Hero Gothic I

Part 4

Two Years Later

Heroes Guild – Albion.

Today was the day. Years of work had gone into readying me for this test, and I felt prepared.

"Before you graduate, there is one final test you must complete. Enter the Guild Wood and the test will be revealed to you there" the Guildmaster told me "Good luck, my boy".

The final test had come a little sooner than I had expected, but I felt confident none the less I'd trained every day and my hard work had paid off. I could fight well with a sword, I could shoot a bow, and with my magic I could reduce a practice dummy to ashes.

However learning to do all of that, and many other things that weren't important right now, had just been preparation, and none of it would mean anything if I didn't take what I'd learned and put it to good use.

"Yes, sir" I said as I walked past him and into the woods were Maze would be waiting.

At first I thought I was alone there was no other living thing around me, aside from the trees. In fact I was completely alone I couldn't hear any birds and from my classes I knew this was a bad thing. It meant something dangerous was close by.

"I suppose you are wondering how you pass the final test then?" Maze said to me.

His sudden appearance nearly made me jump out of my skin, yet I was able to keep my cool, barely.

"Sure" I replied.

Assuming this was just like the game then I already knew how to pass the final test. However that didn't mean it would easy, and it might be exactly it was in the game.

"It's simple really" the older Hero explained "All you have to do is survive, and follow my commands".

That did indeed sound simple, at least in theory. Truthfully this would be the greatest challenge I'd faced in either of my lives.

"We'll begin with your sword" I was informed "Hit me, if you can".

I drew my katana, which was razor sharp unlike the sword I had trained with, and I swiped at the older man. Using this style of sword was very different that using a western sword but I'd had plenty of time to practice with both two-sided and one-sided blades over the last year. However while my attack was a good one, a magical shield blocked the blade.

"Break down the barrier" the tester instructed me.

I did just that I swung the sword hard enough that the magical shield collapsed and the older Hero was forced to defend himself with his own sword, that he had made appear out of thin air. By the looks of it the weapon was made out magic not metal.

Then Maze cast a spell which cased the ghosts of beetles to emerge from the ground, and they swarmed towards me. There seemed to be hundreds of the purple things and none of them looked friendly.

"Defend yourself anyway you can" was the next instruction.

I'd had a lot of experience in this sort of thing as the big bugs were a consent menace to the fruit grown here in the woods, so I was able to stomp the overgrown insects, and since I had learned to throw fireballs I was also able to use them to burn the tiny pests.

"That was a little too easy" Maze commented "I think its time to give you a real challenge".

Then the far more experienced Hero brought forth the spirits of the men I had killed in these very woods less than two years ago. Only these weren't mere ghosts. The wisps Maze had called upon animated the bodies that been buried here so long ago.

Acting quickly I stabbed my sword into the ground and then I brought my hands close together. A small fireball formed and it grew in size as the palms of hands slowly moved away from each other. I was feeding energy into the fireball and it because of that kept growing in size until it was as big as a basketball.

Then I sent the magical attack at the largest of the three Hollowmen, only it wasn't that effective. The magically assault only cause the dead thing to stumble, and that worried me as it should of blow the walking skeleton into pieces. Maze had to protecting his minions somehow.

Thankfully I had time to think about what to do about that as the Hollowmen needed to cross the stream, and like other forms of undead moving through or even just over, running water was a chore. I'd go as far as to say that the experience was painful for them, only that wasn't quite right as they couldn't feel pain.

Also the fact that they were knee deep in water gave me the chance to try something I'd always imagined could be rather effective. I channelled lightening and sent it not at the walking corpses, but at the water. It had a devastating effect just as I'd hoped it would. Whatever had protected the Hollow Men from direct attack hadn't shielded them from an indirect assault.

"That was very well done" praised my examiner "I knew you could handle an extra challenge".

Since I knew the test wasn't over I didn't relax.

"Now shoot me with your bow" Maze said just before teleporting away "Don't get too close!"

Seconds after notching an arrow I found my target and began firing at Maze, however I did not him harm as once more he brought his shield and every so often he teleported again. Still my shots didn't miss per say, and that was good because he was testing my accuracy.

Then Maze seemed to blur as he moved, he caught every arrow I sent his way as he showed off his mastery of the Slow Time Spell.

"Excellent and finally, cast Shock at me!" Maze ordered.

After putting my bow away I did just that and to my amazement my tester caught the lightening in his hand and somehow neutralised the attack.

