On their way back to Athklata.
"WE MAKE CAMP HERE!" Spear declared loudly as they reached a bend in the river they were following and a small grouping of hot springs.
"Do you have to yell!" Viconia hissed and rubbed her temples turning her back on Spear.
"Sorry princess. BUT I CAN YELL ALL THE GODDAMN I WANT!" Spear screamed in Viconia's ear making the elf tumbled forward into a convenient patch of mud. "Get the hell up! Cernd, Yoshimo scout out around that ridge over there, if it's clear set up camp there. Viconia, Minsc scout out the area around the river and hot springs, if it's clear come back here, if it's not, either take care of the problem or come back here and we'll do it together. Edwin, Anomen get some fire wood, enough to last the night, you're on first watch."
"Spear, we have a problem." Cernd said as he and Yoshimo took inventory.
"What?"
"Edwin's and Anomens tents are drenched in blood." He said and held up two wet, scarlet lumps of what probley was once Edwin's and Anomen's tents. "We've got to burn them before they bring unwanted attention to use."
"Oh this is going to be good." Viconia smirked and sat down on a log to watch the fireworks. "Minsc come join me." She said and patted the log next to her, where Minsc sat down and smiled, preparing to watch the "fireworks".
"Right. Edwin! Get over here!" Spear shouted.
"What!" Edwin, who had been leaning against a tree "observing" Anomen out of the corner of his eye, snapped and pushed off from the tree.
"Come over here and burn yours and Anomens tents you stuck up Wizard!"
"BURN MY TENT! HAVE YOU GONE EVEN MORE INSANE THAN USUAL!" Edwin roared as he stalked over to her. "YOU IMCOMPETENT…" He trailed off as he saw the two bloody piles. Paling dramatically something like horror passed over his face before it was replaced but fierce, boiling rage. "ELF!"
"What?" Both Spear and Viconia said in unison.
"NOT YOU! YOU MORON!" He snapped at Spear who shrugged. He spun on heel and glared daggers at Viconia. "IT WAS YOUR JOB TO KEEP THE TENTS!" He hissed, raw magic rolling off him in waves.
"Deal with it!" Viconia smirked, that smirk was changed to a look of pure horror as Edwin began chanting.
"Oh shit!" Anomen, who had been watching the entire thing from a safe distance, hissed and ran at Edwin. He leapt in between them just as Edwin finished the spell getting it full to the chest and went flying backwards.
Minsc grabbed Viconia around the waist and dove out of the way as Anomen went spiraling at them.
"DAMNIT! Did you have to hex the Knight?" Spear sighed as she watched Anomen crash into a tree a few feet to her right.
"I wasn't aiming for him!" Edwin hissed his voice thickening with worry.
"What did you cast?" Cernd inquired as he looked from Anomen's limp form to the Wizard himself.
"Magic missile, Greater Malison, Breach, Melf's Acid Arrow, and Chromatic Orb." Edwin murmured not looking at Cernd but at Anomen, concern lining his eyes.
"YOU WERE GOING TO HIT ME WITH ALL THAT! YOU'D BE LUCKY IF I SURVIVED!" Viconia screamed.
"That was the point!" Edwin snapped and walked over to Anomen kneeling beside his unconscious form. "Cernd, you're more of a healer than I am, come take a look at him."
"Very well. Yoshimo, set up my tent. Minsc, move Anomen into it once it's up." Cernd said and turned to Spear. "You know something you're not telling me, said thing might be important."
"I'm no bard but…Anomen and Edwin sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G…or they will be soon when they get it through their thick skulls that they both like each other." Spear said just loud enough that only Cernd could hear her.
"Ah."
"Cernd we're done!" Yoshimo caroled.
"Good." Cernd said and entered the tent. A few minutes later he emerged and strode up to Edwin who had been "trying" to act cool and was succeeding wonderfully…to an extent. "I need to speak with you, alone."
"Fine wolf." Edwin sighed and lead Cernd into a small clearing out of ear shot from the camp and cast a quick silence spell around them to keep out any ease droppers. "What is it?"
"Just how strong a mage are you?"
"Fairly powerful, why?"
"I need to know how long a blindness spell of yours lasts."
"Why?"
"Somehow Anomen got hit with blind and I don't know how long it'll last."
"Shit…ummm about 2-3 days."
"Since you did it, you have to take care of him until the effects where off." Cernd said and gestured for Edwin to remove the spell.
With a flick of his wrist, Edwinended the spell. "My life has just gotten so much worse."
Authors note- Chapter Three! PLEASE REVIEW!
Things to come:
Anomen and Edwin bond.
Viconia tries to take out Spear?
Cernd deals with a horny Yoshimo.
Viconia replaced?
Sword Coast character joins in?
The first kiss?