All right everyone here's the part of the quest for the fourth gem
(day time) somewhere where there's trees
Lief and cal are seen relaxing by sitting under a tree and napping "hey lief cal" barda said this woke both of them up. Apples were thrown at them and they caught them barda said "they're really good try one" while eating an apple lief started to eat apple but cal decide to hold off.
Jasmine carried mor apples said "those trees over there complaining they had too much fruit on them so I figured we could help them out by eating some of it". A voice shouted "thieves" it belong to a woman she was white skin with red hair and green eyes she was half the size of jasmine wraped in a sickly purple, red cloak.
"Bunch of vagabonds give me back my apples give them back right now" the lady said, extending her arm, revealing she's wearing a green dress and have purple shoes. Lief got up said "sorry we didn't know they belonged to anyone" barda said "I guess it's our mistake" the lady said "well know you know and you better give them back to me before I get really angry". She then took all the apples counted them "where are the other four i'll have them all back every last one of them" she said cal said "I have it right here here you go ma'am" while tossing he's uneaten apple back to her she said to him "thank you".
Lady said "they must all be accounted for every single apple or I'll never be able to fill out my quota that means if you stole 10 apples I want 10 apples back". Barda said "sorry but we're not gonna be able to give all ten of them back all that's left of three of them are these cores" then held up his apple core with the rest of them. Lief said "you gotta understand it's just that we're really hungry so we ate them sorry" lady said "you say you ate them" that made her mad and she lifted a part of her cloak, and a swarm of honeybees came out.
The swarm was up in the air "you thought I was all alone didn't you, you figured it was easy to steal from a little old lady my guards are small, but many andact as one at my command now you will suffer 1000 stings for what you have done" lady said. Lief said "wait we can explain" jasmine said "here take these" while she tossed out a handful of bronze, silver and gold coins they landed on the ground in between them. This caused the lady to gasp and bend down to grab them while saying "if you got money why are you stealing my apples?" While she gathered the coins.
Barda said "hold on you're not gonna take all that all of that are you?, that's too much for three apples" and the bees started to swarm around his head he stayed still. Lady said "you keep quiet and no sudden movements you see it doesn't take much to make my bee soldiers, angry, why even I have to use smoke to calm them down when I take, honey from their glorious hive". Lief said "smoke controls them?" Lady got up opened a part of her cloak while saying "you may come home now my brave little guards" and the bees returned inside her cloak.
Lady said "let this be a lesson to you and all your Vagabon friends" and she started to walk away barda said "man that was even scarier than crossing the broad river". She then stopped and turned her head to look at them "whats wrong what did I say?" Barda said "from the looks of it I take it the four of you have come from somewhere far away I wish you good luck on your journey" last said. Lief said "oh well thank you" she the turned around while saying "now get out of here!".
Everyone started to leave except for cal the lady said "so you haven't learned your lesson and fully have you do you wanna get sting?". Cal raised his hands said "calm down i'm unarmed I pose no threat ma'am name is cal" this caused the lady to relax "what a polite young man cal my name is Queen Bee what can I do for you?". Cal answered "well queen bee I would like to buy a dozen of your best apples in a big sack".
Queen Bee said "well that's a mighty big order do you have the money to pay for it?" Cal answere "yes". He than said "baggy coin pouch please" and she gave it to him he opened it and reached a good amount "I will give you four gold coins, four silver coins and four copper coins for a dozen of your best apples in a sack". Queen Bee smiled took the payment and said "come with me I'll give you the sack and help you pick some of my best apples". Cal said put the pouch back in baggy while walking with her "thank you ma'am, and I must say you do very well homemaking in this apple, orchard her and taking care of your bees" she smiled while they walked "thank you so much for the compliment" queen bee said.