"Keep going" he ordered

I raised my other arm and cast the shock spell with it too, and Maze somehow drew both bolts of lightening into his outstretched hand. He was able to keep going longer than I could keep attacking, so in the end I nearly collapsed from all the the effort.

"That's enough!" Maze commanded before lowering his voice "Yes quite impressive, for a novice"

I'd stopped being a novice years ago, when I'd been promoted to apprentice, but after seeing what this Hero could do with just the power of Will I understood just how far I still had to go.

"You'll find real battles rather more fatal than this, but you have passed your final test, and you are ready to receive your Guild Seal from the Guildmaster" Maze said before suddenly teleporting away.

He'd left in an awful hurry, however I wasn't offended as I knew Whisper was also being tested today, assuming that hadn't already happened, and I knew that he had a role play to play in the graduation ceremony. Which meant he other tasks to perform.

"I so need to learn that spell" I said to myself as I started to walk back to the guild proper.

Being able to teleport about would save a lot of time.

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Hero's Guild – Albion.

"I remember the first night you came to us and look at you now" the Guildmaster said upon my return "Maze's faith in you was well placed".

For my part I accepted the praise without comment.

"Now come along" my mentor ordered "The graduation ceremony will take place I the Chamber of Fate, the oldest part of the Guild".

I followed him down some stairs, and into a dark chamber that was beneath the guild. I'd never been down here before so I was unused to the sheer aura of history and power this place seemed to have.

"Let the apprentices approach" the Guildmaster commanded.

Whisper and I made our way towards the centre of the room, and even though it was dark down here I could see Maze and Thunder standing behind the Guildmaster, they both looked very proud.

"For years now you have worked hard to earn yourselves the title of Hero. Today your apprenticeships come to an end and you go out into the world to do great deeds" our mentor said "Deeds that will bring you the gratitude of thousands or even strike fear into their hearts".

Sometimes I got the impression that being good or evil was simply a life style choice to Heroes. That made me wonder what kind of afterlife people got here, and if there was a Hell for those Heroes who abused their powers.

"These are dark times the shadows of Albion are stirring" the Guildmaster then said "Your choices, whether they lead you down the path of good or evil, will change the fate of the world. Now take your Guild Seals, and venture forth as Heroes!"

The other Heroes all clapped their hands as we were handed and our seals, and that made us officially Heroes. I was now free to leave when ever I wished. The world was mine to explore.

Yet all I wanted right now was a drink.

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Hero Guild – Albion

After the post graduation party, and the after party drinking games, I was a little unsure of my myself as I walked up the steps to my room. The stone walls, stairs and towering bookcases were all very familiar to me as this had been my home for years, but for reasons of their own my legs seemed to have forgotten where my bed could be found.

Despite my limbs betraying me I was very happy. My formal training was complete, and while there was always more to learn I had demonstrated my control of the three Hero disciplines. Which was more than many other graduates could say.

As an added bonus my mysterious benefactor had sent me some decent starting equipment so I was going to start off my Hero career in style. My new armour was black leather with some silver buckles, it was bulky and heavy but I'd get use to it and more importantly it didn't make me look like a gimp. Which was nice.

Aside from that I'd gotten my hands on a steel sword that had a flame augmentation in it. Also I'd been given a lovely jewelled dagger that had to worth a quite a bit of gold, and I suspected it somehow enchanted.

It was all very generous, and it more than enough to start with, but I still wondered where it all had come from. Nobody knew as the boxes had just been labelled with my name, the fake one, and while there had been a letter to the Guildmaster I'd not been allow to see it.

When I finally found my room, having gotten turned around, I discovered that Whisper, who was still both my closest friend and greatest rival, was already lying her bed and she hadn't bothered to undress so I suspected she was waiting for me.

Over the years we'd competed for everything. The highest grade, to see who was the fastest runner, the better warrior and we'd even found out who could eat the most cake, that had been her.

In my view she grown into an exotic beauty, who was very much unlike the other young woman in and around the guild. Her figure was graceful and more importantly her breasts were a nice handful that I'd gotten to play with more than a few times over the last couple of years. Her ass, which I'd cared about even more was nice and pert, and her legs were long and shapely.

"Going to stare at me all day, farm boy?" she said while turning to look at me "Paint a picture, it'll last longer."

I could do that now as the guild taught more than fighting. We'd been encouraged to develop our other talents. In my last life I'd not been musical or artistic, but in this life I was both. Not that I thought it important, my skill with the sword, bows and spells were what mattered.

"Maybe one day I will" I replied "I could be a famous artist".

