~a heRO story~

[Spire]

Spire looked back at the looming darkness of Prontera.? The blackened walls still shown from quite a distance away. ?The Road twords the east had shown slight signs of corruption. However, it was Bright outside the city walls, the decaying clouds only loomed above the city, outside, the Lunatic hopped joyfully and happily, blissfully unaware of the darkness that lay inside the city walls.

it was almost eerie to feel sunshine, for it had been days that the two young adventures had last felt the warmth of sunshine. Everything was in the norm outside the city.??Porings, Thief bugs.. Everything was just like is was a week ago, and how it had been t the citys founding.??Almost as though it had been forgotten by the dark one, like he only cared about terrorizing the town.

Spire and Rika hiked all day through winding paths trying to make it to the town of Geffen where they hoped a mafge could point them in the right direction. They had to walk along a cliff face because it was too high to scale. when the two found a small crevice. This was one of the few passes though the mountains surrounding Prontera.

They pushed their way through the tight crevice, for it was bearly enough room to pass through.Once on the other side, they found themselves in a beautiful forest. Covered in plants of millions of varities.?They looked around gawking at all they saw, never being outside the mountains before this was a sight to see.?However, Wolves lived inside these woods, and everyone of the city knows to be scilent when they enter them. Because one wolf might now pose a threat but 20 or 30 wolves can be very dangerous.

Danger lurked ahead of Spire.??He could feel eyes watching him as Rika lead him forward.??They walked into an open area where the sunshine poured in throught the trees, a beautiful sight. It was quiet here, very tranquil.??The birds of the trees, seemed to have betrayed their melody, because they sat in scilence.??Branches cracked underfoot as Spire looked out into the stillness.

Nothing was there as far as he could tell, but he could not shake the feeling of being watched.??He pulled out his bow readying an arrow for any attacker that might appear, like he had many times before.??All of the sudden lighting fast shapes appeared darting from every direction, just out of the once quiet darkness. Rika taken in shock of the insident could not move. Spire only managed to down one of the beasts but they were moving in on the party...

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