Chapter 5

  After what I would call the most amazing fish I’ve had in my life, and a good night's rest, we decided to hit the road.

  Alex got mad at me a couple of times as I would run towards the grass and let the enemies know this was my turf.

  He will never understand me.

  As we walked for a bit longer I saw a stick that looked like a gun, it was the perfect stick, I had to keep it.

  I brought it to Alex “What?” he said as he looked at me while I held the stick in my mouth, dumb ass thought I could respond to him without moving my mouth or something.

  I spat the stick and looked at him “I want to keep it.” He shook his head and his eyes twitched a bit “You want to keep the stick?” I did two spins and confirmed my desiree to keep my treasure. “Yes, I want to keep the stick, it’s a magic stick.” I really should be more careful with my words. Alex took my words literally, he grabbed the stick and placed it inside his satchel.

  “Inventory.

  4 copper coins

  2 nuts

  Rusted armor

  Broken shield

  Dull dagger

  Non-Magical - Magical - normal stick.”

  We are doomed.

  I thought about telling him it wasn’t a magic stick.

  But I don’t have the heart to break it to him.

  I’ll save that for later when he makes me mad.

  The road to the next village was quiet, we were able to catch some more fish, and found some resting spots where we could sleep.

  We did encounter some trouble on the road.

  Some bandits tried to rob us, Alex tried to be a hero and he stood up to them.

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  They all laughed at him as his sword broke the moment he took it out of his sheave.

  One of them approached him and grabbed his satchel

  “Stop playing the hero kid, just give us what you got and we’ll let you through.”

  Alex kneeled and asked for forgiveness, he swore he was just playing.

  “Sidequest:

  Defeat the bandits.”

  Oh god, why now, what am I going to do? Sneeze them to death?

  Freeze their toes?

  Wait

  “Alex, at the count of three, run, grab the satchel and grab me.” Alex shook his head as he looked at me “Trust me” I got close to him as I kept talking to him, I’ve figured out during the whole circus act that only Alex understood what I was saying, honestly comes in handy.

  “That’s a cute puppy, a bet it could sell for a pretty penny.” The bandit that grabbed Alex’s satchel grabbed me, held me from my furr “LET ME GO BITCH” I yelled at him as he held me up.

  “Hah, cute.” He put me closer to his face, I started counting as he slowly put me up. “1…2…3… Alex, NOW!”

  I activated my cold breath, as I was face to face with him, the cold breath spreading from my mouth, covering his face, his face-hairs slowly turning white, his smile and teeth freezing in place.

  “Hey, was that magic?” One of the bandits that was behind us said “that kid must’ve been casting something while he kneeled, grab him!”

  The bandit holding me dropped to the ground, Alex finally reacted, he looked around and noticed the other bandits approaching, he finally decided to stand up, he quickly grabbed me, and his satchel and ran towards the forest.

  They tried following us but I was able to cast my cold breath a second time and used it to freeze the path beneath us as we ran, it made it harder for them to follow us.

  We finally reached a clearing in the middle of the forest, Alex grabbed me and held me closer. “Thank you” he said as he held me “That was awesome! I can’t believe we defeated those bandits!” He yelled as he held me up and started to jump. “We?!” I yelled at him “BITCH WE NEED TO GET YOU SOME PROPER EQUIPMENT ALL I CAN DO IS BREATH SOME COLD AIR YOU JUST SAT THERE AND TOOK IT!” He ignored me. But I wasn’t kidding, he really needed some good equipment, we knew what our next goal was.

  “Quest updated:

  >Find better equipment.”

  If it only was that easy.

  Wait… Those bandits had some good gear.

  “Alex”

  He kept spinning me around and dancing

  “ALEX” He wouldn’t stop, he really is mindless

  “Ok, fuck you.”

  I left it all out. Nature’s calling, and I was not going to let the it pass

  “I thought we talked about this Fenrir!?” He put me down as his shirt was now a nice yellow “You weren’t listening, from now on, listen to me. We have to go back, we need to get the gear from those bandits.” I said as I cleaned myself and Alex took his shirt off in order to clean it in the river

  “Hell no.” He responded as he scrubbed

  “Ok, so call ‘hero’ what gear are you going to use to defeat monsters? I can only do so much.” I start to walk towards him, looking around the clearing to see if there’s something we could use.

  “We’ll just buy the gear in the village.” He responded as he took a sit, putting his shirt back on, he’s going to catch a cold now.

  “Oh right, because we have so much money.” He opened his satchel and noticed we didn’t have our 4 copper coins any longer, the bandits had taken it.

  “Ok, that’s it, we are taking those bandits down.” He yelled as he closed his satchel.

  “IDIOT! IT’S ALWAYS THE MONEY WITH YOU!”

  I bit his leg out of anger.