I do not own anything associated with Forgotten Realms and Baldur's Gate.

I do own Ashmorlenna& Delphie and will destroy anyone that messes with them, you have been forewarned.

This is my first fan-fic so you will have to bare with me.

I'm dedicating this fanfic to LP, that have inspired me to stay up all night, every night to write. LOL.

Chapter One-Why Wizards and Bards Don't Mix

It was that anomalous chapter of the day.

There was on rampant sun nor lustrous moon overhead, no clouds lingering yet no star prevailed either and it was not dark but one must still strain just a little to see.

I could hear my heartbeat race with my wings, white with buoyancy streaking through the harsh wind as we speed across the rocky soil of the forest and I could see that it was still pursuing after me enduringly. Rushing through the murky seas of dead leaves, dust and insects, my long slender arm reaching around my neck toward my back, I check quiver and noticed that I was running low and would need to reload but I had plenty to handle this situation since I really needed only a single clean shot to take down any predator that stalks this forest.

I could smell the wolf's rant breathe which smelled of old stag most likely its last meal, he most have been desperate to get a large catch before winter but as luck and poor judgment would have it, he picked the me, Ashmorlenna Di'Manstrana, the best tracker, map-maker, singer and not to mention thegreatest longbowyer this world has ever seen. He would not live long. I quickly changed course and ascended into a thicket of branches in the wiry trees with great ease if I say so myself and I must of done very silently since the sharp-tooth ball of gray fur over ran me as I settled my longbow in my left hand, braced my string back, arrow crossed, touch my kisser strung along my golden bowstring to my lips, inhaled and set my sights on his heart.

Whoooooooosh.

The poor animal's leg buckled under him, his head arched moonward and wilted onto the diminutively spiked lush grass beneath his belly. He didn't see it coming at all and just let out a low moan as he's fell unconscious. As I approached him my heart fluttered, my eyes were beginning to fill with dews of salt but I gulped in some air, grabbed him, my stomach was churning itself and I needed to eat something I decided that he would have to do.

I pelted him of course since I don't like anything to go to waste after I fried up his gritty meat and devour my first meal on my five day journey to some dumb settlement of dwarves at the foot of our Mount Galmesh where my home of Avarivase sits in front of me just about a half a mile in front of me with its immaculately gleaming glass and gold made with the land and off the land. My thin curvy body now replenished sauntered to a thin crystal stream near where I had made camp and I touched my face, I knelt down to get a better view from my five foot ten inch vantage point. I looked at face, at my five pointed star birth mark that covered my temple behind my right earlobe hidden behind the auburn hair that run untrained to the middle of my back. I tossed back the matted strings in front of my left ear and looked at the small jagged scar that traveled along the bone directly beneath my left ear. I touched my small upturned nose, it's a cute little nose. God, my face was loathsome, breaking and seared from exposure to the elements, and my cheeks, my dreaded cheeks, their always blood filled and cherry, they made me look like I was continuously blushing. I ran my short fingernails down my peach lips downward to my finishing feature, the thin slender chin that accentuated my willowy head. I am a catastrophe. I was in need of a bath but decide that I would wait until I returned home. I longed for home.

Wow, I'm nostalgic.

I haven't felt this way in a long time due to my obligations... I revisited my camp and sat on my bedroll and rekindled the fire and sleep under the stars that night for the first time since I started that dreaded Academy.

How I hated that place. So trite.So cold. I had to go and "try it out" for my uncle for whom the Academy for Bladesinger was named after. I love him and my aunt but I truly cannot see being a pawn for our royal family off half a millenia such as he and barely able to stand after protecting the weaklings. Just about then my highly astute ears heard footsteps and I remained still to figure out what sort of creature it was and if it was coming toward me. At first thought I assumed it was another of fangs pack but then its' pattern of movement did not match, it was a bipedal creature about my size and the "person" was directly toward me. I stood utterly motionless. Soon it was an arrow's shot away from me but I decided that I wanted some more fun. I now noticed the breathing pattern and a great smile came across my face as I disintegrated into the trees above me.

