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After fleeing Bane, leaving the troubles of war and love behind him Alex ventured out into the northern woods looking for some clarity and to reflect on the past month.
Whilst walking he stumbled across a campsite swarming with deer, as he watches the animals graze he hears a noise behind a bush, being of a curious nature he decides to investigate...
The next few moments are a blur as he hears the beast scream KEL RA and a flash of light followed by the smell of burning flesh as Alex fights to gain control of the situation swinging his Serinjah sword he finds nothing, suddenly a Troll emerges from the bush grunting and trying to muster another spell, luckily Alex was ready this time because as the beast opens his mouth Alex pounced driving his blade through the belly of the creature causing it to lash out hitting Alex to the ground.

Alex stands up still reeling from the blow, he pounces again this time the blow is fatal as he spears the Troll through the heart, and as he tries to catch his breath he sees a horrible site! Theres two more of the things coming right for him one holding a massive club the other muttering incantations, fearing the worse Alex makes a dash for it, adrenaline coursing through his veins he barely notices the weight of his Elven silversteel armor, he finally comes to a clearing he looks up at the setting sun and decides to go west towards the old lighthouse to see if he can find a medico.

Upon arriving he see's no one apart from a shifty looking man offering him Sibanac for a "Good price"
declining he sets of north following the coast.
As he is walking he realizes there is an awful lot of berrys and wild flowers, picking some up and smiling he says "Samara will like you..." realizing that this is the first time he has smiled within days remembering Samaras face and the way she pushes her hair back out of her face when she is angry he sits down on a log, after what seemed like an eternity he finally got up and looked at a sign he was sat under 'Northmark'.

As Alex ventured on to this town he felt at ease realizing that no one was there he decided to have a look around, first he popped his head into the tavern...... No one was there
Then he looked into a house..... No one was there, feeling the overwhelming feeling that he is not welcome he set off again this time traveling east and before long he bumped into a group of 4 men talking amongst themselves in a hushed manner upon seeing them one of the men drew his sword and smiled to Alex, another asked him "What are you doing here boy?" to which Alex replied "S....So.....Sorry Sir i an merely looking for some food and shelter, i am sorry to bother you".
As another man circled Alex grinning, Alex drew his sword but held it by his side saying "Im sorry to bother you Sirs i will be going now" but as he went to walk away a hooded figure pulled out a dagger and stood in the way blocking his path.

Alex realizing these were Bandits raised his sword walking back as to not get himself surrounded.
Suddenly Alex catches a glint of metal as one of the thieves runs at him, dropping to him knee he manages to slay the man in one quick blow, one of the men quickly followed his friend and met the same end when Alexs sword penetrated his abdomen.
As the last two watched they began to walk in circles around him Alex could feel his nerves kicking in as he began to shake, noticing this one of the men smirked and said "Look at him, just a scared little boy!".

Upon hearing this Alex swings for he mans head only to be deflected by his sword, imediatly he knew it was a bad idea feeling a sharp pain as the hooded figure slammed his dagger into Alexs shoulder, with the blade lodged in his Shoulder, Alex winced at the slightest movement, feeling the hot stickiness of the blood seeping out of his wound and slowly trickling down his back.

As if in slow motion he saw the two remaining robbers attacked, Alex blocked the man with the sword and ducked as the hooded mans dagger just misses his ear, as Alexander pulls his sword back he spins the blade the wrong way and plunges it into the hooded figure he kicks the last man to the floor, Standing on the mans blade Alexs says "Any last words villain?!" but before the man could speak Alex cuts his throat...


More coming soon, please reply and tell me what you are doing in this troublesome time]

Lura lets out a fustrated screech, ripping the letter in two and throwing the shreds in the fire. Her eyes glaze over as she watches the paper burn, a tear dripping down her cheek. How could she be such a fool as to believe him when he told her he loved her? She had left everything behind for him... the warmth and security she had with Tirrend to the much-needed, close sisterhood she shared with Samara... sacrificed everything and he left in the simple shredding of a paper. She took a deep breath, lifting the tightly bundled baby from his make-shift bed in her depot, brushing her fingers over his tufts of soft red hair. "No more tears now, Nicko." She says softly, finding peace in holding her child close on a winter's night. "Now... let's go find Daddy... real daddy." She says, kissing the baby on the head and turning on her heel and out of the cosy Greenbriar tavern into the soft but bitter snowfall that fell over thel ittle town, heading towards the teleporter, taking a deep breath, she steps into the center of the marble square and says loudly, "Troll's Bane." And with that and a flash, she disappeared.

