(Author: Well if any of you readers like to read about pretty pink ponies…then this is the wrong story. Ok sorry I had to put that down some time. Enjoy.)
When they entered the city they immediately heard the sound of music. It wasn't a fast loud music but more of a music that was soft and calm. The people in the city would talk but generally be quiet on very rare occasions would there ever be yelling in the city streets. Throughout the city there were many different rivers and streams flowing throughout. They walked around but couldn't find any signs telling them how to get to a clinic or shipyard. They walked into a nearby building that looked important. They found that the building that they had walked into was actually a museum. They looked around till they found a man at a desk.
"Hello how may I help you today?" said a man with an Indian accent.
"We could use some help. We have a friend outside of town that has a few hundred horses that we could use getting rid of and we could use a clinic." answered James.
"Three houses down we have a clinic and for your horse problem the only person rich enough in this town that would buy them is the chief merchant down by the ship yard, do you know where that is?"
"No."
"If you notice that on the rode there are blue colored cobblestone tiles."
"No, I didn't."
"Well there are. So if you follow the blue tiles it will eventually bring you to the harbor." replied the man not being to happy about getting interrupted.
"Thanks."
So they left the Museum and followed the brick to the harbor. As they looked down the strip they saw a large building with many different colored bricks. They expected to find the chief merchant there and when they reached the building they found that they were right. When they entered three men armed with lances immediately blocked them.
"What do you want here." yelled one of the soldiers.
"We want to see the chief merchant."
"What makes you think that you can just walk in here and have an audience with the chief."
"This does!" James yelled back, drawing his sword.
He stepped in front of Charlotte ready to defend himself and her but before he had to the Chief Merchant walked in.
"What is going on here." called a very fat man who was being carried on a large tray thing.
"These two came in here and attacked us." wined the soldier.
"That's not true, we walked in and you guys attacked us." contradicted James.
"What did you want then?" asked the merchant.
"We have a business proposition for you."
"Very big words for such a little man. Ha Ha Ha. What kind of a proposition?"
"We have a few hundred horses outside of town that we need to get rid of and we need a ship. We will trade you all the horses for a ship fully loaded with supplies."
"How many horses are we talking about?"
"About three hundred, four hundred at most."
"Hmm. Then it is a deal. We will have the ship sitting in the harbor for you in an hour."
James and Charlotte left and walked back to the clinic.
"I'm sorry that we didn't stop here first Charlotte."
"That's ok it was my fault that this happened anyway."
They entered the clinic and the doctor told them that it would take a little while for him to clean it out and bandage it up. James left the clinic and the city to join Jason with the horses.
"So what's up?" asked Jason.
"I got us a ship and someone to buy the horses. Right now Charlotte is at the
hospital getting the arrowhead taken out. We need to go join her. Are you ready?"
"Yea, for like the past hour!"
"Then pick out three of the best horses and lets get going."
Jason picked out a white horse, a black horse, and a brown horse. They started to ride down into the city with the horses in single file. James led the horses while Jason followed up in the back. They reached the shipyard where the chief merchant was waiting for them. His servants took away the horses (accept for the three that they had picked out) and he presented them with their ship. The ship was painted blue and even though it wasn't very big it was heavily built. They put the three horses on the boat, witch the noticed was completely loaded and prepared for a yearlong voyage. Then Jason and James headed back to the hospital. When they got there they found out that Charlotte had just gotten done.
"How's your arm, Charlotte?" James asked.
"It hurts but it doesn't sting as much now"
"You will need to take these herbs with you to put on every day to keep it from getting infected then wrap her arm up again with a clean cloth. You are lucky that you can still walk." said the doctor.
"Charlotte, Jason, we need to go get stocked up on any supplies that we might need besides food before we leave so lets hurry."
As they walked through the city they saw various shops that they hadn't noticed before. They bought three new packs and Jason bought himself a couple more daggers. As they walked by a blacksmith's shop Charlotte noticed that the blacksmith had an ax on display that had a jet-black blade and platinum designs engraved on the handle. Between the two halves of the blade where the handle ran there was a black sphere encrusted in the handle. Charlotte ran over to the shop and picked it up. She had no problem lifting it and it was only a little smaller than the giant's ax that she had.
