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In a nick of time this bar turned into a madhouse. "Nothing we aren't used to aren't we" Pigs, black magic, toenails, stabbing and much more. This was indeed getting link so we decided not to order us an extra shot but to keep our mind clear. "We? you did, I'm not such a whimp like you" so we ordered only 1 extra shot.

We had a strong intuition about this circus, maybe it's faith that brought us together, maybe this would be the key. Let's see what we have here, A dead freak, a dead pet hand and its owner, a bunch of bullies. A drunk soldier and some others We can't make out what or who the hell they are. "More freaks, I'm allready stuck with this one. Shut it and drink your shot."

I entered the bar.
It was padamonium.
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I was a peace lover by nature, and after going up in the forest, trained by the druids, it was hard for me to move to the town. After all my clan had been killed, i had little choice but to move and become the healer for Viroeth. It was a living, though not were my heart was.

The palaldin seemed to be in trouble.
There was laughing about how he was one, and he would be one of the last.
I did not understand? Why would people be laughing at someone who trys to hold the peace for people and country? Though i did not understand a lot of people in this wretched place.
I did need out.

I was not sure if or how i could help the paladin, but i though i should try.

"A paladin eh? You might want to stay out of this one, you have no need to do some killing here. It's not like some street thugs could best me in battle anyway"

The toenail gang turned back to me.

"Who're you calling street thugs? We OWN this place."

One of them ran towards me yelling and swinging his sword. I slamed his head with the flat of my sword, wich was very easy since my claymore had more reach than his little sword. The thug fell to the ground unconscious.

"The only one who owns this place is the bartender."

I tried to hide my pain, that wound on my back really made it hard to swing my sword. I could've beaten them one at a time, but if two would come I'd be in trouble... So I tried to talk my way out of the fight.

"This can all stop right now, if you'll just let me leave. Otherwise I'll make sure all of you end up like this one."

They were obviously scared, yet they all decided to charge towards me. This could be bad. I needed some help. I raised my sword to prepare for the assault and yelled at the paladin.

"I could use a hand after all!"

I swinged my claymore, then I couldnt see anything and I fell to the ground.

One of the thugs attacked the soldier, he easiely dispached him.
So he can fight well, even if hes drunk
A few moments and words later all the thugs attacked. The soldier lost consciousness right after yelling for me to help. It was weird, because the thugs werent even near him yet before he fell.

I jumped in. "Hold!! If you want to fight, then do it fair and scare losers!"
I better not have said that, because they turned on me. But atleast they left the soldier alone.

"Lets take this outside, shall we?" I ran outside whith the gang at my back.
I stopped and pulled out my sword. They stopped charging, somthing must have scared them to hell. They run off like chickens.
Few, i wasnt into a fight anyway.

I reentered the inn and checked out the soldier.
Why did he pass out? Was he to drunk? That didnt seem the case as he repelled the thug very well. I looked close and noticed blood on the floor.
A bit later i saw the big wound on his back. How did he get that?? The thugs never got there?? I tried to help him, but we needed a real healer.
"Barman, is there a healer in town??"

"Let us take a look at that" we walked over to the soldiers body. "There's not much we can do, we can't stop it from bleeding but, what dou you think. you know what I think just do it, ok ok." We reached in our bag and put 2 leaves in our mouth chewing on it. Then we started squuezing it, "this will clear out his wound but it needs to be closed fast if anyone got any ideas? all we've done is made sure he won't die from infections"

"Bartender, give us another shot" one we drinked the other one I held under the soldiers nose "he has to regain contientness"

Through the whole pandemonium i kept sitting at my table and drink....i could have helped...but i could not take the risk of getting seen as a warrior.

(an event like this would probably get to the ears of Aris....i can't risk her knowing where i am.....at least not yet...preferebly not ever....i took so much trouble spreading rumors of my demise to waste it on a barfight it's an easy trace....)

Now that the fight is over i might as well offer a bit of my assistance...it's not really a smart thing to do but i don't like just sitting around and do nothing...i walked up to the guy trying to make the soldier conscious again..

"the herbs you gave him did a bit of his work...i can close the wound...i learned a bit of basic magical healing..."

The bartender took a quick look at my table and saw that i allready finished one bottle and was allready begun on the next so he said

"i think you have had to much to drink you might as well let somebody else do it"

I give him a flat stare and he got startled a bit..i smile and said

" Well if you call that liqour....oh well maybe it is best to let somebody else do it...i'll be at my table should people change their mind.."

and with that i walked back to my table (well at least i offered..)

There wasn't any time for my question to be replied to, since a fight had started between one of the gang, and another guy, whom I didn't know.

He must have been strong though, since he disposed of the gangmember very quickly.

