text: carefully make your way to him, trying your best not to anger the intoxicated visitors. As you reach him, a merchant bumps into the Leacher and drops his bottle of wine:
  
  "Watch where you're going!" there is silence all around you, but the upper floors are still busy with talking. The merchant notices the Leacher symbol on Aryyn's hand:
  
  "You one off them folk killers!? Them who won't help a man without getting gold? Them who'l kill a man for a few coins!?" The merchant's speech attracts people's attention. They quickly rally behind him. The Leacher pays no attention to the events, but simply packs up and gets ready to move:
  
  "Please, I want no trouble!" the barkeep exclaims as 5 men pull out swords. Aryyn walks up to the merchant, and looks him in the eyes:
  
  "Move." The Leacher's voice hardens and fire starts up in his eyes. The merchant is terrified, but it's too late to back up now:
  
  "You want to prove us you're not a heartless beast?" The merchant exclaims "Then help us. There's been a monster 'round here. It's six legs and a snake body!"
  
  The others quickly pick up on the merchant's story:
  
  "It lives in the lake, preys on the people who go there! It's killed dozens already!"
  
  The Leacher figures out that the merchant is trying to save his own skin, and notices that he's not lying. Aryyn calms down and asks:
  
  "Why do people keep going to the lake?"
  
  "They walk there while sleeping, sir! The monster calls them!" The barkeep explains. Aryyn thinks for a bit, then asks:
  
  "Have there been any survivors? Also, have you dumped anything in this lake before?"
  
  "I don't know 'bout that business, but there has been a survivor before! He went there with a friend and returned unharmed! Two men were to help him that night! The next morning All three of them were dead... It also makes these creepy loud noises at night!" One of the barmaidens says.
  
  "I've dumped leftovers In that lake for a while now. All the way until the monster came... Think it could have attracted it?" The barkeep answer's Arryn's question.
  
  "Your monster's name is a Bukavac. It's rare, only grows in polluted lakes and ponds... sometimes the sea. It comes out at night, grabs animals and men near the water. Looks about how you described it, but it's got a horn on it's head, which it uses to call people from sleep, once a month. Where did you bury the man who returned unharmed?" The Leacher calmly explains the situation:
  
  "We buryied him just behind the inn with other men... May I ask, master, but can this monster be killed?"
  
  "No." Aryyn coldly answers. Everyone is shocked: "We need to expel his soul using an old Finet ritual. The man who came unharmed was an envoy from the creature... It was his way of saying that you should get out of here. Probably plans to turn the inn into a nest... Which means it's a female, and it's pregnant. We need to dig up the envoy, and find the little worms inside him... Then preform the ritual at midnight... Go, do it! I'll get other ingredients." The Leacher easily exits the inn, and you accompany him. The merchant stops you two outside:
  
  "Thank you... Listen, if you do this, I might be able to misplace some of my shipment..." Aryyn nods, and says farewell to the merchant. You two make your way through the woods:
  
  "Soo, how will the ritual work?" You ask Aryyn.
  
  "Shouldn't be too complicated. We just need to say a thing or two on Finet, and then the ghost will appear... It'l try to stop us, the important thing is not to fall asleep, it'l try that. When... IF we banish it, its dead body will lie in the lake... We need to burn it that night, so the other Bukavac don't stay alive."
  
  "That makes sense..." You try to be funny "So what do we need for this ritual?"
  
  "I got most of the plants... Only thing we need is something the monster's attached to... We should be able to find that by the lake."
  
  You stop in your tracks:
  
  "The lake!? If we go there we'll, you know, die!" Aryyn looks at you:
  
  "Don't worry It only comes out at night."
  
  "It's sunset, Aryyn! What if we don't get out of there in time!?"
  
  "Then we better pray to the divines we don't die!" His voice raises ordering you to come along. You shut up and follow. You can easily notice that Aryyn's sorry for yelling... It looks like he's treating you as his own child.
  
  After a few dozen minutes, you make your way to the lake. It calm, peaceful, and it doesn't look like a place where a monster would delve. The surrounding has no trees, but it's purely made from grass, with no bumps, but perfectly aligned. Aryyn looks around for anything the monster would think of as personal. The water is crystal clean, but it's also very deep. You two spend a good hour searching before you find something. A scale, which Aryyn confirms is of the beast. You start heading back towards the forest, when a high pitched yell can be heard. Aryyn suggest running like wind, and you humbly accept the request. It took you half an hour to get there, but you returned in less than 15 minutes. As you return, you can see that all of the people you talked to have dug out the body and are looking at it. As you arrive, you notice it hasn't decomposed one bit:
  
  "That's Bukavac alright." Aryyn says while examining the body:
  
  "I got the ingredients... If you have a weak stomach, I suggest you return at midnight."
  