"James, will you please bye me that ax? Please?" she started to give him puppy eyes.
"Greedy little brat," Jason mumbled under his breath.
"How much is it?"
"0Its 5,000 gold coins!"
"Holy Crap! That's way too much!" yelled Jason.
"Hey you can't talk, you both already have nice weapons. I bet they both cost more than that ax!"
"She does have a point there," James said looking at Jason.
"Whatever," Jason said not wanting to fight about it any more.
So Charlotte bought the ax, even though Jason didn't want her to. They couldn't think of any more that they needed so they started to follow the road down to the harbor. On the way down the road they started to see a large crowd of people crowded in the street.
"That's weird?" James said looking at the crowd.
"What is it?" Jason asked.
"Those people down the street there it isn't usual for the people to be crowding in the streets like that."
"Hey, let's go check it out!"
As they approached the crowd they noticed that there was a parade going through.
"I wonder who's so important?" asked the knight.
"Well, whoever it is must be pretty important," answered Jason.
"Let's try to make our way to the front," suggested Charlotte.
When they got to the front of the crowd the person that the parade was for was passing by and they were in full view.
"Hey! I know her!" James yelled, "Krystal! Hey Krystal!"
A lady riding by on a white horse turned and looked toward James. She jumped off her horse, ran, and hugged James.
"James! What are you doing here?"
"I'm travelling on a mission for King Albert. How about you?"
"That isn't important. So what are you doing for the king that is so important that you would leave Serdio?"
"Didn't you hear? About a week ago bandits attacked Bale and I am pursuing them."
"Alone? Oh my!"
No actually I started off with my whole knighthood but they were all killed in an ambush by the bandits. Now I am traveling with my two friends. This is Jason and this is Charlotte.
"Hello."
"Hey," responded Jason.
"Hi!" Charlotte said excitedly.
"Jason, Charlotte, this is my friend Krystal. She is Kaiser, the leader of the 1st Knighthood's daughter. If you two didn't know King Albert made her father the governor of the city of Kazas. We have known each other since we were little children. So what were you doing here, Krystal?"
"I am visiting because my father has been trying to make allies of the cities outside of Endiness that border Serdio. He sent me as kind of a symbol of peace. Hey, you said that you were going to the harbor right?"
"Um yea why?"
"I will come with you then."
Krystal's group escorted them down to the harbor where Krystal admired their ship.
"James…may I come with you?" Krystal said while still staring at the boat.
"Why? We probably wont be coming back ourselves."
"I'm ok with it," Jason interrupted.
"What? You are!" James gasped.
"Sure we could always use extra company," Jason replied coolly.
"Cool another girl! I'm for it."
"Well then I guess you can come then."
They boarded the ship and brought Krystal's horse on the boat too. As they were getting ready to go a piratish looking man boarded.
"What do you want?" James said drawing his sword.
"Are you planning on sailing this vessel all by your selves?"
"Well, yea why?"
"Sailing a ship isn't as easy as it seams. I would be willing to help you people sail this though. I have already heard you say that you don't plan on coming back alive and I don't care. The only thing that I would want in return for my service is that I may take your ship if none of you 'come back alive'."
"Why would you be so willing to help us?" Jason asked.
"Until recently I had my own ship but it was wrecked. In a way I kind of miss the sea."
"I guess you can come as long as you keep out of trouble we could use some help. Now what is you name."
"My name is Aaron."
The sun was almost gone by the time they left that night with Aaron captaining the ship. The group was tired from the events that happened that day and all fell asleep pretty quick. Even though James didn't trust Aaron he fell asleep hoping that he wouldn't regret it. But before any of them went to sleep they could see lights all over the harbor moving.
(Author: Will James regret trusting Aaron? Keep reading to find out. Don't forget to send reviews.)
