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As I fall on my butt, I can already feel a fresh bruise forming on my face. Tigerstar kneels beside me, blocking my view of our opponent and Ava. Before I can nudge Tigerstar away, I hear a yowl of pain. When I can finally see, Ava is still standing in front of the barbarian, but they’re both motionless. Then Ava steps away to reveal a guy in rune armor behind them.
“Iustitia et libertas!” With those fancy words, the guy pulls a bloody rune scimitar from the barbarian’s back. The monster falls flat on his face, sending tremors through the ground. Ava turns her face away from the gore, and I dry-heave at the sight of the pool of blood in the grass outside Barbarian Village. Pah, good thing I didn't have lunch today…wait, I never have set meal-times.
With a grimace, the guy wipes his scimitar on the grass, dropping it and then picking it up sheepishly. Then he nods at Ava. “Are you okay?”
“Fine. I would have been fine,” she returns with a frown. We all step back in surprise as the barbarian’s body suddenly dissolves into dust and bones. The ground seems to soak up the blood. Eh, my stomach can’t take much more of this*
*That wasn’t a barbarian,” says another unfamiliar voice. A hooded dude wearing a blue dragon mask is standing beside Tigerstar. Her eyes are wide with fright. I step forward to defend her from the masked guy, but there’s no need. Breaking out of her shock, she careens into me and places her head against my chest.
“That was a player disguised as a barbarian,” Dragonmask guy says. “I’ve been running into them for a while here. It’s dangerous around here for noobs. That guy would have made fishsticks out of you all.”
“I’m not a noob…or a fish," I tell him. Really? I just wanted to make my unfired bowl…and along comes a crazy guy pretending to be a barbarian! What did I do to deserve this? “Who the heck are you two anyway?”

03-Nov-2010 00:41:35

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“Armadylspark,” the guy with the dragon mask says. Through the spiky blue mask, past the dragony snout, I see a glitter of very blue, intelligent eyes. He reminds me a little of my friend Bluestar for some reason. The other guy, wearing a Guthix platebody, has spiky white hair and dark eyes.
“You’re almost the same level as me,” Guthix-boy notices. He holds out a hand, which I look at but don’t touch. It has blood on it… “Oh, right. Sorry. Well, I’m Enddragon.” With a grin, he takes the silk cloth Armadyl offers him and wipes his hand.
“I’m Freak,” I say, wondering if a bloodied silk cloth would do the job of unlocking the door. Maybe I’ll just get a new one…Remembering my manners, I nod first at Ava, who is lurking on my left side and then at Tigerstar, who is hovering on my right. “These two are Ava and Tigerstar.”
“A pleasure to meet you, ladies.” Enddragon gives a bow, coming up with a handsome grin. Ava blushes.
Armadyl sighs, and Enddragon explains, “I’ve been in a medieval mood lately.”
“Ah, a chivalrous knight,” Tigerstar sighs happily. “Like Mordred.”
“Mordred,” Armadyl repeats. He holds his hand slightly above his head. “Yea tall? Black hair with streaks of red? Dark eyes?”
Tigerstar nods. Wow. Mordred sounds badah—I mean, cool yet scary at the same time. She asks her next question with such passion that I feel a pang. Of jealousy? No way, José! Maybe a little…
“Do you know where he is?” Her eyes flicker to Enddragon, who shrugs.
“Wasn’t he the guy we saw at the C.A.N. meeting?” he suggests to Armadylspark who has taken up a thinking pose.
Woah. These guys are in C.A.N.? Perhaps noticing my alarmed look, Enddragon assures me, “No worries. I joined as a joke. I don’t know about him though.” He laughs and jabs a finger in Armadyl’s direction, and Armadyl gives him THE look even through that mask of his… Hamlet is such a bad influence on the world; he’s spreading that evil-death-stare look everywhere!

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Fireheart449

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“I joined to see what they were up to,” Armadyl explains with an indignant sniff. “The leader, who always kept himself hooded, just preached against noobs every day. They even started talking about imploding noobs. I left, of course.”
Imploding noobs. Somehow I don’t think they mean the “boom” and fireworks whenever a person levels. I bet they actually mean spontaneous combustion…
“Sure…I distinctly remember you staying for the entire duration of that meeting.” Enddragon prods Armadyl with an elbow, and Armadyl swats him away, muttering, “If you touch me again, I’ll command the sky to send down tons of flying tuna!”
“You really like fish, huh?” Enddragon bounces away, a twinkle in his dark eyes, before tripping and falling flat on his back. “Holy crap…did I just trip over a pebble?” Crawling on the grass, he finds the offending pebble and holds it up with a smile.
Man, did I just find someone clumsier than I am? That makes my rotten day seem a little better.
“Well done,” Armadyl deadpans as Enddragon stands and tosses the pebble over his shoulder.
“Thank you,” the other man returns without any bitterness. Sarcasm or not?
Tigerstar stomps her foot. “What about Mordred? What was he doing at the meeting?” She already looks heartbroken. If Mordred has joined C.A.N., then wouldn’t he hate noobs? And Tigerstar, as much as she doesn’t look it, is technically a noob. Thus, by the transitive property, Mordred would hate her too.
“He was standing beside C.A.N.'s leader like this.” Enddragon crosses his arms, furrows his eyebrows, scowls and tilts his hips until he’s standing somewhat crookedly. “He was officially introduced to everyone at one meeting. That’s why I remember him.” Then Enddragon returns to his happy self.
“Mordred’s one of cult's main cronies now," Ava realizes. This time, I don’t think she meant to be vindictive, but Tigerstar gives her a hateful look before burying her head into my shoulder.

