We start off in a poorly lit cave. Blood everywhere. We see three young adults fighting off small green goblins. There's a guy in all light-gray armor, a she-elf, and a young human man.

The young human man is named Jonathan. He's barely eighteen. He has light red hair and is almost six feet tall. Like his hair, he wears red colored light armor. It protects him from most incoming attacks, and the ones that he can't withstand, he dodges.

Then we see a young seventeen-year-old woman named Nelly. She has pink hair and is almost as tall as Jonathan. She is a strong independent woman who prefers to use a bow than a sword but has a sword nonetheless. She is very fast and AWESOME! She comes from a dark past. Her family was murdered during a home invasion, she was 14 at the time. Since then, she had been on her own, until she found Jonathan and Heavy. She's a she-elf. Elf's are a dying breed. Most of them have been hunted and killed, and the rest live in fear.

Then there's heavy. He wears a giant suit of armor. No one has ever seen him without that armor. No one even knows his real name. All we know is that he is a guy, because of his voice. And he never leaves his armor. He sleeps in it! Ain't that weird?! Well, that's it. Short, right? Well, like I said. There isn't much we know about him.

And last but certainly not least, there's me. Shell. Or Shelly. I've got blue hair and half the size of Nelly. I'm thirteen, and I've been with these guys for eight months. I have always been by myself. I was a lost girl that no one wanted. I was left on the streets by my so-called "Parents." I found people who took care of me for a while, but they eventually left me as well. It was hard for me to trust anyone after that. I lived that way for a while. For a long while…. Then I found these guys. They took me in on the brink of death. Since then, I've been with them going on all sorts of adventures!

You may be asking what we're doing in this cave. Well, I'll tell you! We are here trying to take down the goblins that have been living in this cave. They are vicious and vile creatures that kill anything they see and kidnap young girls. These specific goblins, however, have been terrorizing a nearby village for months. We're here to stop them and get a large pile of Jewel along with it.

Not many goblins are left in the land of Fiore. They are being wiped out by order of the magic council. But it's so dangerous that many don't dare even to try to take down a goblin camp. Not us though. We'll do anything for some Jewel.

"Come on!" Jonathan yelled, turning back to the others. "We're almost to the end!" While Jonathan had his back turned, a goblin had sneaked up on him through the shadows. Leaping at Jonathan with his sharp dagger.

Heavy tried to warn Jonathan, but with no avail. "Jonathan! Behind you!

Jonathan turned around, his eyes widened as he saw the goblin lunge at him with its dagger. He tried to dodge it, but he wasn't fast enough. But, before the goblin could push his blade through Jonathan's head, an arrow came shooting by, going right through the goblin's chest. Jonathan looked back and saw Nelly shooting goblins with her bow. She ran towards Jonathan with an angry look on her face. "You know. Instead of telling us the obvious. Why don't you just pay attention?"

Jonathan looked at her, trying to speak. His face turned red with embarrassment, "Sor…Sorry. I'll pay more attention."

Nelly looked at him and rolled her eyes. "Don't say you will. Do it!" Jonathan nodded as Nelly reached into her quiver and grabbed another arrow. "I don't want to see you dead. Ok?" Nelly said with a low sympathetic voice that only Jonathan could hear.

"Ok! I'll be more careful."

Nelly smiled and continued down the cave, Jonathan following behind her.

The goblins were being pushed back to the end of the cave. "Retreat!" The goblin leader commanded. "Protect the queen!" All of the goblins were going deeper into the cave to protect their queen.

Heavy came in, swinging his ax at the remaining goblins. "Come on guys. Can we have one mission where you two don't get at it?"

Nelly looked at Heavy and scoffed, "Once Jonathan stops being an idiot."

"Well, I guess that will be never," I said, running into the cave with my diamond encrusted sword.

Jonathan smirked, "It's about time you got here Shell.

"I was making sure that there were no other back entrances where the goblins could escape from.

"Good job Shelly!" Nelly shouted as she ran towards to the end of the cave.

Shelly smiled. She always thought of Nelly as a big sister. All she wanted to do was make her happy. "Thank you, Nell!"

