war. -stick of truth based south park book

Chap 10. Quest //flashback//

Stans pov.

We walked outside to the stables to start gearing up.

I slipped a leather chest plate on and taped my knuckles.

I placed my sword at my side, tightening my belt.

Last but not least I strapped my bow to sparky. It was a gift from Kyle I had gotten for my birthday. Surprising I learned how to use it very fast with little training. I would say 75% of the time I hit my target, spot on.

Sparky has a couple extra bags strapped to him and kyles hourse had nothing. A thought sparked in my mind.

"Kyle." I yell. He walks over.

"Yes?" he asks.

"If we're just going through woods behind the castle, then why dont we just take Sparky. He shorter and stronger. Plus we're going to be walking around a lot if we find an abandoned place to raid, sparky won't run off... like last time." I mumble the last part but Kyle still hears me.

"Hey eclipse was..w-was just board ok," he says in his defense and a not very good one.

"Come on it will be fun," I say with a smile.

"Fine," Kyle says trying to look mad but smiles. Damn, I'm blushing...again. 

I shake it off... "ok let's go then, "I say jumping on to sparky, then helping kyle on. We take off heading to the back of the castle into unexplored woods. Sparky start to speed up and kyles grip around my waist becomes tighter.

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After a while of riding around, Sparky comes to what we think is an opening. I jump off and help Kyle down. I throw my bow over my shoulder and pull out my sword, cutting down some weeds and vines in our way.

There's multiple trees with barbed wire wrapped around them all. Creating a messy looking fence.

On the other side is an opening.

I unclipped a long rope from Sparkys saddle bag and tied it ground a tree and tied the other end around his collar. "Sit sparky. Stay sparky." he does as he told and I pull out a piece of chicken from the lunch bag and give it to him. "Good boy."

We start to walk through the bard wire. I lifted it so Kyle could walk through without it snagging his robe.

We made it to the opening. There's an iron fence that's been knocked down. On the other side is a small village. It looks very abandon.

"Woah, dude," Kyle says smiling.

We walk to the first house. "Ready?" I ask Kyle.

"Anytime." he smiles.

I knock on the door. "Anyone home?" I ask. No answer. I kick in the door down. And we stelf walk-in searching different areas of the house. "All clear," I yell walking back towards the entrance to fined kyle. "All clear," he says meeting up with me.

We walk around the house and raid it. No one has been here for a while... that's for sure. There's blood everywhere. We can't help but assume the worst for the small village. We do the same to a couple more houses before we see what looks to be the leader of the villages house.

It slightly bigger and way at the end of the community. We decided we did enough raiding for today and we would go put all the cool stuff we found in Sparky's bags and then come back to check out the big house and then call it day. We didn't really care to go through all the houses... it was honestly the same things.

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Kyles pov.

We were walking back from sparking to this house. It was bigger than the others. I had this feeling. I dont know what it was, but I dont like it. Something feels off. I walked a little closer to stan... I blushed. He didn't really notice... thank god.

We get to the house, as we approached it we heard movement from around the back of the house.

"Someones here!" I whisper to stan.

"Or something. Get behind me." stan said grabbing his bow and handing me his sword. I got behind him and held up the sword even though I didn't really know how to use it. The other side of the house was blocked, so there was only one way to sneak up on them. They were at a dead end.

Stan ran around the corner. "Drop your weapons!." he yells.

Two soldiers drop there weapons and held there hands up.

"Your prince Kyle, the high jew elf prince... correct?" one of them asked, looking at me... or behind stan?

"Yes...?" I say turning around to see what they're looking at.

"NOW!" the soldier screams When I turn around. Another guard is behind us holding a bow. before I can look back at the other guard. I feel a sharp pain through the side of my stomach. I had been shot with an arrow.

My breathing spiked and I started to feel dizzy. I dropped the sword. I turned to stan to cling on to him.  I held his arms and he held my shoulders as I struggled to stand. I was on the ground and everything became black.

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Stans pov

I turned and watched as another guard shot Kyle through the side of his body. He stumbled back a little and turned to grab me to sturdy himself. I grabbed his shoulders. He was panicking and breathing heavily. His body went limp and he went unconscious. I laid him down. He was losing blood fast.

I felt my heart hurt and my body go into flight mood. My mind was telling me that I failed my job and my best friend was gone.

I aimed my bow and shot the guard in the eye with an arrow, killing him. The other guards ran towards me. I picked up the sword and sliced one of them in the stomach, causing him to fall to the ground going unconscious. I held the sword to the last guard's head. He froze.

"Who do you work for?" I asked pissed.

"Cartman," he said holding his hands up.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Getting supplies for him," he said.

"Why did your men shoot the prince?" I asked inching the sword closer to his neck.

"Our orders were to raid this village and kill/look for the prince, while other went after the royal family. Cartman assumed it would be harder to find the prince, so whoever killed him and brought him back dead gets a reward." the guard said shaking. " Its because they didn't give half their stuff every month... they had it coming."

"So there are soldiers at the elf castle, killing Kyles family?!" I asked raising my voice.

"Yes... and the barbarian, b-but nobody liked him, you got to admit he's a-"

"Shut up," I said driving the sword through his throat.

My attention focused back on Kyle.