(day time) others are in front of a sign reading it
Everyone in the group minus cal read the hectagon sign it said in green black and red words (Queen Bee Nectar the champion's choice made from 100% tree aged cider apples no entry without permission. Barda said "wow queen bee nectar all of us guards used to drink queen bee back at the palace I remember it gives quite a jolt of energy if you're feeling tired, so this is were it comes from and that must've been queen bee herself". Jasmime said "hey wheres cal wasn't he with us a few minutes ago?" Lief said looking around "I don't see him anywhere"
Then barada looked through the orchard entrance frame said "there he is" then they all saw him power walk with a big sack in his hands. He headed to them then stopped in frobt of them "whats in that sack cal?" Lief said "a dozen apples I bought from queen bee" cal said.
Barda said "how come you get a buy that yet she was mad at us?" Cal said "two reasons one I didn't eat the apple you gave me right away It seemed well taken care of, two I asked politely and gave her a fair amount". With that cal said "hatter could you put these inside you please" hatter agreed and jumped of his head onto the bag and began swallowing it up after cal grabbed two of the apples and ate thenonce hatter was done he jumped back on to cal's head. "Come one everybody we got to get going" cal said and they all walked away from the Apple Orchard when he finish with the apples, he ate he threw the two cars to hatter and he gobbled them up.
(day time) some where
We see a bunch of people, walking forward, a man on a cart that was pulled by two green mudlets "faster we're gonna be the first ones there honey bunch" a man said while whipping a horse. A man said "how long is it gonna take us anyway?" man answered "don't tell me you're tired" a man said "i'm so hungry" the guy next to him said "once we get to rithmier we'll eat like kings". Our group looked between two trees "is it me or is everyone going in the same direction" jasmine said "ya your right jasmine and we've gotta go that way too Rithmere is on the way to the shifting sands" lief said.
Barda said "I think maybe we should go into town" cal added "agreed there are a few things I need to pick up with this half of the money I've got left". Jasmine said "what really" barda said "we won't stand out as much there and might even be able to make some money" jasmine said "make money?". Barda said "we'll need some more cus you gave all we have left to that old lady" cal said "you know I could give you guy a six gold coins if you like".
A voice said "step right up folks anyone interested in a little cash before getting to rithmere" barda/jasmine said "what did he just say?". While the guy was muttering words in a sentence our group walk to an even bigger group "whats going on?" Jasmines said while cutting through the crowd. When she got through she saw it was a spinner wheel with multiple numbers and a bird picture on it with a bird on top "a bird?" Jasmine said then kree landed on her head.
The man talking is ferdinand he wears a black shirt and black hat, have a black mustache and black long hair said "ladies and gentlemen we have a player a bird lover, girl after my own heart how would you like to win some money, huh". Jasmine said "no thanks I don't wanna play your game besides I'm pretty sure I don't have enough money all I got left is this one coin" ferdinand said "no no that fine silver coin will get you in the game and that is where you wanna be".
"What for?" Jasmine said and ferdinand said "well what if I told you you could turn that lonely silver coin of yours into 5 or even 10 silver coins". This caused everyone to gasp "you heard me right folks tow things i never lie about and that's money and money" ferdinand said. He points to the wheel says "put a coin on any number if the arrow lands there that's how many he coins you win so easy your grandma could do it and believe me if she were her here she would" points to the bird symbol "but what if the arrow lands here you're asking you win this beautifully hand carved bird" Ferdinand finished.
He placed the bird on the dial "let me make you rich all you have to do is beat the bird to win big" Ferdinand said while a white dove flew on the game board and spin it. "Look at that this bird is spinning the wheel" someone said "huh if I played, I would've picked number four" jasmine said and the dial landed on the four. Ferdinand said "oh my look at that, that was a quadruple if you had made that wager I would've lost four silver coins" this caused everyone to be surprised and amazed "I guess you should've bet huh" lief said.
Ferdinand said "but there's no reason to stop at four if you think about it, no way you can get 5,6 or even 10 times what you bet now couldn't you" this caused everyone to be happy and amused. Man says "hey I'm gonna give it a try"placed coins on table "i'm going five" some one else said "put mine on 10". Lief said "hey barda what do you say we play" barda looked at him "ya why not" jasmine says then looks at his silver coin "I suppose one coin isn't enough of feed us all anyway".