  > stay, and watch Aryyn skin the man
  Most of the people leave, with the barkeep and the merchant staying.
  
  Aryyn sighs and pulls out a knife. He stabs the man in the chest, then pulls the knife along his chest and belly. After that he takes the man's stomach and opens it. A strong smell is released, strong enough to kill a man. The three of you barely stand, but Aryyn seems to be unaffected by this. He starts pulling out organs out of the man, and that takes a while... at least another hour. He pulls out the heart when it start's pounding. It's all very disgusting and It makes you nauseas. Aryyn opens the heart and little worms start squirming everywhere:
  
  "Grab one!" The Leacher orders. One is by your feet. With great disgust, you grab the slippery, pumping worm and hand him to Arryn. In a few minutes, the body and the organs are gone, and Aryyn's building a fire and a circle from a bunch of different plants.
  
  The tavern waits until midnight, and all of you get ready for the ritual. 22 people come out, and Aryyn orders them to form a circle (including you), as he stands in the middle. When it's exactly midnight, Aryyn pulls out the worm and the scale. He orders you lot to repeat after him, as he recites something on Finet... Here's a rough translation:
  
  "O ye, monster of the depths, I call you fourth"
  
  "O ye, monster of the depths, I banish you"
  
  "O ye, monster of the depths, go where you came from"
  
  "O ye, monster of the depths, go to your dimension, for I banish you, and order you to stop the terror."
  
  Then a few other not understandable lines, and everything goes silent. The wind stops blowing. Suddenly you all feel sleepy:
  
  "You musn't fall asleep, we must banish it."
  
  You feel sleepier, sleepier, sleepier. The ghost of the creature appears, but nobody pays attention. You close your eyes...
  
  You open them a minute later, trying to fight the sleepiness. The fire is turned off and Arryn and other people are gone. You look around terrified, but luckily, you see Aryyn taking money from the merchant. You approach he two:
  
  "Thank you master... Sorry about what happened in the tavern, good luck on your journey."
  
  The merchant leaves.
  
  "Did we do it?" You ask while yawning.
  
  "Uh-huh." Says Aryyn while putting the money in his bag: "Let's go, there's a lot more to go."
  
  "But, I am sleepy... Can't we go tomorrow?"
  
  "Do you want to get killed by that thing?"
  
  "I'm coming!" You quickly say, and start following Aryyn.
  
  And they went out again! Two friends on their way to (maybe) save the world!
  
  > Chapter V
  They had arrived before sunset. The long. Seven-day journey from Etwas Inn. Has payed off. The road was calm, rarely when did they face danger... But when they did, it was nothing the Leacher couldn't handle. But, at last, you have arrived at the notorious, Dragon Roof mountain, home to a very old (possibly even older then Aryyn!) dragon named Thalazar. Sure, you've heard your fare share of stories concerning this place... But, Aryyn has confirmed the fact that they are all just legends. You didn't have time for rest. Both of you skipped the inn, and went straight towards the mountain. It was just like any mountain. Cold, wet at the base, and unforgiving. You climbed a good amount before the night. The following day was the same-you climbed a good amount, and even reached the entrance of Thalazar's cave. As you climbed higher and higher, the snow and the surrounding, even though they stayed the same, started to look clearer, more attracting... Even beautiful:
  
  "Alright, listen up." The old Leacher turns towards you: "Normaly, getting in there and talking to Thalazar should be no problem..."
  
  "But?"
  
  "But... There is a lot of magic in this place, I didn't come here just for Thalazar." You knew it! You knew it wasn't just protecting Bayheath: "We're looking for a magical artifact, I'll explain more later... It's blue and it has a ball like shape... But you see, its self-defense is to cause hallucinations to people around it." You and Aryyn start heading inside. The environment quickly changed. You still thought of it as beautiful, amazing, but for Aryyn, the place quickly became dark, cold, unforgiving... Perfect for a dragon.
  
  The pair of you quickly arrived at a branching. Aryyn knew where exactly to go. He orders you to stay there, reason being that you don't know any of the Leacher spells.
  
