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Chapter 3: The twilight Kai

Keina glowered at the Troll sitting across the campfire from her as Fervo tended to his wound, the troll however looked quite content to just sit there and smirk like he had heard something funny, casting a glance at Keina, Fervo asked "whats your name?"

looking back to Fervo the troll said "Sanji Zil'Gan, druid as ya could see, at ya service and who might ya be?"

'im Fervo Sunmane"

"nice ta meet ya Fervo, an' who might ya pretty lil' elf friend be?"

glowing at Sanji she growled "Keina", nodding Sanji looked around their encampment , at the two mounts to their armour and wepons, "an what are two well equipped people like ya doin out here?"

Standing Keina glowered down at the troll "that is none of your concern Troll" Sanji raised an eyebrow before saying "well ya both look like ya doin somethin important, i wanna come along"

Fervo and Keina glanced at each other, Keina shook her head no but was ignored "why do you want to come Sanji?" Fervo asked the young troll curiously "you look a bit young travelling alone", Sanji blinked before shrugging "who knows? i like adventure, ya both seem like wherever ya goin dere gonna be lot of adventure, plus im 17 mon, im on travellin round cause i got bored stayin at home" after speaking Sanji rolled his arm where Fervo hand healed him and stood up, "im goin ta get my mount, let me know ya answer when i get back", turning around Sanji wandered back into the woods.

Fervo looked over to speak but Keina cut him off "no"

"bu-"

"no"

"Kei-"

"i said no Fervo, we don't know him, for all we know he could be a spy"

Sighing Fervo stood up and looked down at her "you mistrust and jump to suspicions too quickly Keina", glowering up at her tall friend Keina said "and you trust too easily Fervo", Fervo reached over and placed a hand on her shoulder, "here hows this, we let him come but if he does anything that makes him suspicious then he leaves deal?" frowning Keina nodded then turned away and went over to pet Gem.

By the time Sanji had gotten back the fire had started to die out and Gem and Fluffy were asleep but woke up when Sanji's mount came trudging out of the woods following her master, standing up she glowered at Sanji and hiss mount "a raptor, your mount is a raptor that could kill us in our sleep" Sanji raised an eyebrow at her "Talon's harmless she ain't gonna hurt ya unless you hurt me, and Raptors are our native mounts, don't ya know any troll history?"

Keina glowered at the troll, she knew that trolls usually used raptors as their mounts but she still disliked them, the Raptor, Talon, watched Fervo and Keina before deeming them as no threat to her master and headed over to Gem and Fluffy, Gem let out a squawk and went around the other side of Fluffy and stayed there while Fluffy just let out a snort and went back to sleep.

Fervo sighed and put more wood on the fire as Sanji sat down across from him, grumbling Keina turned and headed into her tent to sleep until it was her turn on watch duty,

Keina let out a yawn as she rode ahead of the other two on Gem, looking around, they had left their campsite a few hours ago and continued heading towards Ashenvale, she was trying to ignore Sanji as best she could but the troll would not stop talking, Fervo on the other hand seemed to enjoy talking to him, letting out a curse she made Gem walked further ahead so that she could hear them less.

After riding for another hour Keina looked down at her map to see where they were which was apparently in the middle of nowhere frowning Keina had turned around to wait for Fervo to ask him if she was reading the map wrong when Gem suddenly let out a surprised squawk as something landed hard into the ground infront of her, frowning and more alert than before Keina put the map away and slid of Gem to see what it was.

"Keina?" ignoring Fervo she bent down to pick up the arrow and frowned before showing it to Fervo, "this was just shot at me and Gem, if they were aiming for me they missed unless it was a warning shot"

Fervo and Sanji slid off their mounts as the approached, Fervo frowning while Sanji looked around towards the edges of the Felwood "i don't see anythin" Keina glanced over at Sanji before pulling out her daggers and walking around watching and listening for anything out of the ordinary, before turning around when Fervo spoke "this is human made, Keina"

nodding to Sanji Fervo took out his mace and shield while Sanji transformed into a cat and stalked into the forest. the two of them walked around looking and listening until they heard a howl and what sounded like a cat snarling, glancing at each other Keina and Fervo dashed into the forest towards the sound.

