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Day 16

Location: Somewhere between Adlas Plains and Serafew

Weather: Foggy as always around here

So now we're back on the road away from the castle. Everyone's complaining about wanting to go back for baths/food/rest/fooling around.

According to Moulder we're heading to Frelia for this party because we found Ephraim and other things. Personally, I think parties are okay, but usually the idiots are invited. Aka our group.

Everyone's supposed to keep walking until we reach the inn in Serafew. That does nothing but make our feet hurt. And the horses too. Seth and Franz are using those leather whips on their horses. I feel sorry for them… Okay it's gone. Luckily there's an arena at Serafew. Maybe I should head there and make some arena money and get experience points. Paul said we should do that and have Natasha and Moulder level up since they can't fight or go in arenas. If a healer went into an arena I think they'd fight another healer. I can't imagine how'd they beat the brains out of each other. They'd need a brain sergeon to put their brains back.

I don't think Eirika wants Seth treating her like a baby anymore. She's all fed up and saying "I'm a big girl now! I don't need you to hold my hand! Wah!" Well, she's acting like a baby right now. Seriously, she complains a lot. Seth is just being stubborn because he likes her the way she is. I bet 20 years from now Seth is going to be feeding Eirika. With baby food. In a high chair. Yeah that'd be really odd.

Everyone's still complaining, but Eirika's not going to fall for it again. Oh well too bad for the people on foot. We can probably hold out until we reach Serafew. Unless Ross gets hit by a horse. Or even worse a horse with horse-shoes.

Prodigy, Lute

Day 17

Location: Close to Serafew

Weather: It's okay if you don't mind rain. Which I don't

Well, somehow a horse with horse-shoes passed by. Actually it was herd. Of horses. With horse-shoes. Large horse-shoes. Yeah… The horses just stampeded right over Ross. Now he's got a broken spine, spleen, ankle, wrist, jaw, and skull.

So thanks to Ross, we all have to camp out instead of staying in a nice mattress and a feather stuffed pillow. Plus a soft blanket.

Joshua is pissed off because Kyle and Ephraim like Natasha. Natasha is all "Oh I'm so flattered" and "Oh my…" She really must like the attention. Here's their situation.

Joshua walks up to Natasha.

Joshua, "Hey Natasha… Wanna to go… on a walk?" Raises eyebrows a lot and then starts winking uncontrollably.

Natasha blushes and replies, "Um… Joshua? I think you got something in your eye…"

Kyle comes out of nowhere then shouts, "Hey! Joshua! I saw her first!"

Ephraim approaches them.

Eprhaim, "No, I did! I saw her first! She's my property!"

Natasha, "Um…"

Kyle, "What are you talking about? She is not. Your. Property!"

Joshua, "Yeah! Kyle and I saw her first so she's our property!"

Kyle whacks Joshua in the side of his head.

Joshua, "Ow! What was that for!"

Kyle, "For being an idiot!"

Joshua, "Okay men, we'll have to do this the old fashioned way!"

Eprhaim, "Which is what Mr. Property-stealer?"

Joshua, "We play to see who gets her!"

Kyle, "Sounds fair."

Eprhaim nods with his hand on his chin.

Eprhaim, "Yeah… that is a good idea!"

Natasha, "Hello! The prize is being ignored!"

Kyle, "So… how are we going to do it?"

Joshua, "By roach, nuclear bomb, and foot!"

Eprhaim, "Don't you mean rock, paper, scissors?"

Joshua, "Hey it's my game and my rules."

Kyle, "Erm… okay…"

Joshua, "Okay. Here's what beats what. These are the hands." Joshua makes scissors for roach, fist for nuclear bomb, and a flat hand for foot. "Roach survives nuclear bomb, nuclear bomb kills foot, and foot squashes roach. Got it?"

Ephraim makes the symbols. "Um… I think so."

Kyle does the same. "Yeah I'm okay with it."

Joshua, "Okay when we all say foot you throw a hand."

"Roach, bomb, foot!"

They all throw their hands in having roach.

Joshua, "Erm… do it again!"

"Roach, bomb, foot!"

They all throw their hands again showing that they all picked nuclear bomb.

Natasha blinks. "Again I presume?"

Kyle, "Grr…"

"Roach, bomb, foot!"

They all throw their hands in yet again. They all have foot.

Eprhaim, "Oh my god. This is going no where!"

Joshua, "Okay guys. We all have to pick a different one this time!"

Kyle, "Yeah!"

