An Orc's Journey

7. FRWL

Drinking is one part of human culture that Dehaka enjoyed. Get anyone drunk enough and they can become your best friend or your worst enemy.  And for Dehaka that meant he could either have a new drinking buddy or a combatant to pummel. Many of his nights in the volcano had been spent drinking, making friends and beating the shit out of anything that didn't like him.

That's why he chose to go to a place that humans could drink no matter the time. He believed it was called a 'dive bar', which was odd, and while Dits looked to get them transport he was going to get hammered.

The Killfish was the cheapest bar nearby. Possibly in the city. And was quiet apparently.
So, that's where Dehaka headed.

When Dehaka got to the Killfish it turned out to be busy. Turns out that many people had the same idea as him. Dehaka sat at the bar.

The bartender looked at Dehaka with a questioning look.
"Что вы будете пить?" He asked gesturing at the drinks behind the bar.
"Uhhhhhh. Mead of you have any." He put 4 gold coins on the table and slid it across to the bartender. Who nodded and walked away.

A man with a large robe sat next to Dehaka. Asked for a glass of water. Then sat staring at a bowl in front of him.

"Names Dehaka. Yours?"
"Не твое дело"
"Yeah. No idea. I don't speak Russian."
"I don't care about what you can do. Back off greenskin."
"Fuck you Babushka"
"Вы попросили um зеленый" the mage charged some kind of spell in each hand. Purple and green.

"Crystal and plant, Oh shit"

Dehaka lunged towards a table and flipped it over.
The beams spiralled together and hit the mirror causing plant matter and crystal to grow from the point of impact.

"How am I going to get to him."
Dehaka withdrew his tainted blade and snuck around the side of the room.

"Where are you greenie?" asked the cocky mage, blasting the crystal beam at a group of tables
"Right here Jackass" as Dehaka brought his blade hilt down on his head.
Staring at the unconscious mage. Dehaka Whispered "You're coming with me. Dits is going to love this"

He didn't
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!?!?!?"
"What?"
"YOU JUST KNOCKED OUT A RUSSIAN COLLEGE STUDENT. AND A MAGE AT THAT."
"It's just a mage. What's wrong with that?"
"It's a Russian mage Dehaka."
Dehaka looked at Dits with confusion. "And?..."
"Oh for fuck sake you dumb greenskin. Did they not teach you about mages in your volcano?"
Another confused look.
Dits groaned. "They track their members. If something happens to 1 then they send a team to go find him. They're probably at that bar as we speak. We need to move"

The mage came to tied in a chair with a kind of electricity wrapped around his arms.
"Move and it shocks you." Dits walked towards the chair. "Talk, it will shock you."
The mage's eyes widened. "Even try to think, it'll shock you."
The mage made a face that meant he just shit himself.
"I'm only joking. But if you do magic I'll just knock you out again. Alright?"
The mage nodded.
"You're going to take us to your college. So, we can apologise"
"Apologise?" Dehaka chimed in "He started this"
"That's not the point. You provoked him. We have to apologise"
"You'll let us do that, right?" Dits dusted off the mage's robe.
The mage nodded.
"Good. Let's get these bindings off."

The mage stood and offered his arms to the pair.
"Dehaka. It's time to move."
"Yeah yeah. Come on Rodney" He lifted his familiar into his arms. "You're growing up fast you know that? You gonna be big like your mama." Rodney curled up into Dehaka and tried to lick him.

Teleportation could be confused with portal magic. But they feel very different. Something that Dehaka was about to learn. Whilst a portal had space between destinations, a Teleportation spell feels like a person being pushed through a pipe between destinations. Dehaka could see the warehouse and his legs could feel a cold floor.
Once his head had passed through the spell. He saw a bunch of college students staring as he appeared.
"Well. Shit."
Dits pulled out his staff "I see them. Fuck sake. Do we have to fight everything we come into?"
"It's in our nature"
"Are you going to leave this one alive?"
"Already ahead of you." As he stabbed Jackass mage in the head.