Allthough he was very brave, he didn't look like he would stand a chance when the other 2 would attack him at once.. Luckily he seemed to realize the same, and asked for the help of a paladin looking guy, before he fainted.

The paladin knew what he had to do and ran outside quickly, where the fight would have to continue.
I didn't bother to follow them there though, it was time for me to continue on my own way.
I picked up my belongings and walked out, towards the gates, towards my next destination.

I heared some screaming behind me and when I looked behind me, I saw the remaining members of the gang running towards me, but they didn't seem to notice me at all and their eyes were filled with fear as they ran past me..

Offcourse I could also follow them to check out where there hiding place is, giving that to the guards could get me some money for my journey..

Lews stared all around him.
"Holy BLINKY!" he yelled out loud, then covered his mouth.
Blinky snorted, and Lews nodded with agreement.
"Yeah, lets go get a room in some OTHER inn in town," he said and walked out, shoving through the crowd. Several people were still outside, and Lews nodded to them. I hope they don't noticed that toenail dude I killed he thought as he slowly edged away...

Behind the running gang, you could see, if you concentrated hard, a shadowy figure, that seemed to move at a normal pace, but never the less, the Stranger kept up with the "Gang".

One would gat the feeling that if the stranger wanted he could catch them easily.

Eventually the "Gang" ran into a more darkened street, and the stranger appeared to speed up, in a gliding sort of motion.

"HALT!!" he intoned in a baritone voice, "I would like some words with you first" grinning a most evil smile, that seem to light up his eyes with blue fire, the stranger closed in on the "Gang".

Waving his hands, that where protruding from copious sleaves of the same shimmering black material as his cloak, the stranger muttered, " Rivvin ka nostru ka mi".

A force of unknown magic envellopped the "Gang" and they felt as if they where talking to an old friend, although the Older looking guy, seemed to shake his head alot, as if trying to resist.

The Stranger said, "You are now children of Nosfaratu, and you will be happy with my gift!" while the stranger said this he walked up to the first gang member some young human, and said "Bow before your Master, child and let me show you eternity"

The human bowed low then looked up at His Master with glee in his eyes,"he muttered "Yes Master".

The Stranger bent over the human ready to feed and transform his new sibbling, when the older human finally broke out of his trance and Yelled ......

I got up from my seat, tossed a few coins at the bartender to cover my expenses and went outside. There I sat myself down on some log and started playing on my guitar. It wasn't long before some kids sat around me and sang a few songs to my notes.

So that was a pretty exciting event.....too bad the liqour wasn't strong enough to make me wasted...i looked into my bag and took out a good bottle of selfmixed liqour.....(now this is liqour!!) after a couple of sips i realised that i still had to buy supplies....(now how could i forget that?)

I booked a room and left the inn.......there was some1 playing some nice songs..and a couple of kids singing along....i also felt a familiar presence...

"Got any news for me?" i asked..
"Off course!! Why else would i risk coming to you?" a female voice from behind me replied..
"Knowing you...i'd say just for the fun of it"
"Awww..that's true...but i have some news you might want to hear"

I turned around and was looking straight in the eyes of Seraffin. She has always been an assasin for as long as i have known her..but she didn't look like one now...

"What's with the outfit?"
"You don't know? Arissal has appointed me to be her geurdian..wich is pretty boring, i must say. But it took me alot of trouble getting out unnoticed....wich was quite fun."

She had this big smile on her face saying that.she has always loved sneaking in and out of difficult situations.......

"On a more serious note.." she continued.."the reason i came here is because i wanted to know if you were ok...i figured you were chasing this evil that has been around.."
"Yah that's correct..you got info on it?"
"No it allready took me enough trouble getting to see you..I just wanted to assure you that Arissal will be save...Rayne,Cristal, and Twin Sisters are within the borders of the kingdom...and Tira is with me in the castle....i don't know about the rest but heard that Dempri is just outside the borders..."

"They returned to the kingdom.?"
"Yes, we couldn't help you on this quest but we can keep the kingdom save.."
"Thank you Ser..I owe you again"

She smiled and said "Just stay alive..and i'll call it even"
and with that she dissapeared...

(she shouldn't do things like that in broad daylight) and i smiled..(Can't wait to see you again Ser)

After standing still for a few moments i left too buy some supplies....

I popped out from under the table. "Is it over yet?" I asked.
"Yes, no thanks to you!" Replied the stranger. He and Carrie the healer were tending to the semi-concious drunk who'd stood up to the toenailers.
"Word of advice my friend, grow eyes in the back of your head, the toenailers will be back in greater numbers. Also they never, never fight fair."
"We will be ready for them," replied the stranger. Odd way to talk. Maybe he was using the royal 'we'. Could he be a prince? Or was he just nuts?

