p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Chapter 8/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"With a healer in their party, any sort of wound or poison that would affect anybody could easily be healed. Zelkova's talents were a lot better than everybody expected. From small cuts to deep wounds to the bone, there was nothing Zelkova couldn't heal. And to add to it, /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"his work /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"was considered Holy /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"H/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ealing. /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"If he had ever /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"cast it on a demon or zombie type monster, it would hurt them. Even kill them. /span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So far, as they followed The Assassin's tracks, they came across/span/span span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"the same monsters, but with some new ones./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The same strange magic casting rocks, the chameleons that spewed fire, and the yak like monsters./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As for new ones, they came across an ostrich like monster, that had a beak that was serrated around the sides. And it's eyes was green at first, but it changed to red when it was provoked. It was an agile monster, but when outnumbered or being attacked by a predator, it would run as fast as it could. It's main means of combat was it's beak and it's claws./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Another monster they encountered was a rather big one. It was a golem made of hardened sand. It packed a massive punch, but the group was able to handle it. Imbir's explosive bullets took it down with ease, as they discovered something about it. Inside the golem, there was a small orb of yellow light that kept it together. However, when taken out of the golem, it would turn back into normal sand, and the orb would stop glowing. A strange monster indeed./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Another they encountered was like a turtle. It certainly was dangerous, considering it could shoot poison, and it's neck could extend. It's skin was brown, and the shell matched the sands, perhaps to provide camouflage./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Following the tracks for a little longer, and they would see where it lead to. An old rundown village, the buildings made of sandstone. Bereit came across this place before, but he'd never taken a look on what was inside the town. He was honestly stunned by this, finding it appealing to look at. The way the sand flew by, as if it was hiding the town./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"An /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"A/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ssassin would hide in a place like this?" Imbir pointed out, in a suspicious tone./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well, who would check an abandoned town for an /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"A/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ssassin?" Bereit pointed out./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir nodded, thinking it made sense. "Yeah. But I'm still sceptical."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at the town, with a determined look on his face. He wanted to badly avenge the elder, and with all hope, he hoped he would be the one to take The Assassin's life./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The ground rumbled around their feet. The group stumbled to the rumbling, as Bereit turned around, to see there was a large lump of sand coming towards them./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh you've gotta be kidding me." Bereit complained, though in a serious tone, as the lump of sand erupted, the find a giant worm like creature with a gaping mouth and tiny teeth yet with thousands of them, but with no tongue. It's skin was a /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"whitish/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" yellow, and it looked as if it had a hide, rather than some fleshy skin. It's mouth also let out excessive amounts of drool./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A worm. So there are some left in Stahl." Zelkova said in a worried tone./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You call that a worm!? Where I'm from, worms are used to catch fish, not kill us!" Bereit said, never seeing this kind of monster before./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Then don't let it swallow you whole." Zelkova said./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Duly noted." Bereit commented sternly. He didn't want to know how the insides of this thing looked like, or what would happen if he were swallowed by this thing. With all that drool, he could probably never get rid of the smell./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa was disgusted by the sight of this thing. She'd never seen anything like it. She then realized something about it. With a gaping mouth like that, it just screamed for something to be thrown inside. Vanessa looked at Imbir. "Thinking what I'm thinking?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Aim for the mouth?" Imbir answered, keeping his eyes on the monster./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Hell yeah." Vanessa said, then drew her gun, as did the others with their weapons./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"However, Zelkova's hands did not hold any sort of weapon. His hands were reserved for healing, not hurting./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster then leaned forward, closing /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" mouth. It then brought it's head up and it inhaled, as the power of /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" breath was strong. It tried to pull them in, but Zelkova stood in front of everybody and cast a protect spell, a force field of hexagonal glass-like shields coming together, surrounding the group. It showed Zelkova knew more than just healing. Even protection spells./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster then closed it's mouth, and then aimed to them, it shot all the sand it gathered from it's breath. Zelkova kept the shield up, and looked at the others. "Do any of you have a plan on how to defeat it?" Zelkova asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Way ahead of you." Imbir said, holding a fire bullet./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit figured he could help with it. He showed his hand, with a fireball floating above his palm. "I can pitch in."