In some part of a forest, lays a house that has seen better days. Its surroundings are quiet, there is an air of secrecy around the house. That was until-

BOOOOM!!!!!

That...

???:Ahhhhhhhh! My house!!!

The house was ablaze and the culprit behind it was a young man in dark armor holding a torch on his hand.

???:Noooooo! My research! Anything but my research!!!

The girl scrammed into a part of the house that had not beed set ablaze, in the small room she took out a bag and started stuffing papers and vials in an attempt to save most of them.

Girl: Just when I perfected my master piece, why did he have to start acting up?

She managed to put most of the belongings in the satchel by the time another explosion happened

BOOOM!

The girl realized that all she had left were the thing on her and jumped out the window and crawled away from the house and looked back as the structure went up in flames.

Girl:*sigh. All those years of research, all going up into the sky as ash and soot.

From the fire emerged the man in black armor and walked in the direction to where the girl was sitting.

Girl: Don't you think that was a little too much?

???: It's so that nobody experiences the same as I did.

Girl: I even took my time making sure you didn't end up like Lancel0t.... Ga1ahad.

Ga1ahad: I appreciate your concern but you've given me too much to tolerate.

Girl: After all I did for you and this is how you repay me?

At that point Ga1ahad was already walking away down a path that led out of the forest.

Girl: Hey! Where do you think you are going!?

Ga1ahad: To find my lady.

Girl: Goodness he really doesn't remember anything.... I have to follow him to make sure he doesn't act like he just did and I need to figure out how to get his memories back.

The girl stood up and followed Ga1ahad down the path

Meanwhile....

(Finn's POV)

It had been a couple hours since we left Waltzington and shortly after we got to the 5 mile mark away from the city, I opened the land deed and read where it was. It was a 20 acre plot of land near the Karsten domain, at first I didn't think much of it until I looked where the Karsten domain was.

"You have got to be kidding me."

The Karsten domain was on the Northwestern part of the country and we were on near the southern most city in the country and apparently this country was one of the biggest. I measured and drew up an estimate of around 3000 miles to get to the Karsten domain, as if that wasn't enough we had to go through the domain to get to the plot of land.

"Why do I get the urge of punching something? Sigh* this is gonna be a long trip, and to make it worse we have to go at a slow pace."

(Author: I compared the Tiger's and IS' max speeds and sustained speeds and saw that even if the IS is running with all it's got it only gets to a meager 37kph while the Tiger even in its cruising speed easily beats the IS with 40kph and has a top speed limit of 45kph. So yeah, as to not leave the Russians behind they have to go at the slow pace of 30kph. That is gonna be a REALLY long trip.)

2 Hours later

Having traveled for a little over and hour and stopped for lunch, we continued down the decently wide road. I decided to crawl back inside the turret to fetch a book, nobody was really doing anything, Choco,Lucas and Arran were all dead asleep. Marco was driving and Peter was cleaning the optics of the 88mm.

"Marco when you get tired let me take the wheel."

Marco: Thank you.

Peter: I hate when dirt gets on the lenses, it's such a pain but I think I got cleared.

Peter looked through the lenses to make sure he got it right.

Peter: Um, Finn, I see 2 people further up ahead.

"How far?"

Peter: Around half a mile, it's a guy in black and a girl with.... silver hair?

"Wait what the hell?"

I motioned Peter to move and I looked through the scope, the 2 individuals were what he described. I increased the magnification of the scope and analyzed them, the guy had a sword on him and the girl had a bag and was wearing an oversized hat.

"Molotov you hear me over?"

Ivan: This is Ivan here, the Commander is on the wheel what is it?

"We coming up on some individuals a short distance from our position. Im going to see if we can get them to help us know more about the land. I need some one to mount the DShK in case they are hostile but don't make it obvious we are wary of them."

Ivan: I'll tell the commander.

"How long till we catch up to them Marco?"

Marco: We are a quarter of a mile from them so not very long.

"Ok, I'm coming out."

I opened the hatch and looked towards the IS and saw Aleksei showing half of his body through the hatch. I look down the road and saw that they had acknowledged our presence.

"Hello, do you need help?"

Moments prior.

???: Do you even know where you are going?

Ga1ahad: My instincts never fail me, if I feel it's Right, than that is because of experience.

???:I really don't understand you most of the time.

Ga1ahad: I don't understand why you are following me..... What ever your name is.

Luna: Its Luna, how do you forget if I've told you multiple times already.

Ga1ahad: I'm sorry for not remembering things, if I wasn't a....  What is that?

Confused, Luna turned her head towards behind her and saw something that puzzled her. Two iron carriages.

Finn's POV

Both of them looked surprised and at us, not that I could blame them.

Man: What do you want?

"Us? Well we are not from around here and we were looking for locals to give us advice."

The man thought about and slowly drew his hand away from the handle of his sword and turned to the girl.

Man: Where are we?

What?

Girl:Hm.... I never really thought of where I was living now that I think about, sorry.

I could swear I heard Aleksei facepalming and that was an understatement.

