March 3rd, 2027.
We carefully made our way through the woods in search of the Kings fort. It took awhile before we could even get close to it. Night had fallen ready.
"Maybe we should rest and make camp." The Hunter suggested.
"We will do nothing of the sort. If we stop, Lucifer's men will move. We can't risk that." I told him. Sierra was quiet through the entire trip almost. Not a word was said. She only gripped the hilt of her sword and kept walking.
I started to worry about her a bit.
Maybe she's to close to this? Well it's too late to stop her now.
"Cheers!"
We heard. The three of us quickly ducked down and started peeking through the grass.
"Found them." I said. They surrounded the cabin known as the Kings fort, drinking and being merry. Aside from that, that's all we could see.
"Look." The Hunter whispered. "There's Lucifer." The king was smiling and being cheerful among his men. He sat in a large chair relaxing.
"I can't see where Sterling is though."
"That's because, he is most likely inside." Sierra snapped.
"She's right you know." The Hunter agreed with her.
"Well then, how do you suppose we get inside?" The Hunter and Sierra looked at one another for a moment then Sierra smiled at me.
"I've always wanted to do this." The Hunter said excited.
Three of the knights were trying to make there way out in to the woods to take a bathroom break. They were stumbling and drooling on each other as they tried to make their way out in the trees.
"Now!"
We jumped them, knocked them out and put on their armor.
"I think it's safe to say they'll be too drunk to remember this." I said putting on the last of the armor on. It had been a while since I put on kings armor. It felt so strange to me.
We made our way to the cabin were the king and his knights were drinking away their lives. It wasn't that hard to get past them really.
"Lets go." Sierra made her way into the cabin first with us following behind her. I shut the wooden door behind us, it looked like no one was inside.
"Where'd she go?" Hunter asked. I turned around and found Sierra had moved ahead without us.
"Damn that girl. I swear to God."
"She really is worried about Sterling."
"Yea, yea she is." I agreed. "She had to have gone this way." We moved through the cabin freely, but still paranoid.
It was more roomy than I thought.
"Can I ask you something?" Hunter asked me.
"If you're wondering weather or not I believe you're Ethan, the answer is still no."
"No it's about Sierra. Doesn't it bug you?" He asked.
"Does what bug me?" I got a little nervous about the next set of questions he had.
"I don't know, doesn't bug you that she and Sterling seem to be you know, really close to each other."
I stopped and faced him.
"Cuz I thought you and her, might have been-"
"Stop. What our relationship status is, has nothing to do with you and is none of your concern. End of discussion."
"You guys!" Sierra came from around the corner.
"Hurry up." She told us as we followed her down a hall way. We started opening doors to check the rooms. At first we came up empty. Then Sierra finally found the right room. She opens the door and found Sterling hanging from the ceiling with his hands tied up.
"Sterling!" She rushed in to help him.
"Get away!" He said weakly. His body was covered in bruises from head to toe. His clothes were ripped and covered in blood. The Knights really let him have it.
"No, it's me." Sierra took of the knights helmet and Sterling began to cry a bit with relief.
"Kyoko, you shouldn't have come for me, it's too dangerous."
"Too dangerous my ass." She snapped at him.
"Hurry." I rushed her. The Hunter and I kept watch, we didn't have much time. Sierra got Sterling down and he tumbled over a bit from being exhausted.
"You're so stubborn you know that?" He told Sierra.
"You should already know that."
"Leluna," Sterling whispered, "he destroyed my home."
Sierra's voice started breaking up.
"I'm so sorry. It's my fault. I'm so sorry Sterling."
She cried a little bit on the floor. Before Sterling put his hand on her shoulder.
"No, it's not your fault. It is his. The king will pay for what he did to the elf city. But you need to know, that none of it was your fault."
"Sire!" We heard a man yell." Traitorous in the cabin!"
"That's our cue, let's go!"
We made a b line for the door. We pushed knights to get out, it helped that they were already drunk. We got outside and started running for the woods.
"Lets go!" I yelled.
Suddenly out of no where the air got cold.
"Wait!" Sterling shouted "Duck!" This large Dragon came down and flew right above our heads.
"Holy shit!" The Hunter said.
"Look out!" We all rolled to the left as the dragon's cold breath froze the ground.
"Come on!" We all got to our feet and started running away from the beast.
"You guys." Sierra shouted. She pulled out the transportation stone and we all linked arms. But it was almost successful. As we used to stone, the dragon shot one last blow at us. When we made it back to level 12, I thought we were safe. There was a blinding light for only a moment and my vision was blurred for a second.
"Everyone okay?" I asked. Sterling and the Hunter got on their feet and reported back okay, but my heart sank when I looked at Sierra.
"No!"