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir nodded, as he twisted the bottom of it, setting it to grenade./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa gazed the worm, seeing it was all done with shooting sand. The monster then breathed heavily, the breath taking a lot out of him. "Now! Let's bring it to him!" Vanessa said, suggesting now was the time to hit him./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova made the shield go away, as it shattered around them, leaving them open. Imbir threw the fire grenade in the worm's mouth, and Bereit's small /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"fireball/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;", but it was going to make a big explosion. They all ran back to get some distance, as the fire grenade exploded as did Bereit's fireball, fire bursting out of the worm's mouth. The worm didn't roar or show any pain, but it wiggled violently, as fire came out of /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" mouth./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Was it enough?" Vanessa asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's still moving, so I think we'll need to go deeper." Imbir suggested. "And use more explosives." He then looked at Bereit, thinking his fireball could do the trick./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded, agreeing with his plan./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir looked at the worm monster, thinking what he should hit it with something to keep it still. He didn't see any sort of eyes so a flash bullet wouldn't work, nor smoke. Then it clicked to him. "Bereit, when it inhales again, throw the strongest fireball you've got."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir, you have no idea what you've asked of me. Strongest would have left nothing. Of that, or us./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded as he then started charging a fireball in his hand, as it spun around his hand./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster hoped towards them, as it's body slammed near them and throwing sand everywhere, still having it's insides be an inferno, it's mouth emitting black smoke./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa backed away, as she was confused to not see where it's eyes were. "Where are the damn eyes!?"br /br /"That's it." Imbir said, figuring out it was blind, but used sound to /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"take in its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" surroundings. He loaded a sound bullet and aimed his gun, firing it right on the side of it's head, then making a loud ring./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster then shook violently, banging it's body everywhere. It then started to inhale again, shook /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" head, inhaling in every direction./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit had to time this right, and aim it right. Right now, his fireball was beginning to drip fire, as if it was a liquid. He could feel the strong pull of the worm's breath, as Bereit lunged his arm forward, throwing it the fireball, as it flew right in the monster's mouth, going inside the lungs. An explosion could be heard from the inside of /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" body. The worm monster then burst into flames on the inside, as the fire began to spread outside /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" body. It rolled around frantically, pushing sand all over the place and it's drool going everywhere, until it stopped, and went /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"limp/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;". It twitched a few times, until it was just a burning corpse./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at his hand, seeing fire was still coming out of it. He closed his hand, stopping it./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa watched as the worm monster was being eaten by the flames of Bereit's fire. She looked at Bereit, with a surprised expression. "That's a strong fireball." She commented./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit scoffed. "You don't even know the half of it."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at everybody, walking to them. "Is anybody injured?" He asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm all good." Bereit answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Me too." Vanessa added./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir walked to the group, holstering his gun. "We've handled our little distraction. We have to keep following the tracks." Imbir pointed out, not wanting them to forget what they came here for./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded. "No need to remind me." Bereit commented./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir then looked at the old town, wondering which building it could be he was hiding in. Or if he was even hiding in there in the first place. The location was strange, but he had to admit it was a place he would never think of checking./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A small shine appeared from a building that was still holding /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"itself/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" up, having a roof. Imbir knew what that was. A shine from a scope. "Bereit!" Imbir shouted, as he pushed Bereit, and a loud gunshot was heard. The bullet flew towards them, it's target being Bereit's head, but Imbir pushed him away just in time, but got the bullet straight through his shoulder blade, and out the other blade./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir hit the ground and screamed in pain, having both his shoulders shot with one bullet./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at Imbir, seeing his injuries and snapped his head to where the shot came from. So he was here. The Assassin. He stood up and electricity formed around his body. "Zelkova! Treat Imbir's wounds! I'm going after The Assassin!" Bereit instructed, as more and more lightning formed around him./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova and Vanessa saw what Bereit was doing, wondering what it would lead to next. They haven't seen him do anything like this before, so it came to them as a surprise. Or to Vanessa, something to fear. But Zelkova did as told, and started to heal Imbir's bullet wounds. He placed his hand where the bleeding bullet hole was, as light surrounded it, beginning to heal it./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit then stood in a running position, and pushed himself forward, running at a blinding speed, leaving a small trail of lightning behind him. He quickly dodged to the left, seeing a bullet was fired just as he dodged to the left./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit had his sights locked on him, knowing where he was positioned. The Assassin was on some sort building, the tallest one, that was still standing, and didn't seem to have any structural damage. He reached the middle of the town, in range of The Assassin. Bereit jumped high, as he flew towards The Assassin./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin fired a shot right at his chest, but Bereit blocked it with his sword./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit brought his leg back and rammed his knee right into the broken mask of The Assassin, shattering the metal mask under his kneecap./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin was sent flying back, falling off the