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Dawn719

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I can feel Pokey Lady’s knee digging into my chest. Talk about awkward. I shove her knee slightly. After all, I’m no brute to use all my strength to push a lady! However, if I do nothing I shall suffocate. Verily. I sound very British in my head. Shakespearean actually. Verily thou art a callow, rump-fed clod-pole! What century am I from? Who am I talking to?

Redseed is the first to move. When he sticks his head above the rock, a hoarse shout from one of the armored dudes makes us all flinch. "You there! What are you doing?"

At that point, I realize we will be slaughtered like pigs that have been fattened for months. Apologetic, Redseed merely jumps from behind the rock and into the open like the madman he is.

Fireheart has a grip on my shoulder and on Dawn’s shoulder, which is level with my eyeball. She’s pushing downwards as if telling us silently to stay put. Stay down. Happy to oblige her, but…what about Redseed? No one can ever imagine how awful it feels to know that the reason that your friend was killed was you. Your fault. Your stupid shout of triumph that attracted the bad people's attention. I hear Redseed’s gasp, a sound that vibrates briefly in the air before continuing to echo in my poor, guilty heart.

“Strange. That player seemed familiar, Lord Luxon,” one of them says in his gravelly voice.

“Noobs all start looking the same after a while. No variety. Except for Lady Lore of course.” A cold, chilling voice cuts through the air like…I don’t even have a simile for it. The voice is worse than the sharpest knife. It’s low and scary. Geez, does he practice his I’m-totally-evil voice? Hey…why the heck is he talking about my--not my…er, Lady Lore anyway?

“Don’t you say a word about her,” a voice that I recognize as Wolfbane’s says. For once, I’m on his side.

22-Aug-2010 00:47:21

Dawn719

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“I’m not going to hurt your darling without reason, Wolfy,” retorts Lord Luxon icily. Hey! She is NOT Wolfbane’s darling! “However, if she interferes…” The dude’s voice trails off sinisterly, leaving his threat to all of our imaginations.

“You have to tell her to keep her nose out of this,” says the third dude. “She should listen to you. After all, weren’t you her boyfriend for months?”

Wolfbane doesn’t answer. I leap up from the rock like an idiot, an idiot filled with rage. He couldn’t have been Lady Lore’s love! No freakin’ way! Fireheart groans softly and Dawn shakes her head. Realizing I’ve put them in danger, I toddle towards the three imposing, startled figures.

“You. Are you Frog?” Wolfbane guesses my name. “I’ve seen you with Lady Lore.”

“Freak,” I state. My eyes flit to Lord Luxon, who’s dressed in the same blue armor as Wolfbane only with red trimming.He's helmet-less. In his hand is a whip. I try to focus on his weapon, which isn’t nearly as terrifying as the detached look in his fathomless black eyes: eyes without mercy.

“Kill him,” says the third guy whose name I still have yet to learn. He’s the one brandishing the dragon scimitar.

“Voldmort, you have no sense of fun,” Lord Luxon laughs softly. Creepy beyond creepy. Wolfbane and Voldmort back off at the level one-hundred-and-twenty-six’s tone. His pale hand grabs my collar and pulls me towards me. His hot breath chokes me. “You’re not one of our workers, are you? So, noob, what exactly were you doing out here?”

“Exploring,” I reply quickly. So far, so good. The high level seems amused by me for some reason.

“Are you 'exploring' for someone?” Lord Luxon questions. I can’t lie to the guy.

“I might be.” I’ve not lied. Aren’t I clever? I yelp as Lord Luxon shakes me so my very bones rattle.

“Speak straight, Freak!” he growls. “Else I’ll let you have a taste of my abyssal whip.”

“Okay, okay!” I sniffle. Gosh, he’s a meanie! “I am.”

“And what did your leaders say about me?”

22-Aug-2010 00:49:19 - Last edited on 22-Aug-2010 00:51:04 by Dawn719

Dawn719

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“They said you have the sensibility of parmesan cheese.” I don’t know where my head came up with that one. Oh, and I lied. Oops.

Much to my surprise, the scary high level releases me. He begins pacing while Wolfbane and Voldmort watch with shadowed faces. They both flinch when Lord Luxon stops to glower at them. “Whose impudence does that sound like?”

“Dawn’s,” Voldmort answers grimly.

“Or Fireheart’s,” Wolfbane mutters with a glimmer (hah!) of fear in his eyes.

Voldmort suddenly yelps like a wounded dog. We turn around and see Fireheart (what a relief) attacking the dude, who has the dragon scimitar. The evil dude crumples and she laughs, “You never were one to train your defense!”

An annoying tug on my arm distracts me. Ah, the Pokey Lady. “Noob, I have a thousand things to say to you, and none of them are very nice. Help me attack Lord Luxon.”

