Chapter 1: The Encounter

Traxex regained her form and readied her bow to show her marksmanship to Lyralei. She breathed slowly as she prepared her arrow to pierce the alpha wolf's skull. Just as she's about to release, a bear appeared out of nowhere and killed the three wolves. Traxex, still not accustomed to this new world, shot her arrow into a tree next to the bloodied bear.

"Ursa! Traxex was going to kill that." Lyralei shouted at the bear with blood-stained claws. His reply was just a growl as he proceeded to leave in the blink of an eye.

"W-What the hell was that Lyralei?" Traxex questioned in a curious panic. "Who was that guy, and why does he look like a bear?"

Lyralei just ignored her question and dragged Traxex off to another area in order to prove her marksmanship. Once again, the energetic ginger was bouncing around while waiting for her new friend to catch her breath. Yet again, Traxex followed the same process of readying her bow and arrow to prove her capabilities. Right when she launched her arrow, it stopped a few feet before the centaur. The arrow seemed to levitate right in front her target.

"Lyralei, what's going on?" Traxex asked as she backed away. Both girls began to panic as Clinkz revealed himself to the girls.

"Run now Traxex." Lyralei replied as her voice wavered. She ran off and left Traxex with the unknown archer.

Traxex, looking to her side, noticed that her new friend was no longer by her side. She decided to start running, while the Bone Fletcher readied and aimed an arrow at the young girl. He managed to land the arrow directly into her left calf. Lyralei, nowhere to be seen, heard a scream and finally mustered up the courage to return to her friend. When she noticed Traxex limping towards her, Lyralei decided to throw shackles at her assailant. The skeletal archer ended up getting stuck to a tree as Lyralei helped her friend back to where she first met her.

"I am sooo sorry. I just didn't want to get into a fight and so I ran." Lyralei unloaded unto her friend, beginning to cry. "I didn't think he was roaming on our side of the river, let alone hunting down our team."

"I-It's alright, I'll live Lyralei." Traxex stated, trying to ease her friend's worry. She gave a small smile to comfort her friend. "I just have to rest up for a bit. I'll be okay by tomorrow."

Lyralei stopped crying when she saw he friend smile. She gave Traxex a hand to get her back to the fountain and rest. When they arrived at the fountain, both of the girls leaned against the wall of the shop as they recovered their strength. Throughout the time they spent, they noticed various people come and go.

(Author's note) Looks like my story is starting to take off. Thanks to all of the people who read it so far and giving their opinions on how I should continue the story. I'm going to try and keep it at K+ rating, but I might try to ship Lyra x Trax but not in anyway that can be seen as inappropriate or need me to put the rating of my story to T of higher. I'll do my best to update about every few weeks. This is the real first chapter, I'm making the first post a prologue. I have to say, I started writing this story because Dota High School, by danceofwisps, inspired me to give making a story a try.