luck I guess." Saura smiled sweetly at him before walking over to her bed and falling asleep, when she had and odd dream. It was of a demonic looking faerie emerging out of water onto a beach and talking to herself about how the world was now fully of rainbows and bunny rabbits. In the morning, Saura didn't remember any of it.

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Me: Hi peoples! Part four is up! Go Saura, she made it! Woo!

Saura: -is over in the corner- Rainbows and bunny rabbits….make them all go away…