  The more stayed, the more you became charmed by this place. You stared at the ceiling, the growing blue light up mushrooms. There's also a giggle... Wait, a giggle? You think and quickly snap out of your state. You pull out your sword, and with the corner of your eye, you see a woman running towards the other branching hallway. For some reason, you chase after her. The tunnel narrows, but you manage to squeeze through the gaps. After a while, you arrive at a huge room, with a blue illuminated lake, and it gives you a cozy feeling. The girl stops a few meters ahead of you. She's barefoot, and holds a big fur coat around her. She's young, 'bout your age. Her face is god-like though, and hair and everything else... Just perfect. She stops giggling, and her face turns serious, and a bit sad. She drops her coat, revealing the stunningly perfect body. You begin to sweat, a lot. Her breasts are just the appropriate size, the stomach just right, and the rear all the same. She slowly walks towards you, starting to giggle once again. You, try to raise your sword, but you just can't! She completely approaches you, easily removing the sword from your arm, and taking your hand, and placing it on her vagina. Her face saddens, as she touches your, errm, 'extended' crotch. Your hand slowly touches her breasts, and it feels really good... You try your best to repeal it, but as she lowers you on the rock, then slowly pets and approaches you, there's nothing you can do... Luckily, a single drop of water falls in your eye. You return to reality for a second... Long enough to realize something. You lean to your right, then swing the sword towards her, as she starts to lie on you. You can't hear any cutting, but you open your eyes, and see that she's gone... Just disappeared. You realize it was all just a hallucination, and you let out a sigh... Not of relief, but of saddnes.
  
  Your feeling quickly disappears, and you remember what Aryyn said about that artifact he's looking for. its self-defense is to cause hallucinations to people around it." Of course, that must mean it's around! You get up, tie your pants (Which you wonder how'd they even untie). You start looking around, trying to find the artifact. You spend at least a whole hour running around, diving, looking in little nooks and crannies... And you finally find it! Conveniently hidden away, even from mice. You pick it up. It's small, size of the Leacher's little circle on the bottom of his sword:
  
  "Nice job Aared, now hand it over." You hear the Leacher's voice behind you. You turn around, and he's standing right there... You didn't even notice that he came in:
  
  "Aryyn!" You rush towards him: "Did Thalazar agree on helping?"
  
  "Yes, everything's been taken care of, we can go home now... Hand the artifact over." He says with an unusually happy voice
  
  > II
  The hallway was getting colder, but the Leacher had arrived. The room was a true behemoth!" It would take you at least an hour to walk from one end to another. It was a true dragon's lair... The only thing is, it was missing a dragon. But the Leacher was sure that he had to be there somewhere:
  
  "Thalazar! Its me Aryyn, come out, I want to talk!" The Leacher yelled, and for a few moments there was no answer:
  
  "The Savior of Aktedviir is here to visit me! And to what do I owe this pleasure." A sinister voice is heard from the darkness and the humongous dragon is quickly visible (To put it in perspective, If Aryyn got really fat, maybe he could fill up 60% of the monster's head.). The dragon throws a char near the close by table:
  
  "Please, make yourself at home... You're my guest after all." He points Aryyn to the chair:
  
  "Thank you, host." Aryyn politely thanks the humongous dragon.
  
  "You're welcome!" The dragon proves it's polite nature.
  
  Aryyn sits down, politely of course:
  
  "Would you like anything to drink, maybe eat?" The dragon asks.
  
  "No, thanks." The Leacher responds.
  
  "So, Master Leacher, why have you come here?"
  
  "I need your help."
  
  "By the eight roses, the Leacher needs my help! And it's the same Leacher who locked me in here!"
  
  "This is serious, I have no time to argue with you... The Regnum army is going to cross this bridge in a day or so. I need you to destroy it!"
  
  "Watch your manners Aryyn, this is my house... I would have to be properly payed for my troubles."
  
  "*sigh*, the main caravan has enough meat for you to survive here for the next month... Get it before reinforcements arrive."
  
  "Not worried I'll escape?"
  
  "I know that you won't."
  
  "Very well master Leacher, only thing left to do is to find a way to let me go."
  
  "I believe you got that covered."
  
  "I believe you know me too much."
  
  "I saw your little apprentice." Thalazar proclaims after a period of silence.
  
  "He's a boy I rescued from a village wiped out by Regnum... He's got talent."
  
  "You left him outside, that's not a good idea."
  
  "I didn't want him to get scared of you."
  
  "But you wanted him to get killed?"
  
  Aryyn thinks for a bit... But then he remembers:
  
  "You mean-"
  
  "It's been here for the last two years."
  
  Aryyn gets out of the chair, with the speed of a cheetah. He rushes towards the exit, and in your rescue.
  
  After just a few minutes, he arrives at the place where you were standing, but you're gone. He hears noise form the other tunnel. He pulls out his sword and rushes through the tunnel.
  
  > III
  You're just about to give the artifact to Aryyn, but then, someone else walks through the hallway. You pull the artifact away and see... Aryyn?
  
