Oliver Lot

'The Rising...'

The Country of Avalon...

Arthur City...

A scarlet red train slowly pulled into a large stone train station as the doors slowly began to slide open allowing several people to step off of the train. Many of these people were all refuges, from the Country of Camelot. Forced to flee after their home Country was lost in the war... Their walls torn down and their King overthrown they had no choice but to flee.

Many of them have lost so much...

The war of the five Countries has been going on for years now. Camelot was being backed into a corner, as Alnwick was gaining the edge. So many people had no choice but to flee to Avalon for safety. So many people had become so lost...

And for some...

"Davi!" Athena yelled hitting the young boy over the head with her hand as hard as she could "Wake up you lazy idiot!" She yelled loudly.

For some, the war hasn't really bothered them... In fact... For this odd pair they didn't even seem to know that a war was going on...

Not a good sign...

Inside the train, a nineteen-year-old girl with wild red hair tied back into a pony tail, and a pair of annoyed looking golden amber eyes was hitting a sleeping teen over the head again and again. She wore a pair of simple blue jeans, with a long sleeved white shirt, and a black jacket with red designs on it through the trimming. In one hand she held what looked like a stuffed red lion toy. She gave off the aura of an angered lion. Power seemed to roll off of her and her eyes glared down at the sleeping boy.

This girl was Athena Dawn, one of the people who trained under the Master with Davi.

"Wake up!" Athena hissed. "Damn it Davi! Wake up! They're gonna figure out that we're stowaways if we don't get off! I knew we should have just bought tickets but no... You had to be a cheap asshole! Why did we even take the train! I can travel faster than it for free you lazy punk! Oh that's right! It's because you're an idiot who wants to get caught or something you asshole!"

"Ahh... Five more minutes." Davi yawned, not caring that he was being hit... His face twisted slightly showing off his shark like fangs which only made Athena even more mad as she bashed the red lion toy into his head more and more. It must have been filled with rocks or something though as it made loud cracking sounds against his head. "Relax little Dawn..." Davi said letting out a small yawn as he cocked his head back resting it on the arm-rests of the trains chairs. "Just a little bit longer-"

"Davi!" Athena hissed out. "We don't have five minutes! We need to get off the train now. Before they discover that we are stow-"

"Tickets please." A calm, and fake, kind voice announced from behind the red haired girl, making her jump.

Athena felt a shiver go down her spine for a second as she let out a sheepish laugh and hugged her lion closer to her chest in mild fear. She slowly turned around to stare at the woman who stood behind her. The woman had a fake, kind smile on her face and her hand was outstretched towards the fidgeting girl. Athena held her lion even tighter...

"R... Right..." Athena stuttered. She made a fake show of looking for her ticket before she let out a quiet hiss. "I uhh... I don't appear to have it... I... I think me and my..." She took a glance at the sleeping Davi for a moment. "...My... Let's call him friend misplaced them..." She gulped when she saw the woman's smile snap in half for a moment. "My lion could have ate it so... Uhh... I guess their gone haha... Ha... Ha... You're not laughing..."

"I'm afraid that, unfortunately means, you will have to buy more." The lady said. Her smile seemed to have broken for a moment but was back as she held her hand out with even more force.

"...We... Kind of don't have any money... We're sort of broke..."

"Ahh..." The woman nodded for a moment. "Are you two refugees from Camelot?"

"No Ma'am!" Athena nodded. 'Refugees? From what?' She thought. "We were just coming to check out this City because we heard a rumor about something and have business a few towns over."

"I see. Roman!" She suddenly yelled.

There was a loud bang, as a large figure began to walk towards them. He was massive standing at nearly eight feet tall and had huge muscles, green skin, and the head of a pig. An Orc...

"What." He grunted.

"These two are stalling for time." The woman smiled. "They didn't have a ticket."

"Okay? Make em buy a new one."

"Oh. They don't have the money apparently."

"They what!" The orc slowly reached up and cracked his knuckles as a fire lit up in his eyes. "Freeloaders huh? You know how you're gonna pay for that ticket!"

"H... How..." Athena stuttered.

"In pain! One broken bone for every coin you didn't pay!"

"Uhh? He did it!" Athena said pointing at Davi. "When in doubt blame Davi!"

Davi let out a quiet snore as he felt someone tapping at his head. "What is it, Dawn?" Davi groaned as his eyes slowly opened. "I'm trying to sleep- Oh. Oh..."

Davi shut up when he saw the biggest, buffest, orc of his entire life, staring down at him with flames in his eyes.

"Oh... Crap-"

'Bang!'

***

Meanwhile away from the horrible violence...

Inside of a random magic shop found somewhere in the City of Arthur...

A young boy stood inside of a large store looking around with curiosity. The boy couldn't be older than eighteen and had short blonde hair, and bright sapphire blue eyes filled with so much hope. In his arms, he held a small black dog that had six red glowing eyes and looked almost like a mini wolf. The boy wore a simple pair of black pants, and a white buttoned up long sleeved shirt with a brown vest around it. A simple long sword rested at his side inside of his holster as he looked around.

This young boy was named Oliver Lot!

He was another one of our many heroes in this tale of magic and friends.

