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 reme

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 back to Shirley and Belzac 'alright' I said to the two of them 'rose is coming with us do you mind' both of them shook their heads then they walked into a stable Belzac stepped forward 'we want four horses' he said to the stablehand the boys eyes went huge then he ran off and returned five minutes later with a man they presumed to be the owner of the stable 'I, I hear you want four horses that'll be 2000g please' Belzacs face looked utterly surprised '50g' '1900g' '40' '1500g' '70' the owner was looking nervous in the extreme '500' 20' '200' '10' the man now looked on the verge of tears 'please 200g' 'done' and with that the owner handed over the four horses and four saddles then Belzac spoke again 'do you sell oats or barley?' 'yes' 'I want 4 weeks worth' '200g' 'done' then we walked out of the stables Shirley turned to Belzac 'that was so MEAN' 'so' 'so that was MEAN' 'I got us horses and supplies for dirt cheap isn't that enough?' 'we'll finish this later' Belzac just rolled his eyes. We left nirakos just as the dark was falling we travelled down the road until we found part of it barricaded and guarded by 6 mercenaries 'so' the first mercenary began they actually fell for the trap and they got another good looking one wit em' 'yea' said the second one 'we can have some fun wit dem ones' then they all drew weapons and charged one of them fell first with an arrow in their stomach and then another. Rose, me and Belzac charged and tore through them, then a red haze settled over my view and I was slicing cutting blocking killing until there were no more mercenaries left then I saw Belzac and nearly attacked him the red haze vanished and I nearly fell out of the saddle in exhaustion we made camp a few minutes later we made camp a goodly ways from the road. We all sat at the campfire until Shirley and Belzac went to bed me and rose were left sitting there on out own 'hey rose' 'why were you with that guy when you obviously hated him?' her eyes grew distant 'I was sold into slavery at an early age he was my latest owner I hated him but I couldn't do a damn thing about it because if I killed him I would be killed and I needed to survive I…had to survive I don't know why but I always felt if I never gave up never gave in I could escape and live' then she looked at me 'what happened to you?' 'when I was nineteen I left home to become a mercenary I don't know why my family was incredibly rich and owned the village I would have been immensely wealthy If I had stayed but I couldn't do that I had to go…somewhere I haven't reached it yet I know that but also know that I have to find people I don't know why I mean when I met you I knew Ii had to stay with you and the same thing happened when I met Shirley and Belzac I wish I knew what it meant' she was shaking now I took off my cloak and put it around her shoulders but she didn't seem to notice then a glow infused her eyes and she looked at me suddenly Belzac and Shirley walked over and sat down then rose started to speak 'hail the seven hero's, the scholar resides in the towers of darachia seek him out first and search the library there you will find out who I am but heed the first instructions and in Darachia make the choice, the man with the fist of blood fights in t'k'parek and the siren of the sky is at the gates of the ocean in stariak' the her head turned to address Shirley 'lady of light you are doing well continue and you will succeed' then she turned to Belzac 'Earthshaker you will not fail no matter what you are told you will not fail' then she turned to me 'ah the accursed flame you have a long and painful life ahead of you' then roses eyes went back to normal and she looked up confused 'what's, what's going on?' 'you had a bit of a fainting spell rose nothing to worry about' Shirley answered the rose asked another question 'where are we going to now?' 'darachia' I answered 'but that's one hundred and fifty leagues away' 'yes I know but there's something we have to do there. And so we set off to Darachia unknowing of what waited there.