Eredos' POV

Do you know what I notice on our way back? As Leonard and I walk, Yulie gets a ride from the beastwain. I turned to Leonard and see that he is dead tired from all the walking. I guess he doesn't travel much. The path back to Balandor wasn't as hard as I thought. Maybe it was easier because we got a good archer watching out backs. We were able to move at a steady pace and haven't stopped yet. It was late afternoon so I'm gonna bet that Rapacci will kill us later, mostly Leonard. Well time to kill the silence.

"So Yulie how long have you used the bow?" I asked

Yulie looks down at me with a smile "Since I was little. My foster parents taught me how to use it."

"You're adopted?"

"Yulie and I are both taken in by someone else. We never met our real parents. What about you?" Leonard cut into the conversation.

I hesitated for a second, unsure on whether or not to trust them "I still have my parents but I haven't seen them for a long time."

"Well I think we don't need them anymore. We're grown adults that can take care of ourselves." Leonard said proudly.

"Except for you Leonard" Yulie and I said at the same time.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"

"You just learned how to fight remember." I said

"Hey I know some magic as well. I didn't use it on you that time because I didn't want to show off."

"You only know how to shoot a fireball and to heal yourself." Yulie said laughing

I started laughing as well. Can't help it when someone talk proudly when almost everyone in the world knows how to do that as well. Leonard just stared at me with an angry look in his eye. After about an hour or so of talking, we were almost at the gate. Something felt odd though. I turned to Leonard and by the look in his eyes, he feels the same thing too.

"Raus stop moving. Something feels odd." I said

"What is it?" Yulie asks

"Whats wrong, Chief?" Raus asks

I closed my eyes to focus on my other senses "I can hear rumbling and can feel something quake. Something is coming."

The three of us got our weapons out as Raus moved back a little. You can hear stomping coming closer and closer with every second that passes by. I was able to spot something brown on the other side of that ridge. The creature was humongous. It was green with leather and giant feather as armor. It wielded a large club. It was a Sylvan Savage commonly known as a troll and it was headed straight for us. The beast behind us yelled in fear and stepped back a little more.

"Dammit! It must have smelled the wine!" Leonard yelled

"Oh no! What do we do, Chief?" Raus said in fear

"Simple, we fight!" I said as we got into our stances.

Normal POV

Leonard and Eredos charged at the giant as Yulie stood back, readying her arrows. She got a few shots off put it just seems like she was hitting him with toothpicks. Leonard and Eredos started slashing his legs but it barely does any damage. It barely recognized what we did and just started running toward Raus. Realizing what's going on, Eredos changed his sword into a spear and ran to the troll. The spear was black with a trident like tip. With all his might he jumped on the giant's back and stabbed it with the spear to his hold his place. The troll yelled out in pain as it turned to face Yulie and Leonard who were charging their magic. Leonard let out a blast of fire to the troll's face. It made the troll drop his club and held his face. Eredos jumped off and saw what Yulie was trying to do and did the same. He changed his spear into a bow. The bow was a curved black bow with red marks. Yulie's arrow turned white and shot it to the sky. Eredos' arrows turned black and did the same as Yulie. When the two arrows came close, the energy shot out of the arrows and turned into hundreds of arrows. It did significant damage to the troll but wasn't enough to end him. Eredos turned the bow back to his sword and saw an opening on his leg. Leonard spotted it too the two ran up to the troll and stabbed its knees. The troll yelled in pain and fell backwards. The ground shook once the troll had fallen. The trio came closer to the troll and did tons of damage on him. It still wasn't enough. The troll got up again and started swinging his club around. Leonard and Yulie went down as Eredos stood his ground. I casted a healing spell on the two but it'll take time before they can get back up. Eredos summoned a black shield. It was large circular black shield, with the same markings on his hands on the front. Leonard and Yulie got up fully healed and see Eredos getting bashed by the troll. The troll repeatedly hit Eredos' shield causing him to go to one knee. Leonard tried to charge at the monster and slash at his legs. Yulie sees an opening at the giants face. She charged her arrow with fire magic and shot the troll in the eye. The troll yelled out in pain as it held its face again. Eredos saw an opening and brought out his sword again. Eredos charged his sword with wind magic and created a vortex of slashes aimed straight for the trolls head. The troll fell once again and has not gotten up. The trio and Raus regrouped. No one was seriously injured except for Eredos, who was holding his arm where he had the shield.

"Hey man. Your arm is pretty beat up you need to heal it quickly." Leonard said as he examined the arm.

"I would but I'm seriously worn out from that fight" Eredos said "not really though I just want a ride on the wagon" he thought. "I'll just stay on the wagon the rest of the way there."

"Yeah, sure just rest up man." Leonard replied

The rest of the ride to Balandor was a quit one.

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