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it must be getting harder to breath.

thats all that was going through erigion's head as he was running alongside his comrade.
stroud had the girl in his arms running as fast as he could towards the nearest town,she was barely breathing and extremely pale.
the carnage was far behind the three of them erigion had gathered anything of use from the remains of strouds house. he had it in a great pack that he was carrying along with his and strouds blade.

"there should be a town up ahead my friend." erigion said enthusiastically.
"there bloody better be, i cant keep this pace for much longer" stroud replied breathlessly.

they continued running for a further quarter of an hour, when stroud finally collapsed.

"take...take her...." he started
"I'm not leaving you here" erigion said.
"leave my gear...take her and go..i'll be with you soon" he said
"but.."erigion began
"she is far more important then me..now do it." he said in his commanding voice.

erigion paused, then he picked up the girl nodded at stroud and ran onwards.

stroud lay breathless for a while trying to recover from hours of running, his thoughts turned to athilius who had bravely fought to the end, his ruined home and now the injured girl..allot had happened in too little time something was amiss.
his feeling had been correct SHE was almost upon them once more, and this time he feared they weren't strong enough to succeed as they had in the days of old.
the eight strong legion was now only two.

several miles away erigion had reached an outpost with the girl. a few guards were about the place doing what guards do, which until a few moments ago had been sitting on their arses playing black jack.

the captain of the guard approached the pair,he was quite stocky and had obviously been in a few fights...probably bar fights but fights none the less.

"captain Goosener of the red guard at your service" he said.
"i don't have much time we need to get this child to a doctor immediately" erigion said breathless.

"she seems a bit pale" goosener said.
erigion looked somewhat annoyed with the guard captain.
"i said i don't have much time now are you going to help or not?" he asked them in a demanding tone.

"erm yes, thats what we ere at the red guard do."the captain said.
"Sergeant give the man your horse" he instucted.
"but sir i jus.." he started.
"horse or a weeks pay"the captain said.
the man saluted
"yessir!"
he then ran behind the post and fetched his horse.
the captain mounted his own horse
"right lads, listen good coz im only saying this once, im off to escort this ere gentleman and injured girl to thorn point where ill inform the count of our situation and await orders" he said.
the troops let out a large groan.
"whats that men?" the captain asked.
the sergeant stepped forward and stood to attention.
"then men and i are just reluctant for such a fine officer to be leaving our ranks"he said.
"now i'll have none of your smart talk thats a weeks pay deducted.right you orrible gits ill be seeing you in a week" the captain informed the men.

"we need to be there within the hour" erigion said.
"no problem young man i know a few short cuts"the captain answered.
erigion smiled at the young man comment, he was at least 3 times the mans age...although he did not look it at all.
the pair then rode west toward the harbor town of thorn point.

back in the forest stroud was almost comatose laying on his back with his eyes closed. he wasn't ready for this kind of activity yet, not after being away from it for so long,he had to get used to it fast. if he wasn't ready when SHE was awakened fully he would die. a strange smell over took stroud.
he opened his eyes.
this wasn't gonna end nice....not nice at all he thought.

the wolfs face was almost pressed against his own.
its teeth and fur around its mouth were bloody and its breath smelt of dead meat

it started to lick him.

"HELLO" a female voice echoed in his head.
stroud would of found this very odd if he was a normal person, but normal he was not.
"hello...." stroud said nervously
"sorry to bother you but you were laying down and you have a big pack and i can smell food in there and i don't like eating meat but i had to or i'll starve and the taste is driving me mad and i didn't want to just take it so i thought well if hes dead then its not like wrong or anything so i checked and your not so could i please have some of your vegetables i can smell in your pack please?" the wolf said in one big confusing sentence.
stroud looked at the wolf

"suuuuure" he said slightly dazed
the wolf hoped of of his chest and sat waging its tail furiously.
"my names bobbit whats yours? it asked
"bobbit huh?..mines stroud nice to er..meet you" he answered as he pulled a cloth sack out of his pack
"your a vegetarian wolf?" he asked
"well kinda, its hard to explain" the wolf let out an odd laugh as it said this, it reminded stroud of some of the women that used to gather outside the legion barracks back in the days of old.
"um i wasn't always a wolf yah know" bobbit said
stroud layed some veggies out on the ground.
the wolf looked at them and licked its lips
"THANK YOU SO MUCH" it said before it began to chew on them.

stroud sat against the tree and watched the wolf eat, he reached for his mead pouch and put it to his lips, nothing.
he looked at it, there was a hole in the side of it, no doubt caused by the battle earlier.
"bugger" he said to him self.