The dial spin again and the participant lost "oh that hurts there you go my godd man another lucky winner don't you give me that innocent look bird brain do you wanna put us out of business?!" Ferdinand said to the participant and his bird. Jasmine laughed "you really think we should play" barda said "I don't know what do you wanna do" lief said "let's just watch a bit longer" barda said. Filli poped out on jasmines shoulder "are you hungry filli hang on we're going to get something to eat soon" jasmine said.
Then filli dropped of her shoulder looked around and slithered under the table while Ferdinand says to others that he lost filli saw ferdinands foot on a metal lever connected to the dial indicating that this game is fixed. Ferdinand said "you just won yourself a wonderful carving of my amazing bird" man says "all right this time it's gonna stop on 10 come on make it happen" barda said "come on lady luck make it 10" placed the coin on the table. Cal was suspicious of this whole gambling game "guys I don't think this is a very good idea" he said and the dial began spinning.
Ferdinand said " around around on the wheel she spins you are the bird let's see who wins" then after 30 seconds he pulled the lever with his foot "when it stops, only the bird knows" he said and it landed on the bird symbol. "Oh that's most unusual it seems the marvelous bird has won once again" ferdinand said everyone was disappointed they lost " well you can't win them all" jasmine said. Ferdinand said "you haven't lost you won a beautiful wooden birdie, cheap cheap" while he was giving Jasmine a wooden bird "all right let's get out of here" barda said as he and lief began walking away.
Jasmine walked with them while saying "you're right" cal said "I can't put my finger on it but something doesn't feel right about this". Ferdinand said "now this is your last chance for today my bird wants to move on soon" while they were walking away from the stand "wait you gotta give me a chance to win what I just lost" man said "my wife will have me sleeping in the barn for a month". Jasmine realized filli isn't with them "hey filli" she said filli was nibbling on something under the tablecloth and near Ferdinand's feet "okay everyone this is your last chance round and round we go" the birds spin the dial again.
Jasmine shouted "filli come on" and filli jumped to their direction, causing the dial table to tip over revealing Ferdinand has been scamming everyone. This shocked and upset everyone "hes a con man" someone said "that's scoundrel he just stole our money he was controlling the wheel the whole time" man said "get the bird he was in on it too" and they all charge and started to collect their money. Ferdinand had ran away from the scene and everyone was starting to fight over the money "that guy sure got a lot of nerve" jasmine said.
Cal said "I told you guys there was something wrong about this whole thing" and when jasmine walked coins, appeared in front of her and everyone swarm to get them. "Well he got what was coming to him" lier said as he and barda walked of cal managed to get bardas silver coin and would return to him when they got to town.
(day time) Rithmere town
We see the town of rithmere look like a very nice town even had a small castle in the center of the city the whole place was lively merchants, selling stuff to customers. Our group walked in this place "I wonder what they're celebrating?" Lief said "everyone so happy" jasmine said. Cal said "by the way Barda heres the silver coin you were scammed out of" while flipping it to him "thank you cal" barda said.
A woman with brown hair, with a yellow sleeveless short dress with sleeves of yellow fabirc on her forearms was performing for an audience doing yoga like movements. She showed how flexible she was it amazed everyone, everyone was clapping, and while our group was walking by she winked at lief this caused him to blush. She was done performing. She held out us a plate bowl as she was asking for payment of her performance and everyone tossed coins to her.
Next we see a man biting down on a piece of wood, breaking it in two this man had a white skin face with black hair was stuck out most for him was that his arms were brown and furry. He also wore black shirt with a small jacket on them or green pants held together with a black belt he was laughing because he did what he wanted with the wood. Everyone was watching him even our group "that's one way to make firewood" barda said "and another to get fiber in the body" cal added "it gives me the creeps" jasmine said as they walked away.
They had looked through the entire city "I don't think we're gonna make any money here which means we can't buy food" lief said. Jasmine said "hey don't tell me that I get mean when I'm hungry" then kree flew by her side "well broke we can't buy anything" lief said. Barda said "wait a minute look at that" while pointing forward they all gathered to the crowd that was looking at the sign.
