《In Life and In Death》Chapter 1
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*CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG*
That was the sound of my sword clashing with the monster’s appendage. Its blood-red arm shot out and knocked my shield away. A flash appears behind me and a blot of light rushes toward the monster.”Triston Hit its eye!” I yell
“Alex don’t you think I’m trying to do that?!” he yells back
I run towards the leg of the monster, or at least one of the many, to try to cripple him….Her?....Thing. It has no gender or at least none that I know of. This thing was too strong to be natural. My team has hunted Great Dragons with less danger, Whatever this thing is, it’s not made by evolution.
“Kate I need a Heal!” I yell, a pink light flows over me and I feel my wounds close and energy return to me. Another red arm shoots out and crashes into Kate, She crashes into the wall. Blood flows out of her mouth, “Jack, Get her out of the way!”, he moves through shadows and appears by Kate, he picks her up and brings her to our priest, Sam. I arrive by the monster’s leg and bring my sword down on its leg.
*CLANG*It bounces off and I get knocked into the wall by the leg I just tried to amputate. Blood covers my eyes, I try to open them and I think about the contract we took to kill this thing.
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(2 Days ago)
“ALEX TORRES, YOU ARE THE MOST STUPID AND HORRIBLE PERSON ON THIS PLANET” yells a cute redhead, This girl was the barmaid of the tavern my team stayed at last week. She’s furious right now because I wouldn’t go on a date with her.*Sigh* “Listen, Bella, I don’t want a relationship right now.” As soon as I finish my sentence, she turns from furious to “hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn” Angry……. Shit, I don’t think that was her name.
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“MY NAME IS MELANIE GREENFORD,” She slaps me and runs off. I look around the market place and see everyone looking at me then her then me again. I get a pat on the shoulder, I look to my right and I see Triston looking at me with a sparkle in his eye. I glare at him.
“What is that? The third one this week? I don’t understand how you keep having women throwing themselves at you and you never take them up on their offers.”He says with a laugh “Man if they could throw themselves at me, I would welcome them with open arms”
“I still don’t understand why they do that,” I said dejectedly
“Are you serious? Dude look at yourself” I look in the mirror of a nearby vendor, I see my black hair and blue eyes, I admit I look ok I have a good jawline and I’m clean-shaven, I’m around 6 foot but that’s about it ”I look average” I say with a shrug. He looks at me and then the mirror and starts laughing, I glare at him. “Alex, you look like a prince with muscle in all the right places and look how you dressed, you look like you’re about to go save a damsel in distress” Do I really look like that? I look at myself again “I don’t see it” I say with a shake my head.*sigh* “Whatever cmon let’s go to the guild” I start walking with Triston on my right.
“So what was so bad about this contract that we were ordered to complete it?” I ask, “This thing, whatever it is, just killed off Julia’s team,” he says in a serious tone. I look at him in shock, Julia Brunswick was the leader of the second-best hunter team, after my team of course. “They all died?” I ask in a whisper. “No there was one survivor, Adam, He’s waiting for us at the hunter’s guild”. We walk in silence for a few minutes until we arrive.
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“Sir Torres, Sir Grandfell, Welcome to the Youron’s Hunter’s Guild, Sir Felmer is waiting for you int the Vip Private room,” Says a man dressed in a dapper outfit.
“Thanks, What's your name?”I ask He looks at me with confusion in his eyes.
“My name is Gregory Nile, Sir Torres,” He says with a deep bow
“Would mind leading us to Adam, Gregory?”
“It would be my pleasure” He starts walking down the main lobby and goes up the starts, The stairs are made of marble with golden flecks imbedded in it, We arrive at a room with several runes over the door.
“Here you are Sir these runes will keep whatever you say private.” I look him in the eyes “Thanks Gregory” He bows and walks back down the stairs.
“Ready?” I say to Triston
“Never but that’s not going to change” He replies, I walk toward the door and open it
We both freeze. Its gruesome, Adam Felmer was always bright and cheerful fellow with golden locks of hair, he was confident and strong, he was a lady killer. But now he’s sitting there, with deep bags under his eyes, his left arm gone and his right hand missing several fingers. He looks at us and we see one of his eyes is gone and the other is a vortex of fear and anger. He has bandages over his entire chest.
“Adam….What happened” Triston asks in a shocked whisper
“A Monster” He replies with a shake in his voice, His voice is gravely and course.
“Tell us what happened,” I say in my best soothing voice
He pauses and then starts to talk ”Julia found a contract a few days ago, it was for a monster residing in the cave outside of down. It had killed several animals and several copper hunters teams, We headed out yesterday to kill it, it was too deadly to be left to the other teams. When we found it...no when it found us, it attacked. Nothing we did could hurt it, no magic, steel or silver could hurt it. We tried Sage berries and other poisons. We tried holy magic and smites, nothing worked IT BIT KYLES SWORD LIKE IT WAS NOTHING IT SNAPPED JAMES IN HALF” he screams, We’re shocked and confused. No normal monster could resist all of those.
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