Another rushed story, but it was worth writing. My fingers feel numb now...


Chapter 7: Mainland Lumbrige

"I should have known better to hire a bandit whose body is bigger than their brain!" The captain snapped. "He is reaching the last tutorial, after that, he is going to leave the Tutorial Island. What happened to the two bandits who I ordered to eliminate the last tutor?!" The bandit captain looked nervous, beads of sweat ran down his face, it looks like he was taking part in an exam. An exam of life or death.

"Uh, they are coming soon sir...they just, need to um.." The bandit captain stuttered. "Silence! If he leaves the Island, I will slit your throat and spit down your neck! Now begone before I get sick just from looking at you!" The bandit captain nodded and ran off, out the door.

Back in tutorial Island...

"Okay guys, I lost, I admit it...You guys are fast!" I gasped for air. Ballbags32 took first place, he was mighty proud of himself. We were just outside the last tutor's house. I stepped forward, hand reaching the door knob. I heard rumbling and crashing from inside. I took a few steps back, and a loud scream could be heard. A bandit came flying out the door, half charred. Out came a wizard, wearing nothing but blue. Blue wizard hat, blue robes and blue skirt. He walked out with another bandit, neck being gripped hard. The bandit struggled to break free from his clutches.

The wizard lifted the bandit in front of him, raised his staff so the tip touches his belly. Out came a burst of bright light, the body went flying into the distance, never seeing him again. As for the other bandit, he was burnt alive. I could smell his meat being roasted. The wizard quickly looked at us, eyes as sharp as daggers. He grabbed me and Ballbags32 by the collar, and he lifted us, a few off the ground.

"So, you bandits want more?!" His voice was tough and scary. "No, we are just adventurers." Ballbags32 struggled. The wizard's eyes lighten up and he was calm. He slowly dropped us down to the ground. We both coughed hard and loud, thinking that our lungs would explode. I would rather let my lungs explode than being sent off flying into the distance. The wizard smiled at us and asked us to come in. We sat around a square table where he shared us his experiences with the bandits.

"So, anyone wants tea? I am making some right now." I could hear the kettle whistling in the kitchen, calling out to the wizard that it was time to lift it up from the stove. "Sure, we could use some." I answered warmly. He nodded, got up from his chair and walked to the kitchen to make tea. I felt something was missing. I search my pockets and bag I couldn't find it.

"I lost my bronze dagger!" I yelled, rummaging my bag. "Don't worry, its nothing special anyways. It is not like its a jagex bronze dagger or anything..." Ballbags32 looked at me and smiled. He was sitting next to me, checking his bow. "What the hell is a jagex bronze dagger?" I asked. He shrugged and continued his checking. "Don't worry, I think there are better weapons in the outside world than that silly old dagger." She was right. What was I thinking! I was all worked up because of loosing a lousy old dagger. I could find countless more weapons than that piece of butter knife.

The wizard came out the door, holding three pile of brown books and on top of them, lay our teas. "My name is Terrera by the way, what are yours?" He asked, dropping the pile of books on the table and handing our tea. "My name is Rapid_Crystal, but you can call me Crystal, that is Ballbags32." -He gave a slight wave- "And that is Sinlimitless, but you can call him Sin. Nice to meet you Terrera." I couldn't have done it any better.

"Well, let us start out tutorial. Take these books, they are very useful for practicing the arts of magic. You must never leave without them." He passed us along a brown book, with a symbol of magic on the cover. I opened the book and read the first few pages. They had weird logos in the book. It looks like a weird circle shape, with a drawing on it. It had different logos for different spells. The logos I saw were- One had a white curvy line, running across the circle, the other had an orange looking logo, which looks like a sun.

"What are these?" I asked Terrera. He looked at the book and the logos I pointed. "Oh, those are called runes. They are the magic sources used for spells. Different runes equals different spells. Some may be used for combat, some for teleporting, some for your own leisure purposes such as alchemy or smelting ores without a furnace." My eyes widen as I flipped through all the spells. "This is cool!" Ballbags32 yelled in excitement. "Reading it, is nothing. Doing it, is what it counts." Terrera added. He motioned us to come through a room. We all quickly finished our tea and followed him.

We came into a room, where a gate lay a few meters away. At the other side of the gate, chickens were clicking and pecking the floorboards in search for food. "This, is where you may start your training. Try casting a few air strikes at them." He handed us a few runes. They were smooth to the touch. "These are air and mind runes. Mind runes are used for basic attack spells. Go ahead and try them." He took a step back and watched us do our things.

"I combined the runes together and they slowly molded into each other, forming a circular white ball. I could feel the wind blowing hard cool around my palms. I aimed at a chicken and quickly released the ball of air. It struck the chicken and the chicken went flying, hitting the back wall and it came to a stop. Crystal and Ballbags32 tried but failed a few times. They tried again and accidentally attacked the same chicken. The chicken flew back, breaking the back wall. The other chicken ran to escape. I looked at Terrera, he just shook his head.

"I cannot tell you how much I am...." He stopped his sentence mid-way. My heart raced, waiting for his answer. He looked at us and smiled. "Proud of all of you!" He finished his sentence. We all jumped for joy, happy from his words. "All of you are born magicians. All of you have something inside that no one can take away." His voice rang so true. No one can take away our pride, our determination, our awesomeness..."All of you are finished with this tutorial. All of you may go to the mainland Lumbridge. Use the home teleport spell in your book to teleport to the homeland. We all smiled at each other and took out our magic book.

