Chapter 6

"Welcome to the Monastery of the Sightless Eye. I am Akara, clan elder. Tell me young one, why are you here?" the elder asked. Adrianna had found her way here. A woman had guided Adrianna here by the name of Kashya. She wore a leather top that was tight fit to her body. She wore a leather thong with a leather flap covering below her waist. She wore brown, knee length boots. Her hair was brown like Adrianna's and she looked to be about two years older. She would later know this woman to be her friend. Snapping out of her dream, Adrianna spoke politely to the old woman.

"I am here because I have nowhere else to go. I have no home. I lost my home when I left. I cannot tell you where I am from for I do not wish to go back. There is no place for a person such as me who only wishes to be a warrior to protect all that she loves. I believe you can help me be that warrior". The old woman nodded. She beckoned Adrianna to follow. She followed this Akara into a small room. There was a long wooden table with many chairs around it. The room its self was decorated in blue and red flags trimmed with gold. There was the Rogue symbol representing the Sightless Eye. The old woman pointed to a chair and Adrianna sat down, while Akara sat in a chair across from her.

"I can teach you many things young one. I see in you a very disturbing past and a strong will. We take in women and train them to become independent warriors that use-ranged weapons. The bow is our most powerful of weapons. My Rogues and I will help you become the warrior you seek to be. You will visit many places and will eventually have to face your past, but we shall prepare you for it. Is this what you want?" Adrianna nodded and then answered,

"Yes this is what I want. I thank you, Elder of Sightless Eye, Akara".

"Please, call me Akara. I will take you in and you shall live with me", the old woman said rising from her chair. The woman wore a purple cloak that covered her head. Wisps of grey hair appeared outside the cloak. The woman was tall, but did not show signs of age. Her face held several light creases around her grey eyes and her mouth. Her face was of oval shape and she was very pretty. The woman was kind, and Adrianna took to liking her. Yes she would be the warrior that would save her town…

The room was blurry when Adrianna awoke and she found herself in a small room that was dimly lit by two lanterns on a table across the room. She rubbed her eyes and blinked the blurriness away. She was lying on a feather cot. She noticed her armour hung on several small hooks on the wall; her circlet and gloves were on a table beside the cot. Her chain armour that was underneath her other armour hung on the back of the door to the other part of the rest of the hut. She was wearing her original leather armour now. She figured that it was under her new armour. She heard murmuring voices in another room. She sat up too fast and her head began to pound. She slowly lay back down and waited for it to pass and then she attempted to sit up again. She noticed that her foot had been bandaged with white thin strips of cloth. She somehow felt stronger now. She looked down by her feet and found her bag and boots on the floor. She slipped her leather boots on her feet and stood up. Her balance was somewhat shaky as she stretched and walked to the door. She remembered the Butcher as she slipped her hands around the doorknob. She opened the door. No Butcher leaped out at her. Instead six heads looked up at her. Derek, Lothar, Jayalm, Daniel, Lithious, and Jillian all looked at her. Lithious got up from the chair he was sitting at.

"How are you feeling?" he asked, casting a worried glance at her.

"I feel fine thank you," she said grinning. She heard the rest of the group let out a breath of relief. She noticed that her bow was missing.

"Where's my bow?" she asked.

"Aye it's in my shop along with all the other weapons. I also repaired our armour. I came back here to see if you had woken up yet. Now that I see that you are all right, I'll get our weapons". With that Derek got up and slipped out the door. He seemed to be trying to avoid her. The look on his face was one she had never seen. Had he been blushing or nervous or angry?

"I guess we'll wait outside" Lothar said motioning to Daniel and Jayalm to follow him. It looked like Daniel was getting along with the two men, which was good. He seemed to like them somewhat more than he liked her, but then again Adrianna didn't like him too much. Jillian rose to her feet and said,

"Lithious asked me to help him when they brought you in. I take it you defeated the Butcher?"

"Well actually, it was the other's who defeated him. I had my hands full trying to get that evil bastard to let me go" Adrianna replied remembering back to the events that had happened. Derek had seemed to care about her, but why? She smiled and turned to Jillian.

"Thank you for helping getting me well again". Adrianna turned to get changed. Jillian followed,

"Your quite welcome. Derek looked quite worried when he told Lithious that you had slipped into unconsciousness. Lithious said you were just exhausted".

"Well I'm fine now, but we have a long way to go. Who knows what lies down there in that cursed place", Adrianna said looking at her circlet and picking it up.

