Justintime: Planchet was that one. He enjoys to get everyone into trouble, but when the trouble starts he backs away. Anyways he has been, up to now, the comical part of the group. Danitza doesn't like him and she gave him quite a beating, lol.
techwitch: Read and Judge for yourself :D
Chapter 4: KABOOM!
Planchet had his face all red by the beating Danitza gave him when they knew about the fight he started at the bar in Celanam, and Kedri could barely stop her.
Eechtbar, the filthiest and ugliest city Kedri ever smelled. It was covered by a gray and stinky fog. The small streets are of dust and the big ones are made of stone.The group entered the city at dawnand some of them could barely resist the stentch. Gaarv almost puked as soon as he entered the city and Kedri could barely hold her breakfast in her stomach… and for a lot of reasons.
- "For Tayra!" sayed Kedri in a low voice "Who died here?" when she looked around she saw who.
The entrance to Eechtbar was a high gate in ruins, and at the inside, in the right side there were20 traps.Fifteen of them were busy with a corpse in each one of them in different states of descomposition, going from skeletons and rotten bones untill the last one; the one that was in the last occupied trap. In the last occupied trap, thecorpse had no eyes, the headwas still bleeding and a bird was bitingthe back of it, taking pieces of almost rotten meat. Nice.
The group was recieved by the Pardisan Guard, soldiers of the Vandal Army. They were mounting on their yacs, and as soon as they entered, they greetedthem with a disgust look and grunts.
- "Yeah, I love this city... so smelly" Planchet muttered a liemostly to himself but had to shut up when he felt Danitza's eyes upon him again.
- "Be carefull... Planchet. I'm keeping a close eye on you on this one" she sayed in a very angry tone, remembering the last time Planchet went to a bar. "I'm not leaving you alone so don't even suggest it"
- "Oh, dear!and when I go to the bathroom will you go with me too?" he grinned but the comment didn't make Danitza precisely happy. Dahra stopped her from beating the thief.
- "We don't want problems with the Pardisan's" she sayed, shaking her head.
Danitza grunted something and added "Let's get to a tavern... maybe the smell of food and drinks won't be so disgusting".
The group had to agree. This people didn't even bother in hiding the stench. there were corpses in pikes at both sides of the street and Kedri and Igreally, REALLY missed the forests as soon as they came in.
- "Good evening, travellers" they heard a little voice while they were walking. A boy about 10 years old was speaking to them. The boy looked poor and he had a stick with a bigoxidated nail in it, one end of the stick on the floor and the other in his hand. They looked at him in confusion. "You look a little lost. For a small price I could help you"
- "Ok, boy" startedPlanchet "of about how much are we talking about? we have very litle money"
- "Oh, let's say2 silver pieces each, ok? after all I sayed a small price"
- "2 silver pieces each?... for how long?"
- "2 silver pieces each and I'll be your guide all this day" the group looked confused "Oh, come on! is a fair and cheap price... I can show you all around. I'm the best in my guild!"
- "So... the best in your guild?" asked Kedri
- "Yes, the Guild of Guides of Eechtbar" sayed the boy, his chest full of pride.
- "Well, then... if is such a honour to have the best guide... but first tell me your name" sayed Dahra.
- "I'm Geodaki, but my friends call me Geo" he held up his hand to shake Dahra's and everyone else'shand. Kedri smiled and shook it. After everyone introduced to Geo and gave him the money, Geo asked where did they want to go.
- "No offense, Geo, but this city stinks, so we thought that the smell of food and drinks could distract our noses a bit. Take us to a tavern first, ok? we really need it" sayed Planchet.
Geo looked at the wolf that looked really sick. Ig patted Gaarv's neck.
- "Don't worry, he obbeys only to me" Ig sayed to Geo.
The boy didn't look worried at all.
- "Oh, I don't worry... he's like a big puppy to me."
- "Don't call him puppy or dog. Wolves hate that"
Geo nodded in awe "Sure, how sould I call him, then?"
- "His name's Gaarv"
Geo smiled "Ok... Gaarv... everyone... follow me" the boy took them to a tavern called"The Crimson Falcon" and sayed, looking at Ig"I can take care of the wolf if you want. It'll cost you nothing" he looks at Gaarv and starts petting him as if he knew him all of his life "right, cute wolf?" Gaarv moved his tail, happy. Ig looked surprised.