I read the magic words. "Homious Luminus!" A blue book and a white paint brush appeared in front of me. I knew exactly what to do. I picked up the paint brush and drew a perfect circle around me. I took the book and sat down. I opened it and chant the spell in my heart. The circle around me slowly formed and covered me. Everything shifted and change as I started to teleport. The others were being teleported away too.

Everything was black. I felt like I was being stretched, being sucked into a black hole, being ripped apart. I wanted to scream but something instincts told me not to. My body continued to stretched, longer and longer. I felt like time itself was going slower. I closed my eyes, waiting for all of it to finish.

"Will you get off of me?" Ballbags32 mumbled at me. I opened my eyes and I was standing on Ballbags32. I quickly helped him on his feet. "Great to see you. I thought you wouldn't come." He cleaned his shirt of dust and dirt. I looked around me, walls surrounded me, and big giant metal gate lay at the east of me, and a giant castle stood proud and strong west of me. A fountain filled with water of joy and happiness was on the north and south of me. People were yelling, following and annoying the heck out of everyone. I couldn't hear myself think. I was thinking that, maybe I could stay in the castle, than I could think for a moment.

I bumped into countless of people, trying to get into the castle. As I walked to the door, two guards blocked my way by using their spears as a blockage. "You cannot pass here. Unless you do something for us!" The guards looked buffed and strong. Their muscled bulged and ripped. They looked tired and thirsty from all the talking and hard work. "Hey, let us through! The sun is killing us!" Everyone complained. "Shut yer whining and get lost!" The guard shoved a defenseless guy. He lay flat on the floor, eyes filled with disgust.

"Look lad, please leave, we are in no mood to joke around. The king is having an important meeting and he does not like to be disturbed." The guard cleared his throat and took out his water bottle. He tried to take a drink but no water came out. "Maybe I could refill your water, will you then let everyone through?" I asked. The guard took a second to think. A smile could be seen from his face.

"Sure lad, wile you are at it, refill my partner's one too!" I took his water bottle and his partner's too and walked straight to the fountain. I filled each of the bottle with clear sparkling clean water.

I walked back to the guard, shoving and pushing people out of the way. I hand them both their water bottle and they opened the door. For a second, no one spoke nor moved. I walked in the castle with Ballbags32 and heard everyone cheered. The guard called me for the last time. "Thanks for the drink kid, here, you deserve it!" The guard hand me a piece of paper, and the paper had a signature on it.

Quest Complete

Lumbridge Guard

Rewards:

Entrance to Lumbridge castle.

1 QP

"QP?" I asked myself. "Quantity packets? Quality Price?" I asked Ballbags32. I remembered from what the Quest guide told me. QP are Quest Points. I took out my quest log and slipped the piece of paper in the book. I stuffed it back in the tabs pouch. There was a three split way. "Left, right or straight?" I asked Ballbags32. "I don't know, lets go left!" I took his advice and walked left. We aren't allowed to enter the door straight because a guard was in the way. There was a right turn and straight ahead, leaded to a winding staircase. I saw a boy, struggling with a rat. The rat was hanging on to the boy's face with violence and hatred. We stood back, watching, not doing a damn thing. He quickly pulled it away from his face and quickly slashed it while it was down.

I heard a window broke and after a few seconds, a girl screamed. I quickly looked out the window and there was Crystal, screaming as half the corpse of the dead rat lay on her head. She was jumping around, screaming at the top of her lungs and the boy just laughed and walked away with his friend. He entered through the door on his right, and I could smell the nice fragrance of fresh crispy bread when he opened it. The screaming stopped as Crystal was aided by some people to remove the dead rat.

I and Ballbags32 walked on straight, walking past the guard who was looking at the two boys suspiciously. I decided not to think about it. We climbed up the stairs and there was a long corridor, leading to the other side of the staircase. I could see three door, leading to three different rooms. At the side of the door, there was a name tag. "Spinning room, Bed Room, Duke's Room." I read aloud. Spinning room? The thought of a room without gravity stuck in my head for a while. Nothing interesting was around the second floor.

We went up to the third floor where almost everyone gathered. I saw the name tag. 'Bank' I looked at the edge of the castle and could see everything from up here. I could feel the wind's fingers flowing through Ballbags32's and my hair. I saw Crystal at the other side of the corridor, she climbed up the staircase, eyes looking furious. She marched towards us, I could felt her heat and anger building inside her.

"Where have you been?! I have been looking for you both, and the last thing I got, was a dead rat on my head!" We tried not to laugh, short burst of air came out from our mouths as we tried hard not to giggle. "Well, we might as well go to the bank to deposit our stuff." We all agreed. We stepped in line, waiting for our turn. When I was next, I greeted the banker, who was a lady, wearing a gray framed glasses, around her thirties. I put in my pin, and deposited twenty coins, my rune 2h and some other junk such as a bucket, small net, tinder box and hatchet.

I walked away and tried to walk out of the exit but two dudes came in, wearing a black mask, wielding a crossbow, he aimed it right to my face, and I could feel the cold tip of the bolt, touching the tip of my nose.

"Everyone, get down! This is a bank robbery!" One of the robber slammed his crossbow butt at my face, and knocked me down on the blue, yellow trimmed carpet. Everyone started to panic and lay flat on their stomach, not daring to say another word. The whole place was quiet, the robber closed the door and locked it, so no guard may interrupt. I could feel the sharp tip of a bolt on my head as the robber screamed.

"If anyone of you are trying to be a hero, this guy will get it." The guy he was referring to was me of course. I could feel the bolt shaking because the holder was probably nervous. Was this how I wanted it to end? Killed by an armed robber? I heard someone gasped and the trigger was squeezed.


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