Grayson POV

MY face, faceplanted on the muddy ground they call soil. I lifted myself up and whipped off the dirt on my face. I moved my head, looking at my surroundings.

Trees is all I could see. "Where..where am I?" I asked myself. I stood up, walking towards my backpack that flew 5 feet away from me when I plumedged to the ground. "Mia? Drake!?" I yelled, expecting a response. But there was none.

I gasped as realization hit me. Hard. "The Dragon Egg!!" I flung my backpack off and looked through it. I saw a black scaled egg shape with purple dots on it. It gave off a manic signature. I could tell by the floating orbs surrounding it.

I sighed in relief. it was the Dragon egg. Thank god! I closed my backpack up and swung it onto my shoulders. I suddenly heard bushes rustling. I hid behind a tree and saw a mercenary group strode out on their horses with pride, evil smirks on their faces.

"Da**it.." I whispered.

Luke was infront of the group, with his penguin hat. He looked straight at me, but didn't realize I was there. If it weren't for his blue and orange messed up eyes, he would have spotted me in dead tracks. He lifted up his hand, commanding a hault! The mercenaries stopped and hoped off their horses with boredom.

They started to set up camp.

"I'll scope out the area.." Luke mumbled in his mask. It wasn't easy to hear him, so you had to be quiet. The mercenaries nodded and Luke left. I looked at my weapons.

Bow and arrow
Auldun/sword

I thought...

I can take them out..I just have to be sneaky..

I pulled out my bow, and readied my arrow. I pulled the strong back to my ear and the other pointing at a mercenarie. I closed my eyes and let out a deep breath,  and released.

"Ahhh!" I heard a dieing voice yell. I up and my eyes to see that a mercenarie was shot in the chest by me. Others rushed to his aid, but was too late. He was out of breath and dead.

I readied another arrow and shot the next mercenarie. I shot him. I did it again. I shot him. I shot mercenaries till I was out of arrows. I them got Aulduin and sprinted or off the tree. I stabbed my sword into a mercenaries chest and kicked his head, making blood splatter on me.

I pulled my blood stained sword out of the corpse and stabbed a mercenaries head, going deeper and deeper. There was another mercenarie running at me, so I kicked him in the "spot" and stabbed "it".

"Ooohh..right in the shnawzberries!" he choked and fell. A mercenarie marched at me with pride. He thought he was better than everyone and could take me on.

He had a gun aimed at my head.

"I eat bullets..for breakfast!" HE announced with pride. I smiled, grabbing then gun with force, and pun the tip of the gun in his mouth.

"Oh you do? Do you?" I chuckled, pulling the trigger, making his head explode. "How did that taste mother fu**er?" I laughed. The remaining mercenaries screamed in fear. They started to run, but they couldn't out run me. I could tell that this was their first day out on the field. I grabbed them and slit their throats. Blood going everywhere.

It felt weird..I wanted to eat their guts..but...why?!

"I better get out of this h*ll site before Luke comes back. I'm getting sick of this stench." I gagged and left.

Blood was everywhere on my clothes, and I'm pretty sure I laughed during the whole killing the mercenaries thing. Tbh I actually enjoyed it. Alot! I released my anger. Oh, and that's not at all what I'm going to do with the Emperor.

I'll make it slow, and painful. Really, REALLY painful. WHAT?! HE killed my wife and son! HE deserves to be dealed with. I'm still thinking of ways I can torture the Emperor. All I know is that it'll be fun! I let out a sinister laugh. Then got to running away from the camp site. I thought about Drake and Mia. What could they be doing right now? Mia might be held captive in the Empire. And Drake, well, he might have committed suicide. Or died. He's not that strong and plus, after his "brother" died, it's gotta be tough. WHAT AM I SAYING?! IM thinking negative about my friends! Mia is captured and Drake is weak?! The h*ll?! 

I didn't question myself that much, considering that i had more things to worry about. I just kept on running and didn't stop. What if Like already found the corps's and is running my way? I ran faster. I panted and was exhausted, but I kept going. Run! Run as fast as you can,  Grayson! I yelled to myself in my head.

1 hour laterz...

Its been about and hour. I'm running out of breath. I'm far away from the slaughtered camp. I can rest now. I have to be...AT LEAST 40 miles away or more. I sat down on a log and put my hands on my knees, panting. I could feel my heart jump out of my chest as I took in deep breaths. I looked in front of me and saw a clear lake. I walked carefully to the clean liquid and examined it. "Looks clean enough to wash myself off or drink." I said to myself, putting my hand in the water and moved my hand, making a small splash. I set my backpack down and put my things away. Aka..the stuff that was in my pockets, jacket, and everything on me..put away. I took my boots and socks off so I can embrace the fresh green grass on my sore feet. I put them by my backpack and moved my feet on the grass.

"Ahhhhhhh..much better" I sighed in relief.  I wiggled my toes through the brown smooth soil wish was kind of wet. I saw lines on my bare feet from the socks. I rubbed them and winced as it felt painful. I messed with my hair and looked at the water then back at my blood soaked cloths. I smiled.

"Hahahahaha! They deserved it." I said. "I better clean this off though. It is stenching up." I sighed, tugging on my cloths.

I took off my grey jacket, then my light green shirt. Then I took off my leather belt and meh pants.

(I hate myself...XD)

I put my cloths by my backpack and got into the water, cleaning myself off. The dirt from my hair was floating in the water and drifted away.

5 MINUETS LATEZ BECAUSE I CAN AND IM LAZY AF AND CANT WRITE THIS BECAUSE IN DIEING BECAUSE IM UNCOMFORTABLE!

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After I cleaned up, I cleaned my bloody cloths. The water was no longer a beautiful clear blue shimmering liquid in the moon light. The water was now a crimson red. The pond was now full of the blood of the mercenaries. I chuckled. I was bathing in it.

-TS-

I was done cleaning. My cloths were back on but not my sock nor boots. I liked my feet being free, my toes grasping the grass and pulling it out. But all of that just made my feet dirty. I splashed my feet in the water, the soil getting on the water and floating away or sinking.

I looked up at the moon and decided it was time for me to camp out for the night. I didn't really need a fire because the weather was already getting warmer. It was the season were everything was hot. Summer. I remember back when I was young, Me, Luke and Collin would used to go to ice cream shops or go to the beach or water park. Those were far from faint memories and I could barely remember them. But I did. We were all best friends. Until we got sent to the Artic Base and Collin went missing.

Then..Luke betrayed me. I would never have summers like that again. There is no happiness in this world anymore. We failed our quest to save Armen and now we end up killing him, God knows where Mia and DRAKE are! I can't imagine the h*ll DRAKE is going through right now. After years of trying, it fails. DRAKE basically lost his brother. I didn't want to say in front of DRAKE at the Magical Library that he is Armen's brother because I bet he was a but overwhelmed after the Diary entries from Collin.

If you think about it, Drake was originally an enderman. Collin is Armens brother. Collin transfered his humanity to DRAKE. Making Drake sorta his bro. Get it?

Now he lost his brother in arms..what is it..twice?! He has died twice! One as a sacrifice..and the other..we killed him and put him to rest.

I put the questions to ease and set up my SLEEPING bag.

Then it hit me...

"Or...IS Armen at rest?" I questioned.

Whelp! That was the end of a chapter! 1,552 words. Could have done better but..oh whelp. The next chapter is a doozy..so prepare yourselves! Alrighty then..

~Peace! ✌😎🔫