- "Sure" Ig sayed "Yeah, right... loyal friend"
The group went inside the tavern with all the intention to ask about parting ships and taxes. While they were there they couldn't help to notice that there were 2 men in a table. One of them was short but strong, muscular and toughand the other manlooked old and short too. They were talking betwen them and didn't look hostile, like the rest of the men there, and the rest of the tables were busy. Apparently that was the most popular tavern in the city. The group went to their table.
- "Good night, gentlemen " Ig sayed "All the other tables are busy and we wondered if we could sit here if you don't mind."
Both men nodded at the group and the looked at Kedri and Ig, especially, with curiosity. The old man stood up to make more space as the group approached some chairs to the table. He wasn't at all short. He was the biggest human that Kedri ever saw, and he wasn't that old either. Kedri tried to hide her surprise and sat by his side.
- "My Name's Idago de Caluf" sayed the man, with a slight bow " and this is Picuic" he added, pointing to the short muscular guy, who nodded at the mention of his name.
"Idago de Caluf... Idago de Caluf... the name's familiar..." thought Kedri "OH, FOR TYRA!" Kedri finally remembered and prayed to her goddess "Idago de Caluf, the son of Idago the Amazing, King of Thieves! This is the son of the biggest thief of all Geetah!... I wonder if Planchet knows it" Apparently the thief didn't, because if so then he would have sayed something, but he didn't untill he was in his seat.
- "So..." begun Idago "What brings you, travellers to this cute little city?" Kedri made a pffft sound
- "We came here looking for a ship to travell across the sea. We need to go see someone important at the other side"
- "Then, my fellows, you came to the right place. There are plenty of ships departing tomorrow morning." sayed Idago.
- "We're crossing the sea tomorrow ourselves" added the man calledPicuic "the ship is not the best, but maybe there could be space for 5 more"
- "Actually..." started Ig "We're 6 and a guide"
- "What? are you planning to take Geo with us?" asked Dahra
- "Why not... only if he wants to come" Ig shrugged and Dahra looked away.
And the conversation continued, they ate something with Idago and Picuic and agreed that they would make Geo show them the docks. they spent the rest of the day talking to the captains of the ships and checking the ships and agreed that travelling with Idago would be better than in the other ships. Kedri's eyes shone, but she didn't say anything to the rest about what she thought. She wanted Planchet to realice on his own... if he ever did.
At dawn, geo went home, but first he told the group to be at the dock at a certain time. He wanted to go with them. Apparently he had something to do there too.
They took the same ship with Idago and his friend, put the horseswith the cargoand after a week being in that ship (yeah, with all that it takes... dizzyness, puking and all those tasty and yummy things you get when to get in a ship for the first time in your life.), one morning, they woke up to hear a lot of noise in the ship. The captain and his men were all running with swords and sables. Kedri took her sword and her bow and went upstairs. The ship was under attack.
A pirate ship was not far from the one where they were travelling and several pirates already were on board. The Captain was a fierce warrior when defending his ship and he was fighting along with his men. There was noone who wasn't fighting. Even Geo was fighting. He proved to be the best specialist using his stick with oxidated nail and every strike he made he hitteda pirate. Kedri was amazed on the potential of the kid. She also had to fight, but this time the bow was useless, as the pirates were too close. She had no time to get ready the arrows, so she fought with her short sword. Dahra and Danitza were fighting right at her side, striking and hitting. Kedri had to admit she was not the best swordswoman, but she did her best. Ig, Gaarv, Idago and Picuic were fighting at the other side of the ship. Planchet was trying to keep the ship in course, so he trusted that the captain, who was at his side, was keeping the pirates away from him.
In the meantime, Kedri and the rest were having a hard time repelling the pirates. KEdri wasn't an expert with the sword and the pirates were. She did recieve some hits, just like Dahra and Danitza, but the strikes she did weren't so hard. While she keept fighting the first pirate that attacked her, her friends had already beaten 2 or 3 each. Finally, she killed that one pirate and looked around to see if she could help anyone else, but the few remaining pirates were already leaving. Most of the men were injured, and Kedri felt so useless... she only could kill ONE!
- "Don't worry, Kedri" She felt Ig's hand on her shoulder "You'll do better next time. We could spare together" Kedri smiled and took Ig's word about sparring.
During the rest of the trip they both sparred every day, and sometimes even Idago joined them. After a months Kedri was much better with the sword and much confident and proud of sparring with the great Idago de Caluf too.
After a month passed, the group arrived to the coast and arrived to an Alfon village. That's where Idago and Picuic separated from them. The chief of the village asked them to go to a place and bring them a little something ad he sayed that if they did so they'd get everything they wanted for free.
