Chapter 11: Chapter 10: Bandits!
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"T-Tristan what happened?" Asked Jake as the man fell to a knee right in front of him. Trista quickly secured me as she was looking around like made as Tristan looked up at the kneeling Jake.
"D-Dungeon…a-army…bandits…surrounded…hundreds of t-thousands." He exasperated as the arrow was broken by Jake as he pulled it out of him and applied a simple Health potion to the outside of the wound.
"What do you mean?" Jake asked him.
"A-A army of bandits managed to hide in the dungeon's first floor. We think that the Kingdom of Trees hired them to hide in there. That is why the city was taken so easily, they had trapped us from the very start. W-Why do I feel so tired?" He asked himself at the end as suddenly his body slumped in Jake's arms as Jake was speechless.
"Poison." I said looking at the arrow tip which was covered in a green liquid. As I said it Jake grabbed the arrow tip and looked intently at it as he lowered the body of Tristan to the ground.
"Trista I need you to take you boy and get out of here. I will issue a command of retreat." He said as Jake's face showed one of pure anger and rage as he ran away from Trista before she could do anything.
As he said that I slowly felt a crack forming in my life right now. My new life that I was reborn into was finally falling apart.
"Okay." Trista said as she watched the back of her lover disappear as his personal guards all began to flock around him.
Even for a mercenary Jake held an aura of a king around him that much even I could tell.
"Come now we must lea-." But Trista was stopped as a whizzing sound cut through the air and made a sudden stopping sound.
I just stared in horror as a 3 and a half foot pure metal arrow slammed right into her right breast. I could only watch this in slow motion as her wide eyes just stared at me in shock as her body slowly fell backwards.
Her armor was not on her at this time so the arrow pierced her easily and nearly went all the way through as she landed heavily on the ground.
"Mother!" I yelled as my emotions got the best of me. I quickly ran to her fallen body as her warm blood seeped through my clothes and my fingers.
Tears filled my eyes as I watched Trista gasp for air as her lung had been punctured. Her heart was missed but I knew this was nothing any magic our fellow mercenaries could fix.
"Run…Perseus." She said as I felt a shudder in my body, my name was finally given to me in her last moments.
Her tearing eyes and her blood covered hands that rested on my cheek. But as she held my face with her hand and the life drained from her body I saw her smile.
One that said she had lived a good life one that said I had nothing to worry about in the future. That I could fall asleep and not have to worry about tomorrow.
"Mommy." I said in a begging voice. I had truly come to love Trista as my mother as I did Sally.
After losing my first mother in my last world I would have thought that I wouldn't ever have to worry about something like this again.
Yet here I was crying as my second mother slowly passed away in my blood covered arms.
"I k-know you aren't old enough…but I think today is our last day together cough. Perseus is a strong name…one that was given to me in a dream cough cough." She said as blood splattered on my face from her cough but I didn't care.
"There were…three women knitting socks cough…they said it was a name of a Hero that lived long ago." She said as my soul shook once again as the fates came to mind.
But what she said afterwards shook me even more as I held her close.
"Thank you." I said as she smiled one last time as her hand slowly drooped from my face and her body went limp as I could only listen to my own heartbeat and the sounds of slaughter around me.
"Touching." Said a male's voice as I slowly turned to see the pig of a man that used to rule this city.
He wore purple cloaks that were lined with gold and had more rings than I could count. I could only stare at him as I felt my anger boil inside me as I watched the pig of a man before me.
[Suidae Boar Lord of Fat
Age: 60 Race: Human (?)
Job: Slave Merchant
Lv-13]
"My lord it is done. Also thank you for the magical bow." Said a new voice as a man at least 30 years old slowly strolled out from behind him with his bow and full metal arrows.
[Riker Longwood Assassin of the Forest
Age: 385 Race: High Elf
Job: Master Assassin
Lv-215]
I could only feel my anger grow more but suddenly the man dropped a head on the ground.
As in a head I mean a head of a human and that head in particular was Jake's his eyes wide as an arrow protruded from his forehead.
"Ahhhh!" I yelled as I pulled out my dagger and charged the man only to receive a sharp kick to the gut that sent me sprawling to the ground as I vomited up my lunch.
Still I got up slowly as the man looked impressed as I tossed my dagger in the air caught the tip and threw it as hard as I could.
This surprised the bow and arrow man as the pig lord ducked behind a wall as the dagger was knocked away with ease.
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