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Chapter 3 : Melandy

Ken weaved through the sandy plains he was currently running through. The only thing going through his mind was to run, but the sweat dripping down his forehead dipped into his eyes causing him to have to pause and wipe it away. Pausing for his slight break, he braved a look backwards to see the ominous shapes of two scorpions.

"Two… Where'd the third one go..?" He asked himself before deciding to take the blessing and speeding through the plains once more, kicking up sand behind him. This was just too much, he had been fighting ever since he left his home, and these things weren't your average monsters. He jumped over a large rock and landed about 5 feet away, quickly rolling and moving faster, ignoring the protests of his body as he ran along a large cliff. The sounds of the scorpions slowly gaining made him move faster, and faster, he could already taste it, he would survive! Atleast he was before he crashed into something and fell backwards closing his eyes as he held his head groaning.

"What the hell…." He muttered sitting back up and looking straight ahead to see another person slowly standing up, he wiped his eye's of the sweat to get a better view.

Standing in front of him was a girl just barely shorter then him, she had neat flowing brown hair up to her shoulders it seemed, as well as a white dress that was dirty from the dust in the barrens they were currently in. He also took note of a smooth brown bow on her back, as well as a brown quiver which he assumed he held numerous arrows, his current view couldn't let him see much more.

"Watch where your going idiot…." The girl said holding her head and shaking it.

"Me!?! What about you!" Ken shouted getting back to his feat, momentarily forgetting about the threat to deal with this rude girl.

"I had a good reason!" She shouted back, and then as if to prove her point a large scorpion stepped out behind her.

"That's where the third one went…." Ken said pulling out his sword seeing nowhere to run as the other two had caught up, quickly surrounding the two, he spun around to deal with the greater number, while the girl quickly pulled out her bow, and slid an arrow neatly in place.

"No need to take that out babe, your knight in shining armor is here." Ken said quickly pulling his blade out, not feeling as courageous as he felt.

"The name's Melandy not babe, and shining armor? I've seen better clothes on homeless people, idiot." The girl said aiming her bow at the scorpions who seemed to be eyeing their next meals as they argued.

"The name's Ken, and would you prefer them off?" He asked as the scorpions edged closer.

"Of course n-" She was cut off as her scorpion dashed forward before getting a large arrow straight through one of its eyes making it stumble backwards, Ken on the other hand dashed towards his scorpions, barely avoiding their clawed hands as he got in the face of his first one, slashing horizontally, before twirling to the left dodging the tail and stabbing forwards, kicking off the scorpion to avoid the last of its attacks as it stumbled around madly. At this its companion charged forward its stinger darting forward.

Ken rolled to the side slicing into the tail before it drew it back and darting it forward repeatedly, each one causing the boy to barely dodge, before retaliating. He could also hear the sounds of arrows going off from the girls bow before seeing their effect is three sailed into one of the claws, not causing any damage but causing the scorpion to be distracted giving him the opportunity to completely cut off the tail of the beast It stumbled backwards before falling against the cliff and twitching dead.

"Not half bad…" Ken muttered to Melandy as the other two shook themselves from their pain and circled the two.

"Same to you.." Melandy said before pulling out two arrows and firing them off into her scorpion. From behind her she could hear Ken grunting as he dodged the attacks. The tail shot forward but Melandy neatly sidestepped, a portion of her dress being ripped off before she took four arrows in half and shoved them in causing the scorpion to step back in pain as she fired a final arrow, sailing clean through its head. She turned, tucking in three more arrows and firing them.

"ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY!!" Ken shouted as one arrow sailed right by his ear, completely missing the scorpion, the other two neatly puncturing it as he dashed forward skewering the beast with his sword.

"Shut up, I did it didn't I." She said brushing her hair back taking in short raspy breaths. That was actually the most fun she had in awhile however her heart caught as she saw a large shadow behind her.

"No!!!" She thought to herself as she turned, her scorpions tail aiming straight towards her…and hitting the boy who had dived in front of her.

"You should've moved…" He said with a smirk, before raising his hand as a fireball shot out, killing the scorpion, he then promptly pulled the stinger out before passing out on the ground.

'He launched a fireball…a FIREball…Crap, now is not the time he's poisoned!' Melandy thought quickly rushing forward and kneeling besides him. 'I don't have time for this… but still… he saved my life.'

The younger and lighter girl lifted up Ken with a grunt as she started to move towards one of the nearby cliffs.

"God…are you as heavy as you are cocky…?"

Ken moaned as he lifted himself up, feeling the cool and scratchy surface of rocks on his back.

"God… what hit me…"

"Your up already? I thought the antidote would take a bit longer to run through your system." A feminine voice rang out reaching his ears as he opened his eyes, letting in the dim light.

Ken could see the faint outline of a body sitting on the Cliffside. He stumbled to his feet his vision swimming around as he moved closer, now able to make our the girl from earlier as he dropped down next to her looking up towards the now visible stars while glancing at the girl's face.

"Why'd you save me?" He asked folding his hands behind his head as he attempted to relax. The girl also doing the same folding her hands behind her back looking off into the valley.

"You did the same for me, I was just returning the favor…..thank you." The roughness in her voice disappeared as she took a softer tone. "I thought you were a bandit…but I guess I was wrong…you're a wingly aren't you?" with this she turned to Ken looking into his eyes, which would be a dead signal of his ancestry. "Your hair is black though… not platinum."

"I'm not a full wingly.. I'm a half wingly." He replied non-chalantly. Ken shook his head as the last traces of the powerful poison left his system while Melandy looked down at him with a odd look.

"You know you should hide that a little better. The Wingly Prejudice has really had gotten bad over the years, you might actually have people try to kill you for that."

With those words Ken quickly sat back up regretting it as his world swam. "It's that bad?"

"Yea,, we're going to have to pick you up some new clothes in the next town we hit which should be Donau, considering you came from the valley." Melandy said with authority as she stood up brushing off her dress. While Ken stared at her. "What?"

"When did this become WE? Just curious."

"Since I decided you don't know anything about this place. You were completely lost when you bumped into me. I bet they cut you guys off from the outside world in your wingly cities huh?"

"Yea…" He muttered out glancing to where his small bag was, and what he assumed was Melandy's bag.

"Same thing in my home…my dad never let me out of the castle always worried about me. It was so suffocating I just had to get away from it. That's how I ended up in the plains."

"Yea… they never let me out of the city, so I ran off too and I – Wait Castle?!"

Melandy smirked as she lifted up her bag and bow. "You really did grow up under a rock. My father is the king of this country, our castle is back In Fletz." With that she pointed back towards the large castle he could barely see as the sun was almost completely below the horizon.

"And you tell me this without knowing who I am, or anything like that?"

"You're a wingly. Your young like me. Your lost. And you nearly died protecting me. Right now we're both better off with each other. We're both running from something and we want to learn more about the world… isn't that enough? …It is enough…right?" Melandy stopped feeling a hand on her shoulder as she turned to see Ken with his bag tied onto his waist and his sword back in it's sheath as he winked at her.

"Lead the way. I'm ready to see everything." The boy smiled

"Correction, We're ready to see everything." The girl smiled back as she walked down the cliff as the night overtook the duo who headed to the town whose lights were visible in the distance…. Unaware of the danger right on their heels.

"…An interesting development. Have you changed your mind yet..?"

The stone pulsed a dark blue light as the darkness was swept away.

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