  There are now two Aryyns in the room:
  
  "Don't give him the artifact boy, It's an illusion!" The Aryyn who just walked in says.
  
  "What? He's an illusion, don't listen to him." The Aryyn standing next to you brashly says. You look towards him, and notice that the Aryyn next to you has no Leacher wristband. You take a few steps back, and say:
  
  "Aye, you'll have it."
  
  The Aryyn next to you smiles. You raise the artifact above your head:
  
  "Wait, what are you-" The Aryyn standing next to you is interrupted by the artifact flying through his face. He falls on the ground and, just like the lady before, disappears:
  
  "Holy crap!" You say while looking at the artifact.
  
  "Nice!" Aryyn pats you on the shoulders: "With a little bit of traning, you would make a great Leacher!"
  
  It fills you with approval, from a man you might as well think of as your father. Aryyn picks up the Artifact, and puts it in his bag:
  
  "We have to leave, before there are more illusions... And before you ask, yes, Thalazar agreed to help."
  
  You feel joy in your heart... You two can finally go back to Bayheath and take a rest from this tiresome adventure
  
  You easily make your way back through the tunnels and down the mountain. Nothing bad happens, no hallucinations or anything, so that's good.
  
  You go to a nearby inn, rest, then start heading back to Bayheath.
  
  > Time to Head Back to Bayheath
  All six days of your traveling go by in peace. However, on the seventh day ('bout 10 kilometers from Bayheath.) The weather changes in mere minutes. The wind suddenly starts blowing, and the clouds block the sun. Animals and men alike scurry to their homes, but you two find yourself on the road. After a few minutes of walking, there are wolf howls. The next minute, your artifact starts to glow. Aryyn knows what this means. He drops the bag, and pulls out the sword. You do the same:
  
  "What's happening!?" You ask
  
  "I was afraid this would happen..." Aryyn answers "The artifact is a magnet for the dead and the living alike. Everyone who has a little bit of greed will try to get it... The things about to attack us are neither living nor dead."
  
  "What!?"
  
  "Some call the Akii, the Grim Reapers of the monsters... And blame us for causing them. Some call them the wraiths of Akydev, the Finet version of hell! They hunt for dangerous arftifacts."
  
  "Well let's just give it to them."
  
  "They're full time manhuners... So I don't think that's such a good idea."
  
  "How do we kill them!?
  
  "We'll die before we even are able to swing our sword!"
  
  "What!? Then what do we do!"
  
  "We show we're not afraid, so they attack us with little force... Then?... Well I got something in my sleeve!"
  
  The wind starts blowing like a hurricane. In a few minutes there's a rip in the air in front of you. The air opens, and a portal appears. Through it enter two wraiths (Akii, monsters, whatever.) They wear big black armor covering their face and every other body part. They're bigger than Aryyn by a full head in every direction:
  
  "Alright, attack them... Tire one of them out while I get the spell ready."
  
  "What!?"
  
  "You take the one on the right, I'll do the left."
  
  Even though you can't see his face, you can bet that the monster is smiling right now. He pulls out his surprisingly flat sword. He walks up to you. He takes a strong swing towards you, but you dodge it. He's angry, and now stabs you, but you jump to the right and hit his arm in the process. The creature is dazzled for a bit, but quickly regains its strenght. It strikes you from the upper left corner, but you are faster, and penetrate its stomach. Again the creature is dazzled, but you try to pull the sword out... It's stuck. You keep trying and trying and trying, but you can't. The monster regains its strength in the meantime and flings you on the road. You remain lying for a while, then try to get up. Your leg is stuck, so that's not going to work. The Wraith is approaching you, and it's bleeding from where your sword is in. It's closing in on you. Both the Wrath's and yours attention is diverted by a loud voice. It's Aryyn pushing the other wraith on the ground. After that, he makes a shape in his arms, and the portal from which the wraiths came from, violently closes. Aryyn stabs the other Wraith with his sword killing it. Looks like the wraiths gain their immortality through the portals... Close the portal and make the wraiths woundable. You use this time to break free. The wraith you were fighting falls on his knees with a sword in his chest. You stand in front of him, take hold of your sword, put a leg to his chest, and then pull the sword out. The wraith falls down, and you stab him in the head to make sure it's dead:
  
  "I knew it would work!" Aryyn says to you. The wind stops blowing, and the weather clears within minutes.
  
  "Well, that was nice." You two start running towards Bayheath.
  
  > To Bayheath!
  You arrive to Bayheath once again (after a lot of running)! You see that Exam and Eward are back, and they're talking to Tahyrst. You two waltz in there, exhausted, barely standing:
  
  "Oh hey guys!... What happened to you?" Exam says with a funny voice:
  
  "Wraith." You barely gust out.
  