Lief got ahead read "champion Inn official inn of the games for competitors only bed and board shockingly low rates". "What do you think?" Lief said to the others "that be a great idea lief if we weren't completely broke that is" jasmine said "that's not what he's talking about look at the other sign".
Lief read "the rithmere games come on come on test your strength and skill every finalist gets 100 gold coins the grand champion will receive 1000 gold coins". Barda said "if all of us became finalist, we'd have 400 gold coins" jasmine said "then we can buy ourselves enough food to stuff ourselves right". Lief said "you bet lets go check it out" man said "hey Manfred, you ever think of signing up for these?" Manfred said "are you crazy that be suicide but I do like watching them that's for sure" man said "at least you're in the games there won't be any grey guards lurking around for once".
Barda said "hear that that's just one more reason why coming here was a good idea" lady next to him said "even gray guards know better than to interfere with the games they turned a blind eye at rithmere and don't come poking around the games mean too much to the people. The lady is red hair, white skin wear a skin tight suit with short sleeves on the legs and the arms and as a small vest, the man next to her big and muscle, sickly green shirt, blue pants and an orange headband, and around his blonde hair.
Man says"a 1000 gold coins or even a 100 can you imagine what we could buy with that kind of cash" while getting up from tying his shoes he then crunched his fist. Man said "ya know I got a really good feeling that we're both going to the finals" then he rushed to a big boulder, picked it up with both his hands and smashed it with a head butt. Boulder had become tiny pebbles "man I'd like to go a few rounds with that guy in a battle" cal said
Lady said while walking to the guy "can't argue with that i've got a pretty good chance too last year that vixen Brianna leze beat me but this year i'll be doing the tripping" and they both started laughing. Jasmine said "I don't get it?" Barda said "interesting sounds like some kind of wrestling competition" cal said "a big-time wrestling competition". Lady said "anyway, for the two of us to get to the finals this year it'll be like taking candy from babies" guy said "ya cause I hear last year's champion got the money and just took off somewhere without telling anyone I guess once you got those thousand gold coins in your hands it's really hard not to keep them all from yourself seems like none of the champions ever go back home ".
Then the lady grabbed his ear "thats true but you wouldn't do that would you orwen just like you know I wouldn't do that either". Lady said into orwins ear "remember they're all starving at home" orwin said "I haven't forgotten". She let go of ear said "only the worst coward would run off and abandon their people i'd rather throw myself into the shifting sands" everyone guess when she said that "did she just say shifting sands?" Lief said.
Cal said "before we head to that inn I need to look for ingredients and stuff" looked around behind them a store that said Special ingredients and stuff emporium. "Looks like i found what im looking for" cal said while walking with the rest of the group behind him he opened the door and they all walked into the store.
Inside the shop we're all kind of knickknacks items, big and small and along with dry and liquid ingredients in jars. Cal saw a counter and rang the bell that was on it a woman dressed in erbalist clothes came from the back of the door he she asked "welcome what can i do for you". Cal said "I would like to buy these followings two big buckets that hold water, 6 bars of soap,laddle for drinking,dried bat wings,eagle feathers, grind up rat bones and dried bowfin fish powder". Lady said "alright I will get these items for you" she looked on the shelf took about two minutes for her to get it everything she said "that will be a grand total of 26 gold coins, and 12 silver coins". Then cal reached in baggy for the coin pouch and got the exact total for her "her you go" he said gave her the money and had baggy take the animal ingredients and hatter got the buckets,soap and drinking laddle.
Then he said "thank you have a nice day" and walked away she replied "you have a nice day too, sir".
(afternoon time) champion inn
Our group stand in front of the champion inn its a big white looking hut with green roof "the champion inn" barda said "this is it?" Jasmine said. Barda said "well lets go in" then our group walked into the building big two door entrance the inside entrance was very dim lit with small torches they all looked around. Cal decided to say "creepy baggy hatter things are getting messy" and the two turned into silver gold orbs and went right into the belt jasmine asked "why did you have them return in the belt?" Cal answered "I don't trust this place that and those two needed a big time break since we'll be competing in the games".