Keina wasn't expecting what she saw when they found source of the sounds, Sanji was circling four men, three with swords and one with a bow, three human and one a dwarf, there was another man on the ground dead which Keina supposed the howl of pain had come from, Sanji turned his head when Fervo and Keina came out, which the man closest to Sanji tried to take advantage of by swinging his sword high, but before he could bring it down there was a swooshing sound and he fell backwards a throwing knife sticking out of his chest, dead. that caused the last three to jump into action.

The man with the bow went after Fervo, while the dwarf went after Sanji, which left the last man with the two handed sword to go after Keina.

Keina ducked when he swung his blade forward and stab upwards but her dagger could not penetrate his thick armor, letting out a curse she rolled out of the way when he aimed a kick at her, pulling back up into a crouch the two circled each other the sounds of the other two fights around them, Keina risked at glance and saw Fervo overpowering the archer while Sanji still continued swiping at the dwarf almost like a hunter plying with its next meal.

Turning her eyes back to the man infront of her who was getting ready to charge changing her stance Keina waited until the man charged, when he did just as he was in range of hitting her, she vaulted over his head and managed to plant a dagger into a cinch in his armor along his shoulder causing the man to cry out and drop his sword in pain, Keina twisted to land lightly on her feet but was then engulfed with the same dizziness as before when she fought Sanji, and ended up missing her landing and falling on her back instead.

When she tried to stand back up she swayed and lost her balance, falling down onto her back again, she could just see enough to see that the man had pulled her dagger out and was advancing on her the blade raised, she could not stand up and could not cry out due to the pounding in her head, she heard Fervo cry out her name and Sanji growl and the sound of running feet, but they would not get to her in time for the man was standing above her now bringing the dagger down, she could hear the two running as fast as they could and she closed her eyes.

Then she heard it the twang of a bow and Fervo still yelling and Sanji growling, thinking that Fervo hand tried to shoot the man with his friends bow but missing she kept her eyes closed prepared for the blow but it never came, and then Fervo was next to her holding a glowing hand to her head and saying her name worriedly, blinking away the dizziness and letting Fervo's healing spell take away the pounding in her head she sat up slowly and stared down at the man who now had a arrow between the eyes.

Frowning she looked at Fervo "did you...?" shaking his head Fervo said "no, it came out of the woods, Sanji is investigating, whoever shot it was trying to save your life Kei, i want to thank them" letting out a small breath Keina held a hand to her head before getting up, still swaying slightly and started to gather her knife and dagger, ignoring Fervo as he watched her frowning

"Keina, what happened? you suddenly collapsed during your fight"

"i don't know"

"Keina, please tell-"

"im telling the truth Fervo i don't know the same thing happened when i was fighting Sanji"

Fervo watched her and when he seemed convinced that she was indeed telling the truth he sighed "this isn't good Keina, if that happens in another fight and your alone.." he didn't need to finish the sentence because she knew that she only got lucky this time due to a stranger with a bow. Turning around at a rustling noise she raised her dagger but lowered when Sanji came out transforming back into a troll.

"nothin dere, when i looked there was a set of footprint but then i lost da trail, you alrigh' Keina?

nodding to the troll she turned around and started turning out the dead mens pockets until she found a slip of parchment, opening it she read

find the elf Keina Darkblade and her companion Fervo Sunmane, they must not intervene in our plans, when you find them kill them, we must eliminate all threats if our master is to succeed in his plans, do not fail me a third time Korn or your family will pay the price

Commander Padish Dukor of the Twilight Kai

and

General Gewiredeth Mang of the Twilight Kai

Frowning Keina passed the note to Fervo who read it out loud while she searched the man Korn for anything else. Sanji took the letter and studied it "who are da Twilight Kai?" he looked from Fervo who shook his head to Keina who was glowering, then growled "i don't know me and Fervo have never heard of them but whoever they are the know about our assignment, this seems far much bigger than just finding a book now, either the Warcheif did not know about this or he was keeping it from us on purpose"

Glaring down at the body of Korn she thought There is something big going on here and i need to find out what, like it or not im now involved.

So? how was it? sorry again for not updating this ive been very busy, but im back now so yay!

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