Dawn approached the dark sky barely lit with any light, Krissy and Athis packed their things up and headed out on their journey. They walked on the road in silence, Krissy examining the map trying to find a quicker path. Athis cleared his throat loudly grabbing her attention. "So how many bears do you think are going to be in the cave?" He asked looking over at her. "Who knows 10,5,7." She shrugged tilting her head a bit looking at the map at a different angle.
He chuckled to himself. "Don't worry I'll protect you." He smirked looking away. She slowly lowered the map looking at him annoyed, she sighed rolling her eyes looking back down at the map.
She stopped walking placing her finger onto the map. "There." She pointed. "What?" Athis asked stopped looking at the map. "I've found a quicker path to the cave we need to get too, if we take this path then we might just get there with out having to stop to camp." She looked at him giving him a half smile. "Well then lets go." He said they both beginning to walk again.
A few hours have passed and it was probably around 8 in the morning, Vilkas had finally decided to get out of bed not getting a wink of sleep. He couldn't stop thinking about Krissy and how he treated her, he felt bad and his heart was pained by it but he tried his best to just ignore it and hopefully get over it. He put on his training armor and headed up stairs.
Farkas, Skjor, and Aela were sitting together eating breakfast and talking about current jobs that needed to be done. Farkas looked up hearing someone coming upstairs which was Vilkas, he looked at his armor. "Training brother?" He asked raising an eyebrow. "Yea it's been awhile I decided I better get some done before I become rusty." Vilkas said walking over to the door. "Oh well let me join you I could use some training myself." Farkas said getting up out of his chair. "No, I'm going to train by myself today." Vilkas said with out turning around going outside. "Huh.." Aela said underneath her breath exchanging looks with Farkas.
Vilkas walked past some other companions that were sitting at the tables talking and eating, he walked over to the one of the practice dummies un sheathing his sword. He took in a deep breath and began take a few swings at it taking his frustration out on them.
Vilkas had been at it for hours barely anything still hanging onto the dummy. Vilkas wiped the sweat from his forehead breathing hard. "Tired already!?" Torvar walked over with his axe out resting on his shoulder. "What?" Vilkas asked in frustration, sweat running down his neck. "Let me show you how its really done!" Torvar readied his axe. "Drinking already I see." Vilkas chuckled out a bit annoyed by his interference with his training, he took a step back resting his great sword on his shoulder.
Torvar quickly swung his axe out at the dummy missing it. "That was practice." He said taking a few steps closer to the dummy, Vilkas snickered rolling his eyes. "Alright now lets get serious!" Torvar swung his axe down hard into the arm of the dummy, he pulled back on it but it didn't nudge. "Son of a.." Torvar mumbled taking it with both hands pulling it still having no progress.
Vilkas shook his head stepping forward. "Here let me-" He said but was cut off when Torvar placed his hand in front of his face to shut him up. "Nope! I got it." he said grabbing it again with both hands pulling on it hard barely making it move. "Alright..one more!" He shouted yanking it up but instead of it pulling out the wooden handle on the axe broke off leaving the axe part stuck in the dummy. Torvar blinked looking down at the stick in his hand. Vilkas started laughing at the pitiable site.
Vilkas walked up to the dummy grabbing the axe and pulling it out handing it to Torvar. Torvar just looked at it and then up at Vilkas, he turned around walking away throwing the stick behind him. "What ever you fucking.." Torvar mumbled curse words underneath his breath. "I need a drink!" He yelled going back inside.
Vilkas chuckled a bit shaking his. "Dumb fool." He mumbled under his breath, he un sheathed his sword again but just stood there for a moment a frown slowly forming on his face. He thought of Krissy again and the night they had spent together, he loved holding her in his arms while they slept he could still remember the feeling of her touch as if it were still there. He sighed deeply feeling a lump in his throat rise while his stomach began to twist and turn. 'Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it...' Sure she was different than the other woman, he would usually just sleep with them get his business out of the way and forget about them.
But this was different no matter how he tried to just shake it all off and treat it like the others. But he couldn't and that aggravated him, he sighed deeply sheathing back his sword with out taking any more swings. He walked over to the tables sitting down at one rubbing his forehead. 'She deserves better.' He kept thinking to himself, he was a warrior he was capable of killing not loving, it hurt to try.
Hours have passed and it was well dark now, Krissy and Athis ran into some bandits on the way along with wolves and some saber cats but they were easily taken care of. Krissy and Athis may have not gotten along but they fought well together Athis was a better fighter than Krissy had thought. The path they had decided to taken was no easy one, it required crossing a rushing river, climbing down rocky slopes, and running into more aggressive animals then they wanted too. "Are we almost there." Athis asked feeling like his legs were going to give out any minute. "Almost." Krissy said out of breath.
Of course they had to take breaks on the way but its been awhile since their last one, they just wanted to get it over with. "There." She stopped holding her side breathing hard, she could feel sweat running down her body and she was probably covered in dirt. The cave was still a distance away but at least it was in view. "We should set up camp now, we can take care of it in the morning it's not good to fight like this." Athis said looking at her wiping the sweat from his face. "You're right." She agreed with Athis for once, it wasn't good to fight tired and hungry so they found a good spot and started to lay down their sleeping rolls.
Krissy got out her food while Athis built a fire for them, Krissy unwrapped her bread and cheese and began to eat taking out her water canteen out. Athis got out his food as well, they ate all their food up and laid down to sleep for the night.
