Another chapter of Project: Nintendo IS, and hopefully there might be some people reading it. Last time… the young lagora named Eric got himself into heaps of trouble with some Drauk tribe, and just for being a lagora, too. It's pure racism at its worst, and he's only human! That's what he gets for stealing Nintendo's new VR console, I guess.

The next morning?

Eric finds himself waking up in the same spot as before, with the same wakeup call, "Wake up! You got a lot of work to do!" Saari shouts at Eric after a swift kick in the gut, the same as before.

Eric groans as he wakes up, and looks at Saari, and then the rest of the settlement, "Wait… I… lived?" He checks himself to see the damage of his body, no sign of the giant spider fangs right through him, "It's as if it never happened."

Saari gets weirded out by Eric's mumbling but keeps her strict and harsh demeanor, "Enough! Now… the chief is now going to be your master today and you better listen to her every command, got it?!"

Eric then asks Saari, "But, what happened to the spider? Why is everything fixed? And I'm alright."

That only got Saari even more annoyed as she kicks him again, "Stop talking nonsense! You are doing it on purpose!" She begins to untie Eric from his post, "Now… shut up and stop talking such foolishness!"

Eric stammers as he's confused as to why Saari doesn't remember that, "B-but, it's true!" He gets dragged along against his will without nothing to eat.

Asiya's Home (A bit later)

Saari drags Eric to Asiya's tent and she gives the ropes holding Eric to her, "Here's your slave, I hope you work him to the bone, chief!" She giggles as she says this deviously.

Eric sweatdrops, "You girls are seriously enjoying this a bit too much." Playing along for now and ignoring what happened until it's time.

Saari begins to leave and Asiya begins to look at Eric fiercely, "You got a name, Lagora? I have to call you something if you are going to work for me, correct?"

Eric raises his eyebrows confusingly, "I already told you my name."

Asiya begins to stand up from her seat, angrily, "Oh, you are talking back to me, are you? I'm going to work you harder now!"

Eric then begins to ask Asiya, "But wait… what happened to the spider and I thought we are cool now, I mean… I saved you from it, after all."

Asiya then growls at Eric, getting her spear ready to stab Eric, "I never heard such a ridiculous thing in my life! It's probably some dream you had!"

Eric raises his paws in defense, "Wait… I'm telling the truth, it did happen and it's going to happen again!" He sweatdrops as he begins to see that Asiya isn't buying any of this.

Asiya puts her spear down and growls again at Eric, "You are only saying that so you don't have to work!"

Eric shakes his head, "No! I'm being serious! You all are in big danger! Please believe me!"

Asiya kicks Eric to the ground, getting one foot on his chest with her spear jabbing at him, "Why should I believe you, Lagora? You all are nothing but double crossing, sneaky crooks! I'm never trusting your kind again!"

Eric grabs the spear and tries to pry it away from his chest, "I wouldn't lie to you! Those were just filthy rogue bandits! It doesn't mean that all Lagoras are this way!"

Asiya takes a moment to listen to that and then drives the chest harder as Eric tries to pull it away from him, "How do you know that?! I bet you're one of them and you're trying to trick me so your friends can attack us again!"

Eric groans as he slipped out something that wouldn't seem believable, "N-n-n-no! I… err… I just assumed, ok? I'm not one of them. And… I promise that at sundown, there's going to be a giant spider invading your village and we need to get ready and try to stop it! Please!" He tries his best to make it sound as sincere as possible, filling his words with so much heart.

Asiya begins to take it as she pulls away her spear, "If you are so sure about that, then, I suppose we could keep a lookout for your stupid bug of yours. But if it's not real and you are lying…"

Eric gulps, "Then you are going to kill me?"

Asiya nods, "Indeed." Making her point very crystal clear.

Eric then shrugs, "Alright then." He then mutters to himself, "It's not like it'll be permanent anyway."

Asiya glares at Eric as she almost heard Eric's mutter, "What was that?"

"Oh, nothing! I just mumbling about how awesome of a chief you are!" Eric says, smiling at Asiya. He thinks to himself, "If I'm going to get on her good side, I better do what she says and complement her a bunch. That's how it works in these types of RPGs, right? And from what I read on that diary on my last playthrough, she's just playing tough."

Asiya makes a small noise as she is surprised about Eric's reply, "You are just trying to get my guard down! It's going to take a whole lot more than that, Lagora!"

Eric shrugs as he shakes his head, "Oh no, but I meant that! I mean, you did capture me and make me do what you wanted me to do all on your watchful eye, right? I think those bandits opened your eyes and made you realize just how great of a leader you are!"

