Read The Paladin's Path :: The Group Is In The Tent

The night began. I was shuffled into one of the tents to sleep. As I open the tent to go inside, I see a few bedrolls on the ground with a few kids sitting on them already. They are playing some kind of card game. They are not noticeing me right now. Not wanting to disturb I start to observe them. One of them is a kid in my age. I think he is a little bit smaller than me but not by much. He got a straight jaw and a pretty short chin. His most notable feature on his face are his bushy eyebrows and his large stubby nose. His hair is reddish blond and cut short. As I wanted to look at the others a bit closer. This guy abruptly slammed his cards into the pile and stood up and shouted.

" YATZY I WON. AGAIN!" The other kids started groaning in protest. One of them, the kid with glasses and messy brown hair, pulls up his glasses.

"Actually we are playing rummy and not Yatzy but still you won Lurek." Lurek looks at the glasses kid and his smile goes down.

"I know that Alric you nerd! Don't ruin my mood" His eyes shift around the the tent. He notices me. " Oh the new guy is here. Why are you creeping around the entrance come in. Your bedroll is there." He points at one in the corner of the tent. He walks over to me and pretty much pulls me in. Im flabbergasted by It all.

" Let me look at your back. I heard you ate a fireball from that idiot Durxel and survived." Without letting me answer he tries to pull my shirt off. I don't want that so I twist my body in his grasp and throw him lightly to the ground.

" Could you please not. I don't even know you yet. I am Thorry." I give him a hand. His face contorts a bit but he begrudgingly takes my hand and stands up.

" I am Lurek. Where did you learn that move? Last I heard you were just a farmboy from some small town." I raise my eyebrows in confusion to that question.

" Can't everybody do that? It's quite easy my father trained me a bit in case I needed to defend myself. Though we never got to train with wooden swords. He said I needed to train in basic hand to hand combat before we could start training with a sword." Lurek smiles a bit. "Look at that. He already got some training in combat." He starts to laugh a bit but It's more of a girly giggle. I can't help myself to not snort at It. His eyes immediatly went narrowed.

" Did you think my laugh is funny? Ha?" Oh dear gods I think this guy is an idiot with a small ego. I answer with what I really think not holding back a bit.

"Yea for a boy you kinda remind me of my little sister. She giggles like that too when she laughs." Reading the mood I can already see that this is a bully. My father taught me about these kind of guys. Most of them are pushovers and prone to violence If they fell they are wronged. So I prepare myself mentally that this guy wants to hit me and to the suprise of definitely not me he tries to swing at me. I dodge by moving my body a bit back which makes him stumble. It seems he never had to deal with someone like me. Before he falls I take his arm and twist it and throw him to the ground again. My knee is on his back firmly. He is no threat.

"Can you please stop you are making an unnecessary scene in front of people that don't know me yet. I don't want them to think that I am a bully like you." I whack him a bit on the back of his head. I can already see that tears are in his face. "If you promise me you won't try to hit me again then I will let go, okay?" He nods and I let go of him and stand up freeing his back from my body. I turn around and look at them.

" Soooooooo. How are you guys and what's your name. I am Thorry.... Whoops I forgot Trystan told me to add my 'Surname'. Thorry Ackerman is my name. I am a boy from a farm hence the name." The guy with the glasses that Lurek called Alric starts to smile uncontrollable.

"I am Alrik and thanks for that. It seems this journey back won't be annoying anymore." I can guess what happened on the way here. I just nod. The others still seemed a bit petrified. Oh crap, did I scare them?

Alrik continues speaking.

" Let me introduce the others. The short red haired girl besides me is Rina." She looks pretty cute with the bowtie in her hair I must say. They all are already dressed for the night. Alriks shoulder gets immediatly punched by her." Don't call me short four eyes! Oh hi" She waves to me. She continues for Alrik.

" This beefcake sitting in front of me is Bjorn. He doesn't really like talking but he is crazy strong I tell you!" I look at the rotund guy that scares even me a bit. I need to ask.

"How old are you?" He puts his finger up and I count 7." YOUR SEVEN?!? No way you are atleast 2 heads bigger than me and two times thicker than me. Nice to meet you Bjorn! Nice knowing yall but I am tired. I am going to bed."

As I went for my bedroll. I quickly undressed. I stood there a bit because I know they wanted to see my back but there was nothing to see anymore. Before I tug myself to sleep I say.

" Isn't magic awesome? I was engulfed in flames and I can already sleep painlessly on my back!" Then I turn around and let the darkness of the night take me.