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"The Expedition Begins" (Highway Village- Zexen) Disgraceful, a Fully Trained Knight, a War-Hero, and even a Star of Destiny, but now a lowly bandit, he could he sink so low? This had been the second time he had been thrown in prison for being a 'bandit' when he really wasn't. Then, a gift from his former commander Teo, the True Thunder Sword had been taken right away from him from some obnoxious punk kid. He and Alen had both received their swords on the same day, on the day the two became Knights. But now some idiot had it to probably sell or use as a common sword. He vowed that if he ever met that punk again he would kill him, but until then he had to stay with the two Bandits he was left with. The three of them had made progress towards a Highway town, it was a small town, none to prosperous either. It featured a few run-down shops and a Inn, Seth was given the chore of getting a room, Sydonia was sent to find food, and Grenseal went his way to a store. Inside the store was a counter behind with all the typical medicines required for shopping, but that was not what he was after. Around the store was typical goods that people living in the town would by. Then there was clothes, a nice selection, perfect for what he needed to do, get rid of the bandit look and the heavy armor. Firstly for himself he chose typical Traveling clothing, perfect for long distance traveling. For Sydonia he managed to find some Narcist clothes on sale, and lastly for Seth he rounded up some merchant's clothes. After purchasing them he made way towards the Inn to rendezvous with the others, there they ate the food Sydonia managed to buy and the clothed Grenseal purchased was handed out much to their reluctance. After that they turned in for the night, the day after Grenseal sold his armor at the general store and managed to find a rather beat up looking sword in their Rare Finds. Soon afterwards the three departed, within two hours march they were greeted by the Highland/ Jouston Border. As expected the guards were there, guarding as expected of them, this kind of job is what he did as well, so getting past would be easy. Grenseal approached the two guards, before they could deny passage he decked both of them with a small log he gathered on the path. Seth watched somewhat amazed, at this action but soon gathered himself and continued the walk. Since it was near dusk they had no choice but to find a place in the woods and setup a temporary campsite for the night. They went on another day, and still not reaching L'Renouille, they stopped at a small roadside Inn for the night. "So is he here?" "Yes" "So Thunder has finally showed up again, amazing he made it this far from Talrick" "Shh... Shut your Mouth before you ruin the whole mission" "Sorry Master Secily, I meant not to hinder the plan" "Ughh... They are out of are reach anyway, you keep following them, while I head to the Ruins" "Your... going to get help from the Midnight Raiders Organization then?" "........" "I see... well, I shall be off now" They awoke rather early, Seth had left to go to eat breakfast, Grenseal joined him later as Sydonia dissapeared off to who knows where. After Breakfast, before they departed Seth made it known that he was going on his own now, so he headed towards the west towards Zexen. After Sydonia made his presence known again they went on again towards L'Renouille...... "I'm sorry, You cannot enter the Castle, The Generals are making preparation and no unauthorized guests way enter" A Stocky guard said. "Yes, yes, I understand but I must speak to Lady Jillia or Commander Rowd" Grenseal responded. "Unfortunately Jillia... cannot attend, and Rowd is much to busy" "Fine... does anyone have information where their escort from Toran is?" "I do" The other guard, slightly taller than the other answered "I overheard Rowd's report, Sir Alex I believe it was left their company whilst in Jouston" "Jouston!? I have to go all the way back..." Grenseal mumbled to himself "Well thank you for your help, I will take my leave now" "Heh, Cya!" Sydonia said simply, his first words in days. "Excuse me, but due to the several attacks on the border by travelers, the borders have been closed off and reinforced a unit for each Jouston Border" "Crap.. now how am I going to get into Jouston...." Grenseal mumbled angry at himself for not checking Jouston some more before leaving. "Well.. you could go through Zexen and the Grasslands..." The Stocky Guard said "With a escort of course.... But noone from Highland goes in there...." "Heh, I've been there" Sydonia said simply "Nice place, kinda dry" "Really then?" Grenseal asked "Well then, let's get out of here" After thanking the two guards once more, they headed west, the beautiful terrain that Highland sported soon melted away into a dying forest, seemingly endless plains and even some intensely hot desert. The walk was horrible, Grenseal cursed himself for not bothering to get horses to take them there, it made no difference now. Now it was either them or the vultures, whichever one could last longest would be the victor. Day and night they went on, soon their rations were depleted and they were left with a aching hunger and thirst. By now even the vultures above looked tempting to them, then at long last, it happened, first Grenseal collapsed, then Sydonia who collapsed for no reason other than he saw no reason to go on. The vultures began to swirl about them greedily, ready for the food they had long followed. A Few hours later........ Grenseal found himself rudely awaken by a rather odd looking kid, he was gazing at him, his eyes watched him closely, he then grabbed his pouch full of Potch and Bits and ran off. Grenseal struggled to get up and succeeded slightly, but fell back down from being tired. A Man then entered, looking about the room carefully he closed the window in which the kid had escaped. He then looked at Grenseal and spoke up: "So your awake, if I hadn't been coming back from Sajah Village with the supplies you'd been Vulture food." "Yeah... well thank you...." Grenseal mumbled out, his tongue hurting from dehydration "Can I have something to drink" "Sure thing" The man answered as he pulled a glass of water off a table next the bed and offered it to Grenseal who drank it greedily. "There was some kid... who jumped in my room and stole my pouch...." Grenseal said, a bit more understandable than before. "Ah.. Probably one of those filthy Street Urchins, Zexen isn't safe anymore since that new hotshot came around" "I see... and... Sydonia?" "That Weird Man dressed like one of those Idiot Narcissist? He's eating his heart out, I tell ya, he's odd..... scary even..." "Well thank you... if theirs anyway I can make it up to you...." "HAHA!""The man shouted causing Grenseal to fall off the bed in shock "You said the magic words! I have the perfect way to repay the favor and replenish the money you lost!" "Ok....." "I am a very wealthy man, but can never be to wealthy you see, so in this sense, I have begun a large expedition on some land I managed to acquire. There is large power source there, I have hired the best Mercs, Miners and Adventurers for it. I can tell you and your friend are adequate warriors and are the best people to fill in the spot for the two members that recently died..... Anyhow! I will pay you a large fund, the reason I need Mercs is because of the beasts in there and the many Bandits raiding the area. So what have you say?" "Well... I really need to fi--" "Good! I'll inform your Sydney friend and we'll go to the Rendezvous Point in Porpallis Village Tomorrow where the crew awaits........ Oh yes! My name is Lord Fraunces" "Ok... and I am.. Grenseal...." He answered the rich man dumbfounded by the turn of events, yet another delay until he finally was home in Toran... and he could kill Tesla and Alen for getting him stuck in this mess.
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