Asiya begins to blush a bit as she just replaces it with anger, "Stop! I don't want you to say anymore! I don't want to hear compliments from a filthy Lagora like you!"

Eric sweatdrops as he shouts in his head, "She's freaking stone solid! And all because I picked the wrong race!" He then replies, "I'm sorry, Asiya. I'll make it up to you by coming up with an original plan to stop that spider. We Lagoras are cunning so we can make a foolproof plan on the spot."

"Damn right, you will! But don't act so nonchalantly! You look so suspicious doing so! You could be coming up with a plan of escape for all I know!" Asiya roared at the top of her voice, making sure that everyone in the village can hear her.

Eric shrugs as he sweatdrops at Asiya, "Can I ever win with this girl?!" He questions in his head as he blows her power cry off.

A bit later

Eric stands around as he thinks of a way to stop the spider, "Hmm… a full-on army to pin the spider and then stab it in the chest? No, that's too risky, we could lose a few people. Flood it and let it drown? No, that didn't even work last time… wait… can I…?" He sees some rocks over by the canyon that holds the cave of his spawn point. "Yes… it could work…"

All the drauk look at Eric as he stands around, getting all angry with him and they look like they want to complain so bad. Eric shouts, "I got it!" He runs over to Asiya's tent.

Asiya's Tent (After a brainstorm)

As Eric barges in Asiya's tent, what he saw instead was something he might never unsee again, "W-w-whoa…" Eric says in his head because if he actually spoke, he could die right now.

Asiya is in her underwear, underwear that shows just how well toned her legs are and especially her ass, Eric can't help but stare at his discovery, even if he is interested in human women, he can't help but deny that Asiya's body is very luxurious to look at, like he stumbled upon a forbidden treasure in a lost tomb. Eric fully knows that he really needs to leave but he can't take his eyes off of her as she begins to slowly put on her golden armor on, piece by piece.

As soon as Asiya finishes putting her armor on, she turns her back towards Eric who is ogling her backside for a good while now, of course, as any woman's reaction is in this situation, is very hostile. "OH, DID YOU GET A GOOD LOOK, YOU PERVERT?!" She quickly grabs her staff and charges at Eric.

Eric immediately runs off as soon as Asiya noticed him but it was already too late, she's on the run for vengeance, "W-wait! I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be there!"

Drauk Settlement

Asiya runs faster towards Eric with her spear, "AND YOU WENT IN ON YOUR OWN ACCORD! I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOU TO GO INTO MY TENT WHILE I WAS CHANGING INTO MY BATTLE ARMOR! AND, YOU KNOW WHAT?! THIS IS THE LAST TIME YOU'LL GET TO SEE ME OR ANYONE ELSE NAKED!" She leaps towards Eric with a jump kick and knocks him down to the ground.

The other girls are looking as this happened, questioning if they should get involved, but since it's their leader, they stay out of it.

Eric turns around as he lays on the ground and sees Asiya's spear coming towards him, he makes an X with his arms, "W-wait! I just only barged in because I figured out how to stop the spider! You can kill me after it's said and done!"

Asiya's arms shake as she holds her spear at Eric, so very much want to end his life, "F-fine." She pulls the spear away from him and gets off of him, "So help me if it turns out that this idea is garbage…"

Eric gets up, "It's not… okay? He takes a deep breath and exhales to refresh himself, "What if we constructed a catapult to go against the giant spider with?" He then puts his hands together to pray that she doesn't kill him.

Asiya just stands there for a good long moment to let that idea sink in, "AND WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GET THE PARTS TO CONSTRUCT IT?! HUH, MR. SMART GUY?!" She raises her spear at Eric again.

Eric flinches, "I-I can get it, okay?! I… err… I know how to build certain stuff and a catapult is rudimentary enough to be crafted, but sufficient to battle the spider with. And you don't have to have anyone get hurt as it'll do the job before the spider even sets foot in your tribe."

Asiya sets her spear aside and asks Eric in a stern tone, "So… you expect me to have you just walk out of the village and collect the material to build the catapult?"

Eric nods, "Yep."

Asiya raises her voice as she asks another question, "And you freaking expect me to have you return here afterwards?!"

Eric nods again, "Pretty much."