Heavy came beside Shelly and Jonathan and said, "Let's go." And headed towards Nelly's direction. Jonathan and I looked at each other and nodded, heading deeper into the cave.

We reached goblin HQ and hid behind a rock to avoid detection.

Nelly peeked out from behind the wall, eyeing the queen, "The queen appears to be doing some dark magic."

"If we take out the queen, the others will die," Jonathan explained.

"It's not the queen we need to take out, it's the staff she's holding." Nell corrected. "If we take that out, then all the goblins will die." Nelly turned to us and asked, "Everyone ready?"

We all nodded at each other and started attacking the remaining goblins.

The goblin queen pointed her staff at us. She was trying to conjure up black magic. "Kaa Ne To Lo Hah" When she finished her incantation, a black mist started to dispense out of her staff, coming right at us!

"Don't breathe it in!" Nelly shouted, covering her mouth.

We all held our breath, but it didn't matter. The mist was everywhere. It was getting harder for us to hold our breath. I saw Jonathan fall onto the floor, struggling to keep his mouth shut. Heavy looked at us. He couldn't let us die. He got his ax and ran towards the queen, stabbing her through the chest, and breaking her staff in half.

The mist disappeared around us. I ran up to Nelly, asking if she was ok.

"You okay Nell?!"

"I'm fine Shell. Don't worry."

"I'm fine too," Jonathan said coughing. "Thanks for asking."

The goblins around us started to disintegrate into dirt.

"Wow. That was close," I said.

Nelly grabbed the broken staff and looked it over. She found a light blue crystal. She pulled it off from its place and placed it into her pocket. She turned to us and said, "Let's go."

We all followed quickly behind her. None of us wanted to be trapped in this disgusting cave anymore. We were all excited to receive our payment. 50,000 thousand Jewel! That's a lot of money.

By the time we reached the entrance, Nell was already placing dynamite around the cave opening. She wired the dynamite to a dynamite plunger box. "Everyone, get a safe distance back." All of us nodded and proceeded to hide behind a big rock. Nell rolled the wire long enough to hide behind the rock with us. Once she was a safe distance back, she pushed down on the lever. What followed was a loud explosion and a sigh of relief from Nell. "Now no one will ever go in there."

Jonathan grunted, "I don't see a point to blowing up the entrance."

Nelly shot Jonathan a look and said, "We do this because the death of a goblin queen leaves behind dark energy. If someone were to harness that dark energy, well… then they could be as potent as the goblin queen. Maybe more."

Jonathan didn't say anything. I guess he was embarrassed that Nelly scolded him.

"Let's get back to town and collect our reward."

I grabbed Nelly's hand and smiled, "Sounds good Nelly. Let's get going!"

X

We arrived at the town by sunset. It was a quiet-quaint town. Not a lot happens here. Other than goblin attacks, and maybe an occasional dragon attack; but those rarely happen at small towns like this. When we entered the town, we went straight for the village leader. His house was made out of wood. The wood looked like it was coated in silver. It shined brighter than a diamond.

Nelly went forward and knocked on his door.

After a few seconds had passed, the village leader opened his door with a bright smile. Nelly reached into her pocket and took out the crystal she took from the goblin queen's staff and handed it to him.

"Wow. I didn't think you guys could do it,"

"Well of course we did. We are the best around." Jonathan blurted.

"Well, thank you! Those goblins have been attacking us for months." We all smiled at him, glad we were able to help. "Let me go get your payment." The village leader headed deeper into his house to retrieve the payment.

Jonathan turned to Nell and asked, "Where are we going to stay for the night?"

"I guess we could stay here. Just for the night." Nelly responded.

"That doesn't sound like a bad idea."

The village leader came back with a bag full of Jewel. "As we discussed, 50,000 Jewel."

Nelly grabbed the bag from him and said, "Thank you. And by the way, is there a place for us to stay the night?"

"Why yes! We have an inn called Jonah's Inn. Tell him I sent you and he will give you a room for free."

"Oh, you don't have to do that."

"Don't you worry about it. Now, if you will excuse me. I have to wake early in the morning, and if I don't go to sleep now, I won't get up on time." He smiled at us and closed his door.