Eprhaim twitches. "Fine!"

"Roach, bomb, foot!"

They throw their hands in again, but they all have roach.

Joshua, "This is going to take a while…"

Natasha giggles and walks away as they continue throwing their hands in.

Yeah, well I bet this is going to take a while for them. That was probably the only interesting think happening today. I'm in my tent now and Artur and Paul are now playing an Xbox. I have no idea where they get these things. They're playing this game called Halo. What I can get is that in the story these dumb aliens and dumb humans have are having a war about some stupid mechanical planet ring that the dumb aliens are trying to fire so that they can kill all life so that when all life in a something-mile radius are dead, these different aliens that won't be affected won't have a people/aliens to use as hosts for food. What a long run-on sentence.

Well, I gotta go do guard duty now so I'll leave tweetle dee, tweetle dumber to their little game.

Prodigy, Lute

Day 18

Location: Serafew

Weather: Sunny. No extra comments

Today we're finally resting in Serafew. We get a nice warm bed with nice soft pillows. Yay. I have to bunk with Artur, Paul, and Natasha. I wonder why we always get bunked together. Also, news flash. Paul and Natasha aren't long lost cousins. Paul went to check the name of their great-grandpa, great-great-grandpa, or great-great-great grandpa and found out that Natasha's great-great-great grandpa's name has an "a" instead of a "u." And they were just having fun spending quality time together as cousins. Well, now they aren't, so oh well. Too bad.

I went to the Arena today and gained a few levels.

I enter Arena and face my opponent, a Pegasus Knight.

Pegasus Knight, "Hahaha! I'm a Pegasus knight! We're good against puny magic users like you!"

"Yeah but I'm about 5 levels higher than you and I got a thunder book." I shock the hell out of him.

My next opponent is a Knight.

Knight, "Hahaha! I'm about 5 levels higher than you!"

"True. But you have low resistant."

Knight, "Noooo!"

I fire a fire spell at him, frying the crap out of him.

And my next opponent is a Monk.

Monk, "No! I don't wanna fight!"

"Really? I don't want to fight either."

Monk, "Really?"

"Nope." I use fire and thunder on him.

A healer comes to fight me.

"Um. If you're a healer, why are you here? Healers can't fight."

"Sob… I know! Someone just pushed me in here and forced me to bet 1000 gold!"

"Oh in that case, good bye." I cast critical fire on him repeatedly.

"Nooo!" Healer dies and I walk out about 3000 gold richer.

Well, that was fun. Especially when I killed the healer. The healer's buddies got pissed off and started throwing trash at me. That explains why I left before those healers could... uh... Never mind. Healers can't do jack squat except heal. I hope healers don't start a group against mages. I really don't want to write today because I want to spend some of my money at the shops.

Prodigy, Lute

Day 19

Location: Serafew again

Weather: Same as yesterday

Eirika and Eprhaim are taking a walk through town stating memories about the old days and such. And about this Prince named Lyon. I have to come with them because apparently, Seth is paying me to baby-sit them today. I don't think Seth likes his job of babystitting the cramp twins anymore. You can tell from his messed up hair, tired looking eyes, and lots of moments where he trips that he was stuck with the twins all night long.

Anyways, back to what happened when I started babysitting. It was crap from the beginning of it.

All three of us walk through town.

Eirika, "Lute! I want ice cream!"

Eprhaim, "Lute! I want a shake!"

Lute, "Well, you two will have to pay for it."

Eirika, "But… I dun wanna spend my money!"

Eprhaim, "Yeah! Me neither!"

Lute, "Oh god…"

The two lay on their stomachs on the ground and start a tantrum.

"We want ice cream! We want ice cream! We want ice cream with extra sprinkles!"

Everyone stairs at me like I'm a teenage parent that got pregnant at a young age.

"Sigh… that's it." I pick them up by their collars and drag them off into a random person's house.

"Okay. You can stay here. This is the screaming room. You can scream all you want."

The twins look at each other.

Eprhaim, "But we want go out there!"

Eirika, "Yeah!"

"Well, if you two babies stop screaming I'll let you go out."

They look at each other again, then back at me.

"Hey. I have time. Talk amongst yourselves." I put my hand to lean against the wall, but accidentally put my hand on the guy's face.

Person, "Ow!"

"Woops. Sorry about that."

Eprhaim, "Okay…

Eirika, "We're sorry…"

Eprhaim, "We'll be good…"

"Good. Now follow me then. And no screaming or else."