Lief looked on the desk there was an ink and quill pen set along with a bell he picked up the bell and rang it suddenly they heard and looked where it was coming from. Something was walking towards from their left hall then came in the light it was a big woman dressed in a red dress with white frills on top and under her waist shes white skin with blond hair and brown eyes wearing purple earrings and a small, thin headband. "Good afternoon I'm mother brightly the proprietor of this inn and possibly your hostess" mother brightly said lief said hi.
Mother brightly said "please forgive me but before we continue I must ask if you are official competitors in the games or not" barda said "we'd like to be ma'am but the problem is, we haven't found out where to register yet". "Ah well you've come to the right place just leave everything to me" brightly said "we don't have any money but we can work to repay you like if we mop the floors or wash dishes, or something" lief said.
Brightly said "don't be ridiculous you must rest and eat so you can do your best competitors don't pay at the champion Inn" jasmine says "is this woman for real?" Brightly said "of course my dear". Brightly said "if any of you are so lucky as to be finalist then you'll receive a handsome reward you can easily pay me back with part of that money" barda said "that sounds fair". "And if you are not so fortunate I wouldn't want to take anything from you in any case it wouldn't seem right to me" brightly said while walking to the front desk preparing to write their names with the ink and quill in the journal.
Brightly said "if you be so kind i'll need to get your names and hometown please" barda said "right um course you will my name is berry and I come from Bushtown" brightly said "Bushtown, you say I must admit I'm not familiar with that town. Barda said "yeah it's pretty small place up north and these are my friends birdie and twig oh and of course Arboris". Lief glared at barda for the name twig jasmine smiled at that and cal he smiled at that while looking proud of his fake name. Barda said "the three of them come from Bushtown too" brightly replied "how nice very well then now follow me i'd like to get you to your rooms if that's all right with you" and she got up.
Barda walked but then mother brightly stopped him, and said "ah first things first" then she opened the giant closet behind her it was filled with weapons from swords to bows. Brightly face the closet and turned her head to her left said"please had over all your weapons it is forbidden to carry weapons in the champion inn I will return them at the end of your stay". Barda looked to his left pulled off his sword the lief did the same "you as well young lady and man" brightly said to jasmine and cal. Jasmine was pretending to be confused folding her arms up "what are you talking about" barda said "I don't think you're gonna get anything past her birdie" jasmine grunted in defeat and brought her dagger up to the desk. Cal then decide to give his fob to her as well since it is the only weapon he has on him "good now it's time for your check up this way please "brightly said while walking.
in the next scene, our group was getting their check up like how much they weigh and what's their height lief and barda had their cloaks and gloves removed "you need some food and rest but otherwise I'd say you're all strong and healthy I believe you should do well tomorrow I thought so when I first saw you" brightly said. Brightly said "which leads me to the last question what are your special talents" this made everyone confused jasmine said "well I'm really good at climbing trees I can balance on high limbs,swing and jump really high up".
Brightly said "excellent birdy ill put you under agility and how about you berry hang on i'm guessing your talent would be strength I can tell just by looking am I right". Barda grunting up ward and looked at her "as expected now what about you twig" brightly said "um well I can" lief said "I say it's his speed my friend is ver fast he can duck,jump and dodge" barda said and lief nodded his head up and down.
Brightly said "perfect twig of bush town speed as your talent and now aboris what is your skill?" Cal said "well brightly that would be stamina im great at keeping my mental state and focus in tiptop shape". Brightly said "well well agility,strength,speed and stamina why the four of you really are a fine team now I will ask you to wait here a moment" she then got up and left.
Once she was gone they started talking to each other "she's something else but what's the deal with my name how come I had to be twig?" Lief said. Jasmine said "I think it kind of fits your skinny like a twig" lief said "whatever Birdie" lief said. Barda said "I wasn't gonna tell that lady our real names" this caused everyone to look at him "by now that there's a strong possibility that news has spread through Deltora about the four of us and what we've done". Cal said "he's right we need to keep our identities a secret by the way, thank you for choosing the name arboris for me barda" Barda said "your welcome".
