Chapter 1: Trouble for the Rouges
As I walked around looking at the teams of men go out on quests given by the rouge leaders, I decided it was time for me to go. A 13 year old boy, alone, in the wild. This was my first time out in the wilderness, and only with my equipment could I survive. A wand, leather body, light boots, light gloves, buckler and a leather cap was my protection. My offense for now, was one skeleton. As I walked into the wilderness, I tried to remember what my parents had told me as a young child. "There are monsters all over the place!" My mom used to say. "They will kill you, take off your head and suck out your brains!" my dad said. I always thought it was funny, but it was a bit over explained and so I knew it was a lie. Walking out I heard a noise, I didn't have my skeleton with me because I would have to raise him from a dead corpse. Turning my head to the right slowly, I saw a small red creature looking at some gold. My eyes open wide. "Here we go," I said to myself. I slowly went and walked behind a tree, hoping that I can get a sneak attack on him. The small red monster turned his head towards the tree and stood up, bearing his sharp bloodstained dagger. I turned my head to look at him and saw him charge at me. In an instant, I spun around and clocked my small little wand of his thick empty skull. The small red creature groaned and started to shake his head. I ran behind him, taking his small belt and putting my wand up the belt buckle, picking him up and smashing my buckler into his face. He fell to the ground, looked at me with wide eyes, I looked back at him, blood red eyes with dark black outlining so you can only see the red. He stood up and ran at full speed, right into a tree. "uhh…ok" I said as I started muttering my summon curse. The ground around me started to shake as a light blue shape came out of the creature, and a skeleton appeared below it. "that must have been his soul, heh, never knew they had one." I said to myself as I continued to walk forward.
"At you service master," the skeleton said, standing with his sword and buckler, which was filled with arrows.
"Excellent" I said as I started to walk forwards, deeper into the wilderness. "O yea! His money!" I said turning around to see the blood spilled everywhere from the skeleton I summoned. "8 gold coins eh?" I said, picking them up and turning back around.
"Who are you talking to?" A voice said. I spun around to see a druid standing there
"no one" I said.
"Whatever, freak" The druid said, and started running to catch up to his group. I sighed and lowered my head and looked at the ground.
"Well, lets go" I said to my skeleton, as we started to walk towards the deep dark wilderness. I spotted a small animal with spikes on his back. "hmm… odd" I said, but as I was saying it, my skeleton was already charging it and its fellow creatures. I made a loud strong laugh and ran in to help him. A few minutes later, bodies lying all around us, I started looting everything they had. After another minute, while in the middle of looting, a small groan came from behind me. I turned to see three zombies slowly walking towards me. "Skeleton…" I said, as I said this, my skeleton ran out chopping them in half. As I stood there in front of the dead zombies, I heard a voice.
"Congratulations! You have acquired enough points to upgrade a skill," the voice said. "What skill would you like to upgrade?"
"..so that's how skills work...ok…what ones can I upgrade?" I asked.
"Skeleton and Skeleton Mastery!" the voice declared.
"…ok...skeletons!" I said, raising one arm in the air.
"You can now summon two skeletons!" The voice said as it started to fade away.
"Cool!" I said. Well Murmuring my summoning spell, my already summoned skeleton had a blue glow around him and a helmet appeared on him. When the other one rose, he had a helmet to. "Cool! They must of gotten stronger to!" I said. "Well, time to go get a quest…from… Akara I think it is." I said, as I walked back to the encampment.
