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The First Encounter: Dagger Days. 'Episode One.'



Fighting fighting fighting,

Three days of constant, random fighting! The first day started with a series of minor events, strange figures watching me from roof tops, hearing people in bushes, to then when i turn around a dark figure is running away, impossible to catch...

I walk down from the West gate... minding my own business... to then hear a faint, muffled shouting... couldn't make out the words... so, being myself, rather nosy when it comes to fights, I walked cautiously up the dark, cold, lifeless steps beneath the moonlight to then spot a familiar figure casting a shadow from around the corner... I ignored him as i went inside the cat house... Suprisingly enough, i came into a house to find three familiar faces from the Defenders including Rionir, Welten and Craign... I merely entered to see what was happening and if everything was alright, they turned... Anger in their eyes as they glared at me... I asked "What's going on here?", as soon as i asked this question Craign punched the familiar hooded man who was standing on the bed, as he got punched he fell with a painfull thump, onto the floor... I immediatly recognised the grunt of Bluerig on the floor as tried to defend him... the only option was to fend them off with a bribe or sword as they did not take notice of words... I took Craign hostage... They followed my straight instructions of leaving without even a breathe of a word. Of course i threw Craign back to them as i was only bluffing to send them away... I went outside to make sure they were gone... to find a whole group of around five to six! I didn't really count... I walked out cautiously, next to a strange younge woman, the scent of her clothes trailing up my nose as i pondered the smell... but by the time i had an idea of the familiar smell... I heard her speak.. the words i could not make out... but she was speaking around the lines of "back off!"... Welten gathered it was Ailianah and started shouting... "I'll kill you, you bitch!" aswell as "You're a betraying little whore!"... I was having none of it, my eyes filled with anger and rage as these words were spoken, aswell as the fact.. Welten drew his sword, and so did Rionir... to give us space i booted Rionir in the chest... sending him back into a pillar... After that Welten immediatly lunged.. aswell as Craign.. I fell confused and dodged Welten's lunge to then be shoved into the pillar by Craign.. as i wacked Craign on the head with my sword, sending him down to the ground......

My temper fell short... My eyes felt like blood was swelling up inside them with so much anger... My hand gripped my sword tighter than ever...I lunged at Welten, not a breathe, nor a sound was made as i swiftly pierced the air with my sword, aiming for Welten's leg...  there was jumbled fighting for sometime, i could only hear my own breathe as swords and daggers were flying past my face..  I snapped back to the situation as i felt an agonising pain, a dagger has sliced into the top of my left shoulder, straight away i swung around and saw it was Rionir, as i hit him in the face, then pierced his armour on the leg, only just scratching the skin with my blade. As i was in contact, i heard a heart shivering yelp, as I swung around to find Rionir lunging a dagger into Ailianah's side! I lost it, i charged to Rionir viciously to then boot him in the face... as Rionir fell to the floor, i did not feel myself, i started to boot him in the face, to then break his leg and arm.. aswell as stab his hands, after i knocked Rionir out cold.. I turned to Welten who then tried to attack Ailianah while she was on the ground, I shoved Welten out of the way and tried to slash him... Craign was limping away at the time.. After all of this i realised faintly that Grinso had my back... stopping an elf from slicing me in the back. After all of this fighting... i fended of Welten and fell to my knee's infront on Ailianah... I thought she was dead, therefore my heart shattered.. I lifted her up and stabilised her down to a small bridge on the Scholar stair.. She started to speak as if she was fine... Grinso patched her up with bandages and we took her to the square and washed her wound...

After a little while of talking... we had washed Ailianah's wounds and sat her on the ledge... i looked around, rubbing my neck, uncompfortable with the situation.   Untill i heard a slight noise in the air as i looked up at a dark figure on the rooftops, running away, a bolt hit me in the leg as i fell to the ground... shortly i was bandaged and walked to the Inn with Ailianah... This bonded us closer than ever as we sat and spoke for ages... being my former lover i still had huge feelings for her... as she showed with me.

We said farewell for some rest as i took her home for rest and layed her on my bed... as i went in the other room and slept by the fire.. as the hard ground straightened my back...