Chapter Four: Shady Recitals

Shady Recitals

Pdep turned around and looked at Boss, he was squirming in pain. Pdep jumped to Boss and crouched next to him.

"Oh Boss, what am I going to do now?"

"Pdep, I'm not hurt too badly. I'll survive, now let me tell you what I wanted to tell you..." responded Boss, he was about to tell...

"No! We must get you to a doctor! There's one round the corner, isn't there?"asked Pdep determined, "let's go!"

Pdep nimbly lifted Boss up and jumped outside, he took a right and ended up hitting the door to the doctor's house, Pdep fell down and Boss hit the pavement. The door opened, and a nice-looking Old Man stood there.

"Guys, it's very rude to crack your heads open on someone's door! You should be more careful next time" said the Old Man with a very wise tone.

"I'm sorry Old Man, it was my fault. See, someone shot Boss and I freaked out. Can you take a look at him?" said Pdep calmly, he was calm because he hit his butt so hard, that he didn't feel like acting crazy anymore.

"Oh sure, bring him in. I've got another patient here though, so Boss will have to wait a couple of minutes" responded the Old Man nicely.

The Old Man slowly walked toward his patient, and went back to examining him.

"Wait, where do I put him? Isn't there a bed or something in here?" asked Pdep while carrying Boss again.

"Of course there is", said the doctor while pointing at one of his many blue-colored doors, "just through there".

"Okay thanks"

Pdep waddled into the room, Boss was a heavy man! Pdep put Boss on the bed, sat down next to him, and sighed deeply. He looked around.

It was a very empty room, colored white and had ducks painted on the walls, Pdep didn't see anything abnormal; until he saw some scrolls and a chart laying under the bed.

He leaned down to grab a scroll from under the bed when the Old Man walked in.

"No! That's totally private!" the Old Man shouted childishly, while he jumped toward Pdep to jerk the scroll out of Pdep's hand.

"That's not for you to see" said the Old Man with his normal wise tone.

The Old Man walked out of the room to hide the scroll elsewhere while Pdep quickly hid the rest of the scrolls and the chart, which the Old Man forget about, under his clothes. Soon the Old Man came back.

"So what happened?" asked the Old Man as if the whole scroll thing never happened.

"Well, Boss was about to tell me something when someone shot him from the back. I didn't see who, and I don't know what weapon he used" explained Pdep to the Old Man, who was listening with interest.

"I think it's best to remove the bolt from Boss and examine it. We might find out what the weapon was, when we know what bolt the shooter used" said the Old Man, wise as ever.

"True that" responded Pdep unprofessionally, and he turned Boss onto his stomach. He took Boss's shirt off and looked at the shot wound.

"Seems rather deep, shall I tranquilize you first?" asked the Old Man while looking at Boss.

"Why would you want to tranquilize me?" asked Pdep obliviously.

"I was asking Boss, stupid" responded the Old Man tongue beaten.

"No thanks, I can take a little pain" responded Boss as if there wasn't a bolt stuck in his back.

"Dammit..." murmured the Old Man, Pdep looked at him questionably, but he didn't say anything.

"Fine, I'll take it out slowly" said the Old Man while putting on gloves.

The Old Man slowly put his hand in the wound; Boss took the pillow, put his head in and screamed with pain. The Old Man quickly pulled his hand out, holding a creamy-yellow colored bolt, he put the bolt in his pocket and walked out of the room.

He came back with some bandage and a white patch, he took some colorless fluid out of his pocket and sprayed it over the wound, put the patch on it and wound the bandage around it.

"There, as good as new, as for the bolt, it was nothing special. Now please leave as I have other patients waiting" said the Old Man suspiciously as he showed Boss and Pdep out.

Someone walked up to Boss and Pdep, it was the patient the Old Man examined when Boss and Pdep came in, he said: "I've got something for you, see, I've never liked this Old Man, he seems to have a secret or something, and when he hid that scroll from you guys, I thought that scroll might contain that secret", and the took the scroll out of his pocket, "so I took it, I hope you can unravel the mystery and don't forget to tell me what the secret is when you do!", he explained.

"That's great! I wonder what is on these..." said Pdep, when the Old Man jumped out of the window and shouted: "Gimme back my scrolls, thieves!!"

Pdep, Boss and the patient ran into different directions, the Old Man was sighing deeply as he approached the spot where the three were standing, and he said: "I'm way too old for this. I better get me some help...", and he went back inside.

Pdep was running down the path to his house, he stopped and looked behind, the Old Man was gone. Pdep sighed out of happiness, he got away. He walked to his house and was greeted by Bsan.

"Hey bro, are you going to tell me where you've been?" asked Bsan abruptly.

"Oh yeah, just let me..." responded Pdep while sighing deeply.

"I won't let you do anything unless you tell me where you went" said Bsan strict, when the scrolls and the chart Pdep had been carrying fell from underneath his clothes.

Bsan inhaled from amazement, he looked at Pdep and said: "So YOU took the scrolls from the Old Man..."

"Shh! It's a secret, they were lying under his bed. They seem to contain a valuable secret!" said Pdep excitedly, he didn't get what was going on yet.

Pdep went inside the house with the scrolls and the chart held in his arms, he threw them on the ground, kneeled before them and opened them. He saw 'Project Axenghista" and a chart of the Trollweiss Mountain region where Axenghista's castle was. It had all kinds of arrows and lines drawn on it.

Pdep was amazed, until he felt a cold object in his neck, he moved his arm towards it and felt it was a sword. He turned around and saw his brother standing aggressively, holding a big Adamant sword.

"What... what..." stuttered Pdep from amazement, he couldn't quite unwrap the hints...

And then it hit him.