Chapter 3
Nergal ascended from he pit of Kalphites, the storm had ended and all was dark he was in that tunnel for what felt like days. The young warrior began to walk north to get out of this dry desert, Nergal was in pain he had to get to a more populated area and receive healing. Nergal had run out of water skins so he went to the first cactus he had seen and cut a limb of the plant off and filled the water skin with the water from the plant, He hoped it would be enough to get him to Al Kharid safely without dehydration. Nergal walked for a couple of hours seeing nothing but driven sand and cactus's and the occasional palm tree, until he had seen a couple of camels, Nergal thought there had to be a small oasis some where there's no way a camel would be in the middle of the desert with no water nearby. Nergal looked around the area to see if there was a small oasis near by the it was so dark he couldn't see much the only light provided was from the bright moon and the stars in the heavens.
Nergal began to walk north again for about an hour he passed nothing but three cactus's he had been counting to try to keep his sanity in tact. For what seemed like months was only hours but Nergal needed to rest he was going to faint without any rest because of his massive blood loss. The warrior looked north and finally seen it, the camels oasis he jogged forward towards it. He finally made it there was about five or six palm trees and a pond of fresh looking water there were some shrubs and grass to lay in.
Nergal laid down in his little desert dream oasis four ten minutes before he started to make a camp. When Nergal got up he laid out the rune armor that he put in a bag he had found in the dungeon and filled his other water skins. Nergal took out his dragon longsword and cut down a palm tree he took the leaves off the top to make a bed and used the rest for a fire. Nergal put the wood around a pile of stone he had found and began to rub two sticks together to make a fire, He rubbed them for about twenty minutes before they heated up and lit the tinder from the tree.
Nergal looked around there area for some shrubs or plants of some kind that he could use to make his wounds heal up quicker. Nergal tried to remember his Herblore training from when he was a small child, he remembered that the Guam leaf could be used to helps wounds heal quicker. After Nergal had patched himself up long enough to survive until he found a doctor he went looking for a musk rat, camel, lion… anything he could kill for some food Nergal was starving and exhausted the sooner he hunted the animal the sooner he could sleep. Nergal barely left the sight of his camp he was afraid he would be lost so he didn't wander far, after about thirty minutes of searching a pack of lions came "Damnit this is just what I needed" Nergal said sarcastically, He drew his sword and through it directly at a lion the sword impaled it through the neck and blood poured and oozed out of the wound. The other lions ran away fearing that they would be killed to. Nergal retrieved the dead animal and dragged it back to his camp. Once he got to his camp he cut the lion with the sword carefully preserving the skin so he could make a sheath or some clothing out of it later, he took out all the organs and non edible parts of the animal and buried them so no other animals be drawn to the scent of it, the last thing he wanted was a group of buzzards picking him apart for food.
The fire grew dim so Nergal added more wood to it, he grabbed three sticks and drove them into the sand so they were standing up on there own, then he placed another stick through the edible meat and place on top of the other two sticks allowing the meat to slowly roast. Nergal ate up the food when it was cooked and fell to sleep right away, not even bothering to take off his newly acquired armor.
Nergal woke up to the bright light, the sun about one quarter of the way to being perfectly vertical, "Must be around 9:30" Nergal said to himself. Sun was shimmering off of his rune armor he had found, it had falling out of the bag he had found in the Kalphite lair. Nergal packed all of his items into the bag and put the lion skin on top of the rune in the bag, He began walking north- east once again, "I should reach Al Kharid today, I've got to be close". After an two hours of walking Nergal had seen the entrance, it was Shantay pass, he walked past the guards and towards the province of Al Kharid he made his way straight towards the palace of Al Kharid, once he had gotten there he asked the an Al Kharid warrior where the nearest healer was, the man seemed stunned in a sort of trance that chilled Nergal, the man finally replied "The closest healers around here are at the duel arena" The guard quickly ran off towards the Sultan of Al Kharid and whispered something in his ear. Nergal continued toward the duel arena it had been a twenty five minute walk, once he had reached it there had been large crowds of people challenging each other.
He walked past many warriors, mages and rangers alike, all of them staring at Nergal and whispering to each other. One man approached Nergal he wore armor the was gilded in pure gold "Greetings" the man said "I am Skeliph, a great warrior with high renown throughout these fair lands, I wish to challenge you" Nergal looked at the man and replied "Why?" Skeliph said "Your wearing the rarest armor in Runescape only five sets of it were ever created, You must have killed the Kalphite queen?" "Yes I did" said Nergal "I wager my armor against yours winner takes all, by the way what is your name stranger?" "Nergal". Nergal and Skeliph went into the arena no appearance was visible of Skeliph his full helmet covered his entire face. Hundreds of spectators gathered on the stands "Looks like you've drawn quite the crowd Nergal, I can see why, your wearing such rare armor, they know how powerful you must be, but I will beat you!". Nergal drew his sword and ran towards Skeliph. Skeliph drew his sword and clashed it sliced through the air hitting nothing but wind, Nergal had dodged it, Nergal shoved the full length of his blade through the chest of his challenger. Skeliph collapsed to the sand and died "You call that a challenge!" Nergal's voice said in anger, The young warrior felt good a new feeling to his agenda he was bloodthirsty he enjoyed watching others die in front of him.
Nergal walked towards the duel arena hospital and the healers got to work on him right away. Nergal had fallen asleep after the healers were done healing him.
Clash… boom… bang the sound of thunder filled the air and flashes of lightning followed, the sky was dark with a red tint. All was blurry Nergal couldn't see but his vision came into focus A dark hooded and cloaked man wearing the symbol of Zamorak the mans, eyes glowing red with hatred. He was wielding a blade of fire and fighting off hundreds of approaching enemy, they were wearing the emblem of Saradomin and light bluish colored cloaks with armor of all types. The evil man stood atop a hill charred from flame surrounded by lakes of lava. Nergal had recognized this place it was Falador castle except the once mighty majestic surrounding river was a river of burning lava. Just then a man wearing the god Armor of Saradomin game rushing up the hill, Nergal's vision followed the man wearing the bright rune armor trimmed in a White finish with the Saradomin emblem engraved on the centre of the chest plate. The heroic warrior of Saradomin battled it out with the Dark warrior, after about ten minutes of non stop clashing of the swords between the two of them the dark warrior finally thrusted his flaming blade through the centre of the chest where the Saradomin engraving was Nergal felt as if the blade went through himself and cried in pain The dark warrior raised his head and looked directly at where Nergal had been standing, the dark wanderer had dark red eyes and a pale face of evilness the man also had a an ugly scar across his left cheek.
Wake up… Wake… Nergal woke up to the sound of the young women's voice. Nergal was sweating and had a cold sweat "What happened?" the women replied "you were having a nightmare". Nergal got up from the duel arena's hospital and looked beside him, it was the gilded armor from the man he had killed and his legendary dragon armor sitting next to it, his sword was lying on the side table and his sack of the old rune and the lion skin where sitting right next to it. Nergal strapped himself in his armor and put the gilded armor in the bag with the rune and lion skin the sack easily weighed. 160 pounds. "Where are you headed the women asked?" Nergal replied "Varrock, I got some unfinished business".