Onward: Grand Quest

Chapter 3

Barley does the only thing he can think to do now. He drives straight home to look for Ian. Colt and Laurel are in the living room watching a movie. They see Barley come in. "Oh, Barley your back early." colt says, quickly pausing the movie for a moment. When barley doesn't answer he gets up and follows him to Ian's room. "Hey hold up a second." he stops Barley. "Did things not go well with your girl?"

"Things went great actually." Barley says talking kind of fast and making little sense after that point.

Ian hears his brother in the hall so he and Linda peek out the door to see what's going on.

"Woooo slow down." Colt says worried for barley.

Laurel comes in and stands behind Colt. "what's going on?"

"Ian?!" Barley says, noticing his brother. "You have to help me. I was hanging out with Cinda and were in front of this cave right and we were watching a show on my phone."

Colt interrupts at this point. "A cave? You weren't out camping in front of that old forgers cave now were you?"

"I'll come back to that." Barley says waving his hand to dismiss Colt.

"I don't think we should leave this topic." colt pushes. "you always do this. you can't keep getting in the way of progress."

Barley ignores colts and continues. "We were watching Trapflix in the van and we saw a shadow enter the cave. We followed the shadow into the cave and got caught." he gets really quiet for a moment. "The guy took her... he took her to his castle or something and we have to get her back?!! I need you to help me Ian." he holds up his map that had been given to him. "I only have a short time to find this sword. This is what he wants and you're the only person i trust to help me."

Before Ian can answer. "Brimstone." Linda mumbles, looking a bit terrified.

Ian and Barley turn to her having heard her say the name. "Do you know something?" Barley asks.

"He was always on about that hero sword." Linda replies. "He is trying to gather the master's weapons from old lore. The master sword, bow, and staff" she hides a little behind the door looking around nervously. "Cinda was supposed to protect me?! If she's gone who will protect me?!?" she starts to worry.

"Protect you from what?!" Barley asks.

she notices the little figures on the table behind barley. "Brimstone." she walks over to the table where barley has his little figurines set up. She picks up a little wizard guy and shows him to barley. "Brimstone was a wizard but time turned him sour."

Barley's eyes get really wide now. "A dark wizard. Cinda had said something about that."

"Yes, a dark wizard." she mumbles setting the little mini fig back on the table. "His name is Brimstone. His goal is to find magical people and the three master items. He never told me why." she mumbles looking away.

Ian feels there is something more there so he puts a hand on her shoulder to comfort her and gently says. "It's ok your safe here. You can tell us."

"He is my uncle." Linda mumbles. "Uncle Brimstone was always the coolest member of my family until I found out about his dark side. It's only gotten worse too. It's like he has become another person." she picks up a few little item mini figs and moves them across the table to show a bow, sword, and staff. "He became obsessed with these items. He was sure they hold some sort of key to unlocking some sort of wealth or something." she rubs her head. "He's been after me and Cinda since he realized she could do magic. I thought we'd be safe here."

"Wait, does having magic make you a target?!?" Ian says worried.

"Yes." Linda nods. "He needs magic for something and a lot of it."