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Now, there might have been a problem where the last chapter ends with Taurus's death. I actually ended it where Pel meets Lautrec. To sum up, they team up with Solaire, kill the channeler, boar, and bernike knight. Pel tells Lauty he knows his plans but isn't going to stop him. Shocker, I know. I'm also going to name my chapters!
Pelanor walked back to Solaire and Oscar with a new person behind him. "Who's this?" Oscar asked. "This is Lautrec of Carim. He's agreed to help us with a few things because I freed him." "Hello there! I am Solaire of Astora."Solaire chimed,happy
tomeet new friends. "I'm Oscar, also of Astora." Oscar followed up with a question "why were you locked up? I'm assuming you were, because Pel said he freed you.."
"Ah, I expected one of you to ask that. One of my traveling companions and I got in a heated argument before he pulled his sword on me. The lunatic actually tried to killme. I'm guessing you can tell what happened after." Lautrecresponded.
"You killed him and somebody locked you up for it?" Oscar asked, rhetorically, as he knew the answer. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but shall we continue?" Solaire asked, not in an impatient way. "Yes, let's go. I'm itching to ringa bell." Pelanor said,
almost as eager to do this as Oscar.
Oscar was skeptical of the newcomer. Locked up...what did he reallydo? I know he's lying about the story, but I can't tell them until I have enough proof.He thought. Suddenly, he had an idea. "Lautrec, What was your companion'sname?"
"Creighton. He was a wanderer before I met him. We grouped up with another, Pate, I think he said his name was. But this was quite a while back. I've been in that cell for almost a year now, I thought everybody had forgotten aboutme."
He answered that quickly..almost as if he had rehearsed it.. Oscar thought, his suspicion only growing.
The team climbed two ladders, then were on a narrow platform. A fog wall stood in their path. Pelanor aproached it, stuck his hand out, and walked through. It dissipated momentarily, then after the rest walked through the now clear doorway, reformed.
"Okay, that gargoyle up there is alive and will try to kill us. Once we wound it heavily, another will swoop in and spray us with flames." Pelanor explained. "Gargoyles? What guards the other bell, half spider people?" Oscar joked.
"Yeah, actually. Just one though. She's kinda a bitch." Pelanor replied.
They aproached the middle of the roof when the gargoyle in the front left started moving. First, it flexed its jaw. Then, it gripped its halberd tighter. It shook its wings almost violently, breaking off a thin layer of dust and what looked like stone
/and let out a small roar. It lept from the thin pedistal it had stood on, and landed a few meters away from the team. It smashed its halberd deep into the tiles of the roof. It extended its wings to full length and looked up as it unleashed an ear
/piercing shriek.
"Alright! This is where it reallybegins!" Pelanor said as he and Oscar charged the beast. Oscar landed a blow in its gut, Pelanor missed by a bit, and Solaire threw a bolt at it, square in the face. It flew up and used itstail, which
had a dual axe head instead of a regular point, and hit Oscar in the chest. He flew back a ways and didn't get up for a bit.
It was hard getting up when you couldn't breath. Oscar found this out the hard way. "You didn't warn us about any tail axes!" He shouted at Pelanor after regaining his breath and footing.
Lautrec swiftly moved around the gargoyles halberd attacks and locked his dual sickles around its tail and cut it off. It roared in pain, then Oscar ran and stabbed its face.
The gargoyle was confused as to whom it should kill first. As if an answer to this, the other one came crashing down and spewed flames at Pelanor and Oscar.
Solaire threw his last lightning bolt at the wounded gargoyle to get its attention while Lautrec crept behind it. He jumped up and chopped off the gargoyles head. The beast hit the floor hard and sat there for a moment before exploding into souls.
Pelanor charged the new gargoyle and stabbed its side and noticed something. This gargoyle still has its tail. Hmm..when I dragged Solaire into this, it must have changed the story, and he wouldn't have wounded this one before leaving his sign. He
thought. I wonder what else I changed by every small decision I made, and how much I willchange. The thought of everything depending on his actions frightened him, so he didn't see it coming.
The gargoyle swung its halberd and it cut deeply into Pelanors' side, then engulfed him in flames. Oscar took this opportunity and started hacking atits wings until they were no more than flaps ofskin connected to bones.
Lautrec leaped foreword and sunk his blades into the guardians shoulders. He couldn't do much afterwards, so he was powerless to stop the shield that slammed into him. He tumbled off the gargoyles back, and almost off the roof. Solair barely caught
him, then pulled him up.
"Ah, thanks for that" he said. "No problem, friend. But we must kill this thing before we celebrate." Solaire said through gritted teeth.
The beast was distracted with Lautrec, so Pelanor took a few swigs of estus. He then slid on his back, under the gargoyle, and thrusted his sword upwards. His blade sank into the gargoyles chest and it collapsed on him. Like the other one, it exploded
moments later into white wisps that flew into each member. Lautrec retrieved his sickles from the roof, and said "I'm going now. I don't think you need my help to ring a bell." "Alright. Good luck out there goldy." Pelanor replied.
The knights of Astora walked into the tower that housed the bell at the top. They went up a ladder, across a platform, and up another ladder. They reached the lever that would ring the first Bell of Awakening.
"Oscar, you became undead to pursue this, you should get the honors." Pelanor said. Oscar replied "We wouldn't have gotten this far without you. I would be dead, and who knows what this jolly fellow would have gotten himself into?
No, my friend, the honor is yours." "That's...very nice of you, but I'll get the next one. Please just do this." Pelanor said firmly.
Oscar walked over to the lever, and pulled. It wasn't as easy as he made it look, as the lever hadn't been used in centuries, probably. The ringing of the bell echoed all through Lordran. Well, Ash Lake probably didn't hear it. Or Izalith. Or-Okay,
you know what? Upper Lordran heard it. Happy?
"Next stop: Andre and the garden of Darkroot." Pelanor said.
End of that chapter! I'll be making them much shorter, as my schedule has been crowded recently and I haven't found much time to write. Please leave some reviews stating your ideas, likes, dislikes, and concerns about the story. Thank you all for staying with me in this journey and reading this polished turd of a story.