Death and Disgrace (FVK)

Chapter 1

Hi, welcome to Grandomina. I will be your guide through this mysterious but yet terrifying land. My name is Beveridge, Laurence Beveridge. So let's begin.

Grandomina is a sick and twisted place. Nothing has been the same since the Cardinal came here, he has been influencing the King way to much and no one likes it, though no one would every say that because anyone who does, never says anything again.

I have a few friends. We are a militia against the Cardinal but we need to keep on recruiting people. Anyone that needs to stand up against the cardinal, will never stand alone as long as we are here. No one knows why I'm doing this, but there isn't one person I know on this earth that I trust enough with that information.

As I was saying we are the Militia of the Lost. There is me, Cyrus Barrone (but everyone just calls him Barrone), Luke and Kier, we founded it but we have two other members, Dominik and Vincent. Barrone and Kier practically saved my life. I have a long back story that I'm not really proud of but I suppose you should know, I used to be part of the worst places in Grandomina. I used to gamble all the time, use prostitutes and drugs, things I'm not entirely happy that I've done. One day I was running away from the place guards for reasons that I can't tell you, but I ran away and hid in a near by alley way, and there they were. They came up to me and dragged me off the floor and took me away. I lived with them for a couple of years and we met Luke and started the militia. They are the best friends I have ever had, especially when a few years ago I was a complete loner. Anyway, picking up from that depressing story, we keep on investigating the Cardinal because he is doing something horrible and he needs to be stopped.

Chapter 2

Luke brought a girl home with him the other night. We were all very confused until he explained it was his sister, Pandora. We have met her before but she was only 12, now she's 18. I like to just sit and watch people as they work, just sitting and watching life go by is one of the most interesting things in the world.

Kier was there with his axe, just calmly rocking backwards and forwards sharpening it while humming a very upbeat tune, he's always so lively. His axe was huge but very dull. It had no indentations on it, but it could take out a wall with a single swing. Barrone had his throwing knives. They were his prized possessions. He engraved them all himself with C.B. in calligraphy styled writing on the handles and vines etched into the blades. He wasn't talking to anyone, he was keeping to himself; delicately polish the shining daggers. Luke had his usually shotgun, it was never discrete, but then neither was he. His sister however, was sat chatting with him, I'm assuming they were just catching up. Luke is very protective over his sister, but he should be because girls in Grandomina end up one of three ways, a prostitute, a special slave to the Cardinal or dead. He always has a watchful eye over her, but I can tell she feels safer that way. She was cleaning her pistol. It was small and shiny. Decorative. With designs etched into it. It was a beautiful piece if weaponry. But it could kill you in one go. Just like her. She may look small an innocent but she is lethal. She can kill you with a single bullet to the head.

She walked over to me and pulled up a chair; as she did so, Luke shot me a deathly stare but I wasn't going to do anything, she wasn't that right person.

"Hi Laurence... Are you okay?" she delicately asked me. I just kept my eyes on a patch on the fall that I had taken a liking to and shrugged my shoulders. "You know I've missed you. I haven't seen you in years, I've been meaning to get back in touch with you..." she paused to wait for my answer, but she would have been waiting for a long time. I wished I didn't have to be so harsh with her but everyone knows how she feels about me, especially when Kier is glancing at me repeatedly raising his eyebrows up and down suggesting I am going to make a move, so I just sneakily flipped him off. Pandora didn't notice. After a long period of time with no answer, Pandora became tired with me and went back to talking with Luke.