Broken Haven

Chapter 4

That was some fantastic suspense right there. Top quality. Honestly. Fantastic. What a rush. What was I talking about? BLACK! Yes, black was the colour of Hans's new... Oh my I seem to have forgotten. That was a joke. I never forget. Anyway, back to stalling so that the chimps write up the next plot twist on their type writers. Faster Sebastian, hurry up now. I'm only joking! Monkeys don't use type writers; they're far to outdated, we let them use tablets. Oh, you're finished Sebastian? Let's see then... Sebastian, this story is utter tripe, try again. OK so while we wait for our little monkey friend to finish writing this next part, I'd like to talk to you about Hans. If there's one thing that really stood out about Hans, it was his habit of naked- oh that was quick Sebastian, let me take a look. Very nice. I like this a lot, keep up the good work old pal. Back to the story it seems!

Black leather boots to replace his normal leather boots. Amazing. "Fantastic, they look brilliant." Alex laughed to himself. "Seems a bit of a weird item though... Do they do anything?"

Hans opened up his inventory and he checked the description. "Speed boost. Sick. Ah, drains a lot of energy though." Hans smiled.

Alex opened his prize and received 'The Black Shuck', an electric guitar. Quite the step up from his acoustic. "WOW. THIS THING!" Alex reacted has he held the electric strumming machine in his hands. He looked beside him, almost jumping when he noticed the floating amp besides his head. "Blimey, that's cool." Alex plucked a string, sending the vibrations through the pickup, and exploding out the amplifier. Before he could get carried away, Hazel had decided to open her prize packet. Just Gold... It was luck of the draw really.

"It's OK Hazel, looks like it was just luck." Hans comforted her.

"Right..." Hazel replied. She just wanted something awesome like the others had, that was all.

With the prizes also came one thousand Gold, straight into their accounts. With all in check, the group set back to find the path they were previously following. They followed it for a few more hours before it faded so much that it was no longer visible. Night crawled across the sky as they stood there, trying to figure out where they'd go next.

"Maybe we should set up camp?" Hans asked.

"Yeah probably, in the forest though; we don't want to get raided." Alex recommended.

"Can we just keep moving until we find a town? I'm scared." Hazel said nervously.

"My stamina bar is pretty low, I imagine yours is too." Hans reminded Hazel.

"I suppose." Hazel said, frightened.

"Let's set up in the woods then. We'll probably be safer in there." Alex noted. The path had closely hugged the woods, so it didn't take long to wonder back over. The three explored the mass of plant-age until they reached the other side, however anything past the trees was hardly what I'd define as 'accessible'. The land just fell away, leaving a giant drop down onto solid rock. Mountains like humungous spikes were scattered in the distance. The sun set behind them.

"Let's see if we can start a fire." Alex suggested. He wondered off picking up sticks and logs.

"Are you OK Hazel?" Hans asked.

"Yeah I suppose."

"Don't feel bad that you shot me OK, I could tell you were upset. It was an accident; you'll get better. Honestly it was kind of funny."

"But I don't want it to be funny. I'm trying my best."

"Ah... Sorry, I promise I won't laugh again."