"Gwen? Are you awake yet?"
Gweniver groaned in annoyance while Zach continued to repeatedly poke her in the shoulder.
"Gwen? Hey, Gwen! I really need you to wake up now!" Zach paused for a moment as he saw Gweniver move slightly, pouting a bit when she didn't sit up. "Hey, Gwen!"
"What?!" She snapped, sitting up quickly on the grassy ground, knocking a surprised Zach backwards. "What do you want, Zach?!"
Zach pushed himself back up, smiling sheepishly towards Gweniver. "Morning!" He cheered happily before pointing over to the shabby door they had thrown up at the entrance to their make-shift dirt dwelling, "So, there's a thing outside, a big thing. I'm not really sure what the thing is but I think it wants in here..."
"A thing?" Gweniver asked, staring back at Zach for a moment in silence before dropping her forehead into the palm of her hand while muttering, "I gave you a sword for a reason, Zach. If it's a dangerous thing, kill it. If it's not dangerous, then who cares?"
"But...it looks like a gross thing! I don't know if a sword could even hit it!"
"Just go deal with it!" Gweniver ordered as she began digging through the black bag she kept at her side, ignoring the pouting whimpers from Zach as he hesitantly moved towards the door with his sword.
Gweniver calmed herself rather quickly as she searched through her bag, removing a few pieces of chicken and coal, placing them into the furnace before looking over some of her other random materials stored in the magical bag. She also removed her emerald colored sword and a few more torches before finally closing the bag.
As she took the cooked chicken from the furnace, Gweniver couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy as she realized it had grown just a tad too quiet.
"Zach?" She called, grabbing her sword and heading over to the door, "Zach, are you okay?"
Gweniver peeked out from behind the front door and instantly covered her masked mouth with her free hand in an attempt to stop herself from laughing as she spotted Zach attempting to wipe off the random splashes of green slime stuck to his hands and clothes.
"Gwen..." Zach groaned sadly, "The gross thing was really slimy..."
She could no longer stop herself. As Gweniver toppled over, holding her stomach from laughing so much, she gasped, "Zach, just..." Pausing for a moment to try to calm herself and catch her breath, Gweniver finally suggested, "Just go down to the Lake and wash it off. But yes, the gross thing was probably a Slime, and they are very slimy..." She began giggling again as Zach turned and headed down towards the Lake to wash up.
Once Zach returned, no longer covered in slime, Gweniver handed him a piece of the chicken while saying, "Here, breakfast. Now I was thinking, though the dirt walls work well enough to keep monsters and other creatures out, I would really like to have a roof over my head sooner rather than later with some walls built from something a bit more durable. Yesterday before I found you, I spotted a Volcano not far from here and I was thinking... What's wrong?" Gweniver turned to Zach who was currently staring at the piece of chicken in his hand as if it were the most terrifying thing he had ever seen.
"Zach?"
"Oh, sorry!" Zach snapped back to attention, flashing Gweniver the most awkwardly uncomfortable grin he had given her thus far. "I just, do you have any food that... that isn't, this?"
"That isn't... meat?" Gweniver asked, Zach nodding in response. "I'm not sure... hold on." She reached down to her bag, searching through it's contents once more, finally closing the bag and turning to Zach apologetically, "I'm sorry, Zach. I don't have anything else."
"It's fine, I'll find something. Thanks, Gwen." Zach handed the chicken back to Gweniver, that happy smile of his returning once more. "So, something about a Volcano? We're not moving into a Volcano, are we? That would be really hot, and probably dangerous, but mostly hot."
"No, we're not living in a Volcano. We're going to go dig up some of the Basalt from around the Volcano and bring it back here to build a proper place to stay in. Understand?" Gweniver explained, grinning under her mask as Zach slowly nodded. "Good. Now let's go."
"Gwen!"
"Watch out!" Gweniver yelled back at Zach, flinching as a Skeletons arrow nearly hit him.
The two continued running forward towards the light of the Volcano shining not far in the distance, attempting their best to avoid the arrows flying past their heads from the Skeletons currently chasing them through the forest.
Spotting a cluster of trees near the edge of the woods, Gweniver motioned for Zach to follow her as she broke away, rushing over to hide behind the trees, with Zach joining her seconds later.
"Why...are we stopping?" Zach managed to ask while trying to catch his breath.
Gweniver moved to the edge of the tree cluster, her sword gripped in one hand with her pickaxe tightly held in the other. She whispered back, "Get your sword ready and move to the other side of the trees to flank them."
"Oh...okay..." Zach cautiously slid to the side of the trees, waiting for Gweniver's signal.
Suddenly, one of the Skeletons appeared in front of Gweniver, though it's time was short lived as the mage brought her pickaxe up in an arc, smacking into the skull of her foe and knocking it to the side as she stepped forward with her sword, slicing it into a second Skeleton behind the first.
Zach managed to surprise one of the Skeletons, taking it out quickly enough with his own sword. Though any pride towards his victory was soon over shadowed as Zach found himself frozen in awe as he watched Gweniver shatter through two more Skeleton's skulls with her Dark Matter Pickaxe before bringing her sword around and slicing through a Zombie, finishing her assault by slamming her pickaxe into the back of a giant spider that had foolishly joined the fight.
Gweniver yanked her pickaxe out of the spider, kicking it's corpse aside while scanning the trees around them for any remaining enemies. Satisfied as she found no more threats, Gweniver turned to Zach, a bit shocked to find him staring back at her dumbfounded.
"Zach? Are you okay?" Gweniver asked, walking over to Zach and looking him over to see if he had gotten hurt only to find herself attempting to jump back as Zach leaped forward, grabbing her by the shoulders.
"That was awesome!" Zach exclaimed, smiling brightly with excitement. "You're amazing, Gwen!"
Gweniver instantly pull back from Zach, her cheeks darkening slightly above her mask as she walked past him and towards the Volcano while stating, "It..it was nothing. Come on, I don't see anymore monsters. Let's just mine up some Basalt and get back before that changes."
"Okay!" Zach cheered, running up next to Gweniver and looking around at the base of the Volcano as she pulled out her pickaxe, finally realizing something they had both overlooked. "Uh, Gwen? I don't have a pickaxe."
"That's fine. My Dark Matter Pickaxe will make short work of this. Just keep watch for monsters."
"Right!" Zach raced further up the side of the Volcano to get a better view of the surrounding area, scanning the edges of the surrounding forests for any movement before investigating the Volcano itself, making a discovering he could not stop himself from informing Gweniver about.
"Hey, Gwen! Gwen!" He called down to her, "This Volcano is tiny! It's like a baby Volcano! It's so cute!"
Author's Notes!
Hey guys! Luka here dropping a new fic!"The Darkhold Chronicles" is a collab fanfic series between myself and ShadowDragonia ( ) over on DeviantART
The Darkhold Chronicles is a genderswap fanfic based around The Blackrock Chronicles
Basically, Shadow will write one chapter and then I will write the other! I will be posting both sides on here since she doesn't have a FF. So, so follow her on DA if you have one! She also made the cover art so you guys should really show her some love :3