"HOW AM I GOING TO SUSPECT THAT YOU WILL COME BACK HERE?! YOU MIGHT JUST USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO JUST LEAVE AS THE SPIDER COME AND ATTACK US WHICH I DOUBT EVEN EXISTS AT ALL! IT COULD AS WELL BE A CONVOLUTED WAY OF HAVING YOU TO WEASEL YOUR WAY OUT OF PAYING BACK YOUR DEBT TO US!" Asiya screams at the top of her lungs as she spits at Eric.

Eric sticks his fingers in his ears as the volume that Asiya was going at was too loud for him to handle, "If you don't trust me then you could have one of your Drauk villagers spectate to see if I actually get the materials or not."

Asiya grabs Eric by the shoulders and screams, "HELL NO! I'M NOT TRUSTING YOU WITH ONE OF MY OWN, WHERE YOU CAN ATTACK THEM WHEN THEY ARE VULNERABLE! I'M COMING WITH YOU IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!"

Eric smiles, "Okay." He then takes Asiya's hands off of him as he begins walking out the front gate, "Let's go, chief, we better start collecting early if we want to build that catapult in time for the big showdown with the spider beast."

Asiya runs off after him, "Oh… no, it's not that easy, mister. You're going to be doing all the work!"

Eric nods, "I'm fine with that, I would like to borrow some tools to extract the materials, though."

Asiya sighs, "Very well." She runs off to the tent that have the tools they need.

Eric calls out as she gets the tools, "And my bag, too! I need that to carry the tools and materials with!"

Asiya calls back in an annoyed tone, "Fine! Anything else, your majesty?!" Dripping with sarcasm as well.

Eric snickers at Asiya's sarcastic response to his request, "I think we'll be good now! We won't be long at all!"

Asiya comes back with all the stuff in her hand and hands them off to Eric, "You mean YOU'LL be good now. I'm not helping you, I'm only here to make sure you don't run off."

Eric puts all the stuff into his bag and puts it on his waist, "Why do you keep thinking I'm just going to run off? Where am I going to go? I don't know where everything is. I just got to this wo… err… I mean desert."

Asiya looks at Eric suspiciously as he retracts a word, "What were about to say there?"

Eric replies, "That I just got to this wonderful desert. And… I can't really say that now considering that I'm a prisoner here."

Asiya sighs as she looks to the side, "I really don't care anymore. You better hurry up on collecting these materials and constructing that catapult."

Eric nods, "Of course, and let us be off!" He begins to trek to the gate as Asiya pulls him back. "Um… what's the holdup?"

Asiya then demands, "I'm not taking a single step on your accord so you're carrying me through the desert." She forcefully gets on Eric's back.

Eric grabs on to Asiya's legs as he is unwillingly brought forward this task, "Are you serious?"

Asiya pulls on Eric's ears, "Does it look like I'm serious?! And if you move your hands up even an inch higher, I'm stabbing you with my spear, got that?!"

Eric nods, "As you wish!" He begins to walk out of the Drauk Settlement. "Don't worry everyone! I promise that your settlement will be saved!"

Asiya bops him on the head, "Less talk and more run, and I mean it… run!"

Eric begins running off, carrying Asiya on his back who is twice his height.

Just outside the Drauk Settlement

Eric stands in front of the settlement, looking around in amazement as he feels the sand get deeper and it takes his feet in, "Whooooa… so this is what the desert looks like! It really is an endless land of sand! It looks like it goes for miles! Where can I even start?"

Eric yelps as Asiya kicks her heels in his sides, "You're not here to gaze at the sights! Hurry up and pick a destination and go there and find the parts for your stupid catapult!"

"That's easier said in done, I mean… where do I even start? Can you at least tell me where to go? I'm doing this blindly." Eric says with a scoff as he looks around, looking perplexed at the vast vacant valley of nothing but sand.

"Sigh… you are seriously helpless, you know that?" Asiya says as she sighs at Eric in the nicest tone that she have done yet, as if Eric was an ignorant child. "Alright, fine, I'll guide you to where you need to go but that's it."

Eric begins to smile, "Are you freaking serious?! Thank you!" He beams as wide as he has ever done as they actually meet a mutual understanding for a change.

Asiya scoffs lightly as she looks to the side, "You are not being genuine. That much is clear." She actually looks like she's tired of what was going on or is very relaxed right now, "I can't expect a lagora to actually be grateful for my help or anything but themselves."

Eric begins to walk out there as he gives his two cent on the matter, "Well, maybe, just maybe, you can actually be wrong about that. You don't know… I might be a lagora who ACTUALLY CARES." He makes the last two words very well direct and loud.

