If anyone is wondering Mr. Golden Rabbit is the result of Coffee! From Will! Please note, there IS a reason for the period!
Chapter 12
Walk.
The waves lapped at the shore, washing up the small, charred remains of a ship. Carter moaned as he rolled onto shore, the salty water tasting foul in his mouth. He let out a moan again before releasing the wet blob in his arms.
The blob coughed up some water before crawling away from him nad laying down in the sand. Something in between a snort and a gag emitted out of the Ranger, before the blob threw a piece of driftwood at him.
"Well, this sucks, don't yay think?" He sighed, rolling over onto his back.
"Shut up. Where are we anyway? It's too cold to stay out here for long without a fire going." The blob replied.
"Well June, it comes from being soaked to the bone because a certain asshole I know shot a flaming arrow at me." Carter said, throwing off his cloak.
Carter then wrapped the still wet cloak around June and looked around. They were on the other side of the shore, that's for sure, but where is Will? That and where was his backpack he had on? Almost as if God had answered his question, a small leather bag came floating across the strait attached to a log.
"I am so getting that." Carter mumbled, stripping down to his boxers before jumping in after his backpack.
"Master! What the heck! You freaking perverted monkey! Why are you stripping in front of me?" June yelled, blushing.
Carter didn't answer as he swam after the log steadily floating towards open water. As he reached it he yanked the pack off and looked down. Instantly wishing he didn't he swam faster than before, a small jet of water shooting out behind him.
"Oh God please help me! I'm too young to die by shark! I have so many things I want to quote and foods I want to eat!" Carter yelled, throwing the pack somehow onto shore.
June sweatdropped and muttered "It's it sights I want to see and things I want to do?"
Carter suddenly went under, causing a certain person to start worrying. As soon as it happened, he reappeared, his mouth suddenly full with something. June raised an eyebrow as he came on shore, drying off somewhat with his cloak before dressing again. He then spit out what he had in his mouth. June screamed as he washed out his mouth with salt water.
"What? It's just shark meat? Granted it's not cooked but its still meat." Carter said like it was nothing.
"You chased away a shark by biting it! What the heck! That's so ridiculous it shouldn't have worked! I mean what type of idiot dives in to fight a shark with a plan of biting it!" June said as Carter crumpled.
She rushed over to him and noticed a large mark on his leg. He smiled winching as he moved it to a more comfortable position. She sighed and looked at him. In response he shrugged.
"You're such an idiot." June muttered.
"June, you need to be aware of your surroundings even in times of worry. Such as Carter getting bitten by an eight foot shark." A voice stated behind them. Causing June to jump ten feet in the air.
"Will! You scared the sh-crap out of me!" June said.
Will smiled before walking over to Carter, shaking his head. "First you get stabbed by your apprentice and now you get bitten by a shark. And several burns from the boat. You're such an idiot." Will sighed, pulling out a roll of bandages and tape.
"I'm not an idiot I'm just- YyyyOOOWWW- Not so dam tight Will!" Carter yelled as Will tighted on of his now many bandages.
"Did you just swear?" Will asked.
"…Well…ah…screw it, RUN!" He yelled, racing off towards the mainland.
"Rejection!" Will smiled as Tug moved into his way.
Carter gave a resounding thump as he was close lined by a horse and rolled back down to the others, cradling his now bleeding nose. Will sighed before pulling out gauze again and going to work again.
"You're going to kill yourself if you do this anymore." June said, shaking her head.
"Hey! It was a shark! And besides, he bite me first!" Carter stuck out his tongue.
"Real mature perv." June stated, glaring at him.
"So! I'm not the one looking like a courier in see-through clothes! And At least I have something to show!" Carter smiled, flexing.
"Hey!" June yelped, covering herself. "I'm not the one who looked!"
"Yeah right, you were staring at me the whole freakin time I was swimming, checking me out. I swear, If I didn't know better you might have fallen in love with a sexy man like me!" Carter smiled, flexing and posing again.
"Yup, just like a young couple." Will muttered.
"Shut the hell up!" The two yelled.
"Oi! I'm just saying and don't you think we should be going to the castle yet?" Will stated.
"Fine!" Carter snapped, setting off to find where Will led Smoke.
