Chapter Four
By Hdogg
We're stuck in the Camp
Chapter Told by Jenny Ramo
Note: Hehe, I had a vision! Well, actually I just figured out how to write this. So let's see what our warriors shall decide. Will they go this quest or will they skip it?
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A Week Later In the "Glorious" Hovel
"Hmm…" I thought as I looked around. It was a beautiful morning. The sun shone brightly and the air was fresh and clean. I swept back some of my short black hair out of my eyes. I was the only one up as usual. 'I wonder if its wise that we should do this. I mean in the game you die but you come back but in this world…what could happen to us? We're actual living beings…not computer generated characters…'
I just sat there watching the clouds go by. I reflected on what had been going the past week. We had some training from the Rogues and Akara but not a whole lot. Dru also seemed to be avoiding me too. I sighed. Life was getting very weird on me.
I looked around at everyone. All were sleeping peacefully in their sleep. Dru slept farthest away from the fire though. Like he was afraid of something.
Larry yawned and rolled over into the smoldering ashes of the fire. "OWWW!!!"
He screamed jumping five feet into the air. He rubbed his slightly brunt arm and glared at the ashes.
"Shut up, ya big baboon." Growled Mo, rolling over and curling up into a ball as she went on sleeping. Her light brown hair, not in its usual pony tail, covered her face. The others all slept soundly though Larry's ranting. I sighed, sat down, and pulled out my book.
'Chapter Seven: The Answering.' I read oblivious to my friends as they threw rocks and sticks at Larry to make him shut up but it only caused him to rant louder. Aly was sleeping though all of this amazingly. She didn't even stir when Larry nearly killed her when he fell over her.
"How dare you disturbed my sleep!? Prepare to die, you fiend!" Yelled Mo as she threw a fireball at Larry's head. (A/N: I know you can't that in the game when you're in camps but hey who's writing the story? … I like to call these improvements "twiddlements".)
"Ahhh!! Nice evil sorceress…" Said Larry slowly backing away from the fire and the gang. "You don't want to hurt your handsome, friendly, smart barbarian, do ya?"
"Hmm…let me think about that…" She made a thoughtful look, then an evil glare appeared in her eyes. "YES! DIE!!" Shouted Mo throwing another blazing fireball at blonde barbarian.
"AHHH! SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THIS MAD WOMAN!" Screeched Larry running around the camp with Mo hot on his tail firing fireballs left and right.
I looked up and sighed, 'Hmm…such interesting people those two are…' I went back to my book. Nothing interesting was happening in it just people talking about time travel again. Mo was still in hot pursuit of Larry. Daniel was staring at them, shaking his head. Stuart was cooking some kind of meat on the small fire he got going and Dru was staring at the sky mumbling to himself about something. It's amazing how something so small as rolling into the fire, can ruin the perfect peacefulness of the morning.
I had trouble keeping my intention on my book so I finally gave up reading and put it away. "Hmm…what's cooking, Stuart?" I asked.
"Umm…I actually have no clue, but it looked good to I decided to cook it." Said Stuart, looking at the meat.
"Okay…" I said then thought, 'Why me? Why do I have to stuck with these weird people?'
Mo and Larry were running back towards us. Daniel pulled out his sword and as Larry ran pass him, Daniel whacked him over the head. Then when Mo ran past him, he grabbed her by her ponytail and sat her down on the ground. She wasn't to pleased with this since she was grumbling about how she wasn't able to give the barbarian a proper beating.
"Okay, you two, no killing each other, well…not here anyways." Said Daniel, brushing a bit of his short brown hair out of his eyes, "We need to get down to business. First off, what are we going to do about food?"
"Hmm…Just a bit more garlic and some lemon…and we have some lovely chicken or whatever this is." Said Stuart cooking a hunk of meat. Larry was hovering over Stuart trying to get to the meat. "Get away! It's not done!"
"It isn't?" Whined Larry, his stomach howling for food.
"Go away and wait." Growled Stuart, threatening Larry with the ladle he had in his hand.
Larry stalked away and sat down on a log. "Eh, okay…well, on to the second order of business, how do we get home?"
"Well, there is a possibly that Akara knows." I said. Everyone looked at me. I shrunk back, trying to avoid their peering eyes.
