《Beastmaster, Old Draft.》Chapter 16~ Turning the tide.
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Marlow watched through the burning flames as the green cloak lady turned and walked away. He wanted to chase after her, to stop her, but the power gap between them was much farther than he ever expected. And now he had lost his first companion in this new world.
When he finally recovered his strength he slowly trekked his way back finding the room completely trashed. Hearing a faint squeak he lifted up a broken bed frame to find Gwaner cowering in the far corner. Seeing his Master Gwaner ran across the floor and up his Master’s outstretched arm. Pausing to take it all in, Marlow shuttered and let the water works come.
Marlow didn’t know how long he held Gwaner in his arms, but it must have been long enough for all of the remaining rats to congregate in the cramped room. It was then Marlow looked around taking in his small hoard then at the flashing notification icon in his vision.
Quest offerted: For a noble cause I (Chain Quest). You have been wronged and the world has noticed it. The guild ‘Hardcores’ have been poking at the system for quite some time now. Looting, killing, genuinely causing a ruckus. It now offers you a personal quest to tell them to knock it off. Build up a strong enough fighting force to make them pay. Reward: variable. Failure: none. Accept Quest? [Yes / No]
Thinking it over once he pressed the yes button. Life was rough, but when life told you to stand up, and go kick somebody’s teeth. You better that's how you get on life’s good side after all. Brushing his tears away, he got into bed, and slept his pain away.
“Oh Marlow, oh Marlow. WAKE UP!” Le0n gently woke his teammate from his feathered filled dream.
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“Where is your chicken? I know that you don’t mind living with rats, but I do… what’s going on?”
“Opal. Was. Kidnapped.” Letting that sink in Marlow filled them in on what happend when they left him. Talking it over, they decided to stay and fight the hardcores with Marlow under one condition. If he shared the quest with them. That was a no brainer. He needed all the help he could get.
They agreed to meet back up later to go over a few possible plans. Jazz would go talk to her potion teacher and see if she could get any new potion recipes that would help. Le0n would go ask around and see if anyone knew their guild base was. While Marlow would go and get more beasts for the coming fight.
So Marlow took off a gang of rats behind him. It took him a few streets before he realized that he knew of no safe place to gather creatures in the city. He could go outside but he only had enough permits just for his hoard. Then again all of those permits were for rats, not whatever was out there.
“Wait a minute, what about Benson! He had farm animals! He’d understand!”
“No, I am not giving you any of my chickens, cows, pigs, sheep, horses, or any of my other animals. So that you can wage war on a guild of cutthroats.” Benson roughly explained. Lifting a hay bale onto his cart.
“But Benson! I need your help!”
“If you want my help so badly! Then help me till the fields, milk my cows, nothing comes free in this world, you gotta earn it. What if you think that you can go fishing in the sewers and just find a mythical sword! HA! Take your rats and skedaddle I’ve got actual work to do. If you got the cast I’d recommend stopping by Caley. She is known for keeping unique pets.”
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“Sewers… Benson you're a genius!” Marlow called back, already taking the road out back to the city.
“Hold it!” Marlow stopped in his tracks and looked back.
“I think this piece of paper would be quite useful, when this little battle is all over.” Benson held out a folded piece of paper. Coming back Marlow took it and opened it up. Reading over the first few lines, then tried to give Benson a hug. But took a punch to the jaw instead.
“Look boy, you're at that level where you think you can take on the world. But you can’t. You're gonna need strong beasts at your side, so don’t you dare lose that ritual diagram. Because I ain’t making you another, at least not for free. Now you have a war coming on, so get to it.”
Smiling Marlow took off, first heading to the bank. Making an account, dropping a few gold coins, his spare socks, and the ritual of soul binding paper. Before diving into the sewers below.
It was musty, moss, and dank as all get out. A perfect place to find rats. In Fact why did he just play a tune? An intermittent ‘wee’ echoed down the enclosed space. Checking to see that the sewer grate was still on Marlow ventured deeper into the dark depth.
That was until he heard a soft squeak turning his head. He could barely see something move in the darkness. Well it was a lot of little things. He should really bring a torch next time.
Reaching into his bag of treats he pulled out a few beans, beans that he was all too familiar with. Similar beans that he gave out to his rats. Tossing the treats in front of him he smiled. He’d just found the mother load of a rat's nest and they were hungry and he hasn't emptied his taming treat bag today.
One week later Marlow had rangled the majority of north eastern sewer rats into his care. Teaching them every tick he’d taught the Warwood rats. Le0n had made some shady connections with the underworld of Ardania. Turns out Hardcores were planning a heist of some sorts. The best Le0n could get out from the informant was that it was directed at the city guards. Jazz had learned a dozen new potion recipes but none of them were to help against a large scale event like this.
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Neiero: The Journey(Dropped)
What would you do, if you were sent into another world?Freak out? Good answer.But what if, you were seperated from the rest too?Also freak out? Yeah, alright. 75 Points on repeating answers.To put it simply, this is a story revolving around two main characters, each of them being a student that was sent into another world, the world of Neiero. However, due to odd events, one of them gets sent to a completely random area, away from the rest of his fellow students. Meanwhile, his friend who was summoned with the rest of the students and teachers, quickly realised that he was missing, and goes out to find him, only for something else to occur, truly kicking the story forward. In this new world of Neiero, these two students will bump heads against many different obstacles, get dragged into unfortunate situations, and ultimately discover more of this world as they go! Oh? You're asking what're their names? Hehe...You'll have to find out... Okay, no. This story revolves around two close friends, Damian Alexander and Jake Darryl, and their different stories as they are seperated from each other, with Alex being sent to an unknown location, while Jake safely landed with the rest of his classmates. Alright, enough descriptions. In simple terms, this story will jump between two different characters. They will get sucked into different situations, and ultimately make stupid mistakes.Well, that's enough of me.*Knock, Knock*Oh, it seems my lunch has arrived too. Well, enjoy reading! FYI: I'll be updating the chapters every 2 days...to the best of my capabilities. Alright, enough stuf. Time to eat!
