Authors Note: Well here goes two… ^w^, I don't know if they had bureaucracy back then I doubt it but oh well they do in my story lol. Tell me your favorite character
"Faric! Faric!" I was running to him my brother's hand clenched tightly as he struggled to keep up.
"Faric, Faric." My face was stiff from dried tears and my little brother was panting hard.
"Syndelius, what's the matter you look…"
"My parents, Faric there dead, they were killed." I said in a rushed but low tone so Aryden wouldn't hear.
"Syndelius, that's…awful…I'm…"
"I don't know what to do Faric, I just don't know what to do."
"So you came to me the lonely street urchin huh." Faric ran his lightly tanned fingers through his rouge colored hair.
"Faric it's just, that you have more experience in this department then I do." I chuckled nervously.
"No Syndelius I get it, but why would someone kill you parents? We have to tell someone a guard perhaps?"
"Faric you and I both know you don't trust guards and an Imperial at that."
"It's the bureaucracy it kills me, there all corrupt ya know."
"Faric I'm freaking out here I don't need your crazy conspiracy theories!" at this point my brother was just staring at us with awe, he had no idea what we were taking about.
"Alright we need to get out of Bravil, we can go to the Imperial City, as much as I hate Imperials and I mean the Imperial City's crawling with them; I will make sacrifices for my best friend, well you're my only friend so the 'best' part kinda goes without saying…"
"Faric!"
"Yeah."
"Shut up and lets go, I desperately need to clear my head especially after everything I just saw."
I awoke to the birds chirping and the sun shining. I relive that day over and over again in my dreams the part I dread the most is of course the discovery of my parents. I stood up and stretched letting out a big yawn.
"Get a good nights sleep brother?"
"Sure did, hey where'd Faric run off to?"
"I don't know he said he was going to do something important to get us money."
"I don't like the sound of that."
"Syndelius Dareleth?" I spun around to see a tall Imperial man, tan with dark brown hair approaching me.
"Yes?" who was this person, how did he know my name?
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Matius Caro." He held his hand out, I was hesitant at first but followed his lead and shook his hand.
"Um…Hello nice to meet you."
"Like wise." I didn't get a good vibe of this Matius fellow, he looked too smug and untrusting.
"I have something that could interest you."
"What?" I was skeptical but my curiosity got the best of me.
"A way to get your friend out of jail."
"I don't have a friend in jail." This guy must be some sort of scam artist, idiot like I wouldn't…
"Your not friends with a Faric Coppercroft?" I was stunned, jail, no he was just here a couple of hours ago. I knew his 'something important to do to get us money' didn't sound good.
"What did he do?" again I was curious.
"He stole an ancient valuable book from the Imperial Palace."
"what's the bail?"
"ten thousand gold."
"What!" I nearly fainted how could they make bail so high for a child.
"Meet me in Chorrol in a couple of days to discuss a trade."
"A trade? A trade for what?"
"That will be explained in Chorrol don't worry boy, just meet me there, alright?"
"Um…okay." This sounded sketchy to me, I didn't like it. But Faric can't handle jail that confined space; he must be going nuts. Matius was now gone, he disappeared quickly which kind of freaked me out. I turned to my brother
"Looks like we're going to Chorrol."
"Alright road trip!"
We made our way out of the City down the cobble stone paths and past the tall towers. We had just finished crossing the bridge over Lake Rumare when a mud crab attacked us I hadn't even realized it until Aryden started shouting as it bit him. I killed it swiftly with my iron short sword and handed Aryden a potion for his wound. We continued down the Black Road, which led us through The Great Forest. We were almost to Weynon Priory when I heard a young girl shout. Out of no where a girl not much younger then myself came running by with great speed a minatour not far behind. I drew my sword told my brother to stay back and I went head to head with the minatour. My heart was pounding as adrenaline pumped through my body; I have never fought anything this big before. It swung its dwarven axe nearly missing me, I countered jumping forward sword straight ahead stabbing the minatour in the stomach. The Minatour stumbled back this was my opportunity I swung my sword as hard as I could towards its head, and it fell. I was overjoyed, I won, I killed a minatour, I saved a life. Wait the girl where did the girl go?
"Wow brother that was so cool, you gota teach me that!" That's when I saw her hiding behind a tree.
"Hey!" I called "The minatours dead!" I saw her stand up and walk toward me.
"Thank you so much." I suddenly didn't know what to say so was so beautiful a dumner lady with beautiful long white hair in a sloppy ponytail.
"No…No…pro…blem." I lost my cool, come on Syndelius you've talked to girls before you can do it. She blushed slightly noticing my discomfort,
"Hi my name is Ivela Falis." She said shaking my hand.
"Syndelius Dareleth and this is my younger brother Aryden." I responded pointing over to my brother who was oddly looking a bit pale.
"Where you guys headed?"
"Chorrol…It's a long story why were going, friend in jail and blah, blah, blah."
"Is you brother alright he looks kinda sick?"
"I don't know, Aryden how are you feeling."
"I'm not…I'm not sure." He sounded tired and he fell to his knees.
"Aryden!" I rushed over and held him in my arms. "we need to get you to a healer."
"There's one in the Mage's Guild." Ivela suggested.
I picked my brother up and rushed toward Chorrol, running as fast as I could Ivela keeping up nicely.
"Halt, hand over that rock around your neck kid now."
"This?" I said hand on my father's amulet.
"Yes."
"No. Now please move my brother's very sick I need to get him to a healer."
"You won't be going any where we have orders from Matius Caro to take the amulet from you by force if need be, you don't want to end up like your parents do you kid?"
"How…do you, what?" I was confused how did they know about my parents only Faric and I and recently Aryden knew.