I
was born in a village that doesn't exist anymore the winglies destroyed it but
during my time there I was happy I don't remember my father or my mother all I
remember is my father training me with a blade then when I was nineteen I left
and became a mercenary getting jobs wherever I could but I remember clearly the
first day I met Shirley and Belzac . We were on an easy job guarding a caravan
and getting a lot of coin for it when a group of bandits attacked us they were
armed only with sticks and rocks but they still attacked us when we were on
horse's and them on foot and we outnumbered them but they were probably driven
by hunger. I attacked one of them and killed him easily but the look in his
eyes as his life spilled out of his chest was enough to stop me where I stood
then I heard a man behind me ad I turned and threw myself back as a giganto raised its axe at me 'Belzac
stop' I heard a voice shout then a red haired girl ran over to the giganto
'Belzac what were you doing he's not a bandit you idiot' then the giganto
turned to her 'sorry Shirley I thought he was one of them' then he turned to me
'sorry' I walked over to him 'what's a giganto doing so far from one of their
towns?' I asked him 'giganto!' he exclaimed 'I'm not a giganto I'm as human as
you are' 'oh' 'sorry my mistake' then
the merchant who's caravan we were guarding came up to us 'you and you'
pointing to Belzac and Shirley 'who are you' 'just some travellers why?' 'you
helped me defend my caravan here' he handed Shirley a pouch of gold then he
turned around 'when do you three leave' 'what' I answered 'why would I be going
with them' the merchant looked puzzled 'I, don't know it just came into my head
that you would go together' we talked for a few more minutes then I walked off
with Belzac and Shirley we sat down together at a campfire 'so' I asked 'what do you do' 'mercenaries
just travelling around' suddenly I had an idea that I should go with them that
I had to go with them then I
spoke 'could I travel with you' 'yes' they both said simultaneously then they
both looked confused 'yeah you can go with us' said Belzac with that I got up
'I'll get my payment off the merchant' as I walked towards the merchants tent I wondered about the idea to
go with Belzac and Shirley then I reached his tent and walked in I wasn't
prepared for the sight that met me the merchant lay with his head on one side
of the tent with his body sliced up and set up to look like a pentagram I
looked at his head and realised with
sick revulsion it was still alive then a strange glow lit up its eyes and it
spoke 'the seven of you will never live to fly we alone have that right and we
will not permit some meddling dragons and humans to jeopardize that so watch
you backs humans for when you do we will be at the front and when you don't we
will be at the back and we will kill you don't forget that we will kill you,
you will not topple the sky's that is for definite you will not live to topple
the sky's ' then the head closed its eyes I ran out of the tent badly shaken
and disgusted I ran over behind a bush and vomited until I was struggling to
get my breath then I heard the shouts from the camp they had found the body
then I walked back and was met by Shirley and Belzac 'did you hear' Shirley
whispered 'the merchant was murdered and badly mutilated nobody knows who but
nobody went in or out all night I'm going to see what's happening' as she
strode off to the main camp me and
Belzac fell in behind her then we heard sounds of arguing then they saw the other guards arguing among
themselves 'who did this now how do we get our money' then one of the older
more respected mercenaries looked at us 'them newcomers they haven't been
around long have they now two of them show up and then the merchant gets
murdered I say we turn them in and get our payment for that as well as for the
job' then all the other mercenaries drew their weapons and advanced. Me and
Belzac stepped forward in front of Shirley then she spoke 'you two are complete
and utter idiots its twenty four against three now there are times to fight and
times to RUN!' with that she turned and ran like the hells were opening up
under her me and Belzac an after her then after about two hours of non-stop
running we found a well hidden cave and covered in with moss and branches and
slept with one on guard all night then in the morning they got up and walked to
the nearest town it was called nirakos just as we were walking into the town, a
man suddenly burst out of a door kicking a young girl out in front of him 'you
stupid bitch' he screamed at her you're my goddamn wife you have to do what I
say' then she looked up 'no I don't fat boy I don't have to do a damn thing for
you so I am leaving' she turned and was walking out of town the man let out a
howl of rage and ran after her drawing a club as he did so, I ran forward and
got there just in time to catch the blow on my blade then I kicked him as hard
as I could in the knee, as he doubled over I started punching him in the face
until he was lying there bloodied battered bruised and unconscious. Now most of
the town had come out to watch I saw Shirley talking to the girl then the girl
stood up she was tall almost as tall as me and had raven black hair with two
little trinkets sliding out over the ears. She had a rapier in her belt, se
walked over to me 'you have my thanks for protecting me could I…travel with
you?' I stood there stunned then I thought of why she would want to go with us to get away from that man I found myself
nodding 'what's you name?' 'Rose' 'alright then rose we just stopped here to
get some horses can you use that blade?' 'yes and we should leave as fast as
you can the town is probably calling the guards for you beating him up' then we
walked