- "WEEE! FREE WHATEVER!" shouted Planchet "hummm... ok"
The chief of the village looked at him and raised a brow, then looked back at the rest of the group and kept talking.
- "Long time ago we... lost this... errr...rings... magickal rings... in a mountain. The winds there are incredible and as we're so small and light thatwe can't go or the wind would lift us in the air and blow us away..." he looked at everyone, noticing no Alfons in the group "Good, there's noone of my race within you. He won't fly with the wind" Kedri thought they finally arrived to the right place and was eager to meet the Lord of All Times.
They accepted the challenge and the chief of the village showed them the way to a very high and dangerous mountain. They still didn't have an exorcist within the group, so they didn't know what they would do when reaching to the Lord of All Times if so.
They took their horses and started the travesy, first through the woods.
- "RSHRSHRSHRSHRSH"
A strange rumour. Kedri looked around but saw nothing.
- "RSHRSHRSHRSHRSH"
Again, nothing.
- "RSHRSHRSHRSHRSH"
Aaanddd... nothing. Kedri got bored and jumped off her horse and climbed onto a tree. In fact the only one that didn't do that was Dahra. Kedri made a big mistake and she soon realized that, because from over the trees she saw thousand of giant lizards that jumped over the horses and ate them to the bones. Only Dahra, who had stayed on her horse, could save it. She just got him running like escaping from fire and took the horse out of the woods very fast.
It was very slow to travel without the horses for the rest of the group, but they finally got to where Dahra was. She was waiting for them in a road that led to a bridge. The bridge was made of silver and it crossed a deep abyss that would take 2 days to cross without the bridge, and besides they didn't bring anything to climb, so there was no choice but to cross the bridge.
They crossed one by one. Ig and Gaarv crossed first. Ig was walking, not mounted on Gaarv. When they reached the middle of the bridge they were covered by a white fog and untill he reached the other side none of the rest of the group could see him. Gaarv seemed happy, and Ig too. Not understanding, Danitza and Planchet did the same and the same white fog covered them, but Kedri couldn't know if they looked happy or not.
It was Kedri's turn to cross. In the middle of the bridge she was also surrounded by the misterious white fog. She couldn't move as she was totally disoriented. In a moment, a faerie spirit showed in front of her and went towards her. The spirit looked gentle and gently he started taking out all of her clothes and weapons. Without saying a word the spirit started raping her, but it wasn't really a rape, because he wasn't violent. He was, in fact, gentle and soft. After the spirit was done he dressed Kedri again and gave her weapons back, letting her go. Kedri wasn't sure if she liked what just happened or not. Untill that moment she was a virgin and now she was not... confusing.
In the other side of the bridge the road started finally to climb the mountain that the Alfons showed them. It was difficult. They started to walk through it and Dahra couldn't stay on the horse, due to the wind. The road was interrupted by 3 big holes forming a triangle. Dahra, who was leading with her horse, started to go down first with horse and everything, but the horse stumbled and fell. dahra had to let him go so she wouldn't fall too, but it hurted to do so. After her, Kedri and the rest started going down too. With a lot of effort, they finally reached the bottom of the hole. It wasn't dark at all, as it seemed from the road. it was illuminated by a bright sphere and there was also a picture in a wall. That was all that hey found there. Strange, but the horse was nowhere. Everyone but Danitza got raptured by the picture in the wall. None of them could really tell what it was, just that in a part of it there was a bright red and tiny dot.
Danitza, in change, was enraptured by the bright sphere. All her friends were watching at the picture, or so she thought. She turned around to tell them something, but they were not there any more. She saw that in the pic there were 5 bright red tiny dots in one extreme of the pic and one in the other. She shrugged and turned around to see the bright sphere again.
She touched it with one hand and nothing happened. It's heat was... nice... She touched it with both hand and it felt the same. Soft and warm. She lifted the sphere and from the village of the Alfons a great explosion and a thunder were seen.
Then everything was silence.
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Kedri: What? is that all? so we just die in an explosion? YOU SUCK!
Author: What? I suck? Keep your tounge, joung lady or you may feel my wrath!
Kedri sticks her tounge out to the Author: YOU SUUUCK!
Author beats Kedri with her bag with rage: THIS IS NOT OVER YET! YOU SILLY SPOILER!
KEdri bleads: But you sayed that everything exploded!
Author clears her throat after leaving Kedri unconscious and talks to the readers: Ehem! just keep reading, ok? next chapter next week... same site... NOW GO AND REVIEW OR I'LL BEAT YOU TOO!