Imagination
While this man seems to mean well, you're still hesitant to just go wandering off with a stranger. Not that you aren't with some already, but you know the Captain and Lyssia a lot better than this Adventurer. Also you still feel safer with more people defending you, so you decline.
"Very well, I hope you manage to make it home safely." The Adventurer remarks and takes his leave.
You begin to wander around the camp looking at all the neat things. If you weren't in so much danger and worried about getting home, you'd probably want to stay here. Still wishing to be around a familiar face, you go looking for Lyssia and hope she isn't too busy.
You end up finding her tent, but she's not there. You do see a sleeping black dog though, a big one, bigger than you've ever seen. Scary actually, in fact it's even scarier when it suddenly wakes up and leaps on top of you!
"Grrrrr! What have we here? A little thief? Maybe eating your hands would teach you a lesson and I'm pretty hungry!"
You're so surprised by it talking; you temporarily forget that you're in danger.
"Y you can talk!" you sputter.
"Of course I can talk!" it snarls before sniffing you a bit. "Snnnn you don't smell like you're from around here."
"I'm not, where I come from dogs don't talk."
"DOG?!" it growls gnashing its fangs. "I'm a WOLF and maybe you need to learn that lesson too!"
Thankfully Lyssia enters at this point.
"Black Fang, you leave him alone! He's a guest!" she scolds. Black Fang gives you a dirty look, but backs off to his original position where he closes his eyes again
"Thanks he nearly ate me."
"Oh I doubt that, I know he doesn't seem like it, but he's really a softy."
One of Black Fang's eyes open and he makes a growl, but goes back to sleep. You begin to talk to Lyssia and ask her more about where you're going.
"It's an old ruin of an ancient civilization called Zodan. I know because I found it myself while scouting, of course I didn't explore it in great detail since I figured it would be better to have extra help, but the markings are Zodan. The Zodan are no longer around due to an ancient forgotten war that lead to their downfall, but it's possible that remnants of their power still exists, possibly something we can use against the Nightmare Tyrant."
"Like what?"
"Well we don't know. It's a chance we're taking, but anything that might help against the Nightmare Tyrant will be a welcome relief. Many people believe his powers to be magical in nature, but they aren't. A majority of it is purely mental hence why he is anxious to always absorb the fertile imaginations of children. The Zodan also dabbled in similar psionic activity, so maybe "
Suddenly a soldier comes running into the tent and you've just noticed how dark its gotten outside.
"Lyssia, we're being attacked by Shadows! They're everywhere!"
She instantly draws her sword and says a few words before leaving.
"You stay in the tent! And Black Fang, wake up, you protect him!"
"Huh? Wha grah! I have to look after this whelp?"
"DO IT!"
Black Fang gets up and lopes over to the tent entrance and you hear the sounds of battle close by. Soon those sounds are nearly within the tent as a couple of Shadows find your location.
"HERE! HE'S HERE!" one of them hisses before Black Fang attacks them with his teeth and claws. You wonder if he's magical in nature since they fall and dissipate from his attacks. However, it looks as if the Shadows are determined to get you as they begin to overwhelm him as well as some of them on the top of the tent attempting to tear it open.
"Very well, I hope you manage to make it home safely." The Adventurer remarks and takes his leave.
You begin to wander around the camp looking at all the neat things. If you weren't in so much danger and worried about getting home, you'd probably want to stay here. Still wishing to be around a familiar face, you go looking for Lyssia and hope she isn't too busy.
You end up finding her tent, but she's not there. You do see a sleeping black dog though, a big one, bigger than you've ever seen. Scary actually, in fact it's even scarier when it suddenly wakes up and leaps on top of you!
"Grrrrr! What have we here? A little thief? Maybe eating your hands would teach you a lesson and I'm pretty hungry!"
You're so surprised by it talking; you temporarily forget that you're in danger.
"Y you can talk!" you sputter.
"Of course I can talk!" it snarls before sniffing you a bit. "Snnnn you don't smell like you're from around here."
"I'm not, where I come from dogs don't talk."
"DOG?!" it growls gnashing its fangs. "I'm a WOLF and maybe you need to learn that lesson too!"
Thankfully Lyssia enters at this point.
"Black Fang, you leave him alone! He's a guest!" she scolds. Black Fang gives you a dirty look, but backs off to his original position where he closes his eyes again
"Thanks he nearly ate me."
"Oh I doubt that, I know he doesn't seem like it, but he's really a softy."
One of Black Fang's eyes open and he makes a growl, but goes back to sleep. You begin to talk to Lyssia and ask her more about where you're going.
"It's an old ruin of an ancient civilization called Zodan. I know because I found it myself while scouting, of course I didn't explore it in great detail since I figured it would be better to have extra help, but the markings are Zodan. The Zodan are no longer around due to an ancient forgotten war that lead to their downfall, but it's possible that remnants of their power still exists, possibly something we can use against the Nightmare Tyrant."
"Like what?"
"Well we don't know. It's a chance we're taking, but anything that might help against the Nightmare Tyrant will be a welcome relief. Many people believe his powers to be magical in nature, but they aren't. A majority of it is purely mental hence why he is anxious to always absorb the fertile imaginations of children. The Zodan also dabbled in similar psionic activity, so maybe "
Suddenly a soldier comes running into the tent and you've just noticed how dark its gotten outside.
"Lyssia, we're being attacked by Shadows! They're everywhere!"
She instantly draws her sword and says a few words before leaving.
"You stay in the tent! And Black Fang, wake up, you protect him!"
"Huh? Wha grah! I have to look after this whelp?"
"DO IT!"
Black Fang gets up and lopes over to the tent entrance and you hear the sounds of battle close by. Soon those sounds are nearly within the tent as a couple of Shadows find your location.
"HERE! HE'S HERE!" one of them hisses before Black Fang attacks them with his teeth and claws. You wonder if he's magical in nature since they fall and dissipate from his attacks. However, it looks as if the Shadows are determined to get you as they begin to overwhelm him as well as some of them on the top of the tent attempting to tear it open.