1 Unacquainted Surprises

The woods, where no one goes, has a mysterious air about them. No one knows why or how, but a young guard has been missing a certain friend of hers in that very woods... She calls out to her friend, hoping he would return to her, but he won't be returning for a while. As the young guard screams and yells her head off while another figure approaches. "Who's there!" she turns around, pulling her sword out, ready to fight off this mystery person.

"Whoa, I'm not here to harm you! I want to help. I heard you calling for someone." he says as he gestures further into the woods, "And why would you be in the woods in the first place? Isn't it dangerous?"

She walks up to him, and she's not pleased he indirectly called her weak. "I could ask you the same thing. But it's none of your business." holding her sword at the ready, not trusting this strange man.

"I could help you find your friend; what is your friend's name?"

" Not of your concern."

"Well- if I help you, can you help me?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I don't blindly help strangers in the woods."

"Well--good point, but I'm not harmful."

"A bad person can say that, and I would lose an arm."

The two strangers not getting along together will make their journey hard and difficult, but that won't stop the young man from flirting with the guard. She walks away from the stranger, not seeing him as a threat anymore. And when she gets to a certain point, a big tree is in her path. "Hey, beautiful." The young man says as he waltzes up to her.

"Stop."

"Why, you are gorgeous?"

" I'm not here to flirt with some guy."

He stops and asks, "What are you looking for?"

She turns around and gives him a glare, "None of your damn business, ninny-hammer!" and walks around the tree trying to find her lost friend.

"It is my business because I've lost my memory, and I woke up in these woods. Also, I'm not a ninny-hammer, for your information." he walks up to her to show her that she can't do anything to him. She then proceeds to look up at the stranger and 'humph.'

"I can easily take you out."

He stared at her in disbelief. "Yo--you can't take me out. I'm taller and stronger than you!"

The guard sighed in disapproval. 'I can't even with this fool. You can't judge a book by its cover. This boy is in for a rude awakening.'' The young guard gets ready to fight the boy. "You say you can defeat me. Come to me then."

The boy was shocked by the sudden action and gets ready to fight the young guard. As he readies himself, he notices that she looks so wide open and easy target. 'Why is she so dumb and cute at the same time. That's not how you get ready for a fight.'

The young boy strikes the blond girl where she's wide open but what he doesn't know is that she was prepared for the hit and easily blocked the blow. She kept blocking his blows to see how he fights and prepared to sideswipe him while he was busy trying to land a hit on her. Once she blocked his blow for the hundredth time without fail, she side sweeps him off his feet. And while doing so, she was able to catch him off guard and make him fall onto his back. He groans in pain as the young guard starts to get ready to make her strike.

He gets up slowly and attacks her again, but she quickly dodges and punches him from the back of his head, and he stumbles to his knees. "How? You're pretty strong, and that's hot." she glances at him with disgust and pushes his head into the ground and tries to tie him up, but he flips her before she even gets the chance, and he is now on top of her smirking with a victorious grin. But that doesn't mean she is going to give up, no.

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I finally got him! Now let's see how you can handle these chains. Pulling the strange male up to his feet captured-yet he dares to flirt with me. Who does he think I am some hoe that will bend over his command. Foolish boy. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! No need to tie me up, lady!" squirms out of my grasp and falls onto his face.

"Well, if you stayed still, you might not have to deal with grass and dirt in your face again." I leaned over with my hands on my hips, wondering why he's in this wooded area.

"Are you not going to help me up?"

"Nope, you can get up yourself, Curly." I watched as he struggled to get up with the handcuffs on his wrists. With a heavy sigh, I helped him to his feet and held him in that position.

"So tell me, Why are you in this part of this forest?" He stops squirming and retaliates with a 'My names not Curly and why should I tell you-he looks around and back at me again.

"So, uh, can you release me?"

I look at him suspiciously, "Only if you don't attack me, and I'll let you go."

He glances back at me, determined to tell me his answer. "I won't fight you, beautiful." I sigh in exasperation and let him go.

"Will you stop?" I looked at him with exasperation.

He looked me in the eyes. "Nope!" He walked past me and said, "Okay, where are we?" 'This fool' I walked past him and told him he was in a forest. "So-Um-can you help me get out of here?"

