The Journey To Storm Village 1

Fat goblin-Smell that boys.*sniffs air*Smells like dinner!

Shit to encounter goblins right now.Unarmed and unarmored.Damm things,plague these lands and reproduce quickly.Most of them were killed when the Storm and Raven clan settled here long ago.So the ancient books say.Since they are dumb creatures but can still pose a threat due to how large their population can be.

So to see them out here could mean there is a den nearby.I'll definitely have to tell Thork about this.

Bjorn-*whispering*Follow me and be quiet.

We climb out the front of the caravan as carefully as possible and sneak behind a tree.

As the goblins aproach the caravan licking their lips with their long,slimy tongues.Their jagged teeth making a cursed smile on their faces.

There's 7 of them.Most of them have clubs and torches except for one with a small metal sword the biggest one out of all of them.But only about 5 feet tall.Covered in animal hides and rags with bloody chains wrapped around his chest.

I grab a stone and chuck it at a tree across the path.

*CLACK*

Fat one-Hrrr?

They all whip their heads at the sound.I grab Ardina and throw her on my shoulder making a run for it down the path.

I dont know much about goblins but they have poor endurance so I should be able to out run them.

Goblin clubber-Ay!They running that way!

I turn my head back looking at them as they begin running after me.

Damm they are faster than I thought.

I keep runing down the path.But I can hear their footsteps creeping up on me.

These little fuckers are fast,probably as fast as a horse.Im going to have to fight.

I Stop in my tracks as I place Ardina on the ground and tell her to leave running.She listens and scurries off down the path.

Goblins-*random excited noises*

Bjorn-Come here you dirty shits!!

As they close in on my I dodge to the side.Avoiding their barrage of attacks.

I can feel the adrenaline and esctacy of battle flowing through me.Almost like My body Loves this.

As a club comes at my head I grab it and kick the goblin the chest making it keel over in pain,groaning for air.

!THWACK!THWACK!SSSK!

As I bash its head a club hits me on the knee and a sword cuts a gash in my arm.

In just a second I am surrounded by the 6 remaining goblins.A flurry of attack coming at my way.

Bjorn-Raa!

I jump in the air leaping over the goblins as their attacks smack into each other.They stare at me in the air.

I bring my club down as hard as I can pouring every ounce of power in my body into it.

!BOOOM!

The club shatters on the fat goblins head.His head exploding brain and skull fragments flying every where.

The rest of the goblins pause for a second,Then begin to run away.

Goblins-*scared noises*

Bjorn-COWARDS!!

I stare at them until they leave my sight down the horizon.Their Torch light disappearing leaving me standing in the pitch black night.

I begin walking down the path where Ardina left running off to.

Bjorn-Ardina!Ardina!?

After a few minutes of walking in darkness.A pair of arms hugs my waist.

Bjorn-Ah! Fuck.Ardina you startled me.

Ardina-sorry...I kept running until I got tired.

Bjorn-Thats ok.C'mon lets keep on going.

We begin walking down the path in a cautious silence.Wary of any beasts that may attack.Or sneaky bandits praying on Clueless people.

Its odd even in this darkness I can see better than I could before.But barely and only when I focus on the distance.I can hear animals around us but can't see them clearly the noises they make,their steps through the terrain.The smells of these animals also flying into my nostrils,flooding them as if I were right next to the animal.

Something has changed in my senses.In me I did not know I could jump that high or run that fast.Since I woke up my body has felt strange.A slight hunger in my bones.Though I ignore it.It calls to me,to devour Ardina

Chills go down my back

I look at Ardina,I could never eat someone.Especially not a child,It feels like I might just snap and eat her right now.To rip her limb from limb,Eat her organs.To be a Monster.

I flick my head away from her.Shuddering at my thoughts.

Something deep,something fundamental in me has changed.Could all this just be an illusion of the darkness,warping my mind.

It has to be.

MORNING

I wake up to the sound of a carrige,and footsteps.People talking and laughing.

Bjorn-Ardina wake up.

I shake her awake.She rubs her eyes after yawning.

Ardina-What?

Bjorn-stay low.There's people out there.

I get up peaking from the side of the tree.A caravan of travelers and some mercenaries probably protecting the goods inside.

I should show myself slowly,else they fire at me.

I walk out the bushes in front of them.The merchant's and mercenarys all stop in their activities.

Mercenary-Oi whatta ya want.

They all reach for their swords but before they can draw them I blurt out.

Bjorn-Im lost,im lost just need to get to storm village.

They look at each other confused,before letting their guard down.

Head Mercanary Hjrogar-Well your in luck youngin we are headed that way some word of a raid reached us not long ago.Delivering supplys from Danesburg.

Bjorn-I have a little girl with me as well*shouting*ARDINA COME OUT!

The little girl comes out a bush not to long after I called for her.

She brushes some branches out of hair and clothes.Then waves and fat smile on her face.

Ardina-Hello!

We board the merchants caravan they offer us some food and water.We accept and eat up.Afterall we had not ate in a day and the hunger was a constant thought until now.

The merchants and mercenaries crack jokes and in the midst of it one of the merchants

Merchant Lorgi-So whats your story a youngin like you out here lost in the woods.With a little girl?