The Journey
by yugijo
Three companions slept for a night at the Gold Dragon. It had been a day were secrets were spilled and a journey was created. This alliance now of three people slept in for the night.
Morning had come and the companions woke up to the pitch black room. A candle was lit to brighten the blood red room. A girl with green hair sat up on her bed. A necklace hanging from her neck. Its gold shimmered in the candle light. She stretched her arms and got out of bed. Her friend Patrick was already dressed. He wore a black shirt, pants, wizard hat, and cape. A steal sword was tide to his waist and now hidden by his cloak.
"Have a good sleep?" He asked Elizabeth. She went over and picked out some black wizard cloths and put them on. She turned around and Patrick held in his hands a staff of air. It had a white ball attached to the top of it and a long stick attached to it. "This is for you." He said handing her the staff.
"But... I don't know how to do magic." Elizabeth said and gave Patrick back the staff. He would not take it but instead handed her some air and mine runes. The air runes had three white lines in the middle, and the mine runes had a sun with orange tips of rays all around it.
"Now you do. All you do is put the runes in one hand and say wind blast and a white cloud will appear. When you get better at that I will teach you the next spell." He took a good look at her and shook his head in approval. The door to the room opened and Shauna came in wearing the same thing as Patrick and Elizabeth. She was wielding a staff of earth instead of a staff of wind. The staff of earth looked like the staff of wind but had a brown colored ball on top.
"Good now we look like three dark wizards." Shauna said and patrick went to the corner of the room and picked up a staff or fire. That had a red ball on the top instead.
"That will fool many black guards." He said and went to the door. "Lets go." The three friends walked out the door. They walked down the endless hall until they came to the stairs. They walked down the flight of stairs until they came to the lobby. The man stood at the door waiting for them to pay up. Patrick took a small sack of gold out and handed it to him along with the black key.
"Have a good day." The man said and rushed them out the door into the sun light. It was a warm day for fall. The leaves on the trees were colorful with yellow, orange, and red. The three friends walked down a path that left the city. Patrick stopped and turned to Elizabeth. He took out a black dagger and handed it to her.
"If you can't cast a spell take this out and defend yourself." He turned around and looked at the map then at a sign post. "We need to head west. Coolness you take the back. Iclantik you take the middle, and I'll cover the front." After Patrick said this the three of them moved into the positions. They headed west for a long time before the were ambushed by two goblins. One looked sickly at Shauna as it twitched its head and lunged at her.
Shauna quickly shouted, "Fire blast!" A big flaming ball appeared at the tip of her staff. The flaming ball hit the goblin square in the chest. It fell to the ground twitching in pain. The second goblin was faster. After his companion fell he struck Shauna and hit her arm that was holding the staff. She dropped the staff and clutched her now bleeding arm. The goblin had pulled out a dagger that glowed a dark green. It dripped with blood.
"Wind strike!" Elizabeth shrieked and a white ball blasted from the end of her staff. The white ball twirled in the air then hit the goblin in the face. The goblin held his balance. His dark red eyes starring at Elizabeth. It lunged at her dagger raised high. Out of the blue came a bright blue light hit the goblin and it turned blue. Elizabeth dogged the blue goblin just as it hit the ground smashing into pieces. The other goblin started to stand but Patrick pointed his staff at him.
"Stand down." He said in a serious voice. The goblin stopped dead in his tracks not daring to move. "That's better." Patrick said but never dropped his guard. "Leave if you value your life." The goblin got up and started to run. He turned around and shouted to Patrick.
"Damn humans!" Then turned and ran in to the forest surrounding him.
"Lets go before more show up." Shauna said clutching her arm.
"Not yet your hurt." Patrick removed Shauna's hand from her cut. "Farshtresh." He whispered. The cut slowly started to disappear. "There now we must move on." The three started there journey again. After a day of wandering the three adventurers came to a small town. It was next to a river that flowed south. There was a harbor at the river with a boat waiting at the docks. The boat was a ferry boat. It was quite big and lights lit its decks.
"Lets take the ferry it looks safer." Shauna said pointing to it.
"No. Lets find a tavern." Patrick said pointing to the town.
"I'm with ferry." Elizabeth said. Shauna and Elizabeth started to walk down to the docking area. Patrick stood on the hill starring at them.
"Ok. Fine I'll do ferry." He ran to catch up to them. The friends walked down the hill as the sun started to set. Every now and then Patrick would mutter under his breath on how he hated traveling by boat.
It was dark when they got to the boat. An old rusty sign hung next to the boat. Rivare was what it said. The water was rushing through a big wheel turner. The dock was extremely empty. Not a sound was heard except the three friends stepping onto the boat. The boat had Five other passengers. A woman wearing a red dress. She was standing next to a big man that was bald and wore a sailor outfit. Two children, a boy and girl, were huddled in the corner of the ship playing with a doll and toy horse and another man stood at the front of the ship. He starred out to the river. His hair was a messy dirty blond and he wore a brown over coat that had a key chain of a heart hanging off the waist of his pants. He turned his head and revealed dark blue eyes. A door burst open and a man in a blue outfit came out onto the deck. "Welcome to the Rivare."
Now you are in for it. A boat trip, ambushed, more people, and maybe some love between two of the characters.