The sixth chapter! YES!!
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Saura's POV
The next morning, I was happy to wake up on my own instead of being woken up by a certain pervert. But as I got into my squire's uniform while thinking this, he ran in and cried, "Sar! Master Torak says you need to meet him in the Castle Entryway! You're going on a mission!"
I brightened up at hearing this, as I had forgotten about my journey to Cogham, and joyfully dashed down the hall to the waiting Torak. I knew that I had to be vibrating with excitement as he said, "Sar, ixi raiders have invaded Cogham. Go to the Dining Hall and get Sir Harlag. He is the knight you will ride with."
As soon as he had stopped talking, I zoomed down the hallway to the right, and entered the room to the left at the end of it. In the Dining Hall, I saw Sir Harlag sitting at the end of a table, currently munching on a loaf of bread. I walked over to him and said, "Sir! Master Torak has ordered me to accompany you on the ride to Cogham!"
I knew that the guy wasn't going to help, but what I got was worse than I had thought.
"Go away, m'lady!" he barked without even looking at me, "Keep joking like that and you'll be punished."
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Excuse me, my dear sir, but I am the squire you are to ride with to Cogham, if you'll excuse me!" I declared. Suddenly, he sprayed his drink and looked at me with a crazy look, saying, "M'lady-" but stopped when he looked at me. Obviously, he was surprised at seeing me in a squire's uniform, telling the truth.
He shook his head, and began to talk again, "I don't know WHAT the knight sponsoring you was thinking, but it doesn't matter. I'm not done eating."
"But sir, Cogham is in trouble!" I argued. "That flyspeck of a town is always in trouble! Now, if all you're going to do is stand around, then get me some meat!" he retorted. I turned and made my way out of the hall. Angrily, I stomped into the Main Entryway to see King Altador there. He called to me, "Hello, young squiress, aren't you going to ride to Cogham soon?"
I shook my head, and replied, "Not until Sir Stuffs-His-Mean-Greedy-Glutton-Face is ready." "Mind your manners when talking about your superiors, squiress." He scolded. I looked him in the eye and quoted Tor, saying, "It's just that…while he eats and does nothing, innocent pets may be hurt or need help." "What would you do if your farm was under attack?" asked the king. "….I would go and try to save it as quickly as I could." I answered.
"Then what's stopping you now?"
I didn't say anything for a few seconds, and then smiled at him. "You're right. Thank you, Sir." He smiled back and nodded, and I took off out the door and towards Cogham.
Once on the path, it didn't take long for me to reach the ledges and cliffs that made me sure that I was getting closer to Cogham. I passed Motara's Motes and kept going past the Old Forgotten Mines. Soon enough, I spotted the bridge that led into the small village of Cogham. I ran across, made my way up the ledges, and I had reached it. The first thing I saw was an ixi raider chasing that white kau with blue hair.
I charged down towards them, but had to wait until they came back around. When they did, the raider saw me and let out a cry that sounded like he was saying, "Hau!" I let out my own war cry, which was, "Begone evil thing!" Yeah, I'd repeated that a few times when playing the game. Heheh.
I used the 3-point strike against him, then did it one more time before he fell over onto his side, letting out an, "Eugh!" sounding grunt. After applying a fire mote to my shield and armor, and putting a bubble mote on my sword, I ran around, taking out the three remaining ixis. Then, I climbed up the ledges to the Mayor's house and got rid of the last one.
The mayor, the yellow kacheek named Jurgin, came out of his home and greeted me nicely by saying, "Thank you for getting rid of those ixis-" he stopped, and cocked his head at me, then asked, "Are you a woman?" My lower right eyelid twitched and I explained, "Yes, mayor. I'm a female squire, the first to ever be. But enough of that, are there more of those dreaded ixis?" He nodded solemnly and told me, "Yes, many more. The only way to stop them from coming back is to defeat their Chief."
I couldn't imagine anyone looking more dejected than he did now, and I reassured him, "Mayor, I will go and take care of the Chief. Don't you worry." He looked at me, bewildered and said, "Aren't there more of you?!" I could have sworn that one of those anime sweat drops appeared on my head as I said, "Er, well, not now. I mean, I am the only one right now…but it doesn't matter! I can take care of it, like I said!" and before he could say anything more, I dashed off behind his house, over the bridge, and towards the Ixi Chieftain.
Normal POV
Saura made her way through the little cavern area and climbed up the ladder on the other side.Finally, she had arrived in the mountains of Cogham. She inhaled, then exhaled slowly, and began. She had crossed only a few bridges, and grabbed that pulsing seed pod that would help Elspeth's plants, when something whizzed dangerously close to her head. She gasped and turned, seeing the ixi archer raider fitting another arrow into his bow string.
She leaped down from the ledge she had been on, and rushed at the ixi. He fired the arrow, and it narrowly missed the yellow lupe. She reached him, and was about to swing at him with Squire Squiggle, when he jumped up, turned in the air, and kicked the heck out of her head.
Saura was knocked backwards, ready to steady herself once she hit the ground…………………..but she didn't hit anything solid. She kept falling backwards, backwards, backwards. It seemed to all go in slow motion to poor Saura, and she realized that she was falling off the cliff! Down, down she went, her feet leaving the ground and air rushing up past her head. The last thing she saw was the ixi archer's triumphant face leering down at her as she plummeted down the canyon. She shut her eyes and screamed, her scream echoing throughout the canyon walls.
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Saura: So….am I going to die?
Me: Maybe, maybe not. Sorry that the chapter was so short, but I thought that I should update soon. I'll be putting a bigger chapter up next. Please review!