Almost midday, and the wagon was just beginning to cross over the hills leading to the plains. The horse had Sarah on it, and in the wagon was Will, Bagon, Sagent, and the female necromancer (Who's named they learned was Fray). Everyone was quiet, asides from Bagon and Fray, whose conversation was not only hitting their ears, but everyone else's as well.
"So you've been having the same dreams as me?" Fray said.
"Yes... It keeps recurring like instructions... the first couple of dreams were of you... in some graveyard... you raised a horrid undead soul... one I cannot begin to describe. Then a voice, a sweet voice, from nowhere inside my dreams kept telling me to go to Lut Golein. And, I did. This morning the same voice commanded I go to the main gates. Where all this recruiting started..."
"The same with me!" Fray shouted, "But my last dream was awkward... I couldn't really see anything but fog, and an image of people... all lined up... then one by one they began to fall down... and after that the voice started again..."
Will leaned over to Sagent, "What do you make of all this?" he whispered.
"Not sure," He whispered back, "They seem to be having those dreams for a reason... and they're both so alike that they definitely aren't caused by insanity," the wagon hit a bump as they started to climb over the hills on a pre-carved trail, they all fell out of their seats, but soon, they all climbed back on and Sagent continued, "Not Insanity... Maybe spells... after all we seem to be heading towards a sorceress or something..."
"Do you think it could be demons?"
Sagent got an astonished look on his face, "Maybe. Necromancers deal so much with the dead I wouldn't be surprised for Fray... but that still doesn't explain Bagon's or why they're so Similar..."
Will leaned back away from Sagent, leaving them both thinking.
"What the—"Sarah said. Everyone looked up, "Hold on!"
All the sudden, Several little creatures began running past them, shaking the wagon and kicking up dust from the trail. Will turned his head backwards to try and see where they were heading, but instead saw that the bump they had hit before was a dead body of these creatures.
They were blue, and two that they could see carried a stick of skulls and a flag. They made Hellish noises and looked even more Hellish. Soon, the group had passed, but 6, including one flag bearer stayed behind.
"What are they doing?" Sagent said from behind Will.
All the sudden, they began to push on the Wagon trying to tip it over.
"Lets go!" Fray jumped out of the Wagon onto the grass beside the trail, 3 of the creatures left the wagon and looked at her. One made a loud screeching noise and all three charged.
Fray pulled out a Dagger from under her cloak and twirled around, 2 backed off to not be hit from the twirling, and the one that screeched stayed, only to be hit by the dagger. She stopped spinning and stabbed it in the eye, having blood and puss ooze from the socket. The creature made even more a horrible noise than before, and backed into the wagon.
One of the others yelled and jumped on to Fray's back, pushing her down to the ground.
"Hold on!" Bagon drew out his sword and jumped from the wagon next to Fray. He swung his sword up, cutting the creature on Fray on his stomach, spewing blood everywhere. Fray finished off the other Creature and Bagon beheaded his. They then turned to the last.
Sagent and Will were having more trouble than them, they killed two normal creatures several times, but the flag bearer, who was standing out of range kept resurrecting them with a spell.
"We have to kill that one!" Will pointed to the Flag Bearer while fighting off his opponent again.
"Ok! Cover me!" Sagent pulled his two axes from the creature's arms that he was fighting, and ran towards the flag bearer.
"Die!" He lifted both hands into the air, bloody axes shining in the sun, but all the creature did was make another noise, this one more a grunt, then it threw forward its hand, and out came a ball of flame and energy, and smacked Sagent down. Hard, giving him several bruises and burns.
"I got him!" Sarah stood up on the horse and shot an arrow. At him, the arrow struck him in his shoulder and it screamed in pain, and then knocked Sarah off her horse with his attack.
Fray and Bagon, now finished with their batch of creatures ran around the corner.
"Bagon, help Sagent" Fray ran forward, by the time the creature noticed her, she was close, and he only swiped his hand out, ripped her cloak in half and throwing it on the ground, to show her all black and rather revealing outfit, showing most of her legs, stomach and back.
She screamed and stabbed the creature in its neck with her dagger, blood shot out, and the creature fell over.
Everyone caught their breath and stood up, Fray retrieved her cloak, or what was left of it, and put it on, several scratches, and the front was ripped. She climbed on the wagon, "You fight well," she said helping the others up.
"So do you"
Everyone got back into their seats and continued on.
"What were they all about?" Will said, out of breath.
"They were running" Sarah said silently.
"From what?"
"...The Sorceress"
They rode on and Fray began to stitch up her cloak.
* * * * *
Just before Sundown the wagon was coming into view of the camp. A Rouge called out from the gates, and the old lady, HellRaven and Paige ran out. They covered their eyes from the setting sun and orange sky to watch it approach.
"Your lucky," The old lady said to HellRaven, "She is coming back, and hopefully she'll have some recruits"
She looked away, and he looked at Paige and gave her a smile, "I told you"
When the wagon reached the camp the sky was half dark blue and orange. Stars showed up, and it was getting very dark.
