The Cursekeeper

Legends

The party of five fighters continued north through the snowy landscape towards Colter, O'Callaghan and Arthur talking and laughing.  He felt a lot better now that he had two of his wives back.  He'd feel even better once he had Rose and the others back and the enemy was defeated, but Arthur just wanted to enjoy this time.  Scotty was busy scanning and taking samples of the curious flora and fauna that resided in the northern territory.  They'd even passed by a small village full of little pink, fluffy creatures called moogles.  They battled against creatures like winter wolves, ice flans, ice lizards, snow lions (which looked nothing like lions so Arthur wasn't sure why they were called that) and many other monsters that were fit to survive in the cold.

Arthur looked up at the overcast sky, an indigo colored sun shining through.  He had to admit that while the area was pretty much an exact replica of Ambarino, there were so many fantastic and different things along the way.

"I hate to say it, but this place really is quite a sight," Arthur announced.

"It is!" O'Callaghan laughed.  "I told you, Mallacht is creative.  I'd love to pick apart his brain, but now I'm curious about this Aynaet woman."

Arthur blinked.  "Okay, when you say pick apart his brain, is you talkin' literally or figuratively?"

O'Callaghan looked at him with a devious smirk.  "What do you think?" she whispered.

He chortled lightly before pecking her lips.  "Both, more than likely."

Arthur's wife cackled loudly as she nodded.  "Oh yeah!  I've got so many ideas on how to cut pieces of his brain out without actually killing him.  I may even put him on my stepfather's magical spit.  And cook him while I do it, and make him watch while I cook the pieces of his brain over the fire."

Arthur arched a brow.  "Heh heh, you're such a little devil," he chuckled before gripping her earlobe in his teeth, making her squeal.  "I can't wait 'til we get home."

Sir Jack rolled his eyes.  "We can hear ya, ya know," he grumbled.

Both Arthur and O'Callaghan laughed.  "Sorry," they both said.

"Cut them some slack, Jack," Lugh said with his smirk.  "Ya know good and well that if it were Abby and ya, ya'd both be doing the same thing."

Sir Jack grumbled.  "Ya make a fair point, but she's me daughter.  Ya canna blame me fer-"

A loud explosion and the ground shaking interrupted Jack and Holly neighed violently before rearing up.  "Woa, woa!  Easy, girl!" Arthur said loudly.

Lilly tensed up, moving her head around as her teeth bared.  Arthur looked past some trees to see dust and smoke flying in the distance.  Sir Jack did his best to calm Lilly.  Once the ground was done shaking, Arthur urged Holly towards the area that the explosion came from.  "What the hell was that?!" he yelled.

"I'm just as clueless!" Lugh shouted as Lilly ran alongside Holly.

"Colter should be just ahead, I think," O'Callaghan said.

Eventually some buildings came into view and Arthur blinked.  "Uh...this is Colter?"

What lay before them was much bigger and had more buildings than the real Colter did.  It was an actual town with streets, buildings and houses and there were people bustling about wearing mining gear and mining clothes.  "Wow!" O'Callaghan said in awe.  "This looks so great!"

Arthur looked at the arched sign above the beginning the road.  "Welcome to Colter, the silver lining in material mining," he read out loud.  "Huh.  Catchy, I suppose."