Theodore Paced his room, letter in hand. They were coming, and he knew they would be here any day now. A look of worry arose to his face as he realized the predicament he had placed himself in. Four years ago he had not known that his red-headed squire would find and befriend the dragon. Four years ago he only knew that the slayer they called "Seda" was going to be trained to kill the so called beast so that the kingdom would be safe and not alarmed when they realized a dragon lived in the kingdom. Obviously, he now had a problem that was soon going to cause something major in the kingdom.
"It wont be to long," He said, pacing his room, lost in his own thoughts and oblivious to the outside world around him.
Suddenly there was a voice from the door of his room which brought his mind back to reality.
"Sir Theodore," Gunther said, "Jane and Dragon are off somewhere now, I can not find them. Why do you need them so urgently though?"
"Sir Gunther, you do like to ask to many questions don't you," Theodore said, "Tell me though when they do come back to the castle, I must speak to Lady Jane immediately."
Gunther nodded and left Sir Theodore's quarters. He knew something was on his mind and from the many years that he had spent with Theodore he had learned that it was a good idea to leave himself to his own thoughts.
He walked about outside, going to the entrance of the castle to see if he could spot Jane and her giant laughing lizard in the distance. Ever since the two had become knights that year they had started to go to far off lands on various task for the kingdom. She was to return soon, though Theodore seemed like every second was a needle in his skin the way he was acting those past few days.
He looked down the path that led to the castles gate, to his surprise he saw something in the distance approaching. This shocked him as he was not informed of and visitors that were coming to the castle this day. Gunther got a better view of the object to notice that it was an old wagon filled with sacks and a few people. He quickly ran back to Sir Theodore's quarters to inform him of this.
"Sir, There is a wagon in the distance." He said, all to the dismay of Theodore. "Did you know anything of this Sir Theodore?"
"Yes, I did Gunther. Allow them passage into the castle and send them straight to my quarters, do you understand? Tell smithy to attend to their horses in the mean time." Sir Theodore stated, his voice cool and collected. On the inside though he was worried, more worried than he had been for many years.
"Right away, Sir" Gunther said, leaving immediately to go and fetch Smithy.
This was something strange to Gunther, He would have at least expected the members traveling in the wagon to have an audience with the king. Maybe they had been informed prior he kept thinking to himself, maybe He had just been left out of the loop. After all he was only eighteen and still one of the youngest people of power around here.
As he neared Smithy's workshop he could hear the hoof steps of the wagon grow closer.
"Smithy!" He yelled, not seeing him anywhere near, "Smithy, Get over here!"
"Alright, Sir Gunther, One moment" The blonde said, popping out from under one of his contraptions in the workshop. "What do you need?"
"I need you to attend to some visitors horses, they will be arriving any minuet and it would be nice if we did not keep them waiting now" Gunther said.
Smithy sighed softly and got up, some smudges of black on his cloths and cheek from the machine he had been working on. "Right then, lets go" He said as he made his way towards the gates, brushing the ash from his outfit a bit as he went along.
The two reached the gates just as the wagon rolled up to it. They could see what looked like an old man, a younger one and a girl around their age in the wagon.
"What is your business here?" Gunther asked.
"We are here to see the one named Theodore, I have business to attend to with him." Antoni said.
Gunther nodded and went to open the gates with the help of Smithy. The wagon quickly rolled inside the castles grounds. When it came to a halt, the younger of the two quickly jumped out before helping the older man out. Gunther could not help seeing that the girl had two swords on her back along with two on the side of her waist, if Gunther had not known any better he would have taken these travelers as assassins.
Once safely on the ground, Antoni walked over to the man in light armor. "Well now, I take it you are Gunther?"
"I take it you are right, how did you know though, I have never seen you before"
Antoni chuckled softly, "Me and Sir Theodore have known each other for quite some time, He mentioned you a few years back"
"That's funny he never mentioned you, despite the fact, he wishes to see you all now. I will have smithy take care of your wares and put your horse up in the mean time"
"I would rather him leave my wares alone, I will only be staying shortly , but if you must give the horse some water and food I would have no problem with that."
With that, Gunther led the trio away to Sir Theodore's quarters. Much to Gunthers surprise a big smile appeared on the face of Theodore; he never smiled around them genuinely and the sight of it was equal to that of seeing Jane genuinely quite around anyone.
"My, Sir Theodore, Things have not seemed to change with you!" Antoni said as he walked over, shaking his hand in greeting.
"The same goes for you then Antoni" Theodore said, his soft smile still on his face. "Sir Gunther, I would appreciate it greatly if you would please leave us here, we have private matters to attend to."
Gunther nodded and left the room as Theodore had wished, although he could not help the feeling that something odd was about with these three strangers.
The door shut behind Gunther softly and a silence entered the room for awhile.
"Well now," Antoni said, "It would seem that I have a proper slayer ready for your problem in this castle!"
Theodore's expression soon went from a joyful smile to that of a man who had just seen the grave. He lost himself in his worries before returning to reality. "You see," He said, "'The Problem', is now friends with a Knight in the castle, also 'The Problem' is known by the king and his kingdom as an ally to the throne and land"
Antoni looked at his friend with a look of disbelief, "You mean to tell me, you have had me train a Slayer only to have the problem that you yourself were supposed to fix, exposed to your kingdom! Do you have any Idea what you have done? Are you Mad! You have betrayed us, your own Family! You know what must be done now Theodore."
Theodore nodded, "I know, Antoni, I know."