Heroes
Chapter 2: Revenge
"Alon is bleeding! Someone stop it! FATHER!" As Dio woke up in a cold sweat, he couldn't forget what had happened a month ago. As much as he tried to prevent it, the dream kept occuring. 'After they.....', his thoughts trailed off. 'Why couldn't we find the goblins?', he thought, 'Where had they gone?' He and Rian had run through the forest for two days, but couldn't find them, so they had come back to Dalen. They had buried the two honored men where they lay, but something didn't feel quite right in the pit of his stomach. They hadn't had time to dig anyting but a single 6x6x2 hole and at two feet, about anything could dig them up, but no one could bear to dig them up and rebury them. It was about two in the morning, so Dio went back to sleep.
At noon, Rian woke up and put on his tunic. He awoke Dio and they headed to their friend Kiona's house in the neighboring village of Talen. You see, these two places got their names from two thief brothers who argued and each built their own cottages which grew to villages and were named after the owners of the cottages. The cottage in Dalen was burned down by rogues, and Talen's cottage became the city's town hall, but that is all another story. When Dio and Rian got to Talen, the village was on fire. The place seemed to be deserted. In panic, they checked all of the houses for signs of life, but none remained. Something was bothering both of them, though neither said anything about the bad feeling.
Finally, they both exclaimed, "Kiona's shack!" They looked, but all they found was a pile of chopped and charred wood. But then they heard a groan. They turned around, and a scarred, burned, bloody man was limping toward them. Then a curved stick of oak flew between them, and hit the man on the head, which killed him. They quickly turned again, and saw a girl, gagged and tied, with a goblin on either side and an orc behind her. Dio yelled, "Kiona!", and charged with his sword. The orc hit him in the head with the flat of his axe, and kicked Kiona down. He said with humor, "Thot was goot shot, just liked when me killt red man aboot...er...", he scratched his head. "Aboot thirdee moon agoo." "You!!!", "YOU KILLED HIM!" "YOU killed him you hairy green son of a biznatch!!!", and with that, Rian charged and sliced all three of their heads off.