The Tale of Shadowus and Sorrow

The Village and the Bear

Shadowus gestures towards his friends who arrive as he is talking to the leaders of the village.

"We are here to make things easier for you all. You are in the middle of our territory, and we have neglected you for long enough. My friends and I are here to help you put this town on the map. We will help create a better road and connect you to the royal city. We will need some assistance from some of you, mainly the strongest." One of the leaders spoke up.

"We greatly appreciate your help, Lord Draxia. We-"

"Please," Shadowus interrupted. "Call me Shadowus when we are out here."

"Alright, Shadowus. We will help you as much as we can. We have a small quarry over in that direction," the tribe leader said, pointing to his left. "And a small lumber mill over there. Just tell us what you need us to do."

"Will do. Let's get to work. Oh! Before I forget, these are my friends. The werepyre is Sorrow, the vampire with the glowing purple eyes is Tamrax, the one with blue eyes is Hextro, The gold-eyed  one is Rexard, the shaggy-haired one is Marthio, the regular werewolf is Drake, and the one in the middle with the uniform is Luxret." The leaders nod and point toward where they have been building something.

"We had been building a food storage there. It has one section for berries and such, and one for meats." Shadowus nods and turns to address his friends.

"Marthio, go and guard them at the lumber mill. Rexard, you guard the village, and help build fences around the houses to separate individual plots of land. Luxret, start building a wall around the village. Make it out of stone and mortar. Drake, go with Tamrax to get some guards and a doctor, and tell them it will be a permanent move. Hextro, help them in the quarry. Sorrow and I will hunt and gather. Oh, and Lux, make the wall about ten and a half feet tall and six inches thick, if you can. The stones won't be perfectly rectangular, so do what you can, alright?" Luxret nods and they all head off to their assigned locations.

Shadowus motions for Sorrow to turn to the side, so he can put bags on her harness, then ties some to his belt. After he had securely fastened them, they ran off into the woods to see what they could find. Sorrow did not know that Shadowus had his knife on him, and Shadowus didn't know that he would be needing his knife.

As Sorrow is looking for wild game, she spots a large black bear.

"Perfect," she mutters to herself, and she lunged at the bear, slashing its shoulder. The bear growled and swatted Sorrow into a tree. Sorrow brushed it off and lunged for the bear, but missed, instead biting the air. The bear swatted Sorrow again, knocking her off balance and cutting her side. Sorrow winced as she lunged forward a third time, grabbing on to the bear's leg and clamping down on it. The bear roared in anger and started kicking, making Sorrow scratch her paw pads. Sorrow let go of the bear, and it slammed its paw down onto her, but Sorrow rolled out, but not without her tail getting caught under the bear. She bit the paw that was holding her tail down and the bear released her. The bear scratched her shoulder, and she in return scratched its stomach. The bear, now totally pissed off, took his paw and swatted Sorrow against a tree. Sorrow tries to run from the bear. She circles back around, swiping the bear on the nose and back, but then the bear swipes her, smacking her into a tree.

As Shadowus is gathering lots of small bags of berries, he suddenly hears Sorrow yelp in pain. He looks around, but can't see her, and stays still, hoping she will come into view. Out of the corner of his eye, he faintly sees her trying to run from a black mass, and recognizes it as a bear. He is frozen in fear. He then sees her flying and slamming into a tree.

"No!" Shadowus exclaimed, racing toward her, knife in hand. When he got there, he gave the bear a gash in its side, and kicked it backward as best as he could. As the bear hit a tree, he noticed it already had a fresh gash on its snout and another on its back. As the bear is dazed, Shadowus heads over, gives Sorrow some bandages, and cleans a few of her wounds a bit, hoping that it will help increase her chances.