"Ow, watch it!"
"Sorry Osiris but you know healing magic hurts!"
"I'm aware sumiye, dont wor- OW!"
"SORRY!" The witch continues healing her in the Cold room." So how did the bounty go?"
Osiris zoned out looks up at her startled. "Sorry wha- Oh god dammit!"
"Maybe if you weren't moving this wouldn't hurt as much!" Sumiye simply continuing to heal the girl.
"Sorry, what was your question?" The witch sits on the question taking her hand off the girls wound raising one finger to her cheek, eyes rolled to the ceiling.
"I forgot!" She smiles
"Of course...." Osiris mumbles.
"What was that?!?" Sumiye screams grabbing her arm and squeezing.
"Jeez- I- Nothing!" Osiris screams in pain.
"That is what I thought!" She says folding her arms, and turning her head away from Osiris.
"Please just finish healing me Sumiye!"
The witch pauses and turns back to Osiris. "Oh thats what I was doing!"
Osiris just scoffs.
*knock* *knock* *knock*
The door pounds. "May I come in?"
"Of course Akira!" The door swings open revealing the chilled back figure of Akira, His cigarette half lit. "How is patient Zero?" He jokes.
"She has responded well to treatment, like always!"
"Of course she has, why wouldn't she!!" He rolls his eyes.
"He turns his attention to his cigarette, he pulls his lighter out of his pocket, and flips it open his green eyes glowing more orange at its glow. He lights the cigarette.
"You know you cant have cigarettes in the megicbay!!" Sumiye shoots at him
"Your sister enforced that on you!"
"My sister enforces nothing." He leans against the Grey wall taking a puff of his cigarette, it glowing to life.
"She is only leader in name."
"That is rude Akira!!"
He just smirks at the witches comments. "Annya will be fine."
He pauses.
"I doubt that would hurt her that much!" He shrugs taking another hit of his cigarette.
The room pauses the sound of the magic illuminates the room.
"Well I didn't come here just to smoke, I have to see to it our hunter gets ger reward!" He smirks releasing the smoke from his lungs. He turns to Sumiye. "How long until that cut across her hand is healed?"
"Well as always the scar will stay but she is capable of using it until we get some more 'extensive' work in on it."
Osiris looks down at her right arm, the long scar on her arm a memory of her past. It runs all across her forearm, she still remembers that day...
*screaming* *panic* *footsteps*
"There!" "Get the children!" "Burn the manor!"
*Panic* *more screaming*
"Osiris take your brother and run! Never return to this place my child!"
*clashing* *running* *screams*
"You coward Grey'mor Face me!"
*Clashing*
The fire was so bright
"Osiris"
It was so incredibly bright
"Osiris!"
The scar reminds me of that da-
"OSIRIS!!"
She looks up in shock. Akira and sumiye both staring at her, akira right in her face.
"Sorry I zoned out.."
"Obviously!" Akira turns around.
"What were you saying akira?" She perks up.
He turns for a second and looks up at the ceiling.
"Your payment is on the table." He points to the desk next to osiris and a large bag of coin lay in wait. Then he heads to the door.
"By the way you two, we have an assembly tomorrow, be up!"
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The room goes quiet as the door slams shut.
"Of course tomorrow is task handout!"
When the sun rose the next morning Osiris jumped out of bed, daichi was still asleep however, he snored and refused to wake.
He'll be fine, he'll get up himself! Osiris continued to get ready for the meeting. Shw put her hair up and dressed in her clan armor. The white dragon curving its way across the breast plate.
She turns to the door and grabs the knob.
"Hunnnnnnkkkkk, shoooooooo".
The snoring blasted out.
"Daichi! We have to go!" She turns to the boy still asleep stomping up to the side of his bed.
"Come on little bro!" She nudges him, and he just groans.
"Don't make me flip this bed!" He simply rolls on his side and ignores her
"Fine have it your way asshat!!!"
She gripped the bottom of the bed and began to pull up. "Wake up ASSHAAAATTTT!"
"Huh?" Right as the bed flips he wakes.
"OWWW!" Daichi yells from underneath the bed.
"Why did you wake me up so early?!?"
"Its task handout day Daichi!!!"
"I know!"
"We have an hour to be at the assembly Daichi hurry up!"
"No YOU have an hour to be at the assembly, I can be there in 10 minutes!"
"Annya doesn't want any of ua traveling alone though!"
"Sucks for you then!" He laughed. Osiris just scoffs and begins towards the door.
"You sure?" She checks one more time with her little brother.
Daichi still half laughing says "yeah im sure, I promise I'll be there!"
Osiris smiles as she opens the door. "Better be there!"
Daichi was screaming something but she couldn't hear him, she was already halfway down the hallway of the clan quarters.
She rounds the end of the quarters to go downstairs and enters the living room as she does.
"Where you off to this early Osiris?"
"Ahhh!" Osiris is startled and trips on the last stair causing her to go face first onto the floor.
"Aha!" Annya bursts into laughter. "Did I startle you!?!"
"Jeez Annya thats something Akira would do!" Osiris sitting there rubbing her head says.
"Bahaha, dont compare me to that dummy!"
"He may be my twin but his IQ is far behind mine!"
"Of course..."
"But truly where are you off to Osiris?" She says giving her, her hand.
"Off to the assembly building!"
"The assembly isnt for another hour!"
"Well I dont possess any means of getting there besides walking!"