They both swallow hard.

Well, that was pretty much what I had to go through. I eventually bought them ice cream. Seth better pay me good or he's going to be set on fire, doused, then shocked and set on fire. Right now I'm distracting them with lollipops I found on the ground so I have at least five minutes of free time to write.

I wonder how the two act like this. Maybe they were dropped on the ground when they were born. Even worse, maybe they were dropped on the ground twice. In the head. Ha. They only act like this around Seth or a baby sitter. Other wise they're stubborn hard asses. Well they finished their candy I picked up on the ground now. They want me to read them a story now. Story time.

The twins jump up and down. "Story! Story!"

"Okay. Here's a story for you babies."

"Yay!" They sit down.

I take my diary and pretend it's a story book.

"There upon a time, there once was short little elf. He took a squad of snipers to attack the rebel short little elves. But suddenly, out of the blue, a squad of rebel elves and level twenty snipers armed with killer bows attacked from the trees."

They stare up at me as a I stop.

"Are you following so far?" I said with a bored expression.

They nod oddly.

"Okay. So then they took the leader of the squad. Which was the elf in the beginning. Then they put him in the torture chamber where they whipped him, burnt him, and cut him with knives. Then finally, the rebel elves put him in through the last torture. Can you guess what it was?" I asked really, really, bored now.

Eprhaim, "Uh…"

Eirika, "Did they let him go?"

"Nope. They put him in an iron maiden. The end."

Eprhaim raises his hand.

"Sigh. What, Eprhaim."

Eprhaim, "What's an iron maiden?"

"It's a casket with spikes on both sides on the inside. So when they close it the person in side gets impaled with spikes in a slow, bloody, painful death."

Eirika, "That story was scary…"

"The point was to scare you."

Yeah, well story time was fun. Not. They're scared now. Hahaha. I'm going to head back to the inn and put them in bed so I can get some sleep of my own. I had a very long and dumb day. Seth better pay me good. Or he's going to learn his bed and a fire spell don't mix.

Prodigy, Lute

Day 20

Location: On the road somewhere southeast of Ide

Weather: Foggy

We're nearing Frelia now which is where the party is. I hope the party isn't boring though. We should be at Frelia in like two or three days. Unless Ross gets into an accident again. Then we'd be held up again. Joshua, Kyle, and Eprhaim are still competing for Natasha. It's just plain stupid. They keep ending up in ties or tie breakers of whatever game they're playing. I think Natasha wants Joshua to win. Natasha really thinks it's cute how they fight over her. The three are going to end up tearing each other limb to limb if they continue this.

Finally, we're taking a break. Joshua wants to have a treasure hunt. He's making a deal that if someone finds the buried treasure that's supposedly around here, he'll give the winner half of the prize. Sounds good to me. We're splitting into teams of four now. On my team I got Colm, Artur, and Paul. Not bad. With Colm we might win. Here's the list of teams. Ross, Garcia, Neimi, Franz. Eirika, Ephraim, Kyle, and Forde.

Here's what's going on.

I look at the map with hints on it.

"It says that the first clue is by this rock."

We go to the rock and see three bottles probably for the other groups.

Colm, "Hm… hey a paper! It says to look at the tree with a fork in it. What's it mean by fork?"

I say to him, "It means it's Y shaped."

Paul drinks a can of orange soda.

Artur, "Paul! We're supposed to find the clues!"

Paul, "Yeah, but I'm thirsty! I can't help it if I'm orange-drated."

I raise my eyebrow. "Orange-drated?"

Paul, "Yeah. When I don't have Sunkist in my system."

Colm, "I got an idea to throw them off… hehehe…" Colm takes metal forks and sticks them on all the trees.

Meanwhile at another group.

Ross, "Dad! The map says the clue is by the rock!"

Garcia, "Hm… It's a ship in a bottle!"

Franz, "It's a message in a bottle Garcia."

Neimi, "Um… If we don't find the treasure then what next?"

Franz, "Erm… we all blame it on… you!"

Neimi, "Huh? Why me!"

Franz, "Um… because your voted most likely to make us lose!"

Neimi, "Sob…sniff…"

Ross, "The bottle says to go find the tree with the fork in it."

Garcia points, "Look!"

Franz looks at Garcia's hand, "Gasp! A finger!"

Garcia, "No over there!"

The group looks at a tree with real forks in it. They head over to it and start examining the tree.

