The Broken Man

Undead Parish

Alex P.O.V
Before she starts asking anymore questions I should start moving. I re-equipped my armor and walked away. I did not know the area yet I knew where to go. Undead Parish. As I started walking away Evelyn yelled out to me "Where are you headed?" I stayed silent and kept walking. I expected her to give up and go away but she got up and followed me. "Where are we going?" she asked again. We? I questioned to myself. She was as stubborn as I remembered, "We are going nowhere" I responded. I could not have her traveling with me. "What are you going to do about it?" she asked. "Nothing, however I will not be protecting you." I hoped this would put her off but I still heard the footsteps of her trailing behind me. I let out a sigh as I continued walking.

We walked up a stone staircase that was seemingly stuck to the side of a cliff. I soon as we reached the top a Hollow lunged at me, these however now had armor and actual weapons not to mention shields. I dealt with the first one quickly as another jumped down from another set of small stairs. I fended off the attacking Hollow but I was unable to do so against the small glass jar another had thrown at me. As soon as the jar hit me it exploded causing small burns on my skin, my mind told me what the item was, a fire bomb. I quickly killed the melee Hollow attacking me picking up the extra blade and slicing a fire bomb out of the air. I quickly ran up the steps and kicked the fire bomb throwing Hollow off the cliff quickly picking up a singular fire bomb. Another Hollow with a battle axe attempted to attack me, I back stepped out of range then slammed my sword into his head. The sword was now lodged in his head and another Hollow was walking down yet another set of stairs toward me. Screw it. I swung my sword around which was still lodged in the Hollows skull and slammed one Hollow into the other sending them both off the cliff and dislodging my sword from the Hollows skull. I looked back at Evelyn who stared at me with eyes of amazement. I stayed silent as I walked up the stairs and into a tunnel like area. There was a large rat behind me but it seemed to be feeding on a corpse so I let it be. I walked down the other end of the tunnel and was soon greeted by an opening on the side. The tunnel continued further down and I could barely make out another door however something told me the door did not open from this side.

I left the tunnel from the opening on the side and encountered yet another set of stairs (there are a lot, and I mean a lot of stairs in Dark Souls). Once I reached the top I encountered two more Hollows which I handled quickly, before Evelyn even got up the stairs in fact. There was a small bridge leading to another Hollow and two houses. I approached the Hollow and kicked it watching it fall to its death. I heard a scream behind me and quickly turned to find the source, my face fell as I saw where it was coming from, it was Evelyn.

Evelyn P.O.V

I followed behind Alex, making sure to stay out of his way. We entered a tunnel which smelled of blood. Alex was faster than me and quickly trudged his way through the sludge-like water. I followed behind slightly slower. He left the tunnel through an opening in the wall and disappeared from sight. I eventually left through the same opening and found a staircase staring me in the face, this was training in itself, walking up these steps. I sighed as I quickly climbed the steps and was welcomed with the sight of Alex pulling his blade out of a Hollow. He crossed some sort of small wooden bridge that led to a platform that split off into two houses. He ran over to a Hollow standing by the edge and kicked it off watching as the Hollow fell.

What he didn't notice was a Hollow coming out of the building on our left, to be fair, neither did I until it attacked me. I screamed out in pain as the Hollows blade sliced my calf. As I fell to the ground I saw Alex turn around, something flashed in his eyes but it was too quick to make out as they returned to their ice cold stare and he killed the Hollow. He took out something that seemed like a cloth and ripped it into strips using his teeth. He took off my boots (part of the armor) and rolled my pant leg up to my thigh. His hand rested on my thigh as he examined the injury and I could feel the area he touched getting hotter. No no no. I was looking for the boy I once knew, I couldn't get distracted. He removed his hand from my thigh and took a few pieces of cloth and set them on the side.

He took out one of the jars the Hollow earlier had thrown and slammed it down on the cloths creating a small fire. He pulled out another blade which he had probably taken from one of the Hollows he's killed (yes, he can take armor and weapons off anything because it's more realistic and there are no drop rates). He held it over the fire and my eyes widened as I realized what he was doing.