We all turned to each other and sighed. I could tell everyone was happy to finally get some rest. It's hard work to kill goblins. We left the village leader's doorstep and started looking for the inn. I wish he told us where the inn was at. That would have made everything easier.

It was a small-boring old town. Most of the buildings were made out of old rocks. Not surprising; this is a farming town. Not much money to go around to build quality houses.

After walking for a little while, I spotted the inn next to a bar named Howe's. "Look Nell! I found it!"

"Good job Shell. Let's go inside."

Nell pushed open the wooden door. Once we got inside, I saw a weird looking painting of an old woman. She creeped me out. Nelly saw this and smiled, "Don't worry Shell. Nothing to be afraid of. It's just an old painting." I smiled back but, it was still creepy though. No wonder there wasn't anyone in the lobby.

Nelly looked around and saw a man behind a desk smiling at them. Nelly went over to him asking, "Are you the manager?"

"Yes, I am. Names Jonah Hill. How can I help you?"

"We were told by the village leader that you could give us a room to stay for the night?"

"Oh, he did? Why would he say that?"

"I'm not sure. But we are happy to pay for the room if needed."

"Wait…" The innkeeper eyed all of us from head to toe. "Are you the young lads who took down those goblins?"

"Yes, that was us," Jonathan replied.

"Oh! I see now why he said that. Of course, you can get a room for free!"

Jonah went over to his key rack and grabbed two keys off the wall. He handed both of them to Nelly with a huge smile.

"Room 7 and room 14. Enjoy! And thank you for saving our little old town."

Nelly grabbed the keys saying, "Thank you," and bowed. She gave the room 7 key to Heavy and put the other in her pocket. I followed Nelly up some really shiny wooden stairs. Nell read the signs on the top of the stairs.

"Rooms 1-10. GO LEFT."

"Rooms 11-20. GO RIGHT."

"Alright, guys. I'll see you all tomorrow at 8 a.m. sharp! Got it, Jonathan?"

"Yes, Nell. We'll be out on time!"

Heavy and Jonathan said their goodbyes and headed for their rooms. Nell and I headed right, to room 14. We saw our room. Room 14, it said. Nelly put the key into the keyhole, opened the door, and went inside the room.

I walked into our room, and my jaw dropped. I have never been in something so nice. We usually sleep on the side of the roads or some broken down houses.

"Oh my gosh, Nelly. This place is so beautiful, and the beds look so comfy! And look we have a fireplace and a window! I've never had a room with such a cool view. What you think Nell?"

Nelly didn't say anything. Maybe she didn't hear me. "Nell? Don't you think this place is beautiful."

"Yea. I guess." She sounded so monotone. Did I do something wrong? Or is she just tired? I don't want to make her mad. Guess I'll just go to the window.

I went over to the window. It looked so beautiful at first. But when I actually looked at it, it was just a field. This is soooo boring! I thought the view was something cool. Ughhh. I wonder what they're growing though. I started out the window for a few moments. Right before I was about to step away, I saw a bright light. No. Two bright lights! They were there for only a few seconds, then they disappeared.

I turned to Nell and questioned, "Did you see that?"

"See what?" She replied.

"The light. In the field."

"No, I didn't see anything Shelly. Now c'mon, let's get ready for bed."

"But…"

"Just go to bed Shell."

"Fine!"

I took off my armor and placed it right next to the bed. I put my sword on the nightstand and went into my bed. Nelly turned off the fireplace and proceeded to her bed.

"Goodnight."

"Night Shell."

They both closed their eyes. Nelly fell asleep first. I couldn't sleep though. Those lights bothered me. Was someone in trouble? Or were they just some random lights. I eventually fell asleep fifteen minutes later.

BOOM!

I jumped up, my eyes widened. My heart was pounding, and my adrenaline kicked in. What was that?! Did it have to do with those lights? I jumped off my bed and ran towards the window. I think my running must have woken up Nelly because she woke up not five seconds after.

"What are you doing Shell?"

"Did you hear that Nelly?!"

Nelly yawned and said, "What noise?"

"The loud BOOM! You didn't hear that?"

"Shell, just go back to sleep. There was no noise."