Truthfully my artwork was nothing special, but today I felt like I could go and out conquer the world if I'd really wanted to so painting a picture would be no big deal.

"You should enjoy being the best while you can" Whisper said "Because once we're out of here, I won't be holding back on you anymore, Skywalker"

I was going to have to think of a Hero game before I went on my first quest. Skywalker was a fine name for an adventurer, but I couldn't take it seriously as I knew where it came from.

"You won't get to call me that again" I told my soon to be former room-mate "I'm going to change it".

For a while now I'd been thinking about Theresa, my sort of sister, who was off living with some bandits. I would soon see her again, and I'd even dreamt about it. She'd called me Gothic, and for some reason I felt the need to take that as my hero name.

"Would you prefer 'Chicken Chaser' then?" Whisper teased "You have the right to that title".

One of the odd things they did at the guild was that once a year they let all the chickens out of the coop and the novices, which had just been Whisper and I, had been expected to chase them. I'd caught and brought more of the birds back to the coop than Whisper had so I had earned the coveted title of 'Chicken Chaser' much to my later regret.

"I hate that title" I muttered.

She found that amusing as well.

"Townsfolk and farmers have names" she said "But you're going to be a Hero, and so am I. Heroes don't have normal names. I'm Whisper and you're Farm Boy, at least for now".

Rather than reply I just started to undress and for once my room-mate sat and watched. Which was strange and while we'd fooled around she'd never shown that much interest in seeing my body.

"You know this is our last night sharing a room" Whisper remarked as she got up walked over to me "We might not see each other again. At least not for a while".

She was right about. We'd have our own rooms should we never return to live at the Guild, but that wasn't a concern right now.

"I know" I replied.

Before I knew what was happening my hands rose to slide around her waist and then they were slipping down to give her pert ass a gentle squeeze. Then I was not so gentle when touched her, but she didn't seem to mind. She was hardly a delicate flower.

"Trousers off, farm boy, and sit on the bed" Whisper commanded.

With a smirk on my face I stepped back and began unbuckling the simple leather belt that kept my trousers up. Once the item of clothing was off I sat down on the bed as she had wanted me to, the sight made her grin.

"You do want these, don't you?" she asked me while touching her own breasts "Well I want to see you your chest too"

Normally I liked to be the one telling the woman what to, but I knew that Whisper was too stubborn to let me take over, and since this could be last chance I'd get to shag her I was happy to let her direct things, at least for now. So I took off my shirt.

She then did the same, she undid her apprentice tunic and she lifted it up while also turning away from me. I'd seen her breasts before, but that was only when she was undressing for bed or when she'd let me play with them in the woods. She never let me just look at them, but I knew that tonight would be an exception.

When she done Whisper turned around again, her arms and hands over her chest, covering her breasts so I was denied the view. She was going to let me see, but not just yet she wanted to see how eager I was.

"Poor farm boy" she teased before moving her arms "You're still so easy to mess with".

After letting me get an eye full she knelt beside the bed, and her hands moved to the bulge in my undergarments. She got my dick out within seconds which told me she eager too.

Then she started to give that part of me a rub. This was hardly the first time that Whisper had jerked me off, but until now she'd never gotten on her knees to do it. And I had a feeling she was going to do more this time.

I was right her lips parted and her tongue snaked out to curl around the tip of my cock. She did this a few times before giving my balls a quick and gentle squeeze.

"Unnh" I heard myself say.

Then she ran her tongue down the underside of my cock, from the tip to the base. Up and down, up and down her tongue went while licking the shaft. She seemed to be experimenting, trying to find out what would get a reaction from me.

When she got a good moan her lips parted and opened wide, her head came down, and Whisper's wet, warm mouth was now engulfing at least half of my manhood. She must have gotten some tips about this, or she practised on someone else as she rather skilled with her mouth.

She then pushed herself down further, taking more of my hardness into her mouth. Once she'd gotten used to the sensation she started sucking, lightly at first but also firmly the gentle suction was pleasing. Then she tried to take all my cock in her mouth, but that proved to much.

"Too big, can't get it all down…" she told me with a cough.

I hoped that she hadn't gone off giving a guy oral sex as that would be a crime to men everywhere.

"Are you all right?" I asked.

My concern seemed to amuse her more than anything else.

"You don't fool me, farm boy" she said "You just want me to stop now so you can get to the best part".

Given that she still had a hand at the base of my cock I was not going to disagree with her.

"No take your time" I said.