"Yeah, well, I'm not taking that chance, even if you actually mean it. There's a chance where you can be easily swayed by the lagora bandits and just ambush us again…" Asiya begins sounding very sad as she reminiscents about what happened that was written in her diary that Eric has read in the last life.

Eric can feel just how sad she feels right now, he tries to comfort her the best he can, "I'm sorry that happened to you… I know my words don't mean much but… I just wish I wasn't what you hate the most. I think if that happened, you wouldn't hate me so much. I know I was a sarcastic jerk to you girls but I didn't mean it out of stabbing you in the back as more as playfully teasing. Truth be told that I actually really want to be liked and be helped in some way, but I guess… I just have to pay back some stupid tribes debt for them."

Asiya… begins to cry a little… just a little, before bottling it up again, "I cannot let you make me feel for you, lagora! You all are just trying to trick me! You just shut up and let me guide you to where you need to go!"

Eric sighs, "Alright…" Knowing that Asiya wouldn't believe him even though he hoped that she would.

Much later

Eric and Asiya arrives at a cave, way far out ahead to where the settlement was, "So… it was just straight ahead? The whole time?" Eric points out as he head inside.

Asiya pulls on his ears, "Less talk and more work!" As if she's pulling on the reins of a racing horse.

"O-ow! Okay!" Eric squeals as he enters the dark rocky cave which looks pretty similar to the one he entered this world in.

Inside the cave

Inside the cave was and and I mean very dark, and littered was a bunch of sand and abandoned vases, clearly no one has touched this cave for years. It gets Eric thinking, "Hmmm… maybe this game takes place in a post apocalyptic timeline, kinda like another game with a bunch of sand… with midriffed ladies as well, errr… what was it called again?" Eric moves his eyes up as he thinks of the title of the game, not really about what's around him.

Eric's hands move down as he begins to relax them, Asiya clearly takes notice right away, "HEY! Focus here! You're here to save your own hide, you better be thinking about where to find the materials!"

Eric gives Asiya an unamused expression, pulling her up on his back again, regaining his grip on her, "So much for trying to be a team member, actually, I might need to look around better." Without giving no warning or consideration, he… drops Asiya on her rear.

No surprises, Asiya roars at Eric for doing this, "YOU GOT SOME NERVE, LAGORA! YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST WARN ME SO I WOULD HAVE STOPPED YOU FROM LETTING ME GO!"

Eric grins with a chuckle, "That's the point." He turns to Asiya and gives her a shrug with a smug smile, "I mean… I do have to drop the dead weight here, right?"

Asiya grips on her spear tightly, gritting her teeth, "You go some balls, you know that? I think you deserve some discipline!" She goes to stab Eric, but… he swiftly dodges it, "Hold still, DAMN YOU!"

Eric chuckles yet again and goes into a laugh, "You are very predictable now, and if you did stab me, then how are you going to get that catapult made and besides… I dropped you so that I could look in the sand over there."

Asiya lets out a scoff as she slams the bottom of her spear on the ground, "Just because you got some hotshot idea doesn't make you in charge, lagora! Just a warning to you… if you ever step out of line, you are seriously going to get it!"

Eric puts his hands on his hips, looks to the side, not taking her seriously anymore as he already knows her secret, "I'm not stepping out of line, I'm just walking on it, like a tightrope. I'm pretty good at that, also… your guards aren't around, are they?" He puts his hands up as he walks towards Asiya, who is walking back, getting her guard up, slowly getting angrier with this lagora's advances, he quickly snatches the spear from her, twirling it around. "You did forget I'm a thief, right? Taking this is child's play."

"WHY YOU…" Asiya charges at Eric, who quickly dodges her, "I knew it… you are JUST LIKE THE OTHERS!" She grips her hands tightly, looking at them, "And I foolishly feel for another trap of theirs!" She then darts back at Eric, "Well go ahead! Get it over with! Kill me! You know you want to!" She kneels down, getting ready to face her demise for her foolishness, "I'm not worthy of being their chief… I cannot protect them! Even from the likes of you..." Asiya begin to cry, looking down on the ground as the tears fall, "So… go ahead and end me already!"

Eric, as Asiya was giving him this speech, is, the entire time, searching through the sand with her spear, he looks at her, "Oh, did you say something?"

Asiya's eyes turn cartoony, with tears still running, but angry this time, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! AREN'T YOU GOING TO KILL ME OR NOT! YOU DID STEAL MY SPEAR, SO WHAT'S STOPPING YOU?!"