Neimi, "…I don't see the clue…"

Franz, "Well, look harder."

Neimi, "Eek… okay…"

Ross, "Maybe it's inside the tree!"

Garcia, "Yeah!"

Ross chops the tree a few times. "Timbeeeeeer-Ack!" the tree falls on Ross.

Garcia, "Noooo! Why does this keep happening!"

At the third group…

Eirika picks up the bottle and reads the message from the paper.

Eirika, "It says to find the tree with the fork in it."

Ephraim, "But they all have forks in them!"

Kyle, "It probably means to find a Y shaped tree."

Forde, "How do you know?"

Kyle, "Elementary my dear Forde."

Forde, "Stop being sarcastic!"

Kyle, "Sigh. The forks were probably there to throw us off. Besides, that tree is Y shaped and doesn't have forks in them. Sort of suspicious, Forde."

Forde, "Oh. Your right. Hehehe."

Eirika, "The other group is there!"

Ephraim, "Hey I know! Why don't we just follow them instead of looking at the hints!"

Kyle, "But that's cheating…"

Eirika and Forde say in unison, "So?"

Kyle, "But what about sharing? What about integrity? And Adventure?"

Forde, "What about finders, keepers! Losers, weepers?"

Kyle, "But-"

Eirika bops the top of his head. "No buts!"

Kyle, "Sigh. I hate my job."

Ephraim, "What was that?"

Kyle, "Um. Probably a ghost."

Ephraim, "No! Leave me alone, great-grandpa!"

Back to the first group.

Lute goes to the tree.

Colm, "Okay, we found the tree. Now what genius?"

"Colm, shut up. I've been telling you that since we started this stupid treasure hunt."

Colm, "I can't help it! I want to find the treasure noooow!"

"Well, we can't if you keep bothering me. So make like a turtle and be quiet."

Colm, "Stupid prodigy…"

"I heard that!"

Colm, "Eep…"

Paul, "I know! Maybe we should look through the fork!"

Colm, "I got this! Chimp scouts are trained to climb!"

Colm climbs the tree.

Colm, "So what now?"

Lute, "Look through the fork!"

Colm looks from where the Y separates.

Colm, "There's four plates with food!"

I nod. "Good. Let's go then."

Paul, "Hey wait a second, where's Artur?"

Artur comes from behind a bush.

I blink. "Artur? What were you doing there?"

Artur, "Some business."

Paul, "Ew…"

Artur, "Not that kind! I was putting a sign there to keep away from the thorns!"

I sigh again. "Artur, no one cares."

Artur, "But think of the people that we're saving from thorns!"

"Artur, just shut the flux up already."

Artur, "Sigh. Okay."

Colm, "Wait! I'm stuck in the tree! Chimp scouts only know how to climb up!" We head over to the plates leaving Colm to somehow get out of the tree.

Somewhere behind the thorn bush.

Ephraim pops out covered in thorns.

"Man! I should've picked a different bush to spy and do business in!"

Forde, "Business?"

Ephraim, "Um… yeah… I had to take a dump. A really, large, smelly, liquidy-"

Eirika, "We get the point."

Forde and Kyle look at each other. Then they inch away from the bush.

Eirika, "Brother… That's just sick…"

Ephraim, "Whatever… Let's just follow them…"

Back to our group.

I look at a piece of paper.

"It says one of the four plates has the final clue. One of them has poison, one has a clue, and the other two have rocks."

Paul, "Then let's dig in!" Paul takes all four plates and eats three of them in about two minutes flat.

Artur, "Wow… don't you need to breath?"

Paul, "Ack! Choking! I ate two rocks! And there's paper in my too! Ack!" Paul falls to the floor.

We all look down at him.

Colm, "We'll use this "X-ray" device I found lying on the ground!"

I raise my eyebrow, "Found?"

"Er... Stolen technically."

Colm puts a screen up to Paul's throat revealing two rocks, and a paper that shows where on the map the treasure is found.

Artur, "Paul! We did it! We know where the treasure is now!"

Paul chokes, "Hooray!… Hooray!…" Paul falls down.

Colm, "Uh… I know!" Colm jumps on Paul, making him cough out the rocks.

Paul, "Hey… I can breath again!"

I say, "Um… but what about the paper?"

Paul, "…Maybe I swallowed it?"

"Sigh. Whatever. Let's just go. When we saw the paper in your throat it showed that the spot is right here by the trees that are crossed together to look like an X.

Artur, "Woo hoo! It's treasure time!"

