I'm surprised at the response I have gotten over this story. I never believed that this would be so popular! I am humbled by it. So, because of the response I have decided that I should get the next chapter out as soon as I could. It has been difficult because of how busy my life is but I have some how managed to do it! SO without further ado, here is chapter three, and the disclaimers!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Viviane and her craziness. Everything is own by their respective owners.
What Happened last time...
I quickly strapped on the quiver to my back and thanked every divine being out there that I was the vice captain of my college's archery team. Pulling an arrow out of the quiver I notched it on my bow and pulled, ready to fire at the beast as soon as it solidified enough that the arrow would actually hurt the damn thing. A moment later I fired it.
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I hit the grey goop beast square in the face but that did not seem to faze it in the least. It seemed to glide aross the ice, it had no legs. Reaching back to the quiver that I had strapped to my back I pulled another arrow out and notched it while backing away from the damn thing. I slipped on the ice, landing on my ass causing me to drop onto my ass. Which was a good thing because the goop beast took a swipe at me with its claws and me landing on my ass allowed me to temperalily doge it. Scrambling back onto my feet I grabbed the arrow that I had dropped when I fell, notched it and fired at the damn thing. The arrow hit it right in the chest where its heart might have been but then again I do not know what its anatomy is like. That seemed to piss it off as it became more aggressive in its attacks towards me. I kept dodging swipe after swipe of its very sharp claws, narrowly missing me each time. Thank God for dodge ball in high school. I hopped backwards after one last swipe at me and fired off a third and hopefully final arrow at it, getting it in the face. Third times the charm for it promptly disintergrated back into a puddle of disolving goop. Silently thanking whatever divine being that I had the sense to join my college's archery team, not knowing at the time that I would need it like this of course. I had only joined because I needed a hobby to get me out of my apartment from time to time.
"Yay! The icky goop monster is dead!" I said in a childish voice, giddy from serviving the horrid incounter with the grey goop monster.
Cassandra turned and stomped towards me with her sword drawn and pointed right at me. It nearly made me piss myself, the bitch is scary. "Put your weapon down. Now."
"Yes ma'am!" I yelped as I immediately dropped both the bow and the quiver to the ground without arguement.
"Wait," Cassandra sheathed her sword, "You will need that bow. I cannot protect you." She turned and walked a bit away from me before turning back. "I should remember that you agreed to come willingly."
Without farther words I picked the bow and quicer back up off of the ground, putting the arrows that had fallen out of the quiver back in. I adjusted the strap of the quiver so that is fit me more comfortablly on my back before I slung the bowover my shoulder so that it rested against my back. Gesturing for Cassandra to lead the way she and I headed off back towards our original destination. There was no way I was going to lead, I am not going to get any closer to these monsters than I absolutely have to. There were a couple more fights with the grey goop monsters and a new green glow ghost torso thing. Thankfully the green gloowing ghost thing could be hurt by my arrows.
After that encounter I had to ask, "What are these things? Are they the demons from the Breach?"
"Yes, they are. They are shades and wisps. The weaker of the possible demons that we will be facing."
"Ah fuck my life," I mutter quietly to myself.
"Take these potions, Maker know what else we will be facing." Cassandra said as she handed me a pouch with these little vials with red colored liquid in them. Huh, must be health potions like in the video games. I tied the pouch to my belt for safe keeping.
We kept moving, up some stairs and along the dirt and snow cover pathway. As we went along we encounter a few more of the shades and wisps. Of course we had to kill them before moving onwards. I was getting better at taking out the wisps while Cassandra took care of the shades. This whole thing was starting to get annoying. There seemed to be a nearly endless supply of the damn things. I had to dodge a ball of green fire on more than one occasion as Cassandra and I moved along. Also on more than one occasion I tripped over rocks that were hidden in the freezing snow, gods above I hate cold weather. This was sucking so hard.
Just how far was this damn valley? Shiviering almost uncontrolably at this point despite the rather vigourus amount of exercise I have had, I glared at Casssandra's back as we jogged. I kept my mouth shut because I was damn scared of what the woman would do if I complianed even a little bit. 'My legs hurt bad god damn it. I should have join track all of this jogging is killing me.' I thought to myself, 'And what is with all of these damn stairs?'
"We're getting close to the Rift, you can hear the fighting." Cassandra said as we climbed up some pretty steep stairs.
"Who is fighting?" I asked not really wanting an answer.
"You'll see soon. We must help them"
Oh great and here I am trying not to die or hurt for that matter. I climbed the last few steps and followed the dirt path towards where I could hear the fighting coming from. I jumped down and fired an arrow at one of the shades that were attacking a group of soldiers. Cassandra charged at another two shades withher sword and shield drawn. I kept firing arrow after arrow at the damn things hoping I would have enough for this. I really did not want to run out of arrow in the middle of a fight with these things. They have sharp ass claws that probably are infected with some kind of bacteria that only exists in the demon world. One word for that; EW!
The last of the shades died revealing a rather short person with what looked to be an automatic crossbow or equalivant.
"Quickly! Before more come through!"