"you look like you need some rest mister stroud" the wolf said.
"i've been running non stop for sometime" he answered
"well you could go to sleep and if you want since you gave me foods then i could watch over you incase any mean wolfs show up!" the wolf said excited

stroud thought about this for a minute he certainly did need the rest, but there was erigion and the girl to think about, however she was in capable hands surely they'd be near thorn point by now.

"that would be most kind bobbit" he said to the wolf
it walked up to him and sat by his side vigilantly.
stroud looked up at the sky, it was almost nightfall he knew the forests of darkwood were a dangerous place at night times but he had no choice his body wouldn't be able to handle the hike to thorn point without rest.
his eyes dropped and sleep was upon him in no time.

thorn point.
the harbor town of dark wood the place where all trades happened a busy town to say the least it was reputed for its warm reception to the sailors of darkwood.
in fact most of the building on the city's edge specialized in such "hospitality"

it was in one particular house of "hospitality" called the seamans inn that erigion found himself bursting through the doors of.

"i need a room and alot of water and someone get me the town doctor NOW" he screamed at everyone.

the bar man nodded and ran out the door as fast as he could,meanwhile 2 other men took the girl and rushed her up to the "captains suite" and layed her on the velvet heart shaped bed.
"hardly appropriate,but it shall have to do" said erigion in a tired voice.
"now if one of you gentle man could fetch me a drink I'd be most obligated"he said as he sat down on the end of the bed.

a few moments later one of the men returned with a pint of ale and handed it to erigion.not usually being a drinker he desided this was not the time to be fussy and drank it in one.

"scuse me sir.." said the man shyly
"yes?" erigion asked
"that sword you carry....thats the Irkalla isn't it, meaning your grand magi erigion of the legion correct?"he asked him
"that is indeed correct" he informed him
"thank you sir" the man said
erigion turned and looked at the man, he did not recognize him, and he wasn't one for forgetting faces.
"might i ask where you know me from? erigion asked

"im sorry sir of course you don't know me, my father you met once, years ago before i was born he was nearly killed when a great flood overtook the city he was saved by the legions finest along with many other of the towns people, if it wasn't for you many of us wouldn't be here today....i just wanted to say thank you"

erigion's mind flew back to years before hand when a great flood did indeed engulf this town not a natural flood as the town was told it was...it was caused by the destructive powers of SHE. he and his comrades had manged to save the majority of the town before they drowned.

erigion looked up at the man.
"your thanks is welcomed but not needed friend, it is what i live for, to help those in dire need such as the reasoning of my coming here today."he said

the man nodded
"ill see whats keeping that doctor" he said

night had come.
stroud awoke to the feeling of warmth on his left side he turned to find himself not laying next to a sleeping wolf as he had expected, but next to an attractive and equally as naked young woman, she looked about 20 in age but had shoulder length Grey hair which was quite odd for her age he found himself staring at her breasts for a second. but then realized and turned himself around.
stroud let cleared his throat loudly in an attempt to awaken her,it worked.

"gah my mouth tastes horrible!" she said.
"erm..." stroud gestured awkwardly.
she looked down at her self
"oh dear" she said
"oh dear aint the half of it" stroud said nervously
"no....this is wrong its all wrong" the woman said sounding upset
"this isn't supposed to happen for another 500 years" she said.
"where i dont mean to be rude but who exactly are you?" stroud asked
"it's me bobbit!...or should i say it was me..." she answered
"now this certainly is odd" stroud thought aloud.

far off beyond the mountains earth and sky, the divine watched.
"were we right to have awakened this one?" one asked
"yes i feel we were" another answered
"for as strong as they are the two of them alone will not stop her" a third answered.