They arrived an hour later and where immediately welcomed in with smiling faces and waves. Carter shifted uneasily as he rode by the crowds and Will slowed down to give him a reassuring pat on the back.
"Let's go, he doesn't like the crowds." Will whispered to June who nodded and sped up.
They reached the doors to the castle nad dismounted, letting their reins drop. Carter hobbled slightly from his injured leg, but kept walking without support. As they entered, they were quickly directed to the main room, used for banquets.
A fat man at the end of the table greeted them, smiling. Will waved as Carter seated himself mid-way on the table. June sat beside him, poking him repeatedly. He chose to ignore this as the man began explaining the situation.
"Well, you see very night for the past week two or three soldiers would disappear. The first time this happened, we sent out a patrol looking for them. Half an hour later we found their bodies on pikes in front of the castle. We have assumed that the others are all dead as well. Several other town regiments have sustained losses as well, but we just don't know what to do! So we filed a report asking for a Ranger's help solving this problem." The fat man explained.
"You also seem to have problems with the patrols along the coast. The ship we were on was attacked a sunk." Will commented.
"It was! H no, that's the third patrol that been hit today!" The fat man freighted.
"Don't worry Humpty Dumpty, well solve the problem." Carter said, waving it off.
"I hope you do. I've lost quite a lot of men this week to an enemy we cannot catch or see." The man replied.
"Come on everyone, let's get some rest, it's been an odd day." Will said, leading the way out of the castle. "I used to be stationed here, so I know the castle pretty well." He smiled, finding two bedrooms empty. Gesturing June into one and pulling Carter into the other.
Carter rolled his eyes as he pulled out his bedroll and flopped down on it, forgoing the bed. Will raised an eyebrow, but didn't comment as he laid down on it. They all went to sleep fairly quickly.
Alright, everyone's asleep, time to go. He thought, pulling on black attire.
He quietly crept out of the room as to not disturb the sleeping coffeeist and crept down the hall silently. Then seeing that he was clear, raced do the stairs with the same quickness and stealth. A guard past him with a yawn as he hid in the shadow of a stuffed bear.
As soon as the guard was out of sight he stalked around the castle and out the doors, towards the gates. He silently climbed them, distracting the guard with a simple pebble before jumping over the wall and slipping into the forest.
There two armed men grabbed him roughly by the arms and led him to a simple campground. Only seven men were there, the other four were hunting guards again. On older man with messy black hair with streaks of gray smiled at him.
He was roughly five ten wearing the same black attire he had on. Except he had a longsword slung across his back and a crossbow over it. Then there was the matter of the five throwing knives in his belt, the dagger, the shortsword and the knife in his boot. All in all, he was a well-armed man.
"Hello father." The shadow said, flipping off his hood.
"Ah, Carter my boy, so glad you could come. I would meet you in the castle but I didn't want any blood on my boots." The man smiled.
"Leave here." Carter growled, throwing off the cloak completely.
"You know the deal, If you can beat me I'll leave." HE answered, unsheathing the longsword.
"Okay, fine, so this time, how about hand-to-hand combat instead of swords. Besides, weapons are bulky and restrict my movement." Carter said, cracking his knuckles.
"Very well." Carter's father answered, tossing the longsword and everything else onto the ground.
As other men made a simple circle and cleared it out of rocks nad anything else that could be used as a weapon. Carter stepped in, bouncing on his balls of his feet as his father father smiled, his yellow teeth gleaming in the fires light.
"Start." Someone said almost lazily.
Carter charged straight in, blocking his father's punch and throwing him into the ground. He rolled over and hopped nimbly onto his feet before faking a left and nailing Carter square in the nose. Carter gave a grunt and realigned his nose to heal properly before flipping onto his feet and spin kicking his dad, then while he was falling he flipped once more and slamming his spinning foot into his dad's chest.
"Why are you so obsessed with killing me?" Carter growled, bending down towards the mans face.
"Because it's the only thing that's any fun!" He cackled, grabbing the back of Carter's head and ramming it into the ground.
"Hey sonny, how bout we make this more interesting, you win you keep it. I win I get to kill it." He smiled, gesturing at the boys.
"What?" Carter raised an eyebrow, looking around and at the men as they used torchlight to light a slim, feminine figure.
