The journies towards the seventh sky

[Writer]

((Jen and Sam won't... Gavin will! ))

 

 

"You seem troubled, dwarf," a low voice muttered. The man who had spoken had bright blue eyes and shaggy blonde hair that fell just past the tops of his ears. "Perhaps a fellow travellor can lend his ears for your story."

[Curt-Man]

Ire made a grunt thne looked over at him, and in a low growl he said "King Magni sent me on a mission, so i contiue to do it, and do it well. Then i get a letter telling me to meet a contact, so i go there, and low and behold its my rival, and i hate him with the utmost intensity....he tells me King Magni has disbanded me, and is now using someone else with superior skills, i ask "whom might that be?" he replies with an evil smirk 'Me'.....and then, well i killed him, and i liked it.....Happy now?"

[Writer]

The man smiled slightly. "What bothers you more, that you killed him or that you liked it?"

[Curt-Man]

"That i liked it, i'm more of a demon then a Dwarf now, nothing left to live for. I will no doubt be exiled out of Ironforge, or executed, and of course word be will spread and i will have a price on my head and i will have to run to survive.."

[Writer]

The man laughed and it caught Sam's attention. Her head turned quickly to see where the laugh had come from and she paled when she saw him sitting there. He smiled and nodded in her direction and she turned around again. Her face was white.

 

"Sam, what is it?" Jen wondered, staring at her sister.

 

"He found us again," Sam answered quietly. Suddenly, her face was flushed with color again and she sighed a deep sigh of relief. Jen turned to look and the man turned to Ire.

 

"Come with me," he said. "And meet my sisters."

 

He rose and approachecd Jen, Sam, and Virgil. When he saw Virgil, his pace slowed slightly, but he shrugged and smiled.

 

"I recognize you," he said. "You quite literally ran into me four days ago. Since you would not stop then, I shall let my sisters introduce me now."

 

"Virgil, this is our brother, Gavin," Jen announced. "Gavin, this man is Virgil."

 

"Ah, Virgil," Gavin said softly. "Now that's a name I recognize. And now I'd best introduce my guest. He is a dwarf, once highly trusted by the king, but he has killed another and is not so highly favored any longer."

 

"Then, he is welcome with us," Sam said. "Come. Sit. We all have much to talk about. First, the Dwarf. What is your name?"

[Black Knight of Keno]

The barbarian had been keeping a look out for those twins unti now that the new man arrived into his view. Another one of their siblings of what Ilenal informed him a moment later after reading their lips. "Time for us to go, elf" Bearog said and stood up quietly. The elf followed, keeping his other hand on the hilt of his scimitar, the other hald of the cape covering his hand and the scimitar. His face was covered again by the hood as they left the INN and got their horses silently. Ilenal looked over at the INN and then at Bearog. "Now that the twins are tracking Borg down at Transyssos, we can get him caught in Celedian forest" he mumbled so even barely the elf heard him. The mounted men took the long route and went throught the south gate, but after a mile or so changed directions and headed towards South-West instead of towards the border in South-East. The barbarian grinned smugly, already thinking that he soon enoughtwould get rid of those pesky twins, stuffing their noses into others' business...

Instead, Ilenal had grown quite fond of the other of the twins. At last he could have a mach to his wit and maybe even fighting and tracking skills. And maybe even stealth if it came to it

[Flamehart]

((Sry about the absence. Family reunion, and grandma had no damn internet >.>))

 

Virgil nodded and shook Jen's hand. Later when their brother came over, he offered his hand to him and the dwarf. "I apologize for any inconveniences I caused. Just hasn't been a good year, if you get what I mean." He said, seeming a bit more comfortable with this group.

[Curt-Man]

Ire shook his hand and sat down.

"The name's Iregrin, You can call me Ire. But it'll be a week at tops before you start having Dwarven trouble on your hands..."

[Writer]

((Meh, it's summer... what do we expect but for people to travel, eh? ))

 

 

"It is a pleasure to fully make your acquaintence, Ire," Gavin said, pulling up a chair and sitting down between his sisters. "And the same goes for you, Virgil." He sighed. "I know you meant no harm... you were running and who could blame you? What was chasing you? I only caught a glimpse... it was there and past me in a flash."

 

"Ah, we're forgetting our manners!" Sam exclaimed. "Ire has introduced himself, but we have neglected this. I apologize, Ire. My name is Samantha, though I'm better known as Sam."

 

"And I am Jennifer, more commonly called Jen," Jen said. "And you've already met our brother, Gavin."

 

"As for what you were saying about a bad year, Virgil," Gavin went on, "we're interested in knowing your story."

[Curt-Man]

"not a problem lasses, nice meeting you." Ire said then lowered his head.

[Flamehart]

Virgil nodded slightly and once more, retold the story he had told Sam earlier. ((I'm too lazy to retype it ))

 

When Virgil finished, he said, "Although your help in the situation would be much appreciated, I don't want to put any of you in danger, although I do know that you all are capable of handling yourselves, their numbers are great."

[Writer]

((You never told Sam much of anything:D ... PM us about it, I guess, just so you can be lazy and not type it in here ))

 

 

"As for my siblings and I," Jen said when Virgil was finished, "I can speak for us all. We will do all that we can to help you."

