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Dawn719

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“Do I?” I ask.

“Well, now you look more confused.” Redseed suddenly becomes serious. “Freak, you’ll have to be careful. There are dark wizards around here. We’ll have to pass a circle of them to enter the city.”

I’m not afraid. OKAY…I am. Dark wizards! What has this world come to? I hate anything that includes the word dark. I’m pretty sure I was once afraid of the dark. Come to think of it, I’m still afraid of the dark! Waaaaaa, dark wizards!

“Freak, don’t freak out. I’ll tell you when to run.” My steadfast companion is smiling at me as if the world isn’t coming to an end (and it is for me). “The dark wizards aren’t that smart, but they can hit you from afar. If they do hurt you, keep running. Okay?”

“Yes, sure, yeah. Easy enough,” I mumble. The dark path we’ve been walking on continues along until I see great gray walls. Before those walls, however, on each side of path are trees. I see glimpses of dark cloaks beyond those trees, and shivers run down my spine. Redseed stops me with one hand. I look up to see him sniffing.

“The dark wizards have a distinct smell, you know.”

I sniff the air and find my nose battered by the smell of stinky fish. "They reek.”

“I know. Noobs have come to fear the stench of death.” Redseed’s grim words have given me the worst feeling in the pit of my stomach.

“Will they kill me?” I whisper. I don’t like this! Aaaaah! I’m afraid, so afraid!

“Keep calm.” Redseed nods. “Run, Freak. Run now!"

I run and cover my head with my hands for good measure.

~End of Chapter 5~

16-Aug-2010 18:56:08

Fireheart449

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Yay, more readers! Ahem, anyway, with chapter 6, we get to a turning point: the real beginning of Freak's adventure.
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Chapter 6 Fireheart’s Rage

I run with my eyes closed. Even if anything hits me, I will continue to run. Indeed, as I pass, the air ruffles with the magic. The dark wizards are attacking! Waaaah! I feel a soft pressure on my shoulder, and I open my eyes to find Redseed considering me kindly. We’re inside the great, gray walls.

“You’re fine. The wizards didn't get you today.”

“They’ll probably get me tomorrow,” I joke. My throat constricts as Redseed nods in grim agreement.

“Let’s find Fireheart.” Redseed beckons to me, and I follow, quite happy to follow my companion and take in the sights. The buildings are tall, but in some places they look shabby. They look like fine crannies for gangs to hang out in.

We reach the center of town where there are many people buying and selling things. A newspaper vendor is advertising his paper at the top of his voice. Redseed finds me looking at the plump man selling papers and shakes his head.

“The newspaper is garbage,” he says. “A waste of 50gp.”

“Oh.” I glance at the radiant, cerulean water flowing below my feet with wonder. There is a type of four-way bridge over a pond at the very center of this great city. I see shops from four directions. Many people shoot in and out of shops, some very pleased, others very angry.

“Fireheart told me she would be here,” Redseed says to himself.

“Maybe she’s been held up by something,” I suggest.

“Probably,” sighs Redseed. “She’s probably outside the city, hacking at some guards.”

“Why would anyone attack guards?” Sounds rather barbaric to me.

“To put their level up, of course.” Redseed waves a finger at me. “Don’t you go and attack one yet, Freak.”

18-Aug-2010 15:07:25

Fireheart449

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“Why not?” His patronizing tone bothers me. “I’m sure any noob can handle a mere guard. Us noobs are the best of the best…well, I think we might be. Of course, I can’t remember anything and might just be making false assumptions, in which case-”

“Okay, okay, Freak.” Redseed rolls his eyes. “Where is Fireheart?”

“I’m over here,” a voice calls. The sound is a whisper, desperate and angry. Redseed and I crane our heads to spot a woman who looks remarkably like a noob. She has nothing but the clothes she wears now and an empty-looking leather pack.

“Fireheart, what’s-”

“Shusshh!” she hisses. She grabs Redseed by the arm and drags him into a quiet alleyway where a startled cloaked man looks at them with narrowed eyes. As for me, I follow the two, and Fireheart glares at me. The man soon departs when he realizes Fireheart, Redseed and I have no intention of leaving.

“Who’s that?”

“He’s Freak. He’s new.”

“Redseed, stop hanging around noobs,” Fireheart mutters. “We have a serious problem.”

“I know… since you called for this urgent meeting,” Redseed agrees. He gives me a pleading look as if asking me to wait. Well, I am willing to wait because I don’t know anything about this Varrock.

“Wolfbane-”

“I hate him!” I burst out. Fireheart stares at me, considering me with dark eyes.

