Stigma: Broken Keep

Chapter 14: Safety 1/3

--3rd person POV--

Spear stops in his tracks of climbing up a hill with eramis over his shoulders, so he slowly, and steadidly climbs back down to the shoreline of the river, he gently places eramis down, up against a tree, spear thinks to him self,
"Why in the seven hells am i always falling off the same damn cliff, and into the same damn river?" As he aggressively hits a tree, causing his knuckles to bleed, and the tree to crack, he does it again, and again and again untell the tree collapses, its not a very sturdy tree, he breaks off the tree limbs and creates a small fire, making him and eramis warmer, spear looks at his bloodied knuckles, he thinks that punching the tree was not a good idea, why am i such a dumb ass? He quickly perks up as he hears a twig snap,

--Spear POV--
I take my mind off my bleeding hand, and onto the one who snaped the twig, i put my none bleeding hand on my- wheres my axe? No matter, i can still kill with my fist,
I lower my fist as i see...
"Plum!?" Seeing how she didnt see me nor notice my presence, i scared the shit out of her, causing her to jump back in suprise and lose her balance and fall over,
"Oh Crap! Plum are you okay? Are you hurt?" I ask her with caution,

"Ugh.. yeah im fine.... wait... Spear? What happened to you? And why are you bleeding?"

"Im bleeding?"

"YOUR WHAT!?" Eramis says furiously, some how in a loving kind if way,
"Eramis!? Your here too?" Plum says still confused,
"Yes! And Why is Spear bleeding?" Eramis ask concerned and yet still furious,
"Well, seeing how you BOTH wonder on how im bleeding, wait am i bleeding in more than one spot?" I say hastly looking for more wounds, when i suddenly feel pain all over my body, which causes me to fall over,
"Spear are you okay!?" Eramis and plum say at the same time,
I open my snout to speak, but no words manage to come out,
"Plum, go find Echo! We gotta get him to a medic!" Eramis says urgantly, all sounds and sight begins to blurr out against my will, I focas all of my will torwards staying alive.... even tho... i wont...be mentally......

--Plum POV--
I hurry back up the hill i went from, i make it into the field, and onto the path, i make a quick turn left, which should take me to pridefoul, i gotta hurry, I slow down a little to look at the dragon flowers, with their firey smell, and purple and blackish tint, i quickly snap back to the situation and start running again... it cant be far... i hope......
"Hey! You! Stop!"
I stop dead in my tracks, i dont reconise this voice,
"Now, why are you running?" He ask, cautiously,
"My friend, he's wounded, i- i need to get back to get hel-" he cuts me off,

"That wont matter, Pridefoul is far off,
I can smell your fear, and i understand, i assume, that you sae your best friend suddenly seize up in pain and collapse?" He says, exactly describing what happend to spear,

I turn around to face the stranger, I look at his face, he has black scales, a red marking on his forehead, and ram horns, also gray, looks kinda like D'mantis, but... More older... more stronger almost, threatening really,

"My name is Ader Bloodstalker, and your name is...?" He says, in a soft and warm tone comforting almost,

"Pl-plum.... can..... can you help my friend.... he's like a brother to me...." i say grabing my arm and tilting my head down,

"Yes, Follow me, I'll get my sister, She'll know what to do," Ader says, running back to where he came i think, i hesitantly follow.. i can hardly pick up his scent, i walk into the shrubbery, and then into the woods, i be sure to remember the path i went,
I hear two voices, one is aders and another is a female voice, the closer i get the more audible they become,

"Damnit Ader! Im not ready yet!" The Female says in a agitated tone,

"Well, at least we might be able to save this man, I found one of his friends in a panic, Her name is Plum, I reconigsed her because Spear told me about her last Winter! And if what she says is true then He is in Danger, And he is the best warrior we've seen!" Ader says in responce with a worried tone,
"Okay then, let me prepair the stuff i need for the ritual," she says calming down,
I step out of the woods to see the female and Ader Prepairing things,

"Ader.. I assume that she is plum.?" The female says, i look at her, she has a wolfish look to her, her pelt is Blackish Red, the complete opposite of Ader,
"Yeah thats her, Plum thats Jenny, Jenny thats Plum" ader says not taking his gaze or focas off the task he has at hand,
"Well Plum we're almost done packing up our gear and tools, once we're done take us to Spear, we'll fix him good as new!" She says excitedly, even though the worry in her voice betrays her,
"Okay, Jenny this stuff is packed up, we're ready," ader says, Picking up the Supplies in somekind of package,
I nod and make my way out of the wooded area and out of the shrubbery onto the path, i hear them following me so i take the path i took down to the clearing, we continue a little further untell i spot the the area i came from, onto which i run to the hill and slide down it, i quickly gain my balance before i send myself flying into the river, Ader and Jenny come down sortly after me,
"Plum what the hell? I said get medical Aid not-" eramis gets cut off my Jenny,
"This isnt a medical problem, its a type of poison and curse mixed into one hell'va almagamation, which now curses Spear, so let me do my work, and he'll be cured" Jenny, says puting on a gloves and a bird mask,

"Okay Plum, New Lady, lets get away from my dear sister as she does this," Ader says making his way up the hill,
I look at Eramis who looks very, very, pissed off,

"Come Eramis, Spear is in Good hands, He will be saved," I say to her trying to calm her down,

She says nothing and makes her way up the hill, i follow shortly, after, i barely make my way up before i hear ader, and eramis unseath their swords,
"Well, Shit..." Ader says,
"Plum, get up here and stay behind us" Eramis says With a firey tone,
I get up there to see the fanatic standing there, with some soulders behind him,
"Well, Well, Well, It seems like my prey is down there, so... if you were too.. simply Die..." he says laughing like a maniac,

"Welp ladies, Lets have some fun," Ader says smerking, i look at him and notice he has three scars on his snout, like his snout was clawed,
He sticks his sword into the ground,
"May the gods guide my sword, and fury, as i strike down my foes, in order to protect my sister, and my brother in arms, " Ader says, lifting his sword out of the ground, runes apear on his sword, glowing into a flaming hue....

--to be continued--