The young girl awoke, a line of dried blood down her face accompanied by a gash from where she had been hit. A look of pain showed on her face as she pressed the tips of her finger against the wound for a second. Her eyes soon darted about, wondering where she was, where she was going, how she had gotten here and even who she was.
She was in a wagon with three other men, one of them being very old. One of the younger two saw that she had woken and quickly alerted the others.
"So she wakes then," The old man said, a gentle smile on his wrinkled face. "Well, ask her how she is feeling then. You did quite a mess on her temple Addi, clean it up and bandage it. I wont have her looking like she just saw battle in front of the others"
The one named Addi nodded and went to the young girls side. He looked familiar but she could not for the life of her figure out where she had seen him. The cloth he took out stung her skin, but eventually dulled down. He dabbed her face and quickly went to wrapping her head with a cloth. The girl did nothing but stay quiet. Addi went back by the other two his job done. He looked back and wondered why she was so collected and behaved, many in her place would be crying or trying to flee. She simply just sat there, not a word from her lips nor a look of sadness upon her face.
"Young one," The old man uttered "we will be entering the city shortly. You must not say a word as we will be discussing things of the utmost importance. Tell me your name, I must tell the others" The old man waited for the girls reply. She looked at him, a confusion on her face. She did not understand a word he was saying since she only knew her home language, nothing else.
"Se da?" She stated, asking what he had said. Although the old man just nodded, taking that as her name.
"Seda, That seems like a proud name" He stated, a look a happiness appearing subtly on his face as the wagon the three were in neared the proud city of London. Hopefully their friend would be in the meeting place today. There was business to attend to and without Theodore present there would be no business to attend to.
The girl looked out the side of the wagon, he eyes growing wide. Everything was new to her here and there were so many people just like herself all around, speaking that same strange language again. It seemed so strange, but at the same time she had a feeling she would get to know this place very well soon.
The wagon came to a halt, no more than ten minuets inwards, and arrived at a local pub. The two younger ones stepped out first, helping the older one get out soon after.
"Come now Seda," The old man said once out of the wagon. "Seda" could tell by how they had all left the wagon that she was to leave to. This language confused her like no other, but she had good common sense, enough to make it around with her three "companions".
All walked into the pub, the three men's' robes dragging softly across the floor. The old man went to the bartender and spoke softly. The old man raised his arm up and pulled his sleeve down, revealing a tattoo of a red and black dragon. The bartender nodded and led the group of four into a back room.
Seda looked quietly around her, keeping close to the one named Addi. She was somewhat scared by the looks of the men in the pub, although the other woman seemed to smack them for even looking. Seda did not look long though as they soon entered the back room, the door crashing behind them.
There was a man already in the room, long black hair and a hint of grey. He was dressed in a suit of metal and was obviously a warrior of some sorts by the looks of him.
"So you did make it after all then," The old man said a big grin on his face "Sir Theodore."
"I would not miss a visit with my old friend now would I, Antoni" He said with a grin painted across his face. The men both shook each others hand, and laughed a bit as they made jokes about ones aging.
"I would love to stay here joking about and catching up, But I really think you have better things to talk about Antoni." He said sitting down in a chair that was near him, pulling up another for his friend to sit in as they talked.
The old man sat down, thanking his friend once more for showing up on such short notice. "Really though, I did not even know if we would find them, The purebreds are a dieing race. Soon there wont be any who can destroy the dragons. We heard of a family in a tribe and went in search of it, I was not disappointed with what we heard from their leader."
"Is that girl back there part of that family?" Theodore questioned.
"Yes," Antoni said, "she is, one of the last purebred slayer alive in these lands. Our institution had fortune smiled upon us when we found her"
Sir Theodore Looked at her. She looked around the age of Gunther, his soon to be knight-in-training, but her eyes seemed cloudy and confused.
"How exactly did you get her to go with you three?" Theodore asked, a small look of worry coming to his face.
Antoni sighed softly, "We did what we needed to ensure the mission is completed."
"She looks content," Theodore observed, "Does she know what happened?"
Antoni looked back at the child and noticed that she was very quiet, she saw all the carnage of her village being destroyed along with her father being killed. The only thing he could infer was that she had lost her memories when she had been knocked out.
"I guess the child does not, She did answer me with her name though" The old man said, then realizing that she probably did not even remember that. "I do not think it is her name as I now think she does not know English. I will, along with the rest of our organization, be calling her Seda though"
"Seda," Theodore said, catching the attention of the girl next to the two younger members. "She speaks a language to the north of here then?"
Sir Theodore quickly got up and walked over to the girl, "Hello young one," he said in her language, "Can you tell me your name please?"
Antoni looked at Theodore, He always seemed to know everything about anything, even languages. The girl was even surprised that he seemed to know; this caused a chuckle to escape the lips of the old man.
"I do not know Sir, I do not remember it" Seda said, tears growing in her eyes for some reason unbeknownst to her. She wiped the clusters of salt water away from her eyes, she did not want to embarrass the old man and herself.
"Do you remember where you came from?" Theodore questioned.
"No, I only know about waking up today and my head hurting, I remember how to make the talk, but nothing else, everything is new to me" She said, a look of confusion slightly showing on her face as she kept wiping the tears away.
"Thank you child, Your name now is Seda, and you will have to listen to the old man over there very much to understand him. Stay as I go and talk with him some more Seda." Theodore said, patting the girl on the head as he walked back to his seat.
"Well then?" Antoni said.
"She remembers nothing before this morning," He said, sorry that the girl had lost all that she had before. "We will need her though, a dragon has appeared in the boundaries of my kingdom. I am unable to slay it as my family's blood in no longer that of a pureblood in me. I am afraid it will soon become known to the rest of my kingdom though." Theodore said, a look of worry across his face.
"I knew this would happen, They were not all gone from these lands as I suspected…We now have in our hands a purebred Slayer, I myself am to old to slay the beast. I will train her in the ways of slaying. Do you still have your sword with you?" Antoni asked.
Theodore sighed, "Sadly my family has had the unfortunate event of the sword breaking in the past, I myself was not around when this happened, but I am sure that it is of no use now"
"Well then," Antoni said, a grin on his face "You must not worry yourself, we have found four swords in the girls old village and many relics of the slayers that will work nicely."
Antoni stood up out of his chair, soon fallowed by Sir Theodore rising as well. They once again shook hands.
"I will have her ready to slay the beast soon Sir Theodore, though to do this right I must have her train for many years" Antoni said.
Theodore nodded, He was bound by his family to notify the Organization of a dragon. He himself would never slay one, but The consequences for his kingdom should he have kept quiet would have resulted in something horrible by the organization.
"Have he train with each sword for one year. When she is properly trained with each have her return to my kingdom. Almost forgot to mention, you might want to teach her English as well"
Antoni nodded, "I will make her a proper slayer yet, Until next time my friend" He said soon turning around and walking outside of the room, his two followers close behind him, softly nudging Seda outside with them.
Sir Theodore waved them off as they returned to their wagon and headed off into the distant, heading towards the training lands for slayers. Hopefully The dragon would not be spotted and reported to the king, hopefully this would all be over in four years time and a crisis of a Dragon in Kippernium would be entirely avoided.