Chapter 7

After we ate, I saw Dudester take out flour, red berries, a pietin, and water. He used the flour and water to make some dough, and put the dough in the pie tin. He placed the red berries in the center of the dough, and covered them up with some more of the dough. Then he handed the uncooked pie to Mage. Mage took out some runes and prepared to cook the pie.

"I'll have a small slice please." I said

"The pie isn't for us! Its for the incando dwarf, Mage had done some research, and he found out that incando dwarves love red berry pies. Luckily I went to the grocery store before you woke up today and bought some red berries, and all of the other ingredients." Dudester said before he went back to work with the pie

"Ah, right" my attention turned back to Seltris "Something on your mind? You haven't said much lately. Anything wrong?"

"No, I'm just a little tired. I stayed up late reading some historical comedy." She said with a bright smile on her face

"Really? I don't really stay up reading unless it's really important, or it's an interesting novel. I'm just curious, but why did you come to Runescape?" I replied

"Lets talk about that later, ok?" she said softly

"Lets get going, the pie is done, and we don't have much time." Mage said

We packed up our supplies, and left. We came to a small hut on a peninsula. From the hut came the odor of hot metal. We knew immediately that it was the dwarf making one of the finest metal objects in all of Runescape.

"Ah! Good, he's working on that armor that I asked for. Shall we go in?" Dudester said in a cocky tone

As we entered the hut, I looked around. There was a bed, a small table, a chair, and an anvil with a dwarf hovered around it. The dwarf was a well-built character, strong forearms, tall shoulders, for a dwarf, and a long beard.

"Ay! Dudester!" yelled the dwarf over pounding his hammer into the metal.

"Are you almost finished? Bexran here is going to need that armor soon"

"Aye! It is finished. Thought I'd get to work on that sword you wanted. I have the blade, and I still need the ore for the hilt. I made that blade once, I can do it again! How'd ya say that that bloody squire lost it again? I believe that there's a cave up the hill there. Down the ladder, past the pirates, hobgoblins, ice knights, and ice giants. I'd go down there m'self, but I'm just a lil dwarf! I'd be killed before I even got down there!" replied the dwarf

"He was attacked by, uh, goblins. Ah, well, I guess we'll have to go down there ourselves. Do you still have my pick?" Dudester said in an annoyed manner

"Aye. Give me a sec." The dwarf said leaving the hut. When he came back he held a bundle of cloth. From the cloth he drew a marvelous light blue pickaxe. "Here ya be!" said the dwarf handing dwarf the pickaxe to Dudester "Du evarinya ono varda." He said ending the conversation and heading back to his hammering

What did he just say? That was weirder than that language that the Wise Old Man said to teleport away. I wonder what it meant. And who was that? I didn't get a name or anything! Just like he was reading my mind, Dudester said, "That was my friend, Dwarf809. he makes a lot of things for me, including this long sword" he said patting the hilt of his Dragon Long sword "I thanked him for the longest time after he gave it to me."

"What did he say to us? You know, in that strange language?" I asked

"He said in his native tongue 'May the stars watch over you'. It's a blessing!" this time it was Seltris

"How do you know that?" Mage said

"My mother knew a dwarf, and every evening after his death, my mother would say that to me." She replied

"Right, well, we'd better get going" Dudester said leading us up the hill next to Dwarf's house. On the top of the hill was a ladder leading down into a cavern. On the walls of the cave were torches, the fire burning bright enough for us to see pirates ahead of us. "Bex, Mage, and Seltris, get ready, I need you to defend me while we go through these tunnels." As he said this we all drew our weapons. Me taking out Bluerite, Seltris stringing her bow, and Mage readying his runes, we prepared to defend Dudester at all costs.

As we neared the pirates, I noticed that there was one with a hook on his hand. The captain. I noticed that I still had my other sword still in its sheath. Silently, I drew the second blade. I looked over at Dudester with a wide grin on my face. He looked back at me like I was crazy. I counted down the moments until I would rush in on my opponents. Three, two, one! Go! I ran in, swords flung outward at my sides. I heard a swoosh, as an arrow flew past my head. The arrow struck one of the pirates in the forehead, killing him instantly. I changed my course toward the next pirate, only to find him hit by a fireball. "Guys!" I yelled "I want to kill something too you know!"

"Behind you!" Seltris and Mage called

I turned around to find a pirate trying to sneak up on me. I crossed my swords, and moved them around his neck. With one movement, his head came clean off. I nearly gagged at the sight of the head rolling on the ground. I gathered myself together and moved toward the head of the pirates. Just as soon as I moved, the captain drew his sword, and started the battle. He swung and I blocked. I cross-chopped, and he parried. He swung his sword downward and I caught it between my swords. My muscles strained under the weight and power of the pirate and his sword. The captain then made a move; he removed his sword, and cut the strap of my bag. It crashed to the floor, my items spilling everywhere. Then he hit me with his elbow, knocking me, and my swords to the floor with my other gear. The pirate placed the tip of his sword at my throat, and then started laughing in a deep voice.

"Ha! I win and you used two swords! Ha! Drop your tools. If you don't, this boy dies!"

I looked at the things sprawled on the floor. Among them was everything that I had gotten from Tutorial Island. One of these caught my eye. It was the first thing that I had ever smithed in my life; my bronze dagger. I hadn't noticed it when I first arrived because it was so small, and due to it being caught on the side of my bag. I carefully picked it up, and quickly stabbed it through the captain's foot.

"Ow! Ah!" he said grabbing his foot and started hopping around

At that moment I grabbed the adamant long sword, and stabbed him through his chest. He fell back, and all of the other pirates started jumping around in celebration.

"You did it! You killed him! He was the best swordsman of all of us, and you killed him! Huzzah!" cried one of the pirates "We are in your debt!"

"Can you lead us past the hobgoblins? And guard us from the ice giants?" Dudester said

"Of course! Is it the bluerite ore that you require?"

"Yes, how did you know?" I said

"I didn't, I was just curious. But if that's what you need, then here you go!" the pirate said heading to a big bag. There he pulled out a navy blue stone. He carefully walked over to us and handed me the stone. "This is it! We have more that we will carry up for you if you want."

"That would be great!" Seltris exclaimed

The pirates worked together to carry the bag up the ladder, and to Dwarf's house. As soon as Dwarf spotted the parade of pirates, I noticed a huge grin stretch across his face. The pirates dropped the bag of ore outside of the hut, and asked

"Now what do we do? We have paid our debt, and now we have nothing! Oh well, at least we were spared. I guess we should start new lives as citizens in Runescape." Said the pirate

"Yes, and we thank you for your help." I said

The pirates danced away, all going back the way to Port Sarim. Wow! What an eventful day! We actually met a dwarf, pirates! What else does Runescape hide?

Thanks to Christopher Paolini, for without him, I could not put in Dwarves blessing…