A/N: I almost forgot about this, and since I already have it finished I might as well finish it up ya know?

Chapter 6

"You did what!" I shouted, I was infuriated; and yet that doesn't even explain my rage.

"Shhhh! Keep quiet, we don't want the whole town knowing that we just killed someone and burned their body in the woods." Aireon said in a panicked whisper

He and Bodo had just gotten back from tailing Corvin; they saw him meet with one of the cutthroats that stopped us a few days back. Corvin was displeased with the cutthroat because he was supposed to deal with us, and by deal I mean kill. The cutthroat explained how he didn't want his entrails strewn across the king's road, or his partners. Corvin asked about some information regarding the king; and to these two that seemed like good enough evidence. So Bodo and Aireon thought it would be a good idea to take him out without any real evidence of him being the prime conspirator, and to make matters worse they burned his body. Which means everyone could see the smoke from miles out, so they nearly exposed us and pretty much told the real conspirator "hey we're coming to kill you!"

"We thought we did an ok thing alright, besides we were going to have to kill him in a few days anyways. What did you find out?" said Bodo

I calmed down a little more, and regained my composure,

"I went down there and beat him in the fight club, and he agreed to tell me what he knows. Sadly though he made our list a lot longer; he said that everyone hates the king and that he has been oppressing them. Where are Drakak and Bhar?" I said

Just after that they came in and took seats, and explained what happened on their end,

"We didn't find out much, but he did say that he didn't like king but wouldn't openly speak out against him." Said Bhar

"So, we're not any closer than we were before. What now?" said Mythrik

I thought for a moment, and came up with a brilliant idea.

"Bodo, night mission?" I asked in Infernal

"Hmm, that sounds like a good idea. How about a night mission guys? I go and sneak around Alfred's house and see what I can find out, but what will you guys do?" Bodo said,

"Maybe we should sneak into the king's castle and make sure nothing bad happens? The Shikordian is the one that's most likely leading the conspiracy and could strike at any time." Said Drakak

"I think that's your first good idea Drakak, we should probably move out before it gets any later." Said Aireon, Drakak punched the elf in the arm. He wasn't going to take an insult from an elf,

"Sounds good, everyone move out. Bodo you'll need to go alone so no one slows you down and we can cover more ground at the castle. Let's move people!" I said and we went off.

2 hours later

We had successfully sneaked in and took positions around the castle near the king's chambers, but we couldn't trust any of the guards near us. But during our stakeout they all left suddenly, so we got closer to his chambers just to make sure nothing bad happened. And all of a sudden the silence was broken by a familiar voice, Bodo's,

"Guys, hey!" we couldn't see him for a moment until he took the ring off, and then we all came out of our hiding places and pulled Drakak out of his. We almost didn't find Bhar until he just appeared out of nowhere and scared the life out of us.

"What happened and keep your voice down." Mythrik hushed

"They're both dead, Korvo and Alfred. I watched them for an hour in a half, and I believe they were working together with Corvin to overthrow the king. After they argued for a few minutes and Alfred went to bed, but when I climbed up the outside wall to the second story I saw Alfred sheathe a dagger with some green liquid on it. So I scurried back down only to see that Korvo was gone and all the lights were out, and so I decided to break in and check things out. Downstairs was empty, so I went upstairs to the room I saw Alfred in. But, when I went up there I saw Alfred lying dead on the floor with a wound on his back and a green liquid seeping out of it. I was just about to leave when Korvo jumped out of the closet and tried to kill me, but I put a bolt through his eye." He said in a breathless and fast pace, he must have ran here.

"So our job's done?" said Aireon

"I guess, let's go ahead and tell him while we're here." I said

When we opened his chambers it was dimly lit fireplace, and the king was standing near a very large window staring out into the lights of his kingdom.

"Yes, yes come in please. Did you complete your job?" he said, he seemed a little sad, almost like an old man who knew he was about to die.

Mythrik approached him, "Yes, all three of them are dead. Can you help us now?"

He turned towards Mythrik and put a hand on his shoulder, "Well I can mark off one suspect."

"Who?" said Bhar who was just walking in,

"Me." He said, and in the blink of an eye grabbed Dragonsbane off Mythrik and stabbed himself in the stomach.

"Ha *coughs up blood* you failed to stop my masters plan, fools." And he fell to the floor with the sword in his stomach,

"That bastard, he was the Shikordian all along!" said Mythrik as he pulled his sword out.

As we were about to leave, thirty guards exploded from the door and tackled the closet person to the door; Bhar.

Bodo tried to kill one of them, but his bolt only wedged in his armor.

We were about to be overwhelmed, and our only exit was the window.

"Guys the window now!" I yelled and we all started shooting towards the window, but Bodo was charging towards them.

"No mister Fraggins! We have to go now we can't save him!" yelled Aireon as he grabbed him and hoisted him on his shoulder and we busted out the window.