He let out a hum as he looked around the many shelves seeing all the crazy rare stuff. There were wide arrays of various magical trinkets all on the shelves that he looked at with excitement. It was like a kid in a candy store.

"What do you think Jakey?" Oliver asked patting the strange looking dog. He raised it up to his eyes as if waiting on it to say something.

The dog's nose twitched as it stared ahead blankly at Oliver.

"Sure I can do that I guess." Oliver turned and walked up to the front desk. "Uhh... Hello." He said sounding a bit nervous. He waved giving the old man who stood behind the desk a kind smile. He was super tall and buff and looked kind of scary. "I was... Umm... Wondering... If you have any kind of magical trinkets... Like the kind that can help someone cast a spell easier? Staves and Wands? Or maybe a familiar contract? I'd really like a magic sword if you have one?"

"You a wizard or something?" The store clerk grunted.

"Uhh. Yes sir." Oliver nodded. "I recently graduated from a magic school in Alnwick, top of my class, and I think it's about time I set out on my Adventure, but... I need way better gear if I'm ever going to be good! It's my dream to one day join a Guild becoming a powerful Arcane Knight so I can try and draw the holy sword Excalibur!"

The man grunted as he ran his hand through his beard for a moment. "I think I get what you're saying." He reached down underneath the desk and pulled out a large wooden box. He flipped it open pulling out a small golden sword that rested inside of the box. It seemed to glow with a small red light. "This here is one of the best things I've got."

"Whoa... You actually had a high level magic sword! I didn't think one would be in a dump like err... I mean... How much for the sword?" Oliver asked holding his dog tighter.

"This sword here is very special." The man grunted. "Forged for an Arcane Knight, in the Umbra Mortis Guild, it's never seen use though."

"For An Arcane Knight! And one from Umbra Mortis! That Guild has caught up and is now tied in first place with the number one guild! That things got to be rare!" Oliver said with stars in his eyes for a moment. "Amazing! But wait? Why has it never seen use? I get that magic swords on this level are like super rare, but if that blade was specifically built than surely the person who wanted it could use it, and would have it right?"

"The one who ordered it died." The old man shrugged. "I think he exploded and his insides became his outside so he didn't need it anymore.?"

"...Gross..."

"It ain't my business. All I know is the stupid sword was given to me to sell, because the owner went and died. You want it or not?"

"I want it! I want it a lot!"

"That'll be one hundred thousand Golden Bells then."

Oliver's face instantly dropped. "Is... Isn't that a bit pricey... I mean is this shop even worth a hundred golden bells?"

"Do you want it or not."

"I... I do but... I don't have that kind of money? I don't even think Nobles have that kind of money?" He muttered giving a large annoyed frown. "No way anyone from this place could ever buy that weapon... That price is way to high. Like way, way, way to high!"

"No cool magic sword for you I'm afraid." The man shrugged. "Unless..."

"Unless what?" Oliver sounded hopeful at even a chance to get his hand on such a powerful weapon. He'd do nearly anything for it.

Anything...

"I'd be willing to make a trade."

"You will? I don't really know if I have anything that you would really want though?" Oliver muttered. "I mean most of what I have is hand me downs. Is there really anything you'd be willing to trade for that weapon?"

"Of course. I'm a nice man. I'll give you this Blade, for all the Bells you have, and that beast of yours."

"Y... You want Jakey!"

"Of course I do. That thing is clearly magical. A Devil-Beast. Creatures of old. I thought most were extinct but here you are with one. That little guy is worth almost as much as this blade. So... What do you say?" He smirked. "Is it a deal or not?" He asked holding his hand out to Oliver.

Oliver stared at the hand and let out a small gulp. His eyes slowly darted over to the sword, then down to Jakey his pet...

***

"And stay out!" The orc grunted throwing Davi and Athena out of the train. "Freaking cheap bastards! Don't ever try that stunt again you here!"

Both of them collapsed onto the ground lying face down in a heap.

"First Orc we've ever met and had turns out to be a jackass..." Davi muttered slowly standing up and dusting himself off.

"Or maybe he just hated the fact that you didn't buy a ticket... That and I think he broke his hand punching you." Athena groaned also sitting up. She rubbed her stuffed lions hair as she let out an annoyed sigh. "Seriously? How the hell did you get your skin as hard as iron? That doesn't even make sense?"

"I trained really, and I mean really hard."

"Sure... I'm sure it has nothing to do with your weird ass backstory..."

They both stood up and stared past the platform towards the city that was ahead of them. Neither of them said a word staring at all the large buildings ahead of them.

"So... We finally made it." Davi smirked.

"Do you think we'll find him this time..." Athena asked quietly. "He wasn't in the last five cities... Why will this be any different?"

"Just have hope. I'm sure he'll be here." Davi said. "We'll find him... We have to find him... We'll find your father no matter what. And we'll both get our answers out of him. I'm certain of that..."

"I hope... More importantly we need to keep heading North to find that Guild... What was it called again?"

Davi gave a small smirk as he did a pose with his guitar. "Phoenix Flight!"

"Right... Phoenix Flight..." Athena nodded. "We got to get into this Guild... We will join a Guild no matter what..."