Gabrielle's world had descended into confusion almost the moment she had set foot in her homeland. It had been her, thrown into the middle of a conflict, with no idea what exactly that conflict was. Next tging she knew she was about to be executed for no reason. Thank god that dragon had turned up, as much havoc as it was causing, she owed it her life.
She looked around the beaten up inn in the hopes that the stairs were still intact. Finding that the only way she could reach the ground was through the giant hole in the floor, she leaped down, landing as gently as she could. Making her way out of the battered house she found the woman from earlier saving a child.
She said some thing to a man and turned. Their eyes met for a moment, and Gabrielle saw something in the other womans eyes that both frightened her and excited her. It was a wild and feral look like she'd never seen before.
"You're still alive? Come with me" The woman said before taking off throught the street.
Gabrielle followed. What else was she supposed to do? There was nowhere to go besides wherever she was going.
"Get down" The warrior hissed and Gabrielle did so, barely staying out of the dragons vision.
They ran, the warrior yelling for her men to retreat but the nasty woman who had been there before was ordering them to fight. None ran. The warrior glared and continued on. It was very clear they had shown where their loyalties were.
"Come, there should be a way out through here" The woman said opening a door.
Once they were inside Gabrielle came to the conclusion that this was probably a barrack of sorts.
"Here, let me get these off" the warrior said drawing a dagger and slicing through the bonds with little difficulty.
"Thanks" Gabrielle said rubbing her wrists in and attempt to get the blood flowing again.
"No problem. There should be some weapons and armor around here. I have a feeling we'll need them"
"The armor I can use, but the only weapons I need are my hands" She said, flames flaring up around her right hand.
"Very well, check that chest" the warrior said before removing a sword from a rack.
Gabrielle quickly discarded the rags she was wearing and pulled on the light leather armor. She would get proper mage clothing later.
"Thank you for helping me... umm.." Gabrielle started then realized she couldn't just call the woman 'warrior'.
"Xena. It's no problem. Let's go, before that dragon brings the whole place down."
An:Sorry for the relatively short chapters, writing on my ipod touch is slow and frustrating...