' ' Is this enough food for a few days? ' '
Nathaniel pondered as he looked down at the current bag he carried, Bread, Water and some clothes.
It was all he could carry, All he needed, Thus he picked it up, carrying it on his back as be slowly lifted his sword sheathing it.
'This confortable life, I may miss it, But I've stayed here long enough.'
The adventurer ventured off, Towards the town, He had carried enough food for 3 days yet he knew multiple variables could occur
Thus, he was always ready, His grip on his sword never wavering as he treaded the dirt path
He panted with each step the sun burning hotter as the day moved on
' ' God... Hah.. ' '
Nathaniel groaned yet he continued moving onward, the Atkin's manor had already faded hours ago he was now in dangerous territory now that he was far away.
' ' Hm.. ' '
Nathaniel stopped moving for a bit as he heard sounds coming from the forest
'Hm... Foot steps, They don't sound human... If they were I would have heard the tapping of shoes.'
Nathaniel slowly drew his blade, Preparing for a confrontation with either a wild beast, or something else.
'...Following it is stupid... But who knows.. I might find somerhing valuable.'
He slowly moved, deliberately moving slowly to avoid being heard
He peeked from behind the tree canopy to..
'Hm? Bloody hell, What's this.. A wolf eh?'
A small wold pup lay injured in the ground, he approached it yet it growled, frightened.
'It's wounds... Looks like a Human did it'
He knewled down slowly coming to the wolf, Slowly to not alarm the poor child
It growlee in an attempt to intimidate what is saw as a foe yet he continued to move closer to the beast
' ' I'm not going to hurt you, Sh.. ' '
He slowly made contact with it, Inspecting the wound
' ' I don't have anything for this... Hold on right here ' '
Nathaniel stood up looking at the trees
' ' That tree.. It's leaves should suffice ' '
He muttered to himself before slowly putting his bag down, He climbed up the tree through each branch searching for a large enough leaf
' ' Hyup! ' '
He grunted as he pulled the leaf of the branch slowly dropping off near the pup
He knewled down once again covering the wound on it's left hind leg with the leaf
' ' That should heal soon enough.. ' '
He said as he took some food from his things, feeding a portion of it to the wolf before standing up
...
'If I leave it might die.. Is it worth it.. Hah.. Fine'
With a sigh he went back to the wolf picking it up
Arf!
It barked with joy before licking Nathaniel's face
' ' I'll call you Fenris, So. Be good ' '
With a smile he placed the wolf pup on his bag before continuing his journey to the town
'It should be afternoon by now, judging by how high the sun is.. I should arrive by tommorow'
He sighed as he continued to walk, He had calculated in his mind how long it would take to get there however..
Of course certain.. Variables might appear
As the day passed on, Nathaniel and Fenris would find themselves in an unfortunate situation.
Surrounded on all sides by bandits
'You have to be kidding me..'
Nathaniel sighed as he began to unsheate his blade
' ' Don't try anything stupid! You're outnumbers 15 to 1! ' '
A bandit shouted as he slowly stepped forward
'Hm.. 16 In total, the one in the back seems to be the boss but he ain't moving. I should lower their guard first'
Nathaniel would slowly lower his weapon and bag making his foes lower their guard,
Meanwhile a bandit the most Haughty of them went towards him, but before he could even utter a word
Bang!
A flash of flames engulfed the bandit
' ' You good lad? ' '
Nathaniel said as he knewled down picking his Longsword while making sure Fenris was left unhurt,
With a bark Fenris confirmed his safety
' ' Stay. ' '
Nathaniel replied as he got up
' ' My first fight in this life, Heh. ' '
He raised his left hand, he opened his palm as he felt the heat gather from it manifesting in a ball of burning hot flames
The bandits immeadietly backed away, they could feel the heat even when they were considerably at a distance yet they did not advance
' ' Won't you come forward? ' '
Nathaniel asked as he moved his hand, the balls of flames shooting out towards his foes exploding into a beautiful burst of flames eviscerating multiple bandits.
The rest immeadietly scrammed away running for their lives, yey one remained.
A large man who was once just observing, he was over 6 feet tall even as large as Nathaniel's father.
Weilding what it seemed to be an axe he slowly made hi way to the small child
' ' A mage weilding a sword.. You must be using that to decieve your foes.. Heh, of course mages. ' '
He spoke in a brash tone swinging his axe,
' ' Come. ' '
He'd challenge Nathaniel causing the child to smile, the strongest person he had fought was Garrick yet he never truly tried to kill him, This man.
He would. And he was no push over.
In a flash Nathaniel lunged at him swinging his blade downwards towards the Bandit's leg
Unfortunately, The axe of his foe would catch the blade putting Nathaniel's offensive to a stop.
' ' Tsk. ' '
Nathaniel would grunt as he tried to resist the goliath before deciding to summon another ball of fire, the heat manifesting in his hand before shooting out to his foe
' ' Grah! ' '
The Goliath would shout being forced to block with his left hand leaving a burn mark.
This small opening would allow the child to dash forward behind the Goliath cutting his Achilless Tendon
The Goloath would grunt falling to the ground as Nathaniel stabbed him from the back, the tip of the sword coming out of his chest as he slowly pulled the sword out to intimidate the rest of the bandits.
Wiping the blood off of his blade he'd slowly letbhis gaze fall upon them...
' ' Run. ' '
He'd say, mirroring the authrotive tone of his father the Bandits would all go running for their lives.
With a smirk, Nathaniel would look behind him picking up his bag with Fenris
' ' Heh, Good boy.. You didn't run away eh? ' '
With an energetic bark the wolf responded
Meanwhile, Nathaniel would search the body seeing a pouch of gold
' ' Guess I can get a room tonight. ' '
He said with a smirk before continuing to walk down the path
To be Continued