Rather than reply she started to jerk me off some more. She'd done that a lot since we started fooling around as she hadn't wanted to go further. I'd not been too bothered by that as all my training tired me out a lot and I knew not to try to force that sort of thing as we couldn't exactly not see each other should we fall out.

Without warning her mouth got to work again, she started to suck as much of my cock as she could take in, and her head started bobbing up and down. As for her hands, they were kept busy by massaging my balls. There were no words from me; only moaning, grunting, and some kind of gasping sounds. She sucked harder when I made noise as if she wanted to encourage me.

Only when I got close to climaxing did I speak and she totally ignored me when I spoke. But she was prepared she was already making swallowing noises when I ejaculated into her mouth.

I fell back onto the bed and even now I could feel Whisper's tongue licking me clean as if she wanted every drop of my cum inside her.

"The serving girls were right" she then said "Men really do like it when you swallow it all".

Well that explained how she'd known what to do. No doubt the female staff had given her all the details on how to make a guy happy.

"You know, if you're not tired, I could…return the favour" I offered.

That wasn't my thing either, but it would have been rude not to offer.

"Get some rest farm boy" she instructed "I want you inside me before you leave the Guild and your too drunk to go again".

I wasn't actually drunk to that degree, but she had a point so I laid down.

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I must have fallen asleep as when I woke up her arms were looped around my neck and my head was her chest. I didn't remember lying down like this. I didn't even remember her getting into bed with me.

"Are you awake?" Whisper then asked me.

Rather than say anything I kissed one of her nipples and then started sucking on it. As I did I felt her fingers run through hair my as she pressed my face into her tits. Since she wanted it I suckled greedily at her tit, while using a hand to play with the other breast.

"When I-ahh, after I become the Arena Champion, ohhh, you'll make a nice addition to my harem, farm boy" Whisper then said.

That stopped me because I had to laugh.

"A harem?" I asked "Do Heroes have harems?"

I'd never heard of that, but it wouldn't surprise me.

"Yeah if they get famous enough" she replied before making me a promise "If I make arena champion before you I'll let you been in mine"

I couldn't resist responding to that.

"But if I become arena champion first then you can be in mine" I offered.

We really did compete too much.

"Deal, Skywalker" she swore.

I knew that she would indeed join my harem if I beat her that way, but for now I wasn't going to worry about that sort of thing. Instead I laid back down on the bed, and then moved my head to her other breast. My mouth met her nipple and started sucking hungrily.

She cooed softly slide her fingers through my dark hair. Clearly she enjoyed this as much as I was and so when she made me stop I was rather surprised. I wasn't disappointed for long however as she had only made me cease so she could get fully undressed.

"Feast your eyes, short stuff" she said once she was naked

Her pussy was shaven, there was not a single black hair to be seen, and her slit glistening with wetness. Which meant that she had both planned and prepared for this night.

"Like what you see?" she asked me "Any man would"

We only had candle light, but that was more than enough for me.

"They would" I agreed.

Now her attitude had changed she seemed nervous, which was very much unlike her.

"Come on" she urged "be a man and take what you want"

When I moved to do just that she got her confidence back and one of her hands grabbed my dick and guided me inside her. Then I thrust forward and entered her fully.

"Fucking hell, farm boy, so…so big!" she called out.

I let her get used to me before starting to pound in and out of her hot, tight hole over and over and over again.

"That's it! Fuck me good, Skywalker!" she pretty much ordered of me "Yes! Harder!"

Upon hearing that I began really pounding my cock into her cunt, and she loved every second of it. I just kept going, ramming into her as hard as I could and it had to be a Hero power for her to take such a fucking without any signs of discomfort.

"Ahh! Yes, yes, farm boy" she shouted as she orgasmed.

I was still going at this point as I wasn't that close to my climax. So I know knew that all that nipple sucking must have really warmed her up.

"Your turn now" Whisper instructed "Cum for me!"

I decided to make her regret being so bossy. I continued to pound into her, faster and faster, only rather than tell me to slow down or even act as if it hurt she seemed to be enjoying herself. So I decided to do the sane thing and let myself cum.

Which I soon did. I shot my load right inside her as she held on to me very tightly. She didn't let go until I started getting soft inside her.

"Good job, farm boy." she said as she slid out from under me "Lie down. I'm going to go clean up."

This time I didn't mind that she was telling me what to do. I just laid there and waited until she got back into bed and then she shoved my head back into her chest. Her tits were soft so they made good pillows, despite not being that big and I soon went back to sleep.