"We could call a carriage to take you there!"
"That would take to long, especially with the storm over, many people will be out today!"
"Hmm, I guess thats smart!"
"Thank you annya!"
"Yeah, yeah, Go ahead and get outta here!"
"Of course!"
Osiris closes the door and turns to the street, the roads busy and crowded, she turns left and begins towards her destination, the Assembly Building.
The streets loud and crowded compared to the day before when the storm was swirling above, she continues on the streets, she looks up at the Citadel, and the Library. Both on large hills across from each other, standing large and heavy over the city.
And the third great hill, where a monument, to the great warlord Thraxis lay, towering over the city with his Staff of binding pointing in the direction of the Other warlords he buried himself with. It also points to the great ash sea, or the scorched lands all depends where you're from, the western, or eastern continent.
She was completely lost in thought when she snapped out of it and saw she had missed her turn. "Oh no!" She yelled out Loud and she turned around pushing through crowded streets. "Hey watch it!"
"Sorry!" She would say and get told every few seconds.
She pushes through to the edge of the crossroads.
"Help!" "Please help!" She heard the sound from her left so she turned that way. There was an alley that the sound had come from.
"Dammit" she mumbled as she turned down the alley after pushing through a few more people.
Osiris walked down the alley having her hand on knife ready to draw.
"Help please!" She heard again has she turned right.
"Shut up grandpa!"
She now knew there to be another voice.
She continued to creep around as she hugged the wall around a corner. There she saw 2 men standing over a old man and his bag.
"Please I have nothing worth value!"
"Oh really old man, then what's this scroll?" The man picks it from the bag throwing the bag to his friend.
"Please its a simple map, nothing more!!"
"Sure pops!" The men laughs.
"Im sure it is!"
Right as the man is about to open it Osiris steps out of the corner. "Hey Asshat!!" The men turn to her.
"Well well what do we have here?!?"
"Looks like a hero to me!" The other mocks.
Both men share a laugh.
"You better give that man his stuff back!!"
Both men look at each other.
They proceed to burst into laughter
"You think you can stop us sweetheart?!?"
"Run along and let us finish our 'business' ahaha!"
Osiris looks up and draws her knife the dragon spiraling on it glowing bright red.
"Oh? That looks like it would fetch a good price!"
She spins the knife in her hand to have the end of the blade towards her elbow and puts her other hand up.
"Well lets have some fun then!" The man smirks raising his hand, as it turns to a flaming fist.
She begins walking towards the men
"Little bold, huh?" The man continues to mock, both men inching closer.
Osiris pauses where she is not many feet away from the men.
The air is silent for what feels like minutes.
"Heeeyaa!" The first man yells swinging at her.
Osiris dodges the swing and rips her blade across his elbow.
He stumbles after his burning fist and Osiris Knees his stomach.
"Ugh!?!" The man screams in pain.
"Why you little bitch!" The next man yells swinging at Osiris.
Osiris ducks his attempt at a blow, and flips her knife around to face the mans stomach.
She stabs the mans stomach throwing him back into a wall with the knife still lodged in his stomach.
"Ah!"
"Bitch come hereeee!"
The man swings at her.
She ducks under him throwing him over her shoulder, onto his ally. She grabs another knife from her belt holding it to the mans throat.
"Wait!"
Osiris looks over her shoulder the old man still on the ground his bag dirty and his face bruised.
"Don't kill them please!!"
"Why not, they have done harm upon you!"
"Just please I can reward you!!"
Osiris looks down at her knife, then the one impaled in the man. Then she looks at the man right in his eyes.
"If harm comes to this man again, this knife wont be held back again!"
The man looks down at his friend after getting up. "He needs hel-
"Here!" The old man comes over and gives him some tonics.
"Feed him this and his wounds will heal!"
The bandit looks up at the man and grabs his friends hardly living body.
Just as he's about to run off Osiris grabs his shoulder and he turns around.
"What do you wa-
Osiris grabs the knife lodged in his friends body and pulls it out.
"AAAAAAHHH!" The man yells in agony
"Now go!" Osiris yells at the man
"Before he dies!"
The man runs down the alley and makes a left turn disappearing behind the wall. Osiris turns to the old man picking anything the bandits dropped up.
"Here let me help you sir"
"If you must do so"
Osiris gets down and helps clean the mans stuff up, and put it back into his bag.
"Thank you young lady!"
"Of course sir, now about my-
She pauses.
"Reward"
"Ah yes, of course the scroll!"
"Scroll?"
"Well more of a map!"
"To what sir?"
"Enough of this sir nonsense girl, call me Jengo!"
"Ah ok Jengo, what is this map to?"
The man looks up at the sky. "When I was about your age I was a Tressure hunter!"
"Oh?"
"Yes indeed, such a long time ago!"
The man pauses.
"Alas though, all the locations could not be explored, such as this!"
He opens the scroll revealing a map.
The scroll was old and much was lost to time, yet you could tell someone had drawn over the important markers. You could see Dark Harbour, And a dotted line leading all the way out to the... The Ash Sea????
"That's forbidden land si- I mean Jengo!!"
"Hense why I didn't go there!" The old man laughs picking up his bag and waving his hand at her
"Wait where are you going, Is this my reward?!?" Osiris almost yells at the man.
"Bye!" He yells as he fades into the crowd of people.
Osiris left alone in the alley looks down at the scroll left with a single question.
Who would bury treasure in the ash sea?