The wagon stopped, and Sarah jumped off her horse first, then the Barbarian, two Paladins, and a Female Necromancer.
"You did well," the old lady said, and Sarah thanked her, "Who are these?"
"We can introduce ourselves, if you'd like," Sagent said, "I am Sagent, these two with the swords are Will and Bagon... brothers if you cant tell... and that one..." He pointed to Fray, "Is Fray... She's knew... to me... I mean..."
HellRaven stepped forward, "I'm HellRaven. And this," he held his hand toward Paige, "Is Paige"
"So... what exactly are we into here?" Sagent asked.
"Well," The lady stepped forward to the group, "What do you know"
Sagent answered this question, too, "Not much. We encountered some creatures running from some Sorceress Sarah told us about... but we mainly came because of this one's will," he gestured to Bagon, "Crazy dream's he's been having, makes him to crazy things! We follow him, then on this wagon we learned she's been having some crazy dreams too," he gestured toward Fray, "Strange, don't you think?"
The old lady stepped forward stroking her chin, moving through the darkness of the coming night towards Bagon, Will moving aside.
"Yes—"
As soon as she opened her mouth to try and speak, a loud crash of thunder sounded off in the distance. The group turned their heads, and saw a dark cloud—blacker than the night already around them—beginning to cover the stars and blanket the sky with it's intimidating darkness and occasional flash of lightning.
A gust of chilly air swept across the plains, hitting the group.
"Perfect time for a storm, eh?" Sagent said, laughing.
"No," The old lady sounded afraid, "This is no ordinary storm..."
"What do you mean?" HellRaven stepped forward, and Paige held onto his arm.
"The Storm..." the lady turned around, looking at Fray and Bagon, both of them looking at the ground as the wind blew. She gripped her hands underneath their chins and pulled both of their faces up to look at her, "Your dreams! Did you see this in your dreams!?" She shouted very aggressively over the wind.
"No," Fray spoke, and the lady let go of Bagon, letting him free to stare at the ground again as both her hands now touched Fray's face.
"What did you see?"
Loud Thunder
"Only people..." She spoke as it bean to drizzle, barley though, "Through a cloud... They fell one by one... that was my last dream..."
"A simple sign of death... and we all know that is too come..." She turned both hands back to Bagon, "You! What did you see?"
"I will not say..."
"What did you see!?" She yelled louder.
Bagon yelled back, "I have not spoken of my last dream since I woke up and it was gone! There it shall stay! Because it horrified me too much..."
"Speak, fool!" She yelled, wind blew past them, a bit heavier and stronger this time.
Will turned and pushed Bagon on the shoulder, "Come on! We need to know!"
Bagon looked up, "A storm covered the sky..." then there was lighting as the cloud seemed to creep up on them with a greater speed, "The Undead one was on one side of the plains... and he was on the other," he pointed to HellRaven, he was surprised and even more curious now, "...was on the other. They ran towards the middle... and lighting came from the sky... as if controlled by the Undead One... it struck him on his hear. But he did not fall, just cried... and She did not fall either... then... and... then the voice started again..."
"Voice?" Everyone seemed to be haunted by the dream he spoke of, and the old lady was going about it very carefully.
"Yes..."
"What Voice?"
"A girls voice... she talks to me after all these dreams..."
"What did she say? What!?"
Will looked at her angrily for getting mad at Bagon when he did not do anything to her. She noticed this and backed away a bit.
"She said," Bagon looked at the ground again, "It has begun"
"What has begun..." She said to herself.
"She will begin slaying everyone," he heard her question and answered in an almost droning voice, "And then, once they're all dead..."
"She'll resurrect a necromancer under her control, probably through the use of a very powerful wand, since she wont have any trouble finding it if the worlds dead. Then she'll make the necromancer resurrect everyone else... they'll all be under her control"
The wind picked up.
"But why..."
"So she can be Queen of the World"
"Greed!" The old lady kicker her feet just as another thunder clash sounded.
"But what I don't get," Sagent asked, "Is why these two were sent the dreams..."
"Yes... a necromancer and a paladin... wait!"
Everyone looked at her.
"Fray! Your first dream! And Bagon, yours, what were they?"
"Both of ours were of me," Fray said, "Resurrecting the Undead in some graveyard!"
"That's it!" She shouted as the light Drizzle turned to a warm rain, 'The Sorceress used your power—somehow through your dreams—to resurrect herself. But that doesn't explain Bagon..."
Everyone gulped at the thought.
"Now, we all know what we are to stop. This storm seems to be of her doing... everyone find some shelter inside the encampment"
They entered one by one as the sky grew darker than dark. The few Rouges and traders left watched them enter, first the lady, then Paige, HellRaven, Sagent, Bagon, Will, Fray, and then the two other Rouges. A group of more three more just rode up, seeking shelter from the storm.