 

Gavin nodded slowly, agreeing with his sister. "What is it that's chasing you?"

[Curt-Man]

"a demon or an assassin, but i doubt the latter one, for these two would no doubt know about that." Ire said with a grin.

[Flamehart]

He looked at the small group in front of him, "It would be the dwarf's first choice, as he presumed. Or so that's what I believe has been chasing me. I assume they want no witnesses or survivors of what they did to my home town, and that's why they're chasing me. There could be a greater reason, but if there is I don't know. I certainly hope I'm not something special to them that requires my removal." He finished, saying the last sentence with a slight humor to it.

[Curt-Man]

"Aye, some share your hope" Ire said with a wink. "well if something is chasing you, i believe it is smart to leave at once, don't you think so?"

[Writer]

Jen and Sam looked to Gavin and he nodded. "We must leave at once. Ladies, gather your things. Virgil, I doubt you had much time to snatch up anything more than what you have on you before being chased. Ire, you just got here, so I imagine you don't have much with you either. As for me, I always travel light, no matter if I have time to prepare or not. I am ready."

 

Jen and Sam went up to their room to gather their things and change into more workable clothing. While it is possible to run in a floor length dress, it's not the easiest thing in the world.

[Curt-Man]

Ire stood up. "nope, you'd be right i don't have much on me, i eat what i can kill" Ire said with a smile, then followed the group.

[Flamehart]

Virgil nodded and stood, adjusting his sword sheath so it was more comfortable on his belt, then straightened out his cloak. "I'm ready." He answered, pretty much confirming Gavin's assumption about him.

[Black Knight of Keno]

somewhere in the distance, the sun rose in the colours of red and yellow as two riders stopped next to an old, burned church. The whole village was burned and now was in ruins. All this had happened in a day or so, and the stench of the fires was still very much there. "My god" the Barbarian mumbled, drawing his warhammer into his hand and holdi ng it tightly. "What creature of evil could've done this...?" he asked as they rode on towards the middle of the small town, dead, burned bodies lying everywhere. Even from a few feet you could see that the fire's hadn't killed them. some had their head or other limbs cut off, some had been hit with hammers and axes right before the town was burned. It was a horrid stench in the middle of the town, on the marketplace. The bodies had been piled up and burned, all the tables around were chopped into uselessness.

"Now what... Who's. The cuts were made by dark elven weapons, the hammers and axes were goblin-made" Ilenal said as he looked at the still burningpile of corpses in the middle of the marketplace. He grinned slightly. Last time he had seen something like this was when the last war raged...

"If this has happened elsewhere, we must warn the king" Bearog said and looked at his elven friend. "For what I've seen in my lifetime, usually the King just wants to hold onto his money and position. Unless this doesn't involve money, we're not getting help from the kingdom" Ilenal said and started to ride away. "Check the INN's cellar for your friends message. If he had any brains in his skull, he would've hidden something there when the bandits or whoever arrived" Ilenal said and the barbarian jumped down, hurried into the cellar of the town's INN and found a corpse, a large pillar gone throught his chest. He swallowed, then searched him for anything. He found a scalp of someone and a map drawn on it. He smiled quickly before searching the other side of him, finding another scalp. Well now it turned disgusting. Two maps that fit together perfectly, a small scroll with somekind of a long spell or many spells written into one. Only a cleric or a mage could understand it... The barbarian did find something else also on him. A very nicely made broadsword lying under him. It had an ancient elven text written on both sides of it. He took it's scabbard also and then was off. He would show the elf all these later. He strapped the broadsword in it's scabbard onto his back, the other stuff he wrapped up and stuffed onto the saddlebag. They went back their tracks, towards the same town that the others were leaving right now

[Writer]

Gavin stood and motioned for Ire and Virgil to follow him. Jen and Sam met them just outside the INN, but they looked almost entirely different with a simple change of clothing. Once again, they were dressed alike, but no dress would do for the moment. Each woman wore faded grays, blacks, and blues in the form of pants and a long sleeve shirt and their hair was pulled back, revealing the slight point to their ears.

 

"We'll be leaving much of this stuff at home when we reach it," Jen said, lifting a bag to her back. Sam did the same and the twins announced that they were ready to go. Gavin nodded.

 

"Good," he said. "It's long past time to have been gone from here. Follow me."

 

He pulled the hood of his cloak up and over his head and began to run.

 

((Yes, Tepe, we're headed in your direction:D ))

[Curt-Man]

Ire hopped up on his Ram and rode off with him.

[Flamehart]

Virgil kept one hand on his sword while he walked with them. He was in no way going to let his guard fall. Now that he was travelling in a group, he figured they would draw a bit more attention now.

[Curt-Man]

"Nervous laddy?" Ire said as he noticed Virgil with his hand on his sword.

[Writer]

"After what's been chasing him, don't you think he has a right to be nervous?" Gavin wondered.

[Curt-Man]

"Aye, he should be, but if you want to get the Demonic, i'll tell you how to get the Demonic. Their man pulls a fire sword, you bring along a Paladin or priest, they send you to the Infirmary, you send them back to hell where they belong! thats how you get the Demonic." Ire said with all seriousness.