We head over to the spot.

Somewhere behind us…

Ephraim, "Hehehehe… Now all we have to do is follow them and when the moment is right, we strike!"

Forde, "Hehehehe… yeah!"

Ephraim holds flashlights in both hands and points one at his face and the other at Forde's face. They both start laughing.

"Mwahahahahaha!"

The flashlights goes dead.

Ephraim, "Oops. I guess we were too evil today."

Kyle, "Hey look food…"

Eirika, "Good! I'm starving!" Eirika takes the plate and starts eating it. Suddenly, she stops.

"This stuff tastes... funny..." Eirika's eyes widen and she heads over to a bush. You hear vomit noises.

Ephraim, "Um… let's head on!"

Back to the Ross's group…

Ross has managed to get free from the tree.

Ross, "Dad! I think we should go over there!" Ross points to our group and Ephraim's group.

Neimi, "Maybe we should…sniff…"

Franz, "Will ya stop crying!"

Neimi, "But you're the one who's making me…"

Franz, "Yeah, but you don't have to cry every time I yell at you!"

Neimi, "Sob…"

Franz, "God…"

Back to our group.

Colm, "Hey look an X is on the ground!"

Artur, "Hooray!"

Paul, "Woohoo!"

"Yay…" I said sarcastically. "Now start digging."

Paul, "But what about you?"

"I did most of the thinking so you guys do it."

Artur, "But this is a team effort, Lute!"

"Yeah, and I did my part. Now it's your time to do your part."

Colm, "But what about one for all?"

I blink. "You got a point. But what about all for one?"

Colm, "Never mind… she does have a point."

Paul, "Okay… Let's start digging!"

Artur, "Alright!" I toss them shovels and watch them as they dig. They eventually dig it up and find the chest.

Colm, "Alright! I found the treasure!"

Eprhaim and his group pop out of a thorn bush nearby covered in thorns.

Ephraim, "Freeze!"

Eirika, "Yeah!"

Colm, "Huh?"

Kyle, "Yeah… What they said…"

Forde, "We're here to take the treasure! I you let us, we won't give you guys guard duty anymore!"

Artur, "But we found it first!"

Ephraim kicks the ground, "We want it! We want it! We want it!"

I yawn and then say, "Okay you three can fight them."

Artur, "But Lute-"

"Just do it if you want the treasure."

Paul, "Alright…" Paul glances around. He picks up the nearest weapon. Which is a stick. He then charges. "For the orange sodaaaaaaa!"

Ephraim, "Huh? Wait! We don't have our weapons!"

Kyle, "I thought you said this would work!"

Eirika, "Eeek!"

Colm, "Raaaaah!" Colm picks a dagger sized stick.

Artur, "Um…" Artur takes one of his signs and throws it.

Kyle, "You see-Ow! This is what we get for cheating-Ow!"

Forde, "Run awaaaay!"

The three chase them away while I watch writing in my diary.

The other group comes.

Garcia, "Hey look! The treasure! And it's already dug up!"

Neimi touches the treasure.

Neimi, "Hooray! Now we win! And I was the one who got us the win! Take that Franz!"

Franz, "Shutup!"

Neimi, "Eek!"

I get up. "Hey-Wait! We dug it up first!"

Franz, "But we touched it first! We win! Hooraaay!"

Ross, "Now where's Joshua?"

Joshua comes out of a tent eating a sandwich.

Ross, "So what's the prize!"

Garica, "Yeah!"

Neimi, "Tell us!"

Franz, "Yeah! We're waiting!"

Joshua, "Well, open the chest first." said Joshua as he chewed.

Garcia, "Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!…. a paper?"

Joshua, "Read it." Joshua takes a bite out of sandwich.

Ross, "Congratulations. You have won your prize. The prize is half of…. A sandwich?"

Joshua splits the sandwich he's eating in half. "Yup. I hope you like egg salad." He gives it to Ross.

The group stares down at it for about five seconds. Then they collapse anime style.

I watch as the three of my group chase Ephraim's group away with signs and sticks.

"Well, that. Was a waste of time." I burn the half of the sandwich that they drop.

I can't believe we did all of that work and thinking for a sandwich. Stupid Joshua… If I had the chance I'd set his hair on fire. Oh well… At least I was amusing watching Paul, Colm, and Artur chase away Ephraim and his group with sticks and signs. I'm going to take a nap now. Why'd it have to be a sandwich?

Prodigy, Lute

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