It was June, still dressed in her Ranger's outfit. She was out cold and probably wouldn't be waking up anytime soon. Carter's eyes lit up in anger as he glared at his father.
"Let her go, she has nothing to do with this." Carter growled.
"Of course she does! She socializes with you. She follows you, she knows you dam name. So she has EVERYTHING to do with this." He smiled again.
"…"Carter mumbled,, clenching his fist.
"Come again? I couldn't here that surrender." He said, cupping a hand over his ear.
"I said, GO TO HELL ASSHOLE!" Carter roared, grabbing his father by the back of the head nad slamming it into a nearby tree out of the circle. "Die and get your ass to hell so Satan can suck out your soul." He growled, slamming his head into the tree again, this time making a dent in the smooth trunk.
He collapsed on the ground, blood streaming down his forehead as he went unconscious. Carter grabbed the longsword and flicked the sheath off and into one of the seven trained killers by June. Not to mention rapists.
Carter growled and hurled the sword point first into ones skull. They took a half step back from the man as Carter flashed up, already pulling the sword out and whipping the blade across somebody's face. June gave a light groan as blood splashed on her pants.
Carter jumped off the dead man's chest, and kicking a man's neck hard enough to break it. Then before he hit the ground he blade buried the blade into a man's chest, carving out his heart. The last three exchanged looks before sprinting off into the forest. Carter snarled and took off after them and dropkicked tow into the dirt, knocking them out before he took a fallen branch and just like his spear mast had taught him planted his front foot, and snapped his hips around, hurtling the branch thirty feet into the man's chest.
Carter then walked back to the two unconscious me and snapped both their neck in one fluid motion before coming back over to June. He took one of his father's knives nad cut her down before slinging her over his shoulder.
He looked down at his once again blood-soaked uniform and said, "Now that I think about it, last time it was this red was because I go into a fight with a hog…" Then he stalked off towards the castle, scaring the guards out of their wits from the blood soaked Grim Reaper knocking at the gate.
Will opened one eye as Carter entered, carrying June and ,deciding it was a dream went back to sleep. Carter looked distastefully at his red and sticky clothes and stripped out of them, and instead, put on simply cargo pants and a white T-shirt. Then he threw June on the extra bed and fell asleep.
In the morning he regretted saving her.
"Your freaking perverted pig! You snuck into my room to kidnap me! If I didn't know anybetter YOU'RE THE killer of those soldiers!" June screamed.
"Shut up! Beside, I took care of the problem." Carter said, brushing the hair out of his eyes.
"How, when, and I need proof." Will snapped, making coffee.
"How, with my bare hands, when, everyone was asleep, proof…look in that basket." Carter pointed.
Will looked an pulled out a heavily blood stained uniform. Will nodded, then said, "WHO DID YOU MURDER!"
"I'll show you." Carter answered, walking out the door.
Shrugging the others followed Carter to an abandoned camp site littered with blood, bodies and a small dirt circle in the middle by a bloodied tree. Carter sat down on a stool as June and Will inspected the damage.
"Carter, who are these people? And what the heck did you do!" Will shouted.
"oh, these are my father's men and my father was here… that's his blood on the tree. And then this guy I threw a sword into his skull, I cut his head in half, O snapped three people's neck, and speared two in the heart…yeah, that should be it… yeha that's it." Carter said, counting on his fingers.
"And this explains why I was in your room how?" June asked.
"You, were tied up to that tree," Carter pointed to her wrist and the tree, "And I kicked some butt and saved you." He smirked.
"What would have happened if you hadn't saved me?" June asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh…um…..you'd probably be raped, tortured and the killed." Carter said, uneasily.
"That's nice to know, these are your fathers men right?" June asked.
"Uh… yes?" He answered, and then was slapped in the face.
"So now what do we do?" Will asked, "they know where to find you."
"Simple, we walk forward, don't look back and keep on moving. We walk forward. It's that simple, we get better and then when he comes here again, I'll kick his ass again!" Carter shouted, fist pumping.
"You just swore, but very nice speech," Will smiled before pegging him with a coffee mug.
"So, what are we waiting for? Let's WALK!" June shouted, excited.
Okay! Done! Carter's happy since it was long nad he got to have a fight. Personally he might have gone overboard. "Go away." Bye now!