Morning came and they had already packed up their camp and ate a little breakfast before heading to the cave. When they approached it they heard low growls come from with in, they exchanged looks at each other and then back to the cave. "Let's start this quietly." Krissy whispered to Athis, he nodded to her feeling a bit nervous about it. They slowly walked inside being careful not to kick in loose rocks on the ground, they knelt down sneaking in quickly hiding behind a boulder. Krissy poked her head out a bit looking around counting the bears she could see. "8, there are 8 bears in this cave." Krissy whispered to Athis hearing him swallow nervously. "Great." He said with a shaky voice. "How are we going to take out 8 bears just the two of us?" He looked at her panicked.
Krissy sat there for a moment thinking of a plan. "Okay I want you to use your bow and shoot at the ones farther away and I'll charge at the ones close, sound alright?" She looked at him, he nodded un sheathing his bow. Krissy took a deep breath slowly un sheathing her battle axe and quickly running out charging at the bears.
They roared at her charging for her but Athis quickly climbed up on the boulder quickly shooting arrows at the bears charging for far off. He turned his head seeing a bear quickly run up behind Krissy. "Look out!" He called quickly shooting an arrow at it hitting it in the side of the head. She looked down at it and then went back to swinging her battle axe around hitting what bears where near her. "YOL!" She shouted setting a couple of them a blaze, Athis eyes grew wide hearing her shout. He remembered Farkas telling them all what she was but he really didn't believe him until now, he jumped down off the boulder shooting more arrows killing those he targeted. Seeing what seemed to be the last of them falling over dead Krissy looked around holding her battle axe down breathing heavy, blood decorated her body. "Is that all of them." Athis asked putting his bow away looking at the bodies on the ground.
She started to count them. "8, yea I think that's-" Her words were cut off by a low deep growl behind them, she quickly turned around seeing a great brown bear standing up on its hind legs behind him roaring loudly. "Athis look out!" She shouted quickly running towards him, he slowly turned around frozen in fear. The bear swung its giant claw at him, Krissy quickly pushed Athis out of the way getting sliced by the bears claw instead knocking her back to the ground. "Krissy!" He yelled quickly drawing his bow shooting an arrow, it went directly into its eye.
It yelled in pain shaking its head around, he quickly shot another arrow hitting it in the head killing it. He dropped his bow quickly running over to Krissy kneeling down on the ground. "Krissy!" He said panicked looking at her closely, she was holding her chest breathing hard in pain. "Let me see..." He said in a shaky voice slowly removing her arms, he felt her tense up in pain but he had to look at it. "Oh that doesn't look good." He put his hand on his forehead seeing the giant claw mark on her chest, it cut right threw her armor. Blood was running down from the wound causing a puddle to form underneath her. "Oh shit." He looked around quickly feeling his heart beat increase immensely. "Okay okay we need to get you help, here drink this potion it will at least help with the pain a little." He pulled out a red colored potion slipping it into her mouth carefully.
He ran to where he dropped his bow and sheathed it back and then ran back to Krissy slowly picking her up into his arms. "Ah!" She cried out in pain. He quickly ran out of the cave holding her tightly being careful not to drop her or move her too much, he looked around quickly trying to see if he could see any building at all.
He heard sound of horse hooves near by somewhere he looked around quickly seeing it was a man and a woman. "Oh thank the gods!" He quickly ran over to them. "Help I need help!" He shouted making them stop, the woman screamed a little bit at the site of blood dripping from Krissys torso. The man quickly ran over looking at her. "A-alright we have a farm not far from here, put her on the horse." He said, Athis quickly ran to the horse sitting Krissy down on the saddle of the horse in front of the woman. "Can you sit up by yourself?" He asked her panicked, Krissy slowly nodded looking at him with barely opened eyes.
The farmer quickly got out a large cloth and put it on Krissys wound and then placing Krissys hand on it. "Hold it there the best you can, come on lets hurry." The farmer said panicked.
They all hurried and before long they reached the farm, Athis helped Krissy down off the horse throwing her arm around his neck quickly getting her inside. He laid her down on a bed, the farmer and his wife quickly running over with some supplies such as bandages, a needle, wire, and a bowl of water along with some tools. "Alright we need to do this quickly before she looses more blood." The farmers wife said quickly putting the supplies down on the end table grabbing a knife cutting off her armor.
Athis quickly stepped back looking away so he wouldn't see anything Krissy probably didn't want him to see. "Here sit down son I'll get you some water." The farmer said pulling out a chair for Athis. Athis sat down keeping his back to Krissy taking the mug of water from the farmer. He heard Krissy cry out in pain a bit causing him to tense up closing his eyes, it was probably from sewing up her wound but it had to be done. He chugged the water down trying to keep his nerves down but it seemed impossible.
Athis sat there leaning over with his forehead resting on his hands, he had no idea how long it has been it seemed like hours to him. "There all done, and she should be fine." The farmers wife said walking over to Athis smiling in relief, Athis stood up looking over at the bed. Krissy was laying still her eyes slightly open. "Are you okay Krissy?" Athis hurried over bending over looking at her. "I don't feel okay but I'm alive." She coughed out, her throat was dry. "I just need a couple hours and then I just be fine enough for us to be on our way." She slightly looked at him. "Are you sure?" He asked worried, she slowly nodded closing her eyes all the way slowly falling asleep.