Something had scared the toenailers off true enough. I'm not sure it was the paladin however. From under the table I'd seen a shape moving off behind them. No shadow, simply OF shadow. There was a soft rushing noise too. Like the breath of wind before a hurricane. It had scared the life out of poor old handy. More composed I realised that Bob had gone off to the cellar for more beer. I nipped behind the bar and relieved the barrel of mead of a little more of its contents. Seth grinned at me. I winked back.
The most disturbing thing I'd seen in the whole event was a hooded man who had killed one of the toenailers by simply pointing at him! How the hell did that work? I've wished to do that for years! Still, most of the town would be dead by now if I could do that.....
There was one other thing when I saw him leave amidst a flurry of pig-dung. Could've sworn I saw a skeletal foot sticking out of his cloak. Death never looked like that before! Belive me, I've seen him more than once!

The drunk, who's name I could not recall regained conciousness. Thanked Carrie for healing him and staggered off to bed. Carrie looked beautiful today. Well, she always did. However she never gave me a second glance.
"Come over for a drink Carrie! The night is young!" I blurted out. Did I say that?
"Huh, not a chance!" she muttered, giving me a glare with her half-elven bluer than blue eyes, "freak!" She muttered walking briskly out of the bar.
Pah! Women.... I hunched upon the bar and decided to return to killing brain cells.
The soul of the dead toenailer had risen from the corpse. This one was a 'shocked' spirit. I'd seen them before. They would stare for hours at their own corpse, refusing to belive the inevitable. More often than not they'd follow it around till the funeral or in this fellow's case, till the body was dumped in the river. Once they realised what had happened Death would come to take them away. The real death, white horse, big scythe and all. Not like the odd fellow I'd seen today.
"You're still alive then!" Bob chirped as he returned from the cellar.
"Yes indeed, how long were you down there anyway?"
"Er..."
"Never mind!" I said with a laugh. Then becoming more stern, "They'll be back you know. I don't know what will happen now."
"I know," Bob replied. "I'll be lucky to have a bar left at this rate!"
I looked around suveying the damage. "Not bad, Jilly the serving wench will have it back up to ship-shape condition in no time! OW!"
Jilly clipped me round the ear.
"Less of the 'wench' you! Get that thing off the bar!"
"Down boy!" I said to Handy. Handy scuttled off, searching for someone else to annoy.

Lews looked sideways at people as he edged down the street, once more he tried to do it, pointing at someone out of the corner of his eye, but a tree fell over, smashing down on some poor lad's treehouse. Lews hurried on...

By nightfall, Lews had reached a new inn, the Widow's Peak, the sign advertised it as "the calmest place up from the widow!"

Lews walked into the common room and ordered a room. He payed for it and went to the stair case.
"Hey, sir, your piggy is going to have to stay in the Stable's I'm afraid." Lews winced, and kept walking up the stairs, the voice continued
"Hey! you can't do that! get him!" and before Lews knew it, two Toenailed dudes were at the top of the stairs and 5 were at the bottum. Lews looked around.

"[nocando]" he said.
they laughed at him, and one threw a knife at Blinky.
"THAT was too much!" Lews roared, pointing and the perpetraitior.
The whole thing went straight to hell after that.

Suddenly I felt a cold breeze, and when I looked around I saw a shadow moving swiftly over the ground..
The strange this was, that I didn't saw anything that created the shadow.
I rubbed my eyes out of disbelief and when I looked again, the shadow was gone.
Being the fool that I am, I decided to follow the direction I thought she shadow was going; which also happened to be the path the toenail gang took.
It was a narrow street, with very small houses, almost to small to live a normal life in; they only had one small window which could never give enough light to be able to see anything inside.. But I guess it's still better than having no place to live at all.
Another thing that drew my attention was that all doors were wide open, and I didn't see nor hear anyone inside, but I didn't pay much attention to this at that time.

When the road made a turn, I started hearing some whispering noices, which weren't loud enough for me to be able to understand what they were saying.
I quickened my pace a bit, and when I arrived where I heard the noices, I saw a shadowy figure standing in front of the toenail gang.

When one of the older members saw me he suddenly yelled, "Vapmire!"
At first I thought he was talking about me, I had never heard such an insult in my life.. But it didn't take long for me to understand that he must have been talking about the guy in front of them.
The vampire looked in my direction, probably because he wanted to know who the dude was yelling to.
The gangmember saw this as an ideal chance to escape, and he quickly ran away, into one of the narrow streets which are, as I had experienced by now, almost like a maze.

Once the vampire noticed that, he obviously thought it was my fault, because he suddenly looked really angry and started talking to me.
"this is all your fault! now you will become one of my sons instead of him.."

