Act 01: The dark knight and the dragon slayer

Chapter 1

It all started far away from the big kingdom, in a small bar where the only one who stayed were travelers and criminals. A perfect place for black to not attract attention. He was there to gather information to find nothing but the one who killed the dragon.

The great dragon was not just the eldest and most powerful under all the dragon in the north, he also possessed an incredible power of creation.

With this ability of his, he made ancient weapons for warrior but this was long back in time. Tales these days say that, “who kills the dragon receives the acknowledgment of the old gods and get indescribable gifts”.

This tale was known all over the land, so when the dragon disappears there were a lot of rumors about who killed the dragon.

Black travelled all over the land to find the person that killed the ancient dragon.

“Urgh, I need to find the person.. only someone obsessed with power and glory would try to kill one of the most powerful dragon.”

Or so Black thought while he was sitting at the table in the bar. Taking another sip from his drink, he looked around.

“A guy that is stealing, people fighting and former knights with two whores on each side.. pathetic. Sigh.. But on the other hand.. who is able to kill this dragon must be capable of strong magic. Fighting this guy won't be easy.”

But was that ever a hold for black to not rush in a battle? Of course not.

Black took the last sip of his drink, got up and sat down at the bar. The bartender didn't noticed him at first, but you can't blame him, Black was covered in black clothes and was generally overlooked at first sight.

After some louder coughing from Black the bartender turned to him.

“Oh! Please forgive me, do you want to order something?”, the bartender asked. He had the same kind of intimidated look on his face as everyone who looks at Black the first time.

His black hair, his red eyes, the dark coat, even the sword he carried was made by black iron it seemed.. everything on him seemed gloomy.

He was already used to that so he didn't minded that slightly scared face from the bartender.

“Did you heard about the guy that killed the ancient dragon?”, Black asked.

He didn't hesitated or tried to be friendly. Black wanted answers, to find that guy.

“Hm..The guy that killed the dragon? Let me see..” The bartender looked like he was thinking about it. Black gave the bartender an annoyed expression, which was supposed to mean that he should hurry. The Bartender got Blacks signals and said “Ahh.. that guy, yeah! I heard he must have great powers to defeat that dragon. I mean.. I can still remember how on one specific day a month, every year the dragon flew right above this tavern.. It was amazing, I can tell ya! People from all over the kingdom came here just to feel the wind from his wings. He was flying high up the sky, ya know? So you couldn't see him but only feel his great power by the wind his wings made. He even-”

“Did I asked about the dragon or the guy?”, said Black interrupting him.

The face from the bartender changed from a fascinated expression to a offended expression and he looked away.“Oh.. well I don't know anything about that guy.” He said.

Black knew he was hiding something. He was putting three gold coins on the table and said: “You better tell me everything you know.”

After the bartender grabbed the coins as fast as he could, he told Black, “Well.. I know that this guy is a member of the royal family. Or he at least is close to them. Maybe a knight, a mage or even a royal member.”

“Tell me more”, Black said.

But the bartender answered with “ This is everything you payed to know. If you want more you should get more gold coins.”

Black got inpatient. He quickly grabbed the bartender on his shirt, pulled him closer and said again: “Tell. Me. More”.

The bartender looked very frightened but were still trying to get Black to pay, so he asked again, but in a higher and stuttering voice:

“Y-Y-You can use installment payment?”. Black got angry and his hands were itching to give this guy a lesson. The bartender noticed that Black wasn't the sort of guy that does empty threats, so he sighed and said: “Okay, okay!! Please, no point in getting violent.. geez”. Black backed off from the guy and let him talk.

“Well.. The only think I heard many folks saying were, that the guy.. well.. he.. I mean.. these are only rumors though.. but.. many were saying that he could be a .. lady.”

Now Black lost his patience completely, he got angry, drew his sword at the throat from the man and said, “You think you can play with me?”.

The bartender got pale as a ghost and answered “Nonono!! I swear to the old gods that isn't a lie! These rumors were from a pretty reliable source! You need to trust me!”

Something told Black he wasn't lying.. so he lowered his sword and put it back in the sheath.

He didn't spoke another word and turned around to leave the tavern. But just as he turned around he noticed.. some people in the bar noticed him now. He tried to ignore them and was directly walking to the door to get out of the tavern. He grabbed the door handle but before he could leave he felt a hand from behind on his shoulder. Saying “You wanna leave us already? I thought you wanted some fun?”.