I look at him with disbelief. "You don't know?" He shrugs and sits down near the big tree. "Well, good luck." I walk away from the stranger and start calling out to my friend.

I can feel his eyes boring into me as I walked away. Something about it was off-putting and yet not strange; it had me thinking I was going crazy. After a while of wandering around the forest and getting agitated with the fact that a stranger is still following me. "Why are you so persistent?" I turn around with a huff.

"I'm--lost?" he's lost, so he's following me, not creepy at all.

"Well, I'm not helping you." I walk away from the stranger to where I think my furry friend could have ran off to. As I walk, I look into the sky, and the sun is starting to set.

"I need to find a place to rest for the night." I look around and see the same tree with what seemed to be near a pond that I must have missed? I remember this area but not seeing that pond.

"I must be going crazy," I whispered to myself.

I look up and see that fireflies have swarmed near the pond, and it's so beautiful. I walk closer to the pond--"AHHH!!!" I hear the person scream, what's going on? I quickly get my sword out of its sheath and run towards the screaming. Once I entered the place where the screaming was coming from, I found out it was Curly the Creep. I put my sword up and started to walk away.

"AHH--Wait! I need help! Beautiful Elf, help me!" I tched and continued to walk away, "No! Don't walk away, I need your help." Ignoring him, I walked to the big tree that I walked past earlier and climbed it to a thick tree branch to rest on. He kept calling out to me, but I was able to drown out his noise and went to sleep.

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"Well, she may never be ready for what is to come soon." A person draped in red silk with a slightly detailed scarf hanging around on their form. Another person also draped with silk and a similar scarf, holding a staff.

"Well, someday she will, and when she's ready, she will strike down the king and rebuild the kingdoms and save this world from destruction." The person with the staff said. They look to the side and welcome a person into the room. Once they did, they continued to talk about the destined heroine who will save them from chaos. The guard wakes up and looks at the sky and realizes she wasn't asleep for long and the noise of that Curly stranger was still yelling like a mad man.

"Will you shut up, Curly? You're annoying as hell." He scoffs and retorts back in a huff and walks towards the guard girl.

"Well, that's not nice," he says.

"Well, sadly, the world isn't nice Curly." she retorted, irritated.

"The names...I don't know my name." He sighs, frustrated, and glares at her with tears in his eyes. The girl resting in the tree looks down at the man wondering how in the blazing hell 'how did you forget your damn name.' then remembers that memory loss can only be so irritating. The girl sighs and jumps down from the tree branch she was on.

"Well, Curly is now your new name. And you're slightly creepy, and I'll bring you to the city to get you some help." She proceeds to handcuff him and walks out of the forest with him in tow.

Once out of the forest, they head to the city with many grunts and complaints from the tall male. They reach the city by nightfall. "Hey. There is no need for me to-to a hospital. I'm fine." He exasperates as they reach a nearby tavern.

"I'll be right back." Then she ties him to a nearby post for the time being. After about fifteen minutes, she comes back with a healing potion and a few non-alcoholic drinks. She sets down the drinks and healing potion and takes the handcuffs off him, and hands him a drink. He nods in thanks and takes a sip."This is good." he whispers to himself.

"Take this. It should help your wounds." She hands him the potion and tries to find an inn.

"Why are you helping me?" He says as he follows her.

She doesn't answer him and keeps walking away till they are in front of an inn. "Alright, here we are. I'll get you a room some money, and you can get yourself a job, and I'll be on my way." She hands him enough money and food for two days and walks away.

"Wait! May I get your name, beautiful?" He yells while running up to her.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I don't have to."

"I'm EKO."

"I thought you didn't remember your name, Curly."

"I don't, but I remember now."

EKO puffed out his chest with confidence and looked into the girls' beautiful blue eyes. He then proceeded to take her in. He notices how her locks of blond hair are in half up half down hairstyle, which shapes her face perfectly and her pointy ears that poke out. Her figure is short, maybe 5'3''; she's fit but not thin and not chubby either, but he doesn't care if she was chubby or not; she was just beautiful in his eyes. He then notices the flecks of gold and blue hues in her outfit. She wore a blue guard uniform and form-fitting with a coat outlined in the white lining. She also had strapped to hold her sword and a pocket belt. But he kept glancing at her face and chest area, and she noticed, and she slapped him hard on the face and walked away.