Alex wipes the mans blood of his sword with a sigh, He leans against a tree pulling the dagger out of his shoulder. Alex slides down the tree whispering "God i miss Lura" and remembering all the times he has been injured and she has patched him up and helped him recover, feeling in his pocket he finds a ripped and tattered bit of cloth realizing it is part of Luras robe she ripped off to strap his dislocated hand up with.
Alex smells it and says "God still smells of you...." tightening his grip around the cloth he puths it back in his pocket scrambling back to his feet he carries on his journey...

Tirrend quietly walks through the town, the moonlight glinting off his full suit of armor. The leather bag upon his back had been converted into a sleeping place for a baby.
He takes a turn onto one of the darker, less traveled streets of Bane, simply walking, having no particular destination in mind. A hooded figure quickly passed him, letting out a loud hiss, which wakes the baby up, also making it cry. Tirrend frowns, and quickly heads to his depot. He places the baby inside, in a bundle of blankets, wondering what to do...

A rustle in the woods to his left, Tirrend quickly turns, drawing his crackling lightning sword. Two yellowish-green eyes appear in the darkness, and then a tiny goblin face forms around them, as it comes out of the bush. It grins wickedly at Tirrend, slowly drawing a sabre from a torn sheath. "Yous has shiny stuffs on yous, Me likey!" Tirrend points his sword at the goblin, chuckling, "You want to take the shiney stuff, hmmm? Heh, I doubt you can!" The goblin cackles, his eyes flicking to the forest as the bushes start to rustle. "Of course nots, biggy! Dat why me bring friends!!" It cackles again as three other goblins emerge from the bushes, each wielding daggers or sabres...
Tirrend thrusts his sword into the skull of the first to lung at him, kicking the corpse away. He dodges a wide slash from the biggest, leader, goblin and sends a boot towards it's gut. It squeels in pain and shock as it flies into the bushes, loud cursing and rustling comng afterwards. One goblin jumps onto the back of Tirrend, and manages to peirce his dagger into one of the weakly armored joints in Tirrend's armor. He grunts loudly in pain, and grabs the goblin by the neck, snapping it. The last goblin stares wide-eyed at his limp comrade, and drops his weapon, fleeing towards the forest, only to be cut short by a sabre through the heart.
The leader goblin pushes the corpse off his blade, growling and yelling, "Yous weaklings! yous cowardses! Argh, Mes just kills biggy by meselfs!" It jumps at Tirrend, screaming out a goblin battlecry as it swings for Tirrend's head. Sighing slightly with relief after moving his head just in time to keep it where it is, Tirrend places a foot on the back of the goblin before it is able to get up from it's failed leap. "Eeeeek! No kills mes, mercies! lets me goes!" the goblin whimpers, his hands over his head. Tirrend frowns slightly, slowly taking his foot off the goblin's back, kicking the sabre away. "Get lost, goblin.. you live for another day"
Scrambling to it's feet, the goblin limps off towards the forest, a grin on it's face. It suddenly snatches up the sabre as Tirrend turns to leave, and makes one final leap at Tirrend, it's sword aimed to pierce Tirrend's heart. Spinning around, Tirrend stabs his sword into the goblin's own heart as it is still in mid-leap, it going limp, blood flowing from it's mouth.
Tirrend notices the dagger in his waist, grunting as he pulls it out. He finally heads to Bane, sheathing his sword..

Tired from doing the two treasure hunts earlier in the day and hunting mummies in the graveyard with his friends, Drakon walks to the depot going to get his fishing rod so he can unwind and think about what has to be done the next day and to also think about something that makes him very happy. As he nears the depot he can hear what sounds to be a muffled noise coming from with in the depot, he figures it must a rabbit or someone stuck inside the depot.

As he slowly opens the depot lid he notices a bag shift and move as though something was in it, he slowly reaches for the bag unsure what he will find inside. when he touches it he pulls back his hands and jumps when the baby inside lets out a very loud cry from being woken up. Realizing it is a baby he quickly picks it up and opens the bag all the up so that he can see who the baby is and is shocked when he sees its Little Nicko.