So, you think you could sneak up on me. She came up to the fire but by that time I was tacit taut in the trees ready to recoil on the black haired figure standing below me as she was searching for me around my locale. Right as she looked up I leaped on top of her I flew out of the tree as quickly as an arrow targeted directly for her head.

Crrrrrrraaaaashhhhhhhh.

I went directly through her and hit the ground and rolled away as I nearly fell into the fire and looked up toward her.

"Oh, you should see the face of the great huntress Ashmorlenna," laughed the thin, long-haired Delphena as her white wings flapped with much amusement.

"Delphie," I shook my head to release the leaves from my auburn hair.

Delphie stood there arms open as all of five foot inch frame covered by long black hair and flaxen skin stood straight up to try and make up the nine inches it lacked to meet my emerald eyes to her blue ones. I walked slowly to the tree she leaned by and watch as I took her bait at her illusionary body double.

"Did you come all this way to humiliate me or do you have any word for me," I said with my most prodigious voice I could muster as I gave her a giant hug as I was glad to see her.

"No word, just humiliation. I thought you would have made it home by sunset some I wanted to meet you at the gate but then sensed that you just going to camp out here tonight and wanted to join you since you were almost home," spoke Delphie with her arms reaching behind her back.

"I just wanted to get out of an extra day of classes. I dread going back, and this way I can have all of tomorrow to myself."

"Well, how did your map go?" Delphie asked leaning toward me as I approached her opening my pack.

"It went quite well do you want to see the finished product," already knowing the answer for looking at her blue eyes that sparkled from the starlight sky I grabbed it out of my pack and remove it in my common ceremonious fashion.

"Wow. Its very detailed as always. Great sky routes and landing points. Many alternative land routes and you even indicated the predators threat both terrestrial and aerial in a lot of the areas," she said mocking most map inquirers.

"Give me that, Delphie," I said as I quickly took back my latest greatest medium.

"So...were there any 'nice' looking dwarves. You know, any cute ones," Delphie asks half inquisitive and half mockingly.

"Oh, Delphie, I don't think even you would fall for one of those obese, pompous cave-dwellers. All they did was belch and drink and told tall tales."

"So they were your kind of people, ah."

I punched the wizard in her shoulder and laid back on my bedroll. She followed suit and we stretched back searching the sky as our breathes matched like a well composed melody.

"Do you ever want to just leave Avarivase and just travel the countryside, just to do it, not for gold or fame or anything just to get away from all that is familiar," Delphie asked as she grabbed an apple off of the tree we laid near and then crunched into it.

"Yeah... I did, I mean I do."

"Hey, Lena, do you ever think about what was in the cavern you feel into," that's what started this whole thing… hey, Lena and thirteen tiny little words about that stupid cavern that 67 years ago I nearly died in. "I know that you still a little claustrophobic…"

"I am not afraid of that place if that's what you're trying to say," honestly I was terrified. I've always been spooked by small, dark places since as far as I can remember. I am truly claustrophobic but Delphie understands me and knows that I will never admit that to no one even if they know the truth.

"I really know something was there, and you do too. You've been in stickier situations than that hole and came out of them completely unscathed but that place did something to us," Lena was the one that heard me and followed suit to climb down the hole to save me as my aunt's tale goes and retroactively got stuck with me, luckily my aunt was wise enough to follow her and saved us. I still have dreams of that place, there was weird stuff in it. Far down its corridor was a bright prevailing light that persisted all day and night. I often wonder what was down there and also wonder if my paranoia was caused by something down there. I don't remember anyone there but I have a feeling that I was never alone for those three days.

"Delphie, I think that whatever's in there belongs there."

"Think of the fame," Delphie's eyes sparked with passion, "we would be the talk of Avarivase, maybe of all Galmesh," Delphie's eyes opened wider.

"We don't even know if there anything there…"

"You just said 'whatever is in there belongs there," Delphie said and crossed her arms then leaned on my and looked into my defeated face, "just think about it okay, I know that something amazing is there. You know it to, I can feel it." I leaned over and looked into Delphie's eyes, and wanted to tell her 'no' but I couldn't I felt spellbound. Immobilized. Powerless.