Brightly came back holiding four items she said"sorry for having kept you all waiting so long" thus caused we want to be confused as what was happening. "Do not take these armbands off even to sleep they mark you as official competitors show your special talent an entitle you to food,drink, and entrance to the games" brightly said. All four of them put tge white bands with blue line in the center on their left arms "do you hear that filli we're going to be eating soon" jasmine said tge filli jumped onto her shoulder.
Brightly said "you'll want a meal I take it and some rest after your long journey here's your room key" and she handed the room key to lief. Lief said "oh one last question mother brightly" she said yes "what exactly are the rithmere games all about?". She said "it's a test of survival deltoras most fearless fighters come here to compete against one another" jasmine said "test of survival?". Brightly said "indeed the participants put everything they have into it which is what makes the games so exciting" then walks away.
The group just stands there then in the next scene, Jasmine opens the door "uh i'm so hungry I could eat a mudlet" cal said " i've had that conversation before". What they walked into was the food dining room, and all the participants looked at them they were murmuring conversations about our group. You could feel the tension in the atmosphere as all the eyes were staring at them and the mouths murmuring about them. Why we could even see either the couple on one of the benches orwen and the woman who identifies as joanna. Our group was walking past them "these guys don't look too happy to see us" lief said "not really what I call a warm welcome" barda said. Jasmine and Cal looked to their right and saw the same man they saw at tom's shop without his cloak and gloves 'that stranger' jasmine/cal thought.
Suddenly they heard a stomp and then stopped they stood still to their left, and the one who stomped walked by them it was the same guy who chopped down a piece of wood. He then stopped looked at them then he grabbed a piece of meat he began eating on it "hey thats mine" man said that guy with her was chewing down that piece of meat like he hadn't eaten in a long time.
Next scene everyone got a tray of food with a soup and honey nectar drink "this is going to taste so good isn't it" lief said. Jasmine sat next to his right, barda to his left and cal in front of him, and all three of them were scarfing down what was on their plates. Why even kree and filli we're scarfing like crazy with food in a mug for kree and a smal food plate for filli. Next scene showed both of the critters had swollen a bit consuming lots of food they were happy "wow I can't remember the last time I felt so good after a meal" jasmine said. Lief said "I don't know about you but i'm worried about the fights tomorrow" barda said "yeah I don't know if this is a good idea".
Lief said "if we get hurt we might not be able to continue with the quest" jasmine said "don't worry I got an idea" while drinking her nectar mug. "What kind of idea?" Lief said "as soon as we're all done eating, we'll just tell that old lady thanks but no thanks" jasmine said. This confused and surprised lief,cal and barda "ya im sure she'll understand we'll say sorry for the trouble but something came up and we need to go home" jasmine said.
In the next scene our adventures are walking down the hall "mother brightly" barda said "maybe she went to bed" barda said again. Jasmine said "this thing looks more like a dungeon" cal said "I grew up in dungeon diving this is like my second home". As are group continued walking down the hall they stopped lief said "hey look over there an exit".
They all started to power walk to the door leif fiddled with the handle and said "it's locked on the outside" jasmine said "that's weird". Barda said "yes it is let's go back to the main entrance mother brightly will probably be working behind the front desk". Then they headed to the frontdesk of the inn only to find a metal gate blockin their way out "what's going on? This wasn't here before" cal said "I don't like this one bit". Jasmine said "hey is anyone out there" no one answered her barda tried to open the gate "it won't open" he said Lief then said look.
To their surprise, the metal gate had a lock on the other side lief pointed out "a lock?" Jasmine said "on the outside" Lief finished. Lief said "wait that means we're trapped" cal said "well everyone it looks like we have no choice but to participate in the rithmere games. Lief said "we're in like it or not".
Well everyone I hope you have had some good luck with a little bad luck in this chapter and next chapter game day