8 90RETURN, A Dark Lord story.
Return, Synopsis In the Triangulum Galaxy, one of a number of galaxies controlled by the Empire of The DARK LORD, JENNA OF CHRISTOS finds herself on the run after she killed a patrolman. Becoming pilot on a pirate craft, several years later she and other pirates are devastated by attacks of the Imperial Legion and are now trying to regroup. Seeking funds that will help them hide out for a time, their leader THURGOD DRISTA and JENNA meet with a PROFESSOR of galactic history who gives them information, a map and an ancient artifact described as a singing stone. He tells them that this could lead them safely to a legendary treasure trove, called THE DARK LORDS HOARD, on the forbidden planet TRILLA. The hoard is supposed to belong to the ruler of the empire who vanished close to one thousand years before and is presumed to be gone. The treasure is believed to be hidden in a tunnel accessible from the planet surface but no one who has gone into the tunnel has ever come out alive or sane. Leaving the pirate hideout immediately after the meeting and avoiding a major attack by the legion, the pirates travel to the galactic rim for supplies and to leave a false trail. With them they take the PROFESSOR and ILISA, a serving girl. However CAPTAIN TRASKA the commander of a Legions task force called Detachment T, has guessed the pirates intentions and tracked them to the rim. The pirates leave on their next leg to TRILLA unaware that CAPTAIN TRASKA with his force of heavy cruisers, is already there and lying in wait for them. Allowing the pirates to land, including an unexpected second pirate ship, CAPTAIN TRASKA sends a force of troopers to capture both craft and their guards. Before they can do this, THURGOD, the PROFESSOR and others, numbering thirteen altogether and led by JENNA entered the tunnel complex. JENNA, warned by ILISA that she must be the one to hold the singing stone, carries it in the hope that it will guide her and her companions past the many dangers in the tunnel. Shortly afterward, VIS VISTRICER the Legions overall commander travels to Trilla in an armoured planetoid, a spacecraft as large as a moon. On his arrival at TRILLA, VIS VISTRICER meets with CAPTAIN TRASKA but before they can do much, they are both surprised by one of the LADIES OF THE CIRCLE who is waiting for the outcome of what is happening in the tunnels. In the tunnels, JENNA leads THURGOD and the rest of party through many dangers and tests. Four are killed in the tunnels but the rest finally come to their goal where, to their surprise, in a cavern they meet the DARK LORD who is alive and very well. He has been waiting for them so he can return to the Empire. JENNA finds out that the patrol officer is alive and that she and many others have been manipulated all this time by the DARK LORD. She also finds out that ILISA, whose real name is JURA, is a member of the CIRCLE OF LADIES and was sent to teach JENNA many years before on her home planet of Christos. The DARK LORD restores and fulfills a promise to release JURA from her service as a LADY. He next has each pirate declare their own fate and takes them to the surfaces of TRILLA. There, at their election, he executes two of the pirates while JENNA is pardoned and some have the death penalty reprieved. The rest will face the courts of the Legion. VIS VISTRICER is raised to the rank of STAR COMMANDER, the highest rank in the Legion while TRASKA becomes a COMMODORE. The DARK LORD returns to Tihab, the administrative centre of the empire. There he takes up his residence in a surprised and disconcerted imperial palace. JENNA is returned by COMMODORE TRASKA to the planet Christos where she is welcomed by the planets rulers and her family, some of whom were aware of some of what was happening.
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8 133The Secrets We Keep
The story begins with the resilient, ex-military intelligence officer Alice Mitchell. She goes by Ally. Years after her father's death, she makes a name for herself after solving his cold case. She believed the police let her father’s homicide case turn cold and forgotten. That wasn’t acceptable to her… Ally started her own investigating business. Pouring all she had left from her father’s police pension; she was able to piece together what the police could not. Although Ally became popular within her community, she also made a lot of enemies. Especially with the local police. Many of them believed she overstepped her bounds by doing ‘their work’. When her private investigation business opened up, she couldn’t believe how many people wanted her help. Her business quickly became well known throughout the city of Freeside. One day an unlikely customer come to Ally’s office seeking help. An old childhood friend, Shanti Edwards, who was a profound celebrity status fashion designer. Born and raised in Freeside, she was the daughter of the well known adult club owner Douglas Edwards. Just recently, there was news of Douglas’ death stating it was an alleged suicide. The news made it to the national level, broadcasting all over the country. Shanti however says otherwise… She calms he was murdered and would never take his own life. Upset and stricken with grief, Shanti returns home and goes straight to see Ally. She wants to hire her to investigate her father’s death. Shanti wants Ally to prove an underground crime organization called the Syndicate killed Douglas Edwards. At first Ally is skeptical, however this assignment perked her curiosity. She wasn’t sure what to think about her childhood friend. Ally was willing to put her gut feelings aside to help her. Also she was always down for a good challenge. This challenge would be like no other before. This challenge would take her far down a rabbit hole she didn’t even see coming… This would be a matter of life or death for her and everyone around her.
8 160Be an Ideal Husband ✔️
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8 181Unexpected
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