Eric laughs, "The way you try so hard to take your pride seriously is kinda cute." He sees a scorpion come out of one of the sand piles and harpoons it, "Now, you see why I took it? I know if I asked for it, you wouldn't let me." He picks the scorpion up, which is now dead, "So… do you… eat these?" Waving it around as it's on the end of the spear.

"OF COURSE WE DON'T! A-AND HOW DARE YOU TAKE LIGHTLY TO MY WAY OF COMMANDING!" Clearly, Eric's actions is actually breaking her, her tears continue to fall, and not only that, but she feels embarrassed for breaking. Eric's face reflects on her eyes, "Just what's with this guy?! How can he at one point be at my mercy and now… I'm at his?! I know he's going to just betray me when I'm not looking, I cannot fall for his whims!" She stops crying, clutches the ground as she pulls herself up, and stand up proudly yet again, with her stoic face showing again, "Do whatever you want, I don't care! I'm going to wait here until you finish your stupid tomfoolery!" She looks away from him.

Eric waves Asiya off as he continues to look through the sand piles, "M'kay." He says to her in response as well. He continues to look through the cave thoroughly, can only find sand and rocks, nothing useful for the catapult at all, "So… are you sure we can find wood in a damp cave? I'm starting to think this whole idea of mine is starting to be more difficult than I thought?" He scratches behind his head as he ponders.

"Ooooh… you FINALLY figured it out, didn't you?! Well, as you can plainly see, we don't have any trees for you to cut down to make that stupid catapult of yours! Not even petrified branches!" Asiya roars at Eric, crossing her arms impatiently, she takes a deep breath and exhales, "You got one more sand pile to look and then we're going back to the settlement." She glares at him again, "I suppose you should consider yourself lucky that I'm not going to kill you after all."

Eric grins at that and exclaims, "Well, alright! Hey, maaaaybe you could just exile me and we can call it even" He chuckles a bit.

"Yeeah, nice try, you're still going to be our servant for the rest of your natural born life. Now, hurry up and pick a damn sand pile!" Asiya roars out to the joking lagora.

Eric laughs even more, walking deeper into the cave, he sees that the end of the cave is a mountain of sand, "Jackpot!" He begins digging frantically into it, with his hands as the spear won't cut it this time, "..." He stares at what he discovers, he gulps which echoes in the cave, he gets up from the ground, picks up Asiya's spear and rushes back to her, comedically holds onto her leg like a scared puppy dog, "W-we should go… now!"

Of course, Asiya blushes with anger from this, "Just because my guards aren't here to punish you DOESN'T mean you can do whatever you please! Now, what the hell has gotten into you?!"

Eric quickly gets up and covers Asiya's snout, "Shhh… it's here… sleeping."

Asiya kicks Eric off of her, "I'm not going to fall for your tricks, Lagora! Now, I'm going over there and prove to you that you are just sherking your responsibilities!" She grabs her spear and walks over to the sand pile, Eric stays behind, shaking in fear. Approaching the sand mound, she inspects it carefully, "I know you Lagoras are distrustworthy but skittish as well? You prove yourself to be truly a pathetic race." She twirls her spear a bit before stabbing it into the sand pile, "And just like that, I've shown that my race is not to be messed with." She turns to Eric as she tells him off, but unknowing to her, something massive and emerging from the sand, with the spear still in it.

And Eric was completely right, what he discovered in the sand is the gigantic spider that he faced in his previous life, it approaches Asiya, raising a fang, getting ready to pierce her in the chest with it. "Not this time!" Eric screams in his head, charging towards Asiya.

Before Asiya could react, Eric pushes her out of harm's way, landing right on top of her, "Y-you…" Asiya is so angry that she couldn't say anything right now, but she stops herself as soon as she sees that gigantic fang that she narrowly avoided thanks to Eric, "...A-are right…" Nothing else can surprise her as much as what she witnessed.

Eric gets up quickly, nods to Asiya, "Yeah, yeah, I know. We better get the hell out of here before it kills us!" Eric puts Asiya over his shoulder, rushing off with her in his hands, "I better scurry off now!" He exclaims as he leaps off some rocks and jumps back to the entrance of the cave, avoiding the spiders attacks, but only narrowly.

Back Outside

Eric dashes away from the spider as quick as his little lagora legs could carry him, as well as making sure he has a good grip on Asiya, but from the way he's holding her, she's not too fond of it, "H-hey! Watch where you're grabbing!" Looking back at him, red in the face as Eric is clearly breaking her ground rules of where to hold her, "Why the hell do you even care to save me anyway?! You do know that if you weren't carrying me, you could easily run away from this spider!"

