I'm back and lets not waste too much time. This chapter will be from Kris' point of view
Kris stared at the purple hair mage who was sleeping peacefully across from him. " Huh why am I just now noticing how cute she is?" he said silently. Dammit man, she's your friend and nothing else. Now think about the mission! He thought shaking the thoughts out of his head. Kris and Katarina had left the capitol yesterday and the ride village King Marth spoke of, but they still had a two day journey till they reached their destination. Kris pulled out the map that he had been given to him by Rickard.
" Huh, you need a map? For what you stealing something?" Rickard said, his eyes glowing with curiosity.
" No, me and Katarina need it for a mission." Kris said slightly annoyed at the theif.
" Oh, you and Katarina? You still haven't hooked up?"
" Huh, what are you talking about?"
" Oh gods, you must be brain dead huh? I mean come on everyone knows she loves you, just go for her! Unless you want me to steal her from you, I wouldn't mind. In fact, I think I might!" the young thief said happily and laughing at Kris' reaction.
" WHAT the hell are you talking about!" he yelled as he tried to grab the nimble thief, who expertly dogged his grasp. Before Kris knew it Rickard had ran away leaving a note behind with a map.
You must be the more oblivious than Marth himself! Anyway here's your map!
Kris smiled at the recent memory. Rickard, while being annoying, was a fun guy to be around. However Kris' kept remembering his words about Katarina. Tch, I'm letting it get to me! Rickard was always causing some sort of trouble, he probably said it to get me flustered! He looked at the mage again, who was still in a deep sleep, but he found himself thinking her often lately. The other day he even grabbed her when she was going on about potentially dangerous dark magic!
" What was that? He asked as the carriage came to a halt suddenly. He raced to put away his items before going outside hand-on-sword.
" Oi, you cocky bastard! Give us your gold or you'll end up dead." said a bandit as he attempted to scare Kris.
" Get out my way, my lord has ordered me to complete a task.. and I don't fail." He said in a sad attempt to scare the band, who drew their weapons. " No one has to die."
" You think you scare me ? Ha, you think I give a fuck about a knight? I've killed knights before your just one more. Get him boys!" he yelled as the band, of at least fifteen he counted, charged.
In one expert slash he cut away one of the poor brigands. Blood stained the earth and his blade, but the others kept on the advance. Kris charged and impaled one with the lance of the one he killed earlier. Despite two of the band falling of their comrades being killed so easily they still charged him and before he knew it he was surrounded. They each charged him as he drew another sword, a killing edge, and slashed cutting one across his face. The brigand howled in rage and attacked, landing a attack on Kris' side. Damn they are pretty skilled but not as skilled as a professional Archenian soldier. He thought as he aimed a successful blow to the throat causing blood to spray onto the blue haired man's body. Kris the doged two attacks aimed for his own throat, however, he failed to notice the lancer behind him. The bandit thrusted his weapon at Kris' torso. Despite ambushing the young veteran Kris managed to redirect the attack leaving only a shallow cut as he aimed for the man's hands. With a blood curdling scream the bandit fell back leaving his hands behind.
Damn! There's no way she can still be asleep, not with all this shit going on! He cursed as he fought killing a bandit with each expert slash but the enemy kept coming. No matter how many he killed or maimed. Shit! Why am I so tired already? He thought as he kept fighting.
" Heh heh, looks like the poison is taking effect finally. KEEP PUSHING BOYS!" yelled the leader. Kris attempted to fight but now he was getting sluggish, he drank potions but none worked, in fact he felt worse with each one. " You keep chugging cause those drinks seem to be working!" He howled in amusement, " Any last words. Speak now or die silently I don't care either way but we're ending this now!"
Dammit I can't die not here not now! Kris thought, For Marth, My grandfather, and Katarina… why do I keep thinking about her.
" WASTE!" Screamed a voice of a familiar mage, who finally made her appearance.
" Huh, the fuck are you going on about." the leader said in the direction of the voice. Kris had just enough strength to look towards Katarina surrounded in a manlevonet, and deadly arua.
" I refuse to lose anyone else to because of senseless violence!" She screamed with a fire in her eyes. Kris noticed the bandits began to wither away. He witnessed as their skin became tight and began to lose color. Those who were close to Katarina had already began to lose their facial features. This … this power, it's similar to the power of the darksphere. Was his last thought as he slipped into unconsciousness.
Kris woke up in a panic. Not able to recall what had happened before passing out.
" Katarina!" he called out to his partner.
" Kris!" she exclaimed with tears in her eyes. "Thank the gods! I thought you left us behind, after all I used every staves we brought!" She said as Kris noticed many variants of healing staves that seem to be thrown about. He looked back at the young mage and noticed something.
" Katarina! Your bleeding!" after hearing this the mage wiped the area around her nose
" Damn I thought I took care of it, don't worry about it just a slight side effect. Its nothing, I'm glad your awake and safe. You had me really worried."
In a swift movement and painful movement he seized her tome. While Kris isn't as experienced with magic as Katarina he was still adept at using it and began to tape into the spell, despite her objections. As he began the incantation he felt pain worse than anything he ever felt before, it felt as though everything that made Kris himself was being torn away and the spell cared not for his well being. The pain forced him to drop the tome, screaming in pain. What in the hell was that! He wondered in his attempt to recover
" I told you no!" She exclaimed at the wounded warrior in front of her. " You could've just died with the strain you attempted to put your body through!" Kris looked at her and noticed tears in her eyes.
" Katarina…. I'm sorry." he said to the mage, who was on the verge of tears now.
" W w what do you mean?" she managed to choke out through her tears that poured forth.
I need to show her how serious I am but how? Some way that will keep her from using that evil spell again! He thought to himself. After a few seconds of her sobs he figured out a way. With another swift movement he grabbed her and pulled her in for a hug. " For having you use that spell… I know you only did it to see me survive, but please don't do that again. What if you did die? I wouldn't be able to live with myself, day in and day out thinking about my most precious ally and what I could've done to save her." he whispered to a stunned Katarina
After a moment of silence she could only nod, causing Kris to release her. " I've already set up a plan we will camp at little mountain village and continue when we are ready." she said to the blushing warrior while also sharing the same fashion.
" R right." Kris stammered out.
They duo rode to the village in silence, often sharing a quick embarrassed glance at one another before turning away. I can't believe I just hugged her.
\Oi, Firenerd here and sorry about things. Something's changed at work and made this chapter take much longer then it should've been and I feel it came out not as good as it should've. Anyway if you think the fight scene was too slow or anything please let me know being a new writer there are alot things such as pacing, character and story building that I either do too little of or none at all. Anyway this was a taste of why I decided to rate this M (and other reasons too) I wanted to make sure that the writing of the battle scenes were extremely descriptive but in order to do that sometimes you have to show grotesque details. So in terms of this chapter, this is the chapter that sets up some milestones in the story. For example, Kris hugging Katarina. Kris normally doesn't touch women, and so he does to Katarina that he cares for her deeply that will pop up a bit, along with the dark magic shit. There are more but those could spoil plans so I'm going to leave it here. Till next time! Also I'm mad I can't post the picture I had here :(
Thanks for reading!