Darkness... Gray smoke... People screaming... That is what I saw after I wake up on a battlefield. I look around and I can see some knights fighting until they will die, innocent people laying on the other corpses with their limbs cut or off with their heads, and corpses of horses killed by the sword, arrows, and maces.
I looked at my hands and I can see something strange, the hands are not mine. Those hands don't belong to me. Those hands are way bigger than mine and they have way too many cuts. Then I saw another weird thing, the armour I was wearing wasn't mine. The symbol the armour had was way too different to the ones the knights wear and I have at my back those two staffs who I always saw in the dreams when I was at the Orphanage.
When I was looking at my back, I have noticed something, I got at the back a spear. I took the spear with both hands and looked at her. The spear I was looking at had some strange symbols. The metal part is in gold and the wood that is tied is not wood, just white metal. After that, I see two knights coming right to me, preparing for an attack. I was about to run, but something strange has happened, the legs did not listen to me, neither the hands, neither the whole body, It moves.
Those two knights came closer to me, but the body reacts himself and he used the spear without my help. The body I got stuck in has successfully killed those two guys by cutting their necks without mercy. I don't know what kind of dream is this, but this one is probably of those nightmares because the scenery is dark and full of blood.
After that, the body started to attack the incoming knights, who were almost six. The body cut the neck of tree knights, the legs and arms of two, and the chest of one knight. After he did that, the body decides to look at the corpses, he throws the spear and he runs away from the battlefield, but while he was trying this, one arrow was hitting him at his back. That arrow has made the body losing balance and fall into a river.
I looked around I realize something, now I can control the body. So, I tried to leave the river by swimming to the other side. It was hard to that thing while the body I was using in this weird dream is injured by that arrow. I didn't feel the pain of that arrow, but I feel the control of this body is hard and not what I was expecting. It takes quite a long time, but I arrived at the other side of this river, and there I walked injured to a cave where I could rest his body for a while.
When I entered the cave, something weird has happened. My eyes starting close by themselves and the next thing I knew, I was waking up in the morning in my bed. I looked at the window at it is morning, and I looked at my hands, who aren't like the ones from that dream, they are mine. I get off the bed and then I go and look at the mirror. Nothing strange has happened to my face or my body. I am the same, nothing changed. Then, I leave my room and goes to the kitchen to eat my breakfast and then to prepare for work.
I and Fiona arrived, after a few minutes of walking, at the Palace and there we go to the King to take the next mission. We were climbing those hundreds of stairs until we arrived at the room where the king is staying on his throne made of gold. We arrived at that room and we see the king staying on his throne and looking at us. For me, this event is not my first time because I saw the king one time and I can characterize him being a good man who you can rely on. Me and Fiona we did one of those greetings to him and then the King told us.
"I have called you here to talk about a mission you two will have to do tomorrow. I want to see you in the front line of our defence in that war we are currently on."
"The one where we are fighting with the Kingdom of Turk, you Majesty?" she asked Fiona to the King.
The King looked at Fiona and then he rises from the throne and he goes to the window.
"That is right. We are going to fight with the Kingdom of Turk to get our area back... I think your squire has no idea why we are fighting with a kingdom that is not as strong as ours? "
I looked at the King confused and then I looked at Fiona and ask her.
"What war?"
"The one where it was stopped a few years ago. We don't know how it was stopped and how the survivors have left the battlefield but one thing is clear about that place. there was our area who helped us to extend our food supply." says Fiona to me, while the King is looking at her like a proud teacher to a student who did a good job on an Olympiad at Mathematics.
"I see," I respond to Fiona and then I ask the King. " Does the soldiers who were fighting there, it was located a cave ?"
"A cave ? " he said the King to me. "To be honest, I have never visited that place and I never heard a soldier of mine talking about a cave on the battlefield. But, knowing that area is a mountain one, the chances are pretty high."
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"I understand and I am sorry for asking if it was a big deal."
"No problem, young squire," he replies the King to me.
Fiona looked at me and I can feel a part of her anger coming to me. I was about to run from this palace, just to hide somewhere from Fiona, but I decide to not do that because she will probably kill me that easily. The King goes back to his throne and then he said another thing to us.
"I want you tomorrow at 8 o'clock. You two will go to the war with another five knights and four squires. Your mission is to kill all the targets, you understand ?"
"Yes, your majesty." we both said to the King while he said the signal we can leave Palace and goes to our business.