I saw this as my que to run my legs of; towards safety..
If I would be able to find my way out that is..
While I was running, the only thing I could think was don't look back! don't look back!and it was only when I started hearing laughter that I realised that he hadn't been following me at all.

And when I listened closer, I heard the voice of the paladin.. Was he fighting the vampire?

I rushed back to where to voices came from, it took me quite a while to get there, since there are many dead ends in the maze of streets..

There I saw them, the noble paladin who had been in a fight earlier, accompanied by the healer, a pretty girl.
Since I am no fighter at all, not since my childhood anyway, I decided to stay low, and watch what was about to happen..

to the oncoming person, " Beware Vampire!!!"

Then bolted down the street going for the Paladin, who had returned to the Inn, hoping he wouldn't get killed but still wanted to try and get some 'Holy Might' to help his Gang.

I walked out of the bar.
I suppose i was too harsh on William, though, he is just...so...common.
A boy really, trying to play with magick. It is a dangerous thing to play with, and i think one day that i will have to rescue him from one of his "experiments" I thought to myself, i will try to be nicer to him, maybe give him some of the guidence he seems to be needing.
The nice was beautiful, not a breath of air, and cool.
I need out of this place. Every night something like this happens, the gangs, the fights, the drunks.
There has to be more of my kind around somewhere. Mine was not the only clan of druids in this world.


That is strange i thought. Some kind of energy had just disturbed the night air. It sent shivers up my spine, and made my hair stand on end. There has never been magick like this in this town! The energy was too strong to be William playing around. It felt like such evil...

Before i could trace it, it was gone. However, i did follow it to the place it was last used. The residue from the spell hurt! No one was here anymore. A most powerful being used this magick.

I wondered the streets looking for something, anything, that could give me a hint.

There was suddenly a yell of pure terror down one of the narrow streets. I ran as fast as i could to the direction of the yell.

Coming the opposite direction was was the paladin.

In the middle of the street was a shadow, but not just a shadow, everything about this being was black. It was like the blackest night with no stars was standing in that street before me.

The paladin and i both stopped dead in our tracks.

What are we to do about this????? He has too much magic for me to handle, and no sword will fell this creature of darkness.

He looked right at me. What i saw made my blood turn to ice. His eyes were a deep blue, and could look right into your soul. I felt his will tearing at it, trying to take my soul from me. I fought as hard as i could. The paladin jumped in front of me, and broke his concentration.
Great i thought - now there is the two of us here, with no where to run, no one to turn for help.

The vampire once again turned his gaze on us.

What could i do????

I prayed as hard as i could to my gods to bring me a miricle or some sort.

As i was returning to the inn i saw this shadowlike vampire creature attacking the local healer and the paladin...(by the stars!! this is not smart but oh well)

I powered up my magic while running towards the creature..when i got close i casted holy fire towards the creature....the creature felt my attack and dodged in the nick of time....but at that time i was allready standing next to the paladin with my sword drawn.....

Lews missed pointing directly at the man, and pointed at the fire. The spell hit the fire. The fire spread all over. Lews looked up, and saw one of the toenail men praying to a god.
"Oh Blinky! we're screwed now." Right then the fire hit the beer supply.

BOOM!

the whole roof was raised (or razed) and pieces fell down on them. Lews picked up Blinky, and noticed a hatch into the celler, he started to go, but a falling piece of timber pinned him to the ground Blinky snorted, and Lews looked around; panicking. Too late he saw the sign on the hatch 'Fire Whiskey'. Lews tried to go to a window, but the whole building collapsed on itself then...

After resting a while at the inn I asked the bartender where the paladin went. I had forgotten to thank him, besides, paladins dont come to towns like this for no reason, he HAD to know something about the evil here... The bartender didnt know a thing about the paladin. Then I heard a big boom coming from far away. This is one crazy town, I thought. I gave the man all my gold to pay for the trouble I caused and quickly ran the way the boom came from.


On my way there I saw the paladin in front of the healer who helped me earlier. There was a wanderer from the inn at his side, both had their swords in their hands. In front of all of them was a dark figure, I shivered just by looking at him.

"What the hell is going here?!" I yelled.

The dark man turned to me and grinned. Who is this guy?. He smiled and I easily noticed his pointy teeth. Vampire.

"This is bad, guys."

I drew my sword and waited to see what would happen.

the mood in this town had surely shifted. everybody was running around, I saw some swords being drawn, the kids ran away and then... [color:"red"] BOOM !!! [/color] a huge explosion coming further down the street, I immediately duck for cover because pieces were falling all over the place.

Then I took my gear, armed my crossbow and ran to the place of the explosion to see if someone needed some help...