I was roughly grabed by some pointed eared, bald guy dressed like a hobo and had my right hand that had the strange green mark on shoved at the green glowing thing in the air slightly above our heads. There was a lot of pain like there was a colony of fire ants marching their way through the inside of my arm as tendrils of green energy shot out of my hand at, what I was assuming to be, the Rift. I was nearly on my knees by the time it stopped. The Rift was closed at least so that was good. I hope that means I can close the big one in the sky. I doubt it though.
"What the hell did you do you bald bastard! That hurt!" I nearly screamed as I clutched my poor abused right hand.
"I did nothing. The credit is yours."
"Well at least I can close the small ones, lets hope it works on the big one."
"Whatever magic opened the Breach in the sky also placed that mark upon your hand." The bald elven hobo said. "I theorized the mark might be able to close the Rifts that have opened in the Breach's wake - And it seems I was correct."
"So that was a bloody guess on your part? Oh great." I muttered to myself.
"Meaning it could also close the Breach itself." Cassandra added.
"But no guarantee right?" I sighed.
"It seems you hold the key to our salvation." the hobo elf said.
"Good to know! Here I thought we'd be ass-deep in demons forever." the short person added.
Hang on I know that My God... That is Varric! I began trying to keep my inner fan girl from coming out. I wanted to glomp the poor bastard.
"Varric Tethras: Rogue, storyteller and ocassionally un welco-" Varric was saying before I could no longer hold it in. I tackled him in a hug with a girly squeal of delight. "I am a huge fan!"
"See Seeker, I am wanted to come along."
"Very much so." I quipped. I had stepped back with a blush turning my face red. "I'm Viviane Redulte. Pleasure to meet you all."
"A stance I'm sure you'll reconsider in time." the bald hobo said.
"Aww. I;m sure we'll all become good friends in the valley, Chuckles." Varric said.
"Absolutely not! Your help is appreciated, Varric but ..." Cassandra started to say as she got up close and personal with Varric. Hey that is what I want to do...
"Have you been in the Valley lately Seeker? Your soldiers aren't in control anymore. You need me." Varric pointed out.
Cassandra grunt in disgust. I personally was quite happy with the situation. I get to fight alongside of the one and only Varric Tethras! It was almost like a dream come true, but then reality or its close cousin hit me in the face when I looked up at the sky. How the hell was I suppose to close something like that? It was extremely painful to close the smaller one, I do not want to know how much more painful it woul dbe to close something on that kind of scale.
"My name is Solas if there are to be introductions. I am pleased to see you still alive." the hobo now named, Solas said.
"He means, 'I kept that Mark from killing you while you slept.'" Varric commented,
"Oh well thank you for that I guess." I said, "I'll do what I can but I don't know if it'll close the Breach."
Solas nodded in acknowledgement before saying, "Cassandra, you should know: the magic involved here is unlike any I've ever seen. Your prisoner is no mage, in fact I find it difficult to imagine any mage having such power."
"Understood. We must get to the forward camp as soon as possible." Cassandra said as she walked away with Solas in tow.
"Well Bianca is excited," Varric said as he made to follow them.
They jumpped over a gap in the stone wall that we were beside. Great more walking. When will it end? I was crying on the inside over this. There were a couple more fights with the shades and wisps as we made our way quickly to the forward camp that Cassandra was eager to get to. I really was not, it meant that I was closer to having to face the Breach and I did not want to disappoint anyone. I pushed all of those thoughts from my head before I get someone killed because I was too distracted to fight properly. On the up side of things I was starting to get use to all the jogging and what not. We walked up yet another set of stairs.
"So..., are you innocent?" Varric asked me.
"To be honest I don't remember what happened. It's all kind of blurry." I admitted.
"That'll get yea every time. Should have spun a story."
"That's what you would have done." Cassandra chimed in.
"Its more believable and less prone to premature execution."
I chuckled at that. Sad but true, what Varric says anyway. We walked up a couple more flights of stairs before we saw some more demons blocking the pathway to the forward came. I was starting to run out of arrows. I was not sure if I was going to have enough arrows to make it to the forward camp. There were four shades and just as many wisps. One of the shades had a funny looking frill like thing on its head that made it stand out from the rest. It took longer to take down than the rest of the shades. I took care of the wisps that were further back. It only took about two to three arrows each to take them down.
"I hope Leliana made it through all this." Cassandra fretted.
"She's resourceful Seeker." Varric reassured.
"We'll see for our selves at the forward camp. We are almost there." Solas added.
Thank god or whatever that we were close, my legs were starting to cramp up painfully. We trudged along, or well mostly I did, and we came to yet another set of stairs. What the hell is up with all of these god forsaken stairs? Have people not heard of ramps or something? As we walked up the steps I started to hear sounds of people fighting the demon things.
"Another Rift!" Cassandra shouted.
"We must seal it quickly!" Solas
Well shit. There went any chance of me hearing things. And so the fighting began. This time there was a demon I have not seen before. Fat chance he is friendly.
Aaaand I'm going to leave here for now. Muwahahahahaha. Review would be nice cause it'd mean people are reading this and give a damn but its not needed. Anyway I hoped you enjoyed this chapter.
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