"Hmmm…you have a point." Said Daniel, "Well, there's nothing we can do about that at the moment, so I guess we need to decide if we're going to take that Den of Evil quest. Since we've been putting off this decision in order to train."
I asked, "Are you sure we're ready for this?" Everyone but Aly and Dru gave me a glare. I sighed. I guessed they were ready for the danger that faced us but I wasn't sure if I was ready for something like this.
"I'd say it'd be fun!" Spoke up Mo, jumping up into the air and waving around her staff. I smiled. Mo was a funny person. I turned away then looked back. Something was different about her. I knew her clothes were different because we had all changed into more appropriate outfits as Akara had put it. Her eyes. Mo's eyes were different. The contacts she would usually wear added a slight blue tint to her eyes but there was no blue tint today. Just her usual blue-green eyes that you saw only she had her glasses on. I absentmindedly adjusted my own glasses. Had something been done to her eyes?
"Yeah…you think everything's fun…" Murmured Larry. He yawned and stretched. "I'm still tired too…"
Aly was still sleeping and now mumbling in her sleep, "Duo…Hotohori…Kuja…" We all glanced at Aly. She was dreaming about anime men again! What a fan girl!
"Umm…that's not helping at all." Said Daniel, shaking his head.
"Well, I'm up for something to do. I like to kill things." Said Larry swinging his club around. I backed away slowly to avoid being hit.
"Yes, that's nice." Stuart said taking the meat out of the flames. "Food's ready."
"Yahoo! Food! Finally!" Mo jumped for joy and raced over to the food. Larry was the first to try the food though much to Mo's disappointment.
"Delicious. Excellent. Tastes like chicken." Larry said mouth full of whatever kind of meat it was.
"Hey! You've like eaten half the bird!" I exclaimed loudly.
"Grr…Prepare to die, you fiend!" Yelled Mo charging at Larry.
"AHH!!! Not again! Someone save me!" He screamed throwing the food up into the air.
"I'll get it…" Mumbled Dru catching the bird but tripping over Aly in the process. I sighed as I watched Mo trying to kill Larry again.
"Will those two ever get along?" I said to Daniel.
"Most likely not in this century." He replied, sighing. "Guess, I better get those two to settle down again." He pulled out his sword and shouted at the two idiots, "WOULD YOU TWO GROW UP AND GET YOUR BUTTS OVER HERE?!"
Larry and Mo stopped dead. "Uhh…" said Mo staring blankly at him. Her looked of confusion was amusing. I laughed softly.
"What'd I do now!? Please don't hurt me!" Wailed Larry. I just shook my head at him. The people I hang out with, a blood thirsty Sorceress, a wimpy Barbarian, a courageous Paladin, a psycho Necromancer, a sleeping Amazon, and a silent Druid.
I glanced at Dru. He had set down the meat on a rock. He wasn't facing me but towards the east, as if searching for something. It seemed something was wrong with him but I couldn't tell. If only he would talk to me like he used to.
"All right people," Daniel said glaring at Mo and Larry. I snapped my attention back to Daniel instead of staring at Dru's back. "Listen up. We need to reach a decision here and would someone wake up sleeping beauty here?"
Mo and I backed away. "I wouldn't do that if I were you…" I said looking nervously at Aly still mumbling about her anime dream boys. If there's one thing you do not do that was wake Aly up when she was sleeping and dreaming about her anime dream boys.
"It will be fine." Daniel said shaking Aly a bit but when she looked at Daniel she looked like a demon. She had a "Heero Yuy Death Glare" on her face.
"I. AM. GOING. TO. KILL. YOU!" She screamed at Daniel raising her bow and arrow murderously.
Daniel gulped, "Nice person…" He started to back up.
"How dare you wake me up when I was about to kiss Hotohori! You just shattered my prefect dream! Prepare to die!" Aly shot an arrow at Daniel but missed by a hair. "Dang it!" She reloaded and prepared to shoot again.
"Umm…RUN!" Someone shouted. We, except for Dru, all scattered in the four directions of the wind. Dru just stood off to the side looking towards the east, oblivious to all. We had left Aly staring at some meat with her bow raised for killing.
"Oh, look, you've left me food!" She said stuffing the rest of the meat into her mouth. I groaned. I was starving and she ate the last bit of food! Between her, Mo, and Larry, the rest of us would never be able to eat again!
Daniel slowly reproached the fire, "Umm…" He said nervously "We really need to this decisions some time soon. We are going to the Den of Evil or no?"
