Elikir

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This thread is for me to post my story, Elikir:A Foolish Quest.Enjoy!

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The Archives of Elekir: A Foolish Quest

Chapter 1:

The First age of Elekir, in which this story takes place was full of brave knights in the service of their kings and lord, and of men who roamed the countryside looking for money, food, and a decent bed to sleep in for the night. The later ages were full of corruptionof the many wealthy people looking for even more than they already had. But this story does not take place in those ages of evil deeds. There are many creatures in the land that kill and live off of the people in the land. AlsoIn this story there are many cities which you will read about. In these cities, the main law was ,"do not kill thy neighbor in cold blood". But it said nothing about killing your neighbor in a duel.

It was a lovely morning in the year 9027 in the first age of Elekir. Under the shade of a Willow tree outside of Otter-Slide Village was a man clad in bright red and yellow clothes; peacefully eating an apple. The man was lying down with his head against the trunk. He was wearing a pointed hat which was commonly seen among the lower class citizens of Elekir. At the man's feet were the bodies of three dead men, not yet smelling of decaying flesh. The man took the last bite out of the apple and hurled the core into it in defiance of the crazed creatures that lived there. After doing so he saw a cloud of sand heading down the dirt road towards him. When the cloud got closer he could make out what the person looked like and smiled.
"Hello Kirl, where are you heading?" he said as Kirl came closer to reveal his bald head.
"Ah, hello Somath. I was just heading to Rolkind so I thought that I would stop in Otter-Slide Village because I heard that there is an inn there that has very good food," he said rubbing his bulging stomach to emphasize the word 'food'.
"What are you going to do in Rolkind?" asked Somath.
"Oh, just merchant business... that doesn't really interest you very much does it?"
"No, not really," said a slightly annoyed Somath.
"My my you have been busy," said Kirl eyeing the dead bodies.
"Aye and I'll get you too if you don't move along now."
"Agh! Someone help me,"screamed Kirl as he ran away in mock terror. Laughing and giving a long sigh Somath picked up his belongins and spit on each of the carcasses, as was the custom for the winner of a duel to do.
"Even if ti is the custom, it's still not very nice,"said a new voice from behind Somath.
"Even if it wasn't the custom who are you to command me?" aked Somath, wheeling aroun with his sword in hand.
"No one to command you, just someone who wishes to fight you for doing injustice to the bodies of the dead." Somath laughed evilly and said
"Another one to fall vistim to my skill with a sword.May I ask your name before i kill you?"
"The name of the greatest swordfighter that I have met, which I am, is called Hayor."
"Alright then Hayor, prepare to meet your match."
Suddenly Somath attacked with a vicious fury, hacking and slashing Hayor with brute strength. In turn Hayor parried with perfect time and precision. It seemed as if it could go on for forever until Somath stood back to regain his breath.

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Sorry i couldnt let you read it all at one time. ill do my best to finish the first chapter now.

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In this time, Hayor took the initiative and with smooth strides, attacked with stabs and lunges for the mid-section on down. Hayor finally stood back and said,
"You are fairly good at this but i'm still better than you are in the long run." Somath got so angry that he lunged with all his force but Hayor caught his hand and raised his foot to break his wrist. As Somath fell down and howled in agony at the blow. He layed his head against the trunk of the tree and cradled his arm as Hayor stood back and said,
"I hate to destroy at this because, sadly you are the best one that I have faced."
"I may be down and cornered but the beast is always provoked in that position!" As he yelled this he pcked up his sword and tried to stab but Hayor deftly kicked his hand and the sword flew up to land in Hayor's hand.
As Somath screamed and yelled Hayor laughed.
"You call your own self a beast and then you get killed like one. Your quest that was bent on destroying me or anyone else was a foolish one. Now you have forced my hand. I shall now destroy you." After he said these wordshe took the swords and stabbed both of them into Somath's heart as hard as he could. After killing Somath he took the money-purse from the man's blood- stained belt. Pointing his sweaty finger at each one and counting he cried out loud to himself,
"Eighty-three gold pieces and one-hundred and forty-eight silver pieces! How many men has this person killed?" He whistled to himself and murmurred things to himself about how that man wasn't fit toget that much as he wlked AWAY from Otter-Slide Village.

