Forgive and Forget chapter 3: A JOB
I am changing the teams profession from questors to thieves. I am not very familiar with all of the terms but I do know a lot of them even if I do not know what they are. I am also giving Leithe more holy magic than he usually has. I like him and I like to make him awsome.
"Walter!" was heard from the man as he burst through the door. "Walter! Great news! There's a big job in the city… eh? He's awake?"
The newcomer had a head of long hair tied in a high ponytail. He was short and thin, probably reaching only to my nose and being even shorter than Caecilia; about the same height as Yuna. Of course, I can tell that I too am short and skinny but I do have some muscle and I am third tallest in the room. Igor and Walter were definitely the tallest. His voice, however, was a great contrast with his small build, sounding like a foghorn blasting in my ears.
This should be the party's expert thief – Archie that I had been told about. He probably was good at being a thief. His small body could be useful in fitting in small spaces.
When Archie noticed that I was awake, he quickly calmed down. "Aiyah! You're awake? That's great, we can finally take up assignments again! But then the news I had heard this morning would have been for nothing…"
"What is it?" asked Walter.
Archie looked at the group as he said, "There's a pretty big mission in the city that doesn't require leaving the city, and the pay's not bad too. I was thinking of hurrying back to share it with you guys."
"That's good for you guys, isn't it?" I asked.
Walter gave a little cough before introducing me. "This is our new member, Leithe. He's a light priest, or a dark priest, we don't know. He will be staying with us until he makes enough money to pay us back and earn enough to travel and find out who he is."
Archie made a sound of comprehension before welcoming me. He then began to excitedly explain the task. "You guys have heard about how the Holy Knights have been scattered around the different countries, right?"
Everyone nodded, with me being the exception. "Holy Knight?"
I felt like I knew the term but I couldn't place where I had heard it. I didn't think any of the other four had mentioned it since I had woken up.
"Oh, right, you have amnesia so you wouldn't know." Said Caecilia, "The 12 Holy Knights. They are practically in control of the Church of Light. They are the strongest knights in the country. They can control massive amounts of holy energy. They can cast spells and use magic-"
Igor cut in, "And they are amongst the best of worriers as well. Skilled at fighting with swords."
Archie was getting annoyed, "Alright, can I speak now. Okay, so a day ago a group of holy knight officials or something discovered a stone on a man. The stone has extremely strong holy power."
"What does this have to do with the Holy Knights?" Asked Walter crossing his arms.
"I'm getting there." He replied and continued, "Some holy priest or something was able to identify the stone and it turns out that it is a priceless stone that belongs to one of the Holy Knights. The man got away but the stone is now being moved to the Church in town. I think that this is what they have been scouring the countries for. This precious stone or whatever."
"Really!" Caecilia said, most likely only hearing the part about a priceless stone.
"Yeah!" he said matching her enthusiasm, "But we have to steal it soon. I heard that some of the 12 Holy Knights are coming to collect the stone and do an investigation on the man who had taken the stone. They will be here in a week and the stone will be at the church in three days."
I was a little worried. It was okay to go against just some priest but to go against the Holy Knights. It was insane. From what they said the Knights were powerful and could probably wipe the floor with us. When I had voiced my objections they just shrugged.
"Listen, Leithe, this is why once we get a job done we leave the city and never return to it till our faces are forgotten even if they had no idea who we are." Archie said, "We have done this over a hundred times and have never been caught once. This stone sold on the black market could set us up for life and we may never have to steel again."
Caecilia cheered her approval, "Woohoo, early retirement."
"And didn't you want to find out who you are? With this kind of money you wouldn't even need to repay us. We would be loaded we wouldn't even count the difference and you can search for who you are." I reluctantly agreed to Walter's words.
Yuna shook her head, "You all think this is going to be easy? You remember the last time we stole from the Church of Light. We had those little posh priest on our tail for a whole month and with Holy Knights coming we may have the same problem."
"She's right. We need to do this the very night it gets there so that we have enough time to get out of here before any Knights come. We need to come up with a plan in less than in two days." Igor said.
Everyone then left the room so that I could get some sleep. Despite my great healing ability, I still needed rest.
Archie, it seems, was a rather cunning thief. He had thought up a plan that he thought would surely get us the stone the very next day. After about an hour of hearing all of our parts, I really didn't get anything major, I began to study on how to use my holy power. With a little help from Yuna, I was actually able to figure out how to use Holy Blessing. She had been impressed with how easy it came to me in less than a day.
"You must have used this before." She told me, "Maybe your stronger than I thought. Let's try some healing spells. You don't know what type of trouble those holy priest will have up their sleeves."
I had practiced using different leave healing spells the that day after I had mastered the holy blessing. Yuna had said to take a break the next day so that I could go out with Igor and see if I could find a priest staff. I was excited to finally get out of the inn that we were staying at.
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TELL ME HOW I DID. I KNOW LEITHE IS A LITTLE OOC BUT THAT IS JUST BECAUSE HE HAS NO MEMORY. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.
P.S.
I AM GOING TO START WORKING ON A SEQUAL SOON AND I HAVE ALREADY FINISHED ALL OF THIS STORY'S CHAPTERS.