"But…"

"Just go to sleep!" Nelly snapped. "There's no noise. Now go to sleep!" Nelly grunted, throwing her covers over her. God! Can't this girl just go to sleep? Nelly thought to herself.

Tears started to roll down my face.

Nelly sighed. She came up to me and put her hand on my shoulder. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry." Nelly took her hand and wiped the tears from my face.

"C'mon Shell, I'm sorry. I'm just exhausted."

"I heard a noise, Nell."

"I know. I know." Nell repeated. "Once morning comes, we'll go around and ask some of the townsfolk if they heard anything. Ok?"

I rubbed my eyes, quietly saying, "Ok…"

"For now, go to sleep." Nelly picked me up and put a blanket over me. She gave me a big kiss on my cheek and went to bed.

"Goodnight Shell."

"Goodnight Nelly."

X

The next morning…

Nelly and I took our showers and put our armor back on. I grabbed my sword and put it in my scabbard. Nell did the same thing and said, "C'mon," and opened the door to our room and went outside. Nelly was surprised though, Jonathan and Heavy were already out there waiting for us.

"I'm surprised your awake Jonathan." Nelly laughed.

"We wanted to be up early."

"Well then, let's get going." Nelly smiled.

Heavy and Jonathan started heading down the stairs. Nelly began to follow behind them, but I quickly pulled at her arm. "What about the…"

"We'll ask them. Don't worry."

We both went downstairs and approached Jonah, the innkeeper.

Jonah saw us approaching and turned to us, "How'd you like your night?"

"It was great." Jonathan Replied.

"I'm glad. And again, thank you so much for helping out our little old town."

"It was no problem." Jonathan smiled.

Nelly and Jonathan handed Jonah their keys. Jonah smiled and put them back on the key rack. Heavy and Jonathan started heading for the entrance. Nelly and I waited back. Jonathan saw this and turned to us and asked, "You guys coming?"

"Yea, give us a second. We need to ask the innkeeper something."

"Okay. Sounds good Nell. We'll meet you outside."

Jonathan turned back around and headed outside to wait for us.

"Excuse me, Jonah. We have a question."

Jonah turned to Nell and replied, "Yes?"

"Well, last night. Shell heard a loud bang in the middle of the night. We wondered if you heard that too?"

"Well, I didn't hear anything last night." Jonah turned to me saying, "Sorry."

"That's okay. Thanks very much."

"No problem." Jonah turned back around and went to his daily duties.

Nelly looked at me and said, "See Shell. I told you."

"I know what I heard Nell."

"Look. We can ask someone else, but I think you just had a bad dream."

I looked at Nell. She doesn't believe me. I crossed my arms and stormed outside.

Nelly sighed. "Kids." She came outside and said, "Well, guys. Let's go." We all went to the east exit of the town.

I tried to look around for anyone else I could ask about the loud boom, but no one came in our path. Ughhh stupid town. Is everyone still sleeping?!

Jonathan, Heavy, Nelly, and I started heading down the dirt road next to the field. The same field where the light came from. I tried to forget about it, but the more I looked around, the more I thought of it.

Jonathan was ahead of everyone while Heavy and Nelly stayed back. I ran up to Jonathan. I wanted to know if he heard or saw anything.

"Hey, Jonathan."

"Hey, Shell. What's up?"

"I have a question."

"Go ahead…"

"Did you see or hear anything last night?"

"No… why?"

"Nothing? Not a light or a loud boom?"

"No Shell. What are you talking about?"

Shelly sighed. "Nothing Jonathan. Let's just keep walking."

X

It had been twenty-four minutes since the group left town. It was still hot, and the field around them never seemed to end. Jonathan was starting to get antsy. No one had said a word since him and Shell last talked. He had to break the silence before he went crazy.

He went over to Nelly asking, "Soooo… Nelly. What you up to?"

"Walking," Nelly replied.

"I know that. I meant… uhhh…" Jonathan didn't know what to say. He was trying to impress Nelly, but all he did was mess up. He never knew what to say to her. Why can't I have a normal conversation with her? God, I'm an idiot!

Nell looked at Jonathan with a confused look. "Yes, Jonathan?"

"Uhhhh… nothing. Sorry."

