A huge Ogre was battling a group of elves in the middle of an arena. There was no audience,all the seats where empty besides me and one other. We were sitting in a booth that has a perfect view of the entire area.

"Come on Elves stick it to 'em !" (Unknown )

"Ogre stay strong ! I believe in you ! "

"he's lying ! He knows you will fail ! just let this happen !"(unknown)

The battle is reaching its end. The Ogre has already lost and arm and is covered with cuts and bruises.The elves out of their group of 4 only lost one member. surround him

" Don't listen to Nyx ! Weren't we going to go hunting together !? you can't go and die now ! "

The Ogre looks up and makes eye contact with me.While struggling to stand up It shows a weak smile then turns back and charges towards a nearby elf.As if he wasn't hurt at all.

The next few seconds later his knee was pierced by a spear making him fall down.Soon after he was impaled by the weapons of the rest of the elves,leaving behind a lifeless body.

"NOOOOOOO !" I collapse on my knees

"Ky-ha ha ha ! Looks like I won the match ! A deal is a de-oh....... It looks like Its already morning " Said Nyx while sulking

The scenery changed from the Arena to a garden with a large table under a tree.I'll never get use to her changing the landscape.

I stand up

" Do you have to go now ? It's really boring when you're gone ! Then I would have nothing to do but work ! "

" I'm still in a dungeon, who knows what could attack my body if I sleep in too much.."

" fine.."

We fist bump

"later "

"bye ! "

I wake up

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It's hot.

I shove Lucy off of my chest while disentangling her legs from mine .

It's been six days or is it seven? since my first night sleeping in this dungeon. We never found the entrance and I think Cyril doesn't care enough to search for us down here.

"Lucy get up " I sit up and start shaking her awake

Starting the first night I slept in this dungeon I met Nyx, she has appeared in my dreams every night so far.If someone where to ask me who she is I wouldn't be able to tell them. I assume some sort of goddess,If a god has magic that can invade your dreams well then your not really in a position to go interrogate them. That aside she's pretty fun to hang out with though.

"mm....ok......" She sits up still half asleep revealing that she is in her bra and panties .

I get up from the bed,I can't help but to glance at my ankle.It only took 2 days to heal, am I overthinking things is that way too fast ? I head over to a table that has my gear which is just my robe, boots, pants, a dagger,sheath and gauntlets I found a couple days ago .

After I putting them on Lucy gets off the bed while wobbling

" Michael..."

"Right right "

Grabbing her dress I head over and start putting it on her and tying the sash around her waist.She's practically useless in the morning. What ever happened to the whole "you can go ahead and sleep I'll wake up if a monster comes" ? We were attacked the first night by apples ! They were almost done breaking down the door and she was still asleep , I had to slap her awake .

".....We could just keep sleeping ...." said Lucy lazily

" no no,I rather not sleep longer than I need to ..."

She turns around and drags me into bed with her

"Then just lying down.."

I mean...if it's just laying down.....

2 hours later

Fuck I fell asleep.

"thou really think that's the exit ?" Asked Lucy

We left the room we slept in and are walking down a corridor

" I'm pretty sure...I mean it's a cave going upwards that's good enough for me. "

I don't think I can last another day,I'm tired of goddamn apples !

"what if it leads to a monster den ?"

"Then we'll calmly but firmly get the fuck out of there "

" You shall be left in my dust if such a thing occurs"

"what are you talking about ? I'll cling to you like a leech"

Footsteps can be heard ahead of us

" hahaha ! Have you no honor as a man?"

Something breaks down a nearby door

A skeleton with a large curved sword appears.Dry blood stains on the sword,cracked skull and a rusty breastplate

" ah well, honor won't keep me alive. So you want to take this one?"

" hmm.....rock paper scissors?"

" let's do this "

The skeleton is readying it's sword and slowly approaching us

""rock paper scissors"'

" Crap ! ....best 2 out of 3 ? "

"......."

She pretends she doesn't hear me ...

" I hate you "

She laughs

"I hate you two"

I take out my dagger and walk ahead to meet the skeleton.

After the first day we realized we will be here for a while,so It was decided that Lucy will teach me the basics of body reinforcement and swordplay as soon as my ankle was better.She gave great advice on how to channel some magic and on how you should handle a blade ....the problem came after.I was forced to fight any and all monsters that we came across.Sometimes I was locked in a room with them and she wouldn't open the door...

The skeleton lunges,Swinging the sword downwards.I roll to the side and stab my dagger onto the shoulder joint.

That's the thing with these skeleton monsters.

I pull downwards ripping it's arm off

Their bones are easy to separate.

I shove the skeleton to the ground and quickly put a foot on its back, grab it's skull and start pulling as hard as I can

the skeleton starts panicking and flailing its limbs around

" Just ...let this happen ! "

It tries to reach for the sword

" There's no use Struggling ! "

I pull harder

" Why..is it ..on....so tight ?! "

The skull comes off and the body goes limp

" phew"

I chuck the skull to the wall.

"Thou handles them so well now...I almost can't remember you screaming when you saw your first skeleton."

"scream what scream? You must mean my war cry.."

"Not a very good war cry"

"I'm working on it"

Lucy and me start walking again.

We turn the corner and there is the entrance to the cave,It's a slope leading up somewhere. The cave itself was too dark to see anything so I grabbed a torch that was on a wall and we enter the cave,It's a steady climb upwards.

"......."

"....."

so we are almost to the exit huh.

".......so.. what do you think happened to that minotaur?"

" The one that chased you? hmm.....Nothing,It's probably still wandering around,looking for thee."

" still? It's been almost a week.."

"Minotaurs are stubborn predators,it's not rare for them to hunt the same prey for a couple weeks "

I'm not getting anywhere near this dungeon again.

" that sounds terrible"

"thou makes it sound like it's not thy problem.."

'...I'm almost out of the dungeon. so as far as I"m concerned It's not"

" sounds careless.."

"nonsense"

We can see an exit.Light is seeping through the cracks of this bush that is covering it.

Pushing the bush out the way sunlight and a fresh breeze attack me

"Freedooom ! "

I dropped the torch and jogged outside, I take a deep breath. oh sweet sunshine,i'll never take you for granted again !

I was in a small clearing. The surroundings was full of trees 2 to 3 stories tall

Lucy followed behind,taking in the sunshine .

wait...How far am I from the school?

".............Lucy....I need a favor...can you climb a tree and look for the school?"

She nodded and climbed the nearest tree.After a couple of minutes she comes down.

" If thou keep going straight from here you'll reach the academy when morning ends."

If that's not lucky I don't know what is .

"........"

She is just silently standing there.

".........I ..I brought thou outside of the dungeon ....I .....suppose this is goodbye"

she starts walking back toward the cave.

This sort of goodbye doesn't settle well with me. What can I say,I like her company.

(monotone) " It sure would be boring having to walk all the way to the school alone. If only I had someone to accompany me "

Lucy stops walking.

(monotone) "oh wait, Is that Lucy I see? would you do me the honors of keeping me company ?"

" Well~ "

She turns around

" It would be rude of me to refuse....yes ..yes that's why I accept thy request."

I'll ignore her large grin

" Then let's head out "

we start walking toward the school.

Cyril

Time to confront that asshole.