Suicide. Sheer suicide. Nevertheless, I pound my fists at the silent Lord Luxon, who is watching Fireheart and Wolfbane battle with interest. The Pokey Lady has dragged a weapon along (Fireheart too): a rune scimitar. She’s hacking away, but all that awards our efforts is the clang of my fists and her weapon on metal.

I hear someone fall. Not Fireheart I hope! Nope. Wolfbane’s gone. Fireheart’s still there: battered but there. Then, something thumps against my head, and I turn back around to catch a glimpse of the whip that violently knocked the senses out of me. “OW!” I say indignantly and then the world goes black.

~End of Chapter 9~

22-Aug-2010 00:50:48

Fireheart449

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Chapter 10 Regrouping in Lumbridge

Ha ha! Good ole Freak’s Bane in good ole Lumbridge. I stare at the fountain I fell in so long ago. So much has happened since then. In an act of arbitrary violence, I strike out at a rat. Sparks explode over my head. AAAH! Spontaneous combustion! I don’t want to die again! A few moments later, when I’m not seeing black and feeling nothing in particular, I look around cautiously.

“I’m not dead,” I say. A gloomy-looking Runescapian gives me a strange look.

“You’re alive, all right. So am I,” he replies. “But I’ve lost every freakin’ thing I have.”

“Oh, I’m sorry…”

“No, you’re not!” he argues. Um…

“Well, I’m not anymore,” I say, miffed by the dude’s utter rudeness. I’m only roused from my depressed staring at Freak’s Bane when someone taps my shoulder. I look up to find Redseed’s familiar smile. “You’re okay!”

“Course I am. You?”

“I’m fine.” Then I begin to sniffle. “Except Lord Luxon hit me with his whip…and I must have died! It hurt!”

“I know,” Redseed agrees with a wince. “Did Fireheart and Dawn manage to get away?”

“They were fighting Lord Luxon when I last saw them.” I wish them luck. Hmm, maybe we wouldn’t even need an army. The Pokey Lady and Fireheart seem like a formidable team to me. “If they die, they’ll come back right? Both of them?”

“Yes, both of them. It’s not safe to linger here. I saw Voldmort and Wolfbane not too long ago. Let me guess. Fireheart caught them by surprise?” Redseed chuckles and gently leads me towards Lumbridge Castle.

“You should have seen their faces,” I say cheerily. “Voldmort died before he could fight back, and Wolfbane got the beating of his life! It would have been fun to watch if I hadn’t been so terrified.”

“Don’t say that!” A fierce new light enters Redseed’s eyes. “Killing is not fun! It is simply done for survival. Lord Luxon is the way he is because he took so much joy in killing.”

22-Aug-2010 01:07:57

Fireheart449

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I blink in dismay. I couldn’t be a Lord Luxon in the making! No way! “I just don’t like Wolfbane, and seeing him suffer…”

“Even so…” Redseed shakes his head and then drags me into the kitchen of Lumbridge Castle where a plump, mustached chef smiles at us---er, at Redseed mostly.

“Redseed, come to use my range again?” the chef asks.

“No, Cook. Your kitchen is simply the safest place for us right now. Wolfbane23 and Voldmort679 are looking for us. Oh, and this is Freak.”

I grin heartily at the Cook. A similar grin appears on Cook’s face. “Hmm. Noob, are you? Mind running an errand for me? There’ll be a reward.”

“That’s a good idea,” Redseed says with a smile. “Stretch your legs for a while…until it’s safe.”

A person suddenly rushes in, and my heart jumps. The almost peaceful mood of the kitchen is ruined by ragged breathing and the fear in Fireheart’s eyes. She must have been killed. “Good. You both made it here safely.”

“Wait,” I mutter, feeling left out of a conspiracy, “did you guys plan to meet here beforehand?”

Fireheart nods. Redseed lets her catch her breath before asking, “Is Lord Luxon dead?”

“Alive,” she groans. Cook shifts nervously at the mention of Lord Luxon. Obviously, Luxon has a reputation: a really, really, really bad one. “Dawn is taking him on.”

“Why were you so out of breath?” I can’t help asking like the little nooblet I am. Nooblet! That’s a funny word! Nooo-blet! I better stop that.

“Wolfbane and Voldmort were stalking me. I lost them though,” Fireheart says with satisfaction. Her eyes suddenly glow with concern. “Do you think Dawn will be able to kill him?”

“Lord Luxon?” A doubtful snort issues from Redseed’s mouth. I’ve never seen him so cynical. It worries me. “She doesn’t stand a chance. None of us stand a chance alone.”