After that, he went to Heavy. He tried to have a conservation with him, but, it ended up pretty much the same.

"Hey Heavy. Whatcha doing man?"

"Walking…"

There was a pause between the two of them for a few seconds.

"Sounds cool bro. Keep at it." Jonathan said, doing a thumbs up. "Your good at it!"

"Uhhhhh." Heavy turned his head to Jonathan. "You okay?"

"Yea… I'm fine. You keep on walking pal."

He then tried to go up to Shell, but that ended up even worse.

"Hey, She…"

Shell turned to him with a foul look and said, "Shut up."

"K… sounds good. Nice talking to ya."

Shell rolled her eyes and went back to her thoughts.

Okay. Seems like everyone is in a bad mood. Whatever. I'll have a conversation with myself!

Sup Jo my boii.

Sup bro.

Watcha doing?

Nothing much.

Nice day, right?

You realize you're acting crazy, right?

What?

Yea. Your talking to yourself.

…Shut up.

You… you just told yourself to shut up.

…

…

Shut up!

Jonathan put his face into his hand and moaned, "Ughhh, I'm an idiot."

Nelly laughed. "I second that!"

Jonathan grunted. Now he was annoyed. No one wanted to talk to him and he just had an argument with himself. Can things get any more dreadful?!

Before anything else could happen, Shell screamed. We all stopped in our tracks and ran towards her.

Jonathan went up to Shell and asked, "What happened?"

Shelly nervously pointed to an old broken-down wagon. And beside it, a man lying in his own blood.

Nelly covered Shelly's eyes while Jonathan ran towards the man. This man had black-shaggy hair. Not too long, not too short. He seemed to be in decent shape, but his clothes were ragged.

"Well?" Nell asked impatiently.

"This guy is dead?"

"I can see that! How did he die?"

"…It looks like he was stabbed through the stomach with some sort of weapon. But…"

"But what?"

"But… it seems to have healed. I don't see any other injuries that could explain the blood around him. Maybe he died of some kind of disease? But even so, that doesn't explain the amount of blood. And plus, the injury on his stomach is too severe to survive. There would be no way any man could survive an injury like this. It's way too big."

Shell could barely speak. She's seen dead bodies before, but only people that deserved it. This…this is different. This is murder. "Then… then…" Shell tried to ask a question but just started crying again.

Nelly grabbed her and gave her hug. "Shhhh… don't cry. It's okay. Look at me. Not at him."

Jonathan took his hand and placed it on the man's neck, hoping to find a heartbeat.

Nelly turned to Jonathan, "Well. Do you hear something?"

"Nothing… I don't…Wait! I hear something. It's his heartbeat. But it's faint, really faint. We have to get this guy to a doctor! Heavy! Come here. Pick this guy up and let's take him back to town."

Heavy came up to the man, about to pick him up.

"C'mon Heavy!" Nelly shouted. "Get him up!"

Before Heavy could grab the man, the man's eyes opened. He let out a big shriek and started moving backwards.

We all jumped back and took out of swords. The man tried to get up, but he fell back down. He kept yelling, "Get away!"

Shelly ran up to the man. Nelly tried to stop her, but she was too fast for her. "Hey. Hey. Don't worry. We're not here to hurt you. Calm down." Shelly took out her hand, trying to comfort the man.

The man looked at Shelly, then at her hand. He reached out his hand to Shelly's. Shelly helped the man get up.

"Who are you?" Asked Shelly.

The strange man looked at her, then at the rest of the group. He stammered, barely able to speak. He said, "… Damen…"

Hey guys, I hoped you liked part four! I really enjoyed it. If there was something you did not like about it, let me know! Now onto the IMPORTANT part. While writing this, I decided to change my upload schedule. You see, for part three, I felt a bit rushed. I didn't have a lot of time to write. It was a very hectic week for me, so it ended up not being as great as I wanted it to be. So that is why I will be changing my upload schedule to when I feel like it is ready. But DO NOT worry, it won't take too long. I'll upload often, but I do not want to feel rushed. So, there may be times I upload every few days or weekly or once a month, deepening on what life throws at me. But rest assured, I will not stop uploading. Feel free to pm if you have any questions.