two story building and hit the sandy ground, landing back first, but tumbled on his stomach./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit then landed in front of him and turned him around, and pointed his serrated sword right to his eye, with lightning coating his weapon. He also got a first glimpse of this /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"A/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ssassin's real face behind the mask./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He looked around his late 40's, having black hair, with signs of greying, while he had a goat-tee./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (The Assassin)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"All his dark brown eyes could see was Bereit, his target, but lightning, all over him. His hair was up, his body emitted /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"lightning/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;", and the death grip of his hand against his neck was shocking him. For once, he could feel fear, by his own target./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Where's Fallen!? Where was she taken!?" Bereit interrogated. "Tell me or /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I'll gouge/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" your only good eye out!" He threatened./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin laughed, trying to keep a calm facade. "I work alone. I had nothing to do with the /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"E/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"lder's death." He said, avoiding the question./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ANSWER ME!" Bereit screamed at him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As much as he didn't know, he had a guess on what was the deal of her kidnapping. He heard of this sort of thing before. From the mother herself. "If you ask me, I'd say she's being sabotaged /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"by /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"her competition."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What!?" Bereit asked, not understanding./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Your lord is showing." The Assassin said, being vague./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"This son of a bitch.../span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit clenched his fist, but took a deep breath. The lightning began to stop emitting from his body, as his hair drooped back down to it's straight style. But he still held his sword, and looked at The Assassin. "Now, answer me. What were you talking about?"br /br /The Assassin chuckled. "The Ehre family have a... competition, of sorts. And Fallen... is a part of that."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What is this... competition?" Bereit asked, not sure if calling it a competition was appropriate./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I thought you wanted her location, not her life story." The Assassin pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Continue the interrogation./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Learn of her location. ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I so desperately wanted to know more about this competition she was in, but her safety came first. It's what a /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"G/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"uardian is suppose to do after all./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Where can I get answers? Considering you don't seem to have any." Bereit said, going with the subject./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin lied his head back. "Last I met the Ehre family, they were on their way to Riechtum. North of Stahl. You can pay them a visit, but Fallen's mother might not be so happy to see you, considering she was the one that put the bounty on your head."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit had a shocked expression. That woman was Fallen's mother? He didn't want to believe it. Not without solid proof. "No... it can't be."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh it is. To tell you the truth, she has a corrupt family. Reputation and wealth is the only thing that matters to them." The Assassin said. "And you wonder why she doesn't use her real name."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at him, with a confused look. "Fallen isn't her real name?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin shook his head. "No. But her real name, you can find out yourself. I told you where you can get info, so I suggest you get to it."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen certainly was keeping a lot of secrets, and he doubted she'd ever tell them. From the sound of it, it sounded incredibly personal. Maybe she wanted to forget her family in the first place. Maybe that's why she was in the shrine all those days?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit put his sword down, as he then stood up, and sheathed his sword. "Right... I just hope we get there in time." Bereit said, as he then walked off, to get back to the /br /The Assassin stood up, and looked at Bereit. "I'm surprised you aren't choosing to kill me while I'm at my most open." He pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You didn't kill the /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"El/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"der, so you're not somebody I want to kill." Bereit said, continuing to walk off./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But I tried to kill you, you know." The Assassin pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Tried." Bereit said, finished with the conversation./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin couldn't help but chuckle with his remark. "Smart-ass. Maybe you aren't worth my trouble." He whispered to himself, actually liking Bereit. Not worth his trouble wasn't the right words. Perhaps. 'I choose not to kill you.'/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Fallen)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She gasped as her body shot up, to find herself on a cold, concrete ground, with broken walls and moss covered rocks everywhere. No matter where she looked, anything that looked like an exit, was blocked by rocks, or fallen debris. She looked up, to see a small grate, with light/span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" emitting from it. /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;""What? Where am I?" She asked, in a panicked tone of voice, as she looked frantically for her staff. Without it, she couldn't summon. She was defenseless./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She then heard a giggle come from the grate. She looked up, to see a shadowy silhouette, not being able to see who it was from the light./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's been so long, and you're still so fragile." The voice said, it being female./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's eyes shot open, as she recognized that voice. "Sister?