2 The Cold Dungeon Outside

Clean hands? Check.

Warm clothing? Check.

Broken clock? Still broken, check.

My black windbreaker and my gray cargo pants? Check.

Source of light? Mehh… I left my cellphone in the living room, and I don´t think I´m going to get there anytime soon.

It seems like my hands will have to touch the cold rocks and get slimy.

I can´t see my right hand right now, but I´m pretty sure it must be glowing red.

Making a provisory glove with one of my shirts, I venture out of my room.

The proof that this tunnel is not human made is the unstable floor.

My slippers isn´t the best thing to protect my foot against the cold, the rocks and the murky slime that seems to cover everything.

Luckily, I had some socks to warm my feet with, but the situation still continues to be precarious.

So, with my right hand on the wall, my foots trying to map the floor around me, and my memory trying to remember the way back to my room, I slowly walk into the unknown.

Some slips here and there, one fall.

The dark is starting to show some figures, my vision is probably getting familiarized with the place.

-"Where i-is my house, How to sing it:

Where am I-I? Where / i-is / my hou / se

Where i-is my house, Where / am / I / I

Where am I-I?"

Singing my way through the tunnel, I finally stumble across something.

It appears that it diverges into three paths, but more importantly, there is something in the ground.

I kick it with my left leg, and an odd metallic sound echoes through the cavern.

-"What is this?" I´m really starting to get desperate. "Why is my home gone? This doesn´t even make sense."

I slowly go down, trying to reach whatever I just kicked.

A feeling of leather (and slime) envelops my left hand.

-"Iiiiits so cold. Is this a pair of boots? Lucky me, maybe I´m dreaming or something. But the problem is that the chills I´m getting from this dark cave is really making me NERVOUS. The cold burning my hands is too REAL. There is no way this is a dream."

Busy trying to figure a better support for my foot while moving my hand through the various items in the ground, a glimpse of a weak white light passes through the corner of my eye, but suddenly disappears in the darkness.

-"Is someone there?" I ask.

My voice echoes, without a response.

-"IS, SOMEONE, THERE!" I shout.

Nothing in response.

Well, this is starting to get a little scary.

My hands found out a dead body.

Yes, a dead body. Someone died here, and the only thing left of the poor soul are the bones wearing his slime filled clothing.

His boots will make a fine companion though, I will finally walk in this place without hurting my feet, so I put them immediately.

Alongside the boots, the man was wearing what appears to be am medieval gambeson, a little rusty on the texture but bulky as it probably should be.

I remove my windbreaker and wear the gambeson. It does not hinder my movements, neither feels too heavy, despite being a bit oversized. Not wanting to leave the windbreaker behind, I put it over the gambeson.

The wind that runs through this tunnel is weak, but carries a terrible cold.

Now, it´s time to discover what was that light.

I´m a little fearful for what I might encounter, but I can´t stay in this tunnel for much longer. It´s freaking me out.

The moment I step into the path where the light was, something metallic gets kicked by my boots.

Upon closer inspection, a sword.

-"Well, my hands should stop trembling a little now. At least I have a weapon."

I remove the wrapped shirt around my right hand, and wrap it on the left hand.

With my left hand on the left wall and my right hand with the sword, I quickly proceed through the path.

Whatever it was, despite I taking some time looting the body, if I walk fast I must be able to see the light again.

Adrenaline starts to bump up, along with her my fear vanishes.

It does not take long. Some minutes of fast walking, and I finally realize that the sound of my footsteps isn´t actually my footsteps alone.

Why is he running from me? Something is off...

I accelerate the pace, the light starts to show up.

He is starting to slow down. I can see his figure now. He is carrying a spear of some sort. I´m going to get him in the next corner.

Both of us start to run.

My eyes start to blurry out from the light and when I finish the corner…

-ZAASS!

I barely block the blow of the spear with my sword.

With my vision now totally blurred, I act quickly and wrap my left arm around the spear, grab her with all my might, and push it into my direction.

The figure tries to hold, but easily loses the grip of the spear and stumble backwards, falling into the floor.

-"aaaaa!"

The feminine voice echoes.

-"What?"

I slowly start to open my eyes.

A long Purple hair.

It´s a girl.

She wraps her head with her arms and, with a crying voice, says -"Sorry, please, spare me! I was just trying to seek revenge for my father! Just that!" and immediately starts to cry out loud.

When the blurry finally goes away, I see the source of the light. Her fingers!

Her fingertips are like little lamps!

-"Your fingers… are glowing. How?"

Her thin and small figure unwraps, and she looks at me somewhat scared, somewhat confused.

-"Y-you, are a vampire!" She gulps, and then raises up slowly. "Please, spare my life! If you spare I will be your servant for the rest of my life, but please, spare me!"

"Are you kidding me? Tell me, what kind of prank is this? Why is my room inside a cavern? I want to go home and eat-"

-"aaaaa! Please, spare me!" She lays down on the floor, wraps her arms around her head again and repeatedly asks to be spared.

While trying to understand what is happening, I notice the strange clothing of the girl.

It´s obvious now how I reached her so fast, despite taking a long time looting the body.

She is wearing a gambeson, like me, but over the chest she wears a plate mail. Her hands are protected by a metal gauntlet, and she wears boots that go almost past the knee.

-"Aaaaa!Aaaaa! I don´t want to die, please, spare me!"

She starts to tremble.

Maybe the same happened to her? She spawned inside her bedroom here and is now searching for her home? Then why did she said something about vengeance? And about vampires?

-"C-Calm down lady, there is no need to be terrified. Tell me, what happened?"

-"A-are you going to spare me?" She wipes the tears out of her blue eyes.

-"I´m not going to kill you, just tell me, how did you got in here?"

-"I-I entered this cave to kill the giant spider that lives here." She´s not answering my questions, and is babbling nonsense's. "My father was accused of a crime that he didn´t commit, so to prove his innocence he offered himself to slay such a monster. But he never came back!"

A giant spider? A cute little girl? Medieval clothing and weapons? Also, her fingers are glowing! This seems fishy…

-"Are you going to help me defeat this evil monster?" I lend her a hand so she could get up.

-"Y-yea, sure."