Sammy and company were about to leave for the bus stop when two people stopped them, being Luke and Amber, Luke came up first. "So, hope your quest goes smoothly," He said handing Joel a backpack and a pair of shoes.
"Yea, I don't think anyone can afford this quest going badly" Sammy said. He liked Luke, he was kinda like the big brother of the camp, very responsible and what not. Sammy thought of their duel during the sword lessons where he ACTUALLY forced Luke to be defensive for a solid 30 seconds, until Luke disarmed him. Next up to address the party was Amber, who went right up to Joel.
"So, ya still nervous about going on a quest?" She asked
Yea," Joel said with his hand on the back of his head.
"I know a way to fix that" Amber said
"What cou-" Joel was saying before Amber pulled him in for a long, deep kiss. When they split Joel was scarlet.
"Um…. lets go guys" he said as they went into the car.
The group had been driving on the bus for well over an hour when something hit the side of the bus, the three got out to examine it with the rest of the passengers and saw a hellhound. It was ripping the side of the bus.
"Joel!" Sammy shouted
"Yea?" Joel replied
"Shoot it with an arrow we need to get it's attention away from the mortals!" Sammy said
"Alright" Joel said as Sammy and Astrid ran into the forest, after a minute Joel came screaming into the clearing with the monster closing in on him. Sammy threw a dagger at the beast causing it to look at him. Apparently the hellhound though Sammy looks tastier the Joel and charged at Sammy, running with its mouth wide open and eyes filled with hunger. Sammy quickly dodged the beast as it slammed into the tree, it howled with rage and ran towards Sammy again, instead of dodging this one, Sammy jumped on top of the hellhound and drove his sword deep into its' back, garnering a growl from the monster as it tried to shake Sammy off, it contourted its' body violently, shaking about as if it just walked through a thunderstorm. Despite this, Sammy held on to the blade's hilt tightly. Through his blurry vision he saw Joel notching an arrow. Joel shot the arrow right through the beast's head, killing it instantly as its' body burst into gold dust. Sammy then felt pain in his arm, the joy ride on the hellhound had caused his shoulder to pop out of place, and he was quite sure he also tore a few muscles in his arm. "Astrid, the ambrosia!" he shouted as he fell to the ground clenching his arm.
"No, we don't need ambrosia," Joel said sitting down as he pressed his hands against Sammy's shoulder and began to hum to himself, Sammy guessed it was to heal him as he no longer felt pain in his left arm.
" thanks man, saved not only my ass, but someone else's ass down the line." Sammy said gratefully.
" don't mention it, you would have done the same thing if you and I were I swapped positions" Joel said. " So," Joel continued, " we can't really go back to the bus since they'd have way more questions then we'd have answers for, let's just cut our losses and travel down this road right here," Joel said pointing to a road that led down what used to be the interstate, but not any more.
The trio had been walking along the road for about an hour when they came to a small shop on the side of the road called " Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium"