Rogue Hero

Ch. 6

The morning sun blares at Dias' eyes. It doesn't really affect him but it's quite annoying. He twists and turns yet the sun still forces its way into his vision until he eventually wakes up. He sees... Atmere, giggling, with a lantern to Dias' face.

"Morning, bud."

"My fucking eyes."

"My bad."

Atmere pulls the lantern away, however still with a pretty huge smile on his face. 

"Ready up, we're leaving soon."

Atmere slowly leaves as Dias gets up, he starts grabbing at his stuff, though... Kind of hard to see. He gets "Everything" He needs however he notices something missing... His... Sword..

"Damn it, Atmere."

And right outside the door, is Atmere giggling as he walks away, two swords on his back.

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Hm, So... If we're heading to the Tundra, it'd probably take... 30 minutes at best? Considering how we need to pass... Oresfall, which is behind a somewhat dense forest, then... If we choose the path of Alana town.. But then that'd take... Much longer..

"And then, and then he fucking dropped his wooden sword during training! Lieutenants saw him and forced him to do pushups, it was fucking hilarious! Especially since I was the one who made him drop it!"

Dias' thoughts were interrupted by a story from Atmere. It seems as if the trainings are as lively as ever, for even a rookie to find some fun out of them. Maybe Dias would've found it fun had he not done it for revenge.

"How about you? Falco? How was life over there as a blacksmith?

And all the attention was Immediately drawn to Falco.

"Well... It was boring, it was just... Making swords y'know, I mean I almost got robbed once but-"

And Atmere's eyes widen and his jaw drops. He screams at the top of his lungs.

"YOU WERE ROBBED?! DID YOU FIGHT?! DID YOU WIN?!"

"Course I did."

Like a child seeing his big brother beat up his bullies, of course Atmere has to fanboy over this small thing.

"TELL US, WHAT HAPPENED?"

"So, blacksmiths are known for being rich. And of course, me being a blacksmith makes me a target of them thieves."

"They went up to me with their tiny daggers screaming "Give me your silver!" I stood my ground and just pulled out my blade. Thankfully, a fight didn't break out as they ran off after they saw my blade."

"SO FUCKING COOL!"

Falco smirks, he seems happy.

"You should hear about Graham's stories becoming a druid."

They all turn to see... No Graham.

"Where'd he go?"

And they began to retrace their steps, they noticed that the "landmarks" that they had remembered were disappearing, a flower on the wall was gone and some mushrooms were missing..

They continued to backtrack, until they saw Graham and another person.

"Yo, Graham!"

Atmere shouted as he ran at him.

"GET BA-"

Pushed to the side by something, Atmere was on the floor as a person was on top of him, yet that "person" had fangs. He was about to dig in Atmere's skin and suck his blood but at the very last second, he was pulled off by vines.