He quickly looks around for Tirrend or Lura, not know what may have happened to them or why Little Nicko was wrapped up inside a bag laying in the depot. not being to familiar with little babies he quickly begins to look for Tirrend and Lura hoping that they both are ok and that Little Nicko wasn't abandoned or taken from them. he franticly searched up and down all the streets inside Bane not seeing anyone, he begins to seach the all the building all while holding Little Nicko wrapped in a blanket in his arms as he seen Lura do some many time.

After searching the Eliza's building the last one he didn't search his heart sank down to his stomach, Because there was no one there who could take care of Little Nicko which means he would have to which scared him very much. He ran to the East gate hoping to see anyone he knew he could trust his life to so that he can give them Little Nicko and know Little Nicko will be safe as well. Just as he gets to the East gate Tirrend walks through the gate a blood red stain trails from his waist down his leg and on the ground beneath. Tirrend begins to tell Drakon what has happened as they both go to the depot so that Tirrend can clean and dress his wound, When they get to the depot Drakon tells Tirrend why he was holding Little Nicko and he feared something may have happened. Tirrend cleans and wraps a bandage around his waist after finishing the bandages, Takes Little Nicko from Drakon's arms and thanks him for his concern. after a few words and making sure Tirrend was ok. Drakon headed off to fish some place very quiet where he can be with his thoughts.

((sorry, I am not a great writer and I am very tired but I was asked to post))

Soon enough Alex came to another clearing in which he saw an old ruin, silent and dry he quickly walked towards it.
After sitting down and counting his loot from the bandits he decided this was a good place to make camp, he set his bag down and searched for food but after finding nothing but an apple he returned to his desolate camp hoping to get a little shut eye before he carries on Alex fell asleep.

Five minutes had past before Alex was woken up by an almighty band as an arrow had hit the tree next to him.
He ducked out of sight to surprise his attackers when he saw 3 small greenish figures emerge from the woods, One of them saying ".....Heh you gets 'im?".

As he stood there out of sight Alex thought "No more running from my problems, enough is enough".
He jumped over the rock he was hiding behind and with a well aimed boot he kicked one of the Goblins straight in the groin, as another turned around his jaw met Alexs Serinjah blade, ripping it clean off.
The other Goblin dropped his dagger and got to his knees pleading with Alex to spare his life, pitying the creature Alex sheathed his sword telling the Goblin to "Go home... you life today", thanking him the creature ran off without another work.
Around a Minute later 2 Goblins came into sight, one small on that he let go and another much bigger one which looked more like an Orc with a mace in his hand.
Pointing at Alex the small one said "Datss 'im, go gets 'im" and hides behind the tall creature.
Readying his sword Alex looks at the ugly beast sizing him up, deciding the best plan of attack, but before he could think Alex has to dodge a blow from the big Goblins mace, Alex attempts to use his shield at a ram thrusting it at the Goblin only to feel an equal amount of force pushing it back as the beast kicks Alexs shield.
For the next 30 seconds Alex sidestepped many blows and struck many times to no avail, and it wasnt until he tried to kick the creature that it all went wrong.
The creature caught Alex foot and pushed him to the floor, then the smalled Goblin pounced on Alex attempting to get the final blow only to jump on to the end of Alexs blade, pushing the creature off and getting to his feet Alex narrowly missed the remaining Goblins mace as it sailed over his head by an inch.
Unfortunately Alex was not so lucky the next time catching a blow on his ribs he doubled over in pain and the Goblin made his final blow to the back of his head,falling to the flor Alex managed to turn over looking up at the sky only to see the Goblin standing over him

Alex closed his eyes seeing only his 2 lovers faces and smiles whispering "I welcome death" And for a moment Alex felt at peace, he opened his eyes a second later and leaned up.... The Goblin had gone, trying to fight the blurred, red vision Alex made out a small white bird, pertched on the log next to him gently cooing, and attached to his leg was a tiny bit of parchment, struggling not to hurt the bird as Alex pulled it off its leg and sending the bird free he opens the letter reading it

Dear Alexander knight
I have just arrived in a town called Trolls Bane.... My gods it is a state, the tavern hasnt even got any Elven wine!
Anyway i hope i get a chance to see you again my friend
==Aramiel Zhah==