We fell for about a story and landed pretty rough, but thankfully no one broke anything. The next three days consisted of us fleeing day and night until we escaped the king's hunters, and Bodo probably suffered the worst out of all of us. I know that he and Bhar have been friends for a long time, and having him taken away has mentally and emotionally destroyed him. He doesn't do very much now, he needs help,

"Guys, I need to take Bodo to the monastery. There he'll receive the proper treatment he needs, and maybe after that we can break Bhar out of jail or something. Come visit the monastery soon, but I don't know how he'll be doing then." I said

They all quietly mumbled in agreement and Bodo and I set out. He functioned normally sometimes, but also he would quietly mumble or cry every now and then. I will destroy Marfedelom for this, even if we both have to die for it.

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Bodo was mostly quiet the whole journey back to the monastery, and he only responded with sad moans and grunts. When we did finally return to the monastery Bodo's condition worsened, so now he just cries. We had stayed at the monastery for about a week; I had gone around and helped out with some remodeling and repair around the monastery and aided the masters in teaching. While I was telling the children class about my adventure the Grand Master called me to his study, and when I had arrived he was speaking with a frightened farmer,

"Are you sure? I'm sorry to have to ask this sir but have you been on any narcotics or been under the influence of alcohol?" the Grand Master asked.

The man was shaking and had appeared to have run a great distance; his clothes were tattered and worn and his shoes had seen better days. He fumbled with his sentence a few times before finally spitting out what he was trying to say,

"Out in the woods, there's something out in the woods! I was tending my fields when I saw something shining between the trees, but when I went to go check it out the woods exploded with a ray of white light and extremely strong winds. It launched me back quite a distance, and when I regained my baring's a voice boomed out of the forest. 'Tell the monks to bring Morgukia here! I have an urgent message for him!' So I ran as fast as I could here." He said in a fast and trembling voice.

"Me? Are you sure sir?" I asked

"Are you the one he asked for?" he trembled

"Go to the forest Morgukia and make sure this isn't one of Marfedelom's tricks. We don't need a panic starting up because of his sorcery." Commanded the Grand Master

I grabbed my equipment at once and hurried out the monastery to give the Grand Master peace of this current situation, but not without checking on Bodo's condition.

I walked over to the infirmary and knocked on Bodo's door, but no one answered. I was just about to leave when I heard a familiar voice speak from inside the room,

"It's unlocked, go ahead and come in," said Bodo.

I opened the door and walked into the room and saw him sitting in a chair with his back turned to me in front of a window that overlooked the main courtyard. All of his equipment was carefully organized on a desk to his right and his bed looked untouched, so I guessed that he hasn't slept in days.

"Pull up a chair Morgukia, or leave. I don't care," he said

So I pulled a chair next to him and sat down.

"Are you doing alright friend? I know that this hasn-"he interrupted me

"No, you don't. You've never experienced loss before so I don't expect you to understand what I'm going through so don't even give my your 'I know this hasn't been easy' bull crap." He lashed out, and I almost did the same

How ignorant are you! I thought, do you not remember the reason we even met? But instead I tried very hard to calmly answer him,

I put my hand on his shoulder, "Do you not remember how we met? Need I remind you that YOU decided to visit the funeral of one of my greatest teachers of all time? He was practically my only family here for six years while others ridiculed and bullied me, so yes I do understand what you're going through." I said.

"Sorry Morgukia, I'm still trying to deal with this. I should've been taken instead; I owe that much to him." He apologized; I understood why he felt grief for Bhar's imprisonment. The prison that Bhar would be taken to for regicide would be the "Iron Sands Prison" in the Fire Desert, and almost no one gets out alive; and those that do are never the same.

"It's fine Bodo, at least you're actually responsive this visit. If you don't mind me asking; how did you and Bhar become friends? If it's too painful for you to remember I understand, but it might help you if someone knows the whole story between you two." I said, after everything we've been through I've never asked about what they did before we banded together.

"No it's fine; I think you deserve to know anyways. A long time ago I lived in the country in a nice cottage with my family; my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, my wife, and my little girl. We lived there in a perfect endless peace, until it all abruptly ended. One day while I was tending to the fields I saw some light grey smoke rising in the distance, but I didn't think anything of it so I continued onto tilling the field with the family ox. When I finally finished the fields it was sundown, but when I looked towards the plume of smoke this time I saw an enormous column of black smoke. I thought a forest had caught fire for a moment, but when I had looked down the road I saw that it met with the smoke. I thought, but that's where my house is," he started to tear up, "I ran as fast as I could, but I was already too late. I found my cottage being burned to the ground, and I heard my family from the inside screaming. There was a bunch of bandits, all human, surrounding it; they were throwing torches into the fire and barricading the doors and windows so they couldn't escape. I charged one of them, but only to be knocked down and restrained. They forced me to watch as my family burned alive, and they were about to kill me too. They beat me within an inch of my life, and then took me into the woods to finish the job. They were about to kill me when he appeared, a young Dragonborn fighter, Bhar. He killed all of them and took me to safety, and when I came to he stayed by my side even when I perused a life of crime. He's my only family, and now I've lost him too." He started sobbing, so I tried to comfort him

"He's not lost; we will rescue him the first chance we get. Now I have to leave you my friend, the Grand Master has given me a mission and I need to complete it. If you want you may join me; I would like the company." I said, hoping to get him outside for a bit at least.

"No, I'm good," he said

"Just don't stay in here please; it's a beautiful day outside." I requested in Infernal, he just shrugged and looked out the window. So I went out to go find the source of this disturbance.