After we leave the Palace, I and Fiona couldn't go to our home to rest for tomorrow. Outside is still morning and we both decide this morning to go and hunt some wolves for Diana, who is going to sell them at Market Place tomorrow. Fiona and I are heading to the stable and there we take our horses and we're ridding them to the Forest we were last time because there are located rare wolves who could value even 50 gold coins.
While we were riding the horses, Fiona decides to start a little conversation.
"Judah... Have you ever eat wolf meat ?"
"No," I respond to Fiona feeling a little curious why did she ask me that question out of blue.
"Me neither. I heard many stories of those who are buying wolf meat. Some said the meat is good for your muscular system and your strength. But I also heard the from some people, they use the wolf meat to imagine into swords or other weapons to acquired an animal power."
"Animal powers? What is that? "
"It is like elemental powers but way too different. animal powers in weapons are common knowledge for knights, warriors, assassin, and even magicians. I heard the wizards are using those animal powers to create potions or even to buff their speels."
"It is good to know."
"Why didn't know this ?"
"It is because I am still new to this job. I didn't have a squire or magic guide back at my orphanage."
"I understand but why you didn't pay a visit to our library? It is one of the biggest libraries in our Kingdom. If you are curious, it is located at the Palace but underground and you need to squire level 2 at least. Right now, you aren't even a squire at level 1, just 0. "
"Levels? How does that work?"
"It is pretty simple, you newbie. You have to do a big mission to become level one and the mission we are going to do is the perfect one to help you get that level one."
"Cool."
After that, we decide to continue riding our horses until we arrive at the destination where we have to capture some rare wolves to help Fiona big sister with some money.
A few minutes later, I and Fiona left the Kingdom area where citizens are living and we entered the forest area of our kingdom and there we let our horses tied to a tree and we are going with our weapons prepared for every suspicious attack. Fiona was prepared to swing her giant sword at an enemy and I was preparing my wand to use "T.N.T" on the enemy if they are going to attack from the brushes or jumping from the trees to launch a surprise attack.
We take a few steps into the forests and heard some noises coming from the brushes. Fiona turned to that brush, she swings her sword and he cut that brush and the target in two brushes. But we were disappointed when we saw who was in the bush. There was just a simple fox. A normal one who wouldn't even value three gold coins or even a meal at an Innkeeper. After we looked at the fox, both of us decide to continue our travelling searching for some rare wolves who couldn't help us gather some coins. We left the entrance of the forest and we entered a nice location where there aren't that many trees and not that many bushes. Both of us didn't saw at that part not a wolf, just some bones who are most probably representing the wolves.
We are looking at those bones from a closer look and we realize something, those bones do not belong to rare ones, just normal ones. How did we find out? The rare ones are having at their tail bones, but those one doesn't have that thing. This means these wolves bones belong to normals ones and they are here for a long time. Fiona looked at me and whispers.
"Do you have a spell that could help us locate the wolves ?"
"I got one. But I hope this one would work." I said to Fiona while I found in the spellbook a spell that could help us locate those rare wolves. I found one spell quite perfect for this job. I aimed with my wand the sky and I was saying " Vulture ".
The wand started to create a few eagles. I think they were somewhere at ten or twelve. Before they were starting to fly, I said to them to find some rare wolves. Those eagles started to fly for a few moments around this forest to find rare wolves for us. It did not take long and one eagle comes to me and speak in my language.
"We found three in West and four in the east."
Fiona was a little scared, but I wasn't that scared because I had started to get used to those kinds of magic. The eagles come to me and started to disappear in my wand and after all of them have entered my wand, Fiona and I are going first to the east and after to the west.
After an hour, the two of us left the forest with those seven rare wolves. Fiona was carrying those corpses in a fishing net from my backpack and we were heading to our home to deliver those wolves to Diana, who is most probably going to deliver those wolves corpses in this right. But, when we were about to arrive home, Fiona stopped her horse and asked me if could go with them because she has to deliver her horse to the shelter. Before I was about to ask her "Why?" she already passed those wolves corpses to me and then she thanked me for this. Fiona left the passage riding her horse to the Palace destination and I was riding the horse, who I am going to deliver later at the shelter, while I was carrying that fishing net filled with wolves corpses who are valuable. Why I was travelling to my house, I was thinking why do people buy wolves? I understand the food term and power element, but that's it? I read a book that people are using those wolves to create clothes and even to create equipment for riding. Whatever they are using those corpses I don't really care because right now I just want to let them at the house and going to deliver this horse to the stable.