To say King Roland was surprised when four adventures barged into his throne room unannounced was an understatement; as a result he spilt a cup of extremely hot tea on his pants in an uncomfortable place. After the king had finished hopping around in pain and everyone else had stopped laughing the guards included, he finally was able to listen to what they had to say.
"What is the meaning of this!" the king demanded
"Umm sorry about the whole burning your crouch thing, but we are in a rush because things along the Salve really heated up lately." Striker said
"Heated up, that's the understatement of the century we've nearly been killed two times in the last twelve hours!" Lime yelled
"I'd watch the tone Lime, the king can kill you for shouting at him." Namelesspain whispered to her
"Just telling him the truth." Lime whispered back
"Anyways I'm here to take you up on your offer of working as a mercenary along the Salve and I'd like these 3 to be allowed to accompany me as a group." Striker told the king
"My lord I must advise against this, we have more then enough mercenaries out there, to allow another group out there could be putting to much gold towards this effort." the advisor said speaking for the first time since the group entered.
"Shut up, I'm sending as many as I can to this. I will not have this kingdom invaded by those Zamarok fiends if I can help it."
"I think the advisor is a Zamorakian." Melrose whispered to the group. Three "I agrees" followed.
"I request that you take one of my archers with you, he has served valiantly along the white knights at the Edgeville conflict with the black knights some years ago. Unfortunately seeing the death of his comrades and the shear magnitude of the deaths has left him cold and almost heartless. His name is Blitzer Boy1." The king spoke.
"Alright, what exactly does the mercenary work pay anyway." Namelesspain asked
"10000 gold per werewolf fur you bring back, 50000 for proof of slain vampires, and 20000 gold per each innocent saved." Several whistles followed this at the amount of gold that could be earned in such a short time.
"Finally, were can we find Blitzer at." Striker asked.
"I will send him to you first thing in the morning."
"Very well, good day my liege." Striker said
Each of the group said their goodbyes and left the castle.
"Well I think I shall go and stock up on supplies." Lime said
"Same here." Striker and Melrose said.
"Not me, I have what I will need." Namelesspain said.
"Ok, where do you guys what to meet up at." Lime said
"How about the Blue Moon Inn about dinner time." Melrose suggested
"Sounds good," everyone agreed.
With that the group dispersed to go about there tasks.
With Striker
"What do I need to get?" He thought
He was broken out of his thoughts by a scream as a mugger in one of the back alleys assaulted a woman. After a ten second detour and one headless bandit he continued on his way to the bank."
"I'm going to need to access my bank account please." He asked the women at the booth.
"Name?"
"Striker."
"Right this way."
Inside his bank space striker had the walls lined with various weapons and things earned in his many trips and quests. He paused to collect his mothers magic short bow and arrows, and a Zamarok staff he had taken the liberty of reliving a Zamarok mage of some time ago from the weapons pile which he carefully put into his travel bag, He then collected a small supply of gold to get food then left to get food then meet with the others.
With Lime
She had gotten bored, she went and got food and other supplies, she came across an odd wizard that was selling something called fireworks. She bought one out of curiosity, unsure of what to do with it. When Striker showed up and explained it to her. Striker suddenly said he had an idea and the two went off towards the center of town.
With Melrose
She went and stocked up on food and some medical supplies thinking that the others probably would be to stupid to even worry about getting hurt, she might not know much about Striker, but she knew the other two since they were little and they always forget the bandages. It was at this time that her peace was disturbed by no other then Namelesspain. She heard someone scream from just outside of a store then to her surprise he came flying thru the name and splash straight into the fountain. She went over and tried to help her friend out of the fountain.
Namelesspain
He had gone and stocked up on food and then said a few prayers at the church of Saradomin. Then as he was walking along this little boy no more then five asked him to help with something called a firework. Supposedly this was a creation of the mages that used a rune stone of fire to make a terrific explosion. So he went over used his tinderbox on the fuse and just before it was to go off, the child who was across the street said bye-bye and waved. He turned to find out what he went then it went off. The firework exploded sending him screaming thru the air in a terrific ball of flame. The next thing he knew he had landed in the fountain and was looking up at a laughing Melrose, who was trying to help him out of the water.
"Since when have children been that evil?" He thought
Meanwhile
Striker and Lime sit in the bar at the Blue Moon Inn laughing hysterically for no apparent reason.
Later that day
"So how did everyone's shopping go?" Striker asked
"Pretty good, any ideas about the new guy?" said Lime
"None, hey Nameless what happened to you? Striker asked
"Some little kid BLEW me up," Said a slightly singed Namelesspain
"It was kind of funny to see him flying into the fountain though." Melrose told the group
"Don't I know it." Striker laughed
"How would you know I never saw you around there."
"Ummm…"
Cutting him off Lime said "We could see the flames from the Inn."
"Oh ok, for a second I thought you guys had something to do with it." Namelesspain said
"Nope we didn't know a thing about it being you because we…oww what was that for" Striker said after Lime elbowed him in the ribs.
"Whatever, I'm going to bed." Namelesspain said.
"Me to." Everyone agreed then went off to their rooms.
Next day
After breakfast the group headed to the west gate of Varrock to meet up with Blitzer. The boy that they met was about fifteen with blonde hair and sharp green eyes that seemed to betray no emotions what so ever. He wore full green dragon hide armor, and had a maple bow strapped to his back along with a quiver full of adamant arrows.
"Are you Blitzer." Striker asked him
"I am, what is it to you." He seemed to take in the group's appearance with cold calculating eyes.
"Well isn't he just the worlds nicest person." Lime muttered
"Reminds me of a lawyer." Namelesspain whispered to her.
"We are the group you are to come with. I am Striker, this is Lime, Namelesspain, and Melrose."
"As you know I am Blitzer, so lets just get this done." He said
With that the group started the long walk back to the salve river only this time they weren't aiming to get to the temple by the end of the day, they were going to go into Morytania and search for information.
Well that's it for this chapter, remember fireworks can really hurt but Runescape is a game. Next chapter will see the myreque making there appearance, and more on what is truly happening, is it just Morytania or will the groups under Zamarok rise in a grand army?
Good or Bad Chapter R/R