03-Nov-2010 00:45:04

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“I’m sorry, Lady Tigerstar,” Enddragon adds as Tigerstar begins to cry quietly. “I wish we could help. Heck, can I help? I’ve been wanting to go on adventure!”
“Can we help?” Armadyl corrects.
“There’s no ‘we,’” Enddragon replies.
Before they can continue their argument, I ask, “Where can we find Mordred?” Please let them know! “Where does C.A.N. meet?”
“Ironically, the Temple of Saradomin. Paterdomus,” Armadyl tells me. Enddragon nods in agreement.
Paterwhatnow? My tour of Runescape (with Redseed and Fireheart as my way-too-patient-for-their-own-good guides) didn't include that place. The two guys each grab one of my arms. Um…why do I feel like I’m about to be kidnapped?
“I’ll bring you guys there,” Armadyl assures Tigerstar. She blinks away tears and nods.
“WE will bring you there,” Enddragon mutters. “I’m coming too.”
I suppose a party of five is better than a party of me and two weaponless girls. I shake the two of them off and start heading into Barbarian Village. "I’ll be right back!” I have to make that unfired bowl…
Still, I have to wonder why we suddenly have access to more of Runescape. I soothe my close-to-panicking soul with the feel of clay spinning on the potter’s wheel. The bowl turns out lopsided, but it brings tears of pride to my eyes. Anyway, this widening of the world isn’t good, I realize as I place the bowl in the oven, because if we can go to new areas, whatever (or whoever) was there in the first place can probably come into our world too. Wait…the bowl…ah crap!
I pull it out quickly, acquiring first degree burns in the process. It’s a half unfired bowl. Yay? It’ll do…I hope.
“You’re lucky to have escaped that ‘barbarian’ with your life, kid.”
Ack! Where did he come from? Kid? I straighten. I’m not a kid! I whip around and find Reaver Coyot blocking my way out of the barbarian hut. “Ah, crumb-buckets. Are you here to finish the job?”
Reaver shrugs. “Sort of. I just wanted to see how you’d fare against Humbaba.”

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Fireheart449

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Humbaba…really? “Ah, you’re working for Blade?” I deduce brilliantly. “Why did you kill Dave then?”
Reaver steps closer, his tawny eyes giving me the heebie-jeebies. “I killed him, but he came back. Surely you knew that?”
Phew. So if you die, you still come back. That still hasn’t changed, thank Saradomin. “Ah, so everyone comes back. Then…what’s the point of killing me?”
“Didn't you ask for a thousand painful deaths? Death in Runescape isn’t painless anymore. It’s agony. Poor Dave isn’t the same person any more. He’s much more quiet.” Reaver holds up a crossbow with a rune-tipped bolt. “Here’s death number one!”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I don’t want to die!!!! I throw my half unfired bowl at him, and the rune bolt shatters the bowl instead of burying itself in my skull. While the mercenary is perplexed for a moment, I take the opportunity to push past him. A dagger catches me in the back, but I keep running. Dang it, I’ve lost my unfired bowl! A step backward for my quest! And I’m bleeding all over the place…
Somehow, even with pain shooting through my body, I stumble to our party. Wide-eyed, they all rush to me. I feel the dagger come out of my back and then…blackness.
~End of Chapter 7~

03-Nov-2010 00:48:38

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Die, Freak!
It is quite hilarious to see Freak be in love with two to three people at once, and attracted to the rest. And in the midst of his internal conflict, he's being stabbed and beaten and humiliated, all the while trying futilely to finish his stupid little quest. AHAHAHAH!

03-Nov-2010 01:04:12

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What pity? This entire story is based on laughing at how bad off Freak is.
I mean, think of it this way. If he was a handsome, intelligent, worry-free character, with overwhelmingly male companions and only one girl with whom he falls in love with, do you think you would reach 450+ posts so fast? My own story is proof that the answer is no.

03-Nov-2010 01:20:20

Fireheart449

Fireheart449

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Yes, Freak being beaten up and stabbed, etc is rather amusing when all he's trying to do is make a unfired bowl...however, I'd think a reader would feel an underlying sense of pity for him. He's just a confused, little soul. I certainly felt bad for torturing him...yet somehow I do it anyway.

03-Nov-2010 01:23:01

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