They train till they smell the meat, Nox is laying on the ground with small cuts and bruising with the shield next to her, with Snide standing looking fine. Snide walks to the firepit and takes the meat away from the fire and more sticks on it, Snide gives Nox 1 meat piece and starts eating the other 2. While eating Snide checks on her and see all the cuts and bruises are gone. They drink the first pot and place it near the entrance of cave. They see the sun coming up, Snide places the sword and shield near the other weapons and takes the axe and a metal tip spear.
"We are going to get logs now." Says Snide giving the Nox the spear and walking the forest. They follow the triangle marks and start to look for a tree to cut down. Snide doesn't want a big tree, but a tree that is small enough that cutting doesn't take too long. They find a tree that was close enough to what Snide wants. Snide then grip the axe hard and swings it, hitting at an diagonal angle down and then another hit diagonal up, He keep swinging the axe against the tree making a triangle hole, while Snide is doing this, Nox is standing guard. Snide keep cropping until he stop the axe mid swing, Snide and Nox hear a tiny male voice.
"Stop cutting the tree!" Says the voice. they see a 13 cm tall fairy wearing a green dress with blonde hair. The fairy is leaning against the tree, Snide is cutting. The fairy flys up to Snide's face.
"Hahaha, what are you going to do?" Laughs Snide putting the axe down and opening his hands ready to slap. The fairy backs off and flys towards Snide's face with his tiny hands in fisst in front of him. Snide slaps the fairy with his left hand, hitting the fairy's legs, sending the fairy into a spiral and hitting a tree. Snide walks towards the fairy while it is slouch over diz against the tree, Snide bends down and put his thumb over the fairy's neck, pressing on it.
"Tell me why, that I shouldn't cut that tree down or your neck is going to be squashed." Threatens Snide. The fairy looks at Snide face and sees that Snide isn't kidding. The fairy starts to cry,
"Don't start crying." Commands Snide as he sightly push harder on the fairy's neck.
"When I loosen my trumb from your neck, you better answer my question." Says Snide. The fairy nodded. Snide loosen his trumb by a bit.
"The trees belong to the forest and no one may cut trees at all" Says the fairy, Snide starts to laugh and squashes the neck of the fairy, killing the fairy. Nox watch the whole thing and is shock on what Snide did. Snide sees the shock on Nox's face.
"The fairy would only annoy us, so I killed him." Says Snide. Nox nods, he gets up and collects the axe. He swings the axe a few more times, falling the tree. He collects the tree and start to drag it back to the cave, Nox follows Snide from behind, picking up any branches that breaks off.
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Snide and Nox gets back to cave and the sun is midday now.
"Go and place the sticks on the pile of sticks then remove the pot from the fire and put sticks and a new pot on the fire." says Snide, Nox nods and hurries into the cave. Snide pulls the tree to the cave and start to cut the branches off with the axe. Placing the branches in a pile. He sees Nox standing at the entrance of the cave.
"Come and carry the sticks into the cave." Says Snide. Nox walks and collect the branches and carries them inside. Snide keeps chopping and nox carrying until Snide hears Nox's stomach rumble. Snide walks into the cave and went to the cart to get a loaf to give to Nox. Nox takes the bread and starts to eat it and sit down on the fur. Snide went back cutting the branches off. While Snide is cutting the brenches, he notice colour movement in the forest, Snide is tired from cutting, but not too tired to fight for a bit,
"As long as the fight isn't too long, I will be fine." Thought Snide as he walks into the cave and starts to collect the spears. Nox sees what Snide is doing.
"Why are you collecting spears?" Asks Nox
"Movement in the forest" Says Snide walking out of the cave with 3 spears and the axe in his right hand and a metal tip spear in his left. Nox gets up and grabs the shield following Snide, staying near him with the shield. Snide gets a spear ready and scan the forest for any odd colours, He sees something yellow move. Snide throws the spear at the yellow, the spear hits its target. Snide sees 2 lime goblins that are 0.9 meters tall equipped with 1 metal sword each jumping out of the forest towards him.
"I hit the leader of the group." thinks Snide dropping the spears and getting the axe ready. 1 lime goblin attacks Snide, while the other lime goblin attacks Nox. Snide counters the attack fine while Nox is having trouble blocking the attack with the shield. Snide pushes back hard sending the goblin backwards, when the goblins stumbles, Snide turns and swings downwards into the back of the neck of goblin that is locked with Nox. The goblins falls, Snide turns back to the first goblin.
"Shield" Says Snide extending his right hand to Nox, She gives him the shield, Snide readies it. The lime goblin rushes Snide fast and swings the sword going diagonally right downwards, Snide uses the shield to parry it by sending it downwards, Snide swings his axe downwards into the goblin's skull, getting stuck. The goblin falls flat.
"Lets clean up the battle" Says Snide tired. Nox's picks up all the weapons that isn't stuck and takes them inside the cave. Snide walks into the forest and looks at what he hits with the spear. It was a yellow goblin that is 1.6 meters tall slouched against a tree, breathing heavily with the spear sticking out of his chest. Snide pulls the spear out of the goblin. He sees that the goblin has a reflux bow and 13 arrows. He takes the reflux bow amd arrows, leaving the goblin to die. He want to the axe stuck in the skull. Snide steps on the goblin's back and pulls the axe out of the skull. taking the weapons inside and sees Nox napping on the fur. He places the weapons down and went back outside, dragging the bodies into the forest near the now dead yellow goblin taking off their loincloths and placing them in a pile. Snide walks back to the cave, he put sticks on fire and place 3 meat pieces over it. Snide puts the loincloths with the other loincloths but 1 and walks to the weapons and grab the bloody weapons. After grabbing the bloody weapons, he walks to the fire and sits down. Snide starts cleaning and watching the meat cook. Nox stirs on the fur from the sound of weapons scraping against the ground and rubs with a loincloth.