Tenebris Reterns

Finally Some Action

Waking up was the worst of it. my head was pounding. The bright light streaming through the trees blinded me.

Groggily I managed to get out "What happened?"

I reached up to rub my forehead but my arm was stopped by rope tied tightly around my waist binding me to the tree that I was leaning against.

I looked around quickly for something to cut the ropes as a result of having previously noticed that my bow and quiver were missing.

"Silvy? What happened ?" The burnet said at last, sleepily.

"I...Im not sure greenie " I slurred hanging my head at an attempt to slow the pounding in my head.

"Looking for something" the 1 and only woman of the three asked staring with a grin at me slyly.

"What do you want!" greenie glared at them obnoxiously.

"We just want the money. It would do you well to stay out of our way. This is your one warning." She stated with a thick accent.

"Yeah? So you need to take out the competition to win? That's pathetic." I spat at her. If she can't win herself she doesn't deserve to win at all.

My "partner"stared at the woman angrily unsure of what to say.
"You bloody crazy people" she yelled. I rolled my eyes disappointed at her comeback.

The women smirked seemingly happy she was getting to us, or more specifically greenie over there. I stayed silent attempting not to give her what she desired.

Suddenly the rope tying us to the tree turned hot. I heard greenie shreak and in moments the ropes just fell off. The lady in this group had to be the cause of this...but why. She wouldn't just let us go...would she.

I gasped in surprise. "Why did you do that!" I asked the women still assuming she was cause of this. "Do you have magic." I yelled horrified. I finally processed the look on her face. She was as confused as all of us.

The gal in the green cloak jumped up, ran behind a tree. Grabbing a small knife that she kept at the bottom of her boot and slid it into her belt. She grabbed a branch and jumped from behind the tree, ran over to me and slid the knife into my hands before running towards their three captors with her branch. I had to try way too hard to hold in a laugh at the sight.

I took the blade excitedly with a deadly grin. I quickly corrected my stance and through the knife which perfectly embedded itself between the eyes of one of the men. He barely had time to let out a sheik. Poor guy never had a chance! I let out a little laugh and ran up to the man with the knife in his forehead ripping it from his skull. I then ran at the other man jumped in the air to gain momentum and jabbed the small object into the mans chest. He threw me into the tree before falling to the ground. I sat up, my head hurting even more now, and saw that greenie had finished off the women.

My head was pounding. It felt like i was hit over the head with a hammer. They must have drugged us or something. Could this day get any worse?

Greenie had disarmed the woman with the branch. She had the branch up against the woman's throat as her knee pinned the woman to the ground.
"Are there any others after us?" She spat out.

I watched waiting for the woman to make a move as a horrifying grin spread across her face.

The burnet pushed the branch against the woman's throat. "Tell me!" She snarled.

Merrier moments after i caught the women slowly lifting a knife to greenie's back. "Look out!" I shrieked and through the knife which landed smack in the middle of the women's wrist and she cried out in pain.

"Thanks silvy" She said relived confiscating all the the weapons surrounding the woman's figure "now tell me."

"Ugh!" The woman shrieked through grinder teeth "not that I know of" she said in a venomous voice. She was clearly defeated with no back up plan.

The other gal scanned the woman then her eyes drifted to mine. "What should we do with her?" She asked me.

I shrugged unknowingly putting all my weight on my right leg.

She continued to hold our abductor tightly to the ground "hmmmm, what should we do with you?" She asked still glaring at the woman a horrifying satisfied look on her face.

I suddenly felt a cold blade against my throat pushing against it with minimal pressure "Let her go or your friend won't live to see the rest of today." a deep male voice bellowed behind me as he applied a little pressure with the knife. I managed to study my breathing from the shock. In and out, in and out, no need to think about what is behind you. I repeated in an attempt to calm myself.

My "partner" looked up from our abductor and looked at the man standing behind me with his knife to my throat. She slid a small knife from her other boot and held it to the woman's throat.

"Well I can say the same to you. And if you kill her I'll just have to slit open your friends throat" She had a smug smile on her face.

"Well you might as well slit her throat cause this guy is going to kill me either way." I stated casually with a wink crossing my arms making a very good attempt at an "I couldn't care less" stance.

"Well that depends how much he cares about her, and how fast his reactions are. I have a fast throwing arm." She said pressing the knife down further down on the woman's throat making a tiny sliver of blood slide down her neck.

"Well I can assure you, my reactions are faster." I replied in a bragging manner.

My head was halfway in front of the guys throat. The burnet looked at me and blinked once. She suddenly threw the knife aiming for his throat. At that moment i swear i almost had a heart attack. i could hear the sound of the knife breaking through the air barely missing my ear.

The knife easily sliced through the side of his throat. "Lucky shot" I laughed shaking off the nervous feeling I had recently felt. The woman rolled forcing greenie underneath her. I did a dive roll grabbing my bow and one arrow from my quiver and placed the arrow on the bow before standing up. I aimed for the woman and shot her right in the back. The arrow went strait through her chest.

"We're even now" I smirked than looked at the dead corpse with my arrow perfectly in the middle of the chest.

"Thanks silvy" She said as she stood up. She grabbed her sword and put her belt with her sheath on than grabbed her pack. She grabbed our abductors weapons and went through their packs grabbing more supplies as we were running low. Not that i had a need for it, but clearly she did.

"Weed better keep moving than." I told her getting prepared to go as well, putting my cloak on along with my quiver.

She nodded and took a quick shaky breath, the adrenaline now wearing off. "Yeah we should." She put her cloak on. "I'm ashlynn by the way."

When the surprise of that statement finally wore off I shook off my confused look forgetting we hadn't been formally introduced "Right, yes um im Tamara" I smiled. it was weird to finally have a name to go with her heart shaped face and burnet locks. I suppose it's official now, we're partners.