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"With a healer in their party, any sort of wound or poison that would affect anybody could easily be healed. Zelkova's talents were a lot better than everybody expected. From small cuts to deep wounds to the bone, there was nothing Zelkova couldn't heal. And to add to it, /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"his work /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"was considered Holy /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"H/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ealing. /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"If he had ever /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"cast it on a demon or zombie type monster, it would hurt them. Even kill them. /span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So far, as they followed The Assassin's tracks, they came across/span/span span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"the same monsters, but with some new ones./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The same strange magic casting rocks, the chameleons that spewed fire, and the yak like monsters./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As for new ones, they came across an ostrich like monster, that had a beak that was serrated around the sides. And it's eyes was green at first, but it changed to red when it was provoked. It was an agile monster, but when outnumbered or being attacked by a predator, it would run as fast as it could. It's main means of combat was it's beak and it's claws./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Another monster they encountered was a rather big one. It was a golem made of hardened sand. It packed a massive punch, but the group was able to handle it. Imbir's explosive bullets took it down with ease, as they discovered something about it. Inside the golem, there was a small orb of yellow light that kept it together. However, when taken out of the golem, it would turn back into normal sand, and the orb would stop glowing. A strange monster indeed./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Another they encountered was like a turtle. It certainly was dangerous, considering it could shoot poison, and it's neck could extend. It's skin was brown, and the shell matched the sands, perhaps to provide camouflage./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Following the tracks for a little longer, and they would see where it lead to. An old rundown village, the buildings made of sandstone. Bereit came across this place before, but he'd never taken a look on what was inside the town. He was honestly stunned by this, finding it appealing to look at. The way the sand flew by, as if it was hiding the town./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"An /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"A/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ssassin would hide in a place like this?" Imbir pointed out, in a suspicious tone./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well, who would check an abandoned town for an /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"A/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ssassin?" Bereit pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir nodded, thinking it made sense. "Yeah. But I'm still sceptical."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at the town, with a determined look on his face. He wanted to badly avenge the elder, and with all hope, he hoped he would be the one to take The Assassin's life./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The ground rumbled around their feet. The group stumbled to the rumbling, as Bereit turned around, to see there was a large lump of sand coming towards them./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh you've gotta be kidding me." Bereit complained, though in a serious tone, as the lump of sand erupted, the find a giant worm like creature with a gaping mouth and tiny teeth yet with thousands of them, but with no tongue. It's skin was a /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"whitish/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" yellow, and it looked as if it had a hide, rather than some fleshy skin. It's mouth also let out excessive amounts of drool./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A worm. So there are some left in Stahl." Zelkova said in a worried tone./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You call that a worm!? Where I'm from, worms are used to catch fish, not kill us!" Bereit said, never seeing this kind of monster before./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Then don't let it swallow you whole." Zelkova said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Duly noted." Bereit commented sternly. He didn't want to know how the insides of this thing looked like, or what would happen if he were swallowed by this thing. With all that drool, he could probably never get rid of the smell./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa was disgusted by the sight of this thing. She'd never seen anything like it. She then realized something about it. With a gaping mouth like that, it just screamed for something to be thrown inside. Vanessa looked at Imbir. "Thinking what I'm thinking?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Aim for the mouth?" Imbir answered, keeping his eyes on the monster./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Hell yeah." Vanessa said, then drew her gun, as did the others with their weapons./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"However, Zelkova's hands did not hold any sort of weapon. His hands were reserved for healing, not hurting./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster then leaned forward, closing /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" mouth. It then brought it's head up and it inhaled, as the power of /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" breath was strong. It tried to pull them in, but Zelkova stood in front of everybody and cast a protect spell, a force field of hexagonal glass-like shields coming together, surrounding the group. It showed Zelkova knew more than just healing. Even protection spells./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster then closed it's mouth, and then aimed to them, it shot all the sand it gathered from it's breath. Zelkova kept the shield up, and looked at the others. "Do any of you have a plan on how to defeat it?" Zelkova asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Way ahead of you." Imbir said, holding a fire bullet./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit figured he could help with it. He showed his hand, with a fireball floating above his palm. "I can pitch in."