Eric shouts out angrily, but as well as in a panic, "Shut the hell up! I'm saving you because I WANT to! Did you ever think of that?! I may be a crook, but I am not heartless! You should be grateful that you're even alive right now, because if it wasn't for me! You would have been stabbed in the heart!"

Asiya's eyes widen, she stammers a bit, trying to find a comeback from Eric's words, "B-but… y-you… a…"

"A Lagora?! Who the hell cares?! I'm a good samaritan first and a lagora second! Now… PLEASE! I need to get away from this freaking spider before it kills us!" Eric desperately says as he loses stamina from running so hard, the spider almost reaches them.

Asiya looks at Eric run so hard, looking into his eyes, and into his heart, pondering on his words, "He… he's being… sincere?! I can't believe it… I think… I may be wrong about them… it's like… he's the lagora that I wanted the leader of the bandits to be…" She nods to Eric and jumps off of him, running ahead of him, holding out her hand to him, "Grab on! I'll take the lead to outrunning this beast!"

Eric pants heavily, catching up speed, grabbing her hand. Asiya hoists Eric up on her shoulder this time, "I'm terribly sorry I distrusted you, lagora. It's just that after that encounter, I had to put my settlement under tight security and just assume that every one of you is like that. I think… I'm willing to give your kind a second chance. You deserved it."

"Uh.. that's all well and good, but I think we should get rid of this spider before we discuss any of this." Eric nervously says to Asiya, gulping afterword, beading sweat.

Asiya nods, she skids to a stop and leaps towards the spider, "Good idea, I believe that the best way to get rid of it… is by killing it!"

The spider raises all of its legs, getting ready to close in on the two, ready to devour its prey, "A-Asiya! W-what are you doing?!" Eric yelps in fear.

"Trust me… I know what I'm doing." Asiya bravely states as she grabs onto her spear, it begins to glow as well as her, "Dragon's Bite!" The end of the spear begins to grow into a large fang, sinking deeper into the spider's body, "Stay away from my settlement, foul thing!" Asiya, with every fiber of her being, sends the spider down to the sandy ground, stabbing it clean through the spear. It unleashes a death cry, before going to a death curl.

Eric's eyes are white circles from what he witnessed, "Um…" He jumps off of Asiya, walking back a bit from her, trying to take this in.

Asiya retracts her spear from the spider's corpse, a ton of its blood oozes out as well, the spear goes back to its original form, she walks towards Eric, smiling at him, in a completely different attitude then ever before, "Well, shall we go home?"

Eric raises an index finger, with his face filled with confusion, "...I have several questions I would like to ask you."

Asiya tilts her head to Eric, "Hmm?" Before realising what Eric is referring to, "Oh! What you saw, it's just a chief ability I have. I have several more, but I only use that one when it's an emergency."

Eric then claps his hands together, inhaling and then says, "Then what's the point in running?!"

"B-because…" Asiya collapses on the ground, completely exhausted, "It does a number on my stamina… if you would be so kind into carrying me home, I'd appreciate it."

Eric scratches his nose, pacing back and forth in front of Asiya, "Gee… I dunno… I think your people in your settlement will find this pretty fishy when they find you all battered up and me dragging you like this, when they don't know that you changed your mind."

Asiya crawls towards Eric's feet, climbing onto his and goes over his shoulder, "Please… I'm counting on you… I'll even tell them to drop their weapons…"

Eric smiles, "Alright. Sounds good to me." He puts Asiya's arm over his shoulder, and walks back to the Drauk settlement.

The Drauk Settlement (Much later)

Eric arrives to the Drauk Settlement entrance, with their chief over his shoulders, "I'm back… heh heh." Expecting the Drauk guards to gang up on him, "Huh?" That didn't happen. "That's odd… why aren't the guards showing up?"

"S-something's amiss…" Asiya weakly says, looking at Eric's puzzled look.

"So… the chief finally show up, has she?" A cocky and familiar tone rings out, Eric, approaching closer, sees the Lagora bandits' leader, "We were waiting for you to come back. I didn't think you would finally let down your guard. It makes it so much easier taking over your pathetic settlement." He grins eerily to Eric and Asiya. Surrounding him are the rest of the Drauk, tied up in rope as his men are holding them down, even the guards. "And all to thank for this is that Lagora! We couldn't have done it without him!" He points one of his blades to Eric, laughing at the two.

Well, certainly this has turned out for the worse. What will happen now that the Lagora bandits have arrived and what can Eric do at his current state? Find out next time!