here's the next chapter! isn't figuring out all those new words fun? *smiles sweetly*
Pammon: even worse then the silent treatment! sweetness from a relative of the Devil! what more can I take?
the Devil's Sister: *sighs* Pammon, always the one to exagerate.
Pammon: *choke* I can't stand much more! *choke, choke*
the Devil's Sister: Pammon? You live in hell. You'e already dead, as a metter of fact, and you never were alive just like me.
Pammon: oh shhhhhhhuttle.
the Devil's Sister: Pammon! no bad language in from of the children! RObin Hood would strike you down and since he can't kill you he would cause much pain.
Robin Hood: But I can't hurt females!
Pammon & the Devil's Sister: -_-'
the Devil's Sister: Pammon's a boy. all daemons are the opposite sex as their owners. Do I look like a boy to you? I sure hope not because I just might have to request having you down here in heel with me...
Robin Hood: Little John would hurt you!
the Devil's Sister: I'm female, Robin. Besides, it's not like you can kill someone who was never alive.
Robin Hood: Right...heheheheh....
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A few days after the arrival and departure of Sir Fitzooth of the Mark news came to Robin and his followers by
way of Lobb the cobbler. It was Will Scarlet who first spotted him.
"Hello, Lobb." Will said. "What tidings bring you on this fine day?"
"Bad ones." Said Lobb, scanning the glade. "I must speak with Robin Hood."
"Ay, Lobb. Right this way. He, Little John, Will Stutely and Maid Marian went deer hunting today." and
with that Will lead the way to one of the clearings where the deer were known to wander. From the trees, Will and
Lobb could see the herd of deer grazing amongst the flowers and bushes. Suddenly, there was a twang and the whistling
sound of an arrow flying through the air was herd, but the arrow was too fast for them to see. At the sound of
the arrow, the lead buck leapt into the air and started the herd moving forward, away from the danger but se soon
fell to the ground, the gray goose feather shaft through his heart. The rest of the herd started to scatter when
there was a second, third, and forth twang and two does fell to the ground, on with an arrow through her heart
and the other with a shaft sticking from her head and another from her stomach.
"Bravo!" called Will, stepping into the clearing. Robin Hood, Maid Marian, and Little John stepped out
from the other side. Will Stutely was already examining the doe that had been hit twice.
"Thou aim is true, Maid Marian. Thy arrow hit her between the eyes." Will proclaimed.
"Of course it did, I've been taking lessons from the best." Maid Marian smiled in the general direction
of Robin Hood. Robin seemed not to notice as he picked up the other doe. Little John grabbed the buck.
"Master, Lobb the Cobbler has come with bad tidings." Will Scarlet said.
"What are these tidings, good Lobb?" asked Robin as they started away from the clearing.
"There is gossip in the marketplace of a man who says that he will catch Robin Hood. He hath come at the bidding
of King John to seek out the outlaw band and take them by surprise." Lobb said.
"Is that all?" cried Will Stutely, still with the doe over his back.
"Nay, Will." Said Lobb. "There is more. He plans to pretend to be a relative of Robin Hood and calls
himself Sir Fitzooth of the Mark. No one knows why he chose Fitzooth but there is talk of it being the end of the
famous outlaw Robin Hood."
"If he thinks that pretending to be a Fitzooth will be the end of me someone ought to set him strait and I
aim to do that myself." Declared Robin, shifting the doe on his back. "Someone of his status should not
have to stoop so low."
"What means ye, master? Surely thou doest not think to go after him thyself?" cried Little John.
"Ay, Little John. He never paid for his meal and bed." Replied Robin. "I hate a man with so much
who gives so little."
"Well, thou shalt surely not attempt this on thy own, cousin!" Cried Will Scarlet. "For this clever
trickster must know something of thou to know to use the name of Fitzooth. Not every common Norman knows the true
identity of Robin Hood. Why, most of thy men even do not know thy true name."
"Thou speaks true, Will Scarlet. But I have met with this man. He is a bumbling excuse for a knight and I
think that he will not prove to be a worthy threat." Quoth Robin.
"Well, go if ye must, but thou shalt do well to bring a man or two along." Said Lobb. "For the sheriff
is in on this and he hast already built a gallows simply for the purpose of thy hanging in the square of Nottingham."
"Fear not, good Lobb. I am in no danger in the hands of this arrogant fool." Said Robin. "But for
now, shalt thee stay to dinner with us?"
"Ay, Robin." quoth Lobb.