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The Paladin's Path

On the road lies danger!

On the road lies danger!

Jan 16, 2023

Tap tap tap tap thats the sound of Trystan's horse Elaine beside me. It's still quite cold out here which is nice because I feel my sweat dripping down already.  Trystan sometimes lowers the pace and looks to me. I do not know why he does It. As If he expects me to ask him If I want to ride on Elaine. Trystan does It again and speaks. "While I admire your resolve, I do need to tell you we've got a long way ahead of us and we already stopped a few times. So you can just hop on." I grit my teeth in response. "No I can keep doint It. No need for me to be on Elaine." Trystan snorts a bit. " Could It be that your scared of her?" He points to the horse. " Trust me she doesnt hold grudges longer than a day. HA! Else she would keep throwing me off! Right Elaine?" He slaps the backside of the horse and she starts nickering. 

The road still pretty much the same. On one side we have trees and on the other another set of trees and the way is still quite muddy from the rain. Squelch..... Squelch..... I hear somebody coming towards us from behind us. It's quite nimble looking female elf with shoulder long green hair. She's wearing a simple leather armor with sets of green cloth interwoven. On her back is a longbow and a quiver full of green feathered arrows. They are quite pretty. Her voice is quite soft and she sounds agitated. " Boss my crow, Hemsley, we found the goblins." He immediatly throws his hand up to stop the whole caravan. "Continue, Farielle" She walks over to him. " We found their cave. There were signs of a battle and It seems the whole tribe was slaughtered except one. We even found the bodies of their youngest." Trystan takes of his helmet, small flames are escaping his mouth as he speaks. " Where? Show me the way to the survivor!" 

Before he follows Farielle, he stops for a bit before turning to me. "Hop on. You are the safest with me." I can't refuse. I can already see that from his expression. So I hop on. "Why do I gotta go with you Sir Trystan?" "Because I don't think It's a coincidence what happened to you and  your family. Either they want something with you that I don't know or your just in the crossfire but I don't want to take any chances. Hold on tight and behave, Elaine!" With that we start following Farielle. It's scary how she can keep up with us on foot. She runs like the forest itself doesn't want to bother her in any way. She notices how I keep looking at her amazed. She just smiles. "I can teach you that If you want to." Even talking while running doesn't seem to have any adverse effect on her. I just nod. If she can teach me that then that would mean I would never again run into a tree! Thats when I notice something in the treeline above us. A shrouded in black clothes humanoid creature is looking down upon us. While following us without making any sound. It wears a rapier at his side. 

It notices me looking at It and It jumps at an insane speed at us. " ABOVE US TRYSTAN" He rears Elaine suddenly to the side throwing me off her. I skid along the ground and slam into tree. CRUNCH. I try to breathe but my lungs have piercing pain. Though I can still see that Trystan throws up his shield to block the creature and throws It with momentum to the other side. Equiping his longsword he charges towards It. Farielle stopped her momentum by grabbing a tree and sliding around It. She quickly throws her longbow in her hands and starts shooting at the creature with an arrow. It catches it easily to the suprise of her. It grasps It's rapier and starts an incantation. Dark clouds gather around the blade and starts coating It in lightning. He points It at Farielle and a bolt of lightning shoots out of the rapier. She tries to dodge but It hits her in the abdomen. She falls to the ground. Not moving

I try to make my way over to her but my back hurts so much. I can't breathe. I start crawling. The creature looks at the charging Trystan and prepares accordingly. Trystan hacks at It but It dodges again and with insane speed gets under Elaine and stabs her. You hear a small pop and a painful cry before Elaine just vanishes in front of my eyes. Trystan that now lost his steed is almost thrown off to the ground. He slams down hard and the creature doesn't wait and lunges towards him. Trystan gets impaled in the shoulder but I can see him start to grin. "Gotcha." He opens his maw and bright hot flame gushes out and engulfes the creature. It flails It's arms in pain and trying to put out the flame. The flame burns off It's hood and you can see that creature is an half elven man with a star tatoo on his forehead and long black hair. "Now you've done It. Trystan this will be your grave!" Trystan looks up at him, taking the chance to stand up. "I don't even know who you are but It was you who attacked the goblin's right. You who sent them out to attack the caravan and who manipulated the city guard captain!" The man throws up his hands in the air responding. "DING DING DING One thing you got right! The other things are soooo wrong you idiot!" He starts incantating an another spell. This time his body gets covered in shadows and he suddenly stands behind Trystan again lunging with his rapier towards his head. 

I just hear an arrow rush past Trystan and hitting the guy in the shoulder. He exclaims with pain. " ARGH you bitch! You survived a lighting bolt?" He says under his breath. Farielle using a tree as a backrest can guess what he talks about "Enchanted armor!" She shows him the finger.  Trystan turns around with shield and bashes the guy over the head and takes a swing with his longsword. The daylight seems to gather in his sword and the guy still dazed by the hit from the shield can't dodge. Trystan starting from the shoulder cleaves him clean apart
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On the road lies danger!

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