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir nodded, as he twisted the bottom of it, setting it to grenade./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa gazed the worm, seeing it was all done with shooting sand. The monster then breathed heavily, the breath taking a lot out of him. "Now! Let's bring it to him!" Vanessa said, suggesting now was the time to hit him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova made the shield go away, as it shattered around them, leaving them open. Imbir threw the fire grenade in the worm's mouth, and Bereit's small /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"fireball/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;", but it was going to make a big explosion. They all ran back to get some distance, as the fire grenade exploded as did Bereit's fireball, fire bursting out of the worm's mouth. The worm didn't roar or show any pain, but it wiggled violently, as fire came out of /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" mouth./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Was it enough?" Vanessa asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's still moving, so I think we'll need to go deeper." Imbir suggested. "And use more explosives." He then looked at Bereit, thinking his fireball could do the trick./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded, agreeing with his plan./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir looked at the worm monster, thinking what he should hit it with something to keep it still. He didn't see any sort of eyes so a flash bullet wouldn't work, nor smoke. Then it clicked to him. "Bereit, when it inhales again, throw the strongest fireball you've got."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir, you have no idea what you've asked of me. Strongest would have left nothing. Of that, or us./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded as he then started charging a fireball in his hand, as it spun around his hand./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster hoped towards them, as it's body slammed near them and throwing sand everywhere, still having it's insides be an inferno, it's mouth emitting black smoke./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa backed away, as she was confused to not see where it's eyes were. "Where are the damn eyes!?"br /br /"That's it." Imbir said, figuring out it was blind, but used sound to /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"take in its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" surroundings. He loaded a sound bullet and aimed his gun, firing it right on the side of it's head, then making a loud ring./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The worm monster then shook violently, banging it's body everywhere. It then started to inhale again, shook /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" head, inhaling in every direction./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit had to time this right, and aim it right. Right now, his fireball was beginning to drip fire, as if it was a liquid. He could feel the strong pull of the worm's breath, as Bereit lunged his arm forward, throwing it the fireball, as it flew right in the monster's mouth, going inside the lungs. An explosion could be heard from the inside of /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" body. The worm monster then burst into flames on the inside, as the fire began to spread outside /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"its/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" body. It rolled around frantically, pushing sand all over the place and it's drool going everywhere, until it stopped, and went /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"limp/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;". It twitched a few times, until it was just a burning corpse./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at his hand, seeing fire was still coming out of it. He closed his hand, stopping it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa watched as the worm monster was being eaten by the flames of Bereit's fire. She looked at Bereit, with a surprised expression. "That's a strong fireball." She commented./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit scoffed. "You don't even know the half of it."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova looked at everybody, walking to them. "Is anybody injured?" He asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm all good." Bereit answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Me too." Vanessa added./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir walked to the group, holstering his gun. "We've handled our little distraction. We have to keep following the tracks." Imbir pointed out, not wanting them to forget what they came here for./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded. "No need to remind me." Bereit commented./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir then looked at the old town, wondering which building it could be he was hiding in. Or if he was even hiding in there in the first place. The location was strange, but he had to admit it was a place he would never think of checking./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A small shine appeared from a building that was still holding /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"itself/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" up, having a roof. Imbir knew what that was. A shine from a scope. "Bereit!" Imbir shouted, as he pushed Bereit, and a loud gunshot was heard. The bullet flew towards them, it's target being Bereit's head, but Imbir pushed him away just in time, but got the bullet straight through his shoulder blade, and out the other blade./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir hit the ground and screamed in pain, having both his shoulders shot with one bullet./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at Imbir, seeing his injuries and snapped his head to where the shot came from. So he was here. The Assassin. He stood up and electricity formed around his body. "Zelkova! Treat Imbir's wounds! I'm going after The Assassin!" Bereit instructed, as more and more lightning formed around him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova and Vanessa saw what Bereit was doing, wondering what it would lead to next. They haven't seen him do anything like this before, so it came to them as a surprise. Or to Vanessa, something to fear. But Zelkova did as told, and started to heal Imbir's bullet wounds. He placed his hand where the bleeding bullet hole was, as light surrounded it, beginning to heal it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit then stood in a running position, and pushed himself forward, running at a blinding speed, leaving a small trail of lightning behind him. He quickly dodged to the left, seeing a bullet was fired just as he dodged to the left./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit had his sights locked on him, knowing where he was positioned. The Assassin was on some sort building, the tallest one, that was still standing, and didn't seem to have any structural damage. He reached the middle of the town, in range of The Assassin. Bereit jumped high, as he flew towards The Assassin./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin fired a shot right at his chest, but Bereit blocked it with his sword./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit brought his leg back and rammed his knee right into the broken mask of The Assassin, shattering the metal mask under his kneecap./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin was sent flying back, falling off the two story building and hit the sandy