“Wolfbane23, you mean?” Fireheart whispers. “I don’t blame you. He’s been leading noobs into the wilderness for Lord Luxon. Wretch that Luxon is, he won't kill them, but he makes them work for nothing. It’s slave labor. No one will help me, Redseed. Lady Lore isn’t here to reason with him. Wolfbane’s offended her, and she won’t be here for…who knows how long. I can’t defeat him by myself.”

“You’re the level seventy-five,” Redseed mutters. I’m agog with awe and wonder. Seventy-five has to be the highest level I’ve yet to hear of. I peer sideways at Redseed, and he correctly interprets my questioning glances. “I’m level seventy.” Oh…

18-Aug-2010 15:09:00

Fireheart449

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“Wolfbane has a gang of level sixties with him,” Fireheart says in despair. "Don’t forget Lord Luxon, who’s in charge of it all.”

“Lord who?” Clueless noob here doesn’t know what Fireheart was talking about. Whoever this Lord Luxon is, he must be terrifying. And important because Fireheart said his name three times: each time with a grimace. Redseed’s face has contorted into an expression of fear.

“Lord Luxon is level one-hundred and twenty-six.” Fireheart stomps her foot in anger and squishes a bug. The poor bug will never see the light of day again. Yet the bug’s murderess has not noticed the dead bug in her anger. “He and Wolfbane share the profits of their business! No one is willing to fight against those two.”

“You mustn’t be so severe,” Redseed soothes. “I don’t understand why you’re dressed as you are though.”

“You look like a noob,” I add. Fireheart laughs a mirthless laugh.

“That’s the point, Freak.” She brushes back her long, elegant hair, and then I see why some random guy might just ask to be her boyfriend, noob or not. I tug nervously at my shirt collar and look away. “When I’m in the wilderness, I will lose nothing as a noob loses nothing but his dignity.”

“Won’t you lose your dignity?” I shoot a look at my sword and shield. These were nothing? Perhaps to a high level, they might be nothing. Though, the sword and shield weren’t much help against the cow or the goblin.

“Fireheart never loses her dignity,” she says, talking in third person. “She doesn’t care what death does to her dignity as long as those poor noobs are freed. However, if she is to save them, she needs help.”

“You have my sword,” Redseed declares. I grin, glad to be with such noble people. What the heck! Fireheart was right. There was nothing to lose but one’s dignity, and one could always get dignity back…somehow. I had to help them.

“I’ll help, too,” I offer. They both smile at me and nod.

*You can help with the recruiting,” Redseed finally says.

18-Aug-2010 15:10:41

Fireheart449

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“Okay, but can I also go out to the wild with our army?” I ask. I give them both pleading looks. “Please!”

“If you wish,” Fireheart replies. “If you wish.”

“We should find Dawn first,” Redseed murmurs with a smile. Fireheart nods with an equally amused smile on her face.

“I’ll check where she is.” Fireheart takes out her friends list and pokes at it.

“Who’s Dawn?” I do wonder how these people come to be who they are, and if maybe someday I might be something worth giving a name to…well, besides “noob.”

“She’s Dawn719. She’s my sister,” Fireheart replies, still poking away at the Friends list.

Hmm. That name sounds familiar. No way… The POKEY LADY is Fireheart’s sister, and I would have to work with her to save the noobs!? She poked me to my DOOM! I can’t work with her! Redseed notices my stricken face and pats my shoulder.

“What’s wrong, Freak?”

“Dawn719 is what’s wrong!” I snap.

“I know,” Fireheart suddenly says. “My sister is crazy at first, but once you get to know her, she grows on you.”

“Sure,” I reply sardonically. I can’t deal with the Pokey Lady again!

“Let’s go find her. She’s in Draynor,” Fireheart tells us. I snap from miserable mode and become rather confused. Draynor? Where was Draynor? There was another town named Draynor?

“She’s not in the Manor, is she?” Redseed asks. There’s a manor, too?

“No. She’s chopping willows by the Draynor bank,” Fireheart says. “Come on, Freak. Let’s go.”

“Okay,” I reply weakly. I’m going to see the Pokey Lady again, and I’m not sure what I should say to her after our first, unfortunate meeting.

~End of Chapter 6~

18-Aug-2010 15:11:51

The Flood456
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Great story still! Kinda takes a whikle for the chapters to go up, so I'd reccommend if you have time to post 2 or 3 chapters at a time. Would make it better, and thats the onl;y thing i can think of that can improve it. :)

19-Aug-2010 07:14:02

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