"Righty oh, chap! It'll be smashing!" Said Stuart, waving around his wand. Small red sparks shot forth from the tip. "Whoops." He shrugged.
"Oh, why not, perhaps we can find some more food." Replied Mo, twirling her staff around dangerously. "Nice sparks, Stuy. Hehehehe." A small stream of fire hit Stu in the boot. While Stuart danced around trying to put the flame, the rest of us agreed to go on the quest.
"Hmmm…. I guess, I will." I said simply, with shrug. I really didn't care about the quest but it was better then sitting around here or training.
"I'm so hungry…must have food…" Complained Larry, running his hand over his buzz cut blonde hair.
"Grrr…Get your mind off that stomach of yours. At least you got to eat something." Growled Mo, with a dangerous gleam in her eye.
"True. If I come, can I get more food?" We all stared at Larry. 'What a complete idiot…' I thought looking at the great hulk.
"Would someone shoot him please?" Mo said, annoyed.
Aly smiled, "Sure!" She notched an arrow and aimed at Larry, "So you coming or no?"
"YES! YES! JUST DON'T HURT ME!!" He begged. Mo and Aly exchanged evil little smiles. I sighed. They would never change.
"Maybe." Was all they said.
"Okay, well, that's five of us." He said as he turned to Dru, "You gonna come with us?"
"Yes." He replied. I noticed that he was rubbing his shin. 'That's strange…Is he hurt?' I made a mental to ask him later.
"Okay! Well, I'm guessing your going to come too, Aly?" Asked Daniel, glancing at the grinning Amazon.
"Must I?" She replied, with a bored face.
"Uh-huh. If I go, you go." Replied Mo.
She sighed and said, "And if I don't…?"
"Hehe, I need someone to practice my fireballs on, ya know." She replied mischievously. Larry gulped.
"Well, I guess I'm coming then. I have no choice in the matter." She replied as she whacked Mo in the back of the head. "And I will not be someone's target you little baka."
"Ouch! That'd hurt! Your so mean to me!" Wailed Mo. 'That girl is so weird…one moment she's all tough and idiotic and the next she whines constantly. I will never understand her…'
"Okay, we're going to split into two groups. Me, Mo, and…Stuart in one group and the rest of you in the other, is that okay with you all?" He asked. We all nodded and Larry was praising God that he wasn't stuck with Mo. "So let's get on with it!"
I looked around at these people. They were all so different and yet all so a like. They're personalities clashing together to form a single unit, a team. Would I be able to fit in with them?
Daniel's group was all ready out of camp. "Well, I guess we better get going." I said.
"Yup, let's go." Said Aly slinging her arrows over her shoulder and getting her long hair caught on an arrow shaft. "Damn arrows…" She grumbled.
Dru didn't say anything just walked past us and waited at the entrance of the camp, patiently. Larry was walking into stuff trying to find his shield he had misplaced. I just grabbed my katar and shield and walked towards Dru.
"Hmm…isn't this fun." I said.
"Oh, yes, loads." He replied staring at nothing outside the camp.
I remembered him rubbing his shin. "Are you all right?" He shrugged. "Dru?" He glanced at me with his beautiful golden brown eyes. I felt my heart flutter. The feeling scared me. I stepped back from him and looked out towards the moor.
"DANNY! WATCH OUT INCOMING FIREBALL!" Mo yelled off from a distance. There was small explosion on the horizon.
"Guess Mo found her targets to practice on." Said Dru.
"Uh-huh." I replied. I shivered. The day was warm, almost hot. The sun was at high noon. It wasn't to late in the day. It would be an eventful day for all of us. Most likely be at times dangerous in many different ways but hopefully we'd all survive whatever we were going to face out there this day…
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Will our hero's survive this day like Jenny hopes they will? Or will they die in the Den of Evil? What is in the Den of Evil? Just monsters? Or fortune and glory? Will Mo end up killing Larry? What is Dru hiding? And does Jenny have a crush on Dru? Only time will tell. Or the next chapter. Whatever comes first!
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Note: Well…that was interesting now wasn't it? Review plz!
Disclaimer: Ummm…Did I remember to disclaim this story yet? All well if I didn't I DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS EXCEPT MYSELF, MO! And a few other characters that come in the later chapters…but that's it!