ground, landing back first, but tumbled on his stomach./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit then landed in front of him and turned him around, and pointed his serrated sword right to his eye, with lightning coating his weapon. He also got a first glimpse of this /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"A/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ssassin's real face behind the mask./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He looked around his late 40's, having black hair, with signs of greying, while he had a goat-tee./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (The Assassin)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"All his dark brown eyes could see was Bereit, his target, but lightning, all over him. His hair was up, his body emitted /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"lightning/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;", and the death grip of his hand against his neck was shocking him. For once, he could feel fear, by his own target./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Where's Fallen!? Where was she taken!?" Bereit interrogated. "Tell me or /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I'll gouge/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" your only good eye out!" He threatened./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin laughed, trying to keep a calm facade. "I work alone. I had nothing to do with the /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"E/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"lder's death." He said, avoiding the question./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"ANSWER ME!" Bereit screamed at him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As much as he didn't know, he had a guess on what was the deal of her kidnapping. He heard of this sort of thing before. From the mother herself. "If you ask me, I'd say she's being sabotaged /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"by /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"her competition."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What!?" Bereit asked, not understanding./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Your lord is showing." The Assassin said, being vague./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"This son of a bitch.../span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit clenched his fist, but took a deep breath. The lightning began to stop emitting from his body, as his hair drooped back down to it's straight style. But he still held his sword, and looked at The Assassin. "Now, answer me. What were you talking about?"br /br /The Assassin chuckled. "The Ehre family have a... competition, of sorts. And Fallen... is a part of that."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What is this... competition?" Bereit asked, not sure if calling it a competition was appropriate./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I thought you wanted her location, not her life story." The Assassin pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Continue the interrogation./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Learn of her location. ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I so desperately wanted to know more about this competition she was in, but her safety came first. It's what a /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"G/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"uardian is suppose to do after all./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Where can I get answers? Considering you don't seem to have any." Bereit said, going with the subject./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin lied his head back. "Last I met the Ehre family, they were on their way to Riechtum. North of Stahl. You can pay them a visit, but Fallen's mother might not be so happy to see you, considering she was the one that put the bounty on your head."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit had a shocked expression. That woman was Fallen's mother? He didn't want to believe it. Not without solid proof. "No... it can't be."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh it is. To tell you the truth, she has a corrupt family. Reputation and wealth is the only thing that matters to them." The Assassin said. "And you wonder why she doesn't use her real name."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at him, with a confused look. "Fallen isn't her real name?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin shook his head. "No. But her real name, you can find out yourself. I told you where you can get info, so I suggest you get to it."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen certainly was keeping a lot of secrets, and he doubted she'd ever tell them. From the sound of it, it sounded incredibly personal. Maybe she wanted to forget her family in the first place. Maybe that's why she was in the shrine all those days?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit put his sword down, as he then stood up, and sheathed his sword. "Right... I just hope we get there in time." Bereit said, as he then walked off, to get back to the /br /The Assassin stood up, and looked at Bereit. "I'm surprised you aren't choosing to kill me while I'm at my most open." He pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You didn't kill the /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"El/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"der, so you're not somebody I want to kill." Bereit said, continuing to walk off./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But I tried to kill you, you know." The Assassin pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Tried." Bereit said, finished with the conversation./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Assassin couldn't help but chuckle with his remark. "Smart-ass. Maybe you aren't worth my trouble." He whispered to himself, actually liking Bereit. Not worth his trouble wasn't the right words. Perhaps. 'I choose not to kill you.'/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Fallen)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She gasped as her body shot up, to find herself on a cold, concrete ground, with broken walls and moss covered rocks everywhere. No matter where she looked, anything that looked like an exit, was blocked by rocks, or fallen debris. She looked up, to see a small grate, with light/span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" emitting from it. /spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;""What? Where am I?" She asked, in a panicked tone of voice, as she looked frantically for her staff. Without it, she couldn't summon. She was defenseless./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She then heard a giggle come from the grate. She looked up, to see a shadowy silhouette, not being able to see who it was from the light./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's been so long, and you're still so fragile." The voice said, it being female./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's eyes shot open, as she recognized that voice. "Sister?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No/span/span/p