  "Artifact... In the bag!" Aryyn says. He sits down and pulls out the artifact and hands it to Tahyrst:
  
  "Give Ark this... That'l make him happy."
  
  "What was that part about 'Wraiths'?" Tahyrst asks, while taking the artifact.
  
  You two sit down and explain everything to them... Of course, they're all blown away!:
  
  "They shouldn't come for that in two weeks at most... they got scared, and Tahyrst, I think that's enough time for you to carry that over to Ark." Aryyn exclaims.
  
  "The Wraiths?" Eward says.
  
  Everyone talks about the Wraiths, and basically repeats what you already know(Also, I forgot to mention, Eward and Exam have completed their task with flying colors). After a few hours it's sunset... Aryyn orders everybody to go to their homes. You stop him on his way to his cabin:
  
  "I think I deserve to know what's going on here." You tell him, very seriously.
  
  "Guess there's no point in hiding it anymore... We've been tasked by a very smart and powerful wizard 'Ark' to get him this artifact. Normally he's not a man to rush something (ever! He was attacked once, and he told his apprentice 'close the gate, no need to hurry'). So, he sends me a message day before we go on our journey, saying that we need to get him this artifact and that it's urgent... When he says urgent, it means urgent! He also said that very dark times are coming... From what we've seen today... I'm afraid he's right." Aryyn leaves you with that and heads to his room.
  
  This is all very amazing to you... But what's to happen to you, or Bayheath in general (remember, the Regnum army's still advancing.) has yet to be seen.
  
  Writing: Ronhil12 Dialog: Ronhil12
  
  Plot: Ronhil12 Project Lead: Ronhil12
  
  > ACT II
  The wooden sword misses your face by an inch. Your back quickly returns to its normal position, and your hands get ready for another attack. As expected, the attack comes, but your body is quick to block it. Filled with determination, your hand signals your legs to counter attack. Your legs listen, and accompany the arm in its counter. The hand hits you enemy in his foot, throwing him off the balance. Thankfully, your shoulder stops your arm in its frenzy by hitting the enemy and knocking him on the ground. The arm is angry for missing its chance to beat up Exam's ass, but it understands. You help the Leacher up, with your left arm, fearing the other one won't listen. You have a bit trouble helping him up, as the right arm is your main one. Exam says a few things in his chest, what you assume is swearing. It's not the first time Exam's gotten angry over you beating him in a fight. Ever since Aryyn upped your training regime, days have become tiresome. Tiresome, but fruitful. You were quick to master the crafts of sword warfare, and it wasn't too difficult. Arryn said that he was pleasantly surprised by your accelerated learning. You fear that Tahyrst and Exam may be scared by your skill. You aren't that advanced though, as you often are beaten by either of them... Thankfully, you haven't gotten to fight Arryn yet. Looks like the two other Leacher initiates were at the end of their training, as they left for monster killing only last week. Your train of thought is interrupted by the smell of chicken. You turn your attention to the source and notice Exam and Tahyrst by your lunch. You rush to the little balcony, and quickly sit behind a chair grabbing a knife. With ease, you carve out a large part of the chicken, and start eating. The two Leachers start talking about some monster hunt, but you fail to listen as you've heard this before. You finish your part pretty damn fast, taking in account the size of the meal. You get up, with your mouth still full of food. You make your way to the balcony railing, and look at the scenery. This goes unnoticed by Tahyrst and Exam, as they're used on see you eat like a pig:
  
  "Gonna' be hard day tomorrow." Exam proclaims finishing his meal. Tahyrst hurries to finish her meal as well, then follows Exam:
  
  "Oh please, it's not like we're in danger... Thelion's army is three times bigger than Regnum's."
  
  "I know, I know. It's just this bad feeling I have, like we're taking this too easily."
  
  Tahyrst smiles, and then exclaims:
  
  "You've always been skeptical, older brother." The two get up and approach you, leaning on the railing, just like you: "No reason to worry."
  
  "What about you Aared?" Exam says, and then looks at you: "Come on, you have to admit that this is too easy."
  
  > Agree with Tahyrst.
  "Exam, why the hell do you think this will go wrong? Everything is fine; Thelion is going to be here tomorrow... No reason to worry." You say with your maturing voice. Tahyrst smiles and you both look at Exam:
  
  "Oh ye unbelievers..." He says with a smile, and then walks away. You look at Tahyrst, and she shrugs, and then follows Exam. You go after them.
  
  The two of you catch up with Exam. He's in the fi