"Do you ever wonder if your destiny lies elsewhere?" she asked Jillian.

"Well I sometimes wondered that but I think my place is here. Ever since my grandmother died, I have felt that I belong here. Why, do you think that your destiny is elsewhere?" she responded.

"I'm not sure" Adrianna said confused. "I always wanted to see the world and I wanted to be a warrior who could protect my home, that's why I left so long ago. It seems however that my motives were somewhat selfish. Well I should get ready now" Adrianna said putting down her helmet and picking up the chain part of her armour.

"Okay, I'll leave you then now, but I want to say that you must do what your heart tells you to and I am sure that once you earn the trust of the people of the town, they will believe your true motives", Jillian said. "Well I shall leave you now. Good luck". Jillian left and closed the door behind her. Adrianna proceeded to change into her armour.

The five warriors were at the slimy steps to the third floor. Adrianna wondered what they would find down there. They would soon find out. Secretly Adrianna hoped that there was nothing like the Butcher. She rubbed her neck with her hand remembering his tight grip around her neck. She shuddered.

"Okay draw steel boys" Daniel said grabbing his mace from his belt. He looked at Adrianna and saw the disgusted look on her face and chuckled as he moved down the steps. This guy was a horrible guy always thinking that men were better than women. Ha, she would show him. She followed Daniel down the steps, the others following her. Once down the stairs they saw two doors one to the left and one in front of them. They were in a small room that had a tomb in the middle. Daniel moved to the tomb and grunted as he moved the lid off the tomb. It seemed he was showing off how powerful he was. Adrianna was not impressed. She had met men like this before. She had always avoided them with great care. There was nothing in the tomb. They moved on to the room on the left. Derek opened the door. There was nothing there but another small room. There was something in the wall. It was a large stone slab and there was an arch over it too. There was a white cross on it. Two candles were lit on either side of the stone figure.

"I think it's a shrine," Adrianna said touching the cross. Instantly, the cross lit-up and another door appeared in the far left corner of the room. There was an inscription now written on the slab of stone under the cross. It read,

"Thou who enters the Tomb of the Dark King shall find nothing but death within". The surprised group crept towards the door. Lothar pulled open the door and they found themselves in a large room with a smaller room inside it. There was an archway that led down a flight of stairs. Over the archway were the words written, "He who enters will join the Dark Legion of the Undead should he die within this chamber". The warriors looked at each other.

"King Leoric's chamber" they said in unison.

"Well we should checkout the rest of the floor first", Jayalm suggested. The others nodded and they turned around and went back to the other areas of the floor. It wasn't long before they came across more Carvers and Red-pink skeletons with the same swords and shields as the skeletons on the first floor. These skeletons identified themselves as the Burning Dead. The shields, Adrianna noticed had a burning skull on them and were oval with a point on the end. They moved menacingly towards them. Adrianna let her arrows fly and found they were harder to defeat. They had an invisible shield of fire surrounding them. She was the only one who could see this because of her inner sight.

"Careful guys these skeletons are resistant to fire"

"And how would you know that?" Daniel asked rudely. Adrianna angered, wanted to shoot this guy, but considering that there were skeletons closing in on them simply said that they had a shield of fire surrounding them and that because she had an inner sight, she could see it. To prove her theory, she shot a fire arrow at a skeleton and it bounced off the shield. The warriors attacked, while Lothar stood aside Adrianna and used Holy Bolt. It seemed like an hours before they finally managed to defeat them. They moved on to another area and found more Carvers except these ones were red and black with yellow-red eyes and they were hunched like the other carvers and held curved knives and small round shields that they dragged along the floor. They looked like small savage beings. They were called Devil Kin and they jumped up and brought their weapons down on their foe.

"I call upon wind," Adrianna shouted sending a tornado arrow flying at three Devil Kin. The tornado grabbed them up and sent them flying metres in every direction. They landed hard several metres away and didn't move. The tornado arrows simply looked like mini tornadoes. Jayalm grabbed his flail and sent tornadoes of wind flying at the demons. Using waves of water and electricity together Derek and Daniel easily electrocuted several Devil Kin at once. Using holy bolt Lothar destroyed three Burning Dead. The warriors continued like this until they cleaned out the area. Now only two areas remained. As they walked into the next area they came across several Burning Dead shooting arrows at them. Adrianna used her arrows to vanquish them. Lothar used Holy Bolt to destroy the rest. The group now moved towards King Leoric's Tomb. Their hearts pounding from their fight and the fear of the unknown...