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Chapter 2: this one's good!

As hayor was walking along for about a half-mile he started to ntice that he would need to eat something soon. he walked along for about another half-mile and came to a sign that read, "left for three miles:moliks; right for one and a half miles:Guvrom". he looked at the sign and thought 'Moliks is nearest most of the other cities but i need to eat... to Guvrom i go!'. as he walked along for a few minutes he saw a man hanging by his neck on a rope above a five-foot deep pit, waiting to rot off of it.
"Only extremely cruel people do justice like that. when he falls he wont have a head!" he took out his knife that he would usually use for skinning an animal and climbed the tree when he got to the branch where the man was he started to cut the rope. when the man fell he took his first breath of the air in the tree and almost gagged.
"Either that man smelled very bad or he's been sitting here a while." he climbed back doen, holding his breath all the while and then buried the man. after he covered the man up he let out allthe air he had been holding but found the scent clinging to him.
"Oh great! another reason for someone to think that i killed that man back there!" When Hayor got up to leave he saw a man walking towards him and then drop for no apparent reason. hayor ran to the man and found a rather sharp stone next to his head and trickle of blood coming down his forehead. He gasped as something hard hit his shoulder and a squeaked curse from the bush on his right. he looked down and there was a rock with one shrp end at his feet. when the man began to stir he grunted and fell back down again as he heard a happy-sounding exclamation of "Wallllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!". Hayor ran and dove into the bush where the sound came from and there was a squeak. he landed on something fuzzy and it went limp. he stood up and looked down at what he had landed on and said to himself,
"cursed wood gnolls." wood gnolls were the creatures that lived in the woodsand used slingshots andshort rapiers as weapons. they grew to be about five feet tall and were dog-faced with lots of hair on their bodies. Hayor was petrified as he heard squeaks from random points around him. he took one step towards on of the squeaks and stopped dead in his tracks and blacked out.

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note: the wood-gnolls are'nt exactly like the dwarfs in the NARNIA books

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When Hayor woke up he had the most excruciating, throbbing feeling of a hangover in his head from being hit by the slingstone.He found that his hands were tied behind his back and also that he was surrounded by people that were in the same (or worse) consition as him.Standing around the prisoners were a few gnoll guards and he could see something happening a little ways off.There was a gnoll and a goblin on a mat under a little sus-shade they were conversing in a language that he couldn't understand.Suddenly the Gnoll said something that the goblin obviously didn't want to hear and the goblin quickly pulled out a knife and stabbed the gnoll throughthe heart.Just as quickly the camp became a flurry of gnolls running out of tents and weapons being grabbed with small goblin arrows flying from the trees.The biggest gnoll guard growled at another gnoll and the commanded gnoll decapitated the first two prisoners.It came to Hayor next who by this time had recovered his full mental awareness and as the gnoll swung he rolled forward and the gnoll cut his bonds.Hayor grabbed the gnoll by the arm and pulled himself to the ground and pushed the gnoll over his back. he picked up the ax that the gnoll had and slashed open the middle of the big gnoll that was standing guard.After he killed the remaining gnoll guards he picked up a sword that one of them was carrying and cut the bonds of the other prisoners.They all grabbed torches and started lighting the camp on fire.As the gnolls were fighting they noticed that their camp was burning and they turned to put it out.The prisoners escaped by following out of the camp.They stopped and talked in too long of detail but they finally decided to head to Guvrom and that Hayor would buy them some meat.But as they were walking the gnolls had apparently been hunting so one of them, the leader called Urze pulled out four slingshots and gave three of them to the other men and tro Hayor so they defeated the gnoll party.But as they left they were set upon by more gnolls and the three men besides Hayor didn't escape and Hayor had to head to the town by himself.