Trip to the Unknown - Ultimate7777

[Ultimate7777]

"Come on! Hurry, Hurry! It's getting late!"

 

 

 

'Dangit, shut up, I'm hurrying!' I thought in my head as I said, "can I access my bank account, please?" I told the banker in his gray uniform, not unlike the ones the other bankers wore.

 

 

 

"Okey dokey, I'll need this, and this, and some of these, and a LOT of these," I said to myself, picking out my Adamantite plate and legs, a couple of strength potions, and numerous lobsters, "Oh, and I'll definitely need this!"

 

 

 

The locket dangled from a thin mithril/gold alloy chain, which captured the sun's light and warmth and magnified it tenfold. It always lay in my bank account, because too precious was it to me that I couldn't let it be lost, but I felt I needed it for the wilderness. The wilderness was evil, or so the rumors went, and my mother's lucky charm would help me, if only in my mind. In truth, all it was was the thin chain and a circle or ring of gold with nothing in the middle. Maybe not the prettiest thing out there, but it reminded me of my mother.

 

 

 

"Hurry UP, Max!" my friends called out to me, "can't we go BEFORE winter sets in?"

 

 

 

"I'm coming! I'm coming!" I said, struggling to get into the armor, "Valerie, got your runes?"

 

 

 

"DO I EVER!" Valerie exclaimed, and she opened up her deep blue mage robes and revealed thousands upon thousands of stones with symbols etched on them.

 

 

 

"Hehe, I've been spending a LOT of time with dark mages"

 

 

 

One of the runes caught my glance, it was smaller than the others and upon it was a simple, miniscule drawing of a dragon.

 

 

 

"Val, what kind of rune is that?" I queried.

 

 

 

"What? Which one?" She asked, shaking her head, "Oh, this? Oh, that's just an umm, like umm, a umm...you know, good luck charm thingy...hehe." Her cheecks flushed red to the roots of her long silky brown hair.

 

 

 

"Haha! Val's so scared!" said one of our groupmates, his black hair neatly on his head, as his whole body in dragonhide armor shook even beneath all the weight. "Hahahaha!"

 

 

 

"Shut up, Manuel!" said our fourth (and last) group member, who donned monk robes beneath the dark black priest gowns. A runite mace in his right hand, and an anti-dragon breath shield in the other, his long beard and mustache seeming out of place on his face, since his head was bald and shiny.

 

 

 

"Ugh, whatever, I was just having a good laugh, BETTY..."

 

 

 

"The name's Teddy! And if you can't put up with it you can kiss my a-"

 

 

 

"ALRIGHT! JUST SHUT UP AND WE CAN GO ON WITH THIS! JESUS!!!" I bellowed, and instantly they stopped. Valerie looked at me with an expression of shock and bewilderment, making me blush deeply. I didn't want to look immature in front of her, but, I argued with myself, it had to be done. I was sure it confirmed what she already thought of me, that I was a stupid jerk. "Let's just go, ok?" I said offhandedly...maybe a bit too casually...

 

 

 

And off we trekked, north of Falador, through the pathways south of the Dwarven mines, and a dwarve rushed over to me,

 

 

 

"How's it going, Max?" he said, his beard wobbling and his pickaxe hand shaking crazily.

 

 

 

"Umm, hiya, Dezzick. Hey, do you know if Nurmof has fixed my pickaxe yet?"

 

 

 

"Oh, not yet, the damage is a bit severe, but don't worry, hohoho, Nurmof can fix anything, matey! He says come back tomorrow and it'll be fixed! But why were you mining the leaking rock?"

 

 

 

"Umm, I wasn't paying attention, hehe. I took quite a beating myself."

 

 

 

"Yeah, well, see ya, matey!"

 

 

 

"Bye!"

 

 

 

And off we went, the dwarve still chuckling in the distance. And those memories came back to me. I really WASN'T paying attention to the rock, but to Valerie. I saw her as she saw me, and our eyes were locked in gaze when BOOOM!

 

 

 

I shook my head, putting my mind back to our present task.

 

 

 

"Wait, I need to have a word with the head barbarian," said Manuel.

 

 

 

"You mean the one who says to leave his town alone all the time?" I asked.

 

 

 

"Yeah, that's the one. Go ahead towards Edgeville and I'll catch up to you. Wait for me in the bank"

 

 

 

"Ooookay!" said Valerie, "Last one there is a rotten chompy-bird egg!"

 

 

 

And we ran gleefully, our lives just a wink in some greater dietie's eyes. How wonderful it was to live the life of a carefree child! So innocent, so free. Little did we know, today would be the last day in a long time that we would be carefree.

 

 

 

"Teleport!" said Valerie, as she held up a law rune and five airs. As they shone with a brief flash of light there was a sound: BUWAHAGH!

 

 

 

And suddenly she dissapeared, but only as quickly as she did appear at the brinks of edgeville. "I win! WOOO!"

 

 

 

"Hey! No fair!"

 

 

 

"Hahahaha!" we all laughed...

 

 

 

= * * * =

 

 

 

"Oh, yes, ok," said Manuel.

 

 

 

"You welcome help us, but no bring intruders!" said the chief barbarian.

 

 

 

"No, no, no, no, no, no! Of course not! Don't worry, soon enough, your village will be wonderfully built!"

 

 

 

And off ran Manuel to Edgeville.

 

 

 

= * * * =

 

 

 

"What IS taking him so long!" said Valerie, her voice deep with concern.

 

 

 

"Don't worry, Val, he'll be here soon."

 

 

 

"I'm not worried about HIM! It's just that it's getting dark and all...and you know..."

 

 

 

"I'll go check for him, Ok? I'll be back. Teddy, stay with her, m'k?"

 

 

 

"Sure."

 

 

 

"I'll be back, Val"

 

 

 

= * * * =

 

 

 

"Grrr...." -FWOOP-

 

 

 

"Piouw!" uttered the little imp, with one more arrow, he would be dead.

 

 

 

"One...more..." said Manuel.

 

 

 

"Hey! Manuel! Man, we've been worried!"

 

 

 

-FWOOP-

 

 

 

The arrow flew gracefully through the sky, but it went too far up to even land anywhere nere the proximity of the imp, who saw its chance, and disappeared with a puff of smoke. It reappeared a while later off in the distance, and Manuel set off for it.

 

 

 

"Come on, Manuel! Come on, we have to get going!" I said.

 

 

 

"No! That imp has a diamond! Do you know how much money that can fetch?"

 

 

 

"LET'S GO!" I said, pulling him by the ear. "I SAID, LET'S GO!"

 

 

 

= * * * =

 

 

 

"We're baaaaaack!" I said.

 

 

 

"Oh, Max!"

 

 

 

"Finally, we can go!"

 

 

 

And so we set off, and to the wilderness we went, a group of kids, no more innocent than a flock. A flock... of lambs.

[Godslayer]

"A flock of labs?" :?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aside from that I enjoyed reading it. Are you going to post what happens to them?? I want mores :roll:

[Ultimate7777]

Yeah, I had to put something virtous as a conclusion, and that was the only thing rellevant, i.e. innocent lambs.

 

 

 

Anywho, yeah, I'm writing the second part right now.

[Godslayer]

At least make sence (a flock of lambs??) lol but bro I like it hurry up with the next bit