I jumped to my feet and unsheathed my sword.

"You still have that bow, right?" I asked Rory

Rory laughed, "like heck I do."

He drew the bow. 

Lukas had his bow out and an arrow ready, blue eyes scanning the world around us for anything hostile.

Soren was tense, eyes wide and searching like Lukas'.

Olivia had stood up, and Petra was behind her.

For a moment, there was only silence.

"Aza!" Rory shouted.

I saw the red potion spinning around toward me. I felt Rory's hand pull me away from it, and the potion shattered in the place where I had just been standing. Red particles rose. It smelled disgusting.

The witch came into view, holding a potion.

"Witch!" Soren yelped.

It wasn't the only monster out, though. A dozen or so skeletons came into view and aimed their arrows at us.

"Why aren't they burning?" Olivia stared at the skeletons, fear creeping into her eyes.

An arrow was launched at Rory, but he turned and dodged it with elegance, then raised his own bow and took a shot at the witch. It hit, but the witch healed itself with a potion.

An arrow was shot at me, and I slashed my sword, managing to knock the arrow out of the way.

I could see Jesse coming.

"Jesse!" Lukas shrieked. "Help!"

An arrow whizzed past my shoulder.

Jesse tackled the witch and yelled at us to run. We started running.

She soon caught up.

Arrows pierced the ground around us. One almost hit Petra.

"Where's Ivor?!" Soren shouted.

"He bailed on me!" Jesse explained, "he was gone as soon as I turned around!"

"That old fool." Soren muttered.

I looked at Rory, hoping to catch his eye. I only noticed that his purple eye was glowing.

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"No, like this!" Runningsun twirled around his apprentice with astonishing speed and knocked Shrewpaw off of his paws.

Runningsun backed away and waited for Shrewpaw to gather himself up.

Shrewpaw panted, looking down at his paws, obviously ashamed at the fact that he couldn't get this move right.

Runningsun sighed, "I'm sorry. If we keep practising , you'll get it right."

Shrewpaw looked up at Runningsun with wide and innocent eyes.

"I'm worried." He said in a small voice, "I know I volunteered to fight more but..."

"You'll get it." Runningsun reassured him.

Shrewpaw gave Runningsun a little lick on the cheek.

For some reason, Runningsun's ears and paws felt hot, even though it was leaf-fall.

And, for some reason, he tried to think back to the times when he was Drake. Now, had Carlos been gay?

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We had no horses. We would've starved if Jesse hadn't given us that cake.

And now we were at the Far Lands.

We went inside, and I immediately started to feel anxious. The whole feel of the place set my senses on high, put my warnings on. The whole place screamed unnatural!

Even though Rory and I getting here was unnatural.

We all agreed to look for a way around the massive maze that kept us away from Ivor's lab.

Now, of course Rory and I stood next to the vines. The vines that Jesse would climb when the zombies came.

Reuben sniffed around, looking for carrots.

"Oh, l'homme ... ce qui arrive quand on trouve la bête ? Donnez-moi et mon ami force, nous donner la vitesse , nous donner du courage , et ne nous laisse pas mourir . Tout ce qui nous a amené ici , ne nous laissera pas mourir." Rory muttered in French.

He was always good at French. He could speak it quite well. I, on the other hand, barely knew how to greet another person in French.

I put my hand in his shoulder. His purple eye had glowed when he was scared. His purple eye was bright now.

"Nous... serons ... bien, tout... ira bien." I said.

'We will be okay, everything will be fine'.

Rory laughed.

"Si seulement vous saviez ce que je dis, mon ami."

I didn't know what he said, nor did I ask.

I heard groaning of zombies, then someone yelled.

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If you want to know what Rory was saying, use Google translate, because like hell I'm telling you. 

I don't mind if you put what he said in the comments.