Rebellion Chapter 2
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mindcrackloveJust a warning this fic does have inneudos nothing to bad, so if that is not your cup of tea then skip over this one.
One last thing Words in italics are in Latin and the translation can be found below, and Words in bold are said with sarcasm.
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"How do you know my name? And why do we have to leave, there is no one around at least ten miles?"
Right after Aurey said this she knew it was a mistake. It had shown him three things, one that her name was in fact Aureylian, two that she was alone, and three, that his statement had caught her off guard.
While all this was going through her head, he chuckled and responded by saying, "As to how I know your name, that isn't important right now, I'm going to set down my sword so please don't cut my head off."
He then proceeded to gently placed his blade on the ground. And said, "See, I set down my sword, now it's your turn."
"I'll put my sabers away once you tell me why we have to leave." Aureylian said.
"How about a compromise, I tell you the short version and you sheath your sabers. We get going and I tell you the rest on the way, deal?” stated with a slightly frustrated tone.
“How about this instead you tell me the short version and then if, and only if I believe you, Vechs. I will sheath my sabers and take your sword along with any other weapons that you may have on you. Then you will prove to me that your story is true, telling me the whole story in the process. If you can prove it I will then give you back your sword. Deal?” Aurey said, mockingly.
He sighed now, sounding extremely frustrated and said, “This is the only way you’ll leave?”
“You bet.” She said with exaggerated enthusiasm.
He rushed out trying to make it as short as possible, “Okay, here’s the short version. The overlord has sent an army to come and capture you, I don’t know why, and if we don’t leave now we’ll be overrun, captured, and probably tortured. Got it? Now let’s go.”
“I’ll go with you, but only to go and see this army, that you speak of.” She said.
She then lead him back over to the hot spring, still at sword point. And instructed him to take off his coat, quiver, shoes, and scabbard.
Giggling he said, “You do know that if just wanted me to take off my clothes, you could have just asked, didn’t have to hold me at sword point.”, all the while looking her up and down slowly.
She rolled her eyes and said, “Just shut up and take off your coat.”
He took off said items. She then proceeded to pat him down, setting aside weapons when she found them. Lastly she felt the inside off his calves sliding up to his inner thigh He giggled and said, ”Saving the best for last I see.”
Frustrated she stood looking him dead in the eyes. And in a low voice she said, ”Oh, that wasn’t last I still have to search your face.” Immediately after saying this she punched him in the jaw HARD, so hard that he was knocked to the ground, stunned. She examined her knuckles, now split open and oozing blood.
She reached down and pulled him to a standing position, wiping her knuckles on his tunic, that is when she noticed it. It being the large bat necklace that he had around his neck. Intrigued she pulled it over his head to examine. She noticed that the head appeared to be loose so she tried unscrewing it, revealing a small glass vial of a smelly, green and grey goo. Her curiosity peaked she asked, “What is this?”
“Oh, that. That is Fwappa-Derp, he is a poison, one of my own design. Be careful with him, he is extremely potent.” Vechs said.
“Okay.” she mumbled under her breath, noting that he had called the poison a ‘HE’. Then she walked over to where she had thrown his weapons in order to examine them. Where she got there she bent over, they consisted of a bow, a sword, a small hunting knife, and four dozen arrows. She then gathered them up and put them in her pack
“That is a lot of arrows.” She said not expecting him to respond. “Well, duh. I’m an archer, it would only make sense for me to have a lot of arrahs.”
“Ok two things, one no need to be a smart alec, and two you say arrows weird.” She said matter of factly.
“I say arrows as arrahs because of my friend Joe Hills, he says arrahs so I say it just to mock and annoy him.” He stated with a what can only be described as evil grin.
“Alrighty then. Do you have a horse or something that you could ride over to this army?” Shen asked.
“Oh, yeah. I do, he’s just outside the clearing. Do you have a mount?” He said
“Yes, I do have a mount of sorts.” She responded cryptically.
“Ok then, where are they?” He asked.
She whistled, and then a giant snow leopard snuck up silently behind Vechs. “She’s right behind you.” She grinned and gestured to the leopard.
Vechs exclaimed, “Your mount is a snow leopard!?!”
“Yes.” She stated matter of factly, and began to load her supplies onto the beast. “Her name is Captrix*, Trix for short.”
Once she had finished loading up her supplies, she took out a length of rope and tied Vechs’ wrists together. After doing so, she said, “Alright lead the way, we can stop by and pick up your horse if you want.” Silently he began walking south, back towards town.
They ran into Vechs’ horse right outside the clearing, it was tied to a tree, just like he had said. Soon after they reached the waterfall, he spoke. When he did, his voice was tired, “Look out to the right of the river just below that ancient oak, see those fires? That is the Overlord’s army. And if we don’t leave now they will capture us.”
She reached over and cut his bonds, saying, “Alright, a deal is a deal. Here are you weapons.” After which she handed over all his stuff.
“Thank you. Oh, and if you would like a ride I have a couple of ships waiting just off the coast.” He said.
“Umm, sure, might as well.” She replied.
They then rode over to the cliffs. When they got there, she peaked over the edge and was shocked by what she saw. At the bottom of the cliffs was an armada of thirty war ships!
“Alright there should be some ropes around here somewhere.” He said nonchalantly.
“Umm, ok. How are we going to get Trix and you horse down there by the way?” She asked.
“Ah-ha.” He exclaimed brushing aside several fallen branches to reveal a pulley, two harnesses, and the largest coil of rope she had ever seen. “We are going to fasten these harnesses on them and then lower them down.” He said, already beginning to put a harness on his horse.
“Alright I’ll buy it.” She said cautiously.
Once they had managed to lower themselves and their mounts on to the decks of the main ship, Aureylian looked around, noticing three men standing apart from the rest of the crew. She looked them over. They were all tall, over six feet and appeared to be young, other than that they didn’t have much in common. The first man had short brown hair, a thick bread, and brown eyes, he also carried a large cleaver strapped to his back. The second man, the tallest had black hair, deep brown almost black eyes, and he was heavily armed with a sword on his hip, had several knives strapped to his forearms, a large quiver of arrows on his back, and a bow. The third man was a bit of an oddity among the group, he had white hair, one of his eyes appeared to be different, one red, the other was blue, he wore a mask covering the the lower part of his face, and other than a sword he appeared to be unarmed.
That is when Vechs grabbed her arm and said, “Come with me, I’ll introduce you to everyone.” And began pulling her over to the three men. When they got over there, she said, “Hi, my name is Aureylian, you can call me Aurey though.”
They nodded and the man with all the weapons said, “I’m Pause, this is Etho.” He gestured to the man with the mask, “This is Beef.” Gesturing to the man with the beard, “I assume you have already met Vechs.” He then gestured to Vechs.
She nodded and shook each of their hands in turn, but when she went to shake Pause’s hand, he enveloped her in a bear hug and said, “Welcome to the rebellion Aurey!”
* Captrix is latin for huntress.
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