Silence takes over for a while. Fireheart is thinking. Redseed is also thinking. Cook is cooking. And I’m just standing here like a useless noob.

22-Aug-2010 01:09:41

Fireheart449

Fireheart449

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Then someone crashes into me. Hard. “OWWW!” I yowl and then shut up. “Pokey--Dawn!”

“Pokey Dawn?” she asks. She looks tired.

“Er…I meant to say Dawn. Just Dawn.”

“You were going to call me a mean name, weren’t you?” she snarls. “Weren’t you?”

“Please have mercy?” I squeak. I’ll admit I’m still terrified of this girl.

She rolls her eyes and then turns to Fireheart and Redseed, both still thinking. Hmm, maybe I should take up this thinking business. “So what are we going to do?”

“We need to recruit first,” says Fireheart. Her dark eyes rest on me. “We’ll find noobs. We’ll find those who want to help though there are few decent levels who aren’t afraid to fight Lord Luxon. Fools! If they only knew how much all of them could do together…”

“Then we train,” Redseed adds, also looking at me.

What? Is there something on my nose? He seems to sense my discomfort and continues, “Freak, you’ll be in charge of the noobs. Have them train and everything.”

“Me?” I say with my voice cracking. How embarrassing.

“We’ll help. Some of your recruits might too,” the Pokey Lady assures me with a very strange kindness. I kinda like it. Her kindness, I mean. “We can both train them…if you’d like.”

If I’d like? Is she serious? She’s giving me a choice? Yay! I almost say, “I can handle it by myself” but my mouth jumbles it all and says, “I would like that.”

“Once we’re all trained and armed,” Fireheart murmurs, “we’ll go back and find them…and then…” Her expression darkens.

“We kill them.” Dawn looks troubled for a moment, and a second later, her face brightens. “Hey, sis, that weapon is definitely not yours.”

“Oh, you like it?” Holy cow hides! Fireheart is giggling. She shows us a familiar dragon scimitar. “It’s Voldmort’s.”

“That’s why he was chasing you, isn’t it?” Dawn giggles. Gosh, they’re a giggly pair.

“Yes and also because I scared him to death in front of Lord Luxon. He must have been humiliated, poor thing.” She snorts dismissively. “Redseed, why so serious?”

22-Aug-2010 01:11:33

Fireheart449

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“We ought to get busy,” he says firmly. “No time for laughter now."

For some reason, his words scare me. No more laughter! I’ll die without laughter. Of course, I haven’t been in the laughing mood lately…what with Wolfbane’s meanness and Lady Lore abandoning me and Lord Luxon killing me, and fluffy bunnies taking over the world (what?). I’ll stop.

Cook suddenly turns away from the range. “Anyone want cake?”

After glancing at each of us, Redseed hesitates. “Well, I suppose we can recruit after we have cake.”

“I agree,” I say. They all smile.

~End of Chapter 10~

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22-Aug-2010 01:12:48

Dawn719

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Chapter 11 Recruiting

We have a plan! For now, Dawn will be gathering her woodcutting noob companions. Fireheart will go to Varrock and Redseed to the city of Falador to see if any higher levels are willing (as Redseed put it) “to lift a finger against Lord Luxon.” Meanwhile, I will stay in Lumbridge and befriend as many noobs as possible and explain the mission to them. Simple enough.

“You’ll be okay, right?” Redseed inquires with his eyebrows furrowed with worry.

I nod. "There’s one thing I don’t understand though. Why can’t other Runescapians attack each other when they’re not in the wild?”

“Saradomin’s work,” he replies. “He assigned the wilderness as a battle ground for feuds and clan battles. Here, we can only attack monsters."

I take sudden notice of a noob slaughtering a man. Redseed sees where I’m looking and continues, “Those men and women aren’t human. They’re robots.”

“Robots?” Sounds vaguely familiar. Robots? Where have I heard of robots before?

“They’re not alive. They’re machines created by the gods to serve as citizens.”

“Ah…right.” I flinch when Redseed pats my shoulder. He’s really much stronger than he thinks he is.

“Well, good luck, Freak. I should get going.”

“Good luck to you too,” I say lamely as he strides away. His blatant blue hair is out of sight within minutes. I can’t help remembering the first time I followed him out of Lumbridge to Varrock. For some reason, I want to go after him. I don’t want to be alone though Fireheart assured me that Wolfbane and Voldmort probably have returned to Lord Luxon; all three of those villains are out in the wilderness now.

So, I begin to recruit using my friendliest voice. All of the noobs, bright-eyed and naïve, are eager to find a chum, but once I start telling them about Lord Luxon and our mission, they run away from me like I have seven heads. Not a single one of them wants to take on a level one-hundred-and-twenty-six.

23-Aug-2010 00:01:44

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