Chapter 4: Deception
I am quite pleased that I got another review about my "typing manners." Jon I don't hate you also lol. I prefer to know when people are reading so even if you don't see anything wrong . . . . just say hi! Or something . . . anyways . . . here it!
Alveren had already put the healing potion and salves to use before Zourn came back to him. "Zourn so much like a drow, and yet . . . . he is so foolish." Alveren said to himself. Alveren laid back against the stone, still quite dizzy from the loss of blood, but still aware of the situation he had created. Tricking his brother with the fake informant and gaining Zourn's "protection" as a rouge. Alveren thought he had it all figured out. Zourn had been watching Alveren for the past few minutes; he thought to himself that Alveren was looking a little too comfortable. A thought went through his head at that moment; why not reinforce Alveren's "trust" in him. Zourn rushed off to the gorges, where Venr, most likely has left the bugbears in his frenzy of being the new Weapons Master of House Lavin. Zourn took flight from the ledge he had been watching to the gorges. Just as Zourn has guessed the bugbears still milled about the gorge, Zourn earlier after their battle, without Alveren noticing, had cut off his House emblem. Zourn tacked it over his own house's emblem and strode up to the bugbears. The bugbear's snapped their attention to this new drow; they had been commanded to give no notice to anyone that passed, unless they headed towards Donigarten. Zourn walked straight up to one bugbear and said, "you and your friend are needed to go kill a certain curious drow." The bugbear greatly confused, didn't reply. Zourn face flushed with anger, a bit of acting would help he thought, "You dare disobey Venr! He will have your heads on a pike!" Zourn straightened his piwafwi, showing off the House Lavin emblem. The bugbear and his partner, took off with all haste towards the ledges where Zourn had pointed for them to go. The rest of the bugbears stood tentatively waiting for a command, but received none. Zourn came up behind the bugbears he had sent, and warned them, "The drow will claim that his is of "our" house! Go along with it, then when he leaves his defense down . . ." Zourn left it at that.
The bugbears found the lone drow with little difficulty, because Alveren was still relaxing against the stonewall. The two bugbears approached Alveren with the utmost confidence. Alveren hardly noticed till the bugbear's walked straight up to him, a noble! "You stupid bugbears do you know who I am!?" He screamed. The bugbear's had been told differently, but following Zourn's instructions backed away. Alveren, never really has put up his defense, they were stupid bugbears after all. "How dare you insult a noble of House Lavin!" He went on, "I could have your heads ripped off." Alveren relaxed again and calmed himself. "Why are you all the way up here? Aren't you supposed to be at the gorges." The bugbear's noticed that this "noble" had no house emblem and was wounded. The bugbears laughed at the drow, for thinking he was a noble. Alveren, in a rage now pulled out his sword, unable to use his other hand, because of the loss of three of his fingers. The first bugbear charged in thinking him for a common drow, but he learned different. Alveren feinted a strike at the bugbear's left side, but then reversed it and slashed the bugbear's right chest. The bugbear howled, the dropped his club, then charged in, trying to smash Alveren with his body. The bugbear didn't think about his dropped club, and slipped on it, reversing his falling direction. Alveren, didn't take in account the club either, and was pinned to the ground.
Zourn watching from afar thought this would be a good time to come in and save the day. He rushed in pulling out, his scimitars, he cam up behind the other bugbear and slashed the back of his calf's. The bugbear, completely caught off guard, looked to find the drow that gave him the commands at his left side. He gave Zourn a confused look. Zourn only smiled and plunged his left scimitar in the bugbear's side, ripping through the bottom part of his lung and heart. The bugbear was dead before he even hit the ground. Alveren, had noticed Zourn has soon has he had entered the fray. That was about the only thing he could do, considering the bugbear on top on him. The bugbear still quite dazed from the fall didn't realize the advantage he had, but it didn't matter, because Zourn was already on top of him, with his scimitar working through the parotid gland, just a bit under the ear straight through the neck. The cut quietly killed him because his jaw went limp from the vicious cut. Alveren, still under the dead bugbear, who was covered in blood and salvia, cried out "Get me from under this drooling beast!" Zourn only laughed. Alveren was quite glad that Zourn had shown up, and also made him believe his trice had worked quite well.
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Venr, had arrived at his house earlier, and didn't care at all about the stupid bugbears. His was the Weapons Master! He immediately started to move his brother's old things out his room, and started to move his own stuff in. Venr's older sister, Shanese had noticed her brother's excited movements. "What are you doing you irrational fool?" She asked with pure distaste. "You had better learn to respect the new Weapons Master!" Venr put a lot of emphasis on his new title. Shanese, not understanding, "What?" Venr, thinking of being cool replied, "I am the Weapons Master of House Lavin, and thus I demand your respect!" Shanese thinking her brother had been hit on the head pulled out his six-headed whip and gave it a good crack. "Young brother your about to learn the meaning of respect!" Venr, still very confident pulled out his short sword, and taunted her. "Do come sister let me teach you the sting of my blade!" Shanese shocked by the boldness of his brother heisted. "I see you now realize the power of the new Weapons Master!" cried Venr with pure delight. He sheathed his sword, and went back to moving stuff from room to room. Shanese, still shocked, went to seek her Matron Zeath's word on this matter.