He laid there for a few minutes letting his mind go over everything that happened the day before. He crawled out of bed and walked into the bathroom. The tiles on the floor were as gold as the sun. In the middle of the bathroom was a silver tub, with stone steps climbing up to it. Talpa climbed the steps and turned the water on.
When the tub was full with hot water, he pulled off the rest of his clothes and the bandage covering his wound and climbed in. He let the water take him until it was up to his chin. Closing his eyes, he thought of all the things he had to do that day. He had to go and find four warriors to wear the armors.
"This is going to be hard." Talpa thought. "They are not just going to come with out question, they will most likely fight."
Talpa took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "I am hoping they will just come but if not, I will just have to force them to come."
Talpa felt that the hot water turned cold. He climbed out, and unplugged the bottom to make the water drain. He walked over to the towel rack, grabbed a clean towel and covered his naked waist. Walking out of the bathroom, he went to his walk-in closet. He pulled down a pair of jeans and a blue shirt. He took his clothes to the bed and laid them down. There was a knock on the door.
The door opened. An old man walked in smiling. "Master Talpa. How are you doing?" asked the old man walking over to Talpa.
"I am fine Beruman." answered Talpa.
Beruman stood on the opposite side of the bed. The five foot Beruman was a short man when compared to the six foot Talpa. Beruman was a doctor that Talpa had kidnapped forty years ago. Talpa thought it would be a good idea to have a doctor around just in case something life threatening happened.
Beruman looked at Talpa and saw his wound. "Master Talpa! What happened? Why didn't you come to me?" Beruman ran around the bed to look at the wound.
"It's ok, Beruman. I am fine, it is only a scratch." Talpa pulled away from Beruman, afraid he would tear the towel from his waist.
"Nonsense master. This is a very serious wound. I need to heal it." Beruman reached for the special medicine leaves that were attached to his belt.
He never went anywhere without them. They were a special kind of leaves that had a very powerful medicine inside them. It only takes the medicine leaves one day to heal a wound completely, where any other medicines would take three to four days to heal completely.
Beruman took two leaves from his belt and placed them on Talpas wound. Talpa flinched as Beruman did this.
"There. It should be all healed up by tomorrow morning." Beruman said stepping back looking at his work.
"Good, I am glad. Now, Beruman, if you don't mind, I would like to get dressed and get on with my plans for today."
Beruman nodded that he understood and left. By then, Talpa was completely dry. He took off the towel and threw it in a nearby basket. He put on his jeans and shirt and started looking for his shoes. When he finally found his shoes, he put them on and began to get ready to go look for the warriors.
When he was ready, he teleported to a village many miles away from the next village.
"This is a good place to start." Talpa thought as he began to walk. He saw many men, but they all were worthless. He was about to forget this village and go to the next one when he heard a woman scream.
He walked to were he heard the scream and saw a woman surrounded by ten men, each with some kind of weapon in their hands.
Talpa heard one man say, "You bitch. Nobody hits me and lives." Talpa stood watching the men approach the young woman.
"This should be good." Talpa thought.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a movement. He looked over there and saw a man with blue hair watching the men walking towards the helpless girl. The man shook his head. He ran towards the group and jumped into the middle, next to the young, sobbing woman. The group of men stopped and stared at the man.
"Who and the hell are you?" said one of the men.
The blue haired man looked at the man that spoke. "My name is Cale and I will not let you harm this girl."
Talpa studied the man that called himself Cale. He was about 5' 7" and had a long black cape that covered his clothes. The man that spoke to Cale, smiled.
"And what makes you think you can stop us?" asked the man stepping forward.
Cale smiled. "Trust me. You will not even get close to this girl without having some part of your body bleeding and, or cut off."
The man looked around at his buddies and smiled. "You really think you can defeat all of us by yourself?" said the man smiling. "I like to see you try."
Cale smiled, "Then come on. I guarantee you not one of you will be left standing."
The man laughed. "Okay then. This is the day you die."
The men charges at Cale with their weapons ready to strike and kill. Cale smiled and threw open his cape and grabbed the hidden sword.
One by one, Cale slashed and stabbed the men as they charged at him. Blood flew everywhere. Talpa stood there watching Cale kill every single man that charged at him. A minute later, the group of men were all laying on the blood stained ground, dead.
Cale smiled as he looked at his victory. He wiped the blood off his sword and placed it back on his belt. He looked at the frighten woman.
"Are you okay?" Cale asked the woman.
The girl shook with fear as the tall man walked towards her. He knelt down and put his hand on her shoulder. She yelped and pushed away from him when he touched her.
"It is okay. I am not going to hurt you."
Cale reached out to move her hair out of her face, but she got up and ran away before Cale could touch her the second time. Cale watched her as she ran away from him. Only wishing to help her, and then later getting in bed with her, he got up and started to walk away, then stopped and bent down to take some object from one of the dead men.
"That was very impressive." sang Talpa's voice.
Cale whipped around to look at who spoke to him. Talpa stepped out of the darkness and into the light.
"Who are you?" asked Cale getting up and reaching for his sword.
"I am not here to cause trouble, Cale. My name is Arago, also known as Lord Talpa. I have been watching you fight those men, and I have to say that was very impressive. You are one of the warriors I have been looking for." Talpa said.
Cale stared at him. "What do you mean I am one of the warriors you have been looking for?"
Talpa smiled and walked toward him. "How would you like to come and serve me, fight many battles, and help me defeat my enemy?" said Talpa stopping five feet away from Cale.
"Come and serve you?" Cale said. "I don't think so, I serve no one but myself." Cale turned and began to walk away.
"Oh but you would make a good warrior. If you come and serve me you will have so much power you will not know what to do. I can give you everything you ever desired."
Cale stopped and turned around. "Everything I desire? Are you serious?"
Talpa chuckled. "Yes. You will have everything you ever wanted."
Cale studied Talpa. Seeing that he wasn't lying, he walked to Talpa. "Power. I will get power?"
Talpa nodded. "Yes. You will get power."
Cale thought for a moment. He would have all the power he ever wanted. All he had to do is serve him. It couldn't be that bad.
"Okay. Yes. I will do it, only if you are telling me the truth." said Cale.
Talpa smiled. "Yes I am telling you the truth."
The only thing Cale doesn't know is that he will become immortal and will serve me forever. Talpa thought as he watched Cale smile. He held out his hand and waited for Cale to shake it.
As soon as he did, Talpa teleported them to one of the dungeons in his castle.
"It is done. You now serve me forever." Talpa laughed evilly.
Cale looked around wondering how in the hell he got there. He noticed a pool of boiling orangish-red liquid. He looked back at Talpa as he was pushed into the pool of liquid. As Cale landed in the liquid, he started to scream as electricity went through him. Talpa watched as the young man struggled to break free from the liquids hold on him.
"It is no use trying to break free Cale." said Talpa.
Cale was to busy screaming that he could not hear Talpa. He will soon be evil and not able to remember anything about his past. Talpa laughed and teleported to the throne room.
"This one was easy to convince." He told himself. He looked over to where the armors were and saw that the Armor of the Jackal was disappearing.
Talpa smiled. "One down, three to go." said Talpa as he disappeared.