Disclaimer:
As I said before, these characters are mainly mine, I made them, go
find your own, anyway, the bugs are not, they are from one of my pc
games, Dark Sun, Wake of the Ravager, Long Live AD&D!!
Part
Two: Treasure Finding
They walked for days after they left
the village d I had lost my shoes so that every time I stepped on a
sharp rock I felt it.
We came to a temple just as the sun
was setting and we started to head towards it hoping that there was
someone there to give us shelter for the night. When we got to the
temple we saw that it was empty. As we set up camp I remembered a
story I had heard somewhere "What's up?" Kaya asked while we
were eating "You remember the traveling storyteller that stopped in
the village a few weeks back?" I asked, Kaya nodded, "I was
thinking about something I had once he that out in the regions around
the village there was a temple that, deep inside it, there was a
great sword named the Blood Letter, a sword that was once given to
the priests so that they could guard it from not just the people but
from the demons themselves the storyteller had said that the priests
needed someone to wield the sword but the wielder was not strong
enough to defeat the demons when they came to take the sword, he also
said that the priests, in one final effort to stop the demons they
put the sword in a casket and locked it with a medallion key, they
then split the key and hid them in separate parts of the temple and
the demons gave up in fury when they could not get the sword."
"So
you're saying that this could be that temple?"
"Well
that was what came to my mind when I saw this place."
"Well
do you think we should look in here?"
"I don't
know,"
"I need a weapon apart from this book,"
"Ok,
it's a pretty cool book though,"
"Yeah, but not now,
feet need rest,"
We slept in turns like always that
night I could have sworn I heard something in the plain around the
temple, but I couldn't see anything."
The next day we went
into the temple. We came across a skeleton lying on the floor. With a
closer search we found a letter along with a small moon shaped piece
of gold. The letter said:
Brother Oxeye
We have given you
an important job. You must take the piece of the key and run out to
the land and hide it from the demons. We wish you Godspeed, good
luck.
"Well that was easy." Kaya said
"There is
still another piece." I replied
"I guess so."
As
we moved deeper we found a strange drawing on the wall in the middle
of the drawing was some writing. I could read some of languages, and
this was one of the languages that I could read.
"What does it
say?" Kaya asked
"This is the place I was talking
about."
"How do you know? Anyway what does it say?"
"It
says "This is the temple of lesson, the priests here once tried to
stop us getting what we wanted and they have paid the ultimate price,
death."
"And?"
"That's all it says."
A
second later I drew my sword,
"What's wrong?" Kaya
asked,
"We are not alone in here."
She quickly
picked a spell out of her book and the activation word for it, a ball
of fire appeared in her hand, over the last week or so she had become
very good at controlling magic, all she needed to do is touch a page
to be able to use the spell.
Brother Drakens dairy .
I
flicked through the book to the last entry
May 3rd 1423
I
must have an account of this event so that I remember the curse of
the Blood Letter if I ever forget. When I had just the order and saw
the Blood Letter I was naïve, now I know why the others groaned
at its' mention.
Today Gerick the wielder came into the temple
hall dragging the cursed sword behind him blood dripping from his
many wounds. He gave the sword back to the watchers who put the sword
into the casket as Gerick collapsed onto the floor.
"Unconscious
again" said Father Gavin
"Look, blood all over my carpet
again that's the fifth time this week." Complained Brother
Gray,
"We really need to stop him holding that sword all the
time." Said Father Gavin
"Yeah, Every time he gets it he
runs off to protect the temple from something. What was it this
time?" Agreed Brother Gray
"Rats I think." Said Father
Gavin
"No rat's where last time, this time there was
spiders."
"Giant spiders?"
"No, Normal
ones."
"How can someone get so injured fighting
spiders?"
"Beats me, I would have just stepped on
them."
Then I who had been studying the fallen warrior
said"Excuse me but Gerick's dead again"
"Great."
Said Brother Gray
"Alright who's going to resurrect him
this time?" Asked Father Gavin.
I put down the book and
looked at Kaya
"What was that about?" I asked,
"I
don't know, but at least we know that the sword is here?
"Hey
I found another golden thingy."
Kaya looked at the golden
thing on the floor. As I picked it up we heard a loud voice say
"Don't wake the watchers."
"You said that we were not
alone in here didn't you?" Kaya asked,
"Yes."
"I
think I know what is in here."
"What?"
"Death."
"Oh
is that all"
"No."
"Who or what else
then?"
"Them."
"Who?"
"The pale people
behind us."
"And those umber hulk things?"
"I
don't know."
"Let us have a look then"
We slowly
turned around.
"Yep, there are buggy things there"
"Any
ideas on getting through?"
"Fighting all the way?"
"I
like that idea."
"I can kill the most."
"Dream
on."
Then, with much screaming and shouting, the pale people,
and the buggy things faced off me, Secom, with the Soul Stryker, and
Kaya with a book of magical spells and frankly, they didn't stand a
chance in hell.
After the fight we headed into a large room
with golden walls and pillars and large golems standing at the side
walls, "Nice paint job." I said,
In the centre of the room was
a gold casket with a circle indent in its side. After sticking the
two golden things together which made a circle l put them in the
indent on the casket. The casket opened to reveal a red sword
"Kaya
I have a gift for you." I said
"I love presents. What is
it?"
"It's a sword,"
"Woo hoo."
"I
have a question. Were we treasure hunting or treasure finding?"
"I
don't know, anyway you want to try out that sword
now?
"Sure."
"Good. Now I have a question to. Are
those golem things supposed to move?"
We turned around slowly to
see that the golems were advancing on us.
"I believe I have a
plan here." I said,
"Anything is good."
"Well
it is more of a concept..."
"And the concept is?"
"We
come in peace, shoot to kill."
"There's a problem with
that. These guys are solid rock."
"Than we come in peace,
slash to kill."
"Will do."
Now what happened to the
pale people and the buggy things happened to the golems except there
was two swords and magic. The golems were extremely annoying because
of the fact that they were seven feet tall and if you suffered a hit
from one of these guys you're basically on the ground half dead but
we found that arms and legs can be cut off and there will be no
difference but they need heads. After the battle we walked out (sorry
crawled out.) with much pain but we had a sword to show for it and
the golems cracked open to show that they were full of gold. We
rested in the same area as we had the night before and we were out at
first light.
There we go, part two, what do you guys think?