"Wait so let me get this straight, you don't even know where this place is."

Girl: Yep!

"Guess this was a waste of time, thank you I guess. We will be on our way."

Man: Hold sir.

"What is it?"

Man: Do you by any chance have a map?

"Yeah, what for?"

Man: Can I look at it for a little bit?

".......Sure, it doesn't hurt anyone not using it"

I handed the map to the man and he looked at it and studied it.

Man: Where are you going?

"Past the Karsten domain, why?"

Man: Could I join you along the journey?

Hold up.

I was stupefied at the request, even the girl was perplexed.

Girl: What are you gonna do there?

Man: Not of your concerns.

"You do realize how far away they is right? What do we get out of it?"

The man had a look of thinking and then gave his answer.

Man: I can give you information about the majority of monsters you may encounter such as which to avoid and which to kill immediately.

Well that changed the whole situation.

"............Ok, sure you can come along. What do you offer miss... What is your name?"

Luna: My name Luna Crecent, potion maker and that is Ga1ahad.

"Potion maker?"

Luna: Yeah, you never heard of them?

"We're not from around here so I don't know what to tell you so."

Luna: Well what we do is make potions that have different effects such as night vision and agility and such. But I, have created something that far outweighs the value of all of them combined!

She lost me half way on what she was saying and her pride increased so much that I could see it in her eyes.

Luna: I, Luna Crecent, presents the perfected version of the potion of reanimation!

She held up a bottle filled with some bright purple liquid that looked like it might as well had been glue with purple dye.

".......So what does it do?"

The glint she had in her eyes instantly disappeared at the question.

Luna: You don't have a clue to what it does?

"No."

Luna: It can bring people back to life!..... Well to some degree.

"I thought you said it was the perfected version of it."

Luna:Well... it does bring them back but not entirely alive.

Aleksei: Are you all done? The commander is tired of waiting.

"Just a minute, get on we have a long way to go."

I climbed out of the turret to help both of them to get onto the engine bay where was the only room we had.

Luna: So how does this move?

"You'll see, Marco start the engine."

Vroom!

Luna: Eek!

The tank jerked forward and the gears got moving and we resumed our journey.

(A couple hours later)

We got to know them better, Ga1ahad had died sometime ago and Luna who was his childhood friend became a potion maker to bring him back which I still question how. But he lost all his memories and she still is looking for a way to get them back.

Luna: According to the map we should arrive in the town of Lakis before nightfall, question is how are you gonna get this things through the city without causing a stir.

"I'll think about it when it happens, anyways I've been wondering what is this area here, the... Argyle Ravines?"

Luna: That area wasn't there all the time, it appeared a few years back when suddenly the ground started shacking and then those appeared.

"That's it? Do they know what caused it?"

Luna: No, but what did happen is that wyverns and category 1 and 2 dragons crawled out of it. They took out most of them, but from time to time another one comes out. Last time one crawled out was a category 4, it took a whole year for the government to kill it.

"There hasn't been one lately right? Cause that place is 3 miles from this highway."

Luna:hmm.... there hasn't been one lately, well that I know of. But that is a possibility, in Lakis they pay people to explore the ravines and figure out where they keep coming from but to no avail. Some parties of 5 don't even come out, it's good money but I wouldn't recommend it.

"Thanks for the warning. Could you tell me about the dragons?"

Luna:Sure, let's see... category 1 and 2 are fairly small and can be taken out with accurate bows. Category 3 are bigger than 1 and 2 but require more power to kill them, a ballista will do. Category 4 are twice the size of 3 and are smarter the most other dragons and get pissed very easily and are known for destroying small cities. Category 5 and 6 prefer to keep to themselves but they can get pissed off, they can and will destroy a large city. Category 7 are not to be taken lightly, the most recent appearance of a category 7 was so destructive that all kingdoms made a temporary alliance to kill it. Even that didn't stop it until they managed to seal its powers, but that too was not strong enough to stop it until they decided to end it diplomatically. The dragon had agreed to rest within the seal and in exchange all kingdoms had to end all inhumane traditions such as sacrifices and the consumption of blood many kingdoms had. Ever since that, sacrifices and all thing related are strictly prohibited and will result in public humiliation and execution. That was 2000 years ago, it's been peaceful but a decade ago the neighboring country of Belzianki underwent a revolution whose new leader created a belief system which has sacrifices as its main premise. Now other countries are trying to convince the king to stop but nothing, now due to the Argyle ravines appearing people now speculate that it's a sign that the dragon is getting upset. That's about it, what a pickle we're in don't you think?

"That... certainly is some deep history, a dragon that can destroy everything in its path. This might be more that what we antici-"

RUMBLE!!!!!

"What the? Marco stop the tank!"

Skid!

Molotov:*bzz. Fascist, you heard that right?

"I did, where did that come fr-"

Ga1ahad: It was that, at ravines.

Luna:Oh no....

I looked in the direction of the ravines and i only felt one thing, fear. At the ravines, was a claw came out and behind it was a head the size of the Jäger.

 Molotov: What the hell is i- oh, have I finally drank too much?