Infinite Storm

Chapter 8

"The dog goes woof, the cat goes meow. The bird goes tweet and mouse goes squeak. The-"

"Cliff! Why do you keep singing that song!" Raven cut off.

"It's a nice song, don't you think?" Cliff said, as he walked down the narrow street towards Bolgara City.

"Could you at least get more serious? We are not here on vacation, the sooner we finish the game, the sooner we can return."

"You have a new message!" a note appeared in front of Cliff.

Thank God, Cliff thought, this came out at a perfect time.

"Who is it from?" Raven asked. "I thought you didn't have much friends."

"Is that an insult?" he inquired while typing a reply to the message he just received.

"It depends how you think of it as. You didn't answer my question yet."

"Blood."

"Blood? Ah," Raven recalled, "he was the one who saved us from those baboons."

"I almost saved you too, but he came and stole the spotlight."

"Yeah right. What did he say to you anyway?"

"He asked what happened. He couldn't track my location for the past one week. I told him it was a long story," Cliff answered.

"That dude... It's like he's stalking you?"

"Yeah. He sure is one stubborn guy. No matter how many times I reject his offer he keeps asking me to join his guild."

Three days quickly passed. This time Cliff and Raven had prepared everything.

On the first day, they rented two rooms at a small inn in the city, one for each. Then they bought and gathered each and every type of potions available in the store.

On the second day, the Knights of Destiny went to the fields to get some EXP.

On the last day, Cliff and Raven tried out some skills and practiced several moves.

Before they knew it, it was already time to leave and head for the second boss. It was if it was just a moment of that they were fighting against the Shadow Tiger.

They departed from the city once again, the sun far behind them, shining off an incandescent light.

Raven opened the second riddle and read it.

"On the second day,
A wolf shall be exiled from its pack.
Those who get in its way,
Will not have the chance to turn back.

No warrior can defeat it,
Or even land a hit.
He will need help from its comrades
Or else he will lose everything he once had.

In the depths of darkness it grows.
In the gloom of a forest to the south it hides.
It awaits for a formidable foe,
That will be able to release the demon in it and cast it aside."

"That," Cliff commented, "was very long. It was just two stanzas the last time."

"So, what's new of this one?" Raven questioned.

"The second stanza, it wasn't there." Cliff explained. "I still remember the third one meant that that wolf was possessed by some sort of demon."

"Ah, yes. I remember the story. There was this wolf who got possessed and its pack threw it out. All of them wish that one day someone would come and free the demon in it. But the second stanza..."