Chapter 3: First Fight
Traxex and Nortrom continued down the path in silence. The party passed a tower while traveling, and Traxex was only amazed by the appearance of it. Noting the fact that Nortrom prefers silence, she didn't bother questioning the mysterious things they passed. After a few minutes, they passed a second tower and came across a group of creatures fighting. Traxex just stood behind Nortrom in awe of what she was observing, while he took aim with his glaives.
"S-So what are we supposed to do now?" Traxex questioned, having trouble taking everything in.
"Kill these things and collect gold."Nortrom stated coldly.
Traxex readied her bow, aiming at a bleeding creature. Before her arrow landed, a purple arc of energy killed it. She raised her brow in question of this, but shrugged it off. However, when she shot her next arrow, the same thing happened.
A mysterious and maniacal voice laughed,"Denied."
"Huh?" Traxex blurted, unaware of the next event.
The mysterious voice appeared and fired a green projectile towards her. As per a normal reaction, Traxex started to run. The projectile landed on her, and slowed her run to a slow walk. From the trees, a weird fish-like man attacked Traxex. He leashed her to the ground and was cutting her arm open. Traxex howled in pain, but Nortrom ignored her. Through tear-filled eyes, she made out the sight of Lyralei running to her.
As the leash broke between Traxex and the ground, Lyralei threw shackles at the fish. He was tangled with the purple man behind him. She then took Traxex's arm and started to run behind the tower. Lyralei gave her friend a weird green bottle, filled with some liquid. While the potion effect initiated, the similar sight of vines and roots surrounding her arm comforted her mind.
"I am so sorry Traxie, I wanted to get enough gold for these boots. I didn't think you would have gone out and gotten into a fight." Lyralei blurted quickly, crying.
"It's okay. I'm not too hurt." Traxex said, bringing Lyralei in a hug. "Getting hurt is better than getting killed. Want to help me get them back?"
Lyralei only nodded as they got up and searched for the people behind Traxex's near-dead experience. They were able to catch the fish-like man alone, while the purple man was retreating. Lyralei managed to tangle him with the creature right behind him. The two let out a barrage of arrows, managing to slay him. They went over to his corpse, taking all the gold they managed to find from it.
"We did it, Traxie!"Lyralei shouted, jumping around in circles.
Traxex only smiled, bringing her friend in for a hug.
(Author's note) This is going to be the last update until 9/9. School's kicking back up and